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1979100217Dallas: New London Press 1979. First edition. 150 copies were specially bound numbered and signed. This copy is one of the unsigned issue that has been specially signed by Purdy on the half-title page to which he has added "all good wishes." Purdy has also written his first name on the the first page of "A Day at the Fair." Presumably he began to sign the book there and then leafed over to the half-title page where there was more room. Issued without a dustjacket. Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. <br />The image is of the book described and not a stock photo. New London Press hardcover books
197514357New York / Ramsey / Toronto: Paulist Press 1975. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Small wide quarto. Three plays by the author of The Miracle Worker. DDesigned and illustrated by Ellen Keusch. A handsome fine clothbound copy in near fine dustwrapper. This copy INSCRIBED by Gibson on the blank page facing the title page. <br/><br/> Paulist Press hardcover books
1995W11906KMorgantown PA: Masthof Press 1995. Original maroon cloth gilt. Slight spine ends crumpling and small dent on lower edge of bottom board and on one corner. Inscribed by author on title page as "Henry J". Contains a great deal of information with photos and drawings by this widely published expert on the Dutch Country of Pennsylvania. Signed by Author. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Masthof Press Hardcover books
19771019New York: Samuel French Inc. 1977. Later printing. David Mamet's first play which opened February 16 1977 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York and starred Kenneth McMillan John Savage and Robert Duvall. 12mo 87 pages. Blue side-stapled wraps with silver buffalo illustration to front panel. Minor fading to spine and minor wear to corners. Thin line of blue to very top edge of first few pages; appears to be a marking transferred from the cover. Aside from this small marking the interior is pristine with bright text. Inside front cover advertises The Sea Horse and The Au Pair Man. Rear cover advertises The Gingerbread Lady and The Sunshine Boys. A Very Good copy. <br/><br/> Samuel French, Inc. paperback books
193711767New York: M. Horowitz 1937. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers; 14pp. Trivial external wear; Near Fine. Rather elaborate pictorial program for the 1937 season of Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road" for which Henry Hull reprised the role of Lester Jeeter which he had created three years earlier. Copiously illustrated with stills from the production and reproducing the text of two New York Daily News editorials praising the play's realistic depiction of farm tenancy in the South. Described by critic Gerald Weales as "the" quintessential play of the 1930s "Tobacco Road" opened in 1934 to uniformly poor critical notices; the show nearly closed in its opening weeks then gained steam as Henry Hull's classic portrayal of the lazy ignorant sharecropper Jeeter became a word-of-mouth cause celebre. In the end "Tobacco Road" became one of the most talked-about plays of the Great Depression finally finishing its run in 1941 after nearly 3200 performances. M. Horowitz unknown 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
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
1943005873New York: Random House 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition of this play a farce about a burlesque troop that invades an army cantonment with the noble and patriotic resolve to show the boys just as much as possible of the American womanhood they have sworn to defend. Spotting to rear endpaper else a bright tight copy in very good price intact dustwrapper with dampstaining to spine area. Despite flaws a very nice copy. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
199633372NY: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0521473640 . First edition. Book-plate on front paste-down else near fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press hardcover books
197431728Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. First edition the deluxe limited issue of 350 numbered copies signed by Oates on the limitation page of a total 1350 hardcover copies. Copy #297. Quarter-cloth with printed spine label and paper-covered boards in plastic dustwrapper. Design by Barbara Martin. Production photographs by James Tilton. Small chip on dustwrapper spine topedge. Fine condition in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A play in twelve scenes first presented in NYC in Dec. 1973. Cast included Robert Guillaume Marcella Lowery F. Murray Abraham et al. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Black Sparrow Press Hardcover books
180915791Tübingen: J.G. Cotta 1809. 1st edition. 19th C. tan half-calf with marbled boards & eps. Maroon spine labels. Original brown wrappers bound in. VG contemporary pos &personal library sticker/some foxing & browning to paper. 175 pp. Text in German. Printed in black letter. 8vo. 4 5/8" x 7 1/4" <br/><br/> J.G. Cotta hardcover books
000502Dutton 1989 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 64mo - up to 3" tall. ISBN:0-525-24725-4. Mint copy of galley proof. Dutton, 1989 Paperback books
200332812NY: Cambridge University Press. As New. 2003. Hardcover. 0521820065 . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Cambridge University Press hardcover books
200431667Westport: Greenwood Press. As New. 2004. Hardcover. 0313322333 . First printing. As new in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Greenwood Press hardcover books
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
1993170New York: Routledge 1993. First American Edition 1st Printing. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm xviii 536 pages in gray cloth black titles to spine in an illustrated unclipped dust jacket. <br /><br />A massive compilation of Bertolt Brecht's journals covering the years 1934-1955 when the playwright lived in a variety of European countries as well as the United States and writes frankly about life in Los Angeles. Translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photos. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some light foxing along the top and fore edges upper board slightly splayed internally clean and bright. <br />The unclipped dust jacket has light edge wear and a small black dot to the upper panel. Very Good or better. <br /><br /><br /> Routledge hardcover books
