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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
19452153London: Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. n.d. 1945. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm 11 1 pages in pictorial stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A short history of the Unity Theatre a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red."<br /><br />In 1938 Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play "Plant in the Sun." Moreover Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K. <br /><br />OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan Wisconsin Waterloo Auckland Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the National Library of Scotland. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Mild external wear some soiling to lower wrapper staple rusted but internally clean and unmarked. First page stamped "Made in England." A Very Good copy. Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. books
199240160NY:: Pantheon. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0679424113 . Made into the 1994 film. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Pantheon, hardcover books
1992885New York: Playbill Incorporated 1992. No Edition Stated. SIGNED and stamped by David Mamet with his blue Chicago stamp on the title page page 23. Mamet's play about a college professor whose chance for tenure is ruined by a student's charge of sexual harassment. A Fine copy of the Playbill for the October 1992 presentation at the Orpheum Theatre in Manhattan starring William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon Mamet's wife. The play premiered in May 1992 in Cambridge Massachusetts at Mamet's new Back Bay Theater Company. For the New York production at the Orpheum Mamet rewrote the third act in response to the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings. 8vo. 66 pages in stapled wrappers. Near Fine with light edge wear. Playbills signed by Mamet are uncommon in the market. SCARCE. <br/><br/> Playbill Incorporated 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
1969818New York: Grove Press Inc. 1969. First Edition First Printing. Controversial revue devised by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan who asked a number of authors to write erotic material that could be used in creating a series of sketches. There's a brief prologue by Samuel Beckett and contributions by Sam Shepard Edna O'Brien John Lennon Kenneth Tynan Jules Feiffer and others. The book is illustrated with photographs from the production; in most cases the actors are nude. 8vo. 190 2 pages. Very Good with light rubbing to the boards and a bit of foxing to the end papers in a Very Good dust jacket with three short closed tears and some sunning. <br/><br/> Grove Press, Inc. 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
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
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
195714373New York: Random House 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Stated first edition. 146 pp. Light resideue from an old dustwrapper protector else a sharp clean near fine example. Price intact dustwrapper in lovely fine condition. By the author of Marty. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
195314374New York: Random House 1953. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Stated first printing. 142 pp. A handsome fine copy in grey cloth binding with photo inset to front cover. Dustwrapper is clipped at front corner else a fine example. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
195814372New York: Charles Scribner 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good . 8vo. 186 pp. With an introduction by Edward C. Aswell. A very good example of this Pulitzer prize winner. Some resideue from an old dustwrapper protector to a small area of the lower boards. Dustwrapper is sharp and unfaded. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner hardcover books
19302043Ballets Russes Georges-Michel Michel; Waldemar George; and Nathalie Gontcharova. <b>Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew par Michel Georges-Michel Waldemar George / Le Costume Théatral par Nathalie Gontcharova</b>. Paris: Pierre Vorms 1930. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 270 x 185 mm 31 1 pages in printed wrappers. <br /><br />A sumptuously illustrated tribute to Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes issued in 1930 one year after his death. Diaghilev rendered here as Diaghilew created one of the world's most innovative ballet and opera companies and hired some of the greatest artists of the 20th century to design sets and costumes. <br /><br />Artists represented here include Picasso Laurencin Braque Derain de Chirico Rouault Bakst and others. The book features 19 plates depicting sets and costumes with four of the plates in color. There is also a photo of Diaghilev taken several days before his death at the young age of 57. <br /><br />Michel Georges-Michel and Waldemar George have written introductions while Nathalie Gontcharova has written about costumes; the book is illustrated with several of her designs for sets and costumes. There is also a complete list of the troupe's productions and a list of all the artists who designed sets and costumes. All text is in French. <br /><br />This book should not be confused with a 1955 revised edition. An altogether wonderful tribute to the Ballets Russes. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light edge wear toning to the wrappers especially the lower wrapper. Internally clean bright and unmarked. A beautiful Near Fine copy. Pierre Vorms paperback 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
