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35015NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1939. REVISED AND EXTENDED EDITION BY HENRIETTA BARTLETT. QUARTO FROM THE LIBRARY OF ESTELLE DOHENY OF 8 CHESTER PLACE LOS ANGELES WITH HER BOOKPLATE. ORIGINAL BLUE CLOTH GILT VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT. ESTELLE DOHENY 1875-1958 WAS A BOOK COLLECTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST WHO MARRIED EDWARD DOHENY AN OIL MAN. PART OF HER COLLECTION WAS SOLD BY CHRISTIES FOR $38M. HENCE A UNIQUE COPY. NEW HAVEN, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1939 hardcover
2020x-135013578XBloomsbury Methuen Drama 2020. Hardcover. New. 299 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama hardcover
Per Brask, edNot in perfect condition. unknown
19902092902137201036Not Available 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
2111902153102602Asahi Sonorama N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 point Asahi Sonorama paperback
2026x-1350569682Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2026. Hardcover. New. 272 pages. 6.14x0.87x9.21 inches. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc hardcover
1936053835Washington Dc: Anderson House 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 133 Pp. Gray Cloth Lettered In Maroon. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine Slight Fading To Covers. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50 Near Fine. Autographed By Maxwell Anderson And Dated 1937. Also Signed By Burgess Meredith With Greeting "Best Wishes". Also With An Inscription "Happy Birthday To Eileen From Mary" Dated 1937. Actor Burgess Meredith Made His Credited Film Debut As The Avenging Son Rio Romagna In "Winterset" A 1936 American Crime Film Directed By Alfred Santell; Meredith Had Starred In The Broadway 1935 Play Of The Same Name By Maxwell Anderson In A Loose Dramatization Of The Sacco And Vanzetti Trial And Execution In 1928. The Movie Script Retains Elements Of The Blank Verse Poetic Meter On Which Anderson Based His 1935 Winterset Broadway Theater Production. <br/> <br/> Anderson House paperback
1940024673New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. First Edition . Boards. Very Good /DJ Flap Only. 10 1/4" Tall. Original Drawing By Robert Edmond Jones. 88 Pp. An Attractive Example Well Preserved Age Toning To Spine And Top Edge Of Boards Unfaded Hinges Tight Small Loss Along Top Edge Of Spine. Inscribed By Almost All Cast Members "To Dorothy"; From A Collection Of Books From The Estate Of Dorothy Gish Who Had A Role In The Play. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1929030802London: Martin Secker 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Dj By G E Calthrop. 111 Pp. Gray Possibly Gray-Green Cloth With Paper Spine Label Printed In Red And Black. Near Fine In Near Fine White Dj No Fading At All Just A Trace Of Rubbing No Chips Or Stains Or Fraying Just A Single One Inch Long Closed Tear At Top Edge Of Rear Panel. Exceptionally Scarce Without Fading To The Pink Spine. This Example Was Preserved As One Of A Group Of Dj's From The 1920'S And 1930'S Which Were All Stored Flat Apart From The Books. Book With Small Ownership Name "M Bell" Possibly The Actress Marie Bell Who Appeared In Coward Productions But No Example Of Her Signature Has Been Compared To This One. <br/> <br/> Martin Secker hardcover
1950006879Circa 1950: Oliver Crawford 1950. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good . 48 44 30 Pp. Complete Carbon Typescript Of This Obscure Play About Responsibility And Readjustment In Post-War Occupied Germany. Crawford 1917-2008 Was One Of The Blacklisted Hollywood Writers. Crawford Was Summoned In 1953 To Appear Before The House Un-American Activities Committee Which Was Investigating Suspected Communist Sympathizers In Hollywood. Crawford Refused To Name Suspected Communists Sympathizers Within The Entertainment Industry. His Refusal To Implicate Anyone In Hollywood Led To His Blacklisting. He Overcame The Hollywood Blacklist During The Mccarthy Era Of The 1950S To Become One Of The Entertainment Industry's Most Successful Television Writers. He Wrote Many Episodes For Climax! Later Lawman Rawhide Bonanza Ben Casey The Outer Limits The Fugitive Gilligan's Island I Spy The Wild Wild West Star Trek The Iron Horse Mannix Land Of The Giants Medical Center Love American Style Lojak Petrocelli The Blue Knight And Kaz. Crawford Served On The Board Of Directors Of The Writers Guild Of America For 26 Years Following The Restoration Of His Screenwriting Career. His Position In The Writers Guild Allowed Him To Advocate For Financial Restitution For Victims Of The Hollywood Blacklist. Crawford Also Worked To Successfully Remove An Anti-Communist Loyalty Oath From Writers Guild's Membership Application Which Was A Holdover From The Hollywood Blacklist Era <br/> <br/> Oliver Crawford paperback
