PLAYS OF THE NATURAL AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
New York/London: John Lane, 1916. First edition, first issue. Cloth edges rubbed, a few pages nicked, otherwise a very good, copy, lacking the dust jacket. Item #25299 More
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THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS A Tragedy in Four Acts.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1926. First U.S. edition. His most famous play and one of the most famous Irish dramas. Minor rubbing to corners, name on front end paper, and a small dark spot on front inner hinge paper, otherwise very good or better in a dust jacket with..... Item #32771 More
POEMS AND PLAYS: To Which Is Prefixed THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
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
POOR JACK: A Play in One Act.
Richmond: Privately Printed, 1906. First edition. The Cabell forgery, adapted from his "Love Letters of Falstaff." Cabell denied knowledge of this piracy, which he called "a forgery sadly bungled." But reportedly it was produced as a spoof perpetrated and published by Ben Abramson of the Argus Book Shop with Cabell's..... Item #49332 More
POWER AND GLORY: A Drama in Three Acts.
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1938). First edition. Translated from the Czech by Paul Selver and Ralph Neale. Old glue stain on rear pastedown otherwise near fine. In price-clipped dust jacket, about very good with spine tanned but lettering still bright and a few relatively small chips and tears. Scarce..... Item #54003 More
THE PRESCOTT PROPOSALS.
New York: Random House, (1954). First edition. Illustrated with photographs of the stage production. Near fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with age darkening and very shallow chipping. Item #25463 More
PROCESSIONAL! A Jazz Symphony of American Life in Four Acts.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. First edition. INSCRIBED BY LAWSON ON TIPPED-IN LEAF. Early socially conscious play by one of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten.” An experimental expressionistic drama centering on a coal strike in a West Virginia town under martial law. 8vo orange cloth boards stamped in black; 218 pp..... Item #71569 More
PROCESSIONAL! A Jazz Symphony of American Life in Four Acts.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. First edition. Early socially conscious play by one of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten.” An experimental expressionistic drama centering on a coal strike in a West Virginia town under martial law. 8vo orange cloth boards stamped in black; 218 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs from the..... Item #71789 More
PROUD FLESH: Four Short Plays.
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition. One of 250 SIGNED numbered copies. Fine in dust jacket. Item #32243 More
THE QUARE FELLOW: A Comedy Drama.
London: Methuen & Co, (1956). First edition of his first book. A play set in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where "The Quare Fellow," who is never seen or heard, is condemned to die the following day for an unnamed crime. Fine in very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket rubbed at..... Item #54368 More
RAZZLE DAZZLE.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1942). First edition. Colored frontispiece by Arthur Szyk. Very good with previous owner's name on front pastedown and some soiling on page edges; in dust jacket with edges and spine age darkened, light rubbing, soiling and shallow chipping. Item #25272 More
THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER.
New York: Random House, (1954). First edition. Two very tiny tears to head of spine,otherwise near fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, orange background of spine faded and shallow chipping to spine ends and tips. Still, a bright, attractive copy with photographs from the production which starred Burgess..... Item #33117 More
RICHARD THE THIRD IN A FOURTH OF A SECOND.
Cleveland: Bits Press, (1986). First edition. The Essential Shakespeare, Volume I. "Rapid retrieval editions in rhymed hemimeter." Near fine in white, printed paperwraps, bound with string, showing only light tanning along the spine and a bump mark along the bottom edge. THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE. Item #51293 More
RIP VAN WINKLE Folk-Opera in Three Acts.
New York: Knopf, 1919. First edition. "For which the music has been composed by Reginald DeKoven." Illustrations from the play. Minor soiling on a few pages, otherwise very good in chipped and worn dust jacket. Item #39755 More
THE RIVER LINE.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1952. First edition. Slight bubbling to front pastedown near hinge (production error) otherwise fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with slightly tanned spine, a chip in upper front flap fold and a few closed edge tears. Still, a bright, attractive copy that includes the preface..... Item #33063 More
ROBERT E. LEE.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1923. First edition. Endpapers offset and upper tips lightly bumped, otherwise about near fine in dust jacket with splitting to flap folds and small, light stain to front panel. Still, an attractive copy. Item #33011 More
ROBIN LANDING: A Play in Three Acts.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1938). First edition. A play in blank verse. Grant Eaton lures his wife and brother to his Utopian community in Kentucky to seek revenge, opening the villagers living there to "the ways of bribery, lust and violence" (from the jacket flap). Unavoidable darkening to pastedowns..... Item #33136 More
THE ROCK: A Pageant Play.
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
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
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
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
THE SECRET AGENT: A Drama in Three Acts.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1923. First edition, limited issue. Number 245 of 1,000 SIGNED, numbered and specially bound copies. Play based on his 1907 book of the same name. Spine a little tanned otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with internal archival-tape repair to split..... Item #53797 More
SHEPPEY: A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1933. First edition. His last play before deciding to focus on other writing. Page edges foxed otherwise near fine in very good or better lightly foxed and soiled dust jacket slightly tanned at spine. Item #54212 More
THE SHRIKE.
New York: Random House, (1952). First edition. Pulitzer Prize winner. Near fine with page edges lightly soiled in dust jacket with very shallow chipping, a few short closed tears and some soiling. Item #23385 More
THE SHRIKE.
New York: Random House, (1952). First edition. Edges very slightly age darkened, otherwise near fine in dust jacket with tanned spine and one tiny closed edge tear. Pulitzer Prize winner. Includes photographs from the play, which starred Jose Ferrer. Item #33283 More