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London: A.& C. Black, Ltd, 1929. This is the original 1929 HARDCOVER first printing -- NOT print on demand or a modern reprint. Fine condition in a Good+ dust jacket. The jacket has only a few tiny edge chips and its spine is moderately soiled/sun-darkened (photos upon request). NOT price clipped (10s. 6d. net). The jacket is protected by a clear plastic sleeve. The cloth binding is unusually bright and fresh, retaining most of its new book gloss. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked -- probably never read. NO foxing. 1929. First Edition. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good+ dust jacket. 8vo. xi, 236pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc , 1953. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Dust Jacket has tiny brown speckles on its spine and rear panel. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No printing or edition statement. Illustrated with drawings and photos. Edited with an illustrated history of directing by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. Contributions by "Andre Antoine, David Belasco, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Jacques Copeau, Arthur Hopkins, Louis Jouvet, Tyrone Guthrie, Joshua Logan, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Max Reinhardt... Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan... and others." Original red/orange cloth. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 341pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1933. Square, tight, unmarked copy. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Dust Jacket is not price clipped (5/- net). Previous owner's name on endpaper. Bound in the original orange-brown cloth, lightly soiled. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./Very Good Dust Jacket.. Illus. by Sharpe, Redington (photos). 164pp. .

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press], 1938. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name. A record of performances, edited and with a 34-page introduction by Dougald MacMillan, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina. "The Introduction consists of a sketch of David Garrick 's managership of Drury Lane." Plays staged at Drury Lane during the period are listed in two sections: chronological and alphabetical. Casts members of first performances are identified, as are subsequent cast changes (if the information in the playbills allows.) Also supplied are data concerning salaries, receipts, expenses, etc. Published in co-operation with the Huntington Library. Index of actors, authors, et al. Original black cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ condition. 8vo. xxxiv, 364pp .

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 6 vols, complete. Near Fine unworn condition (see photos). Appears unread. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Uniformly bound in the original attractive marbled boards with green cloth spines stamped in shiny gold. Spines are still a pleasing green -- only very slightly sun-faded (see photo) -- much less than usual for this set which is often seen with spines sunned to an ugly brown. Each volume has long been protected by a homemade clear plastic dust jacket -- all of which have done their job well resulting in NO fraying and almost NO rubbing. There are faint shadows at the corners of the front free endpapers from tape adhesive offset (minor -- see photo). Otherwise all pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked -- uncut and unopened, apparently never read. NO foxing. NO owner's name or bookplate. Each volume measures 6.75" wide by 10.25" tall. This is number 457 of 750 standard sets (another 50 having… Leer más

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. HARDCOVER. Clean, square and tight. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Gives bibliographical details for hundreds of plays and biographical sketches of the authors. Has data not found in Hill. Bound in the original maroon cloth, stamped in shiny gold.. 1970 reprint of the 1900 original. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. xxvi, 113pp.

London: William Heinemann, 1922. 12.5 cm wide x 19 cm tall. A square, tight copy. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. NO foxing. Just a touch of fading to the spine (less than typical). Bound in the original cherry red buckram, with Maugham's symbol on the front cover in black and Heinemann's windmill logo on rear cover, also in black. [According to Stott, there was also an issue in champagne wrappers, together a total of 2000 copies. He says the proportion of cloth copies to wrappers was usually 1 in 3]. Tipped-in at the rear is a newspaper clipping from September 29, 1922 that gives 2 reviews of the play: at the Gaiety Theater in New York and at His Majesty's in London. The London review lists Basil Rathbone and Malcolm Keen as members of the cast. The New York review lists Geoffrey Kerr, Nathaniel Sack, Gypsy O'Brien, John Halliday, and Howard Lang. Laid-in is a Program for the play at the Wood's Theatre (week of August 27th),… Leer más

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by JOHN HOUSEMAN on the front endpaper (see photos). Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket would also be FINE but for just a touch of light rubbing. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($18.95). Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO remainder mark. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Index. Bound in the original gray boards with a tan cloth spine lettered in black. From the Dust Jacket: "John Houseman's personal glimpses of the great figures in the world of entertainment, from the boy wonder Orson Wells launching THE WAR OF THE WORLDS to Hitchcock, Chaplin... Marlon Brando... As Houseman modestly states, 'It has been my good fortune to witness most of these events at close range and to play a personal part in some of them.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near… Leer más

Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co., 1986. Brand New in perfect condition. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1986. First Edition. Here are 1,500 annotated citations that describe the most significant items of Shakespeare scholarship from 1900 through 1984. Lists and critically evaluates reference works, collected editions, biographies, background studies, stage and film histories, as well as studies on each of Shakespeare's poems and sonnets, English history plays, comedies, tragedies, and romances. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xiv, 463pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1989. Very Good condition. Softcover. 6" wide by 9" tall. Includes Selected Proceedings from the 10th Anniversary of New WORLD Theatre Conference. Statements by playwrights; statements by producers; interviews with Hanay Geiogamah and William Yellow Robe; Indians Playing Indians by Kenneth Lincoln, Jazz Form and Jazz Function by Alicia Kae Koger, etc.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 152pp.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc, 1995. Appears unread. Fine condition. Photo illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xiii, 239pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Dial Press, Inc. , 1970. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (5.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. By the author of The Great White Hope. Original gray cloth, with spine lettered in bright blue metallic. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 144pp.

