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FRIENDS (Play)
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New York: Grove Press., 1969. Fine in minimally rubbed Near Fine dustwrapper; not price clipped. Translated by Donald Keene.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $75.00
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MALCOLM (Play)
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Atheneum, 1966. First.. Albee's adaption of the novel by James Purdy. Fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, tiny crease.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $45.00
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TIME OUT FOR GINGER (Comedy)
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Dranatist's Play Service, 1953. First thus. Originally performed under the title "Season With Ginger" in 1948.. A fine copy, but for some tanning along the inner hinge, in very good, slightly tanned dust jacket, with a couple of small tears, and generously price clipped front flap.. First Thus. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $16.00
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Mary of Scotland (Play)
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New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. First trade edition, after a limited edition of 550 copies. Red cloth, decorative paper label on spine. A solid, lightly used Near Fine copy in Very Good+, lightly soiled dustwrapper, light rubbing to vertical extremities. Basis for the 1936 John Ford movie with Katharine Hepburn and Fredric March. TO VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $45.00
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SATURDAY'S CHILDREN (Comedy)
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Longmans, Green, 1927. First.. A fine copy in dark-brown quarter cloth with raised bands, lettered in gilt, in very good (+) dust jacket, with light tanning to spine, and tiny chips at tips and spine crown, plus one small tear to top edge of front panel, otherwise a crisp, clean illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $125.00
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ANATHEMA (Tragedy, in Seven Scenes)
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New York: Macmillan, 1910. Blind-stamped decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine. A lightly worn, Near Fine copy, no dustwrapper.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $35.00
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Hollywood Babylon
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New York: Bell, 1981. Gold cloth, spine stamped in black. Bump to spine crown, else tight, bright and fine in near fine dust jacket, with one short tear, couple of edge nicks. Photos throughout.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $15.00
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RESTLESS HEART (Play)
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London: Methuen, 1957. First.. Cloth crimped at spine bottom, about fine in good to very good, price clipped dj, with small scuff and stain from removed sticker front panel, lightly soiled.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $25.00
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PLAY-MAKING, a Manual of Craftsmanship
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Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1912. Dark green cloth stamped in gilt, bordered in blind. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Lovely, bright and clean, near fine copy, only slightly shelf-worn. Octavo. 419pp, index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $35.00
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LYSISTRATA
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Hartsdale House, n.d. (c. 1940-1950). Erotic illustrations by Norman Lindsay. A fine copy, but for flaps of dj protector partially glued to pastedowns (removable, but a glue stain will remain). DJ is very good, couple of nicks to edges, tiny chips to tips and spine ends.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $30.00
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SABBATAI ZEVI: A Tragedy in Three Acts and Six Scenes With a Prologue and an Epilogue
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Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1930. Covers soiled, some scattered foxing to contents, thin dampstain along inner hinge, still an internally bright and crisp, solid copy, good to very good; no dust jacket. Translation by Florence Whyte and George Rapall Noyes.. First Edition. Hardcover. more information
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Price: $15.00
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ON THE FRONTIER, a Melodrama in Three Acts
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New York: Random House, 1938. Spine and extremities very lightly tanned, name on front flyleaf, else Near Fine, no dustwrapper.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $20.00
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THE MAGIC FLUTE (An Opera)
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New York: Random House, 1956. A new English translation of the libretto of Mozart's famous opera. Tiny stain on flyleaf, about fine in like dust jacket.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $45.00
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THE CHALK GARDEN (Play)
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New York: Random House, 1956. Crisp and very close to fine in slightly tanned, unclipped very good dustwrapper, with some mild scuff marks to spine.. First Edition (stated). hardcover. more information
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Price: $25.00
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THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER (Comedy)
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Random House, 1964. First. Fine in near fine dust jacket, short creased tear, lightly rubbed.. First Edition. hardcover. more information
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Price: $25.00
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THE CHALK GARDEN (Play)
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London: Heinemann, 1956. With corrigenda slip tipped in at copyright page. Frontispiece photo of Dame Edith Evans. Pages very lightly tanned, else near fine in very good, or better lightly soiled dustwrapper, a very few small edge tears. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. hardcover. more information
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Price: $45.00
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MAXWELL ANDERSON: The Playwright as Prophet
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London and New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1957. Near fine in very good, price clipped dust jacket, lightly soiled and tanned at spine.. 1ST U.S. ED.. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $20.00
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THE STEPMOTHER (Play)
