Mac Bird!
Berkeley: Grassy Knoll Press, 1966. First edition. Staplebound wraps. Small 12mo. First Edition. Orange staplebound wraps. Light soil to front cover.
Drama
An Actor and His Time
New York: Applause, 1997. Reprint. Boards. 8vo, 233 pp., illus. Light wear to head of spine.
She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1978. T. M. Cleland. Full leather. Collector's Edition, 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Gilt-stamped dark blue leather, all edges gilt, pale pink endpapers, bound-in ribbon marker, small 4to, 121 pp., b/w illus.
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground: A Play
New York: Random House, 1964. First printing. Boards. 8vo, 135 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author. Covers a bit dull, pages tanned. Jacket sunned, edgeworn, with several small chips and closed tears.
Memory Play
Oakland: O Books, 1994. First edition. Wraps. 12mo, 69 pp. Inscribed and signed by author to Jerome and Diane Rothenberg. Edgewear and several small stains to wrappers, page edges foxed.
BLACK THEATER IN AMERICA
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1982. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 184pp. illus. b&w photos. Interesting History of Black performers in America.
SIX PLAYS BY LILLIAN HELLMAN
New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Reprint. Trade paperback. 8vo. 505pp. Trade paperback. First Vintage Books edition. Includes: THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, DAYS TO COME, THE LITTLE FOXES, WATCH ON THE RHINE, ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST and THE AUTUMN GARDEN. Covers show a few minor scratches. INSCRIBED BY LILLIAN HELLMAN ON THE.....
Stop, You're Killing Me: Three Short Plays
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 79 pp. Edges of boards and page edges sunned and a bit dusty; jacket lightly sunned and edgeworn.
REHEARSING THE REVOLUTION; The Staging of Marat's Death 1793-1797
Berkeley: University of California, 1982. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 117pp. Cloth. First printing. Translated by Robert Hurley. Huet offers a new theory which explores the basic structures of the theatre as aesthetic and political divisions.
Three Plays of Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1979. Fredrik Matheson. Full leather. Collector's Edition, 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Gilt-stamped dark blue leather, all edges gilt, salmon endpapers, bound-in ribbon marker, 8vo, 325 pp.
Tulane Drama Review, Volume 7, Number 3, Spring 1963
New Orleans: Tulane University, 1963. Wraps. 8vo, 244 pp. Includes writings by Genet and Ionesco, a play and an interview with Ionesco, and articles by J.-P. Sartre, Martin Esslin and others. Wrappers worn.
Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 1963
New Orleans: 1963. Wraps. 8vo, 209 pp. Includes texts by and articles on Artaud and Moliere. Wrappers sunned, rubbed and handled, with back cover unevenly darkened; page edges tanned, small stain to top of fore-edge. Interior clean and unmarked.
DEVOLOPMENT OF THE JAPANESE THEATRE ART
Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1935. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. Paperback. 41pp. illus. Quite few b&w photos. A lecture given at the Theatre Museum of Waseda University, Tokyo, on March 28, 1935 under the auspices of of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. Upper righthand corner is bumped.Tanning along upper edge of front.....
Cosmic Jest: A Grove Play
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1949. Boards. Cloth-backed decorative paper over boards, tall 8vo, 53 pp. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Signed on title page by Budington and Denke, and by Marsden Argall, one of the players, under the list of Players. Spine, edges of covers and page edges smoke-darkened, corners.....
Stages of Desire: The Mythological Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Spanish Theater
Univeresity Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Cloth. 8vo, 266 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. Jacket edgeworn with small tears at crown.
FAMOUS ACTORS AND THEIR HOMES
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 222pp. illus. b&w photos. Illustrated with 63 plates made by John Andrew and Son, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Backgrounds, homes and careers of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, Julia Marlowe, "Annie Russell, E. H......
FAMOUS ACTORS AND ACTRESSES & THEIR HOMES
BOSTON: Little, Brown & Co., 1903. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 360pp. illus. b&w photos. 63 plates by John Andre. Hardcover First Edition Near Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Foxing on several of the tissue paper guards protecting the plates. Remains particularly well-preserved copy. Book is tight, covers are.....
COMPUTERS AS THEATRE
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. Later printing. Trade paperback. 8vol. 227pp.illus. phots, charts.
THE PRIVILEGE OF HIS COMPANY; Noel Coward Remembered
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 248pp. Cloth. First Edition. A memoir of Noel Coward by a friend of over twenty years. Dj has two small tears at the top of the front panel.
The Beard
San Francisco: Coyote, 1967. First Trade Edition. wraps. First edition, first printing, one of 5000. A nearly fine copy, clean and tight, with bright unfaded Wes Wilson illustrated cover, one small edge crease to cover, minor edgewear. A much nicer copy of an increasingly difficult item to find in decent.....
Gargoyle Cartoons, or The Charbroiled Chinchilla
New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 211 pp., illus. A collection of plays. Covers a bit dull; foxing to covers, page edges, and endpapers. Jacket foxed, stained, worn, with light chipping and small tears mainly at folds.
Gorf: A Play
New York: New Directions, 1976. First printing, wraps issue. Wraps. 8vo, 79 pp. A New Directions "Compliments of the author" slip, signed by McClure, is laid in. Wrappers a bit sunned and handled; foxing to spine, edges of wrappers and top edge; pages tanned.
Aria Da Capo (A Play in One Act); The Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany), No. 14, August 1920
London: 1920. Sewn in Illustrated Wrappers. Wide 8vo. Wrappers foxed, chipped at edges, light foxing to fore-edge. Interior clean and unmarked. Ephemera.
Shorter Plays & Scenarios of Norm Moser
Berkeley: Illuminations Press, 1981. Wide 8vo, 46 pp. Wrappers lightly dustsoiled, foxed and edgeworn, with phone # in ink at rear; interior clean and unmarked.
THE RECKONING; The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 413pp. illus. b&w photographs. The first full-length investigation of the murder of playwright Christopher Marlowe and the environment in which it occured.