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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
1985003482Theatre Communications Group 1985 1985. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Signed by Authors. Not a First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. No Jacket. Not a First. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The book that made the author actor famous.Tragic Sucide. Fine copy.Ink name.Extremely rare signed copy. Signed" Spalding Gray" in red ink. Theatre Communications Group, 1985 Paperback 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
198427988NY: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0521221951 . Edited by Ann Thompson. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else about fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1930WRCLIT82832Madrid: V. e H. de J. Ratés 1930. 2164pp. Large octavo. Contemporary cloth gilt leather spine label t.e.g. 1846 entries. Spine a shade sunned a Library of Congress duplicate with usual stamps a very good copy. V. e H. de J. Ratés hardcover 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
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
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
177815860London: Printed for J. Wenman 1778. 1st edition thus NCBEL II 495; Stratman 6795. Disbound. VG. 18 pp. Double-column text. 8vo. <br/><br/> Printed for J. Wenman unknown 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
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
1795212574London: Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman 1795. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter blue polished calf gilt spine t.e.g. Covers detached. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman unknown 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
1960829New York: Coward-McCann Inc. 1960. First Edition. A general living in the French countryside disdains modern life and wants to restore the glory of France. The play opened in New York on December 8 1959 at the Anta Theatre starring Rex Harrison Natasha Parry and Roddy McDowall in a production directed by Peter Brook. Brook was Parry's husband. Unfortunately the book misspells Parry's name as Perry. Translated from the French and adapted by Lucienne Hill. 8vo. 121 pages. Wrinkles on front paste down a production error and scratch on rear cover. Otherwise about Near Fine in a white dust jacket with slightly toned spine and creased closed tear to rear panel. SCARCE. <br/><br/> Coward-McCann, Inc. unknown 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
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
1960751New York: The Living Theatre 1960. First Edition. Season program for the avant-garde New York theatre group which was founded in 1947 and still exists today. The season's productions included "In the Jungle of Cities" by Bertolt Brecht; "The Connection" by Jack Gelber; "The Marrying Maiden" by Jackson MacLow; and "Women of Trachis" by Sophocles in a version by Ezra Pound and featuring a young Martin Sheen as Hyllos. 8vo. unpaginated. Near Fine in stapled wrappers with mild edge sunning. Laid in is a Cue magazine offprint about Judith Malina and Julian Beck the co-founders of the group. OCLC lists only 5 copies held by libraries. SCARCE. <br/><br/>The Living Theatre has broken new ground and plenty of rules for realistic drama since its founding in 1947. The company has produced some of the most-acclaimed cutting-edge plays to be seen in Off-Broadway theatre including Jack Gelber's "The Connection" included in this season program. The Living Theatre unknown 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
187626813NY: Wheat & Cornett 1876. Periodical. Several issues bound together. Volume I only. Large 8vo various pagination. Pictorial cover green cloth stamped in gilt. Some foxing o/w VG. No. 4 contains Richelieu by Lytton Bulwer starring Edwin Forrest at Niblo's and Edwin Booth at Booth's. Also The Married Rake and A Happy Pair. Wheat & Cornett unknown books
191481252London: The Stage Pictorial Publishing Co 1914. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good in green and white cloth with gilt floral designs and titles to the front board and spine. Theater programs of six plays with summaries of characters and plots. Illustrated profusely throughout with both photographs and drawings in black and white. 120 pages. The Stage Pictorial Publishing Co unknown books
19661551New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc. 1966. Later printing. 8vo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm xxxvi 122 pages in red cloth black title to spine. Near Fine with pages very lightly toned in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small crease in the top left corner of the rear flap.A play by Günter Grass about the workers' uprising in East Germany on June 17 1953. The workers beseech "The Boss" a thinly disguised Bertolt Brecht to support the uprising. The book includes the text of a speech by Grass as well as a "documentary report" on the uprising. Translated by Ralph Manheim; the book originally was published in Germany under the title "Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand." The play was controversial; many reviewers thought it was deeply unfair to Brecht because Brecht couldn't defend himself. He was already dead. <br /><br /> Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. hardcover books
19131590London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1913. First Edition Thus. 12mo 7 1/8 x 5 inches; 180 x 125 mm xix 210 2 pages in yellow-green cloth. Modest rubbing to boards page edges lightly toned small "First Edition" stamp on front paste down some dusting to top edge numerous pages unopened small closed tear to page xix. The dust jacket is darkened along the spine and has a few small chips. Overall a Very Good or better copy.George Bernard Shaw's 1891 essay on the plays of Henrik Ibsen presented here with a new preface for this edition as well an analysis of plays that Ibsen wrote after 1891. The book is an important expression of Shaw's theories about theatre in which he contrasts Ibsen's vibrant social realism with a more formal and stagnant Victorian theatre. A lovely collectible copy in the scarce dust jacket. <br /><br /> Constable and Company Ltd. hardcover 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
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