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London: Wingate, 1958. 1st U.S. ed. thus.. About fine in crisp, slightly rubbed, very good, price clipped dust jacket. Translated by Edith Saunders.. 1ST U.S. ED.. more information
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Price: $40.00
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The Bicyclers & Three Other Farces (A Dramatic Evening, The Fatal Message, A Proposasl Under Difficulties)
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Blue illustrated cloth crisply lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, slightly cocked, else tight, clean and Near Fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Edward Penfield. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information
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Price: $25.00
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THE MARRYING OF ANN LEETE (Comedy)
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1909. Walter Lippman's copy, SIGNED by him on front flyleaf. Very good in spine tanned, lightly soiled rose-colored cloth lettered in gilt; no dust wrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $40.00
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The Antiphon (Play)
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958. Very light tanning along inner hinge of endpapers, else Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper, lightly chipped spine crown. Author's second book. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON AT LEFT. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $35.00
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RABELAIS
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New York: Hill & Wang, 1971. Fine in very good to near fine dust wrapper, rubbed, tiny chip to spine heel. Translated by Robert Baldick. 1ST U.S. ED.. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $30.00
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LIBERTY JONES
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Coward-McCann, 1941. First.. "A play with music for city children." Near fine in good to very good dj. Light tanning on front flyleaf from paper item laid in. DJ tanned, one small tear and tiny chip to top front panel, nicks to rear top edge, and small fingernail-size chip t o spine bottom. DJ is crisp and unstained.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $150.00
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IN A GARDEN (Comedy)
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George H. Doran, 1926. First.. Corners and spine ends slightly worn, opened at title page, still a crisp, very good plus copy, in Good Plus dustwrapper, tanned, chipped, rear flap detached, but still relatively attractive.. First Edition. hardcover. more information
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Price: $125.00
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BICYCLE THIEVES
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New York: Macmillan, 1950. A Near Fine copy in Good to Very Good dust jacket, with tiny chips at spine ends, small chip and related crease and tear to top of front panel near corner, front flap is clipped. The basis for the film masterpiece, "The Bicycle Thief" by Vittorio De Sica.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $50.00
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THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM (Novelised from the Play)
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1912. Spine slightly cocked, ink stain to bottom page edges, vertical crease to front flyleaf, an attractive and very good copy in rust-colored cloth with color illustration on front and lettering stamped in gilt on front and spine. Illustrations by John Rae. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by John Rae. more information
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Price: $20.00
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FROM THIS DAY FORWARD ("All Brides are Beautiful")
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946. Originally published in 1936 as ALL BRIDES ARE BEAUTIFUL, and filmed as FROM THIS DAY FORWARD starring Joan Fontaine. Mild stain to front cover, else fresh and Near fine in creased dust jacket missing bottom half of spine, with full page photo of Joan Fontaine on rear panel, and photo illustration on front of Fontaine and her co-star, Mark Stevens. VIEW IMAGE. First Thus. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $25.00
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THE ART OF THE MOTION PICTURE
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New York: Coward McCann, 1946. A solid, Very Good copy, but with small piece of black tape on spine covering a split to the backstrip, otherwise clean and tight in black cloth; no dustwrapper.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $5.00
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MILTON BERLE, an Autobiography
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New York: Delacorte, 1974. Near Fine in Very Good, slightly edgeworn dustwrapper, with short tear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $10.00
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THE REAL SARAH BERNHARDT--Whom Her Audiences Never Knew
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Boni and Liveright, 1924. First American edition.. Translated by Basil Woon. A good to very good copy, showing some wear to tips, and dulling of cloth--internally clean and bright.. 1ST U.S. ED.. hardcover. more information
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Price: $25.00
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DUNSANY THE DRAMATIST
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Boston: Little, Brown, 1917. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. 8vo. xiv + 184 pp. Illustrated with photos. Appendix. Mild dulling of spine gilt, gentle corner bump, else tight, fresh and Near Fine, no dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $20.00
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THE CRADLE WILL ROCK (A Play in Music)
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New York: Random House, 1938. Spine sunned, nick to top edge of one inner page, else a tight and square Near Fine copy in red cloth lettered in gilt. Seven page foreword by Archibald MacLeish.. First Edition. Half-Leather. more information
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Price: $450.00
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THEATRE WORLD: Season 1957-58 (vol. 14)
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Philadelphia: Chilton, 1958. A complete pictorial and statistical record of the Broadway season; including Off-Broadway. 8vo., 256pp. About fine, but for discoloration/stain along the front cover near spine hinge; thus only very good in very good dust jacket, with light edgewear, and a small scuff mark on spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $40.00
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THEATRE WORLD, 1947-48 (Vol. 4)
