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233606 ABE, Kobo. THREE PLAYS BY KOBO ABE. NY: Columbia University, 1993. 233 pages. First edition. Hardcover. Translated by Donald Keene. ISBN: 0231082800 $21.

233755 ABRAMSON, Glenda. MODERN HEBREW DRAMA. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1979. 232 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Photos. Index. ISBN: 0312539886 $11.95.

232126 ADAM, Ruth. WHAT SHAW REALLY SAID. London: Macdonald, 1966. 1st edition. Hardcover. $8.95.

238380 AESCHYLUS. Douglas Young [translator]. AESCHYLUS: THE ORESTEIA. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1974. 189 pp. Hardback. Notes. Variants from Murray's Oxford Text (1955). ISBN: 0806111437 $9.95.

241147 AESCHYLUS. Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth. AESCHYLUS II: AGAMEMNON; LIBATION-BEARERS; EUMENIDES; FRAGMENTS. Harvard University, 1999. 611 pages. Hardcover. Addendum. Index of proper names. ISBN: 0674991613 $14.95. Loeb Classical Library No. 146.

241148 AESCHYLUS. Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth. AESCHYLUS I: SUPPLIANT MAIDENS; PERSIANS; PROMETHEUS; SEVEN AGAINST THEBES. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 425 pages. Small hardcover. Index of proper names. ISBN: 0674991605 $14.95. Loeb Classical Library No. 145.

231756 ALBEE, Edward. TINY ALICE. NY: Atheneum, 1965. 190 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. $10.95.

248333 ALBEE, Edward. TINY ALICE. NY: Atheneum, 1965. 190 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. $8.95.

236080 ANOUILH, Jean (Adapted by Lillian Hellman). THE LARK. NY: Random House, 1956. 144 pp. Second printing. Hardcover. Signed & inscribed by Julie Harris, who portrayed Joan in play. $100.

231710 ANOUILH, Jean. ANTIGONE. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1963. 133 pp. Text in French. $4.95. Later edition of a play which premiered in Paris, 1944.

240917 ARISTOPHANES (translated by Dudley Fitts). LADIES' DAY: An English Version [of Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes]. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. x+134 pp. First edition. Hardback. $9.95.

249336 ARRIGONI, Enrico. [Frank Brand]. THE LUNACY OF THE SUPERMAN AND OTHER PLAYS. np: np, 1977. 600 pages (each play separately paginated). 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: B0006EQ5UY $21. Collects 10 plays by this Italian-American anarchist, including one co-written by Virgilio Gozzoli. Arrigoni (aka Frank Brand) founded 'Eresia' in 1928, an eclectic journal with a strong individualist bias, though contributors included anarchist-communists like Ugo Fedeli. He wrote regularly for Aldino Felicani's 'Controcorrente 24', and helped found 'Intesta Libertaria' in the late 30s before Carlo Tresca's group took it over. He was imprisoned during the Spanish Revolution by Franco's fascists. Abe Bluestein and Selma Cohen went to Spain in 1937 to aid the anarchists, and they, in cahoots with 'Red' Emma Goldman, helped him escape. In 1963 he worked on publishing the Libertarian Book Club's edition of Stirner's 'The Ego and His Own' (cover design was by the artist Fermin Rocker). 'He lived in the USA as an illegal immigrant. He was also an illegalist - that is, a law-breaker by conviction and principle. He used pseudonyms (Frank Branch, Harry Arrigoni, Harry Goni) and false papers to hide his past as a militant revolutionary anarchist in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain...' - Peter Lamborn Wilson. As he told historian Paul Avrich before he died, 'I am probably the only individualist left among the Italian anarchists today.' He died in December of 1986, age 92, found near his bed by his old comrades Valerio Isca and Pasquale Buono. He left his books and collection of opera records to the Libertarian Book Club. Extremely scarce book, apparently self-published, distributed with anti-copyright notice.

249580 ARRIGONI, Enrico. [Frank Brand]. THE LUNACY OF THE SUPERMAN AND OTHER PLAYS. np: np, 1977. 600 pages (each play separately paginated). 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: B0006EQ5UY $30. 10 plays by this Italian-American anarchist, including one co-written by Virgilio Gozzoli. Arrigoni (aka Frank Brand) founded 'Eresia' in 1928, an eclectic journal with a strong individualist bias, though contributors included anarchist-communists like Ugo Fedeli. He wrote regularly for Aldino Felicani's 'Controcorrente 24', and helped found 'Intesta Libertaria' in the late 30s before Carlo Tresca's group took it over. He was imprisoned during the Spanish Revolution by Franco's fascists. Abe Bluestein and Selma Cohen went to Spain in 1937 to aid the anarchists, and they, in cahoots with 'Red' Emma Goldman, helped him escape. In 1963 he worked on publishing the Libertarian Book Club's edition of Stirner's 'The Ego and His Own' (cover design was by the artist Fermin Rocker). 'He lived in the USA as an illegal immigrant. He was also an illegalist - that is, a law-breaker by conviction and principle. He used pseudonyms (Frank Branch, Harry Arrigoni, Harry Goni) and false papers to hide his past as a militant revolutionary anarchist in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain...' - Peter Lamborn Wilson. As he told historian Paul Avrich before he died, 'I am probably the only individualist left among the Italian anarchists today.' He died in December of 1986, age 92, found near his bed by his old comrades Valerio Isca and Pasquale Buono. He left his books and collection of opera records to the Libertarian Book Club. Extremely scarce book, apparently self-published, distributed with anti-copyright notice.

247251 ARTAUD, Antonin. ARTAUD ANTHOLOGY. SF: City Lights Books, 1965. 253 pages. Trade paperback. Chronology. Bibliography. Edited by Jack Hirschman. ISBN: 0872860000 $6.95. Artaud demands 'A THEATRE IN WHICH THE ACTORS ARE LIKE VICTIMS BURNING AT THE STAKE, SIGNALLING THROUGH THE FLAMES.' Artaud was a playwright, poet, essayist, actor, director, madman. Artaud on the occult, magic, theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.

236026 AUDEN, W.H. and Christopher Isherwood. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF W.H. AUDEN: Plays and Other Dramatic writings 1928-1938. Princeton: Princeton, 1968. 680 pages. Hardcover in red dustjacket. Index. Edited by Edward Mendelson. ISBN: 0691067406 $35.

241308 AUERBACH, Nina. ELLEN TERRY: Player in her Time. Norton, 1987. 504 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0393023982 $9.95.

244501 BAKER, Josephine and Jo Bouillon. JOSEPHINE. NY: Harper & Row, 1977. 302 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Photos. Translated by Mariana Fitzpatrick. ISBN: 0060102128 $8.95. Definitive story of this African-American expatriate, 'the epitome of all that was exciting from the 1930s on...' This autobiography was nearly completed before her death, and includes additional material by her husband (Bouillon). Baker was renowned for her stylized, exotic dancing with 'La Revue Negre'.

244553 BAKER, Rob. THE ART OF AIDS: From Stigma to Conscience. NY: Continuum, 1994. 255 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Illustrated, some in color. ISBN: 082640653X $2.95. Examines the impact AIDS has had on the form and content of contemporary art. Analyzes art, film, television and media, music and dance, and the theater.

237147 BARAKA, Amiri [LeRoi Jones]. THE MOTION OF HISTORY and Other Plays. New York: William Morrow, 1978. 225 pp. First Edition. Hardback. Introduction. Notes. ISBN: 0688032729 $19.95. Includes the plays The Motion of History, Slave Ship, and S-1, plus appendices and performance notes.

234986 BAXTER, James K. COLLECTED PLAYS. NY: Oxford, 1982. 336 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Index. ISBN: 0195580931 $23.

234253 BEARD, Miriam. REALISM IN ROMANTIC JAPAN. NY: Macmillan, 1930. 521 pp. First edition. Black, cloth boards with gilt stamping on spine. 33 b/w photos. $19.95.

236906 BENNETT, Benjamin. MODERN DRAMA AND GERMAN CLASSICISM: Renaissance From Lessing to Brecht. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. 359 pp. Trade paperback. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0801493919 $7.95.

240546 BENTLEY, Eric. THE PIRANDELLO COMMENTARIES. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, 1986. 117 pp. Hardback. Appendices. Index. $11.95.

244732 BENTLEY, Eric. THE THEATRE OF COMMITMENT AND Other Essays on Drama in Our Society. NY: Atheneum, 1967. 241 pages. Stated 1st edition. Hardback. Index. ISBN: 0689100345 $6.95. The title essay, plus Is the Drama an Extinct Species?, What is Theatre?, Taking Ibsen Personally, The Pro and Con of Political Theatre, The American Drama, 1944-1954, and Letter to A Would-Be Playwright.

245217 BENTLEY, Eric. THEATRE OF WAR: Comments on 32 Occasions. NY: Viking, 1970. 428 pages. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670698075 $8.95.

233947 BERRIGAN, Daniel. DANIEL BERRIGAN: Poetry, Drama, Prose. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1988. xxix+352 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Bibliography. Edited with an introduction by Michael True. ISBN: 0883444445 $30.

232609 BETKIN, William T. THE OTHER SHAKESPEARE - The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Rhinebeck: Bardavon Books, 1982. 284 pp. First edition. Black, cloth boards with silver stamping on spine. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. ISBN: 094167200X $30.

237188 BLOOM, Edward A. (editor). SHAKESPEARE, 1564-1964: A Collection of Modern Essays by Various Hands. Providence: Brown University, 1964. xiv+226 pp. Hardback. Notes. ISBN: B000J2DSTE $14.95.

240335 BLOOM, Harold. SHAKESPEARE: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. xx+745 pp. Hardback. Chronology. ISBN: 1573221201 $14.95. The culmination of Bloom's lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare - taking the reader through every one of the Bard's plays.

233743 BOTTO, Louis. AT THIS THEATRE: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories & Stars. NY: Applause/Playbill, 2002. xiv+359 pp. Hardcover. Color illustrations. B&w photos. Index. Edited by Robert Viagas. ISBN: 1557835667 $25.

