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Stratford ON: Self Published. Very Good. 1969. Paperback. Light edge wear to fore corners, small sticker pull back card cover ; A bright, solid book ; Trade PB; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Unpaginated pages; This is a souvenir programme containing information on all the plays and music programs appearing at the 1969 Stratford Festival (the 17th season). It is generously illustrated throughout with photos of all the actors and musicians as well as illustrations from older productions of these works. .

Winnipeg, MB: Blizzard Publishing. Near Fine. 1998. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 092136881X . Trade PB; Slight wear, remainder dot bottom page edges. A play from renowned Govenor-General and Pulitzer Prize winner. .

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0701130326 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, light tanning of pages as is common in British books of this period..; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 7.9 X 5.4 X 0.7 inches; 131 pages; The book is written in the form of two plays: Art and Eros, a Dialogue about Art with the characters - Callistos, Acastos, Mantias, Deximenes, Plato and Socrates and the second play is Above the Gods, a Dialogue about Religion with the characters - a servant, Antagoras, Timonax, Acastos, Socrates , Plato and Alcibiades .

New York: Viking Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards show light edge wear, small corner bumps and light soiling, sticker shadow on front board. ; A tight solid book. Statement "Published by Viking Press Inc. in March 1949' with no additional printings mentioned. Dated 1949 on title page. The endpapers are comprised of a reproduction of the stage setting of the play by the setting designer for the play, J Mielziner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; "Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play… Read More

London: Bodley Head. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1973. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0370104838 . DJ and boards show some shelf wear with tears and chipping, 6 cm tape-repaired tear on spine. Gift inscription to previous owner on FFEP.; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.8 X 5.6 X 1.4 inches; 424 pages .

Boston: Little Brown & Co. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 0316708518 . Price-clipped DJ shows light shelf wear, with light chipping. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Foreword by John Fowles, author of the novel 'French Lieutenant's Woman'. Stated 1st ; 6.9 X 4.2 X 0.8 inches; 104 pages; This is the screenplay adaptation Harold Pinter wrote for the movie French Lieutenant's Woman .

London: H. Hamilton. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1973. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 0241902053 . DJ and boards show some shelf wear, with short tears and chipping of DJ. Frontispiece page and facing page have small section missing at bottom, price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 461 pages; This is the first of the autobiographies by (George) Emlyn Williams, actor and playwright. It covers the years 1905-1927. .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, previous owner's name on small sticker on front pastedown ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Stated first edition ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 167 pages .

New York: Iuniverse. Very Good-. 2003. Reprint. Paperback. 059529300X . Some bumping and curling of card cover corners ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; 0.41 x 9 x 6 Inches; 149 pages; Fergus, ON-born medical student Norman Craig wasn't yet 20 when he went to Egypt in 1915 with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He soon transferred, however, to the Royal Naval Air Service, finishing the war as a flight commander, leading a squadron of Sopwith Camels stationed in Mudros. By war's end, most of his boyhood friends had been killed. In 1932, after the town council he described as a group of unreasoning pacifists had again put off the construction of a war memorial in Fergus, Craig took matters into his own hands. He wrote 'You're Lucky If You're Killed', and produced it in June, 1933, using a local cast and crew. It took another two years but finally came Craig's Dawn Parade unveiling the monument which represents any small town in Canada. The play… Read More