The Sand Box / The Death of Bessie Smith (With Fam and Yam)
New York: Signet, 1963. First Thus. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. This is a nice vintage paperback copy of Albee's short plays. More
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The Quare Fellow
New York: Grove, 1957. First Edition, 5th Printing. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. This is a nice vintage paperback copy of Behan's classic play. More
Modern French Theatre; The Avant-Garde, Dada, and Surrealism
New York: Dutton, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage anthology of 20th century French plays. More
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
New York: Playboy Press, 1972. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback of Bruce's memoir, originally published serially in Playboy. More
Caligula and Cross Purpose (Le Malentendu)
[New York]: New Directions, 1947. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. Dust jacket. 158 pp. Several chips to jacket edges and a 1/2" closed tear at bottom of front jacket cover. Some notes in pencil on rear jacket cover. Signature of late bookseller Paul S. Rohe on front free..... More
Brecht in Exile
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 220 pp. Minor shelf wear. Impression and discoloration from a paperclip on front cover. This is an uncommon uncorrected proof of Cook's biography of Bertolt Brecht. More
The Confidential Clerk
Harcourt Brace, 1954. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. Dust jacket is faded and has some rubbing. Unclipped, but dust jacket paper is brittle and some of the corners have snapped. This is a first American edition of T.S. Eliot's play in verse. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering..... More
The Family Reunion
Harcourt Brace, 1939. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Missing dust jacket. Stamp inside front cover and owner's name written on flyleaf. A nice, affordable first American edition of Eliot's Greek mythology-inspired family drama. More
Murder in the Cathedral
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1963. Pamphlet. 8vo. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback play by T.S. Eliot. More
Hooked; How crafting saved my life
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2021. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Signed by author on bound-in page. This is a signed first edition memoir by actor Sutton Foster. More
The Beggar's Opera; To which is added the music to each song
New York: Heritage Press, 1937. Hardcover. 4to. Cloth. 113 pp. This is a Heritage Press limited edition of Gay's classic. More
Goethes Werke in sechs B §nden (Goethe's Works in Six Volumes)
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, [1933]. Hardcover. In German. Orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt device on covers. Silk ribbon attached in each volume. Minor shelf wear. Small white stain on spine of vol. I. An excellent, complete set. This is a vintage set of Goethe's complete works in German..... More
The Brass Butterfly; A Play in Three Acts
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Orange cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 80 pp. Price-clipped. Touch of wear to top jacket edge. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Book is fine. This is a first printing of Golding's only play, a limited printing of 2000 copies. By the..... More
Carving a Statue
London: Bodley Head, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Red stained top edge. 82 pp. Minor scuffing to jacket edges and a 3/4" closed tear on rear jacket cover. Scuffing along jacket spine. Price clipped. Book is fine. This is an uncommon first edition of Greene's..... More
The Return of A.J. Raffles
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Black cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 92 pp. Minor shelf wear This is a first American edition, first printing of Greene's classic play. More
In the Spotlight; Personal experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American stage
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Minor shelf wear. Bookplate inside front cover. This is a hardcover printing of Hubbard's memoir of the theater. Handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 250). More
The Liberators; Being adventures in the city of fine minds
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter vellum. Minor shelf wear. Bookplate inside front cover. This is a hardcover printing of Hubbard's essay collection. Handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 264). More
Justinian and Theodora
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1906. First Edition. 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plates. Minor shelf wear. This is a leather-bound printing of the Hubbards' play. Handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 129). More
Justinian and Theodora
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1906. First Edition. 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plates. Minor shelf wear. This is a leather-bound printing of the Hubbards' play. Handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 129). More
Justinian and Theodora
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1906. First Edition. 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plates. Minor shelf wear. This is a leather-bound printing of the Hubbards' play. Handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 129). More
Nora; or, A Doll's House and Ghosts
Chicago: Lily Publishing House, 1890. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth. 108 pp. 1890 owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. This is an early American edition collecting two of Ibsen's plays. The title page states that it is the "only authorized American edition of this translation." Curiously, the translator Henrietta Frances..... More
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
New York: Grove, 1960. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. This is a nice vintage paperback copy of Ionesco's classic play. More
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad [signed by Austin Pendleton]
New York: Pocket, 1966. Paperback. 12mo. Wraps. 124 pp. Association copy. Inscribed on half title by Pendleton. Minor shelf wear and scuffing. Sticker on half title. This is a copy of Kopit's 1962 off-Broadway farce inscribed by theatrical legend Austin Pendleton, who starred as Jonathan in this play's original cast..... More
The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus
New York: Washington Square Press, 1959. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. Chips to top and right edges of rear cover. This is a nice vintage paperback edition of Marlowe's classic play. More