240364 BOTTO, Louis. AT THIS THEATRE: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars. NY: Applause/Playbill, 2002. xiv+359 pp. Hardcover. Color illustrations. B&w photos. Index. Edited by Robert Viagas. ISBN: 1557835667 $25.

237517 BOWERS, Faubion, Harold Clurman, and Donald Keene. KABUKI. NY: Program Publishing, 1969. 44 pp. No edition stated. Staple-bound pamphlet, oversize, 11 x 11 inches. Profuse b/w photos. $14.95. Program for Grand Kabuki performance in NYC, 1969. Introduction by Mayor John Lindsey.

251081 BOWMER, Angus L. AS I REMEMBER, ADAM: An Autobiography of a Festival. Ashland: Oregon Shakespearean Festival Association, 1975. 272 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Hardcover. Photos. Signed by the Author . $9.95. Founder of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival discusses the genesis and growth of his theater.

238345 BRADLEY, Carolyn G. WESTERN WORLD COSTUME: An Outline History. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954. 451 pp. Hardcover. Illustrated with red ink diagrams. Bibliography. $9.95.

239118 BRAUDY, Leo. THE FRENZY OF RENOWN: Fame and Its History. NY: Oxford University, 1986. xiii+649 pages. Trade paperback. 32 plates of photographic reproductions. References. Index. ISBN: 0195051785 $8.95.

237521 BRECHT, Bertolt, Max Frisch, T. S. Eliot, and Bernard Shaw. SPECTACULUM #1. Berlin: Suhrkamp-Hausbuch, 1956. 441 pp. Hard cover. $11.95.

242418 BRECHT, Bertolt. VERSUCHE 1 - 12, Heft 1 -4: Der Ozeanflug; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny; Die Dreigroschenoper; Der Dreigoschenfilm; Der Dreigroschenprozef; De Jasager und Der Neinsager. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1959. 353 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $55.

242591 BRECHT, Bertolt. BRECHT: EIN LESEBUCH FUR UNSERE ZEIT. [fr] Berlin & Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1987. 484 pages. Small Hardback. Photos. $6.95. Collects essays, poems, speeches, stories, and plays. Text in German.

243230 BRECHT, Bertolt. DAS VERHOR DES LUKULLUS HORSPIEL. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1975. 61 pages. Small trade paperback.. ISBN: 3518107402 $3.95. Text in German only.

251767 BRECHT, Bertolt. DIE HEILIGE JOHANNA DER SCHLACHTHOFE. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1973. 148 pages. Small trade paperback. ISBN: 3518101137 $9.95. Text in German only.

251768 BRECHT, Bertolt. DIE TAGE DER COMMUNE. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1968. 103 pages. Small trade paperback in dustjacket. ISBN: 3518101137 $5.95. Text in German only.

252850 BREEN, Richard. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS. The Bohemian Club, 1963. 77 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover, decorated light green boards. 1 of 2250 printed at the Grabhorn Press. $9.95. The 58th Grove Play presented at Bohemian Grove, July 26, 1963. Music by Raymond W. Hackett; directed by J. Fenton McKenna.

237464 BRIGGEMAN, Jane. BURLESQUE: Legendary Stars of the Stage. Portland: Collector's Press, 2004. 175 pp. Large Hardback. Photos. ISBN: 1888054948 $19.95.

244196 BROWN, Frederick. THEATER AND REVOLUTION: The Culture of the French Stage. Vintage, 1989. 490 pages. Soft Cover. Illustrated. Index. ISBN: 067972253X $1.5.

250651 BRUBAKER, Edward and Mary. GOLDEN FIRE: The Anniversary Book of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. Oregon Shakespearean Festival Association, 1985. 141 pages. 1st printing / edition. Large Hardcover. Profusely illustrated. Bibliography. ISBN: 0961451505 $5.95.

249538 BURGESS, Anthony. A DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD. Carroll & Graf Pub, 1995. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0786701927 $7.95. Why was the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe murdered? A riveting novel about Shakespeare's London.

242620 CALDWELL, Ben, Ronald Milner, Ed Bullins and Leroi Jones. A BLACK QUARTET: Four New Black Plays By Ben Caldwell, Ronald Milner, Ed Bullins and Leroi Jones. NY: Signet, 1970. 158 pages. 1st printing. Mass market paperback original. Photos. Introduction by Clayton Riley. $13.95.

234421 CARR, J. Comyns. COASTING BOHEMIA. London: Macmillan, 1914. 281 pp. First edition. Blue, cloth boards with gilt stamping on spine. $19.95.

252796 CASTELOT, Andre. SARAH BERNHARDT. Paris: Editions Rombaldi / Club de la femme, 1971. 249 pages. Small Hardcover, illustrated white cloth. Illustrated. $14.95.

231717 CHAMPAGNE, Lenora (ed). OUT FROM UNDER: Texts by Women Performance Artists. NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1992. 185 pp. 2nd printing, trade paperback. ISBN: 1559360097 $3.95. Contributors include Laurie Anderson & Holly Hughs.

235090 CHAYA, Prem. MAGIC LOTUS: A Romantic Fantasy. Bangkok: Chatra Books, 1949. 110 pp. Third edition. $14.95. From title page: 'An Adaptation for the English Stage of the Fifteenth-Century Siamese Classic, PRA LAW.'

239912 CHAYEFSKY, Paddy. THE PASSION OF JOSEF D. NY: Random House, 1964. 116 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Author with inscription, 'To Marty Goldblatt - If you liked it, Marty, it was worth it. - Paddy'. $35.

234400 CHEKHOV, Anton. TWO PLAYS OF ANTON CHEKHOV: The Cherry Orchard / Three Sisters. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1977. 153 pp. First thus (Collector's Edition). Full leather binding. All edges gilt. Introduction by John Gielgud. 7 color illustrations by Lajos Szalay. Silk book marker bound-in. $21.

240057 CLARKE, Cowden. THE GIRLHOOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES. Volume II. London: J. M. Dent, [No date]. 416 pp. Hardcover. Notes. $40. Part of Everyman's Library.

252397 COOK, Bruce [Bertolt Brecht]. BRECHT IN EXILE. New Republic, 1982. 237 pages. 1st printing, 1st edition. Hardcover. Index. ISBN: 0030602785 $9.95.

240141 COULTER, Douglas [editor]. COLUMBIA WORKSHOP PLAYS: Fourteen Radio Dramas. NY: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, 1939. xx+378 pp. Hardback. $14.95.

239680 COURNOS, John. SPORT OF GODS: A Play in Three Acts. London: Ernest Benn, 1925. 99 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. $100.

240184 COWARD, Noel. CAVALCADE: A Play. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1933. 139 pp. Small Hardback. $14.95.

249856 COWARD, Noel. NUDE WITH VIOLIN: A light Comedy in Three Acts. Doubleday & Co., 1958. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. $6.95.

242508 CRAIG, Bette and Joyce Kornbluh. I JUST WANTED SOMEONE TO KNOW. Brooklyn: Smyrna, 1981. 41 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Illustrated wraps. Intro by Barbara Wertheimer. ISBN: 0918266165 $8.95. Oral histories are the basis of this play on working women from 1910-1970. Incorporates songs by Charlotte Brody and Si Kahn. First produced in NY City in 1978, and was in District 1199 National Union of Hospital Worker's tour in 1979. Kornbluh is best known for the book 'REBEL VOICES: An IWW Anthology'.

238976 CURRELL, David. AN INTRODUCTION TO PUPPETS AND PUPPET-MAKING. London: Grange Books, 1996. 79 pp. Hardcover. Illustrated with color photos. ISBN: 1856278794 $30.

238128 D'APONTE, Mimi Gisolfi [editor]. SEVENTH GENERATION: An Anthology of Native American Plays. NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1999. xxiii+385 pp. Trade paperback. Bibliography. ISBN: 1559361476 $10.95.

252705 de GRAZIA, Margreta and Stanley Wells (editors) [Shakespeare]. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE. Cambridge, 2001. xx+328 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Chronologies, index. ISBN: 0521658810 $14.95.

239203 DES MOINEAUX, Edwin J. MANUSCRIPT SAID TO BE HANDWRITING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IDENTIFIED AS PENMANSHIP OF ANOTHER: Mystery of 'Sir Thomas More' Document Unravelled. Los Angeles: Edwin J. Des Moineaux, 1924. Unpaginated. Staple bound pamphlet. $19.95.

243852 DIX, Beulah Marie. ALLISON'S LAD AND OTHER MARTIAL INTERLUDES. NY: Henry Holt, 1910. 214 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering. $9.95. Six one-act plays.

252667 DONALDSON, Frances. FREDDY. J. B. Lippincott, 1957. 257 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Index. $3.95. Biography of Frederick Lonsdale, English playwright, by his daughter.

234987 DRUMMOND, A.M. & Robert E. Gard. THE LAKE GUNS OF SENECA AND CAYUGA: Eight Other Plays of Upstate New York. NY: Cornell, 1942. 273 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0804680981 $11.95.

241562 DUFOUR, Lou with Irwin Kirby. FABULOUS YEARS: A Showman's Tales of Carnivals, Worlds Fairs, and Broadway. Vantage, 1977. 209 pages. 1st printing, 1st edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. $50.

232638 DUNSANY, Lord. PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN. Boston: John W. Luce, 1917. First US edition. Hardcover. Red boards with black spine. $35.

242436 DZHAGAROV, Georgi. THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR. University of Washington, 1969. 112 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Translated from the Bulgarian by Marguerite Alexieva. Adapted by C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson. Introduction by Snow. $3.95. A play about tensions between Stalinism and a more liberal communism, set in a Bulgarian town in the '50's.

239636 EASTMAN, Charles. LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSY. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. 163 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Photos. $13.95.

245224 EDGAR, David. DICK DETERRED: A Play in Two Acts. NY: Monthly Review, 1974. 112 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0853453438 $10.95.

237656 EISNER, Lotteh. THE HAUNTED SCREEN: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt. Berkeley: University of California, 1977. 359 pp. Reprint. Trade paperback. Profuse b/w stills. ISBN: 0520024796 $14.95.

