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At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Starsby: Botto, Louis

At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars
by: Botto, Louis

Hardcover. New York, Playbill/ Applause Thetre& Cinama Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Minor rubbing to top spine. Light soil on rear. This is the ultimate backstage tour of Broadway! AT THIS THEATRE tells the complete history of Broadway in the 20th century, theatre by theatre. This gorgeous book is now updated, revised and with a larger format, covering 1900 to 2001. PLAYBILL's columnist, Louis Botto, along with Robert Viagas, opens the doors and lets readers explore the 40 active Broadway theatres in New York. From the conception and design of the buildings, to their original creators, and on to the theatres' transformation, often under duress, from legitimate houses to vaudeville and Burlesque, to movie houses and then back to their original purpose, this book captures the magical world of Broadway. It is a complete and authoritative history that only Botto, the curator of PLAYBILL's incomparable 116-year-old archives, can tell.

Record # 369032

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Bugbee's Minstrel Plays: The Honey Boy Minstrelsby: Giles, Billy

Bugbee's Minstrel Plays: The Honey Boy Minstrels
by: Giles, Billy

Softcover. Syracuse, NY, Willis N Bugbee Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet. Green paper wrappers with softened edges. Light soil to paper wrappers. tight copy. Lightly faded on rear.

Record # 368191

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By Southern Playwrights: Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville (SIGNED BY HARRY CREWS)by: Crews, Harry and others

By Southern Playwrights: Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville (SIGNED BY HARRY CREWS)
by: Crews, Harry and others

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of plays performed in Louisville. Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky. Including plays by: Wendell Berry, Roy Blount, Jr., Harry Crews, and Marsha Norman. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on the front fly leaf to poet friend Ed Hyland: "For Ed - Best wishes for resilience in your work. Keep your ass in the chair - Harry Crews". The Crews play "Blood Issue" is included. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 412049

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Caroline, or Change: A Musicalby: Tesori, Jeanine

Caroline, or Change: A Musical
by: Tesori, Jeanine

softcover. New York, Theatre Communications Group, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469305

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Ciao Venezia: The 78th Grove Playby: James L Benington & Bradford W Young

Ciao Venezia: The 78th Grove Play
by: James L Benington & Bradford W Young

Hardcover. San Francisco, The Bohemian Club, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and green decorated white boards, no dj issued. 69 pages, Carl Eberhard, composer. J. Robert Minser, director. Color illustrated stage design spread by Herbert P. Buel. Clean copy.

Record # 382433

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DANGEROUS CORNER: A Play in Three Acts by: Priestley, J. B.

DANGEROUS CORNER: A Play in Three Acts
by: Priestley, J. B.

Hardcover. NY, Samuel French, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with paper label on spine. 131 pages. covers slightly splayed, clean copy. Robert Caplan and his wife are entertaining her brother and sister-in-law. Because Robert insists on uncovering the truth about his brother Martin's 'suicide', many unpalatable revelations ensue which cause Robert to shoot himself. At this point, the opening scene is repeated, but this time they bypass the dangerous corner at which the truth is demanded, thus averting the disaster.Written in 1932 this forms one of the three 'time plays'.

Record # 380932

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Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hartby: Steven Bach

Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart
by: Steven Bach

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 480 pages, b&w photos. The first full-length biography of the 'Prince of Broadway' highlights the wit and sophistication of playwright and director Moss Hart as it describes his rise from poverty to success in the New York theatrical world, his remarkable contributions to the American theater, and his sometimes turbulent private life. Clean copy.

Record # 384778

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Doubt: A Parableby: Shanley, John Patrick

Doubt: A Parable
by: Shanley, John Patrick

Softcover. NY, Theatre Communications Group, 2nd printing, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages. SIGNED BY ACTRESS CHERRY JONES on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462581

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Eh Joe and Other Writingsby: Beckett, Samuel

Eh Joe and Other Writings
by: Beckett, Samuel

London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth with gilt title on spine minus the dust jacket. 44 pages. This volume includes the texts of Eh Joe, which was produced by BBC Television in July 1966, plus Act Without Words II and Film. Clean copy.

