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Boston: Plays, Inc.. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. c. 1950, 1969. Hardcover. Ex-library, library name blacked-out on title page, top edge and bfep. Number stamped on Preface. Slight remains of pocket inside back cover and slight remains of charge-out slip inside front cover. Ffep was crudely torn out. Minor wear on clean and sound binding. Other than library markings, contents are clean. Call label on DJ's spine is blacked-out. Minor wear on clean DJ. ; Dark blue cloth, gold lettering. PLAYS. Seven plays each for Junior and Senior High, Middle Grades, and Lower Grades, plus three plays for radio-style reading and a stage version and radio-style version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. ; 8"Tall; 308 pages . more information

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NY Heritage Press C 1959. Hardcover. Thus. . 108pp. Color illustrations by T. M. Cleland . Frontispiece from the painting by Sir godrey Kneller . 10-1/8" X 7-3/8" . HC. Full richly embossed dark blue cloth, gold lettering . PLAYS. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. The color illustrations are numerous and very pleasant. Spine is a little faded but lettering is bright. The binding is clean and sound, with very minor wear. Front endpapers are lightly mold-stained (no musty smell ! ) , contents are almost as new. No slipcase. VG . . more information

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London Edward Arnold (C.1966). Hardcover. 1967 First Edition thus . 147pp. Over 8" Tall . Hc. Blue boards, bright silver lettering . Regents Restoration Drama Series . PLAYS. DJ's spine is slightly darkened but lettering is clear. Minor soil, very minor wear on DJ. Upper fore corners are very lightly bumped, o/w binding is clean, sound and unworn. Label from Fokyles on front pastedown. Brief ink notes on bfep. Contents are almost like new. VG + / VG . . more information

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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Very minor fore edge foxing. Name, in pencil, on ffep. Endpapers are foxed as are the first introductory pages. Contents are clean and unmarked. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; 7-5/8" Tall, 189pp. Red cloth, gold lettering. PLAYS. When Charles' seven-year-dead wife appears to him after a seance, the result is "a play which is hilarious as only a Coward farce can be...several of the critics agreed that this was the most brilliant play this most brilliant of contemporary playwrights had ever written. " Frontispiece is a b/w photo of Leonora Corbett, Clifton Webb and Peggy Wood in a scene from the play . . more information

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Garden City: Doubleday. VG-/G. 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Front cover's upper fore corner is lightly buimped, else very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are clean and unworn. DJ's spine is darkened and rubbed but lettering is clear, minor wear & soil on the complete DJ. ; 9-1/2" Tall, 283pp. Dark blue boards, bright gold lettering. PLAYS. "These plays are filled with Coward's characteristic dialogue: witty, cutting, rapid. " 5 b/w full-page photos. Top edge is colored. . more information

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Ny Harcourt Brace C 1935. Hardcover. 86pp. 8vo . HC. Full black cloth, bright gold lettering . PLAYS. A dramatic poem about the murder of Thomas a Becket. . Top 1/2" of DJ's spine is missing, top edge of DJ is moderately worn, DJ is age browned, spine is faded but lettering is readily legible. Top edge moderately soiled. Top/. Bottom of spine, lower edge and fore corners have minor wear, o/w binding is clean and sound. Contents are clean and sound. VG - / G - . . more information

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NY: Carlton House. Good+. Hardcover. Top of the book's spine is moderately worn, else minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Endpapers are age browned. Contents are very lightly age-browned, a little more-so in the margins, else contents are clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. ; Medium gray cloth, bright gold lettering and spine and front cover designs, red spine & front cover panels. A few cartoon-like drawings in text. No pub date, circa 1950. PLAYS. H. M. S. PINAFORE, PATIENCE, THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD, and RUDDIGORE. This book contains the spoken words and stage directions for the most famous of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. There are no musical notations. ; 8-3/8" Tall; 218 pages . more information