19341169Moscow: Izd. Vseros. teatral nogo obshchestva 1934. First Edition. 4to 12 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches / 307 x 220 mm xlvii 11-195 plates 3 199-211 appendix 1 pages in publisher's original brown cloth lacking the rare dust jacket. A celebration of Alexander Tairov's pathbreaking Kamerny Theatre in Moscow featuring set and costume designs as well as scenes from the theatre's first 20 years. Text entirely in Russian Profusely illustrated in both color and black and white the book showcases each production of the Kamerny founded by Alexander Tairov 1885-1950 and his wife the actress Alisa Koonen 1889-1974. Tairov brought many non-Russian productions to the Kamerny including works by Shakespeare Bertolt Brecht Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. Tairov's productions were known for their magnificent set and costume designs and he collaborated with some of the most acclaimed avant-garde artists of the day including Alexandra Exter and Natalia Goncharova. Indeed it's possible to see the evolution of 20th-century Russian art through the set and costume designs which reflected Cubist Constructivist Rayonist and even Art Deco influences. It was an exciting time in Soviet theatre; this era featured some of the greatest directors of the 20th century such as Stanislavsky Meyerhold and Vakhtangov. The Kamerny was the scene of one of the most significant plays of the Soviet theatre according to Nick Worrall in his authoritative study "Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage" Cambridge University Press 1989. Vsevolod Vishnevsky's Russian civil-war play Optimistic Tragedy opened at the Kamerny on December 18 1933. "It concerns particular historical events associated with the civil war in the Soviet Union but more generally it is an article of faith -- in the triumph of Life over Death of the Collective over the Individual of faith in the necessary tragedy of revolution of the necessary destruction of those who oppose revolution of hostility to the spirit of anarchism and faith in the leadership of the party." Indeed the play which is featured in this book marked an important milestone in the development of "socialist realism." The Soviet government closed the Kamerny Theatre in 1949 and Tairov died a year later. The Kamerny's home at 23 Tverskoy Boulevard is now occupied by the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. A stunning look at the first 20 years of the Kamerny Theatre one of the most innovative theatres at an important moment in Soviet theatre history. SCARCE. <br/><br/>CONDITION: Both boards rubbed small scrape to rear paste down. Tissue guards separating each play page 36 unpublished according to list of illustrations in the appendix plate 41 loose some small closed tears in a few pages plate 175 improperly trimmed not affecting the illustration. Overall Very Good or better. Izd. Vseros. teatral nogo obshchestva hardcover books
19552089Tempo Playhouse Playbill Stein Gertrude and Jean Genet. <b>Julie Bovasso and Cletus L. Gundy Present a Tempo Playhouse Production: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March": Selections From the First Reader and Jean Genet's "The Maids." </b>New York: Tempo Playhouse 1955. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A rare playbill for the first plays presented by Julie Bovasso's Tempo Playhouse in New York: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March: Selections From the First Reader" and Jean Genet's "The Maids." In fact this was the first production of "The Maids" in the United States. Both plays were directed by Strowan Robertson with sets and costumes by Lester Hackett. <br /><br />The 24-year-old Bovasso founded the theatre with $250 from the sale of a painting by her husband George Ortman. She rented an apartment at 4 St. Mark's Place in the East Village and built a small stage and a box office. See Stephen J. Bottoms "<i>Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement"</i> pages 37-38. <br /><br />The playbill doesn't give the opening date but a small item in The New York Times of March 10 1955 states the opening would take place on Saturday March 12. The Times also placed the location of the opening at Steyer Hall Playhouse 184 Eldridge Street which must have been a temporary venue.<br /><br />Bovasso played the role of Claire in "The Maids" which ran until mid-July 1955. The following year the Village Voice initiated the Obie Awards for Off-Broadway. Bovasso won the first Obie for Best Actress and Tempo Playhouse received a special citation that year.<br /><br />Bovasso's co-stars in "The Maids" were Joyce Henry as Solange and Fran Malis as Madame. Being the versatile actress that she was Bovasso also apparently played Solange at times.<br /><br />For the Stein production -- which was actually two plays: "In a Garden" and "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters" -- the actors were Herbert King Philip Stanley Pitts Kit Raccoon Nancy Ponder Lucy Willow Anne Edwards Helen and Marcia Pavia Ellen.<br /><br />Just like playbills for the Living Theatre the Tempo playbill lists paintings and sculptures for sale at the theatre. Painters include Joan Mitchell Perle Fine Lois Dodd Angelo Ippolito Michael Goldberg Margaret Barlett George Ortman and Miles Forst and the sculptors Marisol Escobar and William King. <br /><br />This playbill is rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings although a separate search turns up a copy at the University of Florida. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some creases and folds but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Tempo Playhouse 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
