GEORGE AXELROD. — The Seven Year Itch. A Romantic Comedy.

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1st Edition, The uncommon first UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 67pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with three photographs from the London (Aldwych Theatre) production. A very good copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly toned and dust soiled. The author's most celebrated work, a three-act play which opened on Broadway in 1952 (the longest-running non-musical play of the 1950s) and in London in 1953. Two years later Axelrod and Billy Wilder adapted it for cinema, creating an iconic roll for Marilyn Monroe., Very Good, Very Good