BALDERSTON, JOHN L. — Berkeley Square a Play in Three Acts
New York: MacMillan Company, 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The book is in clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a prevoius owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks spots and large chips missing, especially from the spine4 ends and corners. "John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. He wrote the plays Berkley Square and Dracula." "In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's stage adaptation of Dracula for its American production. Balderston did some significant work on the adaptation, which was an enormous success when it debuted in October, running for 261 performances and making a star of Bela Lugosi. Deane then hired Balderston to adapt Peggy Webling's 1927 play version of Frankenstein for American audiences. However this did not make it to Broadway. Berkley Square was produced on Broadway from 1929–30, starring Leslie Howard. It ran for 229 performances. " (from Wikipedia) This play is not found in Bleiler even though it deals with time travel.. Very Good+ in Poor dust jacket .
