Columbia SC: The State Co., 1929. First, Limited Edition. First printing; no. 7 of 250 signed copies. Small, slim octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth; dustjacket; 49pp. Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), crisp and unworn, very Near Fine. Dialect drama by a white Southern author..... More

Ibadan: Adekile Goodwill Grammar School, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original blue and black staplebound wrappers lettered in yellow and white; 49pp. Fine. Imprint on upper cover: Ilesanmi Press Ltd., Ilesa. 5-act play set in a polygamous home in Nigeria. Unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015. More

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 112pp. Book is fine, with red top-stain even and unfaded. Jacket price-clipped, gently sunned on spine and a little toned at edges; "10/67" code present at base of front flap, still VG+. Allen's first book, a dramatic..... More

[Ibadan? n.d., but 1968]. First Edition. Slim folio (32.5cm.); original red pictorial card wrappers; [2],iv,43pp.; mimeographed text. Fine. Play originally composed and produced while the author was a student at the International Secondary School, University of Ibadan, in 1963. Amali, later described as the only writer in his native language..... More

New York: Anderson House, 1933. First, Limited Edition. One of 550 copies. Full calf, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 156pp. A few minor scuffs to leather binding; faint foxing to prelims, still a Very Good or better copy. This copy inscribed on the front endpaper by..... More

London: Carcanet, 1987. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 191pp. Fine, tight copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £10.95 at base of front flap); crisp and clean, very Near Fine. A collaborative novel between two prominent New York School poets. A bright copy of this scarce..... More

New York: Random House, [1937]. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale grey pictorial dust jacket; 123pp. Minor edge wear, spine toned, very shallow losses to spine ends, else Very Good and sound. Published in a print run of 1500 copies. Orginally published in Great Britain the previous..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (23cm). Green paper-covered boards, titled in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 38pp. Gentle rubbing to bottom board edges and some offsetting to endpapers, else a Fine copy, tight and clean with the text particularly fresh. In the original..... 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

[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

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

Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1963. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. 12mo. Printed, sewn paper wrappers; 89pp. Some very mild dusting to exterior and a tiny nick at upper edge of front wrapper; text partially unopened (and one fold opened roughly, though without loss); Very Good or better in the..... More

New York: Random House, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and decorations blind embossed to front cover; blue topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 163pp; black and white photographic (halftone) frontspiece and illustrations. Light shelf-soil, with sunning..... More