Rochester: Camden House, 2000. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 301pp; illus. Fine, tight and unmarked in unworn jacket; near-new. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997. First Edition. Large octavo. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 571pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, straight copy of the first hardcover edition, fine ink underlining to several pages; several page corners turned down; Very Good. More

Mosvka: Akts. Izdat. O-vo "Ogonek" 1926 [but 1927]. First Thus. First Russian edition (abridged) of Charlie Chaplin's memoir My Trip Abroad (1922), recounting the Hollywood actor's return to his native England and travels through Europe after 10 years in the United States. Describes the (by then) universally recognized movie star's..... More

New York: Samuel French, 1932. First Edition. Stage play in seven "Episodes." A parable of the growth of American industry, told from the point of view of an Irish slag-dumper who rises to the presidency of a giant machine plant. Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Journey..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards, stamped in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 156pp. Fine, tight copy in the scarce dustwrapper, unclipped but with shallow loss along upper front panel and a few small chips at extremities; Very Good. Play set in..... More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Collection of stories and essays (some falling under the mystery genre) by William Schwenck Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) written during his early career as a writer for magazines. Many of the stories, including "Foggerty's Fairy," "Creatures of Impulse," "The Wicked..... More

Warszawa: [Wydzia Kultury i Sztuki], 1988. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original black pictorial card wrappers; 67pp.; photographic illus. throughout, color map laid in. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Guidebook to the theaters of Warsaw. No copies in North America according to OCLC as of November, 2016... More

[México]: Fondo de Cultura Economica, [1956]. 1981 Printing. Small thick 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xxvii,[1],740pp. Some chipping and wear to jacket extremities including short closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not quite touching image, corners slightly bumped, bookseller rubberstamp to half title, else..... More

[Prague: 1933]. First Edition. Tenth annual yearbook issued by the Prague City Theatre, featuring twenty-four photomontaged portraits of cast members, the portraits often incorporating elements from the short poems about each member. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's orange cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in darker orange and black; 115pp.; 24 leaves of photomontaged..... More

[Varsovie: Centre Polonais de l'Institut International du Théâtre, 1978]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.75cm.); original glossy blue printed card wrappers; 64pp.; folding map plate laid in, photographic illus. throughout. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. French-language overview of modern Polish theater. OCLC locates two copies in North..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. First Edition. Folio (33cm.); original blue and red pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly illus. About Fine. Satirical cartoon collection of Caroline Kennedy's doll collection, namely political and popular figures depicted as wind-up dolls, including the Jackie Kennedy doll: "You wind it up and invites..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white decorative dust jacket; [6],76pp.; frontispiece by the author. Jacket cover illustrated wtih facsimile of the author's manuscript title page. Jacket extremities chipped and worn with a few tiny losses, none affecting text, extremities and spine toned..... More