Author: Tarkington, Booth and Harry Leon Wilson
Title: The Man from Home
Publication Information: New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers MCMVIII
Call #: PS2972 .M3 1908
Book Size: 20.6 cm (H); 14 cm (L); 3 cm (spine)
Cover: sand yellow cover; front cover embossed in yellow, blue, and black. Man standing, smoking, looking towards right rear, towards a terrace, with lake and mountains in the distance. He's leaning on a car (note tire); trees rear left; title and authors' full names bottom right. Plain back cover. Spine: title embossed in gold on top; then pedestal with a vase overflowing with flowers (embossed in black and yellow); "Booth Tarkington and H.L. Wilson" embossed in gold; Harpers embossed in gold at the bottom of the spine.
Inside Book Covers: plain pages
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: 'the illustrations are from photographs of scenes in the play made especially for the book by Mr. Luther S. White." There's a list of illustrations (eight, including the frontispiece), all taken onstage. Note stage, costumes, etc.
Comments:
- Dedication: "To William Hodge, The Man from Home"
- text includes the original cast list - The Man from home produced at Studebaker Theatre , Chicago September 29, 1907 "where it ran for a year; then opened in New York at the Astor Theatre August 17, 1908".
- William Hodge played Daniel Voorhees Pike (the protagonist, and presumably the eponymous character)
- there is a separate cast list (i.e just characters, not actors), and list of acts (not scenes)
- the play is set in Sorrento, Italy in the present
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- American Drama
- Production History
- Photography
