VAN DRUTEN, JOHN.

After All. A Play in Three Acts.

London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1929. 1st edition. " 'After All' was first produced under the auspices of the Incorporated Stage Society and the Three Hundred Club at the Apollo Theatre on the evening of Sunday, May 5th, 1929. Since that production the play has been very largely revised and re-written, the alterations including the removal of one character. The present version, however, is the form in which I desire to leave the play." Pp.117. Black cloth, original paper label to spine is darkened and chipped and with major loss of title. Good.** "John William Van Druten (1 June 1901 – 19 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director, known professionally as John Van Druten. He began his career in London, and later moved to America becoming a US citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society..He was one of the most successful playwrights of the early 1930s in London with star-studded West End productions of his work including Diversion (1928), After All (1929), London Wall (1931) with Frank Lawton and John Mills, There's Always Juliet (1931), Somebody Knows (1932), Behold, We Live (1932) with Gertrude Lawrence and Gerald du Maurier, The Distaff Side (1933) and Flowers of the Forest (1934)." (wiki).

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Book number: 42074

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Van Druten, John

After All a Play in Three Acts

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges; A new and modern drama of English family life which the Spectator calls the finest piece of work Mr. Van Druten has given me; 113 pages.

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Book number: 39388

Catalogue: Literature::Plays

Keywords: Plays Literature Van Druten, John 1st Edition Modern First Drama

Van Druten, John.

After All: A Play in Three Acts.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. 1931. - Octavo, decorative red & black cloth with vermilion printed paper labels on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The covers are very slightly bumped & the head of the spine is slightly chipped. The dust jacket is faded & chipped with a few small stains & a tear to the front fold. The bottom edge of the front panel is creased with a piece out. The dust jacket spine is darkened with the tail torn & a piece out. Half-title, title, [iv] & 113 pages plus colophon. Very good in a fair dust wrapper.

First edition.

Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For 'George' / With best wishes / from / John Van Druten / N.Y. Feb. 1932. Good .

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Book number: 22479

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: AFTER ALL; A PLAY IN THREE ACTS; JOHN VAN DRUTEN; FIRST EDITION; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; 1ST EDITION; THEATRE; PLAY; STAGE; DRAMA.

John Van Druten

After All New Theatre programme 1929

London, New Theatre, 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

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Book number: 500034848

Keywords: THEATRE

Druten, Terry van & Maite van Dijk & John Sillevis:

De aquarel. Mauve Mesdag, Breitner, Israels, Mondriaan.

February 2015, (22 x 28 cm), 96 pp. Duttch text, 80 collour ills., paperback. De negentiende eeuw is de bloeiperiode van de Nederlandse aquarel. Dit boek laat zien hoe deze techniek zich in de loop van de eeuw ontwikkelde van de 'gekleurde tekeningen' van romantische schilders als Koekkoek en Nuyen, tot de waterverfschilderijen van de Haagse School en de Tachtigers. Bekende kunstenaars als Mauve, Weissenbruch, Jozef en Isaac Israëls en Breitner brachten het medium tot volle wasdom. De landschappen, interieurs en stadsgezichten die zij met water en pigment op papier tot leven riepen, behoren tot de hoogtepunten van hun oeuvres. De aquarel verwierf een steeds voornamere plaats in het negentiende-eeuwse kunstleven. Hierbij bestond een enorme rijkdom in onderwerpen, stijl en techniek. Naast bijvoorbeeld de los geschilderde impressionistische weidelandschappen uit de Haagse School, blonken kunstenaars als Springer en Bles uit in juist ongelooflijk precies geschilderde aquarellen van stadsgezichten of historische voorstellingen. Een belangrijke rol werd bij deze ontwikkeling gespeeld door de Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij, een kunstenaarsvereniging die zich speciaal richtte op de promotie van de aquarel als zelfstandig medium. Hierbij werd, als oprichter en jarenlang voorzitter, een hoofdrol vervuld door Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Hij maakte niet alleen zelf aquarellen, maar verzamelde ook werken van anderen. Zijn verzameling, bewaard in De Mesdag Collectie, en de rijke aquarellenverzameling die Teylers Museum bijeenbracht in de negentiende eeuw, aangevuld met enkele van de mooiste aquarellen uit andere collecties, staan centraal in dit boek.

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Book number: 6070

Catalogue: Schilderkunst - Nederlands & Vlaams / Painting - Dutch & Flemish

ERIC RAVILIOUS. John van Druten, G.B.Stern, A.E.Coppard, Sean OFaolain, Norah Hoult, Hamish Maclaren, Elizabeth Bowen, Ronald Fraser and Malachi Whitaker.

Consequences. A Complete Story in the Manner of The Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters, Each by a Different Author. [Edited and with an epilogue by A.E.Coppard].

The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Good.

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Book number: ARC93598

Catalogue: Golden Cockerel Press

John van Druten

The Distaff Side Winter Chiswick Empire Theatre Programme 1930 Sybil Thorndik

London, Wyndham's Theatre, 1930. First Edition. Paperback. In 1930 Sybil Thorndike played in The Distaff Side by John van Druten. This play aroused much interest since van Drutens previous play Young Woodley had been banned. Sybil Thorndike also gave a talk at the Empire on the importance of the theatre and the vital contribution the audience make to a play. Good.

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Book number: 500033351

Keywords: EPHEMERA

John Van Druten

Diversion Little Theatre programme 1928

London, Little Theatre, 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

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Book number: 500034675

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John Van Druten

Diversion Little Theatre programme 1928

London, Little Theatre, 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

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Book number: 500034690

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Druten, John van

Gilbert Miller presents: There's Always Juliet - Apollo Theatre programme

London, Apollo Theatre, 1931. First Edition. Paperback. NOT A BOOK - 12pp theatre programme. No date, but enclosed note about elections results dated 27th October 1931. Some soiling to front cover and rusty staples. incl photos of Edna Best; Herbert Marshall; Cyril Raymond; May Whitty G-.

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Book number: AB8802

Keywords: THEATRE

VAN DRUTEN, JOHN

And Then You Wish

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 215mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 405pp.. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Ex Boots Library. Cover rubbed. Some foxing .

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Book number: d1228d

Catalogue: First Editions

Keywords: First Editions Fiction

Van Druten, John

The Vicarious Years

Heinemann, 1955, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. 187pp, a nice fine copy. Hardback with dustjacket.
¶ Novel set in London in the first quarter of the 20th century.

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Book number: 7350

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VAN DRUTEN, JOHN

The Vicarious Years

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 187pp.. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket .

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Book number: d1228c

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction First Editions

van Druten, John

The voice of the turtle: a comedy.

Michael Joseph, 1947. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book which is signed by the author and by Margaret Sullavan (actress who starred in the opening performance) on the front endpaper, but otherwise has no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is dulled at the spine. Appears little used. 158 pages; Signed by Author. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 52366

Catalogue: Stage & Screen

Keywords: Plays & playwrights Signed book Margaret Sullavan

Van Druten, John

The Voice of the Turtle

20th cent. Souvenir program. 4to. 14 pp. Illustrated. Actors: K.T. Stevens, Hugh Marlowe, Vivian Vance. Director: John Van Druten. Producer: Alfred de Liagre Jr. .

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Book number: 55-0497

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: theater musical