New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1954). First U.S. edition. Barest rubbing to spine ends and tips, still bright and fine in near fine dust jacket with spine toned and a touch of minor rubbing. Nicer than usually seen. Item #54342 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1952). First edition in second state binding. Cloth just a bit rubbed otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Item #47257 More
London: Faber & Faber, (1934). First edition. "Written for Performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May - 9 June 1934 on Behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London." Softcover issue (also issued in hardback). 12mo gray, printed paperwraps with flaps. Cover edges tanned, foxing to fore..... Item #45776 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924. First edition. A volume containing the short story "Old Man Minick," as well as the play "Minick," which was based on it. Title page states that there is "also a brief and quite gratuitous explanation by the authors." Frontis of old men in..... Item #51817 More
New York: Villard Books, 1983. First Villard edition of his Tony Award-winning production. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, light soiling and very shallow chipping. Item #25714 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1923. First edition. A play. 8vo green cloth boards. Front endpaper neatly repaired at hinge, gilt spine lettering perished otherwise quite good with corners sharp and binding strong. Lacking dust jacket. Item #54000 More
New York: Henry Holt, (1947). First edition. Minute spot on page edges, otherwise fine in slightly spine-faded dust jacket with tiny chip. Item #48929 More
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with lightly tanned spine and minor wear to spine ends and tips. dust jacket cover art by Ronald Searle. Item #33306 More
Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1971. First edition. Fugard, a white South African, led the Serpent Players, black South Africans performing European works -- until "The Coat," a play that evolved from improvisations of the players telling their own story. "Based on an incident at one of the many political..... Item #26110 More
Cape Town: Buren Publishers, 1969. True first edition. INSCRIBED on title page "For Harold, With my best wishes, Athol Fugard." One of the playwright’s best-known and most widely respected dramatic works. The play that established Fugard’s reputation as a major playwright. 8vo illustrated paper boards. Small label of Vanguard Booksellers..... Item #71538 More
New York: Theatre Communications Group, (1996). First edition. Post-apartheid play. A mixed-race South African farmer confronts his granddaughter's desire to leave their isolated land in search of a brighter future in Johannesburg. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of staining to verso of rear panel just barely..... Item #42639 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First U.S. edition. Spine ends very slightly faded, otherwise near fine in scarce, good dust jacket with tanned and rubbed spine, some edge chipping and old insect damage along spine and flap folds. Item #33416 More
New York: Random House, (1969). First edition. Basis for the film starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert and Eileen Heckart. Eillen Heckart won an Academy Award for her supporting role in the film. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Near fine with a small bookstore stamp on..... Item #29091 More
London: B. Newbery and T. Johnson, 1780. Early edition with the ten-page "Life of the Author" added. The first edition was published in Dublin in 1777. Engraved title page; final leaf with contents listed on recto and with verso stating: "This edition contains several additions and corrections never before printed;..... Item #52806 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1979. First edition. SIGNED BY GOREY on title page beneath his lined-through printed name. Folio spiral bound stiff card covers; 20 pages printed on rectos only. A paper-doll book of sorts with instructions for stage assembly and characters; cast and scene lists, and brief synopsis of..... Item #56165 More
London: William Heinemann, (1953). First edition. Author's first play. Near fine in dust jacket with narrow chip at head of spine just touching the first letter in author's name and another at base of front panel not affecting any lettering but otherwise very good. Item #54162 More
London: Macmillan Co., 1923. First edition. An attractive pictorial cover in green with gilt stamping. Slight wear to corners and spine ends still near fine. Lacking dust jacket. Item #49866 More
New York: Random House, (1947). First edition (not stated). Near fine with previous owner's name on front endpaper; in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, back panels soiled, a few closed tears and one shallow chip. Scarce. Item #25355 More
Boston: Osgood, 1876. First edition. A drama. Endpapers cracked at hinges, which are nonetheless still tight, spine ends rubbed and a little frayed, offset from old photo to p.128, otherwise bright and very good or better. Item #54357 More
Wellesly Hills: Sans Souci Press, (1978). First edition. Number 107 of 200 numbered copies (also 26 lettered and 73 hors-commerce. Introduction by William Young who "discovered" the manuscript at auction in 1977. First publication of Hemingway's apparent 1921 collaboration with Musselman who used Morris McNeil as his pen name. This..... Item #54705 More
Ernest H. Shepard. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1937). First U.S. edition. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Very good with light soiling; in dust jacket with light rubbing, soiling and minor edge wear. Item #29124 More
(New York): Dramatist Play Service, Inc., (1956). First edition thus. Acting edition. Some pencil notations and cover edges sunned, otherwise very good in paperwraps. Item #29647 More
New York: Random House, (1950). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A very nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Shirley Booth won both the Tony and an Oscar for her performances in the play and the film. Fine in dust jacket with a few closed tears and a...... Item #42921 More
Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, (1953). First edition thus, one-act play based on the Shirley Jackson story of the same name. Near fine in stapled paperwraps. BASED ON JACKSON'S STORY. Item #49572 More
New York: Random House, 1946. First edition. SCARCE FIRST ISSUE with pages 99-100 intregal and line 21, which should read "least," missing. ASSOCIATION COPY with ownership signature of poet and author JOHN FREDERICK NIMS on front endpaper and with his penciled comments and notations. Nims was an editor at Poetry..... Item #55487 More