[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
New York: Vintage, 1958. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. Corner of front cover chipped. This is a nice vintage paperback copy of Camus's classic play collection. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. This is a nice vintage book club edition collecting 8 of Christie's classic mystery plays. More
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
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
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
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
New York: Heritage Press, 1937. Hardcover. 4to. Cloth. 113 pp. This is a Heritage Press limited edition of Gay's classic. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: George H. Doran, 1921. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo. Boards with pastedown on spine and front cover. 92 pp. Lacks the rare dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Sunning to spine and quite a few dings and scuffs to boards. Chips around edges. Some light..... More
New York: Liveright. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. All volumes lack jackets. Attractive bookplate on front free endpaper of Mourning Becomes Electra. This is a uniform set of 5 early printing books by the great O'Neill, all in very good condition. Contains the following volumes: Plays (Desire Under the Elms; "The..... More
New York: Criterion Books, 1957. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 96 pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket and some very small chips at header of spine. Browning in gutter. Signed on title page by the great bookseller Paul Rohe, its former owner. This is an early printing of Osborne's classic..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1907. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt and silver decoration on front cover. Gilt top edge and deckle fore edge. Frontispiece photo and other photographic plates throughout. 263 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is a first American edition memoir by legendary Italian stage actress..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. 4to. Illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated. 120 pp. Minor wear to edges, with a bump along top rear cover and along left edge of rear cover. Interior is excellent. This is a scarce collection of surrealist art in popular culture, featuring multiple essays..... More
Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1979. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth decorated cloth. 215 pp. Sandglass Bulletin included. No slipcase. Excellent condition. This is a limited edition Heritage Press printing of Shaw's plays. More
[London]: Duckworth, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. 199 pp. Contains a lengthy autobiographical sketch by Osbert. Minor edge wear and sunning to spine. Ex-library from the Charterhouse Library, with sticker on spine, bookplate inside front cover, and sticker on rear free endpaper. This is an out of print play..... More
New Haven: Yale, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Inscribed by the author on title page. This is a signed first edition of Pulitzer-winner Wills' book. This item previously belonged to literary agent Lydia Wills, daughter of Garry Wills, to whom it is..... More
New Haven: Yale, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Inscribed by the author on title page. This is a signed first edition of Pulitzer-winner Wills' book. This item previously belonged to literary agent Lydia Wills, daughter of Garry Wills, to whom it is inscribed from..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Inscribed by the author on title page. This is a signed first edition of Pulitzer-winner Wills' book. This item previously belonged to literary agent Lydia Wills, daughter of Garry Wills, to whom..... More