New York: David McKay Company, 1966. First Edition. Memoir by the co-founder of Viking Press, MGM screenwriter, author and playwright. First Printing, a review copy, with publisher's complimentary slip and business card of McKay's publicity director laid in. Octavo (21cm); turquoise cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine;..... More

Rome: Gremese Editori, 1983. First Edition. Brief biography and retrospective of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 158pp. Text in Italian. Illustrated in b&w throughout. Rear wrapper lightly pulled, foot and crown of spine mildly bumped. Minor age-toning to wrappers and margins of textblock. Very Good..... More

New York: Back Stage Books, 1993. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); grey publisher's cloth boards in a color pictoral dust jacket; 256pp. Contains interviews with modern costume designers for stage and screen, with full color illustrations throughout. Text block sound and crisp. Minor shelf wear to jacket, front panel..... More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); pale grey-blue publisher's cloth stamped in green in spine, in white pictorial dustwrapper; 342pp. Boards and wrapper sunned along extremities and spine; dustwrapper has abrasions along spine and material loss at crown; short tears and chipping along upper/lower edges; Very..... More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Perhaps the most staunchly proletarian and anti-capitalist of Rice’s many plays. Though it was produced at the height of Rice’s career, We, The People received lukewarm reviews, its agit-prop style holding little appeal for mainstream playgoers and the price of admission being too..... More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]. First American Edition. Originally written in German as Nie Wieder Friede! while the author was exiled in England, this satirical anti-war play is set both on Mount Olympus, where Napoleon and St. Francis argue over whether mankind truly desires peace; and in the imaginary..... More

New York: Coward-McCann, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in cream decorative dust jacket printed in dark orange, black topstain; xii,[1],201pp.; photographic frontispiece. Tiny soil spot to upper jacket panel, printed portion of spine a hint faded, else Just About Fine. An examination of justice in a...... More

New York: Cosmopolitan Books, 1930. First Edition. Satire of Hollywood and its cinematic output, the novel set on the planet "Purilia," "where the sky is rosy and misty, the people standardized by type, moving through waves of music, all directed by an impersonal voice, 'The Presence'" (BAIRD 2092). COAN, p...... More

London: William Heinemann, 1898. First U.K. Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); original two-toned green cloth housed in mid-20th century home-made dust jacket with hand-decorated spine; [4];294pp. Spine a bit darkened and slightly cocked, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better. The author's best-known play, adapted numerous times for film, including..... More

[Paris]: Economica / Centre Georges Pompidou, [1988]. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's cloth in maroon photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaginated; black and white photographic stills throughout. Corners bumped, several closed tears to upper jacket panel with subsequent wrinkling and bubbling of lamination. Near Fine in Good or better jacket overall. Text..... More

Boston: Faber and Faber, [1987]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original white photo-illustrated wrappers; 86pp.; illus. with film stills throughout. About Fine. Screenplay of the 1985 Academy Award-winning film, starring William Hurt and Raul Julia. More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper by Sennett's co-author: "William - This book is true, so far as the facts of Mack Sennet's life go, but you will see that I have sneaked in a good many notions of my onw" - signed "Cam," datemarked Glendale..... More