Lillian Hellman, The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts.

SIGNED by the author on the fly leaf.

1944, second printing. Hardcover. Viking Press. 96 pp.

Good in a Fair dust jacket: fading and light wear to the spine ends and corners; previous owner's small namestamp on the half-title page, otherwise the text is unmarked; sound binding. The DJ with a large section missing from the front panel; blue ink doodle to top right of front panel and also the rear flap; spine and folds heavily worn with some tears; overall fading, soil and edgewear. Original printed price of $2.00 is present. DJ now in mylar.

A decent copy in a worn dust jacket. One of Hellman's earliest plays. The original cast included Montgomery Cliff, and a film version was made 2 years later.

Former owner was Edward Curtiss, perhaps the American film editor who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1960s.