Carmen Jones by Oscar Hammerstein II [FIRST EDITION] 1945 • Knopf

Carmen Jones by Oscar Hammerstein II (based on Meilhac and Halévy's adaptation of Prosper Merimée's Carmen)

FIRST EDITION [1945] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Second Printing / October 1945.  Includes black and white photos from the production. 

 Cloth-bound hardcover, missing dust jacket in very good condition. 

Clean orange cloth with light wear.  Pages look and read good as new. 

Carmen Jones is a contemporary 1943 Broadway musical adaptation of the opera Carmen with an African American twist.   Later adapted to film by Otto Preminger, the first Hollywood musical with an all-black cast.

Southern town during World War II, an army corporal named Joe is stationed near a parachute factory where Carmen Jones is employed. Fickle and flirtatious, Carmen manages to steal Joe away from his fiancée, and the army as well, and they run off to Chicago together.