1935044782London : Faber & Faber 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 87 Pp. Purple Cloth Spine Gilt. First Printing One Of 3000 Copies. Gallup A29 B First Complete Trade Edition. A Lightly Used Copy No Marks Or Fading Tiny Frays At Top Of Spine Edges Of Bottom Of Spine And At Three Of Four Tips. Dust Jacket Priced 5S. Wear And Browning To Spine And All Edges No Loss Of Lettering. <br/> <br/> Faber & Faber hardcover
1934001550Madrid: Espasa-calpe S. A. 1934. Segunda Edicion En Sus Notas . Tan Wrappers. Good. 7 1/2" High. 274 Pp. Softcover. Segunda Edicion De J. Moreno Villa Corrigida Y Augmentada En Sus Notas. First Printing Thus With 1934 Date On Title Page And Front Cover. Wear At Edges Including Short Tears A Few Pencil Notes And Underlinings Including Summary Of Contents On Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Espasa-calpe, S. A. unknown
1920035850Long Beach: Geo. W. Moyle Pub. Co. 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Vi 119 Pp. Orange Cloth Stamped In Black. No Date Of Publication Indicated But Author's Preface Dated December 1920. Anti-War Drama With Excellent Short Introduction By Southern California's Favorite Upper Class Secular Humanist My Favorite Anyway. Light Wear And Dust To Covers Lettering Undamaged Hinges Tight. Faint Ownership Name "Eddie" On Front Free Endpaper. Fanny Weston Bixby Spencer 1879 - 1930 Was Born Fanny Weston Bixby In Los Angeles California The Youngest Of Nine Surviving Children Of Jotham Bixby; He Had Arrived In California In 1852 From Maine Where He And Several Cousins Had Formed Flint Bixby & Company Which Acquired Major Landholdings Including The 27000-Acre Rancho Los Cerritos In What Is Now Long Beach. Fanny Grew Up Wealthy And Although She Was An Active Philanthropist When She Died In 1930 Her $2.5 Million Estate Was The Largest Ever Probated In Orange County Up To That Point. Fanny Grew Up On Rancho Los Cerritos Of Which Jotham Was The Manager. Later Fanny's Grandfather The Prominent Abolitionist And Unitarian Minister George Whitefield Hathaway Came To Live With The Family. Fanny Bixby Wrote About His Abolitionist Activities Including Turning His House Into A Station On The Underground Railroad In Her Pamphlet Entitled How I Became A Socialist. Fanny Bixby Was Educated At The Marlborough School In Los Angeles And The Pomona Preparatory School.3 She Attended Wellesley College For Three Years But Left Without A Degree. At Wellesley She Studied Sociology With Emily Greene Balch Who Would Go On To Win The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize. While Still At Wellesley College She Worked For A Time At The Denison Settlement House In Boston Founded By Balch And The Nurse's Settlement House In San Francisco. On Leaving College She Moved Back To Long Beach Where She Donated Money To Various Civic Causes Including Long Beach's First Hospital Seaside Hospital And The Walt Whitman School Private And Her Settlement House Both In The Boyle Heights District On The East-Side Of Los Angeles. She And Her Husband Often Invited Ghetto Youth Of Working Mothers To Stay On Their Farm In Orange County To Divert Them From Gangs And Delinquency. In 1907 She Founded What Is Now Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. She Also Helped Found The Town Of Costa Mesa California. When Long Beach Formed Its Police Force In 1908 Captain Tom Williams Brought Fanny Bixby Onto The Force Because Of Her Extensive Philanthropic Work In The City. She Was Sworn In As A Special Police Matron On January 1 1908 Making Her One Of The First Women Police Officers In The Country. Fanny Bixby Worked With The Long Beach Police Force For Four Years. An Admirer Of Leo Tolstoy Fanny Bixby Was A Socialist And A Pacifist. She Published Some Poetry In The California Socialist Party's Newspaper The Oakland World And She Attended At Least One Antiwar Meeting In Pasadena Before The Espionage Act Of 1917 Made It Risky To Speak Out Against The War. Her 1920 Play The Jazz Of Patriotism Was About A Woman Who Is Ostracized For Refusing To Salute The Flag. It Premiered At The Egan Theater Later The Musart Theater In Downtown Los Angeles. Fanny Bixby Met Her Future Husband W. Carl Spencer At A Socialist Party Meeting In 1917. They Moved To Costa Mesa Then Named Harper In 1919 Where They Raised Five Adopted Children And Supported Many Others. The Couple Donated Land To The City For A Park And A Library. A Couple Of Years Before She Died She Wrote To Her Cousin Sarah Bixby Smith: "I Have Three Lines Of Work Bringing Up My Foster Children Helping My Neighbors Mostly Japanese Farmers And Banging My Head Against The Stone Wall Of Militarism And Conservatism That Hems Me In." Her Papers Are Housed At The Rancho Los Cerritos Museum. <br/> <br/> Geo. W. Moyle Pub. Co. hardcover
