Hugh Wheeler — A Little Night Music

New York , Dodd Mead & Company, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of this volume that conjures the vivid scenes of the musical A Little Night Music, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this work. A Little Night Musical, a new music comedy, was inspired by the 195 Ingmar Bergman film smiles of a Summer Night and involves the romantic lives of several couples. The book was written by Hugh Wheeler, the music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and was originally produced and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince. Illustrated with a drawing by Al Hirschfeld and with photographs. With sixteen pages of photographs. Collated, complete.In the original clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely with some light bumping to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original clipped dust wrapper which is faded to the spine and lightly chipped to the extremities and tail of the spine. Fine . Ill.: Al Hirschfeld. Fine/Very Good Indeed.