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Hardcover. Introduction by Clarence Day, Jr. NY Modern Library Volume 113 no publishing date listed . 229pp. Cartoon-like drawings throughout text. Small: 6-1/2" X 4-3/8" . Hardcover. Blue cloth over flexible boards, gold lettering . PLAYS. Includes: PIRATES OF PENZANCE; IOLANTHE and THE GOLDOLIERS . Spine is very faded; lettering, 'tho no longer bright, is readily legible. Minor wear and soil on sound binding. Paper is uniformly lightly age-yellowed. Pages 40-41 look like a coal man forgot to wash, o/w contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. Good . . more information

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NY: Random House. Very Good- with no dust jacket. c.1947. First Printing. Hardcover. Minor edge wear on clean and sound binding. Gift inscription on ffep. Contents are clean and unmarked; Dark blue boards, bright gold lettering in light blue spine panel. Three full-page b/w photos from the first U. S. Production, starting Martita Hunt as the Madwoman, Countess Aurelia.. PLAYS. Cprt. Uder the title LA FOLLE DE CHAILLOT. English version by Maurice Valency. ; Over 8" Tall; 134 pages . more information

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Boston: Little, Brown. Good+ with no dust jacket. c. 1951. Hardcover. The spine is a little faded but lettering is readily legible. Minor soil and wear on sound, but slightly cocked binding. Contents are clean and unmarked; Medium brown cloth, yellow lettering. PLAYS. The time is septemr 1949 and the place is a summer resort on the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles from New Orleans. ; 7-5/8" Tall; 139 pages . more information

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NY Harper & Bros. 1894. Hardcover. 46pp. Frontispiece drawing & 1 full-page drawing in text. Small: 5-1/4" X 3-3/4" (32mo. ) . HC. Gray cloth, black lettering and design. Harper's Black & White Series . . PLAYS. A drawing-room farce . Binding is very soiled, but is sound with minor wear. Name and date (Dec. 25 1894) on front flyleaf, contents clean, sound and unworn. No DJ. Good . . more information

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C 1968. Hardcover. Stated First Edition . 306pp. 8vo . HC. Light tan cloth, red and blue lettering . Plays. Moderate soil on light colored binding. Slight dent in front cover's fore edge, o/ binding is unworn and sound with minor edge soil. Contents clean and sound. No DJ. VG - . . more information

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NY Simon & Schuster . C 1953. Hardcover. Book of the Month Club Dividend . 715pp. 10-1/8" X 7-5/8" . One-half red cloth w/bright silver spine lettering . Plays. 21 brilliant plays from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward . 1/8" missing from top of DW's f ront panel, minor DW rubbing. A few pages toward the back of the book have uncut top edges. Very minor binding wear despite the fact this is a big, heavy book. VG - / G . . more information

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Garden City Doubleday 1965. Hardcover. 134pp. 8p B&W photos + photo on title page (from stage production with Alan Alda and Diana Sands) . 8vo . One-quarter black cloth w/rubbed and dulled, but readily legible, gold spine lettering. Fore edge untrimmed . Plays. Top edge lightly foxed. No dW. Good + . . more information

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NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Good- with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Spine labe is quite darkened but lettering is readily legible. Moderate wear to top of spine, o/w minor wear and soil on sound binding. Endpapers are quite browned (chemical reaction? ) , page 209-10 is torn out (STAGE DOOR) . Contents are clean and unmarked; Black cloth, black lettering in white glued-on paper spine and front cover labels. Indices. 10p b/w photos, indluding frontispiece. PLAYS. YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU; JOHNNY JOHNSON; DAUGHTERS OF ATREUS; STAGE DOOR; THE WOMEN; ST. HELENA; YES, MAR DARLING DAUGHTER; EXCURSION; TOVARICH, plus a great deal of information about drama in the U. S. , including brief obits of those who died in the last year. ; Over 8" Tall; 549 pages . more information

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NY Viking Press 1965. Hardcover. First Edition . 73pp. 8vo . One-quarter black cloth w/gold spine lettering. Fore edge untrimmed . Plays. Name on front flyleaf. Top edge lightly foxed. No DW. Spine dulled, lettering clear. No DW. Good + . . more information

