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Books listed alphabetically in order by Author
114. Lytton, Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton). DRAMAS: NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM -
MONEY - WALPOLE - THE RIGHTFUL HEIR - DARNLEY. New York, P. F. Collier & Son,
1901. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Light cover wear.
Front hinge startng. Owner stamp endpaper. Tinted frontis plate. From "The
Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton" series. Good tight copy. 429 pages......$13.50
115. Madach, Imre (Translated by Horne, J.C.W.). THE TRAGEDY OF MAN: A
DRAMATIC POEM IN FIFTEEN SCENES (Title of the Hungarian Original: AZ EMBER
TRAGEDIAJA). Budapest, Corvina Press, 1963. 4th edition. Hardcover - cloth,
18mo. Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Great poetic drama - one of the classics of Hungarian literature.
Written by Madach in 1860. One of the great mystery plays like faust which
embraces the fundamental questions of manking. Good tight copy. 195
pages......$20.00
116. Maeterlinck, Maurice (Translated by Coleman, Alexis Irenee Du Pont).
MONNA VANNA: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. New York, Harper & Bros, 1913. Decorated
cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Spine lighty bumped. Black & white
frontis photo. Good tight copy. 144 pages......$14.00
117. Maeterlinck, Maurice (Translated by Miall, Bernard). SISTER BEATRICE AND
ARDIANNE & BARBE BLEUE. New York, Dodd Mead, 1911. Decorated cloth, 12mo.
Good condition. Spine loosening. Signature/price markered out endpapers.
Corners worn/bumped. Two dramatic works translated into English Verse from
the Manuscript of Maurice Maeterlinck. 183 pages......$10.00
118. Maeterlinck, Maurice (Translated by De Mattos, Alexander Teixera). THE
BETROTHAL: A SEQUEL TO THE BLUE BIRD (A FAIRY PLAY IN FIVE ACTS AND ELEVEN
SCENES). New York, Dodd Mead, 1918. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, 12mo.
Very Good condition+. An elegant volume. Tight well-bound. 222
pages......$25.00
119. Mankowitz, Wolf. MAZEPPA: THE LIVES, LOVES AND LEGENDS OF ADAH ISAACS
MENKEN. New York, Stein & Day, 1982. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
Imperial octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos & drawings. The 1st great
American international star: songstress, danseuse, actress, equestrienne,
author, poetess, sculptress. Her acquaintances with Dickens, Swinburne,
Rosetti, Richard Burton, Twain, Whitman, Bret Harte & Alexander Dumas, among
others. Good tight copy. 270 pages......$12.50
120. Mantle, Burns (Editor). THE BEST PLAYS OF 1945-46: AND THE YEAR BOOK OF
THE DRAMA IN AMERICA - WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. New York, Dodd Mead, 1946. 1st
edition. Decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Very slight
cover/corner wear. Black & white frontis & photographs. With paste-down cover
& spine title plates. Rare photos. Plays include Antigone, Dream Girl, Lute
Song, Home of the Brave. Articles include The Season in New York, The Season
in Chicago, The Season in San Francisco. Encyclopedic guide to the year's
theatrical season with: The Plays & the Authors, Dance Drama, Plays Produced
in New York, Equity-Library Theatre, Off-Broadway, Long runs on Broadway,
Pulitzer Prize Winners, Previous Volumes of Best Plays - and more. With Index
of Authors, Index of Plays and Casts, Index of Producers, Directors &
Designers. 515 pages......$25.00
121. March, Joseph Moncure (Forward by Louis Untermeyer). THE WILD PARTY -
THE SET-UP: A CERTAIN WILDNESS. Freeport ME, Bond Wheelwright Co, 1968. 1st
Freeport. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in worn/chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis & plates.
Poetic dramas. Black & white illustrations by Paul Busch. Good tight copy.
