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1979003901Rand McNally 1979 1979. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beautiful copy.Fine copy in like jacket. Rand McNally, 1979 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
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
19141240Boston: The Gorham Press 1914. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small 8vo 7 1/2 inches / 19 cm 168 pages. Printed paper labels to spine and front board. <br /><br />Eugene O'Neill's first book one of 1000 copies printed and featuring five plays: Thirst The Web Warnings Fog and Recklessness. O'Neill's father financed the $450 printing costs. The books didn't sell well so the publisher Richard G. Badger sold the remaining volumes to Frances Steloff who became the owner of the Gotham Book Mart in New York. <br /><br />Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.<br /><br />CONDITION: Spine darkened some light wear to spine edges soiling to top edge and fore edge. A Very Good or better copy lacking the rare dust jacket. The Gorham 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
1974900113Los 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 #140. Quarter-cloth with printed spine label and paper-covered boards in plastic dustwrapper. Design by Barbara Martin. Production photographs by James Tilton. Dustwrapper with chipped spine topedge. Fine condition in a Very Good 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/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Black Sparrow Press Hardcover books
19391481New York: Theatre Arts Committee 1939. First Edition. <br /><br />Quarto 11 3/4 inches x 8 3/4 inches; 292 x 220 mm 31 1 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers soft cover. <br /><br /><p>Scarce monthly magazine of the Theatre Arts Committee a left-wing theatre group that was active in supporting victims of the Spanish Civil War. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photos.<br /></p><p>The cover story by Leon Turrou discusses the film "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." Turrou was a former G-man who served as technical adviser on the film. Vera Caspary delves into the Zurich theatre world; Michael Blankfort writes about his profession screenwriting; Kenneth White describes a new puppet film for the World's Fair; Robert Stebbins reviews movies; Eleanor Flexner reviews theatre; and Aaron Copland contributes a short article on music.<br /></p><p>Scarce in commerce.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Soling to covers internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy.<br /></p><p><br /></p> Theatre Arts Committee paperback books
200433371NY: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0521832713 . First edition. Book-plate on front paste-down else near fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1969804New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc. 1969. First American Edition 1st Printing. Pasternak's last work an unfinished play about serfdom and the liberation of the serfs published nine years after his death. Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari with a foreword by Max Hayward. 8vo. 128 pages. Near Fine in a Near Fine lightly rubbed price-clipped dust jacket with soiling on the back panel. An attractive copy. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 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
19612348London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1961. First Edition First Printing. <br />12mo 7 3/8 x 5 inches; 188 x 125 mm 134 pages in original black cloth titles in gilt to spine in a photo illustrated unclipped dust jacket hard cover. <br /><br />INSCRIBED by Harold Pinter on the title page to Jacques Brunius: "To Jaques Brunius from Harold." Yes Pinter misspelled Jacques. Brunius 1906-1967 was a French actor and director. He also translated some of Pinter's plays into French including one of the plays in this book A Night Out. Thus a nice literary association. <br /><br />The book contains A Slight Ache A Night Out The Dwarfs as well as five revue sketches: Trouble in the Works The Black and White Request Stop Last to Go and Applicant. <br /><br />The title play here A Slight Ache is a dark comedy about an English couple Flora and Edward who interrogate a poor and silent match seller who stands outside their gate every day. The play was first performed on the BBC's Third Programme on July 29 1959 and starred Maurice Denham and Vivien Merchant Pinter's wife. The stage version opened on January 18 1961 at the Arts Theatre in London and starred Emlyn Williams Alison Leggat and Richard Briers. <br /><br />We find no other signed presentation copies of this book in the market. It's especially noteworthy because of Pinter's collaboration with the recipient Jacques Brunius. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light toning to page edges but otherwise clean and unmarked. Near Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that has rubbing to panels toning to upper edges of the flaps and to verso of the jacket and a few small nicks to the extremities. <br /><br /> Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1970816New York: Grove Press Inc. 1970. First American Edition 1st Printing. Two plays about silence. In Landscape the silence takes place in a country kitchen as two people talk but don't seem to hear each other. In Silence three people speak among themselves "alternately revealing and hiding one another" description from the rear cover flap. There's also a short piece called Night in which a man and a woman appear to recall their first encounter but remember it differently. 8vo. 61 pages. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and soiling. <br/><br/> Grove Press, Inc. unknown books
1989817New York: Grove Press Inc. 1989. First American Edition 1st Printing. Four prison scenes in an unnamed totalitarian country. The title of the play refers to the language that prisoners and their visitors are forbidden to speak. 8vo. 47 pages. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket that has a couple small indents on the rear panel. <br/><br/>The play was first performed at the National Theatre in London on October 20 1988 and was directed by Harold Pinter. Grove Press, Inc. unknown books
19711262London: The Aldwych Theatre 1971. First Edition. <br /><br />Octavo 9 x 5 1/4 inches / 230 x 132 mm 20 pages in the stapled wrappers. <p><b>INSCRIBED</b> by Harold Pinter at his biography page "To Milton from Harold" and SIGNED by the stars Vivien Merchant Dorothy Tutin and Colin Blakely and director Peter Hall at their biographies. The program for the first production of Old Times staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre beginning June 1 1971. This was Pinter's first full-length play since The Homecoming and the fifth of his plays to be given its stage premiere by the Royal Shakespeare Company. </p><p>Although book editions of this play are readily available we find no copies of the program for the London stage production in commerce as of January 2021. Copies such as this signed by the three actors the director and Pinter himself would be even more elusive. <b>RARE SIGNED</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Covers lightly rubbed and soiled corners a little creased contents lightly toned. A Very Good copy.</p> The Aldwych Theatre 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
1990570NY: Grove Weidenfeld. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0802113850 . First American edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . Grove Weidenfeld hardcover 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
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
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
1018New York: David McKay Company Inc. 1964 or later. Later printing. The Player's Book edition of this Ayn Rand production edited by Nathaniel Edward Reeid for amateur stage productions. 12mo 99 pages. In blue side-stapled wrappers. Small adhesive mark to top right corner of front cover. Slight wear to edges and crease to top corner. Interior is clean and bright with a few pages lightly creased. The copyright page says the copyright was renewed in 1964 but there's no other indication of when this edition was published and it's not listed in the standard bibliography by Vincent L. Perinn. The play originally opened on September 16 1935 at the Ambassador Theatre New York. <br/><br/> David McKay Company, Inc. unknown books
199932791Asheville: University of North Carolina at Asheville Pegasus Press. Near Fine. 1999. Paperback. 1889818224 . First edition paperback. Book-plate on verso of front cover else fine in illustrated wraps. . University of North Carolina at Asheville (Pegasus Press) paperback books
199834832Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0801858364 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
199732792New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine. 1997. Paperback. 0300072821 . First paperback edition. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Yale University Press paperback books
197731999NY: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0060137568 . First printing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper upper corner of front free endpaper is clipped else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Harper & Row hardcover books
1954836London: Andrew Dakers Limited 1954. First Edition. The downfall of a dictator. Published in France in 1948 under the title L'Engrenage by Editions Nagel. Translated by Mervyn Savill. Small 8vo. 128 pages. Previous owner's name and other details on front end paper and near hinge on title page. Otherwise Near Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with sunned spine and some tears with tape repair on verso including one that runs from top edge of front panel through flap. Some pencil writing on front flap. <br/><br/> Andrew Dakers Limited unknown books