236699 ELIOT, T. S. THE COCKTAIL PARTY: A Comedy. London: Faber and Faber, 1950. 167 pp. Hardback. Second impression. Appendix. ISBN: B0006DJJCG $19.95.

248483 ELLMANN, Richard. OSCAR WILDE. NY: Knopf, 1988. xvii+680 pages. 3rd printing of the 1st edition. Hardback. 63 photographs and drawings. Selected bibliography, appendices, index. ISBN: 0394554841 $5.95. Biography of the famed gay anarchist wit, based upon the author's two decades of study and research.

246502 ELMSLIE, Kenward (Anton Chekhov). THE SEAGULL. Melville: Belwin-Mills, 1974. 85 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. $9.95. An opera libretto for music by Thomas Pasatieri, based on the play by Chekhov.

239262 ENG, Alvin (editor). TOKENS?: The NYC Asian American Experience On Stage. NY: Asian American Writer's Workshop, 1999. 455 pp. Large Trade paperback. A collection of plays and interviews. ISBN: 1889876097 $20.

242911 ERVINE, St. John. BERNARD SHAW: His Life, Work and Friends. NY: Morrow, 1956. 628 pages. Hardback. Photos. Index. ISBN: B0006DFHTU $5.95.

244977 ERVINE, St. John. OSCAR WILDE: A Present Time Appraisal. NY: Morrow, 1952. 336 pages. Hardback. Gray cloth. $5.95. Critical assessment of Wilde's works, particularly his plays. Ervine finds his reputation to be somewhat overblown. 'This book sparkles with Ervine's delightful sense of malice and is overrun with pertinent ideas. He excels at pointing up the brilliant remarks of Shaw and other famous Irish expatriates who knew Wilde'. By the author of a similar work on Shaw.

247437 ESSLIN, Martin. BERTOLT BRECHT [Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, Number 42]. NY: Columbia University, 1969. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. Bibliography. #42 in the 'Columbia Essays on Modern Writers' series. ISBN: 0231029624 $4.95.

237175 EURIPIDES (translated by Ted Hughes). ALCESTIS. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 103 pp. Hardback. First American printing. ISBN: 0374149208 $9.95. Hughes' final translation and a final and moving conclusion to his career.

237160 FAIRCHILD, Arthur H. R. SHAKESPEARE AND THE ARTS OF DESIGN: Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting. NY: Lemma Publishing Corporation, 1972. 198 pp. Hardback. Index. Facsimile of 1937 edition, part of the University of Missouri Studies English department quarterly publications. ISBN: 0876960212 $19.95.

246484 FALK, Doris V. LILLIAN HELLMAN. NY: Ungar, 1978. 180 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0804461449 $5.95.

239566 FARBER, Donald C. PRODUCING THEATRE: A Comprehensive Legal and Business Guide, Revised and Updated. NY: Limelight, 1981. 472 pages. Book club edition. Hardcover. Notes. Index. $11.95.

251770 FASSBINDER, Rainer Werner. ANTITEATER: Katzelmacher / Preparadis sorry now / Die Bettleroper (nach John Gay). Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970. 130 pages. Small trade paperback. $11.95. Text in German only.

246438 FEINDEL, Janet. A PARTICULAR CLASS OF WOMEN. Vancouver: Lazara, 1988. 60 pages. 1st edition. Small trade paperback. ISBN: 0920999107 $14.95.

249708 FERGUSON, Royce. BLOODY SUNDAY: A Play Based Upon the Everett Massacre of November 5, 1916 and the Consequent Murder Trial of Wobbly Thomas Tracy. Everett: Mouthpiece Publishing, 1988. 74 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Trade paperback. Chronology. Photos. ISBN: B000IZQRV8 $33.

246780 FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. UNFAIR ARGUMENTS WITH EXISTENCE. NY: New Directions, 1960. 85 pages. Later printing. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0811200485 $4.95. The anarchist-beat-poet-painter-publisher turns his fine hand to a number of small pieces ('beat-up little dramas') for the theatre.

251199 FIFIELD, William. [Jean Cocteau]. JEAN COCTEAU. [Columbia Essays on Modern Writers 70]. Columbia University, 1974. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. Select bibliography. #70 in the 'Columbia Essays on Modern Writers' series. ISBN: 0231033699 $7.95.

240186 FRY, Christopher. A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT: A Comedy. London: Oxford University / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1949. 43 pp. Small Hardback. $14.95.

245363 FUCHS, James. THE SOCIALISM OF SHAW: George Bernard Shaw. NY: Vanguard Press, 1926. 165 pages. 1st edition thus. Hardcover. $13.95.

238155 FUGARD, Athol. NOTEBOOKS, 1960-1977. London: Faber and Faber, 1983. 238 pp. Hardback. Notes. Glossary. Edited by Mary Benson. ISBN: 0571132839 $11.95. Throughout his life, this South African playwright kept notebooks, and brief extracts have prefaced his plays. Here is an extensive selection. He notes, 'I made it a point to exclude 'self' and the content was incident, ideas, sentences overheard. ...[T]hough I never consciously used the notebooks as a playwright, everything is reflected there - my plays come from life and from encounters with actual people'.

241497 FUGARD, Athol. BOESMAN AND LENA: And Other Plays. University of Oxford, 1984. 299 pages. 4th printing. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0195701976 $14.95.

247956 FUGARD, Athol. A LESSON FROM ALOES. NY: Random House, 1981. 79 pages. First printing / edition. Hardback. Jacket design by Dick Adelson. ISBN: 0394518985 $7.95.

252560 FUGARD, Athol. TSOTSI. Johannesburg: Ad. Donker Publishers, 2006. 167 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0868522171 $4.95. Dramatist Fugard's only novel.

250519 GARFIELD, David. A PLAYER'S PLACE: The Story of The Actors Studio. Macmillan, 1980. 308 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0025426508 $7.95. '30-year cavalcade of the characters, the controversies, and the creative breakthroughs that radically altered the face of modern theater'.

242582 GARSON, Barbara. MAC BIRD!. Berkeley: Grassy Knoll, 1966. 56 pages. Stapled paperback, Orange wraps original. [95 cents]. Illustrated. $4.95. Issued in this final form, an influential satire of LBJ (originally published in a shorter and limited edition version). This edition predates the first performance of the play in January of 1967. Later printed by Grove Press for mass distribution.

248135 GARSON, Barbara. MAC BIRD!. Berkeley: Grassy Knoll, 1966. 56 pages. Stapled paperback, Orange wraps original. [95 cents]. Illustrated. $5.95. Issued in this final form, an influential satire of LBJ (originally published in a shorter and limited edition version). This edition predates the first performance of the play in January of 1967. Later printed by Grove Press for mass distribution.

248777 GARSON, Barbara. MAC BIRD!. Berkeley: Grassy Knoll, 1966. 56 pages. Stapled paperback, Orange wraps original. [95 cents]. Illustrated by Lisa Lyons. ISBN: B000QA7AMK $3.95. Issued in this final form, an influential satire of LBJ (originally published in a shorter limited edition). This edition predates the first performance of the play in January of 1967. Later printed by Grove Press for mass distribution.

242069 GASSNER, John. EUGENE O'NEILL. University of Minnesota, 1965. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #45 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: B0006BNFVE $2.95.

247402 GASSNER, John. EUGENE O'NEILL. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1965. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #45 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: B0006BNFVE $4.95.

246184 GENET, Jean. LES NEGRES: Pour Jouer les Negres clownerie. No place: Marc Barbezat L'arbalete, 1963. 180 pages (+33 pages photos). No indication of printing or edition, presumed 1st edition thus. Trade paperback, pictorial glossy wraps. Black and white photographs, from the 1959 French production at the Th‚atre de LutŠce, by Ernest Scheidegger. $11.95. French language text only.

248130 GENET, Jean. [Allen Ginsberg, intro.]. MAY DAY SPEECH. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1970. 25 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback pamphlet. Description by Allen Ginsberg. ISBN: 0872860574 $8.95. Speech given at Yale's May Day Rally in 1970 in support of the Black Panther Party - denouncing the FBI's campaign of infiltration, smears and murder against them. Anyone familiar with US history realizes the French dramatist and militant simply did not understand 'The American Way'.

248141 GENET, Jean. [Allen Ginsberg, intro.]. MAY DAY SPEECH. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1970. 25 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback pamphlet. Description by Allen Ginsberg. ISBN: 0872860574 $9.95. Speech given at Yale's May Day Rally in 1970 in support of the Black Panther Party - denouncing the FBI's campaign of infiltration, smears and murder. Anyone familiar with US history realizes the French dramatist and militant simply did not understand 'The American Way'.

248232 GENET, Jean. [Allen Ginsberg, intro.]. MAY DAY SPEECH. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1970. 25 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback. Description by Allen Ginsberg. ISBN: 0872860574 $11.95. Speech given at Yale's May Day Rally in 1970 in support of the Black Panther Party - denouncing the FBI's campaign of infiltration, smears and murder against them. Anyone familiar with US history realizes the French dramatist and militant simply did not understand 'The American Way'.

237025 GILBERT, Sir W. S. THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD. NY: Mayflower Books, 1979. 102 pp. Hardback. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint and Charles E. Brock. Facsimile of 1928 edition. ISBN: 0831799400 $9.95.

233614 GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. VERSE PLAYS AND EPIC (Goethe's Collected Works, Volume 8). New York: Suhrkamp Publishers, 1987. 318 pages. Hardcover. Translated by Michael Hamburger, Hunter Hannum, & David Luke. Edited by Cyrus Hamlin & Frank Ryder. ISBN: 3518029657 $21.

240301 GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. EARLY VERSE DRAMA AND PROSE PLAYS. [Goethe's Collected Works, Volume 7]. Princeton: Princeton University, 1994. ix+298 pp. Trade paperback. Translated by Robert M. Browning, Michael Hamburger, Cyrus Hamlin, and Frank Ryder. Edited by Cyrus Hamlin and Frank Ryder. Notes. ISBN: 0691043426 $19.95. Goethe's Collected Works, Volume 7.