Record # 383006

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Ellen Terry by: Scott, Clement

Ellen Terry
by: Scott, Clement

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st, 1900, Hardcover, red cloth with bright gilt stamping, 150 pages. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker, photographic frontispiece portrait of actress Terry, as well as numerous photographs of her in various dramatic productions. Clean copy.

Record # 387030

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Franca Rame: A Woman on Stageby: Walter Valeri

Franca Rame: A Woman on Stage
by: Walter Valeri

Softcover. West LafayetteIN, Bordighera, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. The biography of an Italian actress, playwright, and lecturer. Clean copy.

Record # 398107

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In the Summer Houseby: Bowles, Jane

In the Summer House
by: Bowles, Jane

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, b&w photographs from the 1953 play. In a very good dust jacket that's unclipped. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 408891

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Kathakali Dance Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play by: Phillip Zarrilli

Kathakali Dance Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
by: Phillip Zarrilli

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colorful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west. During these performances heroes, heroines, gods and demons tell their stories of traditional Indian epics. The four Kathakali plays included in this anthology, translated from actual performances into English are: * The Flower of Good Fortune * The Killing of Kirmmira * The Progeny of Krishna * King Rugmamgada's Law Each play has an introduction and detailed commentary and is illustrated by stunning photographs taken during performances. Clean copy.

Record # 382051

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Love in the Suds; a Town Ecologue Being the Lamentatin of Roscius for the Loss of His NYKY Third Edition 1772 Augustan Reprint Society Publicatin Number 246by: Kenric

Love in the Suds; a Town Ecologue Being the Lamentatin of Roscius for the Loss of His NYKY Third Edition 1772 Augustan Reprint Society Publicatin Number 246
by: Kenric

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. A facsimile reprint of a scandalous pamphlet published in 1772. Kendrick was a notorious literary libeler who had a grudge against David Garrick, manager of Drury Lane, imagining he sabotaged his theatrical career. Clean copy.

Record # 386970

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Lucius, The First Christian King of Britain. A Tragedy (1717)by: Manley, Delariviere

Lucius, The First Christian King of Britain. A Tragedy (1717)
by: Manley, Delariviere

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, facsimile reprint from 1717, 56 pages. with an introduction by Jack M. Armistead and Debbie K. Davis. The Augustan Reprint Society Pub. No. 253-254. Clean copy.

Record # 386978

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Maides Tragedy, Theby: Beaumont, Francis/John Fletcher

Maides Tragedy, The
by: Beaumont, Francis/John Fletcher

Hardcover. New York, Cheshire House, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages. Half leather with marbled boards. Title in gilt on sun faded spine. Illustrated with wood engravings by Freda Bone. This being #406 of 1200 copies.

Record # 604096

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Marionettes, Theby: Faulkner, William

Marionettes, The
by: Faulkner, William

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1st Thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 106 pages. A Play with black & white illustrations by Faulkner. Clean, tight copy. Introduction by Noel Polk. In a bright yellow dust jacket.

Record # 608351

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Mexican Folk Plays by: Josephina Niggli Frederick H. Koch edited with an Introduction by

Mexican Folk Plays
by: Josephina Niggli Frederick H. Koch edited with an Introduction by

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated yellow cloth covers with light soil, 227 pages. Illustrated with 7 b&w photos. These five one-act plays, originally produced by the Carolina Playmakers at Chapel Hill and on various tours, offer an unusual combination of brilliant local color and truth about human nature everywhere. Well written, with skillful stage directions and notes on Mexican costume and Spanish pronunciation, they are highly practical for production. Internally clean, no dust jacket.

Record # 373656

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Monna Vanna: A Play in Three Actsby: Maurice Maeterlinck

Monna Vanna: A Play in Three Acts
by: Maurice Maeterlinck

Hardcover. NY , Harper Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover light gray boards stamped with a white and gilt design, gray cloth spine. Top edge gilt. Originally published in France in 1902, this is the first US edition of a play set in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century. B&w frontis of the author with a tissue guard. Previous owner's name on the front fly leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy.

Record # 397617

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Motion of History, The; and Other Playsby: Baraka, Amiri

Motion of History, The; and Other Plays
by: Baraka, Amiri

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gutter cracked in three places. Dust jacket shows edgewear and small tears at corners. Fading to top cover boards.

