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EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON: A Play in Three Acts.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Criterion Books, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: Good only in a fair dustjacket. (water damage to lower edges of boards, visible on the inside of the dj, other edgewear to dj, bookplate.)
Book ID: 13234More details Price: $12.50 -
THE POET IN THE THEATRE.
Edition: Small trade paperback.
New York: Hill & Wang, (1960.). Series of essays dealing with Yeats, Synge, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Georg Buchner and others.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 29200More details Price: $10.00 -
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN: A Screenplay.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a tight copy, which appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 48077More details Price: $16.00 -
A ROPE AGAINST THE SUN: A Play for Voices.
Edition: First printing.
Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, Canada: Breakwater Books, (1974). First edition - A play set in Newfoundland by this award-winning Canadian poet, educator and playwright. 69 pp.
Condition: Near fine in orange illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88171More details Price: $15.00 -
NEW MUSIC: A Trilogy.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Theatre Communications Group, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three interrelated plays which trace a family's life in a North Carolina town over a period of 37 years - from before World War II to the Vietnam era. 367 pp. ISBN: 1-55936-0151.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 4385More details Price: $19.50 -
IN THE BOOM-BOOM ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Play set in the 60's, in the fringes of contemporary life.
Condition: Good in a rather poor dustjacket with significant edgewear, some tears, bleeding from the lower edges of the boards to the interior of the dj, etc.
Book ID: 13393More details Price: $12.50 -
COLOURS IN THE DARK.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Vancouver, B. C.: Talonplays with Macmillan of Canada, (1969.). First edition - One of Reaney's most important plays - includes the author's note from the original production. 90 pp, printed throughout on avocado green paper.
Condition: Near fine in stiff photographic illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 34542More details Price: $25.00 -
VAN ZORN: A Comedy in Three Acts.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1914 dj. Hardcover first edition - One of only two plays written by this poet. List of characters. 164 pp plus 5 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (a bit of fraying at top of spine, usual toning to the pages), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 60813More details Price: $25.00 -
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BULLY: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Crown, (1979). First edition - A one-man play in which James Whitmore recreates Teddy Roosevelt. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt IV. Illustrated with photographs. Chronology. vii, 72 pp. ISBN: 0-517537877.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87318More details Price: $16.50 -
L'AIGLON, a Play in Six Acts.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Russell, 1900. Hardcover first edition - A play by the author of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Condition: Spine slightly slanted, otherwise very good condition in gold decorated boards, gilt top edge.
Book ID: 1855More details Price: $25.00 -
THE FABULOUS FANTASY FILMS.
Edition: First edition
New York & London: A. S. Barnes and Co (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - A complete history of the fantasy genre with chapters on the studies of movies about mythology, ghosts, fairy tales, devils, vampires, werewolves and more. Discusses more than six hundred motion pictures and illustrated with nearly four hundred photographs. 2 appendixes featuring cast and characters, notes, index, Large format. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-498-018032.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (chip to upper edge of front cover of dj) .
Book ID: 60711More details Price: $21.50 -
THE PRIVATE EAR; THE PUBLIC EYE: Two Plays
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Stein & Day, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: Ex-library with pocket, tape remnants, but a tight copy in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 8345More details Price: $12.50 -
SAINT JOAN: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Brentano's, 1924. Hardcover first edition - Includes a long preface (over 80 pages) by Shaw on the life and times of Joan of Arc. Play was first performed in London in 1923. lxxxviii,163 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with paper spine label.