Hanover, New Hampshire:: Smith and Kraus, Inc., 2003. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Flat, uncreased spine. Pages are crisp and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "First Edition: August 2003" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the rear cover: "'Lhota and Milstein's plays are a forensics coach's and drama teacher's dream: intelligent, well-crafted, and most importantly, original.' -- Dan Foss, Forensics Judge... 'A must-read for forensics coaches and students at all levels of competition.' -- Dr. James M. Brandon, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Speech, Director of Forensics, Hillsdale College." . First Printing of the First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Fine condition.. Illus. by Goldfinger, Lisa (cover design). xvi, 288pp..

Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers / G. K. Hall and Co., 1991. Clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny. Highlighting on 4 pages only. All other pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Sharp corners. Chronology. Notes and References. Selected Bibliography. Index. From the author's Introduction: "The theater of the absurd is antirealistic, antipsychological, antiphilosophical and apolitical." From the Dust Jacket: "Gaensbauer examines this particular theater's modus operandi -- its antecedents in art and poetry as well as drama -- and the works of its best-known practitioners. In part 1, Gaensbauer firmly lays the foundation... by describing the events -- such as dadaism and surrealism -- and the persons -- primarily poet and theatrical visionary Antonin Artaud -- who helped spawn it. Part 2 discusses the principal absurdist works of Beckett, Ionesco, Adamov, and Genet, as well as those… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. A beautiful, fresh, crisp copy. Appears unread. Very Fine condition in bright, colorful, Very Near Fine dust jacket. Not price clipped ($3.00). No chips. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Dust Jacket art and interior illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. "First Published 1937" is so stated, with Scribner "A" on copyright page. This is a collection of 19 plays that make up a "delicately wrought picture of the Victorian age." Twelve of the plays are about Queen Victoria and her immediate circle; one is about Oscar Wilde. Original dark blue cloth, gilt decorated. . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/Very Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Shepard, Ernest H. (Dust Jacket and interior art). 8vo. 439pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (2.75). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. By the author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies and her husband. This is the complete, as-played-on-Broadway version of a musical comedy that "chronicles the rough-and-tumble, spitfire romance of a pioneer movie producer and his tow-headed ingénue." Goldilocks was first presented in New York at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and starred Elaine Stritch, Russell Nype, Don Ameche, and Margaret Hamilton. Lyrics by Joan Ford, Walter and Jean Kerr. Original black cloth spine and yellow paper covered boards. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near VG DJ (lightly soiled). 8vo. 120pp.

New York: McClure, Phillips and Co, 1901. Very Good condition. A much nicer copy than usually encountered. Bound in the original pictorial boards with a handsome, hand colored, drawing of the Ophelia funeral scene by McLellan on the front cover. Light rubbing to the extremities. Ink name on flyleaf. Slight foxing to a couple pages. Finger soil to plain white rear cover. Illustrated with 17 full-page photos from the original stage production. A handwritten note on one of the photos identifies the actress pictured as Virginia Harned, "Sothern's first wife." With "Dramatis Personae," listing the original cast [which included Cecil B. de Mille]. A long newspaper review of Sothern's (1901) Garden Theater, NY performance is tipped-in on the rear endpapers. Keywords: Theater Plays Drama . First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by McLellan (cover art). 8vo. 136 pp + 17 full-page photos.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. New HARDCOVER in PERFECT condition. Bright and shiny. Flat, uncreased spine. NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. 1992. The true first edition of this title is said to have been published in softcover. This is apparently the FIRST HARDCOVER printing. Bound in the original biege and white laminated boards, stamped in black with Hebrew letters and star. From the front cover: "Now a Major Mottion Picture" that was directed by the author. Cast included Joe Mantegna as Bob Gold, William H. Macy as Tim Sullivan and Paul Butler as Commissioner Walker.. FIRST HARDCOVER edition. Hardcover. New condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xv, 126pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1972. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. NOT a library discard. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1972. First Edition. Twayne's World Authors Series #239. From the preface: "The aim of this book is to trace the development of Ionesco's style and to analyze its component elements and inherent self-contradictions." Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth. Complete with dust jacket.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 119pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1972. Bright, clean, square, tight and unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos. A stimulating look at and analysis of Osborne's dramatic work, including Look Back in Anger; The Entertainer; Luther; Inadmissible Evidence; A Patriot for Me; West of Suez; etc. Has 3 appendices: 1) STAGE PRODUCTIONS; 2) CASTS LISTS OF LONDON PREMIERS; and 3) CASTS LISTS OF NEW YORK PREMIERS. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. A volume in the Ungar's WORLD DRAMATISTS series. Bound in the original beige cloth, lettered in brown.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./VG DJ (price clipped). 8vo. 168pp..