Record # 353998

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Oklahoma! by: Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein II

Oklahoma!
by: Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein II

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty cloth with blue and red stamping, 146 pages, b&w photos from the 1943 production directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Top edge stained blue. Stated second printing, a tight, clean copy with a mild musty odor. No dust jacket.

Record # 385607

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Oleanna: A Playby: Mamet, David

Oleanna: A Play
by: Mamet, David

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean and tight copy. Light edgewear to cover edges.

Record # 455928

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One Day More: A Play In One Actby: Joseph Conrad

One Day More: A Play In One Act
by: Joseph Conrad

Hardcover. London, Beaumont Press, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Cloth-backed patterned paper boards designed by Michel Sevier. The sixth book published by the Press. Paper label on spine is chipped and tanned. Cover edges and corners worn, there is a small splash of red color to middle of sine cloth on front. Interior is bright and clean. #192 of 250 copies. One Day More' is a reworking of Conrad's short story 'Tomorrow'. It centers on a family which have structured their lives around the hope and promise of their son returning from a long stint at sea. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to ever write in the English language.

Record # 378488

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Passages from Finnegan's Wake: A Free Adaptation for the Theaterby: Joyce, James and Mary Manning (ed.)

Passages from Finnegan's Wake: A Free Adaptation for the Theater
by: Joyce, James and Mary Manning (ed.)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd printing, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 73 pages. Third book in the Poets' Theatre Series. Dark blue cloth covers, white titles to spine dust jacket with b&w illustration. Slight soiling to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401203

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Producing Plays: A Handbook for Producer and Players by: Purdom, C. B. (Charles Benjamin)

Producing Plays: A Handbook for Producer and Players
by: Purdom, C. B. (Charles Benjamin)

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. 231 pages with b/w illustrations, 28 photographs and twelve diagrams. Written to assist the producers of amateur plays. First published in London the same year. Clean copy.

Record # 385634

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Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Actsby: Barrie, J. M. and Hugh Thomson

Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts
by: Barrie, J. M. and Hugh Thomson

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, nd (1913), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth covers with elaborate gilt design featuring 3 ladies drinking tea, 197 pages. 17 color illustrations plus frontispiece by Hugh Thomson, all tipped in and with tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Corners lightly rubbed, spine wear, light stain to rear cover. No date but assumed 1920s and first illustrated thus.

Record # 502215

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Rattigan Version, The:  Sir Terrence Rattigan and the Theatre of Characterby: Young, B. A.

Rattigan Version, The: Sir Terrence Rattigan and the Theatre of Character
by: Young, B. A.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. In a clean, unclipped dust jacket. Rattigan was a renowned English playwright, the author of 22 plays.

Record # 358584

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See and Seem Blind: Or, A Critical Dissertation on the Publick Diversions, &c (1732). Introduction by Robert D. Humeby: Anonymous

See and Seem Blind: Or, A Critical Dissertation on the Publick Diversions, &c (1732). Introduction by Robert D. Hume
by: Anonymous

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 42 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1732 pamphlet with introduction by Robert Hume. Published anonymously but thought to have been written by Aaron Hill (1685-1750). The pamphlet turns out to be a fascinatingly particular review of the cultural affairs in London during the winter and spring of 1732. Clean copy.

Record # 386968

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Selected Plays by: Tennessee Williams/Jerry Pinkney

Selected Plays
by: Tennessee Williams/Jerry Pinkney

Hardcover. Franklin Center,PA, The Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full leather binding, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon marker, hubbed spine, gilt decorations on spine and covers. Two=color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney.

Record # 372337

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She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Nightby: Goldsmith, Oliver/Hugh Thomson

She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night
by: Goldsmith, Oliver/Hugh Thomson

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 25 tipped-in full color plates and black & white images by Hugh Thomson. Hinges intact but tender. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612399

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She Stoops to Conquerby: Goldsmith, Oliver/F.C Gordon (Illustrations)

She Stoops to Conquer
by: Goldsmith, Oliver/F.C Gordon (Illustrations)

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st thus, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 204 pages. b/w illustrations throughout by F.C. Gordon. All edges gilt. Beautiful binding, cover boards bound in blue cloth, extensive gilt decoration on spine and front cover board. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Spine has a little fraying at bottom. Binding tight. Pages clean. Page 112 hinge split at gutter. Comedy in five acts.