239682 GOHDES, Clarence. LITERATURE AND THEATER OF THE STATES AND REGIONS OF THE U.S.A.: An Historical Bibliography. Durham: Duke University, 1967. ix+276 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Bibliography. Appendices. $9.95.

245613 GOLDMAN, Emma. SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MODERN DRAMA. Boston: Badger, 1914. 315 pages + [iv] ads. 1st edition. Frontis. Small hardback, brown cloth. $67. Essays based on her lectures on Scandinavian, German, French, English, Irish and Russian Drama . Goldman's first book. Ads in rear pages promoting the books and titles from her Mother Earth Publishing Association. More on 'Red' Emma, Google the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia.

249681 GOLDMAN, Emma. SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MODERN DRAMA. Applause Theatre Books, 1987. xii+174 pages. 1st Applause printing / edition. Trade paperback. Intro by Harry Carlson, Preface by Erika Munk. ISBN: 0936839619 $14.95. Essays based on Emma's lectures on Scandinavian, German, French, English, Irish and Russian Drama . Her first book. More on 'Red' Emma, see the online Anarchist Encyclopedia.

237136 GOLDSWORTHY, W. Lansdown. BEN JOHNSON AND THE FIRST FOLIO. NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1972. 64 pp. Hardback. ISBN: 0838314392 $14.95.

250533 GOOCH, Steve and Paul Thompson. THE MOTOR SHOW. London: Pluto Plays, 1975. 71 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0902818643 $9.95. Play documents 60 years of struggle by workers against the Ford Motor Company, using songs, a fast succession of music hall, documentary and realistic scenes to reveal the history of the Ford empire.

244062 GOULD, Peter and Stephen Stearns. A PEASANT OF EL SALVADOR: A Play. Brattleboro: Whetstone Books, 1987. 78 pages. Revised edition, 3rd printing. Trade paperback. Illustrated with B&W stills from performance. ISBN: 0915731010 $3.5. One-act political play of a village in El Salvador in 1975.

238145 GREBANIER, Bernard. THEN CAME EACH ACTOR: Shakespearean Actors, Great and Otherwise, Including Players and Princes, Rogues, Vagabonds and Actors Motley, from Will Kempe to Olivier and Gielgud and After. New York: David McKay Company, 1975. 626 pp. [+plates]. Hardback. Illustrated. Photos. Bibliography. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0679505075 $14.95.

237905 GREGOR, Jan T. with Tim Cridland. CIRCUS OF THE SCARS: The True Inside Odyssey of a Modern Circus Sideshow. Seattle: Brennan Dalsgard, 1998. 384 pp. First Edition. Hardback. Illustrated and designed by Ashleigh Talbot. With 32 pages of photographic plates. Index. ISBN: 0966347900 $50.

240657 GRUBE, Max [Edited by Wendell Cole]. THE STORY OF MEININGER. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami, 1963. xviii+121 pp. [+16 plates]. Hardback. First American edition. Translated by Ann Marie Koller. $9.95. Number 4 in Books of the Theatre Series, 'A Rare Books of the Theatre project of the American Educational Theatre Association'.

233866 HA, Tae Hung. THE LIFE OF A RAINHAT POET. Seoul: Yonsei University, 1970. xi+158 pp. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $12.95.

232610 HARRISON, Paul Carter (ed.). KUNTU DRAMA - Plays of the African Continuum. NY: Grove, 1974. 352 pp. Later printing. ISBN: 0394178068 $14.95. 7 plays by black writers: Amiri Baraka, Lennox Brown, Aime Cesaire, et al.

235709 HARTWIG, Joan. SHAKESPEARE'S ANALOGICAL SCENE: Parody As Structural Syntax. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1984. 243 pp. Hardback. Four illustrations. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0803223242 $11.95.

237171 HARTWIG, Joan. SHAKESPEARE'S ANALOGICAL SCENE: Parody As Structural Syntax. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1983. 243 pp. Hardback. 4 illustrations. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0803223242 $12.95.

242640 HAYMAN, Ronald. BRITISH THEATRE SINCE 1955: A Reassessment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. 176 pages. Hardback. Appendix. Index. ISBN: 0192191276 $4.95. Achievements and failures of modern British theatre, starting with the 1955 production of 'Waiting for Godot'.

248437 HAYMAN, Ronald. ARNOLD WESKER. Frederick Ungar, 1978. 144 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Hardback. Illustrated. Chronology. List of Stage productions. Bibliography. Index. 'World Dramatists' series. ISBN: 0804423873 $7.95. Study of Wesker's plays, with two interviews.

245110 HEILMAN, Robert Bechtold. THE ICEMAN THE ARSONIST AND THE TROUBLED AGENT: Tragedy and Melodrama on the Modern Stage. University of Washington, 1973. 357 pages. Hardcover. Notes. Index. $4.95.

244978 HELLMAN, Lillian. THE SEARCHING WIND. NY: Viking, 1944. 96 pages. 2nd printing. Hardback. $11.95.

250756 HELLMAN, Lillian. AN UNFINISHED WOMAN: A Memoir. Little, Brown, 1969. 280 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. $9.95. New Orleans. American playwright/memoirist. Lillian was a brusque and abrasive babe, and she had her haters and her admirers. Among her admirers was the cross-dresser J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, witch-hunting congressional committees, the army, State Department and CIA who maintained files on her. Her FBI file notes that she was a sponsor of a dastardly group: <em>the League of Women Shoppers! In 1941 she attended a testimonial dinner for Theodore Dreiser. The FBI notes she is close to other folks they greatly admire and keep tabs on: Dashiell Hammett, Marc Blitzstein, Clifford Odets and Richard Wright. Hellman had a lifelong relationship with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett until his death (1961). Both were attacked during McCarthy/HUAC witchhunts. Active on the political left, Lillian attacked injustice, exploitation and selfishness in her plays. Intellectually, the Cold War began in earnest March 26, 1949, in NY City. A conference organized by, among others, Lillian Hellman brought communist cultural celebrities together to defend the USSR. Those bolting from the Stalinist-dominated conference started the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, which included liberals, democratic socialists and even anarchists... In May 1952 she advised HUAC she would not rat out her friends and acquaintances: 'I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.'

235868 HIBBARD, George (editor). THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE V: Papers given at the Fifth International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre held at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in July 1973. [Toronto]: Macmillan in collaboration with the University of Waterloo, 1975. xvii+158 pp. Hardback. Index. ISBN: 0333180623 $11.95.

242857 HIMELSTEIN, Morgan Y. DRAMA WAS A WEAPON: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York 1929-1941. New Brunswick: Rutgers (1963). 300 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by John Gassner. $16.95.

244059 HIMELSTEIN, Morgan Y. DRAMA WAS A WEAPON: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York 1929-1941. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1963. 300 pages. Hardback. Foreword by John Gassner. $14.95.

234491 HINAUX, Rene, Editor. STAGE DESIGN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SINCE 1950. NY: Theatre Arts, 1964. 276 pp. First edition. Oversize hardcover, 10 x 12 inches. 190 pp. of b/w illustrations; 16 pp. in full color. Indices. $40.

251971 HOARE, Philip. OSCAR WILDE'S LAST STAND: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century. Arcade Publishing, 1998. vi+250 pages. Trade paperback. Photos. Notes. Index. ISBN: 1559704233 $5.95. 'Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience & through rebellion.' 'I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe...' 'London is too full of fogs & serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know'.

242060 HOGAN, Robert. ARTHUR MILLER. University of Minnesota, 1967. 48 pages. Revised edition. Stapled paperback original. #40 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. Selected bibliography. ISBN: 0816603324 $1.95.

243305 HOLROYD, Michael. BERNARD SHAW: A Biography. Volume II: 1898-1918, The Pursuit of Power. NY: Random House, 1989. 421 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Photos. ISBN: 0394575539 $6.95. Shaw's life and career at their peak. Here is the cozened husband and disappointed lover of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the revolutionary, making pronouncements on two wars and the sexual dalliances of his colleagues, etc.

244404 HOLROYD, Michael. BERNARD SHAW: A Biography. Volume I: 1856-1898, The Search for Love. NY: Random House, 1988. 486 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Photos. Bibliographical notes. ISBN: 0394575539 $3.95. Sympathetic look at the early years of the famed playwright socialist and critic, finding the roots of his mature personality in his lonely Dublin childhood. Shaw from birth in 1856, through a series of poignant and tantalizing love affairs, to his marriage in 1898.

236039 HOPKINS, Arthur. REFERENCE POINT. NY: Samuel French, 1949. 135 pages. Hardback. Third printing. ISBN: B0007E0DY2 $8.95.

243220 HOUGHTON, Norris. RETURN ENGAGEMENT: A Postscript to 'Moscow Rehearsals'. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962. 1st edition. Hardback. 214 pages. Photos. Index. $3.95.

237961 HOUSMAN, Laurence. THE GOLDEN SOVEREIGN. Lepizig, Paris and Bologna: The Albatross Library, 1938. 316 pp.+ads. Small Trade paperback. Illustrated by Gunter G. Bohmer. ISBN: B00087J3AS $14.95. The Albatross Library was a publisher of inexpensive, yet well-made books, printed in English in Holland (in this case, it states Leipzig) in the 1930s-1940s; their books, uniform design, and logo became an inspiration for Penguin Books. Marked 'Not to Be Introduced into the British Empire or USA'.

241405 HOY, Anne H. ANNIE ON CAMERA. Abbeville, 1982. 192 pages. Stated 1st edition. Oversize trade paperback. Illustrated with full color photographs. ISBN: 0896592782 $14.95.

235656 HUERTA, Jorge, Editor. NECESSARY THEATER: Six Plays About the Chicano Experience. Houston: University of Houston, 1989. 368 pp. First thus. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0934770956 $25.

250773 HUXLEY, Aldous. NOW MORE THAN EVER. University of Texas, 2000. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Hardcover. Notes. Bibliography. Edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw and James Sexton. ISBN: 0292731221 $4.95. A play written in 1932-1933, just after completing Brave New World - a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time.

