Theatre / Drama (Maeterlinck to Yu)

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Books listed alphabetically in order by Author

102. Maeterlinck, Maurice (Translated by Coleman, Alexis Irenee Du Pont).
MONNA VANNA: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. New York, Harper & Bros, 1913. Hardcover -
decorated cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Spine lighty bumped.
Black & white frontis photo. Good tight copy. 144 pages......$14.00

103. Maeterlinck, Maurice (Translated by Miall, Bernard). SISTER BEATRICE AND
ARDIANNE & BARBE BLEUE. New York, Dodd Mead, 1911. Hardcover - 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

104. 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

105. Maeterlinck, Maurice (Translated by Neufeld, Marta K. & Spodhem, Renee).
THE GREAT BEYOND. New York, Rider and Co, 1951. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo.
Very good condition. Light corner wear. Endpaper foxed. Store stamp endpaper.
Fragments by Maeterlinck dealing with the mystery beneath the surface of
ordinary life & the relation of man to the infinite. Ends with a complete
metaphysical one-act play: The Old Man Who Does Not Want to Die. Good tight
copy. 164 pages......$15.00

106. 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. Hardcover - 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

107. 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

108. Marchant, William. THE PRIVILEGE OF HIS COMPANY: NOEL COWARD REMEMBERED.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. 1st printing. Hardcover - 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

109. Masters, Edgar Lee. JACK KELSO: A DRAMATIC POEM. New York, D. Appleton
and Co, 1928. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Elegant volume. Tight, well-bound. 264 pages......$30.00

110. Matson, Cecil. THE WAY IT WAS: HISTORICAL THEATRE IN OREGON FROM 1846
INTO THE PRESENT CENTURY. Portland OR, Cecil Matson, Publisher, 1988. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 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

111. 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

112. 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

113. 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

114. Moore, Doris Langley. THE LATE LORD BYRON: POSTHUMOUS DRAMAS.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1961. 1st edition. Hardcover - 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

115. 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

116. 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

117. 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

118. 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

119. 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

120. Newquist, Roy (With Introduction by Atkinson, Brooks. Illustrations by
Selz, Irma). SHOWCASE. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1966. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in lightly
worn/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Front endpaper
clipped. Black & white drawings. "Cross section of the show world, by the
people who make it show business". In-depth interviews of 25 actors,
performers, writers, directors, designers, and producers. Including...Edward
Albee, Julie Andrews.. Dame Edith Evans.. Sir John Gielgud.. Julie Harris..
Danny kaye.. Jack Lemmon.. Gerry Mulligan.. Mike Nichols.. peter O'Toole..
Robert Preston.. Rosalind Russell.. Jessica Tandy - and many others. Good
tight copy. 412 pages......$12.50

121. 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

122. 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

123. Noyes, Alfred. RADA: A DRAMA OF WAR IN ONE ACT. New York, Frederick A.
Stokes Co, 1914. 2nd printing. Hardcover - 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

124. 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

125. 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

126. 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

127. 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

128. Osborn, Paul (Based on the Novel by Marquand, John P.). POINT OF NO
RETURN. New York, Random House, 1952. 1st. Hardcover - 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

129. 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

130. Parker, Louis N. DISRAELI: A PLAY. New York, John Lane Company, 1911.
1st edition. Hardcover - 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

131. 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

132. 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

133. 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

134. Priestley, J.B. FOUR PLAYS BY J.B. PRIESTLEY. New York, Harper & Bros,
1944. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Very
slight edgewear. Plays include: Music at Night, The Long Mirror, They Came to
a City, Desert Highway. With Preface by Priestley. Good tight copy. 287
pages......$20.00

135. 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

136. Quintero, Jose. IF YOU DON'T DANCE THEY BEAT YOU. Boston, Little, Brown
& Co, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition
in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very light cover
wear. Portrait of one of the richest periods & self-portrait of one of the
distinguished directors of the American Stage. Tight copy. 296
pages......$10.00