Record # 379845

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Sir Arthur Pinero: A Critical Biography with Lettersby: Dunkel, Wilbur Dwight

Sir Arthur Pinero: A Critical Biography with Letters
by: Dunkel, Wilbur Dwight

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovrt in a lightly worn dust jacket, 141 pages. Frontis photo of Pinero. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 - 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. He became a prolific and successful playwright, authoring fifty-nine plays. These include serious social dramas, some dealing with social hypocrisy surrounding attitudes to women in second marriages. 'Pinero's talent was stagecraft. He knew how to organize material for effective presentation on the stage. He understood the mass psychology, the emotional reaction of the group in the theater, and thought little of the individual reader. As a result, the dialogue in his plays is right for the actor and the audience, but disconcerting to the readers. But in particular, Pinero was the master of suspense, motivating the turns in his plot sequence with unerring skill. For he understood stage business, the timinng of motion and sound, and, above all, the reactions of an audience to the physical properties on the stage itself. ' Clean copy.

Record # 384833

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Steambath: A Playby: Bruce Jay Friedman

Steambath: A Play
by: Bruce Jay Friedman

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, paper-covered boards quarter-bound in cream cloth with gilt lettering to spine, top edge tinted blue, halftone photos of the production, Directed by and starring Anthony Perkins, this play was produced way off-Broadway and revealed that God is a Puerto Rican steambath attendant. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 385627

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Stillborn Lover, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Findley, Timothy

Stillborn Lover, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Findley, Timothy

Hardcover. Winnipeg Canada, Blizzard Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. SIGNED BY FINDLEY on title page. Slight wear to dust jacket with old price-sticker to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 450138

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Street: A Play by: Aiken, Joan, Illustrated by Arvis Stewart

Street: A Play
by: Aiken, Joan, Illustrated by Arvis Stewart

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 79 pages. Illustrated by Arvis Stewart. Music by John Sebastian Brown. Small bookplate on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 380983

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Tales of the Drama: Founded on The Tragedies of Shakespeare, Massinger, Shirley, Rowe, Murphy, Lillo, and Moore, and on the Comedies of Steele, Farquhar, Cumberland, Bickertaff, Goldsmith, and Mrs. Cowley

Tales of the Drama: Founded on The Tragedies of Shakespeare, Massinger, Shirley, Rowe, Murphy, Lillo, and Moore, and on the Comedies of Steele, Farquhar, Cumberland, Bickertaff, Goldsmith, and Mrs. Cowley

Hardcover. Exeter, Robinson and Towle, 1st, 1833, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 426 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather with title in gilt on spine. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white engravings. Book measures: 6.25" H X 3.75" W. Pages with light to moderate foxing throughout. Front cover hinge cracked - cover holding with original binding strings.

Record # 613750

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Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography by: Shepherd Mead/ Dakin Williams

Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography
by: Shepherd Mead/ Dakin Williams

Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages with photographs. Biography co-written by the author's brother. The definitive biography of one of America's most celebrated playwrights. Drawing on previously unseen diaries, letters, and interviews, the authors explore the life and work of Williams, from his early years in Mississippi to his landmark plays of the 1950s and 1960s. Clean copy.

Record # 387549

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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Fleshby: John Lahr

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by: John Lahr

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 765 pages, b&w illustrations. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life-his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin-Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams's plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams's tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.

Record # 378675

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The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Actsby: Auden, W. H.; and Isherwood, Christopher

The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts
by: Auden, W. H.; and Isherwood, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, off-white cloth with red and gilt stamping. Tanning to edges of cloth, no markings. A two-act play.

Record # 383020

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The Chalk Garden: A Play by: Bagnold, Enid

The Chalk Garden: A Play
by: Bagnold, Enid

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket priced at 9s 6d net. 88 pages, b&w frontis of Dame Edith Evans, another plate with photos from the stage production. The plot tells the story of the imperious Mrs St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under the care of Miss Madrigal, a governess, whose past life is a mystery. Previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf.