1916057832New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 91 Pp 4 Pp Catalog At End. Red Cloth Gilt. First Edition With 1916 Date On Title Page No Additional Printings Noted. Light Wear Gilt Bright Some Fading To Covers Former Owners' Name Dated 1918 In Verdugo Canyon Glendale Ca Small Area Of Browning To Half Title From A Loose Clipping To Effect That Tagore "Is Convinced That Western Christian Civilization Is Crumpling . Western Civilization May Commit Suicide While The Orient Will Survive. 'You Westerners Who Possess All Material Wealth Are Starving Yourselves Intellectually. You Think You Can Struggle Along With Courts Of Arbitration But You Tolerate Peace Only Because You Realize War Is Bad Business.' <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1916057848New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 91 Pp 4 Pp Catalog At End. Red Cloth Gilt. First Edition With 1916 Date On Title Page No Additional Printings Noted. Light Wear Gilt Bright Some Fading To Covers Former Owners' Name Martha E. Hazzard Whose "It Shall Not Be Again: A Peace Pageant" Was Published In The Chicago Theological Seminary Register 1928. In 1928 A Newspaper Cited Tagore As Being " Convinced That Western Christian Civilization Is Crumpling . Western Civilization May Commit Suicide While The Orient Will Survive. 'You Westerners Who Possess All Material Wealth Are Starving Yourselves Intellectually. You Think You Can Struggle Along With Courts Of Arbitration But You Tolerate Peace Only Because You Realize War Is Bad Business.' <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1888249947n.g. 1888. Softcover in Pappdeckeln Bänderverschnürung Zustand: Beschädigung: Es fehlen die Seiten 17 bis 64!. Ecken Kanten bestoßen. Das Titelblatt hat einen Randriss. Die Fadenbindung ist schwach und die ersten Druckbogen haben sich vom Block gelöst. Die Druckbögen sind unbeschnitten. Der Einband ist braunfleckig. Mit Kennungen einer Klosterbibliothek. Mit einer Zueignung des Autors im Vorsatz. n.g., paperback
134471896 HARPER AND BROTHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE NEW YORK. 4 VOLUMES WITH GREY BOARDS AND CREAM SPINES. VOLUME 1: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AS YOU LIKE IT THE COMEDY OF ERRORS AND THE TEMPEST. VOLUME 2: MIDSUMMER-NIGHT`S DREAM TWELFTH NIGHT TAMING OF THE SHREW AND TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. VOLUME 3: MERCHANT OF VENICE ALL`S WELL THAT ENDS WELL AND LOVE`S LABOUR`S LOST. VOLUME 4: MEASURE FOR MEASURE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR AND WINTER`S TALE. BLACK & WHITE PLATES WITH TISSUES. SERRATED PAGE EDGES. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. 1896 HARPER AND BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK hardcover
31484LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD 1930. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION VERY GOOD IN BLACK CLOTH GILT DECORATION WITH BLACK PROTECTED DUSTWRAPPER. ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY KEEN A VERY GOOD COPY SCARCE. LONDON, JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD, 1930 hardcover
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
27291London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland for John Martin 1814. 8vo. 6 volumes set bound in full leather. Boards are original tree calf. Spines rebacked in leather. Some where to the edges. A very nice sound edition in good condition. London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland for John Martin 1814. hardcover
1967786<p>Paris: La Table Ronde 1967. Later printing.</p><p><br />A collection of plays INSCRIBED by Jean Anouilh on the half title: "Pour le Docteur Paul Robert Jean Anouilh Nov. 69." <br /><br />The book features three of Anouilh's most famous plays: L'Alouette Becket ou l'Homme de Dieu and La Foire d'Empoigne. Text entirely in French. <br /><br />Copies inscribed by Anouilh are scarce to the market. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 x 5.25 inches; 205 x 135 mm 371 5 pages in cream-colored cloth spine with four raised bands front cover illustrated with a vignette drawn by Jean Denis Malclès hard cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: Very light sunning to top of spine top edge slightly dusty small bump to corner of front cover. Near Fine <br /><br />. <br /><br /></p> La Table Ronde hardcover
16-2613Leningrad Russia: Tipografija no 10 H. Grigor'ev 1984. . Folio. 93 x 64 cm. Wove Paper. Leningrad, Russia: Tipografija no 10 H. Grigor'ev, 1984. unknown
16-2636Leningrad Russia: Tipografija no 10 H. Grigor'ev 1984. . Folio. 93 x 64 cm. Wove Paper. Leningrad, Russia: Tipografija no 10 H. Grigor'ev, 1984. unknown
16-2614Leningrad Russia: Tipografija no 10 H. Grigor'ev 1984. . Folio. 93 x 64 cm. Wove Paper. Leningrad, Russia: Tipografija no 10 H. Grigor'ev, 1984. unknown
1777DEMO015841IParis: Ph-D. Pierres 1777. Hardcover. Good. 12mo full mottled calf gilt marbled endpapers 280p. Scarce. <br/><br/>Three plays by Centlivre a biography of Centlivre and the play "L'Empereur De La Lune Comedie" by Madame Behn Ph-D. Pierres hardcover
