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Statements: Two Workshop Productions devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona - Sizwe Bansi is dead and The Island and a New Play - Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act
by Fugard, Athol, John Kani and Winston Ntshona
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1978
- ISBN
- 9780192811707
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$15.00
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Paperback. 109p., illustrated only with the cover photo, a later printing of the softbound issue, mild external handling and wear, paperstock is acidic and very toned throughout, on the verge of becoming fragile. A former owner, one Willie Carpenter, has hand-written his contact info inside front cover and a phone number inside back. Laid… Read more
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The bitches' brew; or the plot against Bertrand Russell
by Buttle, Myra [pseud. of Victor Purcell)
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1960
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$17.00
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London: C. A. Watts & Co Ltd, 1960. Hardcover. 87p., 5.75x8.75 inches; dustjacket slightly rubbed and soiled, damp stain along spine of dustjacket, touch of foxing along fore-edge, in good condition.
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![cover of Underground: four plays [Burghers of Calais, Fun in Lethe, The mummer's Play, The wonderful yeare]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/543/967/1484967543.0.m.jpg)
Underground: four plays [Burghers of Calais, Fun in Lethe, The mummer's Play, The wonderful yeare]
by White, Edgar
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1970
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$11.00
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New York: Morrow paperback editions, 1970. Paperback. 245p., foreword, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. African American playwright, of Caribbean origin. Includes play with Puerto Rican setting.
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Aphorisms of the three threes
by Towne, Edward Owings
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1887
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$12.00
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Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1887. Hardcover. 47p., original brown cloth boards, illustrations and titling in gilt, third edition, boards heavily soiled foxed, and damp stained, resulting on discoloration, head of spine slightly chipped, pages browning, damage does not migrate onto pages, pencil notation on free endpaper, some pencil marginalia throughout. Edward Townings was a playwright, novelist, and… Read more
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Theatre in Southeast Asia
by Brandon, James R.
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1967
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$12.00
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. xiii, 370p., black boards, 6.25x9.25 inches. Spine faded, light foxing inside boards, else very good.
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Paper Angels and Bitter Cane; two plays
by Lim, Genny
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1991
- ISBN
- 9780962310218
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$12.00
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Honolulu: Kalamaku Press, 1991. Paperback. 107p., paperback, 5.5x8.25 inches. Wraps lightly shelfworn, foxing to edges of text block, minor marginalia in pencil throughout, good reading copy only. Collection of plays from the San Francisco-based poet, playwright, and professor.
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Life & Death Trilogy: A Theatrical Research
by Tang, Shu-wing; Lo, Kwai-cheung; Chan, Chi-Wah
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 2001
- ISBN
- 9789628158355
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$35.00
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Hong Kong: Youth Literary Book Store, 2001. Paperback. 164p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Signed and inscribed by Tang on the title page. Illustrated with color photographs. Only two copies found in OCLC as of May 2022.
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Kayumanggi: the brown mag, Vol. 1, No. 2
by Tumbocon, Mauro Feria, ed
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1999
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$30.00
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San Francisco: Antonio Jocson, 1999. Staplebound. 50p., staplebound, wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. Text in English and Tagalog. No copies found in OCLC as of May 2022. Interviews with the actor Joseph Anthony Foronda and director Michael Arago.
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Early Philippine Literature: From Ancient Times to 1940
by David-Maramba, Asuncion, ed
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1971
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$18.00
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Manila: National Book Store, Inc, 1971. Paperback. xxv, 405p., paperback, 5.75x8.5 inches. Second Edition. Wraps creased and shelfworn, pages evenly toned, some minor marginalia and highlighting; a reading copy. Majority in English with sections in Tagalog.
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Journal of Bikol Writing: Volume 1, Number 1; November 1994
by Realubit, Maria Lilia F.
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1994
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$20.00
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[Manila]: National Committee on Literary Arts, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 1994. Paperback. 166p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Text in Bikol and English.
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Bailaya
by Barrios, Joi
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1997
- ISBN
- 9789715421478
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$35.00
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[Quezon City]: University of the Philippines Press, 1997. Paperback. xx, 194p., paperback, 5x7.9 inches, very good. Bookmark with Barrios poem inlaid. Play primarily in Tagalog with lines in English. Barrios is a lecturer in Filipino at UC Berkeley in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies.
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Gypsy: a musical
by Laurents, Arthur, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1960
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$125.00
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New York: Random House, 1960. Hardcover. 144p., frontis photo, original cast, musical numbers, b&w production stills, bookplate, light wear to covers, first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards with photo of Ethel Merman affixed to front cover as issued, in worn red unclipped dj, mild sun fading to spine, chips and short tears.
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$125.00

The Last Word: a play in one act
by Broughton, James
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1958
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$55.00
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Boston: Baker's Plays/Walter H. Baker, Co, 1958. Pamphlet. 16p., 5x7.25 inches, mild staining else good playscript in stapled yellow and blue wraps. A play in verse and song about a husband and wife awaiting the end of the world in a bar.
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The Green Pastures, souvenir program; pulitzer prize play of 1930
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1930
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$18.00
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New York: [Al Greenstone], 1930. Pamphlet. 16p., pictorial wrappers in purple and green, 8.5x11.5 inches; b&w photos., wrapper edges sun-faded and slightly edgeworn, else in very good condition. Printed by the Gordon-Baker Printing Corp.
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Sanyog: South Asia Expressions, Issue 2, Spring 1992
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1992
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$25.00
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Durham: Asian and African Languages and Literature, Duke University, 1992. Staplebound. 57p., staplebound, wraps, 5.25x8.5 inches. Light handling wear to wraps, else very good. Only one copy in OCLC as of March 2022. Poetry, art, writing, and plays from South Asian contributors. Most of text in English, with some pieces in Hindi.
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Sun; short stories and drama
by Lum, Darrell H. Y.
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1989
- ISBN
- 9780910043021
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$12.00
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Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1989. Paperback. 76p., fourth printing, wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. Crease in bottom right corner, else very good. Lum was one of the co-founders of Bamboo Ridge Press, a longstanding Hawaii-based press that has published the work of many Asian American writers.
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Marguerite Duras; a bio-bibliography
by Harvey, Robert, Hélène Volat
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1997
- ISBN
- 9780313288982
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$35.00
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Hardcover. xiv, 273p., corners slightly bumped, spine and boards slightly toned, text block edges and endpapers lightly foxed, else good. Bio-Bibliographies in World Literature, Number 5.
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Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
by Liu, Miles Xian
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 2002
- ISBN
- 9780313314551
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$22.00
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Hardcover. 407p. hardcover, without dust jacket as issued, 6.5x9.5 inches, very good.
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Kumu Kahua Plays
by Carroll, Dennis, ed
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 1983
- ISBN
- 9780824808051
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$20.00
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Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. Paperback. xxi, 249p. paperback, 6x9 inches. Wraps shelfworn with creasing along the spine, small stain on bottom fore edge, else good. Includes plays on Japanese identity in Hawai'i, and a pidgin adaptation of Twelfth Night, among others.
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Josefina Niggli: Mexican American Writer, A Critical Biography
by Martínez, Elizabeth Coonrod
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
- Published
- 2007
- ISBN
- 9780826342720
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$25.00
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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Paperback. 317p. paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Niggli was born in Mexico to European American expatriates, and later became a pioneer in the chicana/o literary movement, publishing plays and novels.
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