Belasco, David - Signed Book "The Life of David Belasco" inscribed to Blanche Bates Autographs Actresses - Letter A has some rust marks and

has some rust marks and is opened on the top

with music quotes from the operas

stamped in Paris in 1912

known as the "French Strauss"

Dated in Cassel in May 1858

Belasco, David - Signed Book "The Life of David Belasco" inscribed to Blanche Bates Autographs Actresses - Letter A has some rust marks andAmerican theater producer, impresario, director and playwright (1853 1931), signed biography "The Life of David Belasco", 2 volumes (only volume 1 is signed) written by William Winter. Inscribed to famous actress Blanche Bates (1873 1941), who was nothing less than the first Girl of the Golden West in the 1905 world premiere of this theater play by Belasco, one of his most celebrated, later adapted by Puccini for his famous opera with the same name