19712055London: Jonathan Cape 1971. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 x 5 1/4 inches; 213 x 130 mm 186 pages in gray boards. With an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Arnold Wesker on the title page and dated 12 June 78. A collection of prose pieces by the British playwright 1932-2016 including short stories a play for television and a diary written for Swedish radio just before Wesker went to Stockholm to direct the world premiere of "The Friends." Wesker is sometimes grouped among the so-called Angry Young Men of postwar British literature although he rejected that label. Even so some of his plays attack Britain's class system and the exploitation of working-class people. He also tangled at times with the British theatre establishment which he accused of anti-Semitism. Copies of this book are uncommon in the market and signed copies even more so. SCARCE. <br/><br/> CONDITION: Corners bumped some light soiling to top edge. Internally clean bright and unmarked except for a tiny stain on the front free end paper. The dust jacket has some stray white marks production error above the title. Flap corners slightly trimmed but the publisher's price is intact. A Very Good or better copy. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
190526104New York: Henry Holt 1905. 1st thus NCBEL I 1658. Brown full sheep binding with gilt spine lettering. Marbled eps. A VG copy bit of rubbing to the binding extremities/two small dark spots to spine. lix 3 276 pp including Index. Last 2 pages advert for the Series. Facsimile t.p. of the 1631 1st edition. 8vo. <br/><br/>A scholarly look at Jonson's work which was first performed in 1625. Submitted by De Winter as a "Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in the Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Henry Holt unknown books
19754138NY: Atheneum 1975. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Signed by Albee on the title page. Few small foxed spots on the topedge; dustjacket with toned flap edges interior offsetting on the spine bottom not apparent on the outside and board corners just touched. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy. Atheneum Hardcover books
183919115New York: Harper & Brothers 1839 First regularly published edition of Sargent's second book. Foxing; some damp-staining to the upper margins of some leaves toward the rear; spine and board edges a bit sunned; a very good copy. 12mo original floral-embossed brown cloth gilt lettering 110 pages. A play revised from the preceding privately printed edition. Front free endpaper neatly excised. BAL 17201. Harper & Brothers, unknown books
1919293Boston: Little Brown and Company 1919. First Edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 211 x 144 mm vii 298 pages in black cloth titles in gilt to spine in the scarce unclipped dust jacket. <br /><br />A collection of articles about the theatre by Edward Gordon Craig 1872-1966 a stage designer and theatrical producer and director. Although he directed only a handful of plays "his controversial theories of scene design and stagecraft gave him eminence in the European and American theater" The New York Times July 30 1966 page 25. For instance he favored three-dimensional stage effects and more innovative lighting than the traditional footlights. <br /><br />Copies of this book in the original dust jacket are scarce to the market. <br /><br />CONDITION: Rubbing to cloth fading to spine titles top edge dusty bottom edge a bit soiled. Internally a couple of stray ink marks but otherwise clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some soiling nicks and chips with slight fading to text. Overall a Very Good or better copy. <br /><br /> Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
19391405Los Angeles: Belasco Theatre 1939. First Edition First Printing. Single leaf of heavy card stock 5 x 12 1/2 inches 125 x 315 mm folded once horizontally. Light toning to rear of program. A Near Fine copy. Colorful program for the Los Angeles production of the shipboard comedy "Excursion" from Hallie Flanagan's Federal Theatre which was part of the Works Progress Administration WPA during the Depression. All the action takes place aboard the "S.S. Happiness." Random House published the play in book form in 1937; the play had been a hit on Broadway. No other copies in commerce as of March 15 2018. Nor do we locate any institutional holdings in OCLC WorldCat. A nice little bit of WPA-related ephemera printed in vibrant colors. RARE. <br/><br/> Belasco Theatre unknown books
19852079Living Theatre. <b>A Tribute to Julian Beck</b>. New York: Publisher Not Stated 1985. First Edition First Printing.<br /><br />Single sheet folded to create 4 pages measuring 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches 212 x 140 mm when folded. Printed on heavy paper stock with ragged edges to the cover and second page. <br /><br />Program for a memorial tribute to Julian Beck cofounder of the Living Theatre one of America's premier experimental theatre groups. The event took place on November 25 1985 at the Joyce Theater in New York. It featured film segments photographic slides and tributes by numerous artists and writers including John Cage Jackson Mac Low Larry Rivers John Ashbery Amiri Baraka Kenneth Koch and Abbie Hoffman. Beck's wife Judith Malina also spoke; she cofounded the Living Theatre with Beck in 1947. <br /><br />Beck 1925-1985 won numerous awards for his theatre work. Late in life he acted in films including Francis Ford Coppola's "Cotton Club" and left behind a body of nonfiction and poetry. His 1972 book "The Life of the Theater" featured essays on theatre and politics. See The New York Times obituary of September 17 1985 section B page 6. <br /><br />OCLC shows no institutional holdings of this program although a separate search locates one at New York University. Yale holds an invitation to the event. <br /><br />A scarce piece of Living Theatre ephemera honoring cofounder Julian Beck. Wonderful cover depicting Orphée drawn for the Living Theatre by Jean Cocteau. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slight soiling to final page. Near Fine. Publisher Not Stated 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
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
