New York: Harper & Row, (1978). Hardcover first edition - The first (and only) novel by this award-winning playwright and screenwriter, the story of a young scientist's experiment with sensory deprivation - "entombed in an isolation tank and fed with a powerful hallucinogenic drug in an attempt to find the origins of consciousness." Basis for the 1980 film directed by Ken Russell and starring William Hurt in his first movie. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-060107278.

New York: Grove Press, 1985. First edition - The first full-length study of this important South African playwright. Based on interviews with the playwright, his actors and others involved in the South African theater, this is a look at Fugard's life and work and an analysis of his major plays including 'Sizwe Bansi Is Dead' and 'Master Harold and the Boys.' Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-394-622308.

Boston: Little Brown, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of her memoirs, one which focuses on the central relationship in her life - for 30 years, with Dashiel Hammett, until his death in1961. Also includes a 'warm but unsentimental portrait' of her old friend, Dorothy Parker. Photographs. Winner of the National Book Award. 280 pp

New York: Bantam, (1970.). The first of her memoirs, one which focuses on the central relationship in her life - for 30 years, with Dashiel Hammett, until his death in1961. Also includes a 'warm but unsentimental portrait' of her old friend, Dorothy Parker. Winner of the National Book Award. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-553-05458.

Boston: Little Brown, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of her memoirs, one which focuses on the central relationship in her life - for 30 years, with Dashiel Hammett, until his death in1961. Also includes a 'warm but unsentimental portrait' of her old friend, Dorothy Parker. Photographs. Winner of the National Book Award. 280 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A balanced and thoroughly researched biography of this woman, who was one of the most prominent screenwriters and playwrights of the 20th century, but is perhaps even better known for her 30 year long affair with detective story writer Dashiell Hammett and her left-wing politics, and her literary memoirs. Notes, index. 507 pp, plus 16 pp of photographs. ISBN: 0-671526871.

New York: Basic Books (Perseus), (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Havel is one of the 20th century's great playwrights, dissidents, and champion of democracy - along with Nelson Mandela he navigated the gulf between political prisoner and President of his country. This authorized biography, based on unrestricted access to Havel, his friends and even his enemies, is the first definitive account of this Czech leader. Photographs, guide to pronunciation, index. 535 pp. ISBN: 0-465-037194.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel written under this pseudonym by this Scottish author and playwright, an international thriller featuring ex-intelligence officer and playwright Anthony Moore, and introducing loner Harry Sedall - "a thinking man's Bond, crossed with a ladies' man Smiley." The novel begins on a cross channel ferry and ranges from there to London, the Stratford Ontario Shakespeare festival and to the frozen wilderness of Ontario, where the hunting season is really on. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-030080029.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which discuss the relationship between the fiction and the drama of this revolutionary playwright-poet-novelist, and his influence on other writers, including showing that "his intuition of absurdity anticipated Sartre and Camus, his insights foreshadowed Beckett, and that his approach to conflict predated Albee and Pinter." Includes a chronology, notes on the contributors and a brief selected bibliography. A title in the Twentieth Century Views series. Erratum slip tipped in. 182 pp.

New York: Random House, (2006). First edition - A book which "focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeares enchantment and illumination - the astonishing language itself. . . [It] takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experience." xvii, 550 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999). First edition - "In this 2nd volume of his memoirs, playwright Neil Simon begins immediately following the death of his wife, Joan. From that moment of unbearable sadness, Simon moved quickly to work on another play to keep himself busy and his mind off his loss. The work was therapeutic, and he met an actress who had a role in his play, Marsha Mason. Almost immediately a bond developed, which led to marriage. When Mason's career required that she be in Hollywood, Simon and his two daughters from his first marriage moved there as well. He immersed himself in his work & created: ''Brighton Beach Memoirs,'' ''Biloxi Blues,'' ''Broadway Bound,'' and ''Lost in Yonkers.'' 329 pp.