Book ID: 56991More details Price: $20.00 -
THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A presentation copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning play with a signed inscription by "Robert Sherwood, '14" to another Harvard classmate of '14. This play was produced with a distinguished cast including Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Sydney Greenstreet, Montgomery Clift, Maurice Colbourne, Robert Downing, and others. This edition includes a long preface by Sherwood about his previous anti-war attitude and the apparent change represented by this play, which was inspired by the German invasion of Finland. xxx,178 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark red cloth with gilt lettering (rubbing to lettering on spine), lacking the dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 55501More details Price: $65.00 -
SHAPE OF PARADOX: An Essay on Waiting for Godot.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1978). Hardcover first edition - A title in the Quantum books series - "a short study distinctive for the author's ability to offer a richness of detail and insight in about one hundred pages of print, short enough to be read in an evening and significant enough to be a book". Index, 120 pp. ISBN: 0-520035496.
Condition: Near fine in grey cloth boards with silver lettering on spine (name on copyright page, offsetting to endpapers), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 87232More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TONY AWARD.
New York: Crown, 1984. dj. Hardcover - A complete listing of winners and nominees with a history of the American Theatre Wing. 188 pages. ISBN: 0-405-064853.
Condition: Ex-library with few markings, and overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 19495More details Price: $12.50 -
THE DANCE IN AMERICA.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as covering dance from the days of the minuet to the TV spectacular. The rather uncommon first editionof this work (a much more easily found revised edition was published in 1971.) Illustrated with many photographs. Includes biographical sketches of leading dance figures like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and others, a chapter on ethnic dance, etc. Index. 248 pages.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (the outer edge of several pages bumped and creased, dj is price-clipped, has some wear at the top of the spine.
Book ID: 22484More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BEACH OF FALESA. (based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson.)
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1964.). Hardcover first edition - Although this is a screenplay, it is printed in an easy to read and narrative format. 124 pp.
Condition: Very good in yellow boards with silver lettering on the spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 33584More details Price: $12.50 -
ROMULUS: The Broadway Adaption and the Original ROMULUS THE GREAT by Friedrich Duerrenmatt.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1966.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes both Vidal's rather controversial adaptation and the original play by Duerrenmatt. as well as the original cast list from the Broadway play. "Vidal has supplied a specially-written Preface for this edition of his play, in which he sets forth his reasons for the kind of adaptation he has made. At Mr. Vidal's suggestion, Duerrenmatt's Romulus the Great is given in translation from the original German by Gerhard Nellhaus for the reader who wishes to make his own judgment concerning the merits of the two plays." xv, 165 pp.
Condition: SIGNED by Vidal on the title page. Just about fine in a near fine dustjacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 40639More details Price: $300.00 -
THE INVESTIGATION.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Atheneum, 1966. First edition - Play based on the trial - and using the actual testimony given in a German court in 1964-65 - of 21 persons involved in the deaths at the concentration camp at Auschwitz. English version by Jon Swan and Ulu Grosbard. 370 pp.
Condition: Very good in black wrappers (some spine slant.)
Book ID: 36406More details Price: $12.00 -
THE ART OF BALLET.
Edition: Revised edition -first thus.
London: Werner Laurie, (1953.) dj. Hardcover - Written by a well-known ballet critic, this is a comprehensive guide to the subject. Illustrated by many photographs. Glossary, Index. 158 pp.
Condition: Very good in fair only dust jacket (chipping and edgewear to the dj, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 30079More details Price: $15.00 -
ANGELS FALL.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1983. dj. Hardcover - When all the roads in a remote corner of New Mexico because of an accident at a nearby uranium mine, 4 people take refuge at a quiet mission.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 15165More details Price: $12.50 -
LES BOUFFONS: Pice en Quatre Actes, en Vers.
Edition: Reprint.
Paris: Flammarion (1934.). Hardcover - En francais. Text in French. 213pp.
Condition: Trs bon exemplaire. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, toning to pages, otherwise just about fine.
Book ID: 33645More details Price: $16.00 -
MODERN DRAMA, Vol XXXII, Number 3
September 1989. Includes articles on Yeats, Tom Stoppard, Synge, Galsworthy and censorship, among other topics.
Condition: Ex-library with "withdrawn" stamp on front cover, but overall very good condition.
Book ID: 9798More details Price: $10.00
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