252607 IBSEN, Henrik. ROSMERSHOLM. London: Comedy Theatre, no date [1960]. Not paginated. Stapled paperback. Translated and introduced by Ann Jellicoe. $5.95. A program from the 1960 Comedy Theatre production, starring Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Dobie, Eric Porter, Mark Digman, Bee Duffell and John Blatchley. Reviewer Paul Taylor notes Freud was fascinated by this play and wrote an insightful essay. In this rarely performed transitional play, unscrupulous reactionaries identify and exploit the inner demons of the conflicted liberal idealists. The desire to grab the future by the scruff of the neck is thwarted by the revived ghosts of the past. (Sounds like contemporary America to us).

231861 ICHIKAWA, Sanki. JAPANESE NOH DRAMA, Ten Plays. Tokyo: Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1955. 192 pp. First edition. Oversize hardback. Brown, cloth boards, stamped, with gilt lettering on cover & spine. Fold-out frontis. $29.95. Included in text is a Noh play by world-famous haiku master, Basho.

233510 INGERSOLL, Robert. SHAKESPEARE: A Lecture. NY: C.P. Farrell, 1922. 73 pages. Trade paperback. $9.95.

248726 IONESCO, Eugene. AMEDEE, THE NEW TENANT, VICTIMS OF DUTY: Three Plays. NY: Grove / Evergreen, 1978. 166 pages. Later printing. Trade paperback. Evergreen Press # E119. Translated, with a Retrospect, by Donald Watson. ISBN: 0394172124 $3.5. Critic Kenneth Tynan called these plays explosively, liberatingly funny and Ionesco a supreme theatrical conjurer.

242707 JARRY, Alfred. UBU ROI. NY: New Directions, 1961. 182 pages. Later printing. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. ISBN: 0811200728 $3.95.

246798 JARRY, Alfred. UBU ROI. NY: New Directions, 1961. 182 pages. Later printing. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. ISBN: 0811200728 $3.95.

236106 JEFFERS, Robinson. MEDEA. NY: Random House, 1946. 107 pp. First edition. Orange paper boards, black cloth spine with gilt stamping. $75.

240938 JENNINGS, Coleman A. (editor). EIGHT PLAYS FOR CHILDREN: The New Generation Play Project. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. 479pp. Hardback. Introduction. ISBN: 0292740565 $60. The New Generation Play Project (NGPP) was a daring and unique experiment in the history of American children's theatre. The NGPP began in 1989 as a consortium that included companies in Seattle, Minneapolis, Louisville, and other US cities, commissioning major American dramatists to create new works for young people and to produce these plays over a several-year period. This volume begins with an inrtroduction by Coleman Jennings on the work of the NGPP, its aims and accomplishments, followed by eight plays created for the NGPP.

240157 JOB, Lenore Peters. LOOKING BACK WHILE SURGING FORWARD. San Francisco: Peter Wright Creative Dance, 1984. 128 pp. Trade Paperback. Illustrated with 32 pages of photos. ISBN: 0916645010 $100.

245241 JONES, LeRoi, Ben Caldwell, Ronald Milner, Ed Bullins. A BLACK QUARTET: Four New Black Plays By Ben Caldwell, Ronald Milner, Ed Bullins and Leroi Jones. NY: New American Library, 1970. 1st edition, Mass Market paperback original. Four plays, 8 pages of photos. Very good plus. $16.95.

235441 JONES, Tom, and Harvey Schmidt. THE FANTASTICKS / CELEBRATION (2 Musicals). NY: Drama Book Specialists, 1973. 231 pp. First thus. Hardcover. Profuse b/w photos and illustrations. Signed by the authors. ISBN: 0910482446 $45.

240550 KANELLOS, Nicolas. A HISTORY OF HISPANIC THEATRE IN THE UNITED STATES: Origins to 1940. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1990. 240 pp. Trade paperback. Notes. Glossary. Index. ISBN: 0292730500 $9.95.

248427 KAUFFMAN, George. HAMLET INCORPORATED: A San Francisco Version in One Act and Four Other Plays in Verse. Berkeley: Kept Press, 1965. 80 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback. Cover art by Frank Lapo, from 'Dust' Quarterly. $16.95. By a longtime small press author, a teamster and food production worker. He was also on the editorial board of "Dust' in the mid-60s. His works have appeared in Esquire, New Directions, First Stage and Nation and The Cherotic (r)Evolutionary. He also wrote the novel 'Paper Train,' a collection of poems, 'The Other Man,' the novella 'The Loves of Dana,' among other works. The final play in this chapbook, 'The Drop' (originally written in 1947), includes as an epilogue reports of being a peace picket in Berkeley at the Atomic Energy Commission and a police confrontation in November 1962.

242522 KAY, Dennis. SHAKESPEARE: His life, work, and era. NY: Morrow, 1992. 446 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0688120245 $3.95. Painstaking historical research combined with a practical discussion of the plays, poems and sonnets interwoven with relevant moments in both Shakespeare's life and age.

232852 KAYE, Marvin. READER'S THEATRE: What it is, How to Stage it & Four Award-winning scripts. NY: Wildside, 1995. 218 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1880448491 $6.95.

241119 KERNAN, Alvin. SHAKESPEARE, THE KING'S PLAYWRIGHT: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xxiii + 230 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0300072589 $8.95.

243102 KEROUAC, Jack. ATOP AN UNDERWOOD: Early Stories and Other Writings. NY: Viking, 1999. 249 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Paul Marion. ISBN: 0670888222 $16.95. Collects over 60 previously unpublished works Kerouac wrote between age 13 and 21. Stories and poems, plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, 'The Sea is My Brother'.

236305 KERR, Jean. MARY, MARY. Garden Center: Doubleday, 1965. 181 pp. First edition. Hardcover. $35.

251428 KIMBALL, Ruth Putnam. PARODY PICTURES: A Collection of 'Get-'em-up-quick' Stunts. Eldridge Entertainment House, 1932. 26 pages. Stapled paperback. $3.95.

247938 KLEIN, Maxine; Lydia Sargent, and Howard Zinn. PLAYBOOK. South End Press, 1986. 501 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISBN: 089608308X $7.95. Plays by these radical authors. Includes Daughter of Earth, Emma, The Furies of Mother Jones, Split-Shift, I Read About My Death in Vogue Magazine, New Rise of the Master Race, and Windfall.

250739 KOHOUT, Pavel. POOR MURDERER. Viking Press, 1977. 100 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Czech by Herbert Berghof and Laurence Luckinbill. ISBN: 0670564451 $14.95. By the author of The Hangwoman and From the Diary of a Counter Revolutionary .

239377 KOSTELANETZ, Richard. THE THEATRE OF MIXED-MEANS: An Introduction to Happenings, Kinetic Environments and Other Mixed-Means Presentations. NY: RK, 1980. 309 pages. Trade paperback. Index. $25.

243646 KRAUSE, David. SEAN O'CASEY: The Man and His Work. NY: Macmillan Publishing, 1975. 390 pages. 1st edition thus. Hardback. An Enlarged Edition. Frontis. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0025666401 $5.95. Biography of the great Irish playwright.

246600 KRAUSE, David. SEAN O'CASEY and his World. NY: Scribner's, No date. 128 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ISBN: 0684147270 $7.95.

250043 LAMB, Myrna. THE MOD DONNA AND SCYKLON Z: Plays of Women's Liberation. Pathfinder / Merit, 1971. 200 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 087348164X $3.5.

231733 LAWRENCE, Jerome, & Robert E. Lee. AUNTIE MAME: A New Play. NY: Dramatists Play Service, 1960. 126p. Staple-bound 8vo in heavy paper wraps. $5.95. Revised version of 1957 play.

234787 LEITER, Samuel L. THE ART OF KABUKI: Famous Plays In Performance. Berkeley: University of California, 1979. 298 pp. First edition. Hardcover in a dust jacket with a black spine. Multiple b/w photos. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0520035550 $17.5.

243301 LEWISOHN, Ludwig. THE DRAMA AND THE STAGE. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1922). 245 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue stamped black cloth. $11.95.

242902 LEY-PISCATOR, Maria. THE PISCATOR EXPERIMENT: The Political Theatre. NY: James H. Heineman, (1967). 336 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $14.95. The most important reference on Piscator's radical Weimar theatre and experimental work in the US by the German exile. Written by his wife with his collaboration.

240179 LI, Longyun. SMALL WELL LANE: A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2002. 138 pp. Trade paperback. Translated and edited by Hong Jiang and Timothy Creek. Photos. Glossary. Bibliography. ISBN: 0472067958 $11.95.

236307 LINDSAY, Howard, and Russel Crouse. HAPPY HUNTING. NY: Random House, 1957. 178 pp. First edition. Hardcover. $25.

252313 LOGGIA, Marjorie and Glenn Young (editors) [Harold Clurman]. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF HAROLD CLURMAN: Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts and Letters. Applause Books, 1994. 1101 pages. 1st printing, 1st edition. Large Hardcover. Index. ISBN: 1557831327 $15.95.

237041 LOOSELEY, David. A SEARCH FOR COMMITMENT: THE THEATRE OF ARMAND SALACROU. U. K.: University of Exeter, 1985. 124 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0859892867 $16.95.

233360 LORCA, Federico Garcia. YERMA, Poema Tragico In Tres Actos Yseis Cuadros Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1954. 101 pp. Fourth edition. Paperback with vestigial flaps. Text in Spanish. $30.

233362 LORCA, Federico Garcia. LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA, Drama de Mujeres in los Pueblos de Espana. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1953. 101 pp. Third edition. Paperback with vestigial flaps. Text in Spanish. $30.

252810 MANGIONE, Jerre. THE DREAM AND THE DEAL: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943. Little, Brown, 1972. xii+416 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Selected publications of the WPA. Sources. Index. ISBN: 0316545007 $11.95.

252811 MANGIONE, Jerre. THE DREAM AND THE DEAL: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943. Little, Brown, 1972. xii+416 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Selected publications of the WPA. Sources. Index. ISBN: 0316545007 $5.95.