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New York: Theatre World, 1948. A clean, tight and Near Fine copy, in Good only dust jacket, clean, but with rear panel badly creased and torn--tape mended--scuff mark on front of front panel, and front flap, not price clipped, detached at the fold, rear flap detached, mended with tape (now in acetate dust jacket protector). Profusely illustrated with delightful black and white photographs of the '47--'48 Broadway Season, which saw the premier performances of "Finian's Rainbow," "Annie Get Your Gun," and "Mr. Roberts," to name just three.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $30.00
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A Postillion Struck By Lightning (Memoir)
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New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977. Very mild sunning to extreme cover edges, else a Fine copy of the author's first book in bright, crisp and Fine dust jacket.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $25.00
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IN THE SUMMER HOUSE
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Random House, 1954. First.. About fine in a very good, lightly soiled dust jacket, with a small tear to rear panel and a few nicks to edges. Illustrated with photographs from the play, directed by Jose Quintero, with music by Paul Bowles, and starring Judith Anderson, Miriam Colon, Mildred Dunnock and Jean Stapleton to name a few.. First Edition. hardcover. more information
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Price: $175.00
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JOAN SUTHERLAND
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London: Collins, 1962. Ding to cover's foredge, light foxing to end papers, else near fine in very good dust wrapper, clean and bright, but with scattered wear to extremities. 8vo. 256pp., including index and photos throughout.. First Edition. hardcover. more information
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Price: $15.00
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Parables For the Theater: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1948. Book is tight, bright and fine in a crisp, bright and clean very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket, with a few small chips at extremities. to view IMAGE - click ICON left of title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $50.00
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ARTISTS' FAMILIES (Menages D'Artistes)
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New York: Doubleday, Page., 1918. Slightly worn spine ends, stain and rub to spine label, else a fine copy; no dust jacket. Introduction by J. R. Crawford, translated by Barrett H. Clark. 12mo.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $15.00
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FIVE PLAYS (Goin' a Buffalo / In the Wine Time / A Son, Come Home / The Electronic Nigger / Clara's Ole Man )
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. Fine unread copy in lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket.. First Edition. hardcover. more information
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Price: $75.00
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Tiger (play)
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New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Book is tight, clean and Very Good, would be better, but suffers from water damage causing a large, but mild stain to covers and text -- pages are not rippled, and binding is square.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $12.00
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VIRGIL THOMSON: His Life and Music
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Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. First.. About fine in very good, lightly used dj; flap clipped--not price.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $35.00
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POWER AND GLORY (Play)
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London: Allen & Unwin, 1938. First English edition.. Near fine, in very good dust jacket, with some darkening of spine, a one inch tear along spine hinge, and tiny chip to bottom front corner, still pink jacket is quite nice.. First English Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $75.00
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TELEMACHUS CLAY, a Collage for Voices
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New York: Random House, 1963. Fine in Very Good, slightly edgeworn, slightly rubbed, unclipped dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $15.00
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The Child's Book of the Symphony
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New York: Howell, Soskin, 1941. Pencil point-size hole to rear spine gutter, else lightly used and Fine in Very Good, or better lightly worn dustwrapper, rubbed at tips and spine ends, mild loss at spine bottom. Illustrated by Dorothea Parrot. 8vo. 98pp. Includes a List of Recordings to use with this book. TO VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Parrot, Dorothea. more information
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A HANDBOOK FOR THE AMATEUR ACTOR
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Doubleday, Doran, 1936. First.. Includes GEORGE, a one-act play, with complete stage directions and a running commentary for the director, as well as a descriptive glossary of stage terms. Red cloth discolored in spots, otherwise a very good copy in like dj, with a few small tear s.. First Edition. hardcover. more information
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Price: $10.00
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THE INTERLUDES OF CERVANTES
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948. Fine, but for tanning to endpapers, in price-clipped Very Good+ dustwrapper, with one tiny fingernail-size chip to rear edge, modest number of small edge tears.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $25.00
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The Burns Mantle BEST PLAYS of 1948-1949
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949. Small owner's name on flyleaf, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket, with tiny chips and small tears. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $20.00
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Mrs. McThing (Play)
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. Name on front endpaper, very lightly used and Near Fine, no dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Madeleine Gekiere & Helen Sewell. more information
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Price: $10.00
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THE PASSION OF JOSEF D. (Play)
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New York: Random House, 1964. About fine in very good, rubbed and price clipped dj.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information
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Price: $22.00
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