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1978004246New York: Grove Press 1978 First printing first edition as stated. Signed by David Mamet directly on the title-page. Light toning to jacket flaps else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Grove Press hardcover
197327437London: The Scolar Press Ltd. 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. 4 x 7 in. Cloth and marbled paper boards. Facsimile of the 1795 edition. In four volumes printed in two. Condition is FINE ; both vols are like brand new on all points. PO's bookplate on front pastedown. Drama. RGR. The Scolar Press Ltd. hardcover
1925006711London: Ernest Benn Ltd. First printing of this play in the Contemporary British Dramatists series published one year after the play was first performed. Bookplate to the inside front cover dated ownership on the front free endpaper 1925 neat annotation to the Dramatis Personae to indicate the two main actors at the Royalty Theatre 1924-25 Noel Coward and Lillian Braithwaite. Natural tanning of the pages minor wear only to this somewhat ephemeral publication. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Card Covers. First Thus First Printing. 1925. Ernest Benn Ltd unknown
192915363Camden NJ: RCA Victor Co. Inc. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1929. Eighth Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over dark blue boards. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs. . Rear cover has two holes and one gouge in the fabric exposing the board underneath rubbing to head and heel of faded spine rubbing to tips front hinge is starting former owner's embossed name and address on title page unmarked square and clean. VERY GOOD-. . B&W photogrphs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 432 pp . RCA Victor Co., Inc. hardcover
192918049NY: Horace Liveright. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1929. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Second printing before publication February 1929. Publisher's full gray blocked cloth gilt and black lettering and decoration on spine and cover top edge black. Illustrated with 24 photographs facsimilies and reproductions. Mary Desti Dempsey 1871-1931 left Chicago for Paris in 1901 with her then year-old son Preston Sturges. In Paris she met and formed a life-long friendship with dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan. Desti who adopted this name because it sounded like d'Este undertook various enterprises in Europe including a cosmetic business. She frequently accompanied Duncan in her travels and occasionally Duncan lived with her. Duncan was staying with Desti in Nice at the time of her sudden death in an automobile accident on September 14 1927. Following Duncan's death Desti a casual writer of both fiction and non-fiction wrote a Duncan biography The Untold Story: The Life of Isadora Duncan New York: Liveright 1929. Isadora Duncan's autobiography My Life New York: Liveright 1927 recorded events through 1921 prior to the period when she opened a dance school in Moscow. Desti intended to tell the rest of the story. . Spine very lightly sunned unmarked tight square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket now in Mylar is chipped and worn at the edges with some loss at the heel. VERY GOOD/FAIR. . Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 281 pp . Horace Liveright hardcover
1928050277New York City Ny: Samuel French 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. 144 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Red. First Printing. Very Good Light Usage. Inscribed By Producer A. H. Woods "To My Favorite Agent" Laura Wilk. Wilk Was A Very Well-Connected Broadway Agent At The Time. Albert Herman Woods Born Aladore Herman; 1870 -1951 Was A Hungarian-Born Theatrical Producer Who Spent Much Of His Life In The Usa. He Produced Over 140 Plays On Broadway Including Some Of The Most Successful Shows Of The Period Sometimes Under The Name Of The Production Company 'Al Woods Ltd. Woods Was Born In Budapest Hungary To A Jewish Family But His Family Brought Him To The United States As An Infant. He Grew Up On The Lower East Side Of Manhattan. As A Child He Would Skip School To Go To Theatrical Shows Where He Developed The Goal Of Becoming A Producer Himself. Woods Formed An Early Partnership With Sam H. Harris And Paddy Sullivan Running Tour Companies Of Popular Melodramas Starting With The Bowery After Dark. His First Broadway Production Was The Evil That Men Do In 1903. His Work On Broadway Escalated After The Popularity Of The Touring Melodramas Declined. Woods Had A Stable Of Favorite Playwrights Most Notably Owen Davis Who He Worked With For Several Years On Melodramas Such As Nellie The Beautiful Cloak Model. When Woods Turned To Producing Regular Broadway Shows He Focused On Bedroom Farces Starting With The Girl From Rector's In 1909. During A Trip To Europe In 1911 He Bought The Us Rights To