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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1982. Hardcover Second Printing. Wilbur's translation of Racine's version of the Greek myth. Fine in Fine DJ. ... Read More

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New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921. Hardcover First edition, first issue. Original black cloth Previous owner's name on ffep. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Bright and clean text block. Spine gilt slightly dulled, else near fine. ... Read More

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. Hardcover First edition 78 pp. The one woman play which opened on Broadway in 1976, starring Julie Harris and directed by Charles Nelson Reilly. Near fine copy in lightly soiled and worn, very good, price-clipped dust jacket. ... Read More

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n.p.: n.p., n.d.. Paperback Original typewritten manuscript with a few ink changes, in a three-hole paper binder. 30 pp, including four of stage layouts (two on yellow paper with colored pencil drawings), and a cover page with pencil and ink notes. "A spontaneous play written without corrections or changes." There are a few ink changes (mostly stage directions), and a number of xxxxx's. Not to be confused with the in itself rare version published for the American Theatre for Poets in 1964... Read More

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New York: Knopf, 1987. Hardcover First edition. 101 pp. Chip Kidd dust jacket . Fine and unread in near fine (crease and short closed tear) dust jacket (in mylar). ... Read More

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959. Hardcover First American edition. 134 pp. A play. Lionel Trilling's copy with his signature on the front fly. Near fine copy in a spine-faded dust jacket with small loss at crown and back panel, but still about very good. In 1959 there were no two greater literary and critical minds than Eliot and Trilling. A nice association. ... Read More

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[San Franciso]: [Batman Gallery], 1960. Paperback First edition 14 Mimeograph pages including the cover, printed on rectos only. A working script for the performance. A play for 13 actors at a long table. This copy with the names of the actors playing each of the parts handwritten : Ron Loewensohn, Ron Padgett, Bob Branaman, Phil Whalen, JoAnne McClure among others. This is Beat artist Robert LaVigne's copy. Performed at The Batman Gallery on Thursday, Dec. 22, 1960 (see pp. 214 The Beat Generation ... Read More

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New York: Scribners, 1995. Hardcover First printing, 96 pp. Libretto & lyrics for music by John Adams; opera directed by Peter Sellars. Fine in like dust jacket. ... Read More

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New York: Vintage , 2001. First edition Near Fine in Wraps The uncorrected proof of the Vintage Original (no hardcover publication) of the play about the Matthew Shepard case. The play originally opened in 2000, in Denver, then NYC and after Laramie, nationally. The proof was produced in very limited quantities. Fine in wrappers. ... Read More

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New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. Hardcover First edition, first state. (According to the incomparable bookseller Peter Howard this book was sold with a sticker over the $17.95 price on the flap, thus those without a sticker are in a first state dust jacket.) Considering the source of this book, it was probably sent out in advance, thus not succumbing to the fateful sticker. It does seem to be a rather scarce book in collectible condition in any state. Fine in a spine-faded else fine dust ja... Read More

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New York: Random House, 1971. Hardcover First edition First printing stated. Cloth-backed orange boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket; the lamination is loose, but otherwise a sharp copy. Rae Allen won a Tony for her role, in a play starring Estelle Parsons, Nancy Marchand and Julie Harris as three sisters. Zindel won a Pulitzer Prize for the play THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, but was best known for his young adult novels, including THE PIGMAN. ... Read More

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New York: Vintage/Random House, 1992. First edition Advanced Proofs published as A Vintage Original in gray printed wraps. This is based on a "monologue", which he performed using "key words" to tell his stories. Some of The late Spalding Gray's third published monologues, he also acted in other films including Diabolique and The Killing Fields. Fine, unread copy in wrappers. ... Read More

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New York: Grove Press, 1989. Hardcover First American edition. 47 pp. Fine copy in very near fine dust jacket of this play directed by the author in London in 1988 at the National Theatre Cast: Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon among others. ... Read More

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. Hardcover First edition Two great French plays rendered into English by Lowell (Racine) and Barzun (Beaumarchais), respectfully. Near fine in a moderately worn, complete dust jacket, a couple of short tears and wear at the edges, the white back panel lightly soiled. Overall easily very good. ... Read More

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Softcover First edition 211 pp. Uncorrected proof in green printed wrappers, with dust jacket. Fine, jacket worn at edges. ... Read More

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Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Paperback Presumed first printing. Still in shrink-wrap. Fine copy in illustrated wrappers of the writer's fourth collection of verse. ... Read More

Bookseller: Alexander Rare Books (Vermont, United States)