Denison's Descriptive Catalogue of Amateur and Standard Plays.
Chicago: T.S. Denison & Company, 1921. 12mo. 99 pages. New plays, monologues, jokes for 1921. Amateur supplies sold. "Good Irish and/or darky characters." Wraps slightly tender.
DRAMA
Medea.
New York: Random House, 1946. First edition. Black cloth spine bright, faint shelfwear bottom edge. 8vo 107 pp. Signed by actress (Dame) Judith Anderson, Jeffers' Medea; play is dedicated to her. P 99: Jason's last speech missing "least." Blank verse, freely adapted from Euripides. Signed.
The Shakespearian Advertiser.
Providence, R.I. H.P. Boyce, 1871. Wraps. 24mo. Unpaginated. Corners lightly bumped, some foxing throughout. Soiling and light foxing to covers. Small tear near to spine of front cover. With illustrations from Providence businesses and b/w illustrations above Shakespeare quotation such as 'I perceive you delight not in music' and man.....
Spiegel's Productions, Inc. Presents Cecil Lean in a New Farce with Music "Look Who's There" with Cleo Mayfield (theatre program).
New York: 44th St. Theatre, 1920. 8vo 24pp. Very light edgewear, otherwise in excellent condition.Program for "Look Who's There" with Cleo Mayfield and Cecil Lean at the 44th st. Theatre in New York. Bright color front and back cover. FIlled with illustrations and advertisements.
Agamemnon.
Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, 1906. 8vo. 74 pp. No. 127 of 300 copies. "A tragedy taken from Aeschylus by Edward Fitzgerald." Text from the third edition. Rebacked in caramel leather. Boards sl. worn, scraped at corners. New endpapers. Interior fine. B/w frontispiece engraving.
The Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, 2 Volumes.
Privately Printed, 1900. 8vo. 2 Volumes. Wear to edges, corners and spine ends bumped, rubbing, tanning to spine, light creasing to spine. Former owner's name to ffeps. One of 250. With intro, bibliography and brief notes.
Tiny Alice.
New York: Atheneum, 1965. 8vo. 190pp. Signed by Edward Albee. Clean interior. Binding tight. Rubbing and chipping to dj. Inscription to previous owner on ffep.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1956. First edition. 8vo. 131 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped, light rubbing and brown aging along dj edges. Former owners name to ffep. A critical study of the dramatic works of Beaumont and Fletcher.
Ironhand.
London: Methuen, 1965. First edition. 157 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. First edition. Adapted from Goethe's Goetz Von Berlichingen, which was in turn based on the historical adventurer-poet of the same name. Some very light shelfwear to boards & spine. Light cocking but binding very sturdy. Light foxing to textblock top edge.....
The Birds & The Frogs.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1979. 62 pp., 4to. Green leather hardcover w/ gilt lettering & decorations. Collector's edition bound in genuine leather. A. e. g. Silk ribbon bookmark attached. Illustrated by Marian Parry. Some llight shelfwear to boards. Some cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Pgs clean.....
The Frogs.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. 100 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Illustrated w/ sketches by Richard Sears. A play detailing the god Dionysus' quest to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead. Boards & spine fine. Binding sturdy. Some very light foxing to textblock edges, pds &.....
The Wasps.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. 130 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. The fourth play of Aristophanes. A satire on the law courts of the author's day. Illustrated by Geraldine Sakall. Boards & spine fine. Binding very sturdy. Some light foxing to textblock edges. Interior clean & crisp. Light.....
The Chinese Drama:; From the Earliest Times Until Today
Bronx, NY: Benjamin Blom, 1966. Reissue. 217 pp., squarish 8vo. Paperback. Reissue. "A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin & describing its actors (in both male & female roles): their costumes & make-up, superstitions & stage slang: the accompanying music & musical instruments: concluding w/ synopses.....
On the Frontier:; A Melodrama In Three Acts
New York: Random House, 1938. First edition. 121 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. First edition. A play about the outbreak of war between two fictional European countries. Light sunning & some dampstains to boards & spine. Binding very sturdy. Light dampstains to textblock edges. Light soiling to eps, otherwise interior clean.....
The Dramatic Works of Honore de Balzac.
Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, 1901. 8vo. Vol I, 370 pp; Vol II, 248 pp. Both volumes show rubbing and light scuffing (more to first volume), lightly bumped corners, former owner's bookplate to fpd. Frontispiece of VolII is detached, laid in. Rendered into English by E. de Valcourt-Vermont. Vol I......
The Cambridge Guide to Theatre.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Thick 4to, 1233 pp. Light edgewear, light dampstain to front lower corner/spinetail (visible in margin of first several pages), large faint dampstain to lower portion of rear cover, soiling to exterior. DJ has light wear to edges, moderate soiling, dampstaining, light scuffing/rubbing...
A New and Complete Concordance of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare; 4 vol.
New York: Gordon Press, 1976. 4 vol; 1910 pp tota. 4to. Cloth. Minor edgewear, light bumping to spine ends. Slight soiling to textblocks. Full title: "A New and Complete Concordance of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare; 4 vol."
John Dryden: Four Comedies.
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1967. 4to (small). 412 pp. Light soiling to front cover. Spine ends gently bumped. Light foxing to text block. ""I had forgot one half I do protest/ And now am sent again to speak the rest.."
Waiting For Godot:; A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
New York: Grove Press, 1954. First edition. 61 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. The classic play about madness, boredom, human suffering, cruelty & hilarity. Light cocking to spine but binding tight. Some faint foxing to textblock fore edge. Sm po pen sgnature to ffep & light foxing.....
Richard's Cork Leg.
New York: Grove Press, 1974. First edition. 87 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. A hair-raisingly funny play set in a Dublin cemetery. Boards fine. Binding sturdy. Textblock clean & crisp. Light shelfwear to dj. W/ photo of playwright laid in.
Studies in the English Renaissance Drama.
New York: New York University, 1959. 8vo. 369 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped, light rubbing and small tears along dj edges, former owners name stamped into ffep, dj is price-clipped. Book is in otherwise great condition.
The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. 8vo. 206 pp. Cloth bright. Interior clean and tight. Owner's ink signature ffep. Dj sl. creased at front flap. Readings of six of Shaw's plays: Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion and Saint Joan. Shaw's self-revelation through.....
The History of the English Stage.
Boston: William S. & Henry Spear, 1814. 8vo. 148 pp. +60 pp. Memoirs of the Life of Miss Anne Oldfield. Marbled endpapers. Front cover detached but present. Rubbing to joints, edges, corners and psine ends. Light sunning to spine, joints, and leather corners. Marbled boards. Soiling to text block, light.....
The Concise Oxford Companion To American Theatre.
Oxford UK & New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. 8vo. 451 pp. D.j. is lightly rubbed and has tiny crease at head of spine. Abridgement of the original volume, eliminating many entries on minor plays and figures but preserving those articles that are of widest general interest. Biographical sketches.....
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. 4to. 734 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, light rubbing along dj edges, white price sticker to front dj flap. Otherwise book is in excellent condition.