THE WORLD OF BRENDAN BEHAN.
New York: Twayne, [1966]. Cloth. First US(and first clothbound) edition. Fine, in very good, lightly nicked and rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. Essays and memoirs by friends and contemporaries.
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THEATRE EXPERIMENT. AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN PLAYS.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. Narrow thick quarto. Plain wrappers, printed label. Uncorrected trimmed long galleys of the first edition. Very good. Stein and Stevens to Robert Lowell.
HOW DO YOU DO A NONSENSE DRAMA.
[ Mill Valley]: Illuminations Press, [ 1965]. Small octavo. Pictorial wrappers, photographs. First edition of the African- American author's first book. The publisher's address has been corrected by hand in the terminal ads. Wraps a bit rubbed, but a very good copy.
PROFILES IN CANADIAN DRAMA ROBERTSON DAVIES.
[Np]: Gage Educational Publishing, [1977]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapperbound issue. Very good or better.
ISADORA DUNCAN.
New York: Holt, [1947]. Small quarto. Cloth. Photographs. First edition, second impression. Faintly dusty, but about fine in price-clipped dust jacket with small edge tear. Contributions by Van Vechten, Craig, et al.
THE COMEDIES OF TERENCE.
London: Cassell, [1963]. Cloth. Boards very slightly bowed, otherwise about fine in dust jacket. First UK edition, preceded by the US Anchor Books paperbound edition and an academic reprint repackaging of same.
IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS EIGHT RADIO SCRIPTS BY....
London: Secker & Warburg, [ 1948]. Cloth. First edition, including plays by Innes, Macaulay, O'Faolain, Pritchett, Read, Stonier and Wedgewood. With a chatty 1951 presentation inscription from publisher Roger Senhouse. Good copy in heavily nicked and shelfworn dust jacket.
DESIGN IN THE THEATRE ....
London: The Studio, 1927. 31pp. plus 120 plates (a few in color). Small quarto. Gilt maroon cloth, t.e.g. Neat ink name, dated 1928, spine ends slightly frayed, a few minor rubs to joints, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition in book form, otherwise issued as the Special Winter.....
FOCUS AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY JAMAICAN WRITING.
Kingston: City Printery Ltd., 1960. 148pp. plus plates. Large octavo. Decorated wrappers. Plates. Wrappers tanned at spine and edges, overlap edges a bit used, but a very good copy. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from contributor Hugh P. Morrison. A substantial collection of poetry and short stories, accompanied by a......
THE BURNS MANTLE YEARBOOK THE BEST PLAYS OF 1956-1957.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1957. Thick octavo. Cloth, paper labels. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Al Hirschfeld. First edition. Rattigan, O'Neill, Vidal, ORPHEUS DESCENDING by Williams, and more; a dynamic year for the drama. About fine in dust jacket with shallow chipping to the top edge.
RECUEIL DE FARCES SOTIES ET MORALITÈS DU QUINZIÈME SIÈCLE....
Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1859. [4],xxxix,454,[1]pp. Handsomely bound in quarter black morocco and marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt. Extreme lower fore-tips of title and half- title show a small tea-like stain, occasional light foxing, but a very good copy. First edition. A collection of six pieces, each accompanied by an.....
ND 12 NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY.
[New York: New Directions, 1950]. Large, thick octavo. Cloth and boards. Illustrations. Faint to modest foxing to edges and endsheets, but a very good, sound copy in lightly edgeworn, spine sunned, near very good dust jacket. First edition. Among the contributors to this standout number are Blackburn, Bowles, Everson, Dahlberg.....
NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE AND POETRY. NUMBER ELEVEN.
[New York]: New Directions, [1949]. Cloth. About fine in very good, lightly soiled yellow dust jacket with two small chips. First edition. One of only 1140 copies bound in cloth from a total first printing of 3727 sets of sheets. Apart from William Goyen's first appearance in a book, other.....
THE BEST ONE-ACT PLAYS OF 1951 - 1952.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1952. Cloth. First edition. With a full-page presentation inscription from one of the contributors, Nicholas Bela. Fine in dust jacket with small nick.
PAVLOVA AN ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH.
New York: Holt, [1947]. Cloth. Portraits. Ink gift inscription on free endsheet, cloth dust marked at edges, but a good copy in chipped, edgeworn, and price-clipped dust jacket. First edition. Includes Moore's "Notes on Pavlova Photographs," as well as other essays by Van Vechten and Muriel Stuart. The earliest book.....
FLORENCE FARR BERNARD SHAW W. B. YEATS LETTERS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1942. Cloth and boards. Spine and edges a bit rubbed, but a very good copy, without dust jacket, First American edition. Novelist/photographer Wright Morris's copy, with his early ownership signature, and the later pencil signature of Randall Jarrell's one-time sister-in-law.
SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & MANNERS OF HIS AGE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917. Two volumes. Thick large octavo. Gilt blue cloth, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Plates and illustrations. Inner hinges cracked; somewhat shaken; cloth rubbed and corner- worn; offsetting to endsheets of volume one from newscuttings laid-in. First edition. Edited by C.T. Onions, with chapters contributed by Robert.....
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE ENGLISH INSTITUTE REINTERPRETATIONS OF ELIZABETHAN DRAMA.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Printed boards. First edition. Foreword by the editor. Crease in spine incurred in binding, else very good in dust jacket.
BERNARD SHAW & KARL MARX A SYMPOSIUM 1884-1889.
New York: Random House, 1930. Publisher's cheap leatherette and cloth, t.e.g. Folding facsimile. First edition. One of 575 copies printed. Spine extremities lightly rubbed, as usual, light foxing at fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy in worn slipcase.
THEATRE ART.
New York: MOMA, [ 1934]. Cloth. Small quarto. Seventy-two pages of black and white plates. Errata slip laid in. Minor fraying at tip of spine, lacking the dust jacket, else very good. First edition. Catalogue of the 1934 MOMA show, which includes essays on English, German, Russian/Soviet, and American theatre.....
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