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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
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
192311668Clarendon Press Oxford 1923. 4 vols. 8vo. First Edition with four frontispiece all original tissue guards present a double-page plan and 8 illustrations 3 full-page in the text free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy buckram upper boards blocked in gilt gilt backs uncut a very good bright clean crisp copy. Read 2570. Clarendon Press, Oxford, hardcover
190331787London: Oxford University Press 1903. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Green cloth dust jacket Volume II only. xlii 419pp; v 480pp. Frontispieces. Very good/very good. Both volumes tight clean and lovely with spine gilt bright and fresh the only flaw being some age toning to all endpapers; dust jacket Volume II only is complete and quite nice with just a bit of age toning to the spine. Overall a superb set with at least one of the seldom-seen dust jackets still present. Uncommon and desireable.Chambers 1866-1954 was a noted English literary critic and Shakespearian scholar remembered for this 1903 set and for his mammoth 1923 opus "The Elizabethan Stage." From the collection of musicologist and conductor/director Paul Clinton Echols 1944-94. Oxford University Press hardcover
2010BIB317093Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2010. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Gift inscription most likely from the editor to previous owner to front free endpaper. Extensive Introduction and an Index to the Introduction and Notes. xx 173 pages. First performed in 1597. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Manchester University Press hardcover
191440103CT: Yale University Press 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 8 in. Cloth and paper boards. Signed by Tuttle on the ffep. Condition is VERY GOOD ; vertical water stain on front board spine label stained and partially pilled away. Binding tight and text clean and unmarked. Dram. Stax. Yale University Press hardcover
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
1924043780New York: Thomas Seltzer 1924. First American Edition Thus 1st Prntg 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 298 Pp. 273 Pp. Two Volumes. Blue Cloth With Paper Spine Labels Printed In Black. First American Editions 1924 Using The 1923 English Sheets Printed At The Ballantyne Press. A Scarce Issue. Virtually No Wear Contents Clean Spine Labels Browned But All Printing Unworn. <br/> <br/> Thomas Seltzer hardcover
19832110502150908596Gakurin shubbansha 1983. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Gakurin shubbansha paperback
19802090502124600483Chinese Drama Publishing House 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 10 Chinese Drama Publishing House paperback
19622081502111900849Chinese Drama Publishing House 1962. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 409 pages Size: A5 Soft Cover book Chinese Drama Publishing House paperback
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
22906TRANSMISSION: BBC HOME SERVICE SCHOOLS Bush House London Monday 29th June 1953: 9.40 - 10.00 a.m. Contemporary duplicated typescript from the Christopher Fry papers. 14pp 8vo. Each page on a separate leaf. In fair condition lightly aged. Fry's introductory talk is present in its entirety on pp.1-5 this is followed by an unpaginated page then pp.8-15 with p.10 also unpaginated. Hence p.6 or p.7 beginning the extracts from the play would appear to be absent. On the front page between the heading and transmission details is: 'Rehearsal: Thursday 4th June 1953: 10.00 onwards Recording: Thursday 4th June 1953: 12.15 - 1.00 p.m. 3A Recording of Insert: BLANK'. Fry's talk - apparently unpublished astute and all the more revealing because addressed to a younger audience - is preceded by 'ANNOUNCER: This is the BBC Home Service for Schools. Religion and Philosophy. Today Christopher Fry speaks about his play "A Sleep of Prisoners". Mr. Fry.' Fry begins his talk: 'It's interesting - at least it's interesting to me - what apparently accidental things go to the making of a play. I always begin by feeling it's very improbable that I shall ever write anything. My mind is a vacuum: and then nature abhorring they tell me a vacuum starts to fill it up: very slowly usually; one little thing at a time; memories I had forgotten I possessed: a chance remark from somebody: all sorts of quite trivial things in my life gather together fal into line as though they had always meant to and gradually something which might be said to resemble a play shapes itself in my head. Which shows perhaps that nothing that ever happens to you is unimportant.' He proceeds to describe the 'things' that happened to allow him to publish 'A Sleep of Prisoners' with reference to: the 1951 Festival of Britain; Michael MacOwan; Oliver Cromwell; Fry's move during the war to a cottage in Oxfordshire. He describes his sudden suggestion to 'Mr. MacOwen': 'I should like the action of the play to be the dreams of the prisoners. Each man would dream in turn and would dream of himself and the other men. Naturally each man's opinion of himself and of the others would be different: no two people have exactly the same opinion of you or of me; and so in this way if we had four prisoners each actor would have four versions of himself to act each character would be seen from four different points of view. Tea-time came to an end Mr. MacOwen had to leave and that was as far as we had got.' He describes how a few weeks later on a single day he developed 'the whole story of the play'. He gives his assessments of the four characters and describes the a section of the plot before announcing in the final paragraph: 'The actors are going to play part of this dream for you. The character of Absolom remember is David's dream picture of Peter Peter with all his infuriating qualities uppermost.' He continues his explanation at one point stating: 'I have tried in this dream to mix the waking and sleeping world together. . So to us the audience Meadows is awake and to David he is a figure in a dream. Now let us go into the dream. Absalom has been mocking his father from down in the shadows and now David begins to speak.' The nine-page reading from 'the dream' follows and by reference to Fry's introduction together with the text of the whole poem it should be possible to establish what if any part is lacking. TRANSMISSION: BBC HOME SERVICE (SCHOOLS) [Bush House, London] | Monday 29th June 1953: 9.40 - 10.00 a.m. unknown
22903No place or date. Book published in New York by Macmillan in 1965. 9pp 8vo. Complete carbon typescript. On nine leaves stapled together. Title at head of first page: 'THE BOAT THAT MOOED.' Fry's signature in blue ink at top left of first page: 'Christopher Fry:'. Fry has cut down the story by deleting and removing a passage. The lower part of the leaf carrying the sixth page of the story has been cut away and the original seventh page has been removed hence the typescript pagination 1-6 8-10 has been amended in manuscript to 1-9. A lighthearted faux-naive story replete with symbolism. Begins: 'Tom Crunch lived on a boat. All round the boat was water. There was water to the right water to the left water in front and water behind. And also water underneath. Up above there was the sky. Tom Crunch lived with his Uncle Jack. Uncle Jack was fat and sleepy. All day long he sat and fished in the water. Sometimes he was awake and sometimes he was asleep. It was hard to tell which he was because he looked just the same when he was awake and when he was asleep. He kept his eyes shut all the time unless he was eating fish. Then he kept his eyes open because of the bones.' There does not appear to have been an English edition of the book which was published in New York by Macmillan in 1965 with pictures by Leonard Weisgard. No place or date. [Book published in New York by Macmillan in 1965.] unknown
22904No place or date but some time after Hassall's death in 1963 and probably written from Fry's house The Toft. 3pp 4to each page on a separate leaf. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Folded once. There is no indication that either item was published nor even that the poem is connected to the 'programme'. If unpublished the poem may have found its way into Fry's papers from Hassall's. The 'programme' - with no title or heading - is two pages long with slight damage from a small staple to corners of both leaves and complete being divided into six numbered sections. Section 1 as first typed begins: After the first two pieces on the programme we are taking the poems more or less chronologically so that we can follow the way that Christopher Hassall went in the search which every poet must take for the voice which would say what he wanted to say.' Fry has cut this in autograph to: 'After the first two pieces on the programme the poems follow more or less chronologically.' He praises the 'furious innocence of concentration' of Hassall's early poem 'The Arrow' 'like a child staring: and with it never very far away the ironic comment of humour.' He describes how Hassall's takes time 'to master his individual voice but when it came it was unmistakable'. Recurring themes in Hassall's work are his Christian faith and love of music. He quotes 'some lines in a poem remembering his boyhood days at a choir school in Tenbury Wells'. He turns to Hassall's love of the theatre his career as an actor on leaving Oxford and writing of 'popular lyrics for Ivor Novello's musicals at Drury Lane'. At this point he adds in autograph: 'And later the libretti for operas: the first of all was perhaps the Troilus and Cressida for William Walton.' At the end of the first section Fry announces two readings from Hassall showing his 'great flair for writing pieces for special occasions'. In the second section he discusses Hassall's 1939 Canterbury Festival play 'Christ's Comet' 'which was performed in the Cathedral chapter-house'. Part 3 announces the beginning of 'this second part of the programme' with Fry adding an autograph note about 'a cyle of 7 lyrics': 'They are all about ways of getting about and with them we are in the atmosphere of the delightful poems for children which were to come later.' The fourth section points out 'a change in manner in some of the poems we are going to read now from the Red Leaf - a change partly brought about perhaps by Hassall's admiration for the poetry of D. H. Lawrence'. The fifth section names humorous and children's poems to be recited. The last section announces the eight sonnets from his posthumous collection 'Bell Harry' which end of the programme with Fry explaining the Canterbury context with reference to the 'old Manor House near Canterbury' in which Hassall ended his days. Accompanying the 'programme' on a leaf of thicker paper is the typescript of an unattributed poem titled 'Pilgrim's Way' 'Pilgrims to the golden shrine Under Canterbury towers Blessed by your wayfaring Through the early English flowers.' divided into two eight-line stanzas each with the refrain: 'Every day a Holy day Riding over Pilgrim's Way.' The poem is presumably by Hassall from the window of whose manor house could be seen the celebrated road to Canterbury. A pencil note at the head of the page states that the three leaves were found in Hassall's collection 'The Red Leaf'. No place or date, but some time after Hassall's death in 1963, and probably written from Fry's house, The Toft. unknown
2002142014Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. Larger 8vo. pp. xxvii 572.""A revised and updated version of Modern British Drama 1890-1990 is the first one-volume analysis of English playwriting over the twentieth century. Through detailed discussions of major dramatists and plays Christopher Innes traces the evolution of modernism from Bernard Shaw to the present as well as theatrical developments over the period. The text… Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
1740002032London: John Watts 1740 Book. Good. Full-Leather. 2nd edition. xxiv 488p. 8vo. Title page printed in red and black. Lacks portrait frontis. Stain to p67. Page edges red. Bound in very worn full leather boards almost detached sections of spine missing as is lettering label. Signs of a bookplate having been removed from the front pastedown. Jaggard p708. John Watts hardcover
1962054797Rosario Argentina: Libreria Y Editorial Ruiz 1962. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 80 Pp. Very Large Format Soft Cover. Lightly Used Browning No Nmarks. <br/> <br/> Libreria Y Editorial Ruiz paperback
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
1965126780New York: Atheneum 1965. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Based upon Mr. Odets' play with lyrics by Lee Adams and Music by Charles Strouse. The text of the smash-hit musical starring Sammy Davis. Pages are clean unmarked but yellowed with age. Binding is tight and secure. Boards have slight rubbing to extremities. Unclipped pictorial DJ is sunned with a few small closed tears to lower edges nicking to head of spine moderate rubbing to corners. Looks nice in added protective mylar covering. Nice copy overall. <br/> <br/> Atheneum hardcover
1604979224.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1604978848.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. 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
196131613Editions du Rocher Monaco 1961. 8vo. First Edition text in French with 62 pages of full-page photographs from the film; grey tweed boards upper board with mounted photograph of Maria Casares lettered in red backstrip lettered in black a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO LOUIS PAUWELS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. With two copies of Rocher's flier printed in pink and black and listing Cocteau' available works loosely inserted. 'Le Testament d'Orphee' 1959 is the third film in Cocteau's Orphic trilogy following 'Blood of a Poet' 1930 and 'Orphee' 1950. In addition to the author himself the cast includes many leading theatrical and literary figures of the period including Jean-Pierre Leaud Maria Casares Francoise Arnoul Yul Brynner Claudine Augier Pablo Picasso Charles Aznavour and Jean Marais. The screenplay with stills was published two years later; this copy is inscribed by Cocteau 'Jean' to Louis Pauwels the eminent French journalist and author of 'The Morning of the Magicians' 1960. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Editions du Rocher, Monaco, hardcover
