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ITEM #1. UNTO THESE HILLS. A DRAMA OF THE CHEROKEE, 1540-1950. 36 pages plus covers. Staple-bound magazine style publication; H 30.25cm x L 22.75cm. Paper covers; front cover decorated with title lettering against a thick red band at top and large b/w photograph of a scene from the stage play followed by a thin red band at bottom; advertisement for Asheville, North Carolina Coca-Cola Bottling Company on white back cover. Modest soiling to covers, creasing to lower fore-edge and bottom right corner of front cover as well as at its top left corner with a small slender patch of surface scuffing within top red band, spine fold scuffed with 3cm tear at head and 1cm tear at heel. Light foxing upon interior leaves mostly at margins. Does not feature any part of the play's text but rather was published as an extended playbill with adulatory biographical essays regarding the play's author Kermit Hunter and director Harry Davis on pages 1-2. Cast of characters, actors, staff, etc. listed and pictured on pages 4-15. Remaining text features articles regarding the development of the Cherokee Mountainside Theatre and the Cherokee Historical Association, a three-part essay "The Story of the Cherokee" by Kermit Hunter on pages 20-24, essay "The American Indian in North Carolina" by Dr. Douglas L. Rights, "The Eastern Cherokees Today" by Joe Jennings, "The Great Smokies" by Bill Sharpe, etc. plus concluding four pages of advertisements. This publication is for the very first summer season - July 1 to September 4, 1950 - for UNTO THESE HILLS which the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians still sponsors every summer with the performances still acted at The Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, North Carolina near Asheville and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. A good+ copy. Laid-in is a tourist pamphlet (folded dimensions: H 22.75cm x L 10.25cm) promoting the play; double-sided printing unfolds to a total of four panels (two on verso and two on recto); albeit undated it is presumably also issued for the play's 1950 summer season; some toning but otherwise fine. ITEM #2. I WILL LIFT MINE EYES . . . UNTO THESE HILLS. 44 pages plus covers. Staple-bound magazine style publication; H 30.25cm x L 23cm. Color pictorial covers. Introduction by Harry E. Buchanan, Chairman of ht Cherokee Historical Association. Pages 2-3 with essays regarding author Kermit Hunter and Director Harry Davis. Summaries of actors, production staff, management, etc. No date specified but brief biographical summary regarding North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges mentions his 1956 election so presumably the publication was issued for the 1957 summer performance season. Three pages of ads at rear plus both sides of rear cover. A very good copy.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some shelf wear; spine is creased, split, and almost detached; overall still a nice used copy! Very rare and hard-to-find program! 4 copies of the original 1961 Mountainside Theatre performance guide leaflets showing the performance dates and times from 1961 are laid in! Yellow wrapper with a red illustration and black lettering on the front. 52 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and magical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Extremely scarce program! "The Cherokee Historical Association welcomes visitors from every part of the world, in the sincere hope that in this absorbing drama of America's past every traveler may come to understand more than ever the importance of common labor toward a common high goal, of unity and brotherhood not only between men but also between nations. The theme of Unto These Hills is peculiarly appropriate to the world of today. As the temper of a nation changes and moves in various new directions to meet new problems, there is no better place to look for understanding and clarity than the past, where the temper of the present was born." ----- from the Introduction.…