London: Theatre Royal, 1816. 12 x 7 inches, very good, one small hole to the right of "Guy Mannering" and light blue pencil underlining to "Mr. Abbott," a bit poorly inked at the bottom, paper a little grayed and foxed. A pleasing theatrical advertisement. Deaccession stamp from NYPL on verso.....
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. First Printing. Wraps. 12.25 x 9 inches, stiff gray wraps with relief lettering and small photo onlay. Very good, light wear. 16 unnumbered pages, almost all close-ups and stills of Mary Mannering. A novel made into a play, a romantic story set against the.....
Boston: Heintzemann Press for Weber & Fields, C. 1903. Wraps. 12 x 9.25 inches, pictorial wraps, good to very good, light wear and some of the upper corners of pages have creases. 20 pp. illustrated, with description of the play and its plot, biography of Charles Richman and of the.....
New York: Meyer Schattner, 1960. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and spottiness to outermost pages and fore-edge of text block. 144 pp. Seating charts to theaters, Yankee Stadium, Radio City Music Hall, the Polo Grounds, most theaters in New York and a goodly amount of theaters from across.....
New York: 2011. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, fine, signed on cover by Martin Rayner (Freud) and Tuck Milligan (CS Lewis). Two-person cast.
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.....
New York: Meyer Brothers, C. 1902. Wraps. 12 x 9.25 inches, pictorial wraps bound with peach colored silk string, very good. 16 pp, illustrated with scenes from the play, plus description of the plot, information about leading lady Viola Allen, etc. It was apparently a good play for a strong.....
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.....
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.
Binghampton: SUNY Binghampton, Max Reinhardt Archive, 1971. Wraps. Wraps, 9.75 x 6.75 inches, very good, light wear and soil. 69 pp. Prints three contemporary plays in translation.
Suffolk: Tamesis; Boydell & Brewer, 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth boards, near fine, issued without dust jacket. 189 pp. Essays include works by Martha Halsey and Robert Lima.
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.....
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.....
(Budapest): T-Twins Kiado, 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. No. 841 of 1100 copies signed. Small 8vo, glossy boards, very good, light soil to covers. 94 pp. A play in Hungarian based on classical philosophical themes. Not sure whether Heller Agnes is the same as Agnes Heller (1929-2019), who was a Hungarian.....
Binghampton: SUNY Binghampton, Max Reinhardt Archive, 1977. Wraps. Wraps, 9.75 x 6.75 inches, very good, light wear and soil. 64 pp. Prints two contemporary plays in translation.
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, very good, mild soil to jacket. With review slip and note from Chris Casson on half sheet of FSG blue stationary, sending this book to Henry Hewes and inviting him to lunch with Aitmatov at.....
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.