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By: AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES and ARISTOPHANES
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, Puritan Publishing Company: [c.1940s-50s]
Stock No.: 82502
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
A representative selection from plays by four of the more noted Greek dramatists in an edition possibly produced for a book club. Includes an introduction by Arthur Ziegler. --- In very dark blue cloth-covered boards mostly missing gilt spine titling. Volume has no dust jacket. --- A Good only copy, with soiling to cloth and nearly complete loss of spine titling. Interior remains tightly-bound and quite bright, though a few leaves with creases.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); 360 pages View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1956]
Stock No.: 81584
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
A selection of seven notable plays from ancient Greece. Includes Agamemnon and Prometheus bound by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles; Medea and Alcestis by Euripides and The Frogs by Aristophanes. Edited, with introductions and notes by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 377 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #158.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright and unmarke... View more info
By: AESCHYLUS; BLACKIE, John Stuart (translator)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: [c.1906-27]
Stock No.: 81560
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
An Everyman's Library reprint edition with the lyrical dramas of the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus (525/524 BC – c.456 BC). Includes his "Agamemnon", "Choephorae, or The Libation Bearers", "The Eumenides", "Prometheus Bound", "The Suppliants", "Seven Against Thebes" and "The Persians". Each with introductory remarks and notes. Translated from the Greek by John Stuart Blackie. Edited by Ernest Rhys, who supplies a preface, an essay on the genius and character of the Greek tragedy, and biography of Aeschylus. An entry in Everyman's Li... View more info
Price: $31.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976
Stock No.: 83844
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) wrote this collection of 22 short stories from 1915 to 1916 and published them as "Winesburg, Ohio" in 1919. All stories are set in the mythical town, and they detail the life of his George Willard character. They are presented in this deluxe Franklin Library reprint edition with illustrations by Miki. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in rich full green bonded leather co... View more info
By: ARISTOPHANES
Price: $15.50
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1911
Stock No.: 81571
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
An Everyman's Library reprint edition presenting four enduring comedic plays by Aristophanes (c.444 BC - c.380 BC). Includes: "The Acharnians", "The Knights", "The Birds" and "The Peace". Translated from the Greek by J. Hookham Frere, and with an introduction by John P. Maine. Edited by Ernest Rhys. An entry in Everyman's Library Classical series. --- In flatback binding style 1, full pale green cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain. Volume l... View more info
By: ATKINSON, Brooks (foreword)
Price: $17.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1962]
Stock No.: 81829
Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
A Modern Library edition offering six plays which debuted in the late 1940s-early 1950s and gained widespread popularity. The collection includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 408 titles... View more info
By: ATKINSON, Brooks (foreword)
Price: $15.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1969-70]
Stock No.: 83607
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
A Modern Library edition offering six plays which debuted in the late 1940s-early 1950s and which gained widespread popularity. The collection includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. Volume wrapped in blue, red and white jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 14 / blue cloth / silver spine titling / blindstamped front cover ml logo / yellow & ... View more info
By: BRECHT, Bertolt
Price: $81.50
Publisher: New York, Hillman-Curl, Inc.: 1938
Edition: First American Edition
Stock No.: 78571
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
First American Edition. A novel, based on the author's famous play, "A Threepenny Opera". Translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey; chapter-head verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. --- In red cloth-covered hardcovers with titling and beggar's hand drawing in black on cover and spine. Lacks the dust jacket. --- With a little sunning to spine and binder's glue bleed-through at endpapers, otherwise volume is firm, unmarked and clean. Scarce in this edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 396 pages View more info
By: BROWNING, Robert
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:
Stock No.: 76428
Condition: Good+ in Fair dust jacket
From the dust jacket: "...everything of importance that Browning ever wrote..." and "Including all of Browning's lyric and dramatic poetry...". A Modern Library Giant edition with introduction and biograhical information by Saxe Commins; index of first lines of poems at the rear. Though 1934 date appears on copyright page, this edition likely published c.1940. --- In Toledano spine G4 with full beige cloth covers, gilt & green titling & decorations on on cover & spine; publisher's faded green topstain, plain endpapers. Jacket style Gc, verso advertises 274 titles in ML catalog... View more info