308 pages......$17.50
122. Marchant, William. THE PRIVILEGE OF HIS COMPANY: NOEL COWARD REMEMBERED.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. 1st printing. Decorated cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition. Black & white photos. With many photos never
before published. Professional & personal memoirs of Noel Coward by a friend
& fellow playwright. Decorated endpapers. Tight well-bound volume. 276
pages......$12.00
123. Matson, Cecil. THE WAY IT WAS: HISTORICAL THEATRE IN OREGON FROM 1846
INTO THE PRESENT CENTURY. Portland OR, Cecil Matson, Publisher, 1988. 1st
edition. Decorated cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. A kaleidoscopic
look at early theatre in the Oregon Country from the early years of the 20th
century to the present day. Contents include: Community Theatres thoughout
Oregon, Center for the Performing Arts, Prominent Actors seen on Portland's
Stages, Early theatre in the Oregon Country, The New Market Theatre era
1875-1887, Portland Stock Companies, Acting styles - then and now, Amateur
Theatre - then and now, Vaudeville in Portland 1904 - 1929. Theatre names and
locations - and much more. Well-illustrated. With Footnotes,
Acknowledgements, Index. Tight, well-bound volume. 211 pages......$30.00
124. McLellan, Robert (Edited and Annotated by Campbell, Ian and Jack,
Ronald). JAMIE THE SAXT: A HISTORICAL COMEDY. London, Calder & Boyars, 1970.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in lightly worn dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge stripe. A plsy by Robert
McLellan. From The Scottish Library Series. Good tight copy. 158
pages......$20.00
125. McNally, Terrence. THE RITZ AND OTHER PLAYS. New York, Dodd Mead, 1976.
1st collected. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in worn dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Good tight copy. 436
pages......$25.00
126. McNeir, Waldo F. and Greenfield, Thelma N. (Editors). PACIFIC COAST
STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. Eugene OR, University of Oregon Books, 1966. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in clipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Contents include:Use of Linguistic Criteria in
determining thecopy and dates for Shakespeare's plays... The modernity of
Lear.. Venus and Adonis and the Myth of Love.. Romeo and Necessity..
Structure and Theme in the First Tavern Scene of 1Henry IV.. The Trials of
Othello.. Coriolanus as Aristotle's Magnanimous Man.. Shakespeare's tragic
vision - and much more. Tight well-bound volume. 315 pages......$25.00
127. Millay, Edna St. Vincent (With Foreword by the Author). CONVERSATION AT
MIDNIGHT. New York, Harper & Bros, 1937. 1st edition. 3/4 cloth/boards, Small
octavo. Very good condition. Tiny owner signature front endpaper. Poetic
drama by Edna St. Vincent Millay. With Table of first lines. Good tight copy.
126 pages......$20.00
128. Moore, Doris Langley. THE LATE LORD BYRON: POSTHUMOUS DRAMAS.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1961. 1st edition. Decorated cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white plates. 1st complete account of the stormy aftermath
of Byron's life. From unpublished material. Fascinating literary detective
work.. 542 pages......$20.00
129. Moore, George. THE COMING OF GABRIELLE: A COMEDY. New York, Boni &
Liveright, 1921. 1st limited edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good condition. Light cover/edge wear. Owner plate endpaper. Comedy by
George Moore. Edition limited to 895 copies. With extensive preface by Moore.
Good tight copy. 133 pages......$20.00
130. Morgan, Charles. THE BURNING GLASS: A PLAY (With a Preface On Power Over
Nature). London, Macmillan, 1953. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very
good condition. Spine, rear cover lightly scraped. Edges lightly bumped. With
enclosed Apollo Theatre Program for The Burning Glass - 1954. Good tight
copy. 156 pages......$16.00
131. Morley, Robert and Langley, Noel. EDWARD, MY SON: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS.
New York, Random House, 1948. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition. Light scrape marks rear cover. Black & white frontis
photograph. Good tight copy. 177 pages......$12.00
132. Mosley, Nicholas (Introduction by Banks, John. Postscript by the
Author). CATASTROPHE PRACTICE: PLAYS FOR NOT ACTING AND CYPHER, A NOVEL.
Elmwood Park IL, The Dalkey Archive Press, 1989. 1st American. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
First published in England in 1979. A novel in the form of three plays with
prefaces and a novella... in which 6 characters, or actors, try to find their
ways through some catastrophe that is less in the world outside than in their
minds. Good tight copy. 342 pages......$15.00
133. Mosley, Nicholas (Introduction by Banks, John. Postscript by the
Author). CATASTROPHE PRACTICE. Elmwood Park IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1979.
1st American. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. With Plays for Not Acting and Cypher, a Novel.
Good tight copy. 342 pages......$12.50
134. Nelson, Robert J. IMMANENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE: THE THEATER OF JEAN
ROTROU (1609-1650). OH, Ohio State Univ. Press, 1969. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. In-depth view of Rotrou's theatre of sacrament & sacrilege. Good
tight copy. 245 pages......$12.00
135. Nelson, William Allan, Ph.D. & Thorndike, Ashey, Horace, Ph.D., L.H.D.
THE FACTS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE. New York, Macmillan, 1915. Repr. 1913 edition.
Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Very light cover wear. Black &
white frontis. Shakespeare - bio, chronology, background, texts. Elizabethan
drama, theatre. Questions of authenticity. Biographical Documents &
authorities. Index of the characters in Shakespeare's plays. Bibliography.
More. Good tight copy. 273 pages + ads......$11.00
136. Nightingale, Benedict. FIFTH ROW CENTER: A CRITIC'S YEAR ON AND OFF
BROADWAY. New York, Times Books, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Rare firsthand account of the life of a working theatre
critic. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 346 pages......$15.00
137. Nightingale, Benedict. FIFTH ROW CENTER: A CRITIC'S YEAR ON AND OFF
BROADWAY. New York, Times Books, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Fascinating firsthand account of the life of a working theater
critic - for the New York Times - over the course of a year. Well-indexed.
Good tight copy. 346 pages......$14.00
138. Noyes, Alfred. RADA: A DRAMA OF WAR IN ONE ACT. New York, Frederick A.
Stokes Co, 1914. 2nd printing. Decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good condition.
Very faint dampstain cover edges. Black & white frontis photograph. Green
cloth with embossed gilt cover lettering and gilt flying horse design. Good
tight copy. 34 pages......$12.50
139. Nugent, Elliott. EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE COMEDY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY
ELLIOTT NUGENT. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1979. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Cover foredge & corners bumped. Black & white photos. Good tight
copy. 296 pages......$12.00
140. O'Driscoll, Robert (Editor). THEATRE AND NATIONALISM IN 20TH CENTURY
IRELAND. London, Oxford University Press, 1971. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in worn, lightly chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis photo. From Yeats to
Beckett. First systematic exploration of Irish drama since 1939. Essays by
experts in Irish Studies. Studies of the writers who molded the mind of
modern Ireland. Good tight copy. 216 pages......$15.00
141. O'Neill, Eugene (Introduction by Krutch, Joseph Wood). NINE PLAYS BY
EUGENE O'NEILL. New York, Liveright, Inc, 1932. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition. Covers worn/faded. Corner bumped. Owner signature
endpaper. Good tight copy. 867 pages......$15.00
142. Oberfirst, Robert. AL JOLSON: YOU AIN'T HEARD NOTHIN' YET!. San Diego
CA, A.S. Barnes & Company, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Lower corners
lightly bumped. Black & white photos. Life of the legendary entertainer. With
Discography, Stageography, Screenography, Radiography. Good tight copy. 341
pages......$14.00
143. Osborn, Paul (Based on the Novel by Marquand, John P.). POINT OF NO
RETURN. New York, Random House, 1952. 1st. Decorated cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Lightly bumped. Black & white photos. Drama by Paul Osborn.
Paste-down cover photo. Good tight copy. 182 pages......$12.50
144. Osborne, John. THE WORLD OF PAUL SLICKELY (With an Introduction by the
Author). New York, Criterion Books, 1959. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good
condition. Covers lightly faded. Good tight copy. 96 pages......$10.00
145. Parker, Louis N. DISRAELI: A PLAY. New York, John Lane Company, 1911.
1st edition. Decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light cover/edge
wear. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white frontis photo of Author. With
tinted photographic cover plate. Tight well-bound volume. Hard to find. 114
pages......$20.00
146. Pearson, Hesketh. G.B.S.: A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT. New York, Garden City
Publishing, 1946. Repr. 1942 edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Lower corners worn/bumped. Black & white photos. Spirited Shaw
biography. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 390 pages......$11.00
147. Pearson, Hesketh. HESKETH PEARSON: BY HIMSELF. New York, Harper & Row,
1965. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Posthumous
memoirs of Pearson re: experiences in the Theatre, World War I and as a
biographer. Interesting sketches of Shaw, Wilde, Disraeli, Gilbert &
Sulliven, among others. Good tight copy. 331 pages......$15.00
148. Phillips, Stephen. COLLECTED PLAYS. New York, Macmillan, 1921. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Slight cover wear (2
small nicks front cover). Collected plays of Stephen Phillips. Preface by
Stephen Phillips, Jr. Plays include: Alymer's Secret, Ulysses, The Sin of
David, Nero, Faust, Pietro of Siena. Tight well-bound volume. 869 total
pages......$30.00
149. Pound Ezra and Fleming, Rudd (Edited and Annotated by Reid, Richard).
ELEKTRA: A PLAY BY EZRA POUND AND RUDD FLEMING. Princeton NJ, Princeton
University Press, 1989. 1st thus. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. First time in print. Written in
the early months of 1949, while Pound was under indictment for treason.
