Dr. Johnson: A Play de Newton, A. (Alfred) Edward, 1864- 1940 - 1923

London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the script for Williams's first original screenplay. Small 8vo: 140pp, with black-and-white stills from the film. Publisher's scarlet V cloth, spine lettered in silver, illustrated dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Very Fine copy. Crandell A17.I.c. "For a number of years Elia Kazan, the director of several of Tennessee Williams's play on Broadway as well as films, had been urging Mr. Williams to weld into an original film story two of his early one-act plays which were, roughly, concerned with the same characters and situation. And in the summer of 1955, while he was traveling in Europe, Mr. Williams wrote and dispatched to Mr. Kazan a proposed script, quite different from the two short plays. With some changes this was filmed the following winter mainly in the Mississippi rural area which had been the original setting of the two short plays." (from the Publisher's Note). The film, Baby Doll, is the story of a… Leer más

Mamet, David. The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness. New York: Grove Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 137 mm), 87, [1] pages, in cream-colored cloth, titles in blue to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Two of his early plays, both of them in the form of radio programs.
CONDITION: Slight fading to spine titles. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket that has very light toning to the flaps.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First Edition, Fifth Impression. 186 p., frontispiece photograph of Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews; 21 cm. Black cloth with lavender spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by David Lyons. "Fifth printing" and price "$3.50" on front flap. Book is in Near Fine Condition: spine ends lightly rubbed; clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: spine ends rubbed and chipped; lightly soiled.

Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reissue edition, circa 1936 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. 401 pages.

Humphrey Milford, 'Oxford Library of Prose & Poetry' series, London, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 89pp. Gilt- and blind decorated green cloth. Some modest internal spotting. Spine a little damp-stained. A bright copy in the scarce dust wrapper, which is marked and fox-spotted and has been much repaired. Name of former owner neatly inked to the front pastedown..

Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 127, [1] pages, black quarter-cloth over black boards, titles in silver to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the half title. Mamet offers important advice to actors: the right way to undertake auditions and rehearsals; how to deal with agents and individual gigs, and much more. Some valuable lessons here for aspiring actors.
CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Signed copies of this book are uncommon, especially in such a nice condition as this. A beautiful copy.

A very good paperback with only fault on cover as in image & former owners signature back end paper. 1st ed.

London: Constable, 1930. Hardback. Very Good. Uniform English Edition". 8vo, pp. [vi], [390], [2]. Fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bumped, bands of sunning to top and bottom edges. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, review clipping laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original muted brown paper dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned and creased, head of spine frayed, wear to extremities. Still, a pleasing copy. Very good/ very good. Unusual in the trade. Originally published in 1916 by John Lane in New York and London, Constable's new edition featured an additional four plays, 'Phantasmagoria,' 'The Court of Progress,' 'The Dream' and 'The Hand of the Potter'. The laid in review draws attention to the cinematic facets of the playwright's work: "Mr. Theodore Dreiser's collection of plays is a reminder of the films' continuous and increasing influence upon the theatre. This influence is neither wholly good nor wholly bad; its effect depends upon the innate quality of… Leer más

Program for the Living Theatre production of Stein's play with text by Paul Goodman, Alfred Kreymborg, and Carl Van Vechten,. A fragile pamphlet with offsetting to front cover. Scarce.