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19382268New York: Hillman Curl 1938. First American edition. Hardcover octavo red cloth boards black spine and cover titles lacking dust jacket 396 pp. Fair condition spine cocked and loose at backstrip dampstaining to board edges resulting in some color bleed to edges of endpapers and tops of last few leaves. From the library of New York School poet publisher and librettist Kenward Elmslie. Written in blue ink on front free endpaper:"Kenward Gray Elmslie / April 27 1947" in his hand. Adaptation of Brecht's famous The Threepenny Opera translated by Desmond I. Vesey ad Christopher Isherwood. Brecht is cited as an important influence not just on Elmslie but also his partner of the 1950s librettist and lyricist John La Touche for whom the goal of translating The Threepenny Opera was an unrealized fixation. Hillman, Curl hardcover
1938576859New York: Hillman-Curl 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Desmond I. Vesey. Verse translation by Christopher Isherwood. Tiny stamped initials on half-title and copyright page else fine in handsome near fine dust jacket with a light toning on the spine. A novel later re-issued as Threepenny Novel loosely based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera filtered through Brecht's experiences among the criminal fringe elements of the Weimar Republic. A novelization by Brecht of his famous collaboration with Kurt Weill the 1928 musical drama The Three-Penny Opera the opera had not previously appeared in America. The play continues to be widely performed was filmed on many occasions and provided the popular hit song "Mack the Knife." A nick copy of an important title. Hillman-Curl hardcover
1938112233445566782<p>The First USA Printing published by Hillman-Curl Inc. New York in 1938. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. 8vo. bright red publisher's cloth lettered lined and decorated with hand and arm devices in black to upper cover and spine; yellow top-stain remains bright. else untrimmed; together in the vibrant pictorial wrapper featuring a man with one leg to the upper panel and spine unclipped displaying the correct price of $2.50 to the front flap; An excellent bright copy with just a couple of tiny marks to the rear board; light offsetting and toning to the blank end-papers ; with a small shop sticker of Miller & Rhoads to the lower rear paste-down. The WRAPPER also in excellent Very Good or better condition retaining much of its original colour with just a hint of sunning to the spine; light edge-wear to the spine tips and one small closed tear to the rear flap fold; aside from marginal shelf wear a very attractive example. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First USA printing translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey with the chapter-head verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. A novel based on the author's famous 1928 musical play 'A Threepenny Opera' later re-issued as 'Threepenny Novel' which he co-wrote with Kurt Weill itself loosely based on John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'. The play was filtered through Brecht's experiences among the criminal fringe elements of the Weimar Republic. It was the first of Brecht's plays to appear in English. This edition was not issued in the UK. Bertolt Brecht was born in 1898 in Augsburg Germany and was 16 when the First World War broke out. Exploiting a loophole which allowed medical students to be deferred from the army he enrolled at Munich University and began to study theatre under the guidance of Arthur Kutscher. His first works of theatre criticism began to appear as early as 1919 and over the following few years he took part in a political cabaret of the Munich comedian Karl Valentin. Valentin became a huge influence for the young writer and he wrote his first full-length play Baal in response to an argument he had with Kutscher during one of his drama seminars. This re-writing of other's work - as well as his own - would become a key theme in his writings. As he claimed "Anyone can be creative.it's rewriting other people that's a challenge." Over the following years of the 1920s Brecht began studying Marxism and Socialism in earnest. By the 1930s he had formed a writing collective which was composed of such names as Elisabeth Hauptmann Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. Together they adapted John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' into 'The Threepenny Opera' with Brecht's lyrics set to music by Kurt Weill. The resulting opera was a huge hit in Berlin and helped to renew public interest in the musical genre worldwide. Set in Victorian London the plot follows Macheath the leader of a criminal gang who marries Polly Peachum at the displeasure of her father. In revenge he seeks out Macheath's death - but is hindered by the chief of police Tiger Brown. ""You are about to hear an opera for beggars" Brecht famously narrates ahead of the performance "Since this opera was intended to be as splendid as only beggars can imagine and yet cheap enough for beggars to be able to watch it is called the Threepenny Opera." Fearing persecution Brecht fled Nazi Germany in February 1933 and after stints in Denmark and Finland he settled in California to continue his career as a screenwriter. Very scarce with the wrapper. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> Hillman-Curl, Inc., New York hardcover
193813300076FIRST EDITION US almost fine in red boards lacking the dust jacket. The basis for The Threepenny Opera. Verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. Hillman-Curl, hardcover
1938004460New York: Hillman-Curl Inc. 1938. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition of Brecht's novelization of "Threepenny Opera." Not a common title. Translation from the German by Desmond I. Vesey; with Verses translated byChristopher Isherwood. Red cloth binding with black titling and the design of the outstretched hand of a begger. Clean text; 396 pages; yellow topstain; the Front Free Endpaper has been torn out Mildly bumped. The spine has faded to a tan colour and there are faint stains and floodmarks. A solid copy if no longer the beauty it should be. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hillman-Curl, Inc. Hardcover
193818323New York: Hillman-Curl Inc. Very Good in Poor dj. 1938. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. book itself is solid and internally clean some soiling and light shelfwear to top and bottom edges; the jacket however has had about as many bad things done to it as you can imagine: it's been laminated which has resulted in considerable yellowing/discoloration trimmed a bit along the top and bottom edges and the flaps are glued to the pastedowns; some of the laminate has also been peeled away which doesn't help matters much. A novelization essentially of Brecht and Kurt Weill's "The Threepenny Opera." Jacket-blurbed as "an unashamed and outrageous epic of roguery triumphant -- a rollicking full-blooded story whole-hearted in its descriptions of rascality and corruption" this translation was first published in England in 1937 by Robert Hale. A not-especially-pretty example of a fairly scarce book. . Hillman-Curl, Inc. hardcover
193818323New York: Hillman-Curl Inc. Very Good in Poor dj. 1938. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. book itself is solid and internally clean some soiling and light shelfwear to top and bottom edges; the jacket however has had about as many bad things done to it as you can imagine: it's been laminated which has resulted in considerable yellowing/discoloration trimmed a bit along the top and bottom edges and the flaps are glued to the pastedowns; some of the laminate has also been peeled away which doesn't help matters much. A novelization essentially of Brecht and Kurt Weill's "The Threepenny Opera." Jacket-blurbed as "an unashamed and outrageous epic of roguery triumphant -- a rollicking full-blooded story whole-hearted in its descriptions of rascality and corruption" this translation was first published in England in 1937 by Robert Hale. A not-especially-pretty example of a fairly scarce book. . Hillman-Curl, Inc. hardcover books
1974208091974 Paris,le Pavillon-Roger Maria éditeur,1974, 13 x 21 cm, 80 pp, souple, avec une couverture illustrée,
1967114795Paris L'Arche 1967 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, 262 pp. Non coupé. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.
