A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky: 7 Short Plays
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003. First edition. Wraps. 24mo, 169 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author to Jerome and Diane Rothenberg.
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003. First edition. Wraps. 24mo, 169 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author to Jerome and Diane Rothenberg.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1958. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 277 pp. Page edges dusty, pages tanned, previous owner name (at rear), heel of fore-edge lightly bumped. Jacket lightly edgeworn including several small chips.
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1874. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 524pp + 4pp (adds). Illus. Frontispiece. Full Brown Pebbled Cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, stamped lines in front cover gilt border on spine, modest wear at extremities. Brown endpapers. Edwin Forrest was American actor, was.....
Lecce: Piero Manni, 2000. Wraps. 8vo, 177 pp. In English with facing page Italian translation. Inscribed and signed by the author to Jerome Rothenberg (as "Jerry"). Wrappers a bit handled and with a few specks, corners bumped.
New York: Brentano's, 1904. Cloth. 8vo, 153 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. Play about Benvenuto Cellini. Covers rubbed, worn and stained, with light insect damage and bumping to edges of boards; foxing to page edges, endpapers, and first and last few leaves; previous owner name on front pastedown; small.....
Pittsburgh: Latin America Literary Review Press, 1985. First edition. Trade paperback. 8vo. 136pp. Trade paperback. First Edition. Translated by Philip Barnard. Severo Sarduy was a Cuban novelist, poet, critic, and essayist and considered one of the most daring and brilliant writers of the 20th century. This book includes: THE BEACH.....
New York: Phaedra, 1969. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 238 pp. Light wear to head and heel of spine and corners of boards, page edges tanned, light soiling and a few specks to endpapers. Jacket sunned, rubbed, soiled and worn, with tear to rear fold, edgewear.
New York: Phaedra, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 238pp. Cloth. First Edition. Plays include: THE DOGS OR THE PARIS COMEDY, CHRIS SICK OR HAPPY NEW YEAR ANYWAY, MAKING MONEY and 19 other very short plays.
Concord, MA: Dancing Bear, 1984. First edition (of 500 copies). Staplebound Wraps. 8vo, 7 pp. A play. Typed. signed letter form the publisher, Craig Ellis, to Jerome Rothenberg laid in, along with announcement for the present publication, and two postcard-sized printed broadsides with texts by Robert Creeley and Larry Eigner.....
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 2003. First Printing. Paperback. 8vo. 218pp. illus. b&w photos. Forward by Robert Brustein. Companion to the PBS special WHO KILLED THE FEDERAL THEATRE? Slight curling at top of front cover. The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theater.....
New York: Stein and Day, 1964. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 120 pp. Light wear and dustsoiling to spine, edges of boards and page edges sunned. Jacket priceclipped, edgeworn, dustsoiled, with a few small edge tears, sticker ghost on front.
New York: Random House, 1943. First Modern Library Edition. Cloth. 12mo, 1101 pp. Spine cocked and faded with slight fraying at head, light soiling to boards, front board lightly bumped at corner, pages edges tanned and lightly soiled.
New York: Random House, 1943. First Modern Library Edition. Cloth. 12mo, 1153 pp. Spine faded, pages edges tanned and a bit dustsoiled.
New York: Scribners, 1960. Revised Edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo, 1116 pp., illus. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards rubbed and bumped with some loss at corners, covers rubbed and worn, page edges tanned and dusty, pages a bit tanned but clean and unmarked except for previous owner.....
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1980. John Farleigh. Full leather. Collector's Edition, 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Gilt-stamped brown leather, all edges gilt, salmon endpapers, bound-in ribbon marker, 8vo, 1016 pp., color frontis., b/w illus.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1975. Cloth. 118 pp. Light rubbing to jacket.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1980. Demetrios Galanis. Full leather. Collector's Edition, 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Gilt-stamped brown leather, all edges gilt, pale pink endpapers, bound-in ribbon marker, tall 8vo, 159 pp., illus. Greek text with facing-page English translation.
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1984. First American edition. Cloth. 8vo. 310pp. photos. Hardback. First American Edition. Collection of articles by Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian stage director, actor and theorist.A few short short tears to the dj. Otherwise, a nice copy. Some minor underlining.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, ca1953. reprint. Cloth. 8vo. 504pp illus. b&w photographs. Translated from the Russian by G. Ivanov Mumjiev. Slight wear at the top and bottom of spine.
Boston: John W. Luce, 1911. First printing thus. Boards. 12mo, 45 pp. Spine sunned and bumped at head and heel; a few pages roughly opened at fore-edge; previous owner name and date on front free endpaper, marginal note to one text page, and extensive notes to several rear blank pages.....
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, 2000. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 440pp. Cloth. First Edition. Publisher's mark on top of book.
New York: Grove Press, 1995. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 434 pp., b/w plates. Page edges tanned, remainder dot on bottom edge. Jacket faded at spine, with light edgewear, a few specks.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown & Co., 1962. First American edition. Boards. 8vo, 179 pp. Light soiling to page edges only. Jacket sunned, edgeworn, with a couple of small chips and tears.
Houston: Arte Publico, 1992. Later printing. Trade paperback. 8vo. 214pp. Trade Paperback. Later printing. INSCRIPTIONS FROM VALDEZ TO FRIEND AND FROM HIS FRIEND'S WIFE TO THE FRIEND.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. Later printing. Trade paperback. 8vo. 326pp. Trade paperback. Later printing. INSCRIBED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY WALCOTT. Remainder mark on bottom of book. Walcott, Walcott was poet and playwright from Saint Lucia in the Carribean. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.....