By: BROWNING, Robert
Price: $14.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1911
Stock No.: 82899
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Volume I only in the Everyman's Library presentation of the poems and plays of Robert Browning. This volume mostly consists of his dramatic monologues and dialogues, such as "Pauline" and "The Return of the Druses". Includes an introduction by Arthur Waugh. Entry 41 in Everyman's Library Poetry and the Drama series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpape... View more info
By: BURGESS, Anthony
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1970
Edition: First American Edition
Stock No.: 82497
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stated first American edition. The acclaimed British novelist Anthony Burgess has also written classical music, plays, screenplays and many non-fiction works. In this one, he attempts to flesh out the life and personality of William Shakespeare. With text by Burgess, 48 color plates and 97 black & white illustrations. This work previously published in the U.K. by George Rainbird, Ltd. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations in silver to black spine blocks. Jacket features painted portrait of Shakespeare to back cover. --- A very nice copy, clean, and bright but with... View more info
By: CERF, Bennett & Van H. CARTMELL & Jr. Richard WATTS
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1953]
Stock No.: 82835
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
A hefty Modern Library Giant reprint edition presenting 30 well-known one-act plays by a wide variety of international authors, chosen by editors Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell. Includes an introduction by Richard Watts Jr. and with brief biographical sketches of the playwrights at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine G5 / tan cloth / gilt titling on burgundy cover & spine blocks / red topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 367 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1953 (1952 date appears in book). ML #G22.3. --- With prior owner's signature to front past... View more info
By: CERF, Bennett; CARTMELL, Van H. (compilers)
Price: $28.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1947
Edition: First Edition Thus
Stock No.: 83612
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stated First Modern Library Giant edition, 1947 (confirmed). Published as a companion volume to the Modern Library's "Sixteen Famous American Plays" and "Sixteen Famous British Plays", this collection includes notable plays by Ibsen, Tchekov, Rostand, Capek and 12 others; introduction by John Anderson. Plays compiled by Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartwell. --- In Toledano spine G5 / pale blue-grey cloth / gilt titling on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 322 titles in ML catalog. ML #G71.1. --- A clean, t... View more info
By: CERF, Bennett; CARTMELL, Van H. (editors)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1963]
Stock No.: 79782
Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket
A collection of 16 works for the stage in one Modern Library Giant hardcover volume in jacket, deemed by the editors to be by ". . .the Greatest Playwrights in America Today". Clifford Odets, Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman and many others are represented. Edited by Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartmell, with an introduction by Brooks Atkinson. Volume bears 1941 date, but likely published c.1963. --- MODERN LIBRARY PARTICULARS: SPINE-Toledano G-6, CLOTH- Green, SPINE & COVER TITLING/ACCENT COLOR- Gilt/Blue, ENDPAPERS-blank, JACKET-Style Ge/Verso lists unspecified number ... View more info
By: CHEKHOV, Anton
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania U. S. A., The Franklin Library: 1979
Stock No.: 78463
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
A selection of plays by the noted Russian physician who is perhaps best known for his short stories. Includes 4 plays: The Cherry Orchard, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya. Offered in a deluxe reprint edition, illustrated by Stan Hunter. Translated by Elisaveta Fen. --- In full crimson faux leather with gilt decorations on covers & spine, raised spine bands and titling gilt-stamped on spine. All edges gilt, and with patterned paper endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A bright, firm, clean copy lacking apparent damages.; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 274 pages View more info
By: CHEKHOV, Anton
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1966]
Stock No.: 83429
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
A collection of four plays by Russia's Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) in a Modern Library hardcover edition. Chekhov is considered one of the greatest of the Russian writers, excelling at short stories as well as drama. The plays are translated from the Russian by Stark Young, who has also supplied an introduction. --- In Toledano spine 11 / red cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / tan Kent endpapers / jacket style l, verso blank. Likely published c.1966 (though 1956 date appears in book). ML #171.2. --- Newsclip reviews taped to front endpapers... View more info
By: CHEKHOV, Anton
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Heritage Press: 1966
Stock No.: 83716
Condition: Near Fine
