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Blues for Mister Charlie
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New York: Samuel French Inc, 1964. Unknown. Soft Cover. Very Good/Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book has a crease in the upper front corner, an occasional underline or mark in the text. A play written during the Civil Rights movement in the United States by a black author which reflects ,with chilling accuracy, the times. more information
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Quality Street
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Unknown. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. . One of the Uniform Edition Series. Gilt nearly worn off spine, front lettering clear & bright, pages just beginning to tan at the edges. Now protected in mylar. One of Barrie's (creator of Peter Pan) well known plays. more information
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Echoes of the War
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Slight shelfwear. four short plays - The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, The New World, Barbara's Wedding, A Well-Remembered Voice. These are not Barrie's (creator of Peter Pan) most well known plays, but are quite interesting. more information
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Alice Sit-By-The-Fire
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. Unknown. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt worn off spine, Frontt lettering clear & bright, pages just beginning to tan at edges. One of Barrie's (creator of Peter Pan) lesser known plays. more information
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The Jacobean and Caroline Stage ( 2 Vol. Set)
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London: Oxford, 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2 vol. set in like condition. Books slow very slight shelfwear, corners lightly bumped, previous onwer's name on front endpapers. more information
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Love for Love
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/None as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Age darkened, small tear at heel of spine ( now protected in mylar). Produced in New York June 3 to 8 1940 by THE PLAYERS under the direction of Robert Edmond Jones. Introduction by Franklin P Adams. more information
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The Visit
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New York: Random House, 1958. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows light wear. Light dustjacket tanned & very slightly soiled. Now protected by mylar. Adapted from the German by Maurice Valency. Three act play by noted Swiss writer. more information
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Drama and Revolution
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New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1971. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. White cover is sunned and lightly soiled, Previoius owner's name written on foreedge. 600 pages including bibliography. This anthology attempts to trace revolution through world drama beginning with Greek tragedy progressing up to contemporary guerilla theatre. more information
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Elizabethan Drama : Marlowe Shakespeare
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New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1969. 6th Printing. Leatherette. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows slight shelfwear. Deluxe edition. Dark green with gilt trim. more information
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Planning and Producing the Musical Show
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New York: Crown Publishers, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows slight shelfwear.Dustjacket is quite worn with bits missing at the spine ends and corners. Now protected in mylar. 159 pages including index. more information
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Quartermaine's Terms
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New York: Methuen, Inc, 1983. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book & Dustjacket have slight shelfwear. Protected in mylar. The Only play ever awarded the prestigious Cheltenham Prize for Literature in England. The play looks at the lives and relationships of six teachers who gravitate between classes to teh faculty common room of the small British school for foreigners. more information
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The Student's Macbeth
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New York: Globe Book , 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former high-school library book with the usual markings. Some shelfwear, especially at spine ends. Sort of play and cliff notes rolled into one. The explanations are parallel to the text. more information
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Julie Harris talks to Young Actors
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New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former high school library book has usual markings. Book shows slight shelfwear, boards soiled. more information
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Beijing Diary
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Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book and dustjacket show slight shelfwear. Now protected in mylar. more information
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Plays
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New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Later. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1966 printing. Book and dustjacket show light shelfwear. Price-clipped. Now protected in mylar. Includes: The Sisters' Tragedy, A Comedy of Good and Evil, Danger & The Man Born to Be Hanged more information
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The Back Stage Guide to Casting Directors
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New York: Back Stage, 1992. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Wraps. Trade PB. Very slight shelfwear, lower corner bumped. 214pp. "Casting Directors, who they are, how they work, what they look for in actors." more information
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Minos of Crete : Plays and Stories
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London: Routledge, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows slight shelfwear. dustjacket is price clipped, lightly worn with chipping and a few small pieces missing from the spine top and bottom. Now protected in mylar. 190 pages. more information
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The Normal Heart
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New York: New American Library , 1985. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book and dustjacket show slight shelfwear, now protected in mylar. Introduction by Andrew Holleran, foreword by Joseph Papp. The first play to deal with AIDS. more information
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Who Was That Lady I Saw You with?
