Plays/Film from Ashlar Books

Original red decorated cloth binding. Very good. A minor scruff to a small section of the top edge. First signature a bit loose but still solid. First American/English edition translated by Howard Thayer Kingsbury. Frontispiece portrait of the actor Richard Mansfield. Scarce.

Fine condition. First printing. Evergreen Original E-502. Illustrated with photos. Essay on Directing Film by Alan Schneider.

Program for the Living Theatre production of Stein's play with text by Paul Goodman, Alfred Kreymborg, and Carl Van Vechten,. A fragile pamphlet with offsetting to front cover. Scarce.

A good copy with age-toning to edges of this avant-garde play written by this noted Venezuelan playwriter. Illustrated with photos from the performance. Scarce.

Stated First printing (1947 ). A very good in dust jacket with some evidence of age toning. Some offsetting to endpapers. A few closed tears in the dust jacket protected with mylar cover. Former owner's name/date on front free endpaper. A curious copy with untrimmed paper edges. Former owner's signature on front free endpaper. Ingrid Bergmann starred in the play as… Read more about this item

First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by Joe Lautner of the cast to a "Miss Dunphy", directing ( "is you, is you, is you !!! " ) her to page 85 in the play.

First edition. A very nice (fine) copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. A bit of offsetting to the front end paper from the dust jacket. Price of 15s on the inside bottom tip of dust jacket.

Program pamphlet for first season of the Living Theatre. Preview of Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and "Ladies' Voices", Pablo Picasso's "Desire", T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes" as well as Kenneth Rexroth & Paul Goodman. Also W.C. Williams "Reply" prose and an early piece by John Cage. Cover illustration by Picasso. Very good preserved condition considering the fragile… Read more about this item

A very nice first edition copy in dust jacket with the ownership signature on the front fly leaf of Tom & Pearl Herlihy ( lawyer & activist ) of Delaware.

Very good in decorated wrappers. Illustrated through out by Bern Porter who has signed his name on the colophon page. Scarce.

The first printing of Rice's Pulitzer Prize drama of tenement life in New York City. Also directed by Rice. Front signature slightly loose.Tiny tear to top of spine. Top edge slight discolored. Otherwise very good.

Very good condition. The fourth printing, inscribed and signed by Gray.

Limited to 750 copies. This copy inscribed by Colum. A bit of wrinkle to top edge of dust jacket, with a slight section age toned, otherwise about fine.