The Bright Lights: A Theatre Life.

SELDES, Marian.

$80.00

Item Number: 115012

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.

First edition of Marian Seldes’ autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the actress on the front free endpaper, “This is for Gary with every good wish Marian Seldes.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Thomas Victor.

American stage, film, radio, and television actress Marian Seldes' career spanned over 60 years. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day (1971), Deathtrap (1978–82), Ring Round the Moon (1999), and Dinner at Eight (2002). Her autobiography, The Bright Lights, is a brilliant and moving account of her exhilarating career, introducing her as an unusually perceptive and articulate writer.