Nelson Doubleday Inc., 1983. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 83 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Winner of the 1984 Oppenheimer Award in playwriting for the best new American playwright to have a work produced in the New York area.
Methuen, Inc., 1983. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 154 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
New York: Sanuel French, 1939. wrappers. Light blue printed cwrappers, staple bound. 45 pp. with stage diagram and one page publisher's ads at rear. Near fine, wrappers a touch toned about the edges and two very small date stamps front cover (Mar '47 and Apr. '48). The Owens rent a......
1949 NY: Dodd Mead. First edition. 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 well as "The Madwoman of.....
London: Ward & Downey, 1886. Hardcover. First Edition. Royal blue cloth decorated in red. xiv+ 319 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Selection of essays on famous play, playwrights and productions from Congreve (Love For Love) to Lytton (several pieces), including also Addison (Cato), John Gay (Beggar's Opera), Johnson (Irene).....
Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. Signed by Neil Simon without personalization or inscription on the title page. Hardcover. 348 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket with a short closed tear to front fold. Playwright Neil Simon continues.....
London: Stanley Paul, 1927. First. Cloth. First printing. Red cloth lettered in gilt; 284 pps. with index of plays and general index; illustrated. INSCRIBED (BUT NOT PERSONALIZED) BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER WITH THE NOTATION "'CARADOS' OF THE SUNDAY REFEREE. A history of the dramatization of crime.....
New York, New York, U.S.A. Macmillan Pub Co, 1990. First American. Hardcover. Hardcover. 224 pps with index, illustrations. Biography of the German opera composer which delves into the intricate relationship between the artist and his work. Fine, tight copy in fine, crisp dust jacket.
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1924. First edition thus. Hardcover. First trade edition, Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED 1926 BY SKINNER on the front free endpaper. Color frontis portrait of Skinner366 pp. with index. Numerous en role in "The Honor of the Family". Numerous full.....
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1992. Softcover. Softcover, 537 pps. with index. Illustrated. The first critical biography of the Confederate general who commanded the largest theatre of the Civil War, the Trans-Mississippi Department. The St. Augustine, Florida native was a vfeteran of the Mexican War (twice breveted.....
New York: Stein & Day, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Hardcover. 84 pp. Fine in dust jacket with fade to the spine as well as a 1 1/2 inch chip to the foot of the spine. Play set in 16th century Peru that portrays the conflic tof.....
Samuel French, 1949. Second edition. Paperback. Second edition. Paperback. Near fine condition, small ownership initials on front cover. 105 pages. Black and white photograph and set drawing. Three act farce with the title derived from the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" , "playing heavily on mistaken identity, doors, and a......
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed on the half title: "To Eugene Fisher/ with best from/ "Uncle" Channing/ New York April 20, 1943". Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 395 pp. Illustrated. Fine in very good dust jacket. Autobiographical account of the life of Channing Pollock (d. 1946), American.....
Salt Lake City: Seagull Press, 1928. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Navy blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. WITH WARM LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR DATED OCT. 17, 1928 ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: "Dear Ada Dwyer Russell/ A token of our mutual oove for the Old Playhouse which.....
New York: Playbill, 1952. Softcover. Original Playbill magazine for the week of Monday, June 23, 1952 for the original Broadway production of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I" at the St. James Therter in New York. Very good. Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brenner, both of whom originated.....
Doubleday, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated). Warmly inscribed by Traubner on the half-title page to theatrical producer Michael Shipley. Hardcover. xvii+ 461 pp. with index, bibliography. Fine in dust jacket with fade to the spine strip and some wear to the spine ends. Complete, richly illustrated history of.....
Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1949. First edition. Paperback. First edition. Paperback. Generally fine condition, long gift inscription on front free endpaper. 75 pages. Three act play written by McEnroe while he was a factory worker. A younger man impersonaltes an elderly one in order to gain admission to a home.....
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1990. Second printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper by Viagas and by Lee and Walsh (d.2007), who were members of the original cast of "A Chorus Line" on Broadway. Fine in very good dust jacket. 366 pp. with index. Illustrated.....
Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, Olive green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 544 p. with index. Frontispiece plate of the Hamburg Theatre from a 1765 watercolor. Very good, some offsetting to the endpapers.
NY: McGraw Hill, 1965. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Cloth, 258 pps. with index. A very fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket.
Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1955. First edition. Paperback. First edition. Paperback. Generally fine condition. Black and white chart and photograph. 77 pages.
NY: Appleton-Century-, 1966. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Cloth, 346 ps. with index, biographical index. Memoirs of Victorian-era operatic manager and impressario J.H. "Colonel" Mapleson. Originally published in 1888, the memiors trace the carrer of the man who not only directed the destinies of Her Majesty's and Drury Lane theatres.....
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1928. Cloth. Green cloth, 262 pps.; illustrations. LAID IN IS A SHORT NOTE IN INK "RENT FOR JUNE 1899/ RECEIVED/ (signed) LOTTA CRABTREE". Entertaining biography of Lotta Crabtree, the performer and personality who became known as "The Fairy Star of The Gold Rush" and "The California Diamond".....
New York: The Peanuts Company, 1969. Softcover. Two items from the hit musical stage production by Charles M. Schulz , music and lyrics by Clark Gesner. The first is the souvenir program, oblong in illustrated softcovers with drawings of the Peanuts gang on an orange background. 20 pp. on yellow.....
London: Constable, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Firts printing. Hardcover in pale lime green cloth. xxix )preface by the author) + 78 pp. Fine in dust jacket with significant chips to the spine strip. This play first opened in Warsaw in the Polish version in 1928 and premiered in England in.....
