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GORDON CRAIG. The story of his life.
398pp. Illus. Hard-bound. 1st. American edition. Internally a fine copy. Externally, binding tight but lightly soiled. Attributable to shelf wear. Author was grand-son of Ellen Terry and son of Gordon Craig. S005.
$15.00
MORE THEATRES, 1898-1903; With an introduction by Rupert Hart-Davis.
NY: Taplinger Publ. Co. 1969. 624pp. Hard bound. No dust jacket. 1st. American edition. Book a very good, clean, tight copy. Contains all of Beerbohm's uncollected dramatic criticism that did not appear in AROUND THEATRES. S002.
$13.50
THE MACRO PLAYS. The Castle of Perseverance/Wisdom/Mankind.
London:Oxford University Press. 1969. 280pp. Hardcover. Binding shows some light wear to the edges and spine ends but otherwise in very good, near fine condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a tight, very good, near fine copy.
$25.00
ALISON'S HOUSE. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
New York:Samuel French. 1930. 1st edition. 155pp. Hardcover. Green boards lighlty soiled with spine strip darkened but with gilt still bright. Both spine ends are worn with small tears. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
$75.00
DYNAMO
New York:Horace Liveright. 1929. 1st limited signed edition, #392 of 750 copies, numbered and signed on the limitation page. viii+150pp, many still uncut. Hardcover with slipcase. Spine strip sun-faded but otherwise in very good condition. Internally end-pages slightly age-toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. The slipcase is still in one piece but soiled and very shelfworn, with the lower spine edges cracked.
$150.00
JOURNEY'S END. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
New York:Brentano's. 1929. 1st edition. 204pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition, with gilt on spine dulled. Internally, end-page age toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. PP 138/139 age toned from clippings left to long. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is still in one piece but quite worn, with chipping and tears to edges and folds. It is not price clipped.
$75.00
MR. ARCULARIS. A PLAY
Cambridge:Harvard University Press. 1957. ix+83pp. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy. No previous owners marks or signatures. Light soiling to page edges. Dust jacket is soiled, with wear to edges, but still in very good condition.
$15.00
PAN AND THE YOUNG SHEPHERD. A PASTORAL IN TWO ACTS
London:John Lane. 1898. 1st edition. 140pp, with pages largely uncut. Hardcover. Green boards soiled, especially along spine strip, with light shelfwear to edges and spine ends. Page edges soiled. Internally, end papers age toned, but free of previous owners marks or signatures, with a few bits of foxing to prelims. Title unread, as pages largely uncut. The binding is tight but front hinge is cracked with rear intact. Laid in is the play bill of the Greenwich Village Theatre, during the first presentation in America of this comedy.
$75.00
RICHMOND. A DRAMATIC POEM
Ne York:Samuel French. 1934. 55pp. Stapled wraps. Covers soiled and shelfworn, with wear along spine edges. Internally, a small blemish, possibly from an old sticker, to the top outside edge of the title page as well as penciled notes to the bottom of last page as well as verso and real cover, otherwise clean.
$50.00
SHAVINGS. A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
New York:Samuel French Inc. 1930. 102pp. Illustrated with 3 photographs and stage plans. Stapled wrps. A very good, clean copy with just some slight age-toning to the first and last page and an old crease to the front cover along the hinge and the prince crossed off the spine stirp with black marker. Stored in a blue linen box with the title in gilt on the front cover and on the spine. *Adapted from the Joseph C. Lincoln novel SHAVINGS, published in 1918.
$225.00
ST. ANNE AND THE GOUTY RECTOR AND OTHER PLAYS
New York:Longmans, Green and Co. 1950. 1st edition. xx+190pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Aside from light soiling to page edges from dust residue, the book is in very good, clean condition. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn with some foxing to the spine.
$15.00
THE BORZOI PLAYS 1: WAR. A Play in Four Acts
New York:Alfred A. Knopf. 1916. xiii+73pp. Hardcover. Decorated boards soiled, faded and shelfworn along edges. Edge points worn to boards. Internally, a previous owners name is inked to the top of the 1st free endpage, otherwise pages clean and bright. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
$20.00
THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS
London:Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. 1921. 1st edition. 68pp. Hardcover. In very good condition. Grey boards lightly soiled with the paper label just beginning to chip at the top edge. Internally, the paper is age-toned with no previous owners marks or signatues. A very good, clean copy.
$30.00
THE EMPEROR JONES
New York:Boni and Liveright. 1928. Signed limited edition, copy no. 181 of 775 copies, signed and numbered by O'Neill on the limitation page. 90pp. Illustrated by Alexander King, Hardcover. Missing slip case and dust jacket. Book in very good condition, with colors to boards and gilt on spine strip still bright. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. A very good, bright copy.
$250.00
THE STORM
London:Duckworth and Co. 1899. 1st edition. 120pp +12pp ads. Hardcover. Beige boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges and spine ends. Internally end-pages are age toned but clean with no previous owners marks or signatures but with an old bookseller ticket to rear board. The binding is tight but both hinges have started from top end.
$50.00