Cenci, The: A Play
New York: Grove Press, 1970. Third printing. Wraps. 8vo, 52 pp. Heel of spine bumped, wrappers a bit handled with small hole punched in front, remainder mark on bottom edge.
Drama
Arrow-Maker: A Drama in Three Acts
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Stiff card covers in paper jacket affixed at spine, 8vo, 168 pp. Spine creased and binding just a bit tender, jacket chipped and torn at edges and separating from front board at spine edge, page edges tanned, top edge dusty, offsetting from wrapper.....
Memories for Tomorrow: The Memoirs of Jean-Louis Barrault
New York: Dutton, 1974. First American edition. Cloth. 8vo, 336 pp., illustrated. Covers sunned at edges, pages tanned. Jacket priceclipped, sunned.
Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty
New York: Taplinger, 1977. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 128 pp. Jacket sunned and lightly edgeworn.
Wobblies (The): The U.S. vs. Wm. D. Haywood, et. al.
New York: Smyrna, 1980. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 58 pp., illus. A play. Inscribed by Bird. Wrappers sunned, lightly edgeworn, small faint stain to interior of front cover.
Die Stücke von Bertolt Brecht in Einem Band
Frankfurt: Surhkamp Verlag, 1982. 4th Printing. Cloth. 1009pp. Brecht's complete plays in one volume. Fine/Fine. Text in German.
A HISTORY OF PANOMIME
London: Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. Cloth. 8vo. 226pp. Cloth First Edition. Select bibliography. Index. Overview of the story of African-American performers in America,
THE DUPLEX; A Black Love Fable in Four Movements
New York: William Morrow, 1971. First edition. Trade paperback. 8vo. 166pp. Trade paperback. First Edition. Neat Ink annotations scattlered through the text.
FOUR DYNAMITE PLAYS
New York: William Morrow, 1972. First edition. Trade paperback. 8vo. 179pp. Trade paperback. First Edition. Four plays by OBIE winner by distinguished black American playwright and author of THE HUNGERED ONE. Includes: IT BEES THAT WAY, DEATH LIST, THE PIG PEN and NIGHT OF THE BEAST.
THE THEME IS BLACKNESS
New York: William Morrow, 1972. First paperback edition. Trade paperback. 8vo. 183pp. Tradepaperback. First paperback edition. Collection of plays including THE CORNER, DIALECT DETERMINISM, IT HAS NO CHOICE, THE HELPER, A MINOR SCENE , THE THEME IS BLACKNESS, THE MAN WHO DUG FISH, BLACK COMMERCIAL #2, AMERICAN FLAG RITUAL, STATE.....
R.U.R. and The Insect Play
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Reprint. Wraps. 12mo, 177 pp. Wrappers rubbed and worn, pages tanned. Binding sound and interior unmarked.
SHANGO de IMA; A Yoruba Mystery Play
New York: Doubleday, 1970. First edition. Trade paperback. 8vo. 96pp. Trade Paperback. First Printing. English Adaptation, with a preface by Susan Sherman. Introductions by Jerome Rothenberg and Edward James. Pepe Carril was a Cuban director, actor, puppets designer, mask designer, costume designer, set designer, stage designer, adapter, author and playwright.....
Tw Plays of Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sister
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1977. Lajos Szalay. Full leather. Collector's Edition, 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Gilt-stamped brown leather, all edges gilt, sienna endpapers, bound-in ribbon marker, wide 8vo, 152 pp., color frontis., b/w illus.
Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon:Two Plays
Seattle: University of Washington, 1981. First printing, wraps issue. Wraps. 8vo, 142 pp., illus. Inscribed and signed by the author. Wrappers sunned, handled and edgeworn; a few page corners bumped.
Court Judge
New York: Silveringo, 1963. Side-stapled in Paper Covers. Mimeo. 4to, 11 pp. A play. Signed by author on front cover, with his address (printed address inside front cover is marked out). Covers sunned, stained and foxed; corners lightly bumped.
THE YIDDISH THEATER IN AMERICA
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1965. First edition. Cloth. 8vol. 659pp. illus. Photos, Hardback. First Edition. Bibliography, Index. Dust jacket has some rubbing, and a couple of small closed tears.
PEOPLE'S THEATER; From the Box Office to the Stage
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977. First printing. Cloth. 8vo. 248pp. Illus. Photos. Cloth. First Printing. Reflections on Soviet theatre by a one time correspondent for the Daily Worker. Former owner's name/address on the front flyleaf and rear blank page.
ETHAN FROME; A Dramatization
New York: Scribners, 1936. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 260pp. Cloth. No dj. First Edition. A dramatization of Edith Wharton's classic novel.
THE SHOMAKER'S HOLIDAY; Or a Pleasant Comedy of the Gentle Craft
London: Robert Holden, 1927. First edition. Cloth. 8vol. 117pp. Cloth. First Edition. Prepared for reading by G.B. Harrison. Lacking the dustwrapper. Part of The Fortune Play Books Series. Nice clean copy. Former owner's name at top of titlepage. Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and.....
THE PROVINCETOWN; The Story of the Theatre
New York: Farrar, & Rinehart, 1931. w. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 313pp. illus. Cloth. First Edition. Halftone b&w photos and drawings. Lacking its dj. History of the avant-garde theatre company, from its inception in 1915 to its close in 1929.
Bacon Is Shake-Speare, Together wirh a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies
New York: John McBride, 1910. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 286 pp., XLIII plates. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, insect damage mainly at spine and fore-edges of boards, page edges darkened, light foxing to page edges and endpapers, binding just a bit tender.
AT THE NEW THEATRE AND OTHERS; The American stage, it's problems and performances 1908-1910 .
Boston: Small Maynard & Co., 1910. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 359pp.. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Walter Prichard Eaton was an American theatre critic and author. He was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard, and was a drama critic for various newspapers and magazines. He also wrote numerous books on the.....
THE KABUKI THEATRE
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974. Reprint. Trade paperback. 8vo. 296pp. illus. b&w photos. Paperback. Reprint. "This is the best book on Kabuki in a Western language and is likely to remain so for a very long time" -THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. Corners bumped. Price on rear cover partially blacked.....
THE ABBEY THEATRE
London: Hollis & Carter, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 190pp. Illus. b&w photos. Hardbound. First Edition. Index. Bibliography, Biographies, List of Plays and Homes of the Irish National Theatre. The story of Dublin's Abbey theatre by the Manchester Guardian's London editor.
Assassin on Stage: Brutus, Hamlet, and the Death of Lincoln
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1991. Cloth. 8vo, 168 pp.