Gloucestershire, U.K. Sutton Publishing, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover, 354 pp. with index, illustrations. In this fresh and complelling work of reinetpretation, the author, himself an actor and director as well as historian, proposed that one vital clue that has always been overlooked.....
Chicago: Revell, 1882. First. Wrappers. First printing. Pamphlet of 83 pps. in original printed wrappers. Part of Revell's Popular Religious Series. A minister presents his view of Christianity's view of popular theatre. (Big surprise---he condemns it.) large chips to the front cover and some edge chipping to the title page.....
Harper, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. xiv+ 605 pp. with bibliography, general index and index of works and adaptations. Illustrated with photographs. Interesting examination of Agatha Christie's lesser know facet, that of one of the most successful female dramitists of all time. Her.....
New York: Random House, 1939. Limited ed. Hardcover. One of 550 numbered copies (of which 500 only were for sale, this being No. 327) signed by Katherine Cornell. Hardcover in rose colored silk cloth lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of a painting by Eugene Speicher and 31 additional photographs in.....
New York: Thomas Longworth, 1820. First American edition. Leather_bound. 24mo in three quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Presumed first American edition (?). (3) 35 (1, half torn away). Covers well rubbed and edges chipped. Pages embrowned. First play by prolific early 19th century playwright James Kenney; the work was.....
New York: Breakthrough Press, 1971. First edition. Softcover. First edition (stated). 20 pp. in orange stiff wraps printed in black. Inscribed on the title page "For Mother Wright, with warm regards/ Tom" An obscure one act play that was first performed at the Playboy Studio on St. Mark's Place in.....
Chicago: T.S. Denison & Company, 1925. First edition. Paperback. First edition. Paperback. Fine condition except for ownership signature top edge front cover. 169 pages.
NAL/Plume, 1986. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 107 pgs. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Based on a real life event, a play in which a charming, worldly and glib Russian sits on a bench in the middle of the woods with.....
Schirmer Books, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. xiii+ 226 pp. with bibliography, index. Extensive appendix of musicals available at that time for production. A tight example but with some highlighting on the first 7 pages. In very good dust jacket. A repsected how-to book on musical theater.....
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover, 107 pp. Decorative illustrations by Carolyn Huff Kinsey. A fine, fresh example in crisp dust jacket with a bit of toning to the spine. A free translation of the ancient Greek tragedy "Hippolytus" by Euripides in which.....
Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1919. Softcover. 61 pp. in printed wrappers. Near fine. Laid in are In Mrs. Berry's kitchen on an Oklahoma farm, Gladys Mae meets Merridew, the city slicker, who meets his match in Sis, the tomboy, thereby causing the downfall of Aaron Slick. There follows a charming.....
London: Edward Arnold, 1958. Second printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. xiii+ 589 pp. with appendix list of players in Shakespeare's company; order of plays; reading l;ist; index. With three drawings in the text. Fine in near fine dust jacxket with some toning at the spine and with the St. Martin's Press logo.....
NY: Macmillan, 1900. First. Hardcover. First edition. Green suede leather cobered boards lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt and fore edge uncut. 420 pps. with index; publisher's catalogue at rear. Ten plates in photgravure and numerous illustrations in the text. Very handsome biography of Shakespeare, tight and clean.....
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1941. Printed Wrappers. First printing of this extract from the larger work published the same year; xvii pps. plus two pages of notes and two illustrated plates. INSCRIBED BY PERCY MACKAYE (the editor and Steele Mackaye's son) on the front wrapper. Near fine, in the.....
New York: Harper & Bros, 1938. Second edition. Hardcover. Slim hardcover in orange paper covered boards. 36 pp. From the personal library of former Princeton University president and U.S. Ambassador to India Robert F. Goheen, with his ownership signature and date of Jan., 1939 during student years. Near fine, a......
London: Hale, 1972. Second. Hard Cover. Cloth, 232 pps. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Lively account of the days of English theatre during the reign of Edward VII (1897-1914). Fine in dust jacket with some fade to the spine.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Firts ediiton. Hardcover. X + 545 pp. With 10 photo illustrations of scenes from the plays. Index of authors, index of plays and casts, index of producers, directors, designers. Tight, generally fine example , two tint spots front cover. No jacket. Among.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Cloth with printed paper labels, illustrated with photos. The annual year book of the American stage. Among the works included in this edition are the first appearances of "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill and "Brigadoon" by Lerner and Loewe.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth, paper labels, illustrated with photos. The annual of the year book of American drama. Among the works featured in this volume is the first appearance of "Death of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller (starring Lee J. Cobb) as.....
NY: Dodd Mead, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton. Hardcover. 561 pp. with index of authors and index of plays and casts. Illustrated with photographic plates. Review of the 1935-36 theatrical season in America, covering New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Southern California. Among the plays covered in this edition.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition and near fine dust jacket. Cloth, paper labels, illustrated with photos. The 25th annual of the year book of American drama. Among the works featured in this volume are "Winged Victory" by Moss Hart; "Outrageous Fortune" by.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth, paper labels, illustrated with photos. The annual of the year book of American drama. Among the works featured in this volume is the first appearance of "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as well as the first.....
Boston: William V. Spencer, (ca. 1855). Wraps. N.D. (circa 1855). Printed wrappers (lacking the rear wrap). 28 pp. No. 162 in "Spncer's Boston Theatre" series. Front wrap with an ownership signature. The text is complete. The bottom of the front wrap bears the imprint line "J.H. McCabe, San Francisco, California".....
New York: Playbill, 1946. Softcover. Playbill Magazine from the week of Monday, January 28, 1946 for the original Broadway production of "Harvey" at the Forty-Eighth Street Theater in New York. Very good, tiny chip top edge of front cover along with a small inked "1946". Frank Fay was still appearing.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1904. First edition thus. Hardcover. First edition thus, illustrated with scenes from the stageplay. Red cloth lettered and decorated in white. 337 pp. plus publsiher's ads at the rear. Frontispiece and 6 interior photographic plates featuring scenes from the stage production. A fine, tight example.....