137. 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

138. 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

139. 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

140. 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

141. 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

142. 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

143. 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

144. Robertson, J. M. MARLOWE: A CONSPECTUS. London, George Routledge & Sons,
1931. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition.
Bookplate/light crease endpapers. Signature half-title page. Tiny inked notes
several page edges. Life, works & critical evaluation of the writings of
Christopher Marlowe. Contents include: Life, Chronology of the Plays, Genius
& Character, The Accepted Plays, The Assignable Plays in the Folio,
Assignable Collaborative Work, Achievement in Versification, Position in
Dramatic Evolution. With Epilogue, Index. Good tight copy. 186
pages......$20.00

145. 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

146. 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

147. 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......$20.00

148. 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

149. Schneider, Ben Ross, Jr. THE ETHOS OF RESTORATION COMEDY.
Urbana/Chicago/London, University of Illinois Press, 1971. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn 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

150. 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

151. Shakespeare (Edited by Wylie, Laura J., Ph.D.) Ashley Horace). THE
WINTER'S TALE (From The Tudor Shakespeare series). New York, Macmillan, 1912.
1st. Hardcover - 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

152. 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

153. 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

154. Sills, Beverly (Designed by Barrow, Helen). BUBBLES: A SELF-PORTRAIT.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1976. 1st printing. Hardcover - 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

155. Silone, Ignazio (Translated by Tranquilli, Darina). AND HE HID HIMSELF:
A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS. New York, Harper & Bros, 1946. 1st edition. Hardcover -
decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Very light edgewear. Signature
front endpaper. Hard to find. Good tight copy. 126 pages......$16.00

156. 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

157. 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

158. Smithson, E. W. (With an Introduction and 2 Essays by Greenwood, Sir
George). BACONIAN ESSAYS. New York/London, Kennikat Press, 1970. Repr. 1922
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Tiny amount of
soiling to covers. Seven classic essays on the Shakespeare, Bacon, Ben
Johnson authorship controversy. Tight well-bound volume. 230
pages......$15.00

159. 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

160. 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

161. Stephens, Frances. THEATRE WORLD ANNUAL (LONDON) NUMBER 8 - 1ST JUNE
1956 - 31ST MAY 1957. New York, Macmillan, 1957. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/chipped dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Light edgewear. Black & white photographs. A
pictorial review of West End Productions with a record of Plays and Players.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 176 pages......$20.00

162. 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

163. 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

164. 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

165. 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

166. 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

167. 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

168. 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

169. 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

170. 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

171. Wagner, Jane. THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE.
New York, Harper & Row, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover - 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

172. 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. Hardcover - 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

173. 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

174. 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

175. 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

176. 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

177. Williams, Tennessee (With commentary by St. Just, Maria & Preface by
Kazan, Elia). FIVE O'CLOCK ANGEL: LETTERS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TO MARIA ST.
JUST 1948 - 1982. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Tennessee Williams - over 3 decades of
intimate correspondence with his best friend & confidante, Maria St. Just.
St. Just was the inspiration for Maggie in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Open,
expressive letters; serious, funny, gossipy, moving. Good tight copy. 407
pages......$15.00

178. 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

179. 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......$22.50

180. 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

181. Willis, John. DANCE WORLD: 1974 (Volume 9). 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.
With over 450 photographs. Most comprehensive pictorial & statistical record
of the 1973-74 dance season in the U.S.. Over 1,000 closeup shots of scenes &
actors & actresses, complete casts, with producers, directors, desighers.
Academy Awards, studios & many other film facts listed, including obituaries.
Well-indexed with over 8,000 entries. Good tight copy. 223 pages......$16.00

182. 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

183. 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

184. 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

185. Wright, William. LILLIAN HELLMAN: THE IMAGE, THE WOMAN. New York, Simon
& Schuster, 1986. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photos. Good tight copy. 507 pages......$12.50

186. Young, Stanley. MR. PICKWICK: A COMEDY FREELY DRAWN FROM CHARLES
DICKENS' THE PICKWICK PAPERS. New York, Random House, 1952. Hardcover -
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

187. 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

188. 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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