242484 MASS, Lawrence D. (ed.) [Larry Kramer]. WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer. St. Martin's, 1997. 385 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Notes. Index. Edited, with an introduction, by Lawrence Mass. ISBN: 0312177046 $3.95. 23 writers join to explore the life and works of this pioneer AIDS activist and author of novels, screenplays, drama, etc. Includes Christopher Bram, Andrew Holleran, Tony Kushner, Calvin Trillin, Alfred Corn.

242617 MASS, Lawrence D. (ed.) [Larry Kramer]. WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer. NY: St. Martin's, 1997. 385 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Notes. Index. Edited, with an introduction, by Lawrence Mass. ISBN: 0312177046 $3.95. 23 writers join to explore the life and works of this pioneer AIDS activist and author of novels, screenplays, drama, etc. Includes Christopher Bram, Andrew Holleran, Tony Kushner, Calvin Trillin, Alfred Corn.

244826 McCARTHY, Mary. SIGHTS AND SPECTACLES, 1937-1956. NY: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). 183 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover, orange cloth. $6.95. Theatre criticism, which she indicates that 'the early reviews lisp of Marxist language'.

233059 McCLURE, Michael. LITTLE ODES & RAPTORS: Poems & a Play. LA: Black Sparrow, 1969. 42 pages. Limited edition. Thin trade paperback. Limited to 1000 copies. $16.

236040 MELCHER, Marguerite Fellows. OFFSTAGE: Making Plays from Stories. NY: Knopf, 1941. 133 pages. Hardback. Illustrated by Hilda Richman. ISBN: B000859UCQ $9.95.

242365 MERCHANT, Francis. SYMBOL AND FANTASY -- Plays and Poems. Fayetteville: College Press, 1965. 126 pages. Stapled paperback pamphlet. Stiff wraps. $9.95. By the author of 'The Golden Hoard', 'A.E.: An Irish Promethean', etc.

235121 MEREDITH, George. THE TRAGIC COMEDIANS, A Study in a Well known Story. NY: Scribner's, 1910. 542 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Printed on Rice paper. #34 out of a limited edition of 204 copies. $35.

238320 MICHAELS, Sidney. [Bob Dylan]. DYLAN. NY: Random House, 1963. vii+116 pp. First edition. Hardback. Photos of the New York production, including Alec Guinness as Dylan. $9.95.

233534 MILANO. MUSEO TEATRALE: Alla Scala Guida. Milano: Teatrale Alla Scala, MCMLXXIII. 71 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Heavily illustrated with both black & white & color pictures. $25.

249646 MILLER, Arthur. ARTHUR MILLER'S COLLECTED PLAYS. Viking, 1957. 439 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. 52 page introduction by Miller. $33. Includes Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View from the Bridge (new full-length version).

250444 MILLER, Arthur. ECHOES DOWN THE CORRIDOR: Collected Essays, 1944-2000. Viking, 2000. xviii+332 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Index. ISBN: 0670893145 $5.95. Includes Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View from the Bridge (new full-length version).

237767 MILLER, Liam. THE NOBLE DRAMA OF W.B. YEATS. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1977. 365 pp. Hardback. Illustrated, with 16 pages of plates. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Printed on linen stock. ISBN: 0391006339 $17.95.

236361 MOBLEY, Jonniepat Mobley. PLAY PRODUCTION TODAY (Fifth Edition). Lincolnwood: National Text Company, 1996. 355 pp. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Profuse color and b/w photos. Appendices. Glossary. Notes. ISBN: 0844257753 $25.

237494 MONTERDE, Francisco [editor]. TEATRO MEXICANO DEL SIGLO XX. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1956. 607 pp. First Edition. Hardback. Index. A collection of plays in Spanish. ISBN: B000ND21EC $14.95.

246405 MORAVIA, Alberto. BEATRICE CENCI. London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. 187 pages. 1st English language edition (precedes the US edition). Small Hardback. Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson. $10.95. Moravia's bloody tragedy of the Renaissance Cencis. Beatrice was a young Roman noblewoman (daughter of the vicious and violent Francesco Cenci) whose condemnation to death by Pope Clement VIII aroused public sympathy and became the subject of poems, dramas, and novels, including 'The Cenci' (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Moravia's works were censored by Mussolini's fascist government, and placed by the Vatican on the Index librorum prohibitarum (Index of Forbidden Books). Especially influenced by the thoughts of Marx and Freud, he sharply criticized our dehumanized, capitalist world.

235869 MORIGI, Gilda. THE DIFFERENCE BEGAN AT THE FOOTLIGHTS: A Story of Bucks County Playhouse. NJ: Privately printed, 1973. 183 pp. First edition. Trade paperback. Photos and Hirschfeld illustration. Endpaper inscribed by President of Bucks County Playhouse Frank Boas to actress Margaret Phillips: November 7th, 1976. Dear Margaret, In our first new play 'An Act of Love', your return to the Bucks County Playhouse fits like an 'old shoe'. Your work is always marvelous. Your being here is like a visit home from a member of the family. Until our next family reunion, love from all of us at the theater. Sincerely, Frank Boas. ISBN: B0006EIHL4 $25.

234772 MU, Ssu Lang T'an, Hu Tieh Meng & translated by A.C. Scott. TRADITIONAL CHINESE PLAYS: Ssu Lang Visits his Mother, The Butterfly Dream. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1967. 165 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover with light purple dustjacket. $30.

246646 MULLER, Heiner. [Mller; Sylvere Lotringer]. GERMANIA. NY: Semiotext(e), 1990. 254 pages. Small Trade paperback. A volume in the 'Foreign Agents Series'. ISBN: 0936756632 $9.95. This play, 'Germania', won the 1979 Mlheimer Dramatikerpreis. It was Muller, the German anarchist and playwright and director (1929-1995), who noted of 'post-modern' literature, 'The only postmodernist I know of is August Stram, who was a modernist and worked in a post-office'. Muller was the preeminent successor of Brecht. This collection includes essays, stories, and interviews by Sylvere Lotringer.

236668 NADAL, Rafael Martinez. FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA AND THE PUBLIC: A Study of an Unfinished Play and of Love and Death in Lorca's Work. NY: Schocken, 1974. 247 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0805235558 $11.95.

243272 NEEDLE, Jan and Peter Thomson. BRECHT. University of Chicago, 1981. 235 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Bibliography of Brecht's work. Index. ISBN: 0226570223 $9.95. Considers Brecht's plays, theoretical writings, and performances he directed.

244852 O'BRIEN, Edna. VIRGINIA. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. 69 pages. 1st US edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151937621 $3.95.

244252 O'CASEY, Eileen. SEAN: An Intimate Memoir of Sean O'Casey. NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1972). 319 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Photos. Appendix, index. Edited with introduction by J.C. Trewin. Advance Review Copy (ARC) with publisher's promo card laid in. $3.95.

250642 O'CASEY, Eileen. SEAN: An Intimate Memoir of Sean O'Casey. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972. 319 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Appendix, index. Edited, with introduction, by J.C. Trewin. $2.95.

245584 O'CASEY, Sean (adapted by Paul Shyre). SEAN O'CASEY'S DRUMS UNDER THE WINDOW. NY: Dramatists Play Service, 1962. 58 pages. Stapled paperback, green wraps. Adapted by Paul Shyre $9.95. This play had it's world premiere on Oct 13, 1960 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in NY and ran for 110 performances. Very Scarce.

236596 O'CASEY, Sean. WITHIN THE GATES: A Play of Four Scenes in a London Park. London: Macmillan and Company, 1933. viii+203 pp. First edition. Small Hardback. Includes musical score for play. ISBN: B0006AMKMU $14.95.

247313 O'CASEY, Sean. SELECTED PLAYS OF SEAN O'CASEY. NY: Braziller, 1954. 800 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Selected and with a foreword by O'Casey. Intro by John Gassner. ISBN: 0807600040 $6.95.

252444 O'CONNOR, Garry. [Gary; Sean O'Casey]. SEAN O'CASEY: A Life. Atheneum, 1988. 448 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0689118864 $3.95.

248416 O'NEILL, Eugene. EUGENE O'NEILL AT WORK: Newly Released Ideas for Plays. Frederick Ungar, 1981. 407 pages. 1st printing / edition. Advance Review Copy (ARC), with the publisher's slip laid in. Hardback. Illustrated. Appendices. Index. Annotated and edited by Virginia Floyd. ISBN: 0804422052 $9.95. An extraordinary look at the making of a dramatist based on O'Neill's notebooks, released 25 years after his death.

235870 ORWEN, Gifford P. JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD (Twayne's World Authors Series). Boston: Twayne, 1982. 131 pp. First edition. Hardback. Notes and References. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0805764275 $12.95.

252770 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Richard G. Morgan (editor). PATCHEN'S LOST PLAYS: Don't Look Now and The City Wears a Slouch Hat. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. 93 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. $12.95.

244335 PERIODICAL. BRATER, Enoch (ed.). THEATRE JOURNAL. Volume 42 Number 3, October 1990. Washington: American Theatre Association, 1990. 124 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95.

244336 PERIODICAL. BRATER, Enoch (ed.). THEATRE JOURNAL. Volume 43 Number 1, March 1991. Washington: American Theatre Association, 1991. 139 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95.

244337 PERIODICAL. BRATER, Enoch (ed.). THEATRE JOURNAL. Volume 43 Number 2, May 1991. Washington: American Theatre Association, 1991. Trade paperback. $7.95.

244608 PERIODICAL. GOLDWAY, David (ed.) [Annette Rubinstein]. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY. Volume L, Number 3. Fall 1986. Special 50th Anniversary Issue. NY: Science & Society, 1986. Trade paperback. $12.95. Includes Annette Rubinstein's 'The Radical American Theatre of the Thirties'.

242968 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.) [Heinrich Boll]. ENCOUNTER. May 1969. Vol. XXXII No. 5. London: Encounter, 1969. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $6.95. 'Unreason and Revolution'. 'Aspects of English Education'. Includes a short story by Heinrich Boll.