The World's First Full-Color Feature Film The Miracle Which Eventually Premiered In New York 1913. Also In 1911 He Starting Building The Eltinge Theatre On 42Nd Street Named For One Of His Most Successful And Profitable Stars The Female Impersonator Julian Eltinge. By May 1911 A Run Of The Fascinating Widow Starring Eltinge At The Boston Theatre Was Expected To Have Receipts Of $500000 By The Time It Finished. From C1912 He Took Over The Leases Of A Large Number Of Berlin Theatres Including What Became The Ufa-Palast Am Zoo To Put On 'Kino-Vaudeville' Shows A Mix Of Variety Acts Imported From The Us Interspersed With Silent Films. He Was Also Involved With The American Millionaire Joe Goldsoll In The Building Of The German Capital's First Free-Standing Purpose-Built Cinema The Ufa-Pavillon Am Nollendorfplatz. When He Became Successful Woods Continued To Emphasize His Humble Roots And Was Known For His Folksy Manner With Everyone. He Greeted Patrons At The Eltinge As "Sweetheart". Upon Being Introduced To King George V Woods Addressed The Monarch Who Was Older Than Him As "Kid" And Took The Opportunity To Promote One Of His Productions Declaring It To Be "A Regular Show". Woods Was At His Peak In The 1920S Producing Such Hits As Ladies' Night 1920 The Demi-Virgin 1921 The Green Hat 1925 The Shanghai Gesture 1926 Filmed In 1941 And The Trial Of Mary Dugan 1927. However He Lost Most Of His Fortune In The Early 1930S And Never Fully Recovered. In The 1930S His Only Major Hits Were Five Star Final 1930 And Night Of January 16Th 1935. When Woods Staged The Sheldon Davis Comedy Try And Get It In August 1943 Critics Expressed Hope That It Would Revive His Flagging Career But It Closed In Less Than A Week. It Was His Final Production. Although Woods Continued To Read Scripts And Attempt To Generate Interest He Was Unable To Stage Any Productions After 1943. He Died On April 24 1951 In His Residence At The Hotel Beacon In New York. The Once Wealthy Former Producer Ended His Life Bankrupt. After A Memorial Service Attended By Many Prominent Theater Personalities His Remains Were Cremated. Woods Produced A Number Of Bedroom Farces Which Critics And Local Authorities Often Saw As Pushing The Boundaries Of Propriety. In Several Instances Woods Encountered Legal Troubles As A Result. <br/> <br/> Samuel French hardcover
1332948111.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
193529704NY: The Heritage Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publishers black leather over printed boards gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with nine full-page color plates and several in-text B&W drawings by Sylvain Sauvage. . Tops of boards lightly sunned spine lightly worn else fine; unmarked tight square and clean with all of the illustrations fresh and bright. NEAR FINE. . Color Plates. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 125 pp . The Heritage Press hardcover
44594LONDON ERNEST BENN LIMITED 1923. QUARTO LIMITED TO 550 COPIES. PRINTED FROM THE FOLIO OF 1623. ILLUSTRATED BY ALBERT RUTHERSON. PLAIN CARD COVERS WITH A CLOTH SPINE. VERY GOOD LONDON, ERNEST BENN LIMITED, 1923 hardcover
29107LONDON ERNEST BENN 1923. THE PLAYERS' SHAKESPEARE FACSIMILE OF THE FOLIO OF 1623. LIMITED TO 450 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 131. PRINTED AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. LARGE QUARTO RAG PAPER COLOUR PLATES AND LINE DRAWINGS IN THE TEXT. ALTHOUGH THIS IS AN EX-LIBRARY COPY IT HAS BEEN RECENTLY REBOUND IN QUARTER RED LEATHER OVER RED CLOTH WITH NEW ENDPAPERS AND RAISED BANDS MAKING A VERY ATTRACTIVE BINDING. INTERNALLY CLEAN AND TIGHT. OCCASIONAL SMALL UNOBTRUSIVE STAMPS. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY BE REQUIRED. LONDON, ERNEST BENN, 1923 hardcover
1923004213New York: American Library Service 1923. Horizontal crimp to spine cap mild sunning to cover edges small book store stamp at bottom of front pastedown still a crisp bright fresh and near fine copy in about very good dust jacket slightly soiled foxed and lightly chipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. American Library Service Hardcover
1922047776London Uk: Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 87 Pp. Light Grey Boards With Spine And Front Cover Paper Labels Lettered In Brown. First Printing. Quite Scarce; Fraying At Ends Of Spine Boards Beginning To Split Along Spine Gutters. Paternal Inscription Dated 1931 With Recipient's Elaborate Pasadena Blindstamp On Verso And Recto Respectively Of The Front Free Endpaper. Quite Scarce. In The Illustrated Dust Jacket Which Is Worn And Torn Darkened And Slightly Soiled From Handling Small Losses At Corners No Loss Of Lettering Or Design. Torahiko Kori 1890-1924 Left Tokyo University Without Graduating To Join The Editorial Staff Of Shirakaba A Literary Magazine In 1909. Early In His Short Literary Career Kori Torahiko Became An Enfant Terrible Of The Shirakaba School A Group Of