PLAY
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; [In scarce, variant binding].
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition. One of 1,000 copies; not numbered (as usually seen). This copy in the scarce VARIANT BINDING, recorded only as with "some copies" having been bound as such [Mason & Millard 381, note to]. 8vo gilt-stamped mauve cloth stamped in gilt; [152] pages..... 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
BATTLE OF ANGELS: A Play.
Murray, UT: Pharos, 1945. First edition of the author's first book. An early version of ORPHEUS DESCENDING published as a double issue of Pharos Magazine: Numbers 1 & 2, Spring 1945 (comprising the whole issue). Fragile paper covers intact but yapped (over-hanging) edges of the covers understandably show some wear..... Item #56012 More
CAMINO REAL.
New York: New Directions Book, (1953). First edition. Near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket showing rubbing and few small tears. Item #54134 More
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA.
(New York): New Directions Book, 1962. First edition. Winner of the New York Critics Circle Drama Award in 1962 and basis for the 1964 John Huston directed film featuring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. Faint foxing to page edges and endpapers otherwise near fine in very good dust..... Item #54198 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
FIVE PLAYS.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954. First edition. Includes "Cyprian's Prayer," "The Crime in the Whistler Room," "This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches," "Beppo and Beth," and "The Little Blue Light." Near fine in spine-tanned dust jacket with few tiny tears and small stains (otherwise very good)..... Item #54876 More
THE BOY FRIEND A Play in Three Acts.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955. First U.S. edition. Preface by Vida Hope and illustrations by the author. Musical comedy with Julia Andrews in the starring role. Near fine with tiny hole p.125 (not affecting any text) in very good dust jacket with usual toning to the..... Item #34283 More
90 NEW PLAYS: Play Bureau Publication No. 4, December, 1936.
New York: Play Bureau, 1936. First edition. Synopses of 90 plays selected by Francis Bosworth and Converse Tyler. The Play Bureau was part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project. This particular publication is a compilation of plays made available for production by over eighty playwrights for a standard..... Item #55396 More
FOUR PLAYS FOR DANCERS.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1921. First U.S. edition, published the same day as the UK. Includes "At the Hawk's Well," "The Only Jealousy of Emer," "The Dreaming of the Bones," "Calvary," notes on each play, and music for the first and third ones. Illustrated with seven "designs for masks and..... Item #71751 More