19361978Denby Edwin and Orson Welles. <b>Horse Eats Hat</b>. New York: The Federal Theatre Project/Works Progress Administration 1936. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Single sheet folded to create a four-panel program measuring 9 x 6 inches 230 x 150 mm when folded. Printed in blue ink on white paper stock. <br /><br />A scarce program guide for the play "Horse Eats Hat" written by Edwin Denby and Orson Welles with music by Paul Bowles. Welles directed and appeared in the play which featured Joseph Cotten Arlene Francis and many others. <br /><br />In the play adapted from a French farce a horse eats a hat "and the owner of the horse must get the owner of the hat another hat because she can't go home to her husband without it." The New York Times September 28 1936 page 14. <br /><br />"Horse Eats Hat" was performed at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York as part of the Federal Theatre Project during the Depression. Managing Producer: the great John Houseman. At the opening the Times informs us "Half the audience was pretty indignant and the other half quite amused.It can be fought about at a top price of 55 cents." <br /><br />OCLC shows a poster of this play held by the Library of Congress but no institutional holdings of the program guide. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease some soiling and edge wear. A Very Good copy. The Federal Theatre Project/Works Progress Administration books
1995W11906KMorgantown PA: Masthof Press 1995. Original maroon cloth gilt. Slight spine ends crumpling and small dent on lower edge of bottom board and on one corner. Inscribed by author on title page as "Henry J". Contains a great deal of information with photos and drawings by this widely published expert on the Dutch Country of Pennsylvania. Signed by Author. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Masthof Press Hardcover books
180915791Tübingen: J.G. Cotta 1809. 1st edition. 19th C. tan half-calf with marbled boards & eps. Maroon spine labels. Original brown wrappers bound in. VG contemporary pos &personal library sticker/some foxing & browning to paper. 175 pp. Text in German. Printed in black letter. 8vo. 4 5/8" x 7 1/4" <br/><br/> J.G. Cotta hardcover books
1952844<p>New York: Greenberg 1952. First Edition. SIGNED on the front free end paper by 15 important stars of Broadway including Fritzi Scheff Eli Wallach Uta Hagen Maureen Stapleton Blanche Ring Francine Larrimore Leonore Ulric Margaret Phillips Bert Lahr Contance Collier Judith Evelyn Frances Starr Douglas Watson Charles Nolte and Dorothy Gish.</p><p>4to 12 1/4 inches / 31 cm. tall v 150 2 pages. Tipped in is a "Publisher's Weekly" article describing the signing party at Brentano's in 1952. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has a half-inch chip at the bottom of the front panel where it meets the spine a few small chips on the rear panel some edge wear and soiling. Copies signed by so many of the stars are not often found in the market. Presumably a previous owner obtained the signatures during the book party at Brentano's in 1952. SCARCE signed. <br /><br />The signers are among the 150 stars featured with two-page photo spreads in this loving theatre tribute that reaches back to Lillian Russell and Sarah Bernhardt but also includes a few newcomers such as Carol Channing.</p><p>Daniel Blum the author was an authoritative journalist/historian of theatre who published an annual review of the theatre season called Theatre World. Needless to say he knew many of the actors profiled in the book.</p><p>Especially interesting are the author's comments about the actors. Marlon Brando: "He is a nonconformist and likes to shock people.He dislikes cats interviews shoes and large parties." Maureen Stapleton: "She dislikes spooky movies and books." Beatrice Pearson: "When she is depressed she spends money like a drunken sailor." Charlton Heston: "He is frank genial and outspoken but thinks actors should keep quiet on any other subject but their work." That was the Charlton Heston of 1952. He dabbled in politics later in life.</p> Greenberg books
19051477Boston: John W. Luce 1905. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Octavo 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 194 x 132 mm black cloth paper labels to front cover and spine hard cover. <br /><br />The second book of H.L. Mencken an analysis and appreciation of the plays of George Bernard Shaw. With a lengthy introduction by Mencken. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light scratch to front cover moderate wear to the spine tips and corners with darkening to the spine label fading to top stain. Internally: Early bookplate to the front paste down with an additional bookplate of Frank Harding to the front end paper and Harding's name in ink dated 1929. a few scattered pencil markings and light toning to page edges. About Very Good lacking the very scarce dust jacket. John W. Luce hardcover books
192214388New York: Brentanos 1922. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 154 pp. Photo frontis by Francis Bruguierre. Tissue guard present. Translated from the German by Ashley Dukes. With eight illustrations from photographs of the Theatre Guild Production. Closed tear near top of spine else a bright very good plus copy. Black cloth with bright red lettering to front panel and spine. Scrape to front panel else a very good example of the rare dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Brentanos hardcover books
199070510NY: Grove Press 1990. First edition first prnt. Illustrated wraps. No hardcover edition. Mamet's personalized business card with his holograph note in ink laid in. "Dear _ Thank you for your interest in my work. David Mamet 25 F. '00." Price stricker on rear wrap; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition. Contains "A Waitress in Yellowstone" "Bradford" "The Museum of Science and Industry Story" "A Wasted Weekend" "We Will Take You There.". Signed Card Laid in. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued. Grove Press Paperback books