1967114795Paris L'Arche 1967 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, 262 pp. Non coupé. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.
196471789NY:: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. B0007E9ERY . First edition. Very good in a very good a few short closed edge tears price clipped dust jacket. . Viking Press, hardcover books
1977mon0000990579Ronald Taylor 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages clean and bright no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. Ronald Taylor hardcover
1977002609London: NLB 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. London: NLB 1977. First edition. 220pp; index. 8vo; orange textured-paper boards stamped in gilt; dust jacket. Sporadic penciled marginalia throughout; light shelfwear and bumping to spine ends. Very good or better in a near fine jacket unclipped with two repricing stickers to front flap. A collection of essays from the 1930s to 1950s on the intersection of Marxism and aesthetic theory: "The key texts of these great Marxist controversies over literature and art are now for the first time anywhere outside Germany assembled in a coherent order." Translated by various hands and with an afterword by Fredric Jameson. <br/> <br/> NLB hardcover
1977061343NLB 1977. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust paper-covered boards lettered in gold foil. Thin line of discoloration along portion of bottom front cover edge. Former owner's signature inked out inside front cover scattered underlining and marginalia through early sections of text. Firm binding. 220 pp. 2nd ptg.: 1979. Dust jacket shows minor rubbing along edges 1/2" closed tear at head of rear joint now in mylar. Scarce in hardcover. NLB Hardcover
1977h00778<p>London: NLB 1977. First printing. 8vo. 220 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear only. From the library of film historian Tony Pipolo with his name and date inked to front free endpaper in small letters. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.</p> NLB hardcover
19862110502150308959Shobunsha 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Shobunsha paperback
19862090502124800932Shobunsha 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shobunsha paperback
19862091202132703706Shobunsha 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shobunsha paperback
1970168340New York: Heiner Friedrich 1970. Second Edition a trade softcover original with all inserts present. The faithful reprint of the seminal Fluxus manifesto originally published in 1963. INSCRIBED by editor Jackson MacLow on the front wrapper verso: "This copy for David and Ellie and Blaine / Jackson / 3/11/74." <br /> <br /> Good to Very Good in perfect bound red-and-black wrappers with loss at the bottom fore-edges and moderate fading on the spine and page edges. <br /> <br /> Fluxus Codex US. Heiner Friedrich unknown
1978018340Milan Italy: Multhipla Edizioni 1978. This is a near fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket with just light wear to the edges. A bit of light foxing to the back endpapers. Completely clean. Illustrated in black & white and color. Texts by George Brecht. Several interviews with Brecht. Limited edition of 3000 copies. 11" high X 8" wide 255 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Multhipla Edizioni Hardcover
197872696Milano: Multhipla Edizioni 1978. Rilegato tela sovracoperta cloth dust jacket. Molto buono Very Good. Testi di Henry Martin Ben Vautier e Marcel Alocco intervista a G. Brecht a proposito di Something Else Henry Martin intervista a G. Brecht Irmeline Lebeer intervista a G. Brecht Gislind Nabakowski intervista a G. Brecht Robin Page intervista fra G. Brecht e Robin Page per Carla Liss Michael Nyman intervista a G. Brecht George Brecht. Con un'antologia di testi di George Brecht. Tavole a colori. Nota bio-bibliografica. 8vo 29x215 cm. pp. 258. Molto buono Very Good. Prima edizione First Edition. <em>George Brecht fu una delle personalità"; più" importanti del movimento <strong>Fluxus </strong></em> Multhipla Edizioni, hardcover
196228081New York: Living Theatre 1962. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Single sheet of blue paper measuring 8 1/2 x 11". A simple list of performances to take place at the Living Theatre on January 8 1962. Performers for the evening includes an extraordinary line-up of avant garde talent including George Brecht Henry Flynt La Monte Young Yoko Ono Earle Brown and more. Ono performs Mudai #1 plus The Chair #1. Brecht reads poems and performs Also present at the evening's events were La Monte Young reading a piece by John Cage Dick Higgins Terry Jennings and several others. Sheet of paper is in very good condition. This series of events included some of Yoko Ono's earliest performances at The Living Theatre. Scarce ephemera. Living Theatre unknown books
196221048ABHmbg., Rowohlt 1962. 8°. 243 S. 2 Bll., Okartoniert, Gebrauchspuren, gut erhalten.
19542111902158904791Shiromizu-sha 1954. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Shiromizu-sha paperback
19732111902152908409Shiromizu-sha 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B6 Number of books: 5 in total Shiromizu-sha paperback
