![Children of the Sea and Three Other Unpublished Plays [Limited Edition, Signed]. Eugene O'NEILL,...](/pictures/medium/23921.jpg?v=1559945736)
Washington DC: NCR / Microcard Editions, [1972]. First Edition. Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 88. Octavo (23.5cm.); original brown pictorial gilt-embossed cloth, maroon topstain, pictorial paper-covered slipcase; xviii,[2],214pp.; folding facsimile frontispiece, pictorial endpapers. Fine. Signed by Atkinson on colophon. Contents include "Children of the Sea," "Bread..... More
New York: Random House, [1942]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white and black decorative dust jacket, black topstain; [10],242pp. Dampstain to jacket verso only just bleeding into cloth and exterior of rear panel, some general light shelf wear, spine rather toned, else Near Fine in a...... More
New York: Random House, 1935. First Thus. Tan linen boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 74pp. Tight, unmarked copy in unclipped jacket with 3/4" square chip missing to leading edge, minor chips to spine extremities. Uncommon Odets title, issued the same year as "Three Plays" which rendered "Two Plays" somewhat redundant. More
New York: Something Else Press, 1967. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket, green topstain; 148pp.; photographic illus. throughout; glassine envelope containing The Store's blue business card mounted to front free endpaper. Fine. Pictorial document of Oldenburg's Store and Ray Gun Theater, a public art installation..... More
![The View From The Sixties: Memories of a Spent Life [Review Copy, Inscribed]. George OPPENHEIMER](/pictures/medium/31292.jpg?v=1529353651)
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
New York: Lee Furman, [1939]. First Edition. HANNA 2751: "A lighthearted account of the efforts of a group of young upper class New Yorkers to produce a radical play." Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth, red topstain, black and pink pictorial dust jacket;352pp. Chips and tiny losses to jacket extremities, upper flap..... More
Cologne: Taschen, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (32.5cm x 25cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 319pp; color illus. Fine copy; free of markings or wear; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper with slight wear to exremities. Extensive collection of Russian avant-garde film posters in color by Rodchenko, Stenberg brothers, Nathan Altman, among..... More
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; xiii,[1],186pp.; illus. Spine a bit toned, else Near Fine. Paul's satirical attack on the film industry's Hays Code, rewriting six Biblical stories in order to conform to the Code. With 65 illustrations..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1913. First American Edition. Thick octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-embossed cloth, top edge gilt; xvi,382pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 leaves of plates. Light wear to cloth, textblock extremities and a few leaves foxed, else a Very Good and sound copy. 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
![Outrageous [Review Copy]. Miguel PIÑERO](/pictures/medium/40603.jpg?v=1529353993)
Houston: Arte Público Press, [1986]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 160pp. Light wear from handling, spine a hint toned, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip laid in. Collection of one-act plays by the Chicano playwright. More
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 128pp. Upper cover a bit unevenly sunned, some light soil, discreet rubberstamp of the Loft Small Press Library inside upper cover, else Near Very Good and sound. Collection of three plays by the Chicano playwright. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1923]. Fifth (1936) printing. Octavo (19.75cm.); publisher's cloth, blue printed spine label, blue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,[2],258pp. Jacket toned, especially at extremities and spine, old kraft paper tape repair to verso not visible to exterior, smallish dampstain mid-jacket spine, endpapers additionally toned, contemporary..... More
Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d., but after 1917. Reprint. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's pictorial self-wrappers printed in black; 9pp. Minor toning, else Near Fine. Cover illustration signed by Posada in image. Forms part of the series Galeria Infantil de Teatro. Presumed reprint, the rear cover advertisements for the estate of Vanegas..... 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): M. Horowitz, (1937). Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers; (14pp). Trivial external wear; Near Fine. Rather elaborate pictorial program for the 1937 season of Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," for which Henry Hull reprised the role of Lester Jeeter which he had created three years earlier. Copiously illustrated with stills from..... More
New York: National Educational Television, [1965]. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15cm x 23cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 64pp; illus. Light cover wear; Very Good. Published to accompany the groundbreaking, 9-part documentary series on National Educational Television, produced by Brice Howard, written by Arthur W. Rabin, and narrated by Ossie Davis..... More
New York: Thomas Selzer, 1920. First Edition. Early work by the prolific British poet-journalist, perhaps best known for his later career as a travel writer. Issued as No. 1 in the "Plays For A People's Theatre" series, which also included D.H. Lawrence's Touch & Go. 12mo (18cm). Original printed paper..... More
Pasadena: By the Author, 1935. First Edition. Satirical stage drama, based on Sinclair's 1933 pamphlet "The Way Out." Produced as a fund-raiser during Sinclair's EPIC campaign, but probably never staged since. Unlike most other Sinclair works from this period, there was no simultaneous issue from a trade publisher. According to..... 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: Coward-McCann, [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 dear..... 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
Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, 1933 [but ca. 1938]. Riefenstahl's memoir of her early acting career, specifically her memorable roles in Arnold Fanck's mountaineering spectacles including Der Heilige Berg (1926), Der Grosser Sprung (1927), Stürme über dem Montblanc (1930), etc. Illustrated throughout with stills from the films and off-set candid..... More
![Dramatic Poems, Songs & Sonnets [Signed by Author]. Donald ROBERTSON](/pictures/medium/47288.jpg?v=1580140026)
Chicago: Seymour, Daughaday & Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); three quarter beige paper with green paper sides, stamped in gilt; xiv, 238pp, frontispiece. Boards tanned, lightly scuffed and worn; extremities rubbed and bumped, mild material loss at corners; hinges creased. Author signature and inscription on ffep; faint soiling throughout..... More
