Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1975. 22 X 13.5 inches, poster stock, very good or better with faint toning and soil. In 1974-1975 Houseman's production of Don Juan in Hell toured the country. Loy, Montalban, plus Edward Mulhare and Kurt Kasznar.
Bound volume from No. 1 (December 15, 1886) to No. 46 (Vol. 4 no. 13; October 23, 1890), but text only and not the plates, except for a few black and white ones. Some hundreds of pages, mainly reviews and notices of theatrical events and plays. Cloth spine, color wraps.....
London: 1897. Hardcover. Bound volume, ex-library, in buckram with leather spine labels (some rubbing and wear, bumping to some corners of pages. With original mounted photos of: Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft, Miss Marie Tempest (corner of the page missing, photo fine), Miss Compton, Mr. J. H. Barnes, Mr. George Alexander.....
Cairo: Dar al-Maraaif, 1962. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 269 pp. A verse drama. Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi was born in the Egyptian province of Menoufia in 1920. Al-Sharqawi was born into a peasant family. His first works were published while he was a student.....
Tetuan (Mexico): Delegacion de Asuntos Indigenas, 1949. Paperback. Small 8vo, wraps, very good, general tanning to covers and text. 155 pp. Text in Arabic. Study of the Spanish Baroque dramatist, rare in this Arabic edition (OCLC/Worldcat locate copies in Spanish but not in Arabic).
Paris: Gallimard, 1926. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1926, 8vo, wraps, inscribed to Edmond Roze, a theatrical director, actor and stage manager (d. 1943 Auschwitz). Good plus copy with some wear and soil to wraps, pages unopened but a little tanned.
Paris: La Table Ronde, 1959. Paperback. New edition, 1959, inscribed to friends of his very fondly. Very good, pages tanning. A long play in three acts.
Paris: Gallimard, 1949. Hardcover. 2 volumes, both published 1949, imitation vellum bindings with wraps bound in, each inscribed to Alvin Laidley (UNESCO) and his wife Jeanne Silvain, an actress and daughter of Eugene Silvain, doyen of the Comédie Francaise. Fine but for tanning pages.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1993. Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo. 229pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Rubbing to board edges, light general shelfwear to dustjacket.
London: Tamesis Books, 2001. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, octavo, 189pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book shows mild wear and rubbing to rear board, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
London: Tamesis Books, 2001. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, octavo, 189pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book shows mild wear and rubbing to rear board, plate on front board has small tear to side, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 2012, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 247pp., not illustrated. Book good with pencil marginalia and underlining; otherwise near fine with handsome boards and tight binding. DJ VG+ with mild rubbing and edgewear.
Paris: Librairie Hachette, (1919). First printing. Paperback. First printing of this translation, 1919, wraps, very good, unopened, with an inscription by Silvain and his colleague Jaubert (hard to read the name of the recipient); probably inscribed in advance of the performance, only the anticipated recipient was a no-show, as this.....
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Budapest: Magyar Szinhazi Intezet, 1976, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. 8 x 8 inches, cloth, very good, light wear. 139 pp, many photoplates; 111 (5) pp, also with many photos. A history of the Hungarian theatre. In 1951, the Madach Theatre shifted its focus to larger productions and civic theatre: the.....
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1966. First printing. 8vo, cloth backed boards in dust jacket, book good with some wear and bumping to boards, jacket good with edgwear and darkening. 427 pp, illustrated. Text in Russian. From wikipedia: Asimov was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the.....
Damascus / Dimashq: Ministry of Cultural Affairs, 1975. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good. Text in Arabic. 111 pp. We could locate only a single copy in libraries, at the National Library in Morocco.
New York: Atheneum, 1962-1980. Hardcover. Includes 'A Small Collection of Recipes for Omelets, Crepes and Complete Menues from the Personal Files of Mr. Rudolph Stanish' (wraps, 1970, with preface by Albee). 'Omelets, Crepes and Other Recipes' NY, 1970, hardcover in jacket, fine. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' NY, 1962, 2nd.....
Cambridge: Printed for the Author, 1875. First printing. Paperback. Owner's pencil signature on cover from 1876, very good, mild discoloration to front wrap, 40 pp, rare, only one copy located by OCLC, at the University of Chicago. Andrews lived in Cambridge and was the brother of anti-slavery novelist Mary Andrews.....
Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company, C. 1954. 12mo, wraps, good plus, some soil and darkening to wraps, contents a little tanned. 93 pp.
Geneva and Paris: La Palatine, 1950. First printing. Paperback. First edition, no. 898 of 1000 on papier Roto Blanc, signed by three of the main actors in the original production: Jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud and Pierre Bertin. Large 8vo, illustrated wraps with wax overlay, 186 pp, fine copy with minimal.....
New York: Coward-McCann, C. 1960. First printing. Hardcover. First American edition, 1960, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with extensive pencil notes to preliminary pages and last pages in pencil by Henry Hewes, longtime theater reviewer for the Saturday Review and the first national US critic to review international.....
London: Pitman Publishing, 1975. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, tall and thin octavo, 87pp., not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing and shelfwear to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. No DJ.
London: Walter Scott, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 1897. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. 421pp. plus publisher ads, Ex-library, with stamps and stickers entailed. Rubbing to boards, loss to spine title. Cloth of spine mellowed and separated from spine, revealing stitching. Long blue paint stain on spine. Plate of former owner on.....
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1999. Later printing. Paperback. 1999 Softcover, in Fine condition, showing the very lightest shelf wear.
Paris: Lucien Vogel, 1921. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1921, this one unnumbered but probably one of 250 on Lafuma, INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS to theatrical producer, director and set designer Edmond Roze: 'A notre Edmond Roze, en souvenir des bonnes soirées que passa chez lui...et en temoignage de notre.....