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By: AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES and ARISTOPHANES
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, Puritan Publishing Company: [c.1940s-50s]
Stock No.: 82502
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 ... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1956]
Stock No.: 81584
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 cat... 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
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 supplie... 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
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... View more info
By: ATKINSON, Brooks (foreword)
Price: $17.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1962]
Stock No.: 81829
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 / gi... View more info
By: BLOOM, Harold
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Riverhead Books / Penguin Putnam: 1998
Stock No.: 41071
6th printing. Noted literary critic Harold Bloom renders a thorough analysis of each of Shakespeare's plays in this hefty work. In so doing, Bloom contends that Shakespeare not only "invented the English language", but "created human nature as we know it today." --- In cream paper-covered boards backed in off-white cloth, with author initials, titling, and decorations in gilt to cover and spine. Jacket with detail from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel to fr... View more info
By: BRECHT, Bertolt
Price: $81.50
Publisher: New York, Hillman-Curl, Inc.: 1938
Edition: First American Edition
Stock No.: 78571
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 e... View more info
By: BROWNING, Robert
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:
Stock No.: 76428
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... View more info
By: BURGESS, Anthony
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1970
Edition: First American Edition
Stock No.: 82497
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 ... View more info
By: CERF, Bennett; CARTMELL, Van H. (editors)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1963]
Stock No.: 79782
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, ... View more info
By: CHEKHOV, Anton
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania U. S. A., The Franklin Library: 1979
Stock No.: 78463
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 ... View more info
Price: $11.50
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1959
Stock No.: 75351
The restoration era comedy in an attractive, illustrated, reprint copy with slipcase. In full navy cloth-covered boards w/embossed decorations on cover, titling in silver titling on blue spine block, and publisher's navy topstain. With numerous color by T.M. Cleland. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Blue paper-covered slipcase. Includes publisher's Sandglass flyer specific to this work. --- Overall, volume is in excellent shape, clean, unmarked and bright but with som... View more info
By: CORNEILLE, Pierre; RACINE, Jean
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c1949]
Stock No.: 77115
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 ... View more info
By: CORNEILLE, Pierre; RACINE, Jean
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 79764
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... 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
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 Dra... View more info
Price: $36.00
Publisher: New York, John Lane Company: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 70082
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, darkeni... View more info
By: DUNN, Esther Cloudman (introduction)
Price: $16.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1961]
Stock No.: 82397
This Modern Library edition includes an assortment of plays from the Elizabethan period: Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Marlowe, The Shoemaker's Holiday by Dekker, A Woman Killed with Kindness by Heywood, Volpone or the Fox by Jonson, The Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, The Duchess of Malfi by Webster, A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Massinger, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by Ford. With an introduction by Esther Cloudman Dunn. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale gree... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.50
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909
Stock No.: 80687
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, &#... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909
Stock No.: 80688
A selection of 9 Greek dramas, with translations by E. D. A. Morshead, E. H. Plumptre, Gilbert Murray and B. B. Rogers in a 1909 edition. The 8th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies an introductions and notes. With sepia frontis illustration of an ancient Greek theatre. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decoration... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80700
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. Lac... View more info
By: EURIPIDES
Price: $26.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1947
Stock No.: 81742
An Everyman's Library two volume set presenting the plays of Euripides. Translations are by Shelley, Dean Milman, Potter, Wodhull and others. Includes an introduction by "V.R.R." (V. R. Reynolds). Numbers 63 and 271 in Everyman's Library Classical series. --- 1947 reprint editions, in Everyman's Library binding style 3 with full "apple green" cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious shell to covers & brown topstain. Grey jackets ... View more info
By: EURIPIDES
Price: $194.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1983
Stock No.: 81870
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 cov... 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
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 i... View more info
By: EYLES, Allen
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, HPBooks: 1985
Stock No.: 80260
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
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 fre... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Delta/Dell Publishing Co. , Inc.: 1971
Stock No.: 71252
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
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 Se... View more info
By: GAMMOND, Peter
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Salamander/Harmony Books: 1979
Stock No.: 73938
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 ope... View more info
By: GILBERT, W. S.; SULLIVAN, Arthur
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Book League of America: 1941
Stock No.: 78226
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: GOLDEN, John
Price: $21.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: [c.1927]
Stock No.: 80520
A reprint of the re-written version of the Austin Strong play, a love story set in poorer districts of Paris. Issued as the photoplay edition when this work was made into a 1927 movie directed by Frank Borzage. Illustrated with black & white stills from the movie. --- In rust cloth-covered boards with titling in black on cover and spine. Dust jacket features color image of the cast of the film on front. --- With a little chafing to cover edges, otherwise a clean and unma... View more info
Price: $18.50
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1964
Stock No.: 82509
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 gree... 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
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, "... View more info
By: HALLINE, Allan G. (introduction)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1951
Stock No.: 75563
Plays by Eugene O'Neil, Maxwell Anderson, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan. Dust Jacket advertises 3584 Mod. Lib. titles on verso. In full rust-red cloth on board covers w/faded gilt & black lettering and decorations, cover and spine. Publisher's black topstain. --- With repaired split at title page, dampstained textblock edges, previous owner's signature and some interior dogeared pages; else clean and ... View more info
By: HARMETZ, Aljean
Price: $195.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 79543
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 ... 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
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 Toled... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1967
Stock No.: 71509
Sharp copy of examination of the life and work of Harold Pinter, extraordinary English dramatist & Nobel prize winner. In full red covers w/bright gilt design & lettering spine & cover. DJ chipped at head of spine & edges; spine toned. W/priceclipped flap, in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages View more info
By: IBSEN, Henrik
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979
Stock No.: 78208
A collection of four plays by the noted 19th Century Norwegian playwright in a fancy reprint edition. Translated by Eva LeGallienne, and with illustrations by Tony Eubanks. --- In full leatherette-like red cloth-covered boards with gilt decorations on covers and spine; title gilt-stamped on spine. All edges gilt, and with colorful patterned paper endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With a couple of faint scratches to gilding on fore-edge, else a bright, firm,... View more info
By: IBSEN, Henrik
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1965
Stock No.: 80730
Three notable plays by the great Norwegian playright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) in an illustrated Heritage Press reprint edition. Illustrated in color and b&w by Fredrik Matheson. With an introduction by John Gassner. --- In green and pink striped paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth, with spine titling in gilt. Textblock edges with publisher's maroon speckled spray. Sandglass flyer not present. Volume in green paper-covered slipcase. --- With a little sunning & scra... View more info
By: IBSEN, Henrik
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1911
Stock No.: 82412
Three plays by the noted Norwegian playwright are presented in this Everyman's Library reprint edition. They include: A Doll's House, The Wild Duck and The Lady from the Sea. "House" and "Duck" translated, and with an introduction, by R. Farquharson Sharp; "Lady" translated by Mrs. Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Number 494 in Everyman's Library Drama series. --- In flatback binding style 1, full olive cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-de... View more info
Price: $27.00
Publisher: Boston, The Bibliophile Society: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 82019
A deluxe edition offering the previously unpublished play by Washington Irving (1783-1859) which features his Abu Hassan character, borrowed from the Arabian Nights. One of a limited edition of 455 unnumbered copies, published for members of the Bibliophile Society. With an introduction by George S. Hellman. With tissue-protected facsimile pages from Irving's original manuscript. Bibliophile Society Announcement to Members laid in. (Note: Washington's "The Wild Hunts... View more info