Record # 385602

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The Dog Beneath the Skin or, Where is Francis? A Play in Three Actsby: Auden, W. H.; Isherwood, Christopher

The Dog Beneath the Skin or, Where is Francis? A Play in Three Acts
by: Auden, W. H.; Isherwood, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in blue and red. 161 pages, clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 383306

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The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse A New Version of an Old Story Arranged as a Play for Mummers in One Act Requiring No Theatre or Scenteryby:

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse A New Version of an Old Story Arranged as a Play for Mummers in One Act Requiring No Theatre or Scentery
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Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design. 77 pages Frontis. and one plate from drawings by Hardy. The story of Tristram and Iseult written as a one act play by Thomas Hardy. Clean copy.

Record # 381759

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The Field God and In Abraham's Bosomby: Green, Paul

The Field God and In Abraham's Bosom
by: Green, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 2nd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated boards, black cloth spine, paper title labels, lacking dust jacket. American playwright, Green won the Pulitzer in 1927 for In Abraham's Bosom. 317 pages, top edge stained red. A clean, bright copy.

Record # 380904

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The Fruits of Enlightenmentby: Tolstoi, Lyof

The Fruits of Enlightenment
by: Tolstoi, Lyof

Hardcover. Boston, John W. Luce and Company, 1st US, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth over tan cloth boards, no dustwrapper; 149 pages. No date but appears to be circa 1900. A uncommon edition of a Tolstoy play. Title page states "Authorized Edition". Owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 379587

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The Golden Apple: A Musical in Two Actsby: Latouche, John and Jerome Moross

The Golden Apple: A Musical in Two Acts
by: Latouche, John and Jerome Moross

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, "A Random House Play", 131 pages illustrated with photographs from the stage production featuring Kaye Ballard and Jerry Stiller. Cover label illustration by Hirschfeld. John Latouche's Introduction is his unusual expository curtain speech recounting the circumstances of the plays inception and history. Front end paper tanned. No dust jacket.

Record # 383383

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The Ladies of the Corridor: A Playby: Dorothy Parker, Arnaud d'Usseau

The Ladies of the Corridor: A Play
by: Dorothy Parker, Arnaud d'Usseau

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone blue cloth covers, 120 pages. The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York. One of literature's leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker's life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d'Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman's life in a drama teeming with Parker's signature wit. This copy INSCRIBED BY FRANCES STARR on the front fly leaf who had a leading role in the play as Mrs. Nichols.

Record # 383649

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The Little Foxesby: Hellman, Lillian

The Little Foxes
by: Hellman, Lillian

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd Printing, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 159 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover and signature on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Oatmeal cloth with gilt titling over black, black topstain. Includes listing of original cast, including Tallulah Bankhead and Dan Duryea.

Record # 607796

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The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act (SIGNED COPY)by: Wilder, Thornton

The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act (SIGNED COPY)
by: Wilder, Thornton

Hardcover. NY/New Haven, Coward-McCann / Yale University, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, #38/525 copies, Numbered and SIGNED by Wilder on a leaf tipped onto the copyright page, bound in faux-vellum spine, flowered paper covered boards. Mild foxing to a few pages, otherwise clean. A one act play whose action spans 90 years in the home of one family, specifically in the dining room during Christmas dinners. laid in is a page of The Yale Alumni Weekly from 1931 with a review of the play.

Record # 378485

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The Malice of Empire: A Play by: Yao Hsin-Nung/ translated by Jeremy Ingalls

The Malice of Empire: A Play
by: Yao Hsin-Nung/ translated by Jeremy Ingalls

Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR INGALLS on the front fly leaf. The desperate struggle between the aging Manchu Empress T z'u-hsi and her young nephew the Emperor, at the close of the nineteenth century. A story told as a parable against both Japanese occupation and the Communist rule. Small ownersjp stamp on first page, otherwise clean.

Record # 387658

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The Old Debauchees: A Comedy (1732) by: Fielding, Henry

The Old Debauchees: A Comedy (1732)
by: Fielding, Henry

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A facsimile reprint.

Record # 386983

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