Brecht: A Collection of Critical Essays
Prentice-Hall, 1962. Cloth. More
Drama
The world of Shakespeare
Taplinger Pub. Co, January 1979. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, October 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--of the triumvirate that dominated French letters in the eighteenth century, Diderot was unmatched in the sheer breadth and depth of his interests and ideas. Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream are dazzling exposés of Diderot's radical scientific and philosophical thinking. Written..... More
The Dramatic World of Tennessee Williams
Frederick Ungar Publishing, January 1964. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with sun-bleached spine. Front flap is clipped. Grey cloth boards with blue & black lettering along spine. Previous owner's name in ink F.F.E.P. Black tinted top textblock edge. Tightly bound. [243 pages.]. More
Eugene O'Neill and the Tragic Tension
Rutgers, January 1969. Hardcover. 4th printing; some shelf wear along the edge of right front dust jacket; sun fading and a small tear on upper spine of dust jacket; otherwise dust jacket in very good condition. More
Transients Welcome -- Three One Act Plays
Broadway Play Publishing Inc., January 1984. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} First/first. Paper plate which was glued to (I think) the title page (with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., frog logo and address) is now laid in. Glue residue and tanning opposite confuses the..... More
Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. "Laughing wild amid severest woe" perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into..... More
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; The Actor's Nightmare - Two One-Act Plays
Nelson Doubleday, Inc., January 1981. Book Club. Hardcover. Moderate wear to DJ with creasing and tears at head of spine from where a heavy bump that effects both jacket and boards. Tan paper covered boards with small black lettering along spine. [63 pages]. More
Play Strindberg; The Dance of death choreographed (An Evergreen book, E612)
Grove Press, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo with covers front and back curled at fore-edge. Previous owner's name written in ink top edge. First Evergreen/first printing. (76 pages). More
Hercules and The Augean Stables
The Dramatic Publishing Company, January 1963. Pamphlet. {5' x 7 & 1/4'} Pamplet with titled spine edge and staples. Cover is affixed (possibly glued) to internal text block that is stapled by staples on visible from within. Darkened spine & margins. Previous owner's name inked front cover and on title..... More
Ben Jonson: To the First Folio (British and Irish Authors)
Cambridge University Press, January 1984. Paper Back. This book offers a critical assessment of the career of one of the most formidable figures of English literature, the most influential poet and dramatist of the early seventeenth century. Richard Dutton focuses on the greatest landmark of Jonson's career, the 1616 folio..... More
Staircase a Play
Grove Press, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. Creasing on cover; foxing on edgepages and inside cover. More
Mary Barnes (A Methuen modern play)
Eyre Methuen, January 1979. Pamphlet. {4 & 5/8th x 7 & 3/8th} Previous reader's name written in ink on verso of front panel. [88 pages]. More
The Yale Shakespeare 40 Volume Set
Yale University Press, January 1965. Book Club. Hardcover. Complete set of 40 volumes; Conditions range from Good+ to VG+; All bindings are solid; Blue cloth boards clean and sturdy, gilt at spine faded on some volumes, on others crisp and clean, book club blind-stamps present at rear boards; Mild staining..... More
Wit : A Play
Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike..... More
New Theatre in America
Delta/Dell, 1965. Trade Paperback. 4th Printing; Shelf wear. Previous owner's name inked inside first page. More
Conference Eve: A Pantomime in Six Scenes
Samuel French, January 1957. Stapled Soft Cover. Middle page is coming loose from staples. More
The Cocktail Party - A Comedy
Samuel French, January 1950. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Murder in the Cathedral (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
Harvest Books, June 1964. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE T. S. Eliot's most famous drama, a retelling of the murder of the archbishop of Canterbury Written in 1934, Murder in the Cathedral tells of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry..... More
The Cocktail Party
Harcourt, Brace & World, January 1965. Paper Back. Octavo. Underlining & side notes here & there through text. Rubbing & some soiling to cover. Foxing/sunning spine and margins. [192 pp.]. More
The Cocktail Party
Harcourt, Brace and Company, March 1950. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily worn, darkened/tanned dustjacket with small tears and one rough hewn tear top of rear panel. Tiny, library Dewey decimal catalogue sticker affixed to jacket spine and book spine, both. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tanning..... More
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
Faber & Faber, May 1950. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd printing of UK First Edition in tattered, chipped and torn dustjacket. Green cloth with gold lettering along spine. Darkened margins of boards & moderate wear. Mild tanning of end pages with previous owner's name inked front free end pages. {171 pp.]. More
Murder in the Cathedral
Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo.In dustjacket with darkened margins and spine. Sun tanned spine with likewise brown-tinted spine verso. Heavy damp stain top edge of back cover and top of spine visible on recto & verso of DJ. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards..... More
Murder in The Cathedral
Faber and Faber, 1959. Hardcover. Jacket badly torn and chipped with significant discoloration. Foxing on all endpapers. Previous owner's name and address in ink on front free endpaper. Light pencil notations throughout. More
Oscar Wilde
Knopf, January 1988. Hardcover. Binding starting. Remainder mark. Previous owner's name. More