Hitherto unpublished - though produced in 1987 - and unique version of
Sophocles' classic. Critical edition, with Notes. Good tight copy. 103
pages......$20.00
150. Priestley, J.B. PARTICULAR PLEASURES: BEING A PERSONAL RECORD OF SOME
VARIED ARTS AND MANY DIFFERENT ARTISTS. New York, Stein & Day, 1975. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good condition in edgetorn dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Light edge wear. Edge stripe. Black &
white photos. Beautifully illustrated. Priestley on Art, Theatre, Music. With
uncommon information on individual artists & performers. Good tight copy. 192
pages......$14.50
151. Pursglove, Glyn. FRANCIS WARNER AND TRADITION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
PLAYS. Bucks England, Colin Smythe, Publisher, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis plate. Full-length study of
the series of plays written by Francis Warner during the 1970s. Indexed. Good
tight copy. 232 pages......$16.50
152. Raffel, Burton. ROBERT LOWELL. New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing,
1981. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition in
lightly-worn clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Only study
of poet Lowell's career in its entirety - as poet, translator, playwright.
With illuminating biographical sketch. 157 pages......$12.50
153. Randall, Tony and Mindlin, Michael. WHICH REMINDS ME. New York,
Delacorte Press, 1989. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photos. Randall's biographical - vastly entertaining collection of show
business stories. Good tight copy. 266 pages......$12.00
154. Reeve, William C. IN PURSUIT OF POWER: HEINRICH VON KLEIST'S
MACHIAVELLIAN PROTAGONISTS. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Very light
shelfwear. Study of the striking parallels linking the lives & careers of
Machiavelli and Kleist - and the result in Kleist's plays. Note, Index. Good
tight copy. 236 pages......$20.00
155. Reiss, Timothy J. TRAGEDY AND TRUTH: STUDIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A
RENAISSANCE AND NEOCLASSICAL DISCOURSE. New Haven CT, Yale University Press,
1980. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. The concept of tragedy and the
tragic. Discussion of French & English neoclassical tragic theory as well as
the foreshadowing elements in Greek tragedy. Analyzes in detail a number of
works by Buchanan, Jodelle, Marlow, Garnier, Shakespeare, Dryden & Racine.
With extensive Notes. Well-indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 334
pages......$20.00
156. Resnik, Muriel. SON OF ANY WEDNESDAY: THE MAKING OF A BROADWAY HIT. N.Y,
Stein & Day, 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition. Owner's inscription. Black & white photos. Photos by
Wallace Litwin. SIGNED BY RESNIK AND LITWIN. Good tight copy. 237
pages......$20.00
157. Rice, Elmer. THE LIVING THEATRE. New York, Harper & Bros, 1959. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Discourses by Elmer Rice, reknowned
playwright, producer & director on all aspects of the Theatre. With Index.
Good tight copy. 306 pages......$15.00
158. Rice, Elmer (With Introduction by Rice). TWO PLAYS: NOT FOR CHILDREN AND
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS. New York, Coward-McCann Inc, 1935. 1st edition. Hardcover
- cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Tight well-bound volume. 301
pages......$35.00
159. Rosenfeld, Lulla (With Introduction by Clurman, Harold). BRIGHT STAR OF
EXILE: JACOB ADLER AND THE YIDDISH THEATRE. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell,
Publisher, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very light
edgewear. Black & white frontis & photographs. History of the Yiddish theatre
from its beginnings in Eastern Europe to its culminating years in America.
With Bibliography. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 368 pages......$20.00
160. Rostand, Edmond (Translated by Dole, Helen B. - Illustrated by Carbe,
Nino). CYRANO DE BERGERAC. New York, Illustrated Editions Co, 1931. Hardcover
- 1/2 dec. cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Cover/edge wear. Bumped.
Title faded. Black & white drawings. Excellent translation of Rostand's play.
With critical commentary by W.P. Trent. Elegant volume. Good tight copy. 184
pages......$12.00
161. Saki (H.H. Munro). THE NOVELS AND PLAYS OF SAKI (H.H. MUNRO). New York,
Viking Press, 1933. 2nd Omnibus. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Good condition.
Cover & edge wear. Spine faded. Owner's plate endpaper. 452 pages......$15.00
162. Salmon, Eric. IS THE THEATRE STILL DYING?. Westport/London, Greenwood
Press, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition.
Inked lining/highliting several pages. With Bibliographical Essay, Index.
