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19602187New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1960. First American Edition 1st Printing. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 217x130 mm 438 2 pages in gray cloth gilt titles to spine in an unclipped illustrated dust jacket. <br /><br />The uncommon hardcover edition of these three plays all translated from the French. The title play concerns the Peasants' Revolt and the Reformation while "Kean" is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's play about British actor Edmund Kean and "Nekrassov" is a farce about the anti-communist press. Kitty Black translated the first two plays and Sylvia and George Leeson translated "Nekrassov." Paul Rand designed the dust jacket. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some rubbing to cloth. Internally heavy offsetting from a newspaper clipping to the front end papers but otherwise tight clean and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket has some soiling to the panels small nicks to the bottom of the spine a few small chips to the top of the lower panel creasing to lower flap and fading to the spine. Very Good overall. <br /><br /><br /> Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. hardcover books
198427988NY: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0521221951 . Edited by Ann Thompson. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else about fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1930806London: Constable and Company 1930. First Edition First Printing. A comedy about royalists and democrats and featuring a lengthy preface by Shaw explaining the background to the play. He then veers off into a discussion of the current political scene in Britain. 12mo. xxix 78 pages. A Very Good copy with numerous pages unopened in a Very Good dust jacket that has a darkened spine a light pencil note to the front flap one small tape repair to the verso and one minuscule tear to top edge of front panel. <br/><br/> Constable and Company unknown books
19281379New York: Samuel French 1928. First Edition Thus. <br /><br />16mo 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches; 160 x 90 mm 14 2 pages in original stapled blue wrappers printed in green and black. <br /><br />Shaw's letter to an Irish friend who sought advice on stage techniques for the theatre. The letter had been published in Collier's Weekly in 1922 with the title Make Them Do Well. The publisher of this volume Samuel French reprinted the letter in 1928 but with a different title: The Art of Rehearsal. Laid in is an old bookmark of New York antiquarian booksellers James F. Drake. <br /><br />First edition points present. Subsequent editions contained advertisements for later works by Shaw including The Apple Cart in the 2nd edition and Too True to Be Good in the 3rd edition Dan H. Laurence Bernard Shaw A Bibliography Clarendon Press Oxford 1983. A188. The first printing of this pamphlet is scarce to the market.<br /><br />CONDITION: Fore edge of front wrapper with deckled edge other edges trimmed. Some light handling wear. A Near Fine copy. Samuel French books
19131590London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1913. First Edition Thus. 12mo 7 1/8 x 5 inches; 180 x 125 mm xix 210 2 pages in yellow-green cloth. Modest rubbing to boards page edges lightly toned small "First Edition" stamp on front paste down some dusting to top edge numerous pages unopened small closed tear to page xix. The dust jacket is darkened along the spine and has a few small chips. Overall a Very Good or better copy.George Bernard Shaw's 1891 essay on the plays of Henrik Ibsen presented here with a new preface for this edition as well an analysis of plays that Ibsen wrote after 1891. The book is an important expression of Shaw's theories about theatre in which he contrasts Ibsen's vibrant social realism with a more formal and stagnant Victorian theatre. A lovely collectible copy in the scarce dust jacket. <br /><br /> Constable and Company Ltd. hardcover books
19792305New York: I. Reed Books 1979. First Edition First Printing. Small Octavo 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 195 x 130 mm 106 pages in illustrated green wrappers. <br /><br />SIGNED by Amiri Baraka on the title page and dated 04. A play about a West Indies actor who comes to America and how he deals with a very different society from what he's accustomed to. With appearances by such notables as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Cover art by C.K. Conridge. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some scuffing and creasing to the wrappers. Internally tiny creases to a couple of page corners but otherwise clean bright and unmarked. Very Good or better. <br /><br /><br /> I. Reed Books paperback books
