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(New York): Dramatists Play Service, (1980). First edition. SIGNED by Patrick on title page. Fine in pale yellow, stapled paperwraps. Item #51285 More
(New York): Dramatists Play Service, (1980). First edition. SIGNED by Patrick on title page. Fine in pale yellow, stapled paperwraps. Item #51285 More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, (1969). First edition. Fine in about very good, price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear and chips on corners and spine ends. Item #49519 More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition. One of 250 SIGNED numbered copies. Fine in dust jacket. Item #32243 More
New York: Brentano's Publishers, (1925). First edition. Riley, who wrote children's books in addition to plays, was perhaps best known for her lyrics to the song “Slumber Boat.” This copy of one-act plays written for adults is INSCRIBED BY RILEY on front endpaper (without recipient) "Slumber Boat [underlined]/ 'Sail, baby..... Item #72051 More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition. First issue binding with top edge gilt. Near fine with light rubbing to spine ends and tips; tiny bookstore label on rear pastedown. In near fine dust jacket with a touch of minor edge wear and spine mellowed. Item #33273 More
New York: Random House, (1953). First edition. A "Random House Play" illustrated with photographs of the stage production. Book and lyrics by Hammerstein, music by Rodgers. "An affectionate survey of footlight life. The town's most skillful showmen pay a fervent salute to the boys and girls who make the business..... Item #19723 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition. Small mark on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in dust jacket with small closed edge tear and small chip at top of front panel with a closed tear below it. A bright, attractive copy. Item #33619 More
New York: Samuel French, (1940). First edition. Illustrated with photographs of the stage production. Near fine in dust jacket with very light soiling, a few short closed tears and shallow chipping. Scarce. Item #25069 More
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
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1952). First edition. Translated from the French by Kitty Black. Light foxing to page top edges, otherwise fine in dark blue cloth; in good or better dust jacket with split to spine fold internally mended with archival tape, spine and folds tanned, narrow damp stain to spine..... Item #54247 More
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
New York: Random House, (1939). First edition of his second book, a play. INSCRIBED to a drama critic at The New Yorker: "To Edith Oliver, for 'Madison Avenue Bus Driver.'/ -Irwin Shaw." The play, directed by Harold Clurman, featured Sam Jaffe, Franchot Tone, Karl Malden, Sylvia Sidney, and Lee J...... Item #45884 More
New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1947. First U.S. edition. Two previously unpublished plays with prefaces, and a variation on Shakepeare's ending for CYMBELINE with an explanation. Previous owner's name & date on front endpaper. Very good in very good dust jacket. Item #46987 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning play set during World War II. 6 x 9" promotional leaflet for February 1941 two-week engagement at Curran Theatre, San Francisco, with photograph from the staged production on front and reviews on back laid in. Bright and near fine in like..... Item #54810 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition. Light, scattered foxing to top page edges, otherwise about fine in dust jacket with slightly tanned spine and light edge wear (mostly to spine ends). An attractive copy with gilt lettering bright. Item #32598 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1935). First edition. Sherwood won the Pulitzer Prize for drama three times, although not for this one, which may be better remembered than his Pulitzer winners. Very good with two long skinned marks on front endpaper and page edges somewhat soiled. In a rubbed dust..... Item #24829 More
(New York: American Theatre Press), 1979. First edition. Playbill from Septemer 1979. The second production? Near fine in stapled paperwraps. Item #51549 More
Dublin/London: Maurice Fridberg, (1946). First edition. A book for young readers with illustrations by Francis Rose. INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER AND BINDER, "For Michael/ From Maurice/ and/ George E. Hetherington/ book maker/ Nov. 1946." 8vo quarter yellow cloth stamped in black, pale gray paper boards. Good or better with light..... Item #55519 More
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
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
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
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
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
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