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189527528London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1895. Tenth and Revised Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth gilt lettering and black decoration on cover blind-stamped borders and medallion on rear cover. Illustrated with tissue-protected photographic portrait of Threse Malton on frontispiece. N.B. Therese Malten was the stage name of Therese Müller 1855 1930 a well-known German dramatic soprano. Spine and corners worn small bookseller's label on fep Brentano's Paris gilt faded text block unmarked tight square and clean. VERY GOOD. Photographic Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xvi 350 pp . Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington hardcover
1958827<p>London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1958. First Edition First Printing.</p><p> Jean Anouilh's farce about a young man who rents a grand country house for a night and hires some actors to play his parents and a waiter to play the family butler. Why To make the girl he loves believe that she's visiting his ancestral family home. <br /><br />Anouilh's play "Le Rendez-vous de Senlis" was first produced in Paris in 1937 and in the U.K. as "Dinner With the Family" in 1957 at the Oxford Playhouse and the New Theatre in London. Translated by Edward Owen Marsh with a striking dust jacket designed by Harry More-Gordon. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo 7.5 x 5 inches; 188 x 125 mm 98 pages in red cloth gilt titles to spine in an illustrated dust jacket hard cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: Near Fine with small stain to top edge in a Very Good dust jacket with soiling shallow chipping and two closed tears. Price of 10s 6d present on front flap. SCARCE in unclipped dust jacket. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover
18586224London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1858. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st good plus in contemporary green cloth with burnt-orange endpapers; spine ends are worn & frayed front hinge is weak Christmas 1859 gift inscription on half-title. Sm. sticker on rear pastedown: "Bound by Westley's & Co. London". 138 pp. 32 pp. ads. <br/> <br/> Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts hardcover
1881DEMO015288IBoston: Oliver Ditson & Co. 1881. First American edition. Wrappers. Good. 12mo 68 pages printed green wrappers <br/><br/>As originally produced for the first time in America by the Grayson-Norcross Comic Opera Company Boston April 12 1881. "Mascot" may be Audran's most successful most enduring comic operetta. "The Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins states 'The French operetta La mascotte is credited with bringing the word 'mascot' into the English language." Englished by Theodore T. Barker with dialogue and directions by L. W. Norcross Jr. Oliver Ditson & Co. unknown
1957021768London: Faber & Faber 1957 First printing of the first British edition. Stiff illustrated wrappers with French-flaps; front flap price-clipped and a shallow bump to upper corner else book in fine condition. Faber & Faber paperback
191427444London: Novello and Company Limited. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1914. First Edition Thus. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's burgundy cloth over printed boards gilt lettering on spine advertisements on endpapers. Full score. In English. Edited and the pianoforte accompaniment revised by Ebenezer Prout. The English version newly translated and adapted by Rev. J. Troutbeck. . Covers mildly worn else fine; unmarked tight square and clean. VERY GOOD. . Novello's Original Octavo Edition Series. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. iii 88 4-adverts pp . Novello and Company, Limited hardcover
27442London: Novello and Company Limited. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1912. First Edition Thus. Later Printing. Hard Cover. 0890961115 . Quarter bound in publisher's burgundy cloth over printed boards gilt lettering on spine advertisements on endpapers. Full score. In English. . Covers mildly worn else fine; unmarked tight square and clean. VERY GOOD. . Novello's Original Octavo Edition Series. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. iii 217 ii 10-adverts pp . Novello and Company, Limited hardcover
19381231<p>Providence Rhode Island: The Booke Shop 1938. First Edition First Printing.</p><p>Octavo 9 1/4 inches / 23.5 cm 105 4 pages in orange cloth hard cover.</p><p>INSCRIBED by the author on the front free end paper and dated Christmas 1938: "To Ruth -- / With best wishes / from her sometimes / director who knows / she is an actress still -- even tho he falls / short in these pages."</p><p>The author Ben W. Brown 1897-1955 was a Brown University professor as well as a theatre critic and director. He went to the Soviet Union in 1937-38 to study the theatre scene; this book of essays is the result.</p><p>CONDITION: Some soiling to the orange cloth covers and discoloration to the spine. Pages very lightly toned. No dust jacket. Overall Very Good. Signed copies are uncommon to the market. SCARCE SIGNED. <br /><br /></p> The Booke Shop hardcover
15-9684New York: Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre 1986. 8vo. ca. 50 pp. each Stapled Wraps Very Good . New York: Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts, Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre, 1986. paperback
15-9682New York: Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre 1988. 8vo. ca. 50 pp. each Stapled Wraps Very Good . December is a double issue. New York: Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts, Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre, 1988. paperback
15-9683New York: Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre 1987. 8vo. ca. 50 pp. each Stapled Wraps Very Good . December is a double issue. New York: Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts, Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre, 1987. paperback
18830007979London & New York: George Routledge And Sons 1883. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; lxx 501 pages half calf raised bands extra gilt spine with contrasting morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges top of joints separating. <br/><br/>The Old English Poets series. "The first object of this publication was to give the text of THE CANTERBURY TALES as correct as the MSS. within reach of the Editor would enable him to make it. . The account of former Editions in the Appendix to this Preface . will show that this object had hitherto been either entirely neglected or at least very imperfectly pursued - Preface." George Routledge And Sons hardcover
nosku344This is the hardcover only stated Hopkins Edition from 1965. Other than a back cardholder flyleaf ex lib both the mylar-covered DJ and the book are in excellent condition. There are no rips tears etc. and the pages and binding are tight. This wonderful impossible-to-find item is available for purchase now! Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. NAME YOUR PRICE!!! Due to the vagaries of market fluctuations an item's listed price should be considered a guideline. Serious buyers are welcome to make a on each and every item listed with the assurance that ALL reasonable offers will be accepted!!Very Good hardcover