19276914New York: Longmans Green and Co 1927. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards hardcover; dustjacket. Mild signs of use still Near Fine in a bright unclipped example of the scarce jacket lightly worn at edges and with shallow losses to spine ends not approaching text. Anderson's third play concerning the marital difficulties of a young New York couple. Twice adapted for film first in 1929 by Gregory La Cava and again in 1940 by Vincent Sherman in a film starring John Garfield Anne Shirley and Claude Rains. Longmans, Green and Co unknown books
1986734New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1986. First American Edition 1st Printing. A collection of three plays by the Nobel Prize winner all focused on 1945 when the Red Army advanced into East Prussia and "repatriated" former Russian POWs to the gulag. Small 8vo. 365 pages. Near Fine with slight bumping to the spine ends in a Near Fine dust jacket that has slight wrinkling where the real panel meets the spine tail. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1985003482Theatre Communications Group 1985 1985. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Signed by Authors. Not a First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. No Jacket. Not a First. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The book that made the author actor famous.Tragic Sucide. Fine copy.Ink name.Extremely rare signed copy. Signed" Spalding Gray" in red ink. Theatre Communications Group, 1985 Paperback books
19382287London: Faber and Faber Limited 1938. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 213 x 147 mm 115 1 pages in original pink cloth gilt titles to spine in a printed dust jacket. <br /><br />Stephen Spender's drama in verse written for the Group Theatre in London. "More readily understood than Spender's poems is this allegorical drama based on the situation in Nazi Germany. The Judge is faced with the problem of judgment on the murderers of a Polish Jew. He condemns them and is in turn himself condemned. The various factions are there -- government the people the Communists the Jews. A stirring and powerful arraignment of Nazi tyranny." Kirkus Reviews September 1 1938. <br /><br />A leaflet for the Group Theatre is laid in. Spender was the theatre's literary director. <br /><br />CONDITION: Clean and unmarked although many pages are unopened along the fore edge. The dust jacket has light edge wear and signs of a small erased number on the lower wrapper. The flap corners are slightly trimmed but the original price 5s remains intact. Very Good or better overall. <br /> Faber and Faber Limited hardcover books
19491230New York: Theatre Arts Books: Robert M. MacGregor 1949. First Edition First Printing. Stanislavski's important sequel to "An Actor Prepares" covering the physical aspects of acting such as movement voice tempo and rhythm. It's written in the form of a diary by an acting student with frequent appearances by the teacher and director Tortsov obviously a stand-in for Stanislavski himself. This volume published by Theatre Arts Books in New York is the first edition in English; a U.K. edition appeared a year later. The Russian edition was issued in 1948. Translated with a Foreword by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood who collaborated closely with Stanislavski. There's also an entertaining Introduction by actor and director Jonathan Logan who visited Stanislavski in Moscow in 1931. 8vo 8 1/2 inches / 22 cm xx 292 pages. Some fraying to the boards with a bump in the lower right corner of the front board. A bit of soiling to the top edge and toning to the end papers. Otherwise Very Good. The dust jacket has a few closed tears and shows some sunning to the spine and top of the front panel. First-edition copies in the dust jacket are uncommon to the market. SCARCE in dust jacket. <br/><br/>This is an essential reference on Stanislavski's system of acting which is in wide use today. Theatre Arts Books: Robert M. MacGregor hardcover books
19701971London: Faber and Faber Limited 1970. First Edition Thus. Small 8vo 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 199 x 120 mm 39 1 pages in photo-illustrated wrappers over stiff white card binding. SIGNED by Tom Stoppard on the title page. A philosophy student named Albert is employed to paint a bridge. Hilarity ensues. The play was first performed on the BBC Third Programme on July 13 1967 with John Hurt playing the role of Albert. "Albert's Bridge was my first more-or-less full-scale radio play" Stoppard observes in the introduction to Plays 2 a collection of his radio plays. The Oxford Theatre Group performed the first stage production of the play at the Edinburgh Festival on August 29 1969. "Albert's Bridge" first appeared in book form together with "If You're Glad I'll Be Frank" in 1969. This edition contains only Albert's Bridge. Signed copies are scarce to the market. Baker and Wachs A4c. William Baker and Gerald N. Wachs "Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History" 2010. SCARCE SIGNED. <br/><br/> CONDITION: Light soiling and rubbing to wrappers internally clean bright and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Faber and Faber Limited unknown books