Good tight copy. 294 pages......$18.00
163. Saroyan, Aram. TRIO: PORTRAIT OF AN INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP - OONA CHAPLIN,
CAROL MATTHAU, GLORIA VANDERBILT. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1985. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Good tight copy. 256 pages......$11.00
164. Scheikevitch, Marie (Translated by DeLisle). TIME PAST: MEMORIES OF
PROUST AND OTHERS. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1935. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Faint soiling to cover/spine. Indexed.
Good tight copy. 321 pages......$20.00
165. Schelling, Felix E. (General Editor, Masterpieces of the English Drama
Series). WEBSTER AND TOURNEUR. London, American Book Co, 1912. Hardcover -
cloth, Small 12mo. Very good condition. Very slight cover wear. Black & white
frontis drawing. Good tight copy. 464 pages......$12.00
166. Schneider, Ben Ross, Jr. THE ETHOS OF RESTORATION COMEDY.
Urbana/Chicago/London, University of Illinois Press, 1971. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Exhaustive survey and analysis of Restoration Comedy - based on
1,127 characters in 83 plays. How Restoraton comedy was satiric in method,
mirroring society in such a way as to criticize it. With List of Plays
Studied, extensive Index. Good tight copy. 201 pages......$18.00
167. Seagraves, Anne. WOMEN WHO CHARMED THE WEST. Hayden ID, Wesanne
Publications, 1991. Qlty paperback, octavo. Very Good condition+. Edge
stripe. Black & white photographs. Story of the legendary actresses who
charmed the stage from the Victorian era of the 1800's to the turn of the
century. With descriptive text and elegant photographs. Good tight copy. 176
pages......$10.00
168. Seelye, Lymann. OALIN. Bellingham WA, The Bayside Press, 1922. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Light
edgewear. Slightly bumped. Black & white photos. Poetic drama. Fictionalized
version of the sinking of the HMS Hampshire with Lord Kirchner on Board in
1916. Rare. Tight copy. 192 pages......$15.00
169. Shakespeare (Edited by Wylie, Laura J., Ph.D.) Ashley Horace). THE
WINTER'S TALE (From The Tudor Shakespeare series). New York, Macmillan, 1912.
1st. Decorated cloth, 24mo. Very good condition. Light corner wear. 1924
owner inscription half-title. Tinted frontis portrait. Decorated endpapers.
With Introduction, Notes, Glossary. Tight well-bound volume. 166
pages......$12.00
170. shaw, George Bernard. THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS. New York, Brentano's,
1912. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Title plate on spine
lightly chipped. 3rd edition of Shaw's Collected Plays. Inclues: Prefaces..
The Devil's Disciple.. Caesar and Cleopatra... Captain Brassbound's
Conversion. With Notes. Good tight copy. 301 pages......$16.50
171. Sherwood, Robert E. IDIOT'S DELIGHT. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons,
1936. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition.
Light browning endpapers. Light fading to spine. Handsome copy of this 1936
Pulitzer Prize winner. With Postcript by Sherwood denying the inevitability
of World War II. Tight well-bound volume. 190 pages......$20.00
172. Sills, Beverly (Designed by Barrow, Helen). BUBBLES: A SELF-PORTRAIT.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1976. 1st printing. Decorated cloth, Large
square octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Color & Black & white photographs. Beautifully photo-illustrated
autobiography of TV, Broadway & Opera star Beverly Sills. Well-indexed. Good
tight copy. 240 pages......$17.50
173. Silone, Ignazio (Translated by Tranquilli, Darina). AND HE HID HIMSELF:
A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS. New York, Harper & Bros, 1946. 1st edition. Decorated
cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Very light edgewear. Signature front
endpaper. Hard to find. Good tight copy. 126 pages......$16.00
174. Skelton, Robin. THE WRITINGS OF J.M. SYNGE. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill,
1971. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. First full length study of all Synge's writings.
With particular attention to newly discovered works. Indludes totally new
view of Synge's prose work, The Aran Islands. Plus analysis of the dept Synge
owed to Yeats & vice versa. With Bibliography. Well-indexed. Good tight copy.
190 pages......$16.00
175. Skinner, Cornelia Otis. LIFE WITH LINDSAY & CROUSE. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin, 1976. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Story of the
friendship that created Sound of Music, Life with Father, Call Me Madame &
many other hits. Indexed. Tight copy. 242 pages......$15.00
176. Sondhein, Stephen and Weidman, John. ASSASSINS. New York, Theatre
Communications Group, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Lower corners very slightly bumped. Black & white frontis &
photographs. Good tight copy. 107 pages......$12.00
177. Sonnenberg, Ben. LOST PROPERTY: MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A BAD BOY. New
York, Summit Books, 1991. 2nd printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Memoirs of
playwright, poet & publisher, Ben Sonnenberg. Indexed. Good tight copy. 217
pages......$10.00
178. Stevens, George. SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, JOHN: THE LIFE OF JOHN MASON BROWN,
WITH SOME OF HIS LETTERS AND MANY OF HIS OPINIONS. New York, Viking Press,
1974. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis photograph.
Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 308 pages......$14.00
179. Stoddard, John L. JOHN L. STODDARD'S LECTURES: INDIA I, INDIA II, THE
PASSION PLAY. Chicago & Boston, Geo. L. Shuman & Co, 1925. 2nd revised
edition. Leatherette, octavo. Very good condition. Tinted color & Black &
white plates. Volume 4 of Stoddard's lectures. Magnificent photo-illustrated
volume with hundreds of rare plates. First two sections of the book offer a
vivid tour of turn-of-the-century India. The third section provides a history
& portrait of the unique Ober-Amergau Passion Play produced in the Bavarian
Alps. Tight well-bound volume. 335 pages......$25.00
180. Strasberg, Susan. BITTER SWEET: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SUSAN STRASBERG.
Chicago, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Revealing autobio of Susan Strasberg,
the youngest actress to star on Broadway (as Ann Frank). Good tight copy. 285
pages......$12.50
181. Strasberg, Susan. BITTERSWEET: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SUSAN STRASBERG. New
York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Very light edgewear. Black & white photos. Revealing autobio of the
youngest actress to star on Broadway (As Anne Frank). Good tight copy. 285
pages......$12.00
182. Strenkovsky, Serge (Edited by Taber, Elizabeth S.). THE ART OF MAKE-UP.
New York, E.P. Dutton, 1937. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good
condition. Cover/edges worn/soiled. Hinge starting. Frontis loose. Color
frontis-Black & white photos. Classic treatise on the Art of Stage Make-up.
1st book in which Mimicry & Physiognomics are analyzed with proper
consideration. Detailed information on all phases of the art. With Color
Chart frontispiece & a section of illustrations at the end of the book. 350
pages......$25.00
183. Strindberg, August (Translated by Swerling, Anthony. With an
Introduction by Madsen, Borge Gedso). A MADMAN'S MANIFESTO. University AL,
University of Alabama Press, 1971. 1st thus edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good+ in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Strindberg's notorious - and little known - autobiographical novel.
Good tight copy. 232 pages......$22.50
184. Synge, J. M. (With Introduction by O'Brien, Edward J.). RIDERS TO THE
SEA. Boston, John W. Luce & Company, 1911. 1st. Decorated boards, 12mo. Good
condition+. Lt wear to covers/corners. Faint spotting covers. Several page
corners creased. Synge's famous One-Act first performed at the Molesworth
Hall, Dublin, February 25th, 1904. Good tight copy. 45 pages......$12.00
185. Synge, J. M. THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. London, Elkin
Matthews, 1911. Hardcover - 1/2 dec. boards, 12mo. Very good condition.
Slight cover wear. Spine ends frayed. Signature endpr. Play first performed
at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, Oct. 8th, 1903. Copyright, 1904 by Synge.
Good tight copy. 36 pages......$11.00
186. Szanto, George H. THEATRE & PROPAGANDA. Austin, University of Texas
Press, 1978. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in
lightly rubbed dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark.
Detailed study on the points at which theater and propaganda meet. Distortion
of information in stage, film & TV forms. Definition of the 3 "Theaters of
Propaganda." Examples from plays, movies & TV commercials. Historical range
from the Wakefield Mystery Plays to the works to Samuel Beckett. With Notes,
Bibliography, Extensive Index. Good tight copy. 226 pages......$14.00
187. Teichmann, Howard. SMART ALECK: THE WIT, WORLD AND LIFE OF ALEXANDER
WOOLLCOTT. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good+ in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. With Bibliography,
Index. Good tight copy. 334 pages......$12.00
188. Trivikram, T. K. ZERO B.C. OR CHRIST-UPANISHAD: A PLAY IN SEVEN ACTS
(Boxed edition). Bombay, World Culture Publications, 1947. 1st. Decorated
brds, octavo. Very good condition. Box edgeworn, chipped. Tipped-in frontis
photo. Play by Trivikram - examines the New Testament from a Hindu
perspective. With Index. Good tight copy. Hard-to-find. 94 pages......$15.00
189. Trueblood, Alan S. EXPERIENCE AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN LOPE DE VEGA:
THE MAKING OF LA DOROTEA. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1974. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. very good+ in lightly
creased/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corners very
slightly bumped. By far the fullest analysis & elucidation of Lope's
masterpiece. With all quotations translated into English. With Notes, Index.
