SIDE BY SIDE
(New York: American Theatre Press), 1979. First edition. Playbill from Septemer 1979. The second production? Near fine in stapled paperwraps. Item #51549 More
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LAST OPERAS AND PLAYS.
New York: Rinehart & Co. Inc., (1949). First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Stein's literary executor and lifelong friend, Carl Van Vechten. A touch of minor rubbing to spine ends, otherwise bright and near fine in slightly soiled dust jacket with light edgewear. Item #30196 More
BURNING BRIGHT: A Play in Story Form.
New York: Viking Press, 1950. First edition. A "play-novelette" which Steinbeck describes as "a play that is easy to read or a short novel that can be played simply by lifting out the dialogue." Fine in bright near fine dust jacket with spine slightly toned and touch of creasing to..... Item #33978 More
THE RUNNER STUMBLES: A Play in Two Acts.
Clifton, NJ: James T. White & Co., (1974). First edition of his first published play. Includes "Night Rainbows," an afterword. The play is based on a true incident early in the last century, about a priest accused of killing a nun, and was the basis for the film of the..... Item #40895 More
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD A Play.
New York: Grove Press, (1967). First U.S. edition, printed simultaneously with the hardback edition. Winner of the 1968 Tony Award and the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award. Fine in pictorial paperwraps with only the barest wear on corners. Item #35806 More
ATALANTA IN CALYDON: A Tragedy.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First U.S. edition. Name, Brentano's label on front pastedown, spine ends lightly bumbed and frayed, covers scuffed, small section of pages loose (p.53-64) but still attached, altogether about very good. Item #47676 More
TENNESSEE DAY IN ST. LOUIS: A Comedy.
New York: Random House, (1957). First edition of his first play. In variant dust jacket, as usually seen, without a price and with "3/57" on dust jacket flap. Bright and near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing and touch of minor wear. Item #72084 More
ON GOLDEN POND.
(New York: American Theatre Press, 1979). First edition, first production. Playbill March 1979. Near fine in stapled paperwraps. Item #51555 More
THE LIVING CORPSE.
New York: Frank-Maurice, Inc., (no-date). First U.S. edition? This statement appears in the book as a translator's note: " ...The following translation is made from the only authorized Russian edition based on the manuscripts in the possesion of the late Count Tolstoi's daughter, A.L. Tolstaya." Translated from the Russian by..... Item #25758 More
BUCHANAN DYING: A Play.
(London): Andre Deutsch, (1974). First UK edition. Lower front tip very slightly bumped, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Item #33070 More
THE BANBURY NOSE A Play in Four Acts.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1945). First edition.Very good or better with light foxing on endpapers and top page edges, small name and date on front endpaper and cloth edges slightly rubbed; in a price-clipped dust jacket with soiling, spine slightly tanned, a few shallow chips and small closed tears. Item #29054 More
ONE OF THE FAMILY: A Comedy in Three Acts.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1926. First edition. Page edges faintly foxed, otherwise about fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with chipping to spine ends and tips(not affecting any lettering). Item #33102 More
I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE A Musical Play.
New York: Random House, (1962). First edition. Music and lyrics by Harold Rome. Illustrated with photographs of the stage production starring Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould. Name in magic marker on verso of front endpaper (near the top), showing through on endpaper, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with..... Item #40196 More
TWO PLAYS.
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with minor edgewear and light creasing to rear flap. Includes "Song of the Lusitanian Bogey" (translated by Lee Baxandall) and "Discourse on the Progress of the Prolonged War of Liberation in Viet Nam and the Events Leading Up to It..... Item #33382 More
A MIRROR FOR THE SKY: An Opera Based on an Original Conception of Raoul Pene DuBois for Portraying the Life of Audubon in a Musical Drama.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1948). First edition. Fine in dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and tips, and a 1/4" deep by 1" wide chip in upper edge of rear panel. A very bright, attractive copy. With costume sketches by Raoul Pene duBois. Item #33370 More
ETHAN FROME: A Dramatization Of Edith Wharton's Novel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First edition. Foreword by Wharton. This play was suggested by a dramatization by Lowell Barrington, according to the title page. Some offsetting to endpapers, rubbing to board edges, spine lightly sunned, otherwise near fine, lacking the dust jacket. Item #47395 More
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People; By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. [SCARCE VARIANT BINDING].
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition. Stated limitation of 1000 copies. This copy not numbered, as usually seen. In the scarce variant binding, recorded only as "some copies" having been bound as such [Mason & Millard 381, note to]. According to Mason..... Item #71614 More
27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON And Other Plays.
Norfolk: New Directions, (1953). Third printing, with two plays added. First issue. Near fine with page edges slightly soiled and previous owner's initials and date on front endpaper; in dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear. Item #25109 More
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT: High Point over a Cavern; A Serious Comedy.
(New York): New Directions Book, (1960). First edition. Made into the 1962 movie starring Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda and Jim Hutton. Few creases to last page of text, touch of very faint foxing, otherwise fine in very good to near fine dust jacket. Item #54129 More
THE ROSE TATTOO.
(New York): New Directions Book, (1950). First edition in first issue rose-colored cloth. In Alvin Lustig dust jacket. The Tony Award-winning Broadway and basis for the Oscar Award-winning 1955 movie starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster for which Williams wrote the screenplay. Near fine in like dust jacket with just..... Item #54333 More
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
(New York): New Directions Book, (1947). First edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning play made into the Elia Kazan Academy Award-winning film. Light bumping along lower edges otherwise near fine with the lavender pictorial boards showing very little of the fading which is endemic with this book; in very good or better dust..... Item #53823 More
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER.
(New York): New Directions Book, (1958). First edition. SIGNED BY WILLIAMS on front endpaper. Basis for the 1959 movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift. Very good to near fine with touch of faint foxing to pastedowns, small strip of minor sunning to base of spine, and front..... Item #54196 More
SUMMER AND SMOKE.
(New York): New Directions Book, (1948). First edition. Spine and board edges fading otherwise would be near fine in good to very good dust jacket with spine toning extending to front panel, spine ends nicked and rubbed and few small scratches and rubs to spine itself. Item #54199 More