Kismet: A Musical Arabian Night by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1954 • Random House

Kismet: A Musical Arabian Night book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis with music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1954] RANDOM HOUSE

Book and Music of the classic broadway musical. Includes black and white photos from the production. 

Book is in excellent condition.  Cloth-bound hardcover with frontispiece, reads like new.  No dust jacket.

Based on the play by Edward Knoblock, the Tony Award-winning musical set in a fictional Baghdad in the times of The Arabian Nights concerns a wily poet who talks his way out of trouble several times; meanwhile, his beautiful daughter meets and falls in love with the young caliph.

First produced on Broadway in 1953, Kismet was adapted for the silver screen in 1955 with a cast that included Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, and Vic Damone.