Good tight copy. 785 pages......$20.00
190. van Druten, John. I AM A CAMERA: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. New York, Random
House, 1952. Decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Black & white
frontis photograph. With tipped-in cover photo. Good tight copy. 182
pages......$16.00
191. Vaucher, Andrea R. MUSES FROM CHAOS AND ASH: AIDS, ARTISTS, AND ART. New
York, Grove Press, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Upper
cover edge lightly bumped. Black & white frontis photograph. Revealing
interviews from men & women from the worlds of literature, film, theater,
dance, music & the visual arts... regarding the effects of AIDS on their own
artistic evolution and on the creative process. Good tight copy. 260
pages......$10.00
192. Wagner, Jane. THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE.
New York, Harper & Row, 1985. 1st edition. Decorated cloth, octavo. Very
good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos.
Decorated endpapers. Broadway Hit originally starring Lily Tomlin. With
Afterword by Marilyn French. Good tight copy. 223 pages......$14.00
193. Walkup, Fairfax Proudfit. DRESSING THE PART: A HISTORY OF COSTUME FOR
THE THEATRE. New York, F.S. Crofts & Co, 1947. Hardcover - cloth, Small
Quarto. Very good condition. Corners lightly worn/bumped. Edge stripe. Black
& white drawings. Detailed illustrated history of costuming in the theatre
from Ancient Egypt to the 20th Century. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight
copy. 397 pages......$20.00
194. Wang Shih Fu (Translated by Hart, Henry H. With Foreword by Williams,
Edward Thomas). THE WEST CHAMBER: A MEDIEVAL DRAMA (TRANSLATED FROM THE
ORIGINAL CHINESE WITH NOTES). Stanford Univ. CA, Stanford University Press,
1936. 1st edition. Decorated cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Very
slight cover wear. Decorated endpapers. Written in the 13th Century. One of
the most popular in China under the imperial regine. One of the dramatic
works for which the MOngol Dynasty was celebrated. Probably written in the
Reign of Kublai Kahn. With Translator's Notes & Bibliography. Tight
well-bound volume. 192 pages......$30.00
195. Wasserstein, Wendy. THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG. New York, Harcourt Brace,
1993. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition
in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs.
Drama by Wendy Wasserstein. Good tight copy. 109 pages......$11.00
196. Waters, Ethel with Samuels, Charles. HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY ETHEL WATERS. New York, Doubleday, 1951. Book Club.
Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Pictorial Endpapers.
Autobiography of blue singer, theatre & film star, Ethel Waters. Good tight
copy. 278 pages......$10.00
197. Weales, Gerald. CLIFFORD ODETS, PLAYWRIGHT. New York, Pegasus,
Publisher, 1971. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good
condition in lightly worn/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Study of the life and works of Clifford
Odets. With Index. Good tight copy. 205 pages......$14.00
198. White, Theodore H. CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS. New
York, Atheneum, 1968. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very
good condition. Lightly bumped. Hard to find. Good tight copy. 174
pages......$14.00
199. Whitton, Kenneth S. THE THEATRE OF FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT: A STUDY IN THE
POSSIBILITY OF FREEDOM. London, Oswald Wolff, 1980. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Lower front cover edge slightly bumped. Good tight copy. 242
pages......$12.50
200. Wilder, Billy and Diamond, I.A.L. THE APARTMENT AND THE FORTUNE COOKIE:
TWO SCREENPLAYS. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, Square 12mo. Very good condition in clipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis & photographs. Two original
screenplays (photo-illustrated) by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Good
tight copy. 191 pages......$15.00
201. Wilder, Thornton. THE ALCESTIAD OR A LIFE IN THE SUN: A PLAY IN THREE
ACTS - WITH A SATYR PLAY, THE DRUNKEN SISTERS. New York, Harper & Row, 1977.