Writers And Artists Whose Works Reflected The Liberal Democratic And Humanistic Spirit Of The Taisho Era 1912-1926. At The Age Of Twenty Kori Began Editing And Publishing With Yanagi Muneyoshi Soetsu Founder Of The Mingei Movement And Around 1923 Became A Frequent Contributor To The Major Literary Magazines Of The Day. In 1909 Kori Torahiko Won First Prize In The Contest Held By Taiyo Sun Magazine With His Play Titled "The Matsuyama Family" Which Brought Him Into Prominence As A Promising Dramatist. His Fame Was Established When The Imperial Theatre Staged His Play Dojoji 1912. The Following Year He Left For Europe. At London Kori Met Esther Sainsbury The Poetess And They Remained Friends Till His Death. He Wrote Plays In London; His First Drama To Be Staged There Was "Kanawa" Iron Ring 1917. Another Of His Plays "Toils Of Yoshitomo" Ran For Three Weeks At The Little Theatre London. Other Plays Similarly Staged Were "Saul And David" And "Absalom." "The Toils Of Yoshitomo" Was Translated Into Several European Languages Including German French And Italian. He Was One Of The Few Japanese Writers Who Worked Abroad. Despite His Close Association With The Shirakaba School Kori In His Taste For Romantic And Decadent Literature Was At Odds With The Prevailing Shirakaba Partiality For Realist Literature Particularly That Of Tolstoy. In His Mature Prose Style Kori Also Turned Away From The Shirakaba Writers' Tendency To Sinewy Colloquialism And Airy Realism In Favour Of A More Flowery Convoluted Prose Style À La D'Annunzio Or Walter Pater. An Unattributed Evaluation States " In Japan One Lone Voice Persisted In Hailing The Greatness Of Kori Long After His Early Death. Mishima Yukio Saw In Kori'S Plays The Essence Of Tragedy. Mishima Rated Kori As The Natural Successor To Such Classic Japanese Tragedians As Zeami Chikamatsu And Mori Ogai. Mishima'S Modern Noh Plays Was Written In Implicit Homage To Kori And Stands Today As A Continuation Of Many Of The Themes That Kori Reworked So Successfully In His Dramas. Shiga Naoya Concluded His Reminiscence Of Kori With His Regret That He Had Let Kori Go To England. "Kori Should Have Stayed And Worked In Japan. If He Had He Might Not Have Died So Young.' Kori'S Early Death Was Undeniably Tragic But Given His Long History Of Sickness And The Fact That He Received The Best Medical Treatment Available At The Time His Premature Death Would Have Been Unavoidable Whether He Had Been In Japan Or Europe. Had Kori Never Left Japan He Might Now Be Known As A Renowned Writer Of The Shirakaba School But Because He Left For Europe And Britain We Have The Toils Of Yoshimoto Arguably The Greatest Dramatic Achievement By A Japanese Playwright ". <br/> <br/> Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press hardcover
1909032724San Francisco: Paul Elder And Company / John Nash 1909. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. Frontispiece. Ix 72 Pp. Light Blue Boards With Spine And Front Cover Labels Printed In Black And Red. One Of 350 Copies Only. Near Fine Almost No Wear Very Very Faint Pencil Ownership Name On Front Endpaper Labels Clean And Very Bright. In The Scarce Light Blue Dj Hand Made Paper Also With Same Labels As The Book Light Wear Small Losses At Corners With Small Internal Clear Tape Repairs Light Foxing Spots. <br/> <br/> Paul Elder And Company / John Nash hardcover
1921033908Franklin Ohio: James Knapp Reeve 1921. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 200 Pp. Dark Red Cloth Gilt. First English Language Ediitojn. A Classic Of Dramatic Criticism And Basic Instructional Text For Writers. Wear With Light Fraying At Spine Ends Tips And Point At Top Of Front Board. Ownership Information Of Charles Doane Jr. Of Chicago With His Note That He Inscribed It While Reviewing "The Strangers' Banquet" At The Balaban And Katz Chicago Theatre. <br/> <br/> James Knapp Reeve hardcover
1334058121.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1919293Boston: Little Brown and Company 1919. First Edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 211 x 144 mm vii 298 pages in black cloth titles in gilt to spine in the scarce unclipped dust jacket. <br /><br />A collection of articles about the theatre by Edward Gordon Craig 1872-1966 a stage designer and theatrical producer and director. Although he directed only a handful of plays "his controversial theories of scene design and stagecraft gave him eminence in the European and American theater" The New York Times July 30 1966 page 25. For instance he favored three-dimensional stage effects and more innovative lighting than the traditional footlights. <br /><br />Copies of this book in the original dust jacket are scarce to the market. <br /><br />CONDITION: Rubbing to cloth fading to spine titles top edge dusty bottom edge a bit soiled. Internally a couple of stray ink marks but otherwise clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some soiling nicks and chips with slight fading to text. Overall a Very Good or better copy. <br /><br /> Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1964012132New York: Benjamin Blom Inc. 1964. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with some wear. The jacket is all there not price-clipped but has minor soiling a few small closed tears and one tiny repaired hole at the lower edge of the front panel. Completely clean inside. Four pages have an indentation or wrinkle at the lower edge probably from the binder. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Classic study of the 'Theatre of Marvels' or popular street theater which was practiced in Europe from 1789 to the 1860's. This study grew out of the author's work at Harvard and later the Sorbonne on this fascinating subject. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white with about 200 prints and engravings. Preface by Marcel Marceau. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide 208 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Benjamin Blom, Inc. Hardcover
34893LUGANO OFFICINA BODONI 1924. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM HANS MARDERSTEIG FOUNDER OF THE OFFICINA BODONI TO W J BURCH. LIMITED TO 224 COPIES PRINTED ON HAND-MADE PAPER BOUND IN GREEN VELLUM WITH THE ORIGINAL TYPES OF GIAMBATTISTA BODONI. A NEAR FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE WHICH IS WORN AND DAMAGED BUT HAS DONE ITS JOB IN PROTECTING THE BOOK. LUGANO, OFFICINA BODONI, 1924 hardcover
19962090202118205099San'yushashuppan 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. San'yushashuppan paperback
186318339London: Routledge Warne & Routledge. Good with no dust jacket. 1863. Hard Cover. Royal blue cloth boards with stamped design front and rear and bright gilt titles on stamped floral spine; front board scuffed and slight shelfwear; slight discoloration to lower front pastedown; front hinge deparated revealin back of the spine containing longhand; front endpaper removed and first page is the half-title page; contents bright bright clean and unmarked with numerous pages still uncut; 525 pp 2 pp adverts. . Routledge, Warne, & Routledge hardcover
30743LONDON 1684 AND 1692. TWO WORKS BY DRYDEN BOUND IN MODERN 1934 FULL BROWN LEATHER. THE STATE OF INNOCENCE AND THE FALL OF MAN AN OPERA. PRINTED BY H.H. FOR HENRY HERRINGMAN 1684. DEDICATION 4pp POEM OF PARADISE 2pp AUTHOR'S APOLOGY 6pp STATE OF INNOCENCE 26pp. BOUND WITH OEDIPUS; A TRAGEDY BY DRYDEN AND MR. LEE FOURTH EDITION PRINTED FOR RICHARD BENTLEY COVENT GARDEN 1692. PREFACE 2pp DRAMATIS PERSONAE 1pp PROLOGUE 1pp OEDIPUS 71pp EPILOGUE 1pp. NEW ENDPAPERS BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. BROWNING OF PAGES COMMENSURATE WITH THE AGE. NOTE THAT THE AGE OF INNOCENCE IS INCOMPLETE ENDING AT ACT V SCENE 1 PARADISE PARAGRAPH 11.'EVE - PLEASE THEN YOUR SELF WITH ME.'. FINE BINDING WITH A FEW MARKS TO THE LEATHER. VERY SCARCE. LONDON, 1684 AND 1692 hardcover
1334488363.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
189527528London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1895. Tenth and Revised Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth gilt lettering and black decoration on cover blind-stamped borders and medallion on rear cover. Illustrated with tissue-protected photographic portrait of Threse Malton on frontispiece. N.B. Therese Malten was the stage name of Therese Müller 1855 1930 a well-known German dramatic soprano. Spine and corners worn small bookseller's label on fep Brentano's Paris gilt faded text block unmarked tight square and clean. VERY GOOD. Photographic Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xvi 350 pp . Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington hardcover
188717540Chicago: A. C. Mcclurg & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Second Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter black cloth over marbled boards spine in six compartments separated by raised bands gilt lettering or designs in each compartment top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Three Volumes Complete: Volume 1: The Standard Oratorios; Volume 2: The Standard Cantatas; Volume 3: The Standard Operas. . Front pages of "The Standard Oratorios" glued together spine of "The Standard Cantatas" worn fore-edge of "The Standard Oratorios" and "The Standard Cantatas" lightly water-marked previuos owner's stamp on ffep else tight square clean and unmarked. A large heavy set - additional shipping charges may apply. VERY GOOD. . Ex-Libris. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . A. C. Mcclurg & Company hardcover
1895DEMO015686IBoston: Roberts Brothers 1895. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portrait frontispiece. 16mo 131 pages grey cloth. Ex libris Rose Lippman <br/><br/>Translated by James Graham. Echegaray won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his dramas in 1904/5. Portrait frontispiece. Roberts Brothers hardcover
