Abramson, Glenda

Modern Hebrew Drama

New York, St Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Black cloth covers, white lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. A probing account of Israeli theater from 1948-1978. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-232 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Glenda Abramson|Hebrew drama|Hebrew theater|Jewish culture|Jewish history|drama

Terentius Publius Afer

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae

Birmingham, England, Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Technically, this would qualify as the First Edition Thus, having been preceded slightly (in the same year) by the duodecimo version. The so-called Baskerville Edition collects together plays such as Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphi, Phormio and Hecyra all and each of which have their own separate titles and menu of actors. Johannis (John) Baskerville (1706-1775) began in about 1750 to become a typographer and typefounder. 307 pp. Overall, quite a nice copy, still solid text-block, though front board is detached, having been rebound but perhaps incorporating some of the original boards. Four raised bands to spine, gilt-tooled fleurs-de-lis, gilt ruled borders to both covers, and gorgeous new endpapers. The spine has been rebacked in a red Morocco-style leather. A heavily waffled text-block, but with signs of neither odor nor moisture. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered, at first free endpaper. Internally, early, period, previous owners name on first blank, faint remains of a paper bookseller's label inside front board at bottom near fore-edge, "Sollers Bookseller Blanford." Pages in good clean condition no matter the waffling, and beautiful decorated, marbled endpapers front and rear.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Johannis Baskerville|plays drama|play-writing|theater

Anderson, Maxwell

The Star-Wagon: A Play in Three Acts

Washington, D.C., Anderson House, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Dust jacket, illustrated, present, but showing moderate wear, chipping to spine head and foot, small chip missing at spine, but now protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Stated First Edition. Octavo format, bound in gray cloth with title and author's name embossed to front cover and spine. Previous owner's name inscribed inside front flap. First performed at the Erlander Theatre in Buffalo September 16, 1937 with Russell Collins, Lillian Gish, Burgess Meredith. [6] 130 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Sonstige Stichworte: Maxwell Anderson|science fiction|literature

Aristophanes

The Birds

Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press, 1979. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual Easton Press Collector's Edition standards, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only the slightest shelf- and edge-wear. Featuring moire endpapers, bound-in silk ribbon bookmark, raised bands, all edges gilt, rich, black, colorful leather covers, classy gilt decoration to cover and spine being of flying birds. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 52 [2], xviii. 2-62 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Sonstige Stichworte: The Easton Press|Marian Parry|Dudley Fitts|Aristophanes

Coward, Noel

Conversation Piece: A Romantic Comedy

London, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dust wrapper is present, not price-clipped, protected by Brodart, but dampstained along edges, soiled a bit and with chipping to rear panel, else intact and having done its job. Conversation Piece was billed as "A Romantic Comedy with Music," and premiered at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on 16 February 1934. Conversation ran for 177 performances over five months. 105 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Fair,

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Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: plays drama theater first edition Noel Coward

Eliot, T.S.

The Confidential Clerk

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, not price-clipped, though machine-clipped, but sunned at spine to light brown. This then new verse play opened in 1954 to rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival. Seven characters carry the show. 159 pp. plus a cast of characters.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Sonstige Stichworte: T.S. Eliot|plays|drama

Eliot, T.S.

The Family Reunion: A Play

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A possible very early reprinting of the First Edition, though with "1939" stated at copyright. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat, machine-clipped but not price-clipped. 131 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Sonstige Stichworte: play drama theater T.S. Eliot

St. John G. Ervine

Four Irish Plays: Mixed Marriage; the Magnanimous Lover; the Critics; the Orangeman

New York, The Macmillan, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright green cloth boards with still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear in the form of a chip missing to top edge, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped, but machine-clipped. Nice-looking omnibus edition of four plays by the Irish playwrite: Mixed Marriage; The Magnanimous Lover; The Critics; The Orangeman. 117 pp. plus a list of the players for each play.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Good,

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Buchzahl: 350366

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: plays|theatre|theater|Ireland|St. John G. Ervine

Galsworthy, John

The Fugitive: A Play in Four Acts

London, England, Duckworth & Co., 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, with gilt lettering spine and front cover. Bound handsomely in a light blue buckram cloth, ruled, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front cover. Housed in a simple folding clamshell box, sunned a bit along the edges, and lightly worn, but also with gilt lettering to spine. Presumed First Edition, with no other printings indicated. John Galsworthy was the eventual winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932; this play in four acts is set throughout Britain at the turn of the last century; try as she might, a woman's quest for happiness in life leads to more pain. 93 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Buchzahl: 353642

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: John Galsworthy plays theater

Gregory, Odin

Caius Gracchus

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Gaius Gracchus," a dramatic verse tragedy set in Ancient Rome, penned by "Odin Gregory," pen-name of J.G. Robin. Nice-looking exemplar of a First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser, author of Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy, and other classics of literature. Bound in brown linen cloth over boards, red stamped lettering to front cover. Light bumping to spine head and foot. 172 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Buchzahl: 357199

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Odin Gregory play drama theater Theodore Dreiser

Gross, Kenneth

Shylock Is Shakespeare

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in brown cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [4], 1-202 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Buchzahl: 346149

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Shylock|Kenneth Gross|William Shakespeare|playwriting|drama

Knackfus H.

Holbein Der Jã¼Ngere

Bielefeld und Leipzig, velhagen & klasing, 1896. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. German language throughout, a sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Flexible, stiff softpaper wraps, gilt-stamped title to two-tone covers. Many score full-color, duotone and black-and-white reproductions of Holbein's finest works. An important contribution to the Kunster-Monographien series that stretched to at least 17 differen volumes assembled by H. Knackfus. Top-edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom-edges rough-cut. 150 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Buchzahl: 356509

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Hans Holbein German language German artists German art history H. Knackfus

Helvenston, Harold

Scenery: A Manual of Scene Design

Stanford, Ca, Stanford University Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author, then Director of Dramatics, Stanford University, at first free endpaper, inscribed "To 'Don' COnfrey who, according to George, is destined to go far. Don't be afraid of working hard, Don!, Harold Helvenston, Dec. 1931." Stated First Edition, from June 1931. Bound in a light beige, thin cloth over boards, fine black-and-white woodcut pasted neatly to front cover, very mild sunning to, soiling of edges, oatmeal cloth spine. Double-columned texts. Illustrated with black and white photos galore, a tipped-in full-color illustration at frontis of a sketch for a monastery setting. Set in a French face adapted as Linotype No. 16, with Linotype Metro Bold headings. The design and printing is by Hartley Jackson.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Very Good

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Buchzahl: 353289

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Harold Helvenston scenery theater theatre scene design drama

Ibsen, Henrik

Three Plays of Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People; the Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler

New York, The Heritage Press, 1965. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Three of Henrik Ibsen's plays (An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler) are published here in omnibus form up to usual Heritage Press standards, introduced by John Gassner, and augmented with the illustrations of Fredrik Matheson. Bound in Imperial octavo format, decorated paper over boards, brown cloth-backed. Housed in a simple cardboard slipcase. xii [2], 327 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Buchzahl: 350797

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Henrik Ibsen |John Gassner Fredrik Matheson

Jonson, Ben; Vincent O'Sullivan; Robert Ross

Ben Jonson, His Volpone: Or the Foxe

New York, John Lane, 1898. A New Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published by John Lane, New York, 1898, being the First Beardsley Edition (title page says "A New Edition"). Published a year following his death. Copy #245 of 1000 copies, printed and published for the U.S. and England. Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, being in gilt to front cover, edges gilt-ruled, and board edges beveled. Big, tall, sturdy quarto format, moderate rubbing to extremities, scuffing to tips, rubbing to joints, edges. Very lightly soiling to endpapers, heavy toning only to first and final endpaper, else clean and unmarked but for previous owner's inscription. Augmented with a fine, involved frontispiece, five large historiated initial letters, and a vignette tot title page. Considered roundly to be one of Aubrey Beardsley's finest works, he having just completed the art-editing and illustration of The Yellow Book, which ran from 1895-1897. Vincent O'Sullivan adds a warm, comprehensive biography of one of the 17th century giants of art, culture and literature, Ben Jonson, and Robert Ross, pays due homage to Aubrey Beardsley's life and works, too. Quite scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available currently. xlv [2], 5-193 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Buchzahl: 356090

Katalog: Drama & Theater

Sonstige Stichworte: Aubrey Beardsley Ben Jonson Volpone The Fox