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HELLMAN, Lillian (1905?1984). The Children?s Hour: A Drama ...

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HELLMAN, Lillian (1905?1984). The Children?s Hour: A Drama in Three Acts. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. 8vo. Original purple?stamped cloth, purple top edge; original unclipped dust jacket (spine panel sunned, few chips or creases to edges). FIRST EDITION of the author?s first book. A drama set in an all?girls? boarding school, which was first staged on Broadway at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in 1934, produced and directed by Herman Shumlin.