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N.p.: Paramount Theatre Productions, 1982. Vintage borderless promotional photograph of actresses Geraldine Page, Lee Remick and Amanda Plummer for the 1982 pre-Broadway run of the stage play. During the Broadway run, Lee Remick was replaced by actress Elizabeth Ashley. With mimeo snipe affixed to the verso promoting the opening of the show on February 26, 1982 at the Wilbur Theater in Boston and its opening in New York City at the Court Theater on Sunday, March 21, 1982. Mimeo snipe also has identification of photographer Ken Howard. A play consisting of only three characters, one of whom remains on stage for the entire production. A novice nun gives birth and claims virgin conception. A psychiatrist and the mother superior investigate. During the Broadway run, which began on March 30, 1982 at the Music Box Theater, actress Amanda Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play and Geraldine Page was nominated for Best Actress in a Play. 10 x 7.5 inches, Near Fine.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first play (after writing a novel and a nonfiction book), winner of two Tony Awards for Best Author and Best Director, and basis for the 1948 film noir starring Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson. Very Good plus in pale green cloth covered boards (also issued in gray cloth, no priority), in a touched-up dust jacket that presents as Near Fine. Faint foxing along the board edges, with light offsetting on the front endpapers. Jacket has a two and a half inch closed tear at the bottom rear panel, with several cello tape repairs on the verso. Evidence of touch-up visible on the verso at the jacket corners.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Arthur Miller on the title page: "For Bryan Sheahy / Arthur Miller." The author's first play (after writing a novel and a nonfiction book), winner of two Tony Awards for Best Author and Best Director, and basis for the 1948 film noir starring Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed, with offsetting and faint soil on the endpapers. Jacket has small chips on the spine ends and corners, with a lightly toned rear panel.

New York: Stuart Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 Broadway musical. A series of three playlets tied together by themes, such as dissatisfaction with getting what one wants, and repeated references or design elements, such as the color brown. Each playlet based on an existing work, with the first act based on "The Diary of Adam and Eve" by Mark Twain, the second based on "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton, and the final act based on "Passionella" by Jules Feiffer. The musical first premiered at the Shubert Theater on October 18, 1966 and ran for 463 performances before closing November 25, 1967, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, and Larry Blyden. Nominated for seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical for Nichols, and Best Actor in a Musical for Alda, and winning Best Actress in a Musical for Harris. Revived December 14, 2006 by the Roundabout Theatre Company, running for 99 performances through March 11, 2007,… Read More

New York: Music Box Theatre, 1955. Vintage program for the 1955 play. The play premiered on March 2, 1955 at the Music Box Theatre, where it ran until February 13, 1956, before moving to the Winter Garden Theatre on February 13, 1956, where it ran from April 21, 1956. Basis for the 1956 film directed by Joshua Logan, starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray. Set in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri. 9 x 12 inches. 16 pages, side stapled. Very Good plus, with front wrapper partially detached from the binding.

New York: Edward Padula, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 musical, noted as "Acting Version" on the front wrapper. The play opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on April 14, 1960, transferring to the 54th Street Theatre and then the Shubert Theatre, and closed on October 7, 1961, after a run of 607 performances. Winner of the 1961 Tony Award for Best Musical. An unsuccessful pop songwriter is convinced he can make his fortune if he can get recently drafted rock and roll star Conrad Birdie on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss his high school girlfriend goodbye. Basis for the 1963 film version starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Maureen Stapleton and Ann-Margaret. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, noted as Acting Version on the front wrapper. Title page present, with credits for Book by Mike Stewart, Music by Charles Strause, Lyrics by Lee Adams, and Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion. 107 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-8-42. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near… Read More