Two notable plays by the great Russian master of drama and the short story, in a deluxe Heritage Press illustrated reprint edition. Includes striking color and b&w illustrations by Lajos Szalay and an introduction by Sir John Gielgud; translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. --- In full grey cloth-covered boards with stamped red and gilt image of cherries to cover, gilt titling on red spine block. Volume housed in olive paper-covered slipcase. Sandglass flyer laid in (Norwalk, no number). --- With shallow creases to a couple of leaves near back of book, otherwise a clean, unmarked and... View more info
By: CORNEILLE, Pierre; RACINE, Jean
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c1949]
Stock No.: 77115
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Six plays by the great French 17th century dramatists are combined in this Modern Library edition. Edited and with an introduction by Paul Landis. Translated from the French by Paul Landis and Robert Henderson. --- Toledano spine 8, w/green cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks, green topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Volume bears 1931 date but likely published c.1949. Jacket style h, verso advertises 344 titles in ML catalog. ML #194.1. --- With spotting to topstain and fading to cover gilding; otherwise a firm, clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket bears original $1.25 fl... View more info
By: CORNEILLE, Pierre; RACINE, Jean
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 79764
Condition: Very Good in Poor dust jacket
Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1931 (confirmed). Six plays by the great French 17th century dramatists are combined in this first Modern Library edition in flexible balloon cloth. Edited and with an introduction by Paul Landis. Translated from the French by Paul Landis and Robert Henderson. --- MODERN LIBRARY PARTICULARS: SPINE-Toledano 7, CLOTH-Green, TOPSTAIN COLOR- Green, ENDPAPERS-Orange Kent, JACKET STYLE-d, TITLE COUNT ON VERSO-not present, ML# 194.1. --- The book is clean, unmarked and binding is tight. Poor at best dust jacket with a giant open tear to nearly half of front cover,... View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: London/ New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1960
Stock No.: 80399
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
A selection of five European plays chosen for their readability rather than for their suitability for production. Includes: "Lady Julie" by August Strindberg, "Hannele" by Gerhart Hauptmann, "The Life of the Insects" by Karel and Josef Capek, "The Infernal Machine" by Jean Cocteau and "The Mask and The Face" by Luigi Chiarelli. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Dent. Everyman's Library #989, an entry in EL's Poetry and Drama series. --- In larger format binding style 4, full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, gilt "E... View more info
Price: $36.00
Publisher: New York, John Lane Company: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 70082
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
A first edition of this copy of a collection of seven plays by Theodore Dreiser. With tipped-in 4 pg. addendum at rear, "The Anaesthetic Revelation". --- In green paper-covered boards backed in tan cloth with paper title label affixed to spine. Deckled fore- and bottom edges, green endpapers. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With inked presentation remarks to front free endpaper, 2.5-inch tear to leaf near front of volume. With some cover and spine soiling, darkening to spine label, and loosened front hinge, else a sound, intact copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 228, 4 pages View more info
By: DUMAS, Alexandre
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1978
Stock No.: 83679
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
The great French novel, first published in serial form in 1844, has been made into numerous movies and television shows. This luxurious, full leather English-language edition is illustrated with black & white illustrations by Edy Legrand; includes a preface by the author. Includes a specially commissioned frontis color portrait of Alexandre Dumas by Richard Sparks. Issued as part of the publisher's Collector's Edition series: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. --- Bound in slate grey bonded leather covers with elaborate gilt decorations stamped on covers and spine. Titling stamped on spine i... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.50
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909
Stock No.: 80687
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
A selection of 6 dramas by 6 leading English playwright/poets whose works first appeared from the 17th Century through the early 19th Century. --- Included are: All for Love, or, the World Well Lost by John Dryden; The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith; The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning; and Manfred by Lord Byron. The 18th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies an introduction to each play. With sepia frontis illus... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80700
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
A selection of six plays by European authors and rendered into English by various translators. The 26th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductions and notes. With sepia frontis illustration of Molière in audience with Louis XIV. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green topstain. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With a bruise and torn cloth to back cover edge, sunning to spine and chafing to cloth at head of spine... View more info
By: EURIPIDES
Price: $194.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1983
Stock No.: 81870
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
A deluxe, two-volume Franklin Library set presenting the classic Greek tragedies of Euripides. Plays translated from the Greek by Edward P. Coleridge and with illustrations by Carla Bauer. An entry in publisher's 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of the Great Books of the Western World. One in an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in rich full black bonded leather covers with three raised bands on each spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spines, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Gold silk moire endpa... View more info
By: EURIPIDES; GRENE, David; LATTIMORE, Richmond (editors)
Price: $15.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1964]
Stock No.: 82762
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
A Modern Library collection of five classic Greek tragedies by Euripides, Volume VII in the Modern Library series "The Complete Greek Tragedies". Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. "Orestes" and "The Bacchae" translated and introduced by William Arrowsmith, "Iphigenia in Aulis" translated and introduced by Charles R. Walker, "Electra" translated and introduced by Emily Townsend Vermeule, "The Phoenician Women" translated and introduced by Elizabeth Wyckoff. --- In Toledano spine 11 / blue cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to... View more info
By: EYLES, Allen
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Exeter, England, Black Pig Editions: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 80102
ISBN: 090772423X
Condition: Near Fine
A signed, limited edition tribute to Dorothy and all the characters from the Land of Oz. Number 416 of a limited edition of 500 copies and signed by author on limitation page. With profiles of the many individual Oziana characters, and with focus on the movie and theatre productions of the Wizard of Oz. Loaded with color photos and illustrations. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with silver-stamped Tin Woodman figure on cover, titling in silver on spine. The book is protected in a black paper-covered slipcase. Lacks a dust jacket, likely as issued. --- With very light dusty soiling to cl... View more info
By: EYLES, Allen
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, HPBooks: 1985
Stock No.: 80260
ISBN: 0895864150
Condition: Near Fine
A softcover reprint edition of Allen Eyles's tribute to Dorothy and all the characters from the Land of Oz. With profiles of the many individual Oziana characters, and with focus on the movie and theatre productions of the Wizard of Oz. Loaded with color photos and illustrations. --- In bright red covers with silver-stamped Tin Woodman figure on cover. --- A clean, bright, stable copy but with minor rubbing to covers.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); 96 pages View more info
By: FARRAR, Geraldine; GEST, Morris
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, A. L. Burt Company: 1915
Stock No.: 74878
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Special edition, based on the Paramount motion picture directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Though attributed to Geraldine Farrar, who starred in this movie, this work based on the original story by Prosper Merimee and the screenplay by Jesse L. Lasky; with an arrangement by Morris Gest. With 13 photos from the motion picture. In blue cloth-covered boards with one of the above photos pasted to cover and titling in blue on cover and spine. Blacked-out area and inkings, front free endpaper; else a firm, unmarked copy. Spine a bit sunned. ; Small 8vo 7-1/2" - 8" tall; 189 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Delta/Dell Publishing Co. , Inc.: 1971
Stock No.: 71252
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Exposure to dampness has caused minor rippling to first few pages; covers scuffed, w/2 or 3 spine creases; otherwise solid & complete copy. Good precis of the basis of the Bard's core themes of each of his 37 plays. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: FITZGERALD, Edward (translator)
Price: $16.00
Publisher: London/ New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1948
Stock No.: 81846
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
An Everyman's Library edition offering both the first (1859) and second (1868) editions of the famous poem by the Persian poet Omar Khayyám, as well as six plays by the 17th century Spanish poet and playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. All rendered into English by Edward FitzGerald. The Rubáiyát is accompanied by a Life of Omar Khayyám and an introduction by Ernest Rhys. The six Calderón plays are: "The Painter of His Own Dishonour", "Keep Your Own Secret", "Gil Perez, the Gallician", "Three Judgments at a Blow", "The Mayor of Zalamea", and "... View more info
By: GAMMOND, Peter
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Salamander/Harmony Books: 1979
Stock No.: 73938
ISBN: 0517538407
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
In green paper-covered boards w/titling in gilt on spine. Interior bears over 250 photos in color and b&w of the best-loved operas. Sorted by composer name; each entry includes plot information, recordings which may be available; as well as cast members in the recordings; as well as stills of staged versions of the opera in question. In great shape, with a clean, unmarked interior. Dust jacket in mylar; clipped flap price; else in great shape. Ideal reference for the opera lover. ; A Salamander book; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 pages View more info
By: GILBERT, W. S.; SULLIVAN, Arthur
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Book League of America: 1941
Stock No.: 78226
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