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New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book has general lilght wear with a homemade pocket in the back. dustjacket is quite edgeworn, spine ends tattered & a small strip missing from the upper front. Actually looks much better than described. The comedy hit of 1958. more information
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The Lively Audience : A Social Hisotry of the Visual and Performing Arts in America 1890-1950
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New York: Harper & Row, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight shelfwear. 489 pages, including index. THE LIVELY AUDIENCE is a book about the impact of technoloby (mass communcation) on the arts and about aesthetic quarrels and love affairs and crusades and the people who acted in them, movers and shakers of the theater, and a host of other men and women who helped to create, infuriate, shock, soothe, challenge, and delight the vast and various lively audience. more information
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The Best Plays of 1940-1941
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941. Reveiw. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows slight wear, but has some foxing. Dsutjacekt is worn with some small bits missing at teh corners & spine ends. Review slip liad in. 22nd annual issue of the year book of the Drama in America. Contains excepts and summaries of ten plays for the year : Claudia, Native Son, My Sister Eileen, Lady in teh Dark, The Corn is Green, Flight to the West, Mr. & Mrs. North, Watch on the Rhine, Arsenic and Old Lace, & George WAshington Slept Here. more information
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Texas Plays
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Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1990. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Slight shelfwear, one reading crease in spineInscribed & dated by the editor on the title page. Eleven plays including The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote. Other authors are : Ramsey Yelvington, Oliver Hailey, Jack Heifner, R.G. Vliet, Carlos Morton, Preston Jones, Mary Rohde, & James McLure. part of the Southwest Life and Letters series. more information
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Representative One-act Plays By American Authors
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Boston: Little Brown, 1921. Later. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red-brown boards with gold lettering show very slight shlefwear. Now protected in mylar. 24 plays more information
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A Bibliography of Modern Irish Drama 1899-1970
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Seattle, Washington: University of Washington, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edition not stated assumed first. Very slight shelfwear. DJ light wear at edges and a little chipping on corners. 51 pages. With an introduction by William A. Armstrong. This bibliography by E. H. Mikhail includes some 450 entries and is the first attempt toward a comprehensive general bibliography. more information
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The Fox
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Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1982. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 106 pages. Slight shelfwear. A play based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. more information
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Danger : Memory! Two Plays
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New York: Grove Press, 1986. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 65 pages. Slight shelfwear. Includes I Can't Remeber Anything and Clara. more information
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Salesman in Beijing
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1984. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight shelfwear. more information
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After the Fall : Final Stage Version
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New York: Viking, 1964. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book and dustjacket show slight shlefwear. Now protected in mylar. This is the final stage version, although there were earlier version published. more information
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That Championship Season
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New York: Atheneum, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kursar, Raymond (Cover painting). Book and dustjacket have slight shelfwear. White dustjacket is lightly tanned at spine & enges. This is only superficially about the 20th reunion of the Pennsylvania Champion high school basketball team, it's really a rite of passage. Introduction by Joseph Papp. Winner of the New York Brama Critics' Award for Best Play in 1972. more information
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Three Comedies
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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows slight shelfwear. Dustjacekt has several creases & closed tears at the upper edge, back panel lightly soiled, price-clipped. Now protected in mylar. Foreword by Thorton Wilder. Contains: A Man Full of Nothing, The Talisman, Love Affair and Wedding Bells more information
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Chantecler
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New York: Duffield & CO, 1913. Later. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book shows slight shelfwear. more information
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The Typists and the Tiger
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New York: Coward, McCann Inc, 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows light shelfwear, gift inscription on front end paper. Dustjacket is quite worn with several crease and small tears. Also, small bits missing from spine ends & lower front corner. Now protected in mylar.These are two plays that re related in theme but utterly different in tone. The original production starred Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. more information
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Plays : Pleasant and Unpleasant Volume 1
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New York: Brentano's, 1913. Later. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows some edgewear, spine pastedown is partially worn off - still readable. this is volume 1 only. Contains: Widower's Houses , the Philanderer, & Mrs. Warren's Profession more information
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The Littlest Wiseman : A Play Pageant of the Nativity
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Caldwell Idaho: Caxton, 1966. Later. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By Author. 1966 edition. Book shows slight wear. Dustjacket has several closed tears & is worn at edges , especically spine ends. Now protected in mylar. Inscribed by Dorothy Stott Shaw on the free front endpaper & by Mary D & Howard Walsh ( benefactors of the pageant) on the front pastedown endpaper. 72 pages. Script of the Play more information
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Fool for Love
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San Francisco: City Lights, 1983. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 89 pages. Slight shelfwear. more information
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California Suite
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New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book has foxing to endpapers, tanning to board edges. DJ has repaired tears to front and back panels, some creasing, wear to sp and corners, small pieces missing. "Visitors from London" has pencil markings. more information
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Oedipus the King
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New York: The Heritage Press. Reprint. Slip Cased. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Galanis, Demetrios. Spine sunned, slight amount of foxing. Slipcase is a bit worn , slightly soiled. In Greek & English on facing pages. more information
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The Real Thing
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London: Faber & Faber, 1983. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 115 pages. Slight shelfwear, some lines highlighted. more information
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Delphian Text Part Ten
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Chicago: The Delphian Socoety, 1927. Unknown. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark boards with gilt lettering shows light wear at corners and spine ends. The tenth volume in the series. This one is on Greek and Roman drama - both comedy and tragedy. 281 pages. more information
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Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book and dustjacket show slight shelfwear. Now protected in mylar. more information
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Big Fish, Little Fish
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Newy: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Broadway production B&W photographs on front board and throughout. Cast included Jason Robards and Hume Cronyn, directed by John Gielgud. 115pp. Deckle edge pages. Bluish green boards, with black cloth spine and gilt lettering/design. Corners are bumped, sl soil to back board. DJ is priceclipped, has water damage to top edges at spine, red stain to back panel, slight soil to front panel, 1 large repaired tear,& tattered spine ends. more information
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Broadside
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1971. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight shelfwear. No publishing information beyond copywrite date, edition not stated. A play in three acts. Under list of characters: Every character of the play is the same person, is noted. more information
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Salome : A Tragedy in One Act
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New York: The Heritage Press, 1945. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Angelo, Valenti. Book shows almost no wear, spine a bit faded. Interior bright and lovely. more information
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