1941013832New York: W.R. Stotler 1941. This is an almost very good hardcover copy of the Album with sunned and worn covers. The gilt on the front cover is practically worn away Album still legible. Internally it is completely clean no foxing or marks. The Album is comprised of two versions of the play adapted from Clarence Day's book of stories 'Life With Father' published in 1936. Day wrote short stories for the New Yorker magazine and also contributed material to 'The Talk of the Town'. After Clarence Day died the stories were adapted into a play and became the longest running play on Broadway. The first version of the play stars Lillian Gish and Percy Waram the second version starred Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs of the actors Day settings from the productions of the play a double page lithograph reproduction by Don Freeman of a breakfast table scene in the Day household. Clarence Day's drawings are scattered here and there. Lots of excerpts from the reviewers of the day and much more. Also laid in in a pocket inside the rear cover are two stapled press releases one 'Box-Office Miracle' and two 'The Natural History of a Great American Comedy'. 12" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good. W.R. Stotler Hardcover
1962831<p>New York: Grove Press Inc. 1962. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />An important collection of seven cutting-edge plays of the late 1950s with an insightful introduction by drama critic and director Harold Clurman.</p><p>The works featured here are: Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow" Shelagh Delaney's "A Taste of Honey" Jack Gelber's "The Connection" Jean Genet's "The Balcony" Eugène Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" and Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party."</p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm xii 548 pages in half cloth over boards in an unclipped printed dust jacket hard cover.</p><p>CONDITION: A couple of bumps to boards bookplate and small ink name to front free end paper. Otherwise Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket that has a couple of tiny nicks minor rubbing and light toning.</p> Grove Press, Inc. hardcover
19804456St.Louis MO : Sunrise 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo 270 pages brown cloth; dj edgeworn <br/><br/>Presentation Copy to the Coney's in Watseka Illinois in 1990 "With love -". Laid in is a photocopy of a 1991 newspaper clipping about Dakin with his inked presentation to Mary Alice Coney. The Foreword is by Tennessee Williams and reproduces his holographic facsimile of it. Dakin Williams "tells of the fascinating lives of the memebers of the Williams family including Tennessee his sister Rose and their mother and father as he describes memories and events never before spoken of even by Tennessee." Edited by crime journalist Lucy Freeman. [ Sunrise ] hardcover
1992003209Penguin 1992. The unrevised and unpublished proofs. Near fine extremely faint back cover mark which may be in the paper itself. In blue wraps with black lettering. Basis for 1994 Roman Polanski film with Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley. With an afterword by the author. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Soft Cover. Penguin paperback
191941318Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1919. Hardcover. Introduction by Arnold Bennett. Small 8vo. Dark blue cloth spine with paper label and light blue paper over boards with blue Lincoln graphic. xii 112pp. Very good. Almost but not quite rates "Near fine" as there's only a hint of mild edgewear. Tight and exceptionally bright early printing of this popular production. Front pastedown bears nice autograph addition: 2½" X 1¼" slip tipped on with a fine bold Drinkwater signature in brown ink above what appears to be a hotel name "The Schuyler" and emblem in green. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
193811958New York: William R. Scott 1938. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Limited First Thus no additional printings one of 750 copies; 8vo blue-gray cloth no dj; vg cocked; spine and its title piece sunned; edges darkened; eps and pages toned; 75pp. <br/> <br/> William R. Scott hardcover
1902biblio74<p>Fair-Good copy of first German edition in original wraps of So Ist Das Leben Such is Life - the account of a deposed king who wanders the country disguised as a beggar joins a group of strolling players and is admired by the new king for his talent in impersonating a king and is then buried in a princely tomb when he dies. Tear on front wrap near spine. Some edgewear to corners of spine and front wrap.</p> ALBERT LANGEN
19417570New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1941. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. First Edition FR symbol on copyright page; 8vo tan cloth; vg- cocked; boards lightly bowed; spine ends bumped; scar from removed sticker on ffep; eps and pages toning in good dj toned and dustsoiled; spine sunned; edges chipped torn and worn esp. at spine ends; 244pp. <br/> <br/> Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. hardcover
1998014975France: Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique 1998. This is a very good softcover copy with a very good heavy mylar dust wrapper. Completely clean. Text in French. Complete with 16 color slides 1 CD a fold-out titled 'Shakespeare La Scene et ses Miroirs commentaire du disque compact. This issue of the journal is on Shakespeare. Hundreds of illustrations in black & white with photographs film stills drawings etc. 8" high X 11" wide 247 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique Paperback
1998014976France: Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique 1998. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. The first three pages have short repaired tears to the top edges. Text in French. This issue of the journal is on the contemporary French circus. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs. Complete with 1 CD and 1 CD ROM attached to the inside rear cover. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique Paperback
1996014974France: Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique 1996. This is a very good softcover copy with a very good heavy mylar dust wrapper. Completely clean. Text in French. Complete with 16 color slides 1 CD a fold-out titled 'Koltes Combats avec la scene commentaire du disque compact'. This issue of the journal is on Bernard-Marie Koltes. 120 illustrations in black & white with photographs film stills drawings etc. 8" high X 11" wide 200 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique Paperback
195110546Chicago: Privately Printed by the Falcon Press 1951. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Good. Robert L. Smith. Limited Edition No. 1 of 500 copies; INSCRIBED by the artist Smith on ffep 'to Dottie with gratitude for your charm and forbearance - Don Roberto'; 8vo decorated paper covers no dj; good 2.5 inch tear to top of front joint 1.25 inch tear to top of rear joint; water ring and soil to title piece on front cover; spine sunned head chipped; spine ends bumped and worn; small tear to rear joint; 59 pp. <br/> <br/> Privately Printed by the Falcon Press hardcover
