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19681219New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1968. First Edition First Printing. Joseph Heller's second book an antiwar play following Catch-22. The play debuted at the Yale School of Drama and then opened on Broadway in October 1968. 8vo 8 1/2 inches / 22 cm. Several small stains to the cloth small bit of offsetting to the rear end paper from the red cloth. A Very Good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket that has some soiling and slight wrinkling to the crown of the spine. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
199070510NY: Grove Press 1990. First edition first prnt. Illustrated wraps. No hardcover edition. Mamet's personalized business card with his holograph note in ink laid in. "Dear _ Thank you for your interest in my work. David Mamet 25 F. '00." Price stricker on rear wrap; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition. Contains "A Waitress in Yellowstone" "Bradford" "The Museum of Science and Industry Story" "A Wasted Weekend" "We Will Take You There.". Signed Card Laid in. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued. Grove Press 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
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
19881976New York: Playbill Incorporated April 1988. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 73 1 pages in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Athol Fugard to novelist Peter Matthiessen 1927-2014 on the front cover: "For Peter / Athol" with an additional unidentified inscription. Fugard directed and starred in the play which also featured Yvonne Bryceland and Amy Irving. In the play an elderly South African widow works obsessively on a sculpture garden that represents a pilgrimage to Mecca. The play opened at the Promenade Theatre in New York on April 12 1988 and closed in September after 172 performances. "The Road to Mecca" won the New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best Foreign Play while Yvonne Bryceland won on Obie Award. The Playbill includes a small loose label "From the library of PETER MATTHIESSEN." Signed copies of the Playbill are scarce; there were no other signed copies in commerce as of July 28 2019. SCARCE. <br/><br/> CONDITION: Edge wear light soiling to wrappers. A Very Good copy. Playbill Incorporated unknown books
19671977New York: Grove Press Inc. 1967. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm 106 pages in orange cloth black titles to spine in an unclipped dust jacket. A collection of two early television plays and five revue sketches. Pinter himself appeared in "A Night Out" the story of a young man who feels bullied by his mother and other people. <br/><br/> CONDITION: Slightly cocked light foxing to the top edge and fore edge internally clean bright and unmarked. The dust jacket that is slightly rubbed with some soiling and creasing to the rear panel. A Very Good or better copy. Grove Press, Inc. hardcover books
196631334NY: Atheneum 1966. First edition. first prnt. Signed by Albee on the title page. Soil spotting on the bottom of the foreedge and topedge; dustjacket with faint dampstain at rear panel spine fold. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner; the first of three that Albee has been awarded. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Atheneum Hardcover books
192214388New York: Brentanos 1922. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 154 pp. Photo frontis by Francis Bruguierre. Tissue guard present. Translated from the German by Ashley Dukes. With eight illustrations from photographs of the Theatre Guild Production. Closed tear near top of spine else a bright very good plus copy. Black cloth with bright red lettering to front panel and spine. Scrape to front panel else a very good example of the rare dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Brentanos hardcover books
197614375New York: Hill and Wang 1976. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. First edition stated of this play by the author of Hot L Baltimore. A fine clothbound copy in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. This copy SIGNED by Wilson on the front endpaper. Quite uncommon thus. <br/><br/> Hill and Wang hardcover books
1857WRCLIT18302New York & London: Samuel French & Son 1857. 36pp. Printed orange wrappers. Near fine. First edition of this playlet based on Delano's own experiences in the diggings in 1850. Ascribing priority of printings to French plays is usually tentative at best; however this copy bears an advertisement for the play version of TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM as a new publication so it seems certain that this is at least a very early printing if not the first. EBERSTADT 134:123. Samuel French & Son unknown books
1992885New York: Playbill Incorporated 1992. No Edition Stated. SIGNED and stamped by David Mamet with his blue Chicago stamp on the title page page 23. Mamet's play about a college professor whose chance for tenure is ruined by a student's charge of sexual harassment. A Fine copy of the Playbill for the October 1992 presentation at the Orpheum Theatre in Manhattan starring William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon Mamet's wife. The play premiered in May 1992 in Cambridge Massachusetts at Mamet's new Back Bay Theater Company. For the New York production at the Orpheum Mamet rewrote the third act in response to the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings. 8vo. 66 pages in stapled wrappers. Near Fine with light edge wear. Playbills signed by Mamet are uncommon in the market. SCARCE. <br/><br/> Playbill Incorporated unknown books
199621122Los Angeles: Voctoria Dailey 1996. First edition. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. Inscribed by Martin on the illustrated front free endpage. "To Rob Best Wishes Steve Martin." Illustrations by Martin Mulll. Cloth-covered boards with illustrated lable on front board. Boards bowed; tiny foxed spot on topedge. Clean copy in Very Good condition. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Voctoria Dailey Hardcover books
19051477Boston: John W. Luce 1905. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Octavo 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 194 x 132 mm black cloth paper labels to front cover and spine hard cover. <br /><br />The second book of H.L. Mencken an analysis and appreciation of the plays of George Bernard Shaw. With a lengthy introduction by Mencken. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light scratch to front cover moderate wear to the spine tips and corners with darkening to the spine label fading to top stain. Internally: Early bookplate to the front paste down with an additional bookplate of Frank Harding to the front end paper and Harding's name in ink dated 1929. a few scattered pencil markings and light toning to page edges. About Very Good lacking the very scarce dust jacket. John W. Luce hardcover books
193510848New York: Random House 1935. First Edition. Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel couple of small dust-smudges else Fine. The jacket spine which is very prone to darkening on this title is bright and unfaded. Random House unknown 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
19581522New York: Playbill Incorporated October 27 1958. First Edition. 8vo 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 228 x 165 mm 52 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. Crease to upper wrapper at lower right corner tiny nick at upper left corner a bit of soiling to wrappers. A Very Good or better copy.SIGNED on the upper wrapper by four members of the original Broadway cast of Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet": Helen Hayes Betty Field Kim Stanley and Eric Portman. "A Touch of the Poet" was the last play that O'Neill wrote and completed. Harold Clurman the director says in this Playbill that the play "was to be the first of a series of plays that would trace the history of an American family through the generations from 1828 to the present."The play opened on October 2 1958 at the Helen Hayes Theatre and marked the first time that Hayes had played in the theatre named for her. "Given Eugene O'Neill and a cast of superb actors the effect on the stage is electric" according to New York Times theatre critic Brooks Atkinson. Later in his review he says: "Mr. Clurman has made a thunderbolt out of O'Neill's writing." The New York Times October 3 1958 page 23.Signed copies of this Playbill are scarce to the market. No others in commerce as of July 6 2018. SCARCE. <br /><br /> Playbill Incorporated 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
19361978Denby Edwin and Orson Welles. <b>Horse Eats Hat</b>. New York: The Federal Theatre Project/Works Progress Administration 1936. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Single sheet folded to create a four-panel program measuring 9 x 6 inches 230 x 150 mm when folded. Printed in blue ink on white paper stock. <br /><br />A scarce program guide for the play "Horse Eats Hat" written by Edwin Denby and Orson Welles with music by Paul Bowles. Welles directed and appeared in the play which featured Joseph Cotten Arlene Francis and many others. <br /><br />In the play adapted from a French farce a horse eats a hat "and the owner of the horse must get the owner of the hat another hat because she can't go home to her husband without it." The New York Times September 28 1936 page 14. <br /><br />"Horse Eats Hat" was performed at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York as part of the Federal Theatre Project during the Depression. Managing Producer: the great John Houseman. At the opening the Times informs us "Half the audience was pretty indignant and the other half quite amused.It can be fought about at a top price of 55 cents." <br /><br />OCLC shows a poster of this play held by the Library of Congress but no institutional holdings of the program guide. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease some soiling and edge wear. A Very Good copy. The Federal Theatre Project/Works Progress Administration books
1992845No place listed: C.P. Stephens 1992. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED</b> by Arthur Miller on the limitation page one of only 150 copies. There was also a trade edition. A bigamist has an accident and his two wives show up at his hospital bedside. <br /><br />Small 8vo. 14 142 7 pages. Near Fine with front board turned slightly outward. No dust jacket was issued. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />The Ride Down Mt. Morgan received its world premiere at Wyndham's Theatre London in October 1991 with Tom Conti as Lyman Felt Gemma Jones as Theo and Clare Higgins as Leah. Directed by Michael Blakemore and produced by Robert Fox. C.P. Stephens hardcover books
181216074London: Longman 1812. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. bound in 4. 8vo contemporary 3/4 tan calf leather spine labels marbled boards edges & endpapers lightly rubbed. London: Longman 1812. Very good .<br/><br/> Historical and critical memoirs of British and Irish dramatic writers and actors listed alphabetically. Compiled by David Erskine Baker Isaac Reed and Stephen Jones.<br/><br/> Longman unknown books
199931814NY: Penguin Books 1999. 50th Anniversary edition first prnt. Quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards. Signed by Miller on the title page. Preface for this edition by Miller. Afterword by Christopher Bigsby. Selected Chronology of Productions 1949-1999. Black and white photos of the original cast production and color photos of the 1999 Broadway production. Cloth spine edges with small wrinkles and spine edge cloth minimally rubbed; dustjacket with tiny spine edge wrinkles. Tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Anniversary Edition. Penguin Books Hardcover books
200041Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2000. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 x 6 1/8 inches; 228 x 155 mm 92 pages bound in grayish-green leather with gold-stamped boards all edges gilt and ribbon page marker. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED</b> by Harold Pinter on the front end paper. Pinter's tragicomedy about a professor who brings his wife home to meet his working-class family. The play opened at the Aldwych Theatre in London on June 3 1965 and was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Hall director. It opened on Broadway in 1967 and won four Tony Awards and the New York Drama Critics Award. An Easton Press "Collector's Edition." Laid in is an Easton Press "certificate of authenticity" as well as a note about the play and author. <br /><br />CONDITION: A Fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover 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
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