242969 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. September 1968. Vol. XXXI No. 3. London: Encounter, 1968. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. Eugene Ionesco, Leo Rosten.

238664 PERIODICAL. McNAMARA, Brooks and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett [editors]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, Processional Performance. Fall 1985. MIT, 1985. 148 pp. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. $14.95. Includes essays on Mbuti Ritual, Shia Muslim Processionals, Way of the Cross, Benedictine Processions, Irish Pilgrimage, and more.

244332 PERIODICAL. MOY, James S. (ed.). THEATRE JOURNAL. Volume 36 Number 1, March 1984. Washington: American Theatre Association, 1984. 146 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95.

244333 PERIODICAL. MOY, James S. (ed.). THEATRE JOURNAL. Volume 36 Number 3, October 1984. Washington: American Theatre Association, 1984. 143 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95.

244334 PERIODICAL. MOY, James S. (ed.). THEATRE JOURNAL. Volume 36 Number 4 December 1984. Washington: American Theatre Association, 1984. 124 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95.

249645 PERIODICAL. MOY, James S. (ed.). THEATRE JOURNAL. [7 issues]: Volume 36 Number 1, March; Number 3, October; Number 4 December ( 1984 ). Volume 42 Number 3, October 1990. Volume 43 Number 1, March; Volume 43 Number 2, May; Volume 43 Number 3, October ( 1991 ). Washington: American Theatre Association, 1984-1991. 7 issues, Trade paperbacks. $20.

252113 PERIODICAL. PLIMPTON, George, et al (eds.). [Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Margaret Atwood]. THE PARIS REVIEW 81. Volume 23, Fall 1981. Flushing: Paris Review, 1981. 196 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN #00312037. $7.95. Paul Bowles and Tennessee Williams interviews. Contributions by Margaret Atwood, Raymond Federman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Sandra McPherson, Eugenio Montale, James Wright, Dotson Rader, et al. Art by Duncan Hannah.

252103 PERIODICAL. PLIMPTON, George, Peter Matthiessen, et al (eds.) [Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, e.e. Cummings, Ezra Pound, Pablo Neruda, Diane di Prima, Tom Clark, Ron Padgett]. THE PARIS REVIEW 39. Volume 10, Summer, 1966. Paris: The Paris Review, 1966. 152 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN #00312037. $8.95. Interviews with Harold Pinter and Edward Albee. Letters of e.e. Cummings to Ezra Pound, Pablo Neruda, Diane di Prima, Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, and others.

248276 PERIODICAL. PROFFER, Carl R. and Ellendea (eds.). RUSSIAN LITERATURE TRIQUARTERLY (RLT). No. 7: Winter 1974. Theatre and Film. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1974. 504 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $19.95.

238656 PERIODICAL. SCHECHNER, Richard [editor]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, a journal of performance studies. Winter 1988. MIT, 1989. 189 pp. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. Index for Volume 32. $9.95.

238657 PERIODICAL. SCHECHNER, Richard [editor]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, a journal of performance studies. Summer 1989. MIT, 1989. 184 pp. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. $9.95.

238658 PERIODICAL. SCHECHNER, Richard [editor]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, a journal of performance studies. Fall 1989. MIT, 1989. 176 pp. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. $9.95.

238659 PERIODICAL. SCHECHNER, Richard [editor]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, a journal of performance studies. Spring 1989. MIT, 1989. 183 pp. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. $9.95.

238660 PERIODICAL. SCHECHNER, Richard [editor]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, a journal of performance studies. Winter 1989. MIT, 1989. 176 pp. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. Index for Volume 33. $9.95.

238661 PERIODICAL. SCHECHNER, Richard [editor]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, a journal of performance studies. Spring 1990. MIT, 1990. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. $9.95.

238662 PERIODICAL. SCHECHNER, Richard [editor]. TDR: THE DRAMA REVIEW, a journal of performance studies. Summer 1990. MIT, 1990. 180 pp. Perfect-bound magazine. Illustrated. Photos. $9.95.

247756 PERIODICAL. SPENDER, Stephen and Melvin J. Lasky (eds.) [Reynolds Price, Ted Hughes]. ENCOUNTER. March 1960. Vol. XVI No. 3. London: Encounter, 1960. 95 pages. Trade paperback. $9.95. Lasky conversation with George F. Kennan; Michael Polanyi, two poems by Ted Hughes, and more.

248598 PERIODICAL. SPENDER, Stephen, Irving Kristol and Melvin J. Lasky (eds.). ENCOUNTERS: An Anthology from the First Ten Years of Encounter Magazine. NY: Basic Books, 1963. 561 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Hardback. $11.95. 'Encounters with Men and Ideas, Persons, and Places, Arts and Letters, Problems and Polemics.' Collects essays, poetry and fiction. Contributors include James Agee, Daniel Bell, James Dickey, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Theodore Roethke, Ted Hughes, Arthur Koestler, Robert Lowell, Mary McCarthy, C. P. Snow, Dylan Thomas, W.S. Merwin, and Edmund Wilson, among others.

242387 PLUMB, David. ELEPHANT KNEES. SF: Smoking Mirror, 1974. 12 pages. Stapled paperback, illustrated wraps. $3.95. Short one-act play. Plumb is also published by Wings Press.

246283 PRONKO, Leonard C. THEATER EAST AND WEST: Perspectives Toward a Total Theater. Berkeley: University of California, 1967. 230 pages. 1st trade paperback edition. Photos. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0520026225 $5.95. Major types of Eastern Theater and their influence on the West.

248714 RABE, David. HURLY BURLY. [Author's Revised Edition]. Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 210 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0802132510 $11.5. Surprisingly scarce.

233912 RAMPERSAD, Arnold. THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES (Volume I: 1902-1941 - I, Too, Sing America). NY: Oxford, 1986. 468 pp. First edition. Hardcover. 40 b/w illustrations. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0195040112 $13.5.

238681 REANEY, James. APPLE BUTTER AND OTHER PLAYS FOR CHILDREN. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1973. 193 pp. First edition. Large trade paperback. ISBN: 0889220433 $11.95.

232612 RIBMAN, Ronald. TWO PLAYS: The Journey of the Fifth Horse & Harry, Noon & Night. Boston: Little-Brown, 1967. 252 pp. 1st edition. Trade paperback. No hardcover issued. $14.95.

237030 RIGGS, Lynn. FOUR PLAYS. NY: Samuel French, 1947. 290 pp. Hardback. ISBN: B0007DK8WA $14.95.

250735 RUDNITSKY, Konstantin. RUSSIAN AND SOVIET THEATER, 1905-1932. Harry N. Abrams, 1988. 320 pages. 1st printing / edition. Large Hardcover. 457 illustrations including 64 plates in full color. Notes, bibliography, index. Translated by Roxane Permar. ISBN: 0810915960 $35. Gorgeous photos of many Russian turn of the century plays and actors document the extraordinary developments of Russian Theater before the creative forces of modern art were snuffed out. Classic, minimalist sets to elaborate (for the Russian theater) ones. Actors in profile and on the stage.

248789 SABATH, Bernard. THE BOYS IN AUTUMN. Dramatic Publishing Co., no date [circa 1986]. 78 pages. Small Trade paperback. ISBN: B000718DW4 $11.95. Produced in NY in 1986 with George C. Scott and John Cullum (photo of them, from the play, on the cover). Set in the 1920s, imagining Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as senior citizens.

236389 SAROYAN, William. GET AWAY OLD MAN: A Play in Two Acts. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1944. 103 pp. First edition. Hardback. ISBN: B0007E3GXM $35.

242594 SCHILLER. [Edited, with intro. and notes by W.H. Carruth]. SCHILLER WALLENSTEIN. NY: Henry Holt & Co., (1901). 393 pages. 2nd edition, revised. Small Hardcover. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Illustrated, including one foldout plate. Edited by W. H. Carruth. $9.95. German text, with lengthy introduction and notes in English. The text in this revised edition is completely reset and the commentary materially expanded, with new preface.

238030 SCHNEIDER, Jr., Ben Ross. THE ETHOS OF RESTORATION COMEDY. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. 201pp. First edition. Hardback. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0252001516 $9.95. An exhaustive study exploring the moral dimension of Restoration comedies. Schneider's book is based on a survey of 1,127 characters in 83 plays, including all the comedies popular at the time. An intensive reading of Congreve's Love for Love illustrates the principal ethical principles outlined in the book.

236468 SCOTT, A. C. THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF CHINA. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957. 250 pp. First edition. Hardback. Illustrations and photos. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. ISBN: 0415361702 $30.

234982 SENNETT, Ted. HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS. NY: Abrams, 1981. 384 pages. 1st edition. Very large hardcover. Illustrated in full color. Index. ISBN: 0810910756 $50.

240204 SETTLE, Alison. ENGLISH FASHION. London: Collins, 1948. 47 pp. Hardback. 8 plates in color and 23 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. $13.95.

249987 SHAKESPEARE, William. THE COMPLETE PELICAN SHAKESPEARE. London: Penguin, 1969. xxx+1481 pages. Revised edition. Hardback. Black, cloth boards with green and gilt stamping on spine, illustrated slipcase. Indexed. Edited by Alfred Harbage. ISBN: 0713900903 $37.

235483 SHATTUCK, Charles. AS YOU LIKE IT: A Prompt-Book Study. Urbana: Beta Phi Mu, 1962. 105 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. $12.95.

245138 SHAW, Bernard. THE QUINTESSENCE OF IBSENISM. NY: Brentano's, 1905. 170 pages. Hardcover. $4.95.

245853 SHAW, Bernard. BERNARD SHAW'S SAINT JOAN, MAJOR BARBARA, ANDROCLES AND THE LION. NY: The Modern Library, 1952. 479 pages. Later printing. Small Hardback. $6.95. 3 plays by the socialist and 1925 Nobel Prize winning Irish author.