20071460New York: Grove Press 2007. First Edition Thus. <br /><br />8vo 8 1/2 inches / 217 mm 10 xvi 348 pages. Hardbound in purple cloth gold lettering to front and to spine. Fine in a purple slipcase that's slightly rubbed. Overall a Fine copy. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED</b> by Tom Stoppard. One of 250 copies of the limited edition; this is copy #97. The Coast of Utopia consists of three plays: Voyage Shipwreck and Salvage. Each appears here in this single volume. The plays originally were published in 2002 with a three-volume set appearing in 2003. Stoppard subsequently revised the texts and added an introduction for this edition. Issued in a slipcase and without a dust jacket. Baker and Wachs A29.b. <b>SCARCE SIGNED</b>. <br /><br /> Grove Press hardcover books
2007120752NY: Grove Press 2007. First Grove Press limited edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Stoppard on the limitation page. Copy #33. Introduction by Stoppard. Cloth-covered boards with gilt-lettering in cloth-covered slipcase. Illustrated endpages. Issued without dustjacket. In publisher's shrinkwrap with price sticker as issued. Shrinkwrap opened. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Grove Press Hardcover books
19552089Tempo Playhouse Playbill Stein Gertrude and Jean Genet. <b>Julie Bovasso and Cletus L. Gundy Present a Tempo Playhouse Production: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March": Selections From the First Reader and Jean Genet's "The Maids." </b>New York: Tempo Playhouse 1955. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A rare playbill for the first plays presented by Julie Bovasso's Tempo Playhouse in New York: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March: Selections From the First Reader" and Jean Genet's "The Maids." In fact this was the first production of "The Maids" in the United States. Both plays were directed by Strowan Robertson with sets and costumes by Lester Hackett. <br /><br />The 24-year-old Bovasso founded the theatre with $250 from the sale of a painting by her husband George Ortman. She rented an apartment at 4 St. Mark's Place in the East Village and built a small stage and a box office. See Stephen J. Bottoms "<i>Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement"</i> pages 37-38. <br /><br />The playbill doesn't give the opening date but a small item in The New York Times of March 10 1955 states the opening would take place on Saturday March 12. The Times also placed the location of the opening at Steyer Hall Playhouse 184 Eldridge Street which must have been a temporary venue.<br /><br />Bovasso played the role of Claire in "The Maids" which ran until mid-July 1955. The following year the Village Voice initiated the Obie Awards for Off-Broadway. Bovasso won the first Obie for Best Actress and Tempo Playhouse received a special citation that year.<br /><br />Bovasso's co-stars in "The Maids" were Joyce Henry as Solange and Fran Malis as Madame. Being the versatile actress that she was Bovasso also apparently played Solange at times.<br /><br />For the Stein production -- which was actually two plays: "In a Garden" and "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters" -- the actors were Herbert King Philip Stanley Pitts Kit Raccoon Nancy Ponder Lucy Willow Anne Edwards Helen and Marcia Pavia Ellen.<br /><br />Just like playbills for the Living Theatre the Tempo playbill lists paintings and sculptures for sale at the theatre. Painters include Joan Mitchell Perle Fine Lois Dodd Angelo Ippolito Michael Goldberg Margaret Barlett George Ortman and Miles Forst and the sculptors Marisol Escobar and William King. <br /><br />This playbill is rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings although a separate search turns up a copy at the University of Florida. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some creases and folds but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Tempo Playhouse books
1960751New York: The Living Theatre 1960. First Edition. Season program for the avant-garde New York theatre group which was founded in 1947 and still exists today. The season's productions included "In the Jungle of Cities" by Bertolt Brecht; "The Connection" by Jack Gelber; "The Marrying Maiden" by Jackson MacLow; and "Women of Trachis" by Sophocles in a version by Ezra Pound and featuring a young Martin Sheen as Hyllos. 8vo. unpaginated. Near Fine in stapled wrappers with mild edge sunning. Laid in is a Cue magazine offprint about Judith Malina and Julian Beck the co-founders of the group. OCLC lists only 5 copies held by libraries. SCARCE. <br/><br/>The Living Theatre has broken new ground and plenty of rules for realistic drama since its founding in 1947. The company has produced some of the most-acclaimed cutting-edge plays to be seen in Off-Broadway theatre including Jack Gelber's "The Connection" included in this season program. The Living Theatre unknown books
19611607New York: The Living Theatre 1961. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Oblong 16mo 6 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 165 x 130 mm 4 pages in stapled red white and blue wrappers. <p>Invitation for a Champagne party and auction at the studio of artist Larry Rivers on May 2 1961 to raise money for the Living Theatre and its forthcoming European tour. The auction included art works and manuscripts most notably the entire manuscript of Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish" as well as works by John Cage Louise Nevelson Robert Rauschenberg Grace Hartigan Jasper Johns Willem De Kooning Helen Frankenthaler Franz Kline and others.<br /></p><p>Rivers's studio was at 102 West Third Street in the West Village. The invitation requested a contribution of $25 per couple and assured attendees that the evening was "informal." The guests of honor were Eva Gabor Denise Darcel Arlene Francis Shelley Winters and Kim Stanley.<br /></p><p>The evening was a huge success according to The New York Times raising about $20500 equal to around $180000 in 2021. Foundations had promised an additional $5000 while $18000 had already been raised in previous months thus assuring that the Living Theatre's European trip would go ahead.<br /></p><p>The Living Theatre planned to perform in Paris Rome London Turin Milan Amsterdam Glasgow and Florence with plays by Bertolt Brecht In the Jungle of Cities William Carlos Williams Many Loves Jack Gelber The Connection and Luigi Pirandello Tonight We Improvise.<br /></p><p>An interesting snapshot of the New York art literary and entertainment worlds of 1961. And of course a rare piece of Living Theatre ephemera. <b>RARE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Near Fine with trivial hints of edge wear. Sharp clean and fresh.<br /></p><p><br /></p> The Living Theatre books
19522088New York: The Living Theatre 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 1/8 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm 16 pages in stapled red wrappers printed on Japanese paper.<br /><br />Program for Paul Goodman's "Faustina" which opened at the Living Theatre on May 251952 starring Julie Bovasso as Faustina. Judith Malina directed and Julian Beck designed sets and costumes.<br /><br />This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes a "portrait sketch" of playwright Paul Goodman by Laura Perls; "Notes on a Ritual Tragedy" by Judith Malina; and a full-page drawing by Larry Rivers for "A City Winter and Other Poems" by Frank O'Hara. <br /><br />There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes; a list of paintings for sale by Julian Beck; and a list of sponsors which included John Cage Jean Cocteau Merce Cunningham Betty Parsons and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds.<br /><br />"Faustina" was an important milestone in Living Theatre history. The play's title refers to the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At the end of the play Faustina is supposed to step forward and chastise the audience for not leaping on stage and stopping a murder. However Julie Bovasso as Faustina felt this moment was pretentious and told the audience on opening night about her irritation. She quit the production after just a few performances. Stephen J. Bottoms <i>Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement</i> pages 25-26. <br /><br />Despite the controversy the speech "was the beginning of direct audience confrontation by the Living Theatre a technique used extensively in later productions." Theodore Shank <i>American Alternative Theater</i> pages 8-9. <br /><br />This program is rare and is notable for the use of stunning Japanese paper for the wrappers. OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at SUNY/Buffalo and Michigan. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slight toning to the pages and bit of edge wear to the Japanese paper wrappers. A beautiful production. Near Fine.<br /><br /> The Living Theatre books
19512157New York: The Living Theatre 1951. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 160 mm 16 pages in stapled printed wrappers. <br /><br />Program for Kenneth Rexroth's four short plays in verse on classical Greek themes. "Beyond the Mountains" opened at the Living Theatre on December 30 1951 with Living Theatre co-director Judith Malina playing several roles. Julian Beck directed with music by Richard Stryker sets and costumes by Garrick Maxwell choreography by Tei Ko and lighting designed by Marjorie Spitz. <br /><br />This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes an essay on "The Poetic Theatre" by Harold Norse a poem "The Last Supper" by Oscar Williams an article on "Vanguard and Theatre" by Paul Goodman who wrote "Faustina" which was performed at the Living Theatre following "Beyond the Mountains."<br /><br />There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes as well as an advert for drawings by Kenneth Rexroth each priced at $35. A list of Living Theatre sponsors includes John Cage Merce Cunningham Anaïs Nin Betty Parsons William Carlos Williams and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Edge wear and a couple of tiny nicks to wrappers light toning to pages. Near Fine. The Living Theatre books
187626813NY: Wheat & Cornett 1876. Periodical. Several issues bound together. Volume I only. Large 8vo various pagination. Pictorial cover green cloth stamped in gilt. Some foxing o/w VG. No. 4 contains Richelieu by Lytton Bulwer starring Edwin Forrest at Niblo's and Edwin Booth at Booth's. Also The Married Rake and A Happy Pair. Wheat & Cornett unknown books
1969818New York: Grove Press Inc. 1969. First Edition First Printing. Controversial revue devised by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan who asked a number of authors to write erotic material that could be used in creating a series of sketches. There's a brief prologue by Samuel Beckett and contributions by Sam Shepard Edna O'Brien John Lennon Kenneth Tynan Jules Feiffer and others. The book is illustrated with photographs from the production; in most cases the actors are nude. 8vo. 190 2 pages. Very Good with light rubbing to the boards and a bit of foxing to the end papers in a Very Good dust jacket with three short closed tears and some sunning. <br/><br/> Grove Press, Inc. hardcover books
19452153London: Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. n.d. 1945. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm 11 1 pages in pictorial stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A short history of the Unity Theatre a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red."<br /><br />In 1938 Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play "Plant in the Sun." Moreover Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K. <br /><br />OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan Wisconsin Waterloo Auckland Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the National Library of Scotland. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Mild external wear some soiling to lower wrapper staple rusted but internally clean and unmarked. First page stamped "Made in England." A Very Good copy. Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. books
19352155San Mateo California: Drama Teachers Association of California 1935. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 234 x 157 mm 50 pages in illustrated stapled wrappers.<br /><br />Helpful hints for putting on amateur plays especially at schools. Chapters deal with such areas as costumes make-up set design playwriting acting directing dance lighting etc. Striking woodblock illustrations by Samuel W. Beeman. <br /><br />OCLC shows eight institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Skidmore California State Humboldt State Los Angeles Public Library Library of Congress Northwestern University of Washington and Waseda University. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Faint creasing to upper wrapper and preliminaries from a previously removed paper clip mild creasing to lower wrapper and a few pages. Printed on high-quality paper. Very Good or better. Drama Teachers Association of California paperback books
19781596New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1978. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 144 mm 275 1 pages in green cloth. Light sunning to edges of boards light soiling to top edge rubbing and slight bump to rear board. Very Good or better in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that has light soiling to the front panel a crease in the rear flap and rear panel and light toning to the flaps.SIGNED by Derek Walcott on the front free end paper: "To Dave / Derek / FSG /Oct 86." Two plays by the Nobel Prize winner. <br /><br /> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1980100146Dallas: Pressworks 1980. First edition limited to 376 copies signed by Warren & illustrator Bill Komodore of which 350 were numbered and meant for sale and 26 lettered meant for use of the contributors and publisher. Copy "W ." Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards in acetate dustwrapper. With actetate inserts protecting color illustrations laid-in as issued. 4 pp music score by Alexie Haieff in stapled printed wraps laid-in as issued. Fine condition. Lettered copies are not commonly available. Signed By Author & Artist. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Pressworks Hardcover books
