The Best Plays of 1946-47 edited by Burns Mantle

The Best Plays of 1946-47 and the
   Year Book of the Drama in America
Edited by Burns Mantle
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1947
Copyright 1947
555 pages

The binding is in acceptable condition, the pages are clean but lightly tanned and a name and date 1948 is written in front. The blue cover is rubbed and the spine is lightly creased.  The jacket is scuffed and edge worn and the spine is faded. Acceptable. Hardcover.  

In addition to the ten best plays which are reproduced by excerpt and summary, the book lists the full casts for every production of the year, the number of performances each play achieved, the date on which it opened and the theatre in which it played. Also a statistical summary of the season and ten pages of black and white photographs  (RB16)