240691 SHAW, George Bernard. THE APPLE CART. NY: Brentano's, 1931. 118 pp. Small Hardback. $11.95.

248597 SHAW, George Bernard. THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1933. 74 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. Black cloth with white-stamped spine and cover lettering. Illustrated. Designed and engraved by John Farleigh. $13.95.

249621 SHEPARD, Sam. THE UNSEEN HAND AND OTHER PLAYS. Bantam, 1986. 339 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0553342630 $4.95.

238003 SHIH, Chung-Wen. THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHINESE DRAMA: YUAN TSA-CHU. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xiv+312 pp. Hardback. Illustrated. Appendix. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. ISBN: 0609062706 $50.

235032 SIKS, Geraldine Brain. CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FOR DRAMATIZATION: An Anthology. NY: Harper & Row, 1964. 331 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Author. Presentation Copy. $26.

245712 SIMON, Louis M. A History of the Actors Fund of America. NY: Theatre Arts Books, 1972. 274 pages. Hardback. Photos, appendix. Intro by Brooks Atkinson. Alternate ISBN, 0878300570, which the publisher has reused for yet a wholly different title. ISBN: B00005W1VX $11.95. With special contributions by Ruth Gordon, Nedda Harrigan Logan, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jean Loggie.

242757 SIMON, Neil. THE PLAY GOES ON: A Memoir. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999. 348 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. ISBN: 0684846918 $6.95. Memoir, a continuation of his life story, where his book 'Rewrites' leaves off, beginning with the death of his wife, Joan, detailing his relationship and marriage to Marsha Mason, and his move to California.

235978 SIMONSON, Lee. THE ART OF SCENIC DESIGN. NY: Harper, 1950. 174 pp. First edition. Oversize hardcover, 10 x 12 inches. Profuse b/w plates. Signed by the author. $50.

243537 SINCLAIR, Upton. DEPRESSION ISLAND. Pasadena: the author, 1935. 124 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Hardcover, brick red cloth, gilt-stamped spine with author/title/publisher, black ink printed author/title front. $22. Sinclair's self-published drama satirizing labor relations during the depression, produced during his EPIC campaign for Governor of California. Parable of 3 castaways on an island who reinvent capitalism and its woes. Based on his 1933 booklet, 'The Way Out'. See Gottesman.

235852 SMITH, J. Percy. THE UNREPENTANT PILGRIM: A Study of the Development of Bernard Shaw. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. x+274 pp. First American edition. Hardback. Index. ISBN: B0006DBXJI $9.95.

251684 SORRENTINO, Gilbert. FLAWLESS PLAY RESTORED: The Masque of Fungo. Black Sparrow, 1974. 83 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0876851979 $3.95. Play by the author of Mulligan Stew .

236014 SOTHERN, Edward H. THE MELANCHOLY TALE OF 'ME': My Remembrances. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. xvi+409 pp. First American edition. Green cloth hardback. Gilt top edge. Many photos on glossy paper. Index. ISBN: B00089B2YG $19.95.

240642 SOUTHERN, Richard. THE GEORGIAN PLAYHOUSE. London: Pleiades Books, 1948. 71 pp. Hardback. Illustrated. Photos. Notes on the plates. $9.95. This is a volume in the Georgian Handbooks series.

252046 SPOTO, Donald. LENYA: A Life. Little, Brown, 1989. xi+371 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos, notes, discography. Index. ISBN: 0316807257 $5.95. Life of singer/actress Lotte Lenya.

249771 STAVIS, Barrie. THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED: A Play About Joe Hill with Notes on Joe Hill and His Times. NY: Haven Press, 1954. 242 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Photos. $11.95. The story of Joe Hill, the famed Wobbly organizer and songwriter who was framed for murder and condemned to death by the state of Utah, despite world-wide protests (including the US president). Stavis also wrote 'Harpers Ferry,' a play about John Brown.

250160 STEAD, Philip John (ed.). SONGS OF THE RESTORATION THEATRE. London: Methuen, 1948. xvii+91 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Index of first lines. Edited, with an introduction, by Stead. $2.95. Edited from the printed books of the time.

238393 STEIN, Gertrude. LAST OPERAS AND PLAYS OF GERTRUDE STEIN. NY: Rinehart, 1949. xix+480 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Photograph frontispiece. Edited and with an Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. $25.

250273 STEINBECK, John. BURNING BRIGHT. A Play in Story Form. Viking, 1950. 149 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small hardback, gray cloth, red lettering, jacket price of 2.50 intact. $180. Steinbeck's experiment with what he called a 'play-novellette' which can be read as either a novel or as a play. A superior jacket to most on-line images we've seen - often carelessly touted as Fine or Near Fine.

250647 STEINBECK, John. BURNING BRIGHT. Bantam Books, 1951. 109 pages. 1st printing / edition. Mass Market paperback. Bantam 953. $5.95. Steinbeck's experiment with what he called a 'play-novelette' which can be read as either a novel or as a play.

250650 STEINBECK, John. BURNING BRIGHT. Bantam Books, 1951. 109 pages. 1st printing / edition. Mass Market paperback. Bantam 953. $3.95. Steinbeck's experiment with what he called a 'play-novelette' which can be read as either a novel or as a play.

240505 STERN, Lawrence. STAGE MANAGEMENT. Fifth Edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. xiii+353 pp. Trade paperback. Appendix. Glossary. Index. ISBN: 0205170846 $9.95.

233726 STETTNER, Irving. JO ANN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, A Play. NY: X Press, 1976. 41 pp. First edition. Staple-bound pamphlet illustrated by the author. ISBN: 0917402057 $14.95.

233727 STETTNER, Irving. JO ANN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, A Play. NY: X Press, 1976. 41 pp. First edition. Staple-bound pamphlet illustrated by the author. ISBN: 0917402057 $9.95.

246054 STIMPSON, Catharine R. WHERE THE MEANINGS ARE: Feminism and Cultural Spaces. NY: Routledge, 1989. 235 pages. Hardback. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0416019412 $1. Essays by this feminist critic and founder of the journal 'Signs', published between 1970 and 1987.

237176 STOPPARD, Tom. NIGHT AND DAY. New York: Grove Press, 1979 113 pp. Hardback. First American printing. ISBN: 0394505263 $9.95.

240175 STOPPARD, Tom. JUMPERS. NY: Grove Press, 1972. 89 pp. Hardback. Fifth printing. ISBN: 0802100147 $7.95.

235771 SWINBURNE, Charles Algernon. ATALANTA IN CALYDON. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1922. 103 pp. Fourth edition, limited to 925 copies. Trade paperback. $14.95.

240833 TERENCE. With an English translation by John Sargeaunt. TERENCE. Volume II: Phormio, The Mother-in-Law, The Brothers. London and New York: William Heinemann / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. 323 pp. [+ads]. Hardback. $11.95. Text in Latin and English. Part of the Loeb Classical Library.

242859 THOMAS, Dylan. THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS AND OTHER SCRIPTS. New Directions, (1966). 229 pages. Stated 1st printing, 1st edition thus. Hardback. Brick red cloth. $16.95. Texts of five plays written by Thomas for radio or film.

248688 TINDALL, William York. SAMUEL BECKETT. [Columbia Essays on Modern Writers No. 4]. NY: Columbia University, 1964. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. Select bibliography. #4 in the 'Columbia Essays on Modern Writers' series. ISBN: 0231026595 $4.95.

236700 TOTERAS, Demetrius. SUNDAY THEY'LL MAKE ME A SAINT. San Francisco: New Generations, 1972. 122 pp. First edition. Trade paperback. $9.95. Symbolist-like drama by a man born in 1953 who was incarcerated by the U.S. Army.

250987 UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND. [William Shakespeare]. UNIVERSITY THEATRE PRESENTS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. University of Portland, 1953. Single sheet, 16-1/2 inches folded down to 5-1/2 inch triple panels. $20. Playbill, staged November 20 through the 22nd of 1953.

241196 USTINOV, Peter. PHOTO FINISH: A Play. Boston: Little Brown. 179 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated. $11.95. First American edition.

239087 WAGNER, Bruce. WILD PALMS: The Teleplay. NY: St. Martin's, 1994. 259 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0312106165 $7.95.

235282 WAIGHT, Quentin. PEER AND PAGEANT, Three Plays. London: Linden Press, 1960. 324 pp. First thus. Hardcover. Signed by the author. $12.5. Plays adapted for television by Joseph Longstreth.

242032 WARD, A.C. [George Bernard Shaw]. BERNARD SHAW. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1963. 44 pages. Stapled paperback pamphlet. Reprint of #1 in the Writers and Their Work series. ISBN: B0007J5I8I $2.95.

252466 WARD, A.C. [George Bernard Shaw]. BERNARD SHAW. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1950. 56 pages. Stapled paperback. Bibliographical series of supplements to British Book News. Select bibliographical check-list. Indexes. $8.95.

236306 WEIDMAN, Jerome, and George Abbott. FIORELLO!. NY: Random House, 1965. 147 pp. First edition. Hardcover. $100.

243609 WEISS, Peter. TWO PLAYS. NY: Atheneum, 1970. 249 pages. 1st edition. Translations by Lee Baxandall and Geoffrey Skelton. $18.95. Title play about Vietnam is 'Discourse on the Progress of the Prolonged War of Liberation in Viet Nam and the Events Leading up to It as Illustrated of the Necessity for Armed Resistance Against Oppression and on the Attempts of the United States of America to Destroy the Foundation of Revolution'.

250727 WEISS, Peter. TROTSKY IN EXILE: A Play. Pocket Books, 1973. 160 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback printing / edition. Chronology. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. ISBN: 0671786334 $6.5. Absorbing drama of Revolution by the author of Marat/Sade .

251764 WHITE, Edmund. GENET: A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. xlii+728 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Notes. Index. Chronology by Albert Dichy. Presentation copy, 'for Peggy ---, all my best' and Signed by the Author on the title page. ISBN: 0394571711 $22. Genet in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief - a 'thug of genius'. National Book Critic's Circle Award-winner.

236127 WILDER, Thornton. LUCRECE. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1932. 90 pp. Reprint. Orange, cloth boards with gilt stamping on cