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Lot Description

[STEINBECK, John]. The Moon Is Down. A New Play By Steinbeck.

Original poster design, in pencil and gouache, on thick paper. Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame).

The Moon is Down was Steinbeck's second attempt at writing a novel in play form, written while he was on assignment for the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services tasked with combating Nazi propaganda. Though the work was originally set in a small American town, Steinbeck revised the work, setting it instead in an unnamed Scandinavian town, and published it with Viking in 1942. The dramatic rights were acquired by Herman Shumlin, and The Moon is Down premiered on Broadway in April 1942.

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