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NY: Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. c. 1955. Hardcover. Very minor wear and soil on sound binding. Date on ffep. Contents are clean and unmarked; Green cloth, gold lettering in black spine panel. PLAYS. STRANGE INTERLUDE; DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS; LAZARUS LAUGHED; THE FOUNTAIN; THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES; BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF; THE LONG VOYAGE HOME; IN THE ZONE; ILE; WHERE THE CROSS IS MADE; THE ROPE; THE DREAMY KID; and BEFORE BREAKFAST. ; 8-1/4" Tall; 633 pages . more information

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NY: Random House. Good. c. 1940, 1946. Hardcover. Spine and portions of front cover are faded. Lettering, 'tho no longer bright, is readily legible. Cloth is worn through to the boards on the tips of the fore corners. Else minor wear and soil on the sund binding. Typed list of names to whom the book is to be passed is glued on ffep. Contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. ; Light brown cloth, gold lettering in black spine panel. PLAYS. List of characters. A play in four acts. Life in a cheap ginmill in a hotel situated on the downtown West Side of New York. ; 8-1/8" Tall; 260 pages . more information

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NY: Grove Press. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. c. 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. 1" tear on top edge of DJ's front panel, o/w minor wear on clean DJ. Minor soil, very minor wear on sound binding. Top edge is lightly foxed. Two ink check marks on contents page, very occasional ink check marks in margins of text, ink underlining and margin notess on pages 328-337. ; Blue cloth, bright silver lettering. PLAYS. A TASTE OF HONEY (Shelagh Delaney) ; THE HOSTAGE (Brendan Behan) ; ROOTS (Arnold Wesker) ; SERJEANT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE (John Arden) ; ONE WAY PENDULUM (N. F. Simpson) ; and THE CARETAKER (Harold Pinter) . Plus notes on the theater by directors and playwrights. ; almost 8-1/2" Tall; 606 pages . more information

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Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library. VG. 1981. Hardcover. This is a heavy book and is not eligible for Priority , Air or Internationa l under standard fees. Very minor rubbing on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost like new. ; 9-3/8" Tall, 655pp. Black cloth, extensive bright gold decorations on both covers and the spine, three raised spine bands, bright gold lettering, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers, seven full-page b/w illustrations by Henry Fuseli. PLAYS. ROMEO AND JULIET. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK. OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE. KING LEAR. MACBETH. THE TEMPEST. . more information

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Berkeley: University Of California. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0520239792 . Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. DJ is protected by clear plastic. ; 8-1/4" Tall, 234pp. Black cloth, bright gold spine lettering and decoration. PLAYS. Written in 1898. "This delightful comedy, which has never appeared in print or on stage, is at last available. " ... "Elements of farce and social satire work together...as Twain takes a characteristically wry look at the world market in art. " Extensive Notes. Edited with Foreword, Afterword, and Notes biy Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Frontispiece b/w portrait. Three full-page b/w illustrations by Barry Moser. A few b/w photos. . more information

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NY Dramatists Play Service Revised, C 1946. Hardcover. Previously entitled: HOME GROUND . 172PP. 7-1/2" X 4-3/4" . HC. Black cloth, gold lettering . PLAYS. About a playwright who has written a play that is considered immoral by some people. Treated with a light touch and a generous share of wit and humor. . Used bookstore's price sticker on DJ's front flap. Matte DJ is moderately edge worn but clean. Binding is clean, sound and unworn as are the contents. VG / G . . more information

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NY Harper & Row 1986. Hardcover. First Printing . 223pp. Dozens of full-page B&W ills throughtout text. . Tall 8vo . Green cloth w/bright gold spine lettering. Photo endpapers. Plays. The Broadway smash starring Lily Tomlin . VG / VG . . more information

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NY: Atheneum. Good. 1968. Hard Cover. PLAYS. Brown cloth, gold lettering, 175pp. Gold spine lettering is dulled but readily legible. Minor detnt in front cover's top edge, top fore corners are lightly bumped and bent inward, o/w Minor wear on clean and sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. ; 8" Tall . more information

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