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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover. A little wear and browning to DJ; Photos and lyrics from some of Coward's most memorable shows, with fifteen color plates. A retrospective of his work with some info about his performing life, published shortly after his passing in 1973 ; B&W and Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 144 pages .

New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight wear to DJ. DJ spine tanned ; Adapted from the book 'Death of a Man' by Lael Tucker Wertenbaker, who was portrayed in the play by Olivia De Havilland. Opposite her was leading man Henry Fonda. A Gift of Time ran on Broadway during the spring of 1962; 8vo; 151 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. DJ shows light wear with some browning and small open tears. Very light foxing to fore edge ; INSCRIBED to half-title page. Author Langner has an impeccable pedigree in the theater, having founded the Theater Guild and the American Shakespeare Festival. With his wife he started the respected Westport Country Playhouse and in 1958, won a Tony award for Sunrise at Campobello. In this book, each and every page is full of useful advice to the playwright, although the author rather disdains the recent 'realism' of the theater. Still, anyone who aspires to be or is in fact a playwright should read this ; 8vo; 258 pages .

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Light wear and browning to price clipped DJ; Pungent Irish play which led to riots at its premiere in Dublin in 1907; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 132 pages .

Boston: Little Brown & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 0316729205 . Slight wear and tiny chips to DJ ; Theater impresario Quintero most famously produced the Circle in the Square revival of The Iceman Cometh as well as the American premiere of Long Day's Journey Into Night; 8vo; 296 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. Embossed stamp to front free endpaper. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; Includes The Nobleman, Mistress Henley, and two chapters of letters from the noted Dutch author, who wrote under the nom de plume Zelide and whose writings prefigured a greater independence for women ; 8vo; 263 pages .

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ chipped and browned. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; Eliot play in the same verse style as The Cocktail Party; 8vo; 135 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows slight chipping and small area of dampstaining ; Author Drutman was in theater for fifty years and has many interesting reminiscences. The chapter on Tallulah Bankhead is worth the price of admission all by itself! ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 274 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Price clipped DJ shows open tears with chipping and mild dampstaining ; INSCRIBED by author to front free endpaper. The life story of the noted bandleader, best known for his New Year's Eve dates ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 295 pages .

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Stamped on front free endpaper; All about the Met; assorted magazine clippings laid in; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 319 pages .

New York: Kodansha. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0870113046 . Very slight wear to DJ; Just the thing for the film buff, a close look at ten of the most important filmmakers from Japan; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 370 pages .

San Marino: Huntington Library Press, California. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Light wear and some browning to DJ; INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by author Swan ; B&W Illustrations & Photographs; 8vo; 316 pages .

New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0688049184 . Light wear to DJ; INSCRIBED by author to dedication page. The life of the noted conductor; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 481 pages .

New York: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear with tape repair and small tears to price clipped DJ. Previous owner's inscription to first blank page ; Profusely illustrated look at the giants of musical theater; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 292 pages .

New York: George Braziller, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Light wear and chipping to DJ with small open tears and sunning to spine. Previous owner's info to front free endpaper. Tape residue to endpaper & last page ; Noted playwright O'Casey writes on the theatre; fellow playwrights, critics and productions ; 8vo; 303 pages .

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.. Very Good+. 1927. Hardcover. Lord George Sanger was performer and proprietor in circuses from the age of ten, when he independently trained animals, to the age of eighty when he sold his last setup in 1905. Sadly he was murdered by a disgruntled former employee in 1911, one year after the original publication of this book. Having married a lion tamer and been personally lauded by Queen Victoria are but two of the interesting stories in the book, which is a treasure trove of information about entertainment in Britain in the Victorian era. ; Wayfarer's Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 258 pages .

New York: New Directions. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear with open tears to DJ. Previous owner's name inkstamped to front free endpaper. Browning to endpapers. A very handsome and tight copy ; Innovative play divided into a Prologue and sixteen 'Blocks'; 8vo; 161 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear with chipping to DJ. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; Theatergoers came to expect this brand of pungent, pointed criticism from author Nathan. This theater season featured several noteworthy efforts still produced and enjoyed today, including Henry IV with Ralph Richardson, Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman, All My Sons with Ed Begley, Oedipus with Laurence Olivier, and lots more. Read here what the noted writer and critic Nathan had to say about these and the lesser lights. ; 8vo; 380 pages .

London: Reinhardt & Evans. Very Good+. 1951. Hardcover. Boards with slight wear to extremities. Previous owner's info to front free endpaper. Unpaginated; Photographic records of the works performed by the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre In Stratford-Upon-Avon, including Hamlet, Othello, MacBeth, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and twelve others in the seasons of 1948-50. Featured actors include John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Paul Scofield, co-author Anthony Quayle, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, and many more! ; B&W Photographs; 8vo .

New York: New Directions. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0811208702 . Williams' play features Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald and debuted in New York in 1980; 8vo; 77 pages .