1st trade edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Good
tight copy. 129 pages......$12.50
202. Williams, Dakin and Mead, Shepherd. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: AN INTIMATE
BIOGRAPHY. New York, Arbor House, 1983. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in lightly chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black and white photographs. Biography of
Tennessee Williams - by his brother. Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 352
pages......$14.00
203. Williamson, Audrey. BERNARD SHAW: MAN AND WRITER. New York/London,
Collier/Macmillan, 1963. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photographs. Perceptive, multi-faceted portrait of Bernard
Shaw, man and writer. With Index. Good tight copy. 224 pages......$25.00
204. Willis, John. DANCE WORLD: 1968 (Volume 3). New York, Crown Publishers,
1968. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly
worn/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photographs. Most comprehensive pictorial and statistical record of the
1967-1968 dance season in the United States. With over 450 photographs of
featured dancers, and scenes of dance and ballet performances. With 4,000
entry index. Good tight copy. 224 pages......$16.00
205. Willis, John. DANCE WORLD: 1969 (Volume 4). New York, Crown Publishers,
1970. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly
worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs.
More than 450 photographs. Most comprehensive Pictorial & Stastical record of
the 1968-1969 Dance Season in the U.S. Includes listing of dance companies
throughout the country, bibliographies of dancers and choreographers and
obituaries. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 223 pages......$16.00
206. Willis, John. THEATRE WORLD: 1974-1975 SEASON: VOLUME 31. New York,
Crown Publishers, 1976. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition
in clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. 750 Black & white
dramatic photos. Complete pictorial & statistical record of the 1974-75
Broadway & Off-Broadway season with over 750 Dramatic photographs.
Highlighted plays include: Goodtime Charley, Shenandoah, A Chorus Line, In
Praise of Love, Seascape, Same Time Next Year, The Taking of Miss Janie,
Equus, The Wiz, The Ritz, All Over Town - and many more. With Biographies,
Obituaries, Extensive Index. Good tight copy. 288 pages......$15.00
207. Willis, John. THEATRE WORLD: 1975-1976 SEASON: VOLUME 32. New York,
Crown Publishers, 1977. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition
in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corner lightly bumped. 950
Black & white dramatic photos. Complete Pictorial & Statistical record for
the 1975-76 Broadway & Off-Broadway season with over 950 dramatic photos.
Highlighted plays include: Chicago, Bubbling Bornw Sugar, My Fair Lady, The
Skin of Our Teeth, Death of a Salesman, A Matter of Gravity, Equus, The Royal
Family. With info on Shakespeare Festivals, Biographies, Obituaries,
Extensive Index. Good tight copy. 287 pages......$15.00
208. Wincor, Richard. LITERARY PROPERTY. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc,
1967. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly
worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edges very slightly bumped.
Guide to the business practices of the communications industry. Including..
Television.. The legitimate theatre... Motion Pictures.. Book Publishing.
With Glossary of industry terms, Index. Good tight copy. 154
pages......$20.00
209. Winwar, Frances. OSCAR WILDE AND THE YELLOW NINETIES (A candid, human
picture of the fantastic rise and tragic disintegration of a great genius).
New York, Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photos. Blue Ribbon edition of the Harper & Brothers volume.
Foreward by Lord Alfred Douglas. Good tight copy. 381 pages......$16.00
210. Wright, William. LILLIAN HELLMAN: THE IMAGE, THE WOMAN. New York, Simon
& Schuster, 1986. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Good tight
copy. 507 pages......$11.00
211. Young, B. A. THE RATTIGAN VERSION: SIR TERENCE RATIGAN AND THE THEATRE
OF CHARACTER. New York, Atheneum, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black and white photographs. Life & works of British playwright,
Terence Rattigan. With list of London & New York openings. Well-indexed. Good
tight copy. 228 pages......$13.50
212. Young, Stanley. MR. PICKWICK: A COMEDY FREELY DRAWN FROM CHARLES
DICKENS' THE PICKWICK PAPERS. New York, Random House, 1952. Decorated cloth,
Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/clipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Covers lightly rippled. Black & white
photographs. Good tight copy. 181 pages......$10.00
213. Youtz, Philip N. (Editor). THE NEW ARTS (Five Volumes in One). New York,
Kennikat Press, 1970. Repr. 1929 edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition. Contents: Painters of the Modern Mind, Allen, Cecil Mary. The
Modern Theatre in Revolt, Brown, John Mason. Potable Gold, Deutsch, Babette.
Modern Sculpture, Hudnut, Joseph, Music 1900-1930, Swan, Alfred J. Tight
well-bound volume. Approx 450 pages......$20.00
214. Yu, Tsao (Translated by Tso-Liang, Wang & Barnes, A.C.). THUNDERSTORM.
Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1964. 2nd edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Tiny price marked out front endpaper. Black &
white photos. Four-act play by Tsao Yu, one of China's leading playwrights.
Written in 1923. With production photos. Good tight copy. 163
pages......$13.50
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