12 of the much-admired comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan, in a nice reprint edition. Includes "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of Penzance", "The Mikado" and others. With line drawings scattered throughout by Mr. Gilbert. --- In navy flexible leatherette covers, silver-stamped titling and decorations on spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A clean, firm, bright copy but with minor rubbing & creasing to covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 504 pages View more info
By: GOGOL, Nikolay
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1966
Stock No.: 83647
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
A selection of a novel, a play and several stories in English by the Russian author Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852). Includes his novel "Taras Bulba", described as an ". . .epic of the military brotherhood of the Cossacks" (per Ross, p.211). Also includes the comedy "The Inspector General" and five short stories. All translations by C. J. Hogarth, except "Inspector", which was by B. G. Guerney. Includes an introduction by Nikolay Andreyev. Everyman's Library #740, an entry in EL's Fiction series. --- A 1966 reprint edition, in Everyman's Library larger format binding ... View more info
By: GOLDONI, Carlo
Price: $46.50
Publisher: France, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade / NRF / Éditions Gallimard: 1972
Stock No.: 83437
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
A collection of plays by the acclaimed Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) in a handsome French language edition in the series by the Bibliothèque de Pléiade. Goldoni's works won a large audience for their wit and verisimilitude and rely heavily on the author's experiences in his native Venice. Préface by Paul Renucci. Rendered into French from the Italian, with annotations by Michel Arnaud. Notices by Anna Fontes. --- In pebbled blue leather covers with gilt-stamped spine titling and gilt horizontal spine rules. Each volume with two sewn-in blue satin ribbon bookmarks, text printed... View more info
Price: $18.50
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1964
Stock No.: 82509
Condition: Very Good+
A handsome Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase of Oliver Goldsmith's comedic play, first performed in 1773. The story revolves around a high-born woman who poses as a maid in order to win the favor of a wealthy London man who prefers commoners. With illustrations and decorations by T. M. Cleland, a frontis image of Goldsmith after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Sandglass flyer laid in (New York, no. V:34). --- In green cloth-covered boards with gilt "OG" oval decoration to cover; titling in gilt on black spine block. Slipcase covere... View more info
By: GOSSE, Edmund (introduction)
Price: $14.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1957
Stock No.: 82651
Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket
Following England's Interregnum of 1649-1660, in which the country's theatres were closed, drama reappeared. These seven tragedies and comedies are representative of the vitality of the theatre during this Restoration period. Includes: "All for Love" by John Dryden, "The Country Wife" by William Wycherley, "The Way of the World" by William Congreve, "Venice Preserved" by Thomas Otway, "The Beaux-Stratagem" by George Farquhar, "The Provoked Wife" by Sir John Vanbrugh, and "The Man of Mode" by Sir George Etherege. With an introduction by S... View more info
By: HALLINE, Allan G. (introduction)
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1956]
Stock No.: 83731
Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
A Modern Library edition offering plays by Eugene O'Neil, Maxwell Anderson, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan. With an introduction by Allen Halline. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 376 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1951 date appears in book). ML #276.1. --- With prior owner's bookplate and signature affixed to front free endpaper, penciled tick marks to table of contents, else a b... View more info
By: HARMETZ, Aljean
Price: $146.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 79543
ISBN: 0394493508
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Stated first edition on copyright page; inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the author. A behind-the-scenes account of the making of just one of 52 yearly MGM movies: Production #1060, which became "The Wizard of Oz", one of the most popular movies ever made. The author interviewed writers, cameramen, cast members and others who helped craft the film, which debuted in 1939. Includes 93 illustrations and photos (18 in full color) and an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West. --- In black paper-covered boards backed in black cloth; gilt-sta... View more info
By: HARRIS, Brice (introduction)
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1953
Edition: First Edition Thus
Stock No.: 82418
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stated First Modern Library edition, 1953 (confirmed). This assortment of eight plays from the English Restoration period includes: The Rehearsal, by George Villiers; The Country Wife, by William Wyncherly; The Man of Mode, by George Etherege; All for Love, by John Dryden; Venice Preserved, by Thomas Otway; The Relapse, by John Vanbrugh; The Way of the World, by William Congreve; The Beaux' Strategem, by George Farquhar. With an introduction by Brice Harris. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / faded red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style... View more info
