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A group of ephemera related to the 1965 Sherlock Holmes musical, “Baker Street”.
Including: Original window card for Baker Street. [New York: Artcraft Litho, 1965]. Full color window card on cardstock (561 x 358 mm). Mild toning, some minor thumbsoiling, creasing. Near fine. -- [Together with:] Original program for Baker Street. [New York: Dunetz and Lovett, 1965]. 4to. Illustrated. 291 x 286 mm. Original printed wrappers. Some wear, soiling, creasing (including one large vertical crease). -- [Together with:] Original Playbill program for Baker Street. New York: Playbill, 1965. 8vo. Illustrated. 227 x 151 mm. Original printed wrappers (some wear, thumbsoiling, ink-stamp date on front wrapper in upper left corner, text lightly toned). -- [Together with:] HIRSCHFELD, Al (1903-2003). An excerpt of the front page of The New York Times theater section (Section 2) featuring an illustration of Baker Street by Al Hirschfeld (268 x 323 mm). Toned, lower margin and upper left corner trimmed. Baker Street (directed by Hal Prince, book by Jerome Coopersmith, music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel) ran for 311 performances, and starred Fritz Weaver as Holmes and Inga Swenson as Irene Adler. It was loosely based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, A Scandal in Bohemia.