New York: Harvey Sabison, 1961. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1961 Broadway production. Two photographs with mimeo snipes, four photographs with the stamp of photographer Sam Siegel, and one photograph with the stamp of photographer Michael Boys on the verso. The Caretaker opened at the Lyceum Theatre on October 4, 1961, for a run of 165 performances, closing on February 24, 1962. Harold Pinter's sixth major work and first commercial success, a tragicomedy highly indebted to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1953). The play premiered at the Arts Theatre Club in London in April of 1960, transferring to the Duchess Theatre a month later, then, after 444 performances, to Broadway in 1961, where it starred Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, and Robert Shaw. Nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Actor in a Play for Donald Pleasance, and Best Direction of a Play for Donald McWhinnie. Revived twice on Broadway, in 1986 and 2004. Basis for the 1963 film,… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Vintage script for the 1973 play. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member, with their annotations in manuscript pencil on two pages. Set entirely in a men's locker room, the play follows the conversations of the members of a working class rugby league team. The play debuted in the UK at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, later opening at the Morosco Theatre in the US on March 6, 1973. The play's American run was nominated for four Tony Awards, winning one for Best Actor for John Lithgow. OCLC locates no holdings. Mustard titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with credit for playwright David Storey. Title page present, undated, with copy No. 4 indicated in manuscript ink annotation, and a credit for playwright David Storey. 124 leaves, with last page of text numbered 3-35. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution, four years prior to the film's release, with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions, copied punch holes, and one manuscript pencil annotation, noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor, a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin (making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award). Set and shot on location in Saint John, New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present, dated May 4, 1982, noted as Second Draft, with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves, with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 2002. Three volumes. First American Edition, published in the UK by Faber and Faber the same year. New in publisher's shrinkwrap. A trilogy of plays, nine hours in length, about the philosophical debates in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Regarded by many as Tom Stoppard's crowning achievement. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, his fourth win and seventh nomination. Fine is colored cloth boards as issued, housed in a Fine slipcase as issued. In publisher's original shrinkwrap.

New York: W. Eugene Smith, 1950. An extraordinary collection of five vintage oversize borderless photographs of the original 1949-1950 Broadway production of Author Miller's "Death of a Salesman," by preeminent photographer and photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. All photographs with Smith's photographer stamps, "Credit W. Eugene Smith / West Street / New York City ENdicott 2-3259," and catalog number "28633" stamps on the versos, and three with manuscript pencil cropping annotations on the versos. Considered by many to be one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, the original Broadway production of Miller's 1949 play "Death of a Salesman," directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock, and Arthur Kennedy, opened on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre, and played for 742 performances, closing on November 18, 1950. The production won Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Supporting Actor, Best Design, Best Producer, Best Author, and Best Director, as well as the 1949 Pulizer… Read More

New York: Morosco Theatre, 1949. Vintage playbill for the 1949 Broadway production. The play premiered on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre, closing on November 18, 1950 after 742 performances. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, a classic American drama and basis for a number of film and television versions featuring, among others, Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Dustin Hoffman, and Brian Dennehy playing the role of failed salesman Willy Loman. 6.5 x 9 inches, side stapled. About Near Fine, with faint foxing on the wrapper binding.

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1977 at the John Golden Theatre. Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page, noting copy No. 13. Copy belonging to actor Hume Cronyn, with his printed name and address at the bottom right corner of the title page. Cronyn starred in the play alongside his wife Jessica Tandy. A two-person, two-act play, about two elderly nursing home residents who converse while playing a series of gin rummy games, gradually exposing the others' weaknesses and vulnerabilities, each attempting to further belittle and humiliate the other. The play had a run of 517 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and winner of the Tony Award for Best Actress for Jessica Tandy. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with credit for playwright D. L. Coburn. Title page present, with credit for playwright D. L. Coburn. 72 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-2-34.… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Vintage US window card poster for the 1984 Broadway play. The play initially premiered at London's National Theatre in 1983 before moving to the US the following year, making its Broadway debut at the John Golden Theatre, the run advertised here, where it ran for 378 performances. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and nominated for four Tony Awards, winning one for Best Actor for Joe Mantegna. Basis for the neck-snapping 1992 film starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Pryce, and Kevin Spacey. David Mamet's masterpiece, considered by some to be the late century equivalent of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Set in Chicago. 14 x 22 inches. Very Good plus, lightly rubbed, with faint creasing to the top right corner.

