The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.

SONDHEIM, Stephen.

$75.00

Item Number: 146134

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Stephen Sondheim’s career spanned more than half a century; his lyrics are synonymous with musical theater and popular culture. In Finishing the Hat—titled after perhaps his most autobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park with George—Sondheim not only collected his lyrics for the first time, he offered readers a rare personal look into his life as well as his remarkable productions. “The book is a masterpiece. There never has been and never will be one like it. It is about the grain of sand that produces the pearl and is indeed as honest and simple as that pearl" (Mike Nichols).