The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.

HANSBERRY, Lorraine; [Robert Nemiroff].

Item Number: 131119

New York: Random House, 1965.

First edition, second printing of this posthumous work by the author of A Raisin in the Sun. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Robert Nemiroff on front free endpaper, “Dear Dan. Mine obviously is not the hand that belongs here. Yet something needs to be said, for the author considered you among those who gave her the confidence to believe and write as she did in these pages. Bob.” Nemiroff was a book editor and a music publisher, as well as an award-winning songwriter. With co-writer Burt D’Lugoff, he composed the 1956 hit song “Cindy, Oh Cindy”, and “Fifteen”, the theme for the movie The World, the Flesh, and the Devil. He married Lorraine Hansberry in 1953, which Hansberry often cited as an important creative factor in the genesis of her play A Raisin in the Sun. Although the couple separated in 1957 and divorced in 1962, their professional relationship lasted until Hansberry’s death from cancer in January 1965. In 1967, he remarried Jewell Handy Gresham, a playwright. Nemiroff devoted much of his life to editing and promoting the work of Hansberry, who had named him as her literary executor. He was the executive producer of the 1989 PBS production of A Raisin in the Sun. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Foreword by John Braine. Introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window is the second and last staged play by playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. The play is a story about a man named Sidney, his pitfalls within his personal life, and struggles in Bohemian culture. The play premiered October 15, 1964 and encompasses themes of race, suicide, and homosexuality, and also focuses on individual characters learning to cope with life.