I Can Get It For You Wholesale.

WEIDMAN, Jerome.

Item Number: 125383

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937.

First edition of the author’s first book; the basis of the Broadway musical of the same name which marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “This is my first published novel – Jerome Weidman 12 Jan. 1962 – and the first time I ever wrote two inscriptions on the same flyleaf – a pleasure indeed to do it for Lew David Feldman – Jerome Weidman 31 Oct. 1962.” The recipient, Lew David Feldman was a renowned rare book dealer and the founder of House of El Dieff. Weidman inscribed the current example for Feldman two months prior to the musical’s premiere on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on March 22, 1962 and again in October of that same year when the musical was transferred to The Broadway Theatre, where it closed on December 9 after a total run of two previews and 300 performances. Very good in a very good dust jacket. A fine association.

Jerome Weidman's first novel, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, first appeared in 1937, and in 1962 was adapted into a musical of the same name produced by David Merrick, directed by Arthur Laurents, and with music and lyrics by Harold Rome. It marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical and would later marry her co-star in the performance, Elliot Gould.