Chekhov in My Life
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Near Fine. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Near Fine. More
New York: Random House, [1953]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); original boards, photographic plate mounted to upper cover, green topstain, tan decorative dust jacket; [10],149pp.; photo-illustrated double title page, one photographic plate. Tiny chip to jacket spine foot, extremities a hint darkened, topstain faded, else Very Good or better..... More
New York: Random House, [1956]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original boards, photographic plate mounted to upper cover, yellow topstain, photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],145pp.; photo-illustrated double-title page, 2 photographic plates. Jacket slightly chipped at spine ends, spine a hint darkened and cocked, else Very Good and sound overall. Play..... More
New York: I. Reed Books, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (19.75cm); illustrated wrappers; 106,[2]pp. A Fine, unread copy. A pristine copy of this collection of brief satirical sketches for the stage. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Original heliotrope cloth, with light blue dust jacket; plain endpapers; 127pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear and rear flap. A straight, tight copy with light edgewear, foxing to edges of textblock not affecting interior, browning to endpapers, else clean..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1915]. Second Edition. 12mo (18.75cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative grey dust jacket in custom cloth chemise and brown morocco-backed cloth slipcase, spine in five gilt-lettered and -ruled compartments; 39,[1],[7](ads)pp. Jacket spine a hint faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Jacket upper cover and spine with..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. First U.K. Trade Edition. Basis for Lewis Gilbert's 1957 British comedy film of the same name, starring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil parker and Sally Ann Howes. Thick quarto; crimson cloth, with titling and elaborative decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; viii..... More
[Praha: Vydal Devetsil, 1924]. Second Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's white pictorial wrappers, yapp edges; 61pp. Wrappers rather chipped and worn, especially along spine, repaired shallow loss at bottom edge of upper cover, general dust-soil, some foxing to rear cover, textblock slightly toned, else Good to Very Good. Earliest edition..... More
[Praha: Vydal Devetsil, 1924]. Second Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's white pictorial wrappers printed in orange, yapp edges; 48pp. Wrappers rather chipped and worn, rear cover separated but present, the whole rather dust-soiled; Good overall, though internally about fine. This edition issued by the leading Czech avant-garde publishing house Devetsil..... More
New York: Contemporary Play Publications, 1938. Basshe was a co-founder of the New Playwrights Theatre, an early member of the League of American Writers, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1931. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's brown cloth, titled in dullt gilt, with red dust jacket; 133pp; list of other..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Holiday Issue. Octavo (20.25cm); glossy pictorial wrappers; [iv],59,[1]pp. Mild surface wear, touch of dust-soil, and subtle yellowing to wrapper extremities, with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Very Good+. FEDERMAN & FLETCHER 34.03. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American Edition. First printings. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Black cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spines and front covers; dustjackets; 1-380; 381-747,[14]pp. Early ownership signature to each front endpaper, else tight and Near Fine in slightly spine-darkened dustwrappers and board slipcase. Slipcase has..... More
New York: Random House, [1952]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original simulated cloth, photographic plate mounted to upper cover, cream pictorial dust jacket, dark blue topstain; [10],195pp.; photographically illustrated double-page title page, two leaves of photographic stills. A few tiny short closed tears to jacket extremities, spine a bit..... More
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 140. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's vegetable vellum-backed boards in blue-grey dust jacket, matching printed paper labels mounted to both vellum and jacket spines, replacement spine label tipped in..... More
New York: Viking Press, (1961). First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.). Gray cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 87pp. Board corners tapped, else a Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly rubbed, still Very Good or better. In America, Greene's love-triangle comedy opened on Nov 1, 1961 at..... More
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, [ca. 1914]. First Edition. Small octavo broadside (19x12.5cm.); Fine. Prospectus issued for the publisher's Modern Drama Series, of which twelve plays are listed here, including works by Ibsen, D.H. Lawrence, Leonid Andreyev, and Lord Dunsany. More
Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company Publishers, [1923]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth lettered in black; [8],165pp. Spine a shade sunned else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Presumably in a remainder binding with "Appleton" printed at spine foot. Includes three plays by the Artef playwright Peretz (spelled here..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22 cm); black paper-covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 144pp. Strip of sunning at the top edge of front board with the title offset onto upper front board [from dustjacket]; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced £8.95..... More
Los Angeles: Studio Theatre Playhouse, [1977]. First Edition. Original double-sided poster, with text and illustrations offset printed in black on red stock, measuring 21.5cm x 35.75cm (8.5" x 14"). Mild handling, two small abrasions on verso; Near Fine. Attractive promotional poster for the west coast premiere of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles..... More
Hollywood, CA: Coronet Theatre / The Pandemonium Theatre Co., Inc., [1964]. First Edition. Bifolium (21.5cm); single sheet of pale yellow stock, folded vertically to create a 4pp program, with text and illustration printed in black and orange. Signed by Ray Bradbury along lower front cover, dated December 20, 1991. A...... More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1964. First American Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards; dustjacket; 294pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed jacket, small stain to inside front flap; Very Good. More
[New York]: New Directions Books, Published by James Laughlin, [1944]. First American Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's black cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],140pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny chips, spine and extremities rather browned, else Very Good and sound. Seventeen of twenty-eight scenes from the..... More
Providence: Booke Shop, [1938]. First Edition. Collection of essays by the Brown University professor on state-controlled theaters across Europe with special emphasis on those in the Soviet Union. This a superlative copy. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in orange printed dust jacket; [10],105pp. Jacket spine a bit sunned, light spotting to..... More
New York: H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1908, but 1911. First Edition. Octavo (18.75cm.); original green gilt-lettered cloth; [4],121pp.; photographic frontispiece, 7 leaves of photographic stills. Light shelf wear, mid-20th century ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else Near Fine. Illustrated with stills from the original (1911) production, starring Laura Nelson Hall..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First Edition. 12mo (19.25cm.); original red gilt-lettered cloth; vii,[1],127,[7](ads)pp. Minor edge wear, textblock fore-edge a bit foxed, minor soil spots to a couple of early leaves, else a Very Good, attractive and bright copy. Bierstadt's first book, a play set in prison. More