Modern Drama from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; dark gray top-stain; 177pp; illus. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.95 on front flap), crisp and bright with two small closed nicks at extremities, Near Fine. Includes Table by the Window: a Play in Three Scenes and Table Number Seven:… Read more about this item

New York: M.S. Mill Co., Inc, 1946. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); brown cloth, blocked and titled in black on spine and front cover; pink topstain; dustjacket; [viii],215,[1]pp. Spine ends nudged, upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with previous owner's name rubber-stamped on front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing moderate wear, light dust-soil,… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 96pp. Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, sllightly faded on spine panel; Near Fine. Nice copy of Styron's fifth published book and only regularly-published play, a satire set on the urinary ward of a military hospital during WW2.

London: C.W. Daniel, Ltd, 1920. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); original thin orange card paper boards, with blue printed title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4],5-96pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine, with the majority of the signatures unopened. In the original dustjacket, priced 3/6 net; trivial wear to extremities, with one tiny nick at… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1957. First Edition. Holiday Issue. Octavo (20.25cm); glossy pictorial wrappers; [iv],59,[1]pp. Mild surface wear, touch of dust-soil, and subtle yellowing to wrapper extremities, with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Very Good+. FEDERMAN & FLETCHER 34.03.

London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, edition of 20,000 copies. First state of text, with error, line 2 up,p.7. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 135,[1]pp. Some evidence of use, with a touch of discoloration to boards, upper edges slightly sunned; Very Good. Dustjacket is the first issue, unclipped (priced… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 325 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.68. Octavo (25.25cm); navy blue calf, with leather labels titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; [14],15-159,[1]pp. Light wear to spine and extremities, rougher patch of wear to upper edge and corner of rear… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and author's initials in blind on front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 404pp, xvi, [8]. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, with light shelfwear overall and a few tiny… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21.5cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [vi],170pp. Base of spine gently nudged, hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock, else clean throughout; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.00), lightly edgeworn, gently foxed at spine and flap folds, with a… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 1,500 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); boards bound in beige linen, with red printed paper label at upper spine; dustjacket; [ii],[7],8-86,[8]pp. Tiny vintage booksellers label to lower front endpaper, with three tiny ink check marks at margins on pp.7,14, and 30; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unpriced, lightly… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1984. First Edition. First Printing (one of 3,000 copies), a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip and publicity letter laid in. Octavo (21cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [xvi],136,[8]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a very Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1958. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-112pp. Touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, minor wear to one lower corner, else internally clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, sunned at spine and wrapper extremities, with mild dust-soil, and a… Read more about this item

New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First, Limited Edition. One of 111 hors-commerce copies (the complete edition). Octavo (24cm); printed limp vellum wrappers; 111pp. Spine a trifle darkened, else Fine, in original publisher's card slipcase, Good only (lacking fore-edge panel, darkened and slightly rubbed). Some copies were signed (though not called for); this is an unsigned copy. Among the scarcer Hecht… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); pale blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-31,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends, with a vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 2s.6d. net), spine-sunned, lightly dusty, with moderate wear, some shallow… Read more about this item

Chicago: Ben Abramson, 1955. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Cloth-backed, textured-paper boards; printed title label; 25pp; 1 inserted leaf of photographic plates (halftones). Mild toning to board edges; still a tight, Near Fine copy. A brief dramatic vignette by Holmes's leading dramatic avatar through the first half of the 20th century. Includes a photographic portrait of Gillette as Holmes.… Read more about this item

New York: Samuel French, 1935. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (19.25cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; xii,107,[1]pp. Signed by Green on the front endpaper. Some gentle sunning and mottling to spine, light rubbing to cloth, with scattered foxing to endpapers and text edges; Very Good+, lacking the original… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Blue paper backed in cream cloth; blue endpapers; [xiv],50,[2]pp; color frontispiece, black and white plates by J. Paget-Fredericks. Rubbed, bumped at spine ends and corners, occasional foxing and toning; just Very Good.

Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd, [1921]. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Original white and cyan paper wrappers; 18pp; publisher's ads inside wrappers. Sound and bright, lightly rubbed: Very Good.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927. Early printing, with publisher's code "D-B" (April 1927) on copyright page. 12mo (20cm). Half-bound in black cloth with blue paper over boards, title on paper spine label; [vi],[132]pp; relief frontispiece, head-, and tailpiece. Title page printed in two colors. Lightly rubbed, with toning to spine label and board edges, foxing to endleaves, discoloration… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Tan cloth in pale green and red dust jacket; [xx],294pp; black and white halftones on inserted leaves. Very occasional spots of foxing, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $2.50), heavily browned on spine and flap folds, else Very Good.