The Crucible.

MILLER, Arthur.

Item Number: 5381

New York: Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Arthur Miller and dated in 1968 on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear, without the ubiquitous spine fade usually associated with this title. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A superior example.

The Crucible has been adapted for film, television, and opera. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre adapted it as the 1958 film Les Sorcières de Salem, and later Miller himself adapted the play as the 1996 film The Crucible. The latter including in its cast Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder, and it earned Miller his only nomination for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. On television, the play has aired in 1968 and 2006. Finally, the play was adapted by composer Robert Ward into an opera in 1961, for which it received the Pulitzer Prize.