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SHOWCASE. Intro. By Brooks Atkinson.
412pp. Illus. With dust jacket. Light fraying of jacket, otherwise a very good, tight, clean copy. A wide collection of in-depth interviews with actors such as Edward Albee, Julie Andrews, Ann Corio, Hume Cronym; Sammy Davis; Agnes de Mille; Dame Edith Evans; Jaanet Gaynor; Sssir John Gielgud; George Grizzard; Julie Harris; Helen Hayes; Calvin Jackson; Danny Kaye; Ernest Lehman, Jack Lemmon, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Gerry Mulligan, Phylis Newman, Mike Nichols, Peter O'Toole; Robert Preston, Harold S. Prince, Rosalind Russell, and Jessica Tandy.
$8.50
THEATRE ON PAPER. With foreword by Sir John Gielgud.
New York: Sotheby's Publications. (1990). 248pp. With dust jacket. A very good copy. Some shelf wear to dust jacket; very light foxing on second and third fep; otherwise interior is clean and bright. Overall, a very clean and tight copy.
$45.00
THEATRICAL STREET BALLADS. Sone Nineteenth-Century Street Ballads about the Theatre. Edited with an Introductory Essay and Notes By....
London:The Society of Theatre Research. 1971. 111pp. Wrps. A very good copy.
$15.00
UN ENSAYO GENERAL SOBRE EL TEATRO ESPANOL CONTEMPORANEO VISTO DESDE MEXICO.
Mexico:Editorial Stylo. 1948. 372pp. Softcover. Covers are soiled and edge-worn; internally, paper has darkened with age; pages uncut; a very good copy.
$25.00
AFTER THE FALL. A PLAY
New York:The Viking Press. (1964). 1st signed, limited edition, limited to 999 copies (500 for Private Distribution and 499 for sale), signed on the limitation page by the Author. 129pp+cast list. Hardcover with glassine dust jacket and slipcase. Book in very good condition. Internally endpages are lightly age-toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust wrapper has tears along spine strip and is almost completely separated along the front gutter. The slipcase is lightly soiled and sun-faded but still in very good condition.
$100.00
ALL FOR HECUBA. A THEATRICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Boston:Branden Press, Publishers. (1967). 1st American edition. 356pp+11pp(Epilogue and index). Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. The book is in very good condition. Internally end-pages lightly age toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. The dust jacket is soiled and shelfworn, with wear to all edges and sun-fading to spine strip. It is not price clipped.
$35.00
CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION. NEWLY REVISED WITH SEVERAL PREFACES AND AN ESSAY ON PRIZEFIGHTING. ALSO THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE, OR CONSTANCY UNREWARDED BEING THE NOVEL OF CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION DONE INTO A STAGE PLAY IN THREE ACTS AND IN BLANK VERSE
Chicago:Herbert S. Stone and Company. 1901. xxvi+376pp. Hardcover. Decorated boards lightly soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with light wear along edges and edge points gentle bumped. Internally end pages lightly age-toned with previous owners name to top of 1st free end-page with some off-set to inside front board, and another signature, partially erased, to 2nd free end-page but otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight with hinged intact.
$75.00
EFFICIENCY. A PLAY IN ONE ACT (Greenwich Village Edition)
New York:George H. Doran Company. 1917. 40pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Inscribed by one author (Davis) on 1st free end-page. Green boards soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges, spine ends and edge points. Paper labels intact but soiled with spne label slightly chipped along vertical edges. Internally, end pages lighlty soiled with light foxing scattered throughout, worse at pages adjacent to plates. The binding is tight with hinges intact. *Interesting anti-war science fiction, where a soldier who has died, is then turned into a half human, half machine, to return to battle. With an appreciation by Theodore Roosevelt.
$300.00
FOUR PLAYS
New York:Samuel French. (1947). 1st edition. 290pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good clean condition, free of previous owners marks or signatures. Page 81/82 has a printing error to bottom of page. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and sun-faded with wear along edges and folds including small chips and tears. *The four plays are The Year of Pilar, A World Elseware, The Cream in the Well. and Dark Encounter. Also the Author of Green Grows the Lilacs, which was adapted into the musical Oklahoma.
$200.00
HEARTBREAK HOUSE, GREAT CATHERINE, AND PLAYLETS OF THE WAR
London:Constable and Company, Ltd. 1919. 1st edition. (xlx)+266pp+2pp ads. Hardcover with dust jacket. Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with gilt on spine still bright, and edge points gentle bumped. Top page edges soiled. Internally, end-pages are age-toned, with a previous owners bookplate to 1st free end-page, and a few random spots of foxing scattered throughout.The binding is tight with hinges intact. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn along edges, but otherwise in very good condition.
$75.00
INHERITORS. A Play In Three Acts
Boston:Small, Maynard and Company, Publishers. (19221). 1st edition. 157pp. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled with gilt on front cover bright but dulled on spine. Internally, A previous owners large bookplate is attached in inside front board but otherwise paper is slighly age toned, but free of previous onwers marks or signatures. A very good clean copy.
$45.00
KING ARTHUR'S SOCKS AND OTHER VILLAGE PLAYS
New York:Alfred A. Knopf. 1922. 1st edition. 238pp. Hardcover. Beige spine with label soiled, and darkened with patterned boards worn along edges and edge points worn to boards. Internally, a previous owners inscription in pencil to 1st free endpage, otherwise pages clean. A bookseller ticket resides on the inside rear board. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good, clean copy.
$25.00
LA REPETITION OU L'AMOUR PUNI
Paris:La Palatine. (1950). Limited edition, No. 2 of 1000 copies. 186pp. Illustrated by Jean-Denis Malcles. Softcover, with glassine dust wrapper. A very good, clean copy inside and out wth what looks like a very slightly nibbled patch at the top of the outside edge of front cover. With an ink mark to top spine edge of glassine dust wrapper. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. Some page edges roughly cut and some as yet uncut. A very good copy.
$50.00
LITTLE PLAYS OF ST. FRANCIS. A DRAMATIC CYCLE FROM THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
London:Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. 1922. 1st edition. xxii+287pp. Illustrated with chapter headings. Signed by Author on 1st free end-page. Hardcover. Beige boards soiled and selfworn, with wear to edges and spine label chipped. Page edges soiled. Internally, end pages age-toned with old penciled bookseller notes to inside front board as well as a bookseller ticket to bottom edge, with Author's signature on 1st free end-page. There is an extra spine label bound in to rear. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
$45.00
LITTLE THEATRE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT For Community, University and School. Including a History of the Amateur in Drama.
New York:D. Appleton and Company. 1926. 1st edition. xiii+333pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brown boards with title in gilt on front cover and spine, lightly soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with gilt on spine strip dulled. Pages edges soiled. Internally, end-pages lighlty age-toned, with a previous owners name penciled to inside front board, otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight with hinges intact. The dust jacket is still in one piece but quite shelfworn and soiled, with what looks to be wear due to silverfish damage, as well as chips and tears to edges and folds. It is not price clipped.
$35.00