Doctor Johnson; A Play
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, 1923. Hard Cover. Octavo. Bound in 3/4 leather. Gilt lettering to spine. Five raised bands. Limited to 585 numbered copies and is SIGNED by A.Edward Newton. More
Plays
Death of a Salesman.
New York City: The Limited Editions Club, 1984. Leather Bound. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Quarto. 165 pages. Bound inrust -brown Nigerian goatskin in brown slipcase. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the author, Arthur Miller, and the illustrator, Leonard Baskin, this being copy 1342. Fading to the spine. More
The Cyprus Passion Cycle.
Nortre Dame: Publications in Mediaeval Studies. 1947. Wraps. Softcover.225pp. Gray wrappers. Small circular stain to front cover. Publications in Mediaeval Studies. number 9. More
The Great Magoo.
New York: Covici-Friede, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 21 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 208pg. Illustrated by Herman Rosse. Black cloth in dust jacket. Chipping to edges of the jacket. Stain and some foxing to the foredges and endpapers, not effecting interior of the rest of the pages. More
The Threepenny Opera.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Collector's Edition. 29.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. 155 pages. Black cloth gold embossed design and lettering housed in original slipcase. Original lithograph frontispiece. Limited to 2000 copies SIGNED by the illustrator, Jack Levine and the author of the introduction by Eric Bentley this..... More
Four Comedies.
London: Curwen Press, 1922. Limited ed. 3/4 Leather. 22 x 15 cm. Octavo. 320pp. Frontispiece portrait. Handsomely bound in 3/4 brown leather with marble boards and endpapers. 5 raised bands to spine. Limited to 500 copies signed by the author, this being copy 378. Rubbing to edges of the boards..... More
Love for Love A Comedy; Acted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields
London: Jacob Tonson at the Judge's-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1695. Second edition. Wraps. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. 85 pages. Bound in plain, old, grey wrappers. Stated second edition, published the same year as the first. Previous owner's more modern decorative bookplate inside front cover. A bit of..... More
Santa Claus; A Morality
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. Hardcover. 27.5 x 19.5 cm. Quarto. 18pp. Red and black cloth in dust jacket. All four corners of jacket flaps are clipped. Pink stain to rear jacket and rear flap which also effects the rear endpapers.Chipping and some tape repaired tears to the..... More
The Iceman Cometh.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 29.5 x 18 cm. Quarto. 153 pages. Grey cloth housed in original grey slipcase. Limited to 2000 copies SIGNED by the artist, Leaonard Baskin, this being copy number 1342. Bound in lithograph with tissue guard by Baskin. Some sun fading..... More
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry.
New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 21 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 370pp. Black and brown boards in illustrated dust jacket. First edition, stating first and with a numberline beginning in 2 as is typical for Random House first printings. Some light toning to the jacket. Original price of..... More
The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. Ltd, 1888. Hardcover. 25 x 16.5 cm. Two volume set. 998pp.15 illustrations, including portraits and facsimiles, some fold-out. Professionally rebound into modern red boards, preserving the original illustrated front cover cloth. New endpapers. Some uncut pages. A few pages are foxed near the..... More
Helen Comes of Age.
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Limited. Hard Cover. Quarto. 221pp Red cloth gilt lettering to spine. (Spine shows light sun-fading) 221pp This edition is loimited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the author. Name and date of previous owner on fep. More
Strindberg The Plays Vol. One.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 480 pages. Blue cloth with gold design to spine and red and gold portrait to cover. A fine copy in mylar wrapper. SIGNED by the translator, Michael Meyer, on the title page. Volume 1 only. More
The Works of John Dryden Volume VIII: Plays The Wild Gallant, The Rival Ladies, The Indian Queen.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997. Third printing. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 376pp. Bound in blue boards, no jacket. Black "X" on foredge and bottom foredge. Top corner bumped. Volume 8. More
I Am A Camera; A Play in Three Acts
Random House. First printing. Hardcover. octavo. (21cm x 14cm) 182pp. A Random House Play. Adapted from the Berlin Stories of Christopher Isherwood. More
Remarks, Critical and Illustrative, on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakspeare.
London: J.Johnson in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1783. First edition. 1/2 Leather. Octavo. [2], viii, 232, 235-240, [2]. Rebound in 1/2 tan leather and brown boards.Gilt lettering to spine. Prospectus on George Steevens' edition of Shakespeare. New endpapers. Occasional ink notes. ECTC citation No. T46740. Ritson's critque dinnounces most other Shakespearians..... More
The Judge; A Play in Four Acts
New York: Robert M. McBridge & Company, 1924. First American edition. Hardcover. 21.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 105pp. Teal boards in the rare dust jacket. Authorized translation by Marie Zakrevsky and Barrett H. Clark. First American edition with Published 1924 on copyright page and no additional printings noted. Some toning..... More
Julia Domna.
New York: Vale Press Messrs. Hacon & Ricketts, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 24 x 15 cm. Octavo. 53 pages. 1 of 240 copies. Woodcut illustrations by Charles Ricketts. Patterned paper covered boards with apper title label to spine. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. A previous owner has "markered out"..... More
The Plays of Moliere in 6 volumes Auteuil Edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1909. Auteuil Edition. Hardcover. Six volume set, uniformly bound in red cloth with tan spine labels. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. Limited to 1000 extra illustrated sets this being set number 455. Frontispieces in each. Gilt top foredge. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Previous owner's..... More
The Works of Moliere.
Paris/Philadelphia: Chez Barrie Freres, Editeurs/G. Barrie, circa 1880. Hardcover. Quarto. (29cm x 23cm) Bound in full black leather with gilt lettering to spine. Four raised bands to each volume. 32 original wrappers bound in 11 volumes. Each of the 32 parts has a limitation page. Complete. Illustrated with engravings by..... More
She Stoops to Conquer or the Mistakes of a Night.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1964. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 29.5 x 21 cm. Quarto.121 pages. Bound in yellow buckram housed in slipcase. Laid in monthly letter. Rubbing to the slipcase only. 681/1500 copies signed by the illustrator. More
A Masque of Reason.
New York: Henry Holy and Company / The Spiral Press, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 26 x 18 cm. Sm 4to. 30 pages. Tan cloth spine with brown boards housed in original black slipcase. Limited to 800 copies signed by the author, Robert Frost, this being copy 604. Book itself is..... More
Comedies of Words.
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Co, 1917. First edition. Hard Cover. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to cover. 182pp and ads. 1st Edition. Very nice copy. More
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare Vol. 1 Romeo and Juliet.
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1898. Hardcover. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 480pp. Bound in blue pebbled cloth. Previous owner's bookplate and small date stamp on front free endpaper. "Student's Edition" as per title page. Some uncut pages. Nice copy. More
The Glass Menagerie.
New York: Random House, 1945. First printing. Hardcover. 19 x 12.5 cm. 12mo.124pp. Bound in dull red cloth. Frontispiece. Stated first printing. Some pen marks: address on front free endpaper, note on cast list, parenthesis on poage ix, two works corssed out and "corrected" page 4. one line crossed out..... More