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Franklin Center PA Franklin Library, 1979, hardcover. First printing of this 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of the Great Books of the Western World. Illustrated by William Oakes. Edited by William George Clarke and William Aldis Wright. -- Hardcover, pressed leather with raised spine bands, gilt stamped decoration and AEG all-edges-gilt. Condition: near fine (owner name; couple small… Read more about this item

London Folio Society, 1977, hardcover. First Edition, First Printing for The Folio Society. Foreword by Charles Ede. The introductory essay writers include Richard Burton for Hamlet, Lawrence Olivier for Antony and Cleopatra, etc. 12 costume designs are selected here, in color. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (owner name) with fine slipcase.

New York Simon and Schuster, 1957, hardcover. Later printing 1958. **This is volume 1 ONLY of the Tragedies** and includes six plays: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello. Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (cover irregularly sunned; spine tips rubbed; no jacket).

Franklin Center PA Franklin Library, 1977, hardcover. First printing of this 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of the Great Books of the Western World. Illustrated by William Oakes. Edited by William George Clarke and William Aldis Wright. -- Hardcover, pressed leather with raised spine bands, gilt stamped decoration and AEG all-edges-gilt. Condition: very good plus (owner name; rub… Read more about this item

New York Dunetz & Lovett, 1964, paperback. Booklet describing the Warner Brothers film starring Richard Burton, directed by Johjn Gielgud. Filmed as though it was a "run-through, costumed in rehearsal clothes, stripped of all extraneous trappings, [without] any particular historical period." Includes essays, photos, actor biographies, etc. -- Softcover, unpaged. 10x10 inches. Condition: good-plus (fore-edge is curled; faint tanning… Read more about this item

New York Paul Hamlyn, 1968, First Edition. hardcover. First editon, first printing of this facsimile, prepared by Charlton Hinman. -- Hinman compared 80+ variant copies from the Folger Library, using a machine he invented, to produce "THE" ("corrected") Folio in facsimile. -- Hardcover, 10x14.5x2.3 inches, 928 pages. Condition: near fine (fore-edge has couple small bumps; cover corner bump) with… Read more about this item

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1933, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. -- The esteemed classical scholar Gilbert Murray in his preface defends Aristophanes during the 1930s and fascist activities, saying the ancient was "devoted to peace, poetry . . . laughing about them, except for the loss of peace." There is also a chapter on Menander. Includes chronological table… Read more about this item

London W. H. Allen, 1978, hardcover. The book "gives scene-by-scene stories of 404 ballets," each including photographs and commentaries. Glossary with drawings, and index. -- Hardcover, 838 pages. Condition: very good (owner name blacked out) with very good, unclipped dust jacket. ISBN 0491020376

USA Samuel French, 1989, paperback. Acting Edition. Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. -- Softcover, 53 pages. Condition: near fine. ISBN 9780573698651

New York Book League of America, 1936, hardcover. Reprint edition. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. The plays are: Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance. -- Hardcover. Condition: spine faintly sunned and tips and corners lightly bent; owner name; no jacket.

Englewood Cliffs NJ Salem Press, 1986, hardcover. Alphabetical listing of the dramatists, with details about the plays, biographical sketch, criticism. Volume 6 contains subject essays, such as: Preclassical Drama; Medieval Drama; African (and other regions) Drama. Index 44 pages. -- Hardcover, six volumes, ex-library copies with spine label remains, withdrawn bookplates, top-edges marker line. Attractive red spines with gold… Read more about this item

no place no publisher paperback. Articles and photographs of the Rogers and Hart musical comedy. -- Softcover, stapled binding, 16 unnumbered pages, 9x12 inches. Condition: near fine (a little soil/rub to rear cover).

Pittsburgh PA Plays Inverse Press, 2019, paperback. Softcover. Condition: near fine (bookplate). ISBN 9780999724767

New York Oxford University Press, 2001, paperback. 2001 Anniversary Edition. Introduction by Ian Bradley. -- Massive softcover, 1267 pages. Condition: near fine. ISBN 9780199392421

New York New Directions, 1948, paperback. Issue Six of the quarterly magazine Direction. -- Softcover. Condition: good (contents sharp; cover light edgewear; spine head has 1-inch tear).

San Diego Avant Books, 1983, paperback. Play, Michael Tobias's preface says this drama "integrated the ascetic East and god-tamed West," the [Buddhist] Yangtze River and the Italy/Germany invasion and ensuing resistance in Greece 1940-41. -- First editon thus, as an Avant paperback simultaneous with the hardcover. Translated from Greek by Kimon Friar and Athena Dallas-Damis. -- Softcover. Condition:… Read more about this item

New York Samuel French, 1984, paperback. Play, set in a Wisconsin house. [Holly Hunter was in the cast list of the Louisville Kentucky production in 1983.] -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0573619220

New York Avon Discus Books, 1972, paperback. Includes articles and interviews, plus filmographies of 50 persons. -- Softcover, pocket paperback, 328 pages. Condition: very good (light wrinkle to spine; x-mark on front page).

New York Simon Schuster, 1968, paperback. Class Film Scripts. Translated from French by Marianne Alexandre. -- Softcover. Condition: good (corner bumped; light soil to white covers).

Boston Walter H. Baker, 1908, paperback. Fragile softcover, 175 pages. Condition: fair (lacks rear cover; front-cover has tiny tip, and spine about 1.5 inch of material missing affecting title). Otherwise, binding is tight and pages bright.