New York: Music Theatre, Inc, 1960. Draft script for the 1965 production of the play, a revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure," two short stories by Damon Runyon. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Won five Tony Awards in 1951, including Best Musical. 1965 production starred Alan King as Nathan Detroit, Sheila MacRae as Adelaide, Jerry Orbach as Sky and Anita Gillette as Sarah. Set in Broadway, Save-a-Soul Mission, Havana, Cuba, and The Hot Box Club. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for story writer Damon Runyon, music and lyricist Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-7-50. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus,… Read More

London: Methuen, 1965. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Copy belonging to actor Robert Phalen, with his name in manuscript ink annotation on the front endpaper. Phalen was a member of San Francisco's Actor's Workshop in the early 1960s, where he appeared in Harold Pinter's play "The Caretaker" in 1960, and would go on to appear in the revival of Pinter's 1960 play "The Birthday Party" in 1971. Basis for the 1973 film directed by Peter Hall, starring Vivien Merchant, Paul Rogers, and Ian Holm. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket moderately rubbed, with chips on the top edges of the front and rear panels.

London: Samuel French, 1985. First UK Edition, preceded by the First American Edition published by New American Library the same year. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the front wrapper. The second play in August Wilson's ten-play Pittsburgh (or Century) Cycle. Winner of a Tony Award in 1984. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.

New York: N.p., 1963. Draft script for the 1961 New York run of the 1960 British play. Laid in with the script is a mimeograph leaf with annotations in manuscript pencil noting the names of replacement actors alongside roles in the play, suggesting the script was used late in the play's run of 620 performances. The play made its Broadway debut on November 22, 1961, at the ANTA Playhouse, having originally opened at the Globe Theatre in London the year prior. The story of Sir Thomas Moore's devotion to the Catholic Church and his own principles during the English Reformation. Winner of four Tony Awards, and basis for the Academy Award-winning 1966 film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Paul Scofield (reprising his stage performance). Red titled wrappers. Title page present, undated, noted as copy No. 202 in manuscript pencil, with credit for playwright Robert Bolt. 150 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-77. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good, wrapper Very Good, with… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1987. Vintage script for the 1988 Broadway play, which premiered on May 3, 1988 at the Royal Theatre and ran for 279 performances. David Mamet's incendiary take on the world of Hollywood movie-making, a black comedy that stands alongside Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" in the subtlety and accuracy of its indictments. Nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play for Gregory Mosher, and winning one for Best Actor in a Play for Ron Silver. Revived on Broadway in 2008. Pink titled wrappers, with credits for playwright David Mamet on the front wrapper, dated June, 1987. Title page present, with a credit for Mamet, dated June, 1987. 146 leaves, with last page of text numbered 141. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, lightly foxed to the fore edge and bottom edge of the front wrapper, bound with two gold brads.

New York: New York Shakespeare Festival, 1971. Draft script for the 1971 Broadway play, seen here under the working title "Bones." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page, noting copy No. 92. Laid in with the script are a two-page program with two tickets stapled on the front wrapper, and a xerographically duplicated "New York Times" review of the off-Broadway staging of the play, dated November 9, 1971. A pitch black comedy, about a heavily traumatized Vietnam veteran who arrives home after having lost his eyesight in the war, and finds himself completely alienated from his seemingly picture-perfect family. The second play in playwright David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, following "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" (1971) and preceding "Streamers" (1976). The play made its debut at Villanova University (where Rabe was then a graduate student) in 1969, and was later moved to Joseph Papp's Public Theater in 1971, running for 121 performances. It debuted on Broadway shortly after, at the… Read More