Theater, Drama, Plays & Stagecraft

Baschet, Armand. Les Comediens Italiens a La Cour de France sous Charles IX, Henri III, Henri IV et Louis XIII. D'Apres Les Lettres Royales, La Correspondance Originale des Comediens, Les Registres de la Tresorerie de l'Epargne, et Autres Documents. Paris: E. Plon, 1882. xv, 367 pages. Index. Text in French. Good hardcover, quarter leather with raised bands and marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, bookplate inside front cover, on title page; pocket removed inside rear cover; small colored felt-tip mark on top edge; unrelated gift inscription in pencil on half-title page. #25904. $70
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Caldwell, Zoe. I Will Be Cleopatra: An Actress's Journey. New York: Norton, 2001. 1st printing. Small 8vo. 218 pages. Photographs. Dated and signed on blank front flyleaf by the author. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 039304226X. #23687. $25
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Christie, Agatha. Akhnaton: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973. First published 1973. 157 pages. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket, slightly chipped and torn at top of backstrip. ISBN 0396068227. #26092. $27.50
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Coward, Noel. Bitter Sweet and Other Plays. With a few comments on the younger dramatists by W. Somerset Maugham. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. Copy 187 of 1,000 signed by the author. 314 p. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Bookplate pasted over ink signature on front flyleaf. Front hinge slightly loose. Else nice, tight copy. #16313. $220
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Crosby, Donald H., and George C. Schoolfield, editors. Studies in the German Drama: A Festschrift in Honor of Walter Silz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974. 1st printing. xxiv, 252 pages. Bibliographical references. Frontispiece portrait. University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 76. Very good hardcover. Name of former owner, who is one of the contributors to this volume, on blank front flyleaf. Also some of his pencil marginalia. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23807. $15
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Daly, Charles P. First Theater in America: When Was The Drama First Introduced in America? An Inquiry, Including A Consideration of The Objections That Have Been Made to The Stage. Port Washington, New York/London: Kennikat Press, 1968. Facsimile reprint. 16mo (small book). [1], 115 pages. Frontispiece. First published in 1896. Good hardcover. #18901. $20
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Fraser, Peter. Puppet Circus. With illustrations by The author. Boston: Plays, Inc., 1971. 1st American edition. 152 pages. Illustrations. The Puppet Library. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket, with small tear near front hinge. ISBN 0823801195. #16685. $12.50
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Honig, Edwin. Ends of The World and Other Plays. Providence, Rhode Island: Copper Beech Press, 1983. 63 pages. Signed and inscribed by Honig. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0914278363. #16040. $20
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Horn, Barbara Lee. David Merrick: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992. 1st printing. xii, 260 pages. Index. Bibliography. Frontispiece portrait. Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts, 35. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label mostly removed, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front and rear cover; small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. ISBN 0313285209. #26010. $35
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Lee, Betty. Love and Whisky: The Story of The Dominion Drama Festival and The Early Years of Theatre in Canada, 1606-1972. Foreword by Robertson Davies. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1982. 1st printing. xiii, 335 pages. Illustrations. Canadian Theatre History No. 1. Good trade paperback. ISBN 0889241317. #19073. $17.50
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Loukomski, G.-K. (Georgii Kreskent Lukomskii). Les Theatres Anciens et Modernes. Preface de Louis Hautecoeur. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1934. Small 4to (medium-large book). 39 pages, 88 plates, including plans on 44 leaves. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Ouvrage illustre de 88 planches en heliogravure. A history of ancient and contemporary theaters. Text in French. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), edges slightly rubbed, front cover partially sunned, dampstain on rear flyleaf, small tear in lower rear cover. #25204. $75
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Monjo, Nicolas. The Edge of Perfect: The Tragedy of Abelard and Heloise. A Play. Introduction by Jaques Barzun. New York: Grove Press, 1956. 159 pages. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and sunned dust jacket. #25168. $25
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Mueller, Martin. Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy, 1550-1800. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. 1st printing. xiv, 282 pages. Index. Bibliography. On the Greek influences on European drama and tragedy. Very good hardcover. Former owner's name inside front cover. Ink underlining on one page in the Introduction. ISBN 0802054781. #22393. $20
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Mulroney, John E. The Seven Days of Jericho: A Drama Based on Bible History in Two Acts. Jericho, New York: Exposition Press, 1973. 1st edition. ix, 80 pages. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0682478237. #23711. $15
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Palmer, Winthrop. Beat the Wind. Foreword by G. F. Reidenbaugh. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University, 1969. No pagination. About 20 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author, 'For Herb and Jeanne with much love, Winthrop.' Laid in a memorial service program for Winthrop Bushnell Palmer, 1899-1988. The play was produced April 9, 1966, by the Drama Department of Syracuse University. Mary Beth Hoffmann played the Role of 'Anna'. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23985. $20
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Small, Adam. Kanna--He Is Coming Home. Translated from the Afrikaans in association with the author with an Afterword by Carrol Lasker. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. 119 pages. Garland Library of World Literature in Translation, 17. Very good plasticized hardcover, as issued. ISBN 0824033124. #22771. $20
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Strindberg, August. The Last of the Knights. The Regent. Earl Birger of Bjalbo. Translations and Introductions by Walter Johnson. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1956. viii, 257 pages. Illustrations. The Historical Plays of August Strindberg. Good hardcover in good dust jacket; front and rear covers are foxed, spine of dust jacket sunned and edges worn. #26031. $20
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Wimmer, Paul. Franz Werfels dramatische Sendung. Vorwort von Kurt Becsi. Wien: Berland Verlag, 1973. 205 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Frontispiece portrait. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. Sonderpublikation der Osterreich-Reihe, Reihe Profile, 1. Text in German. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Felt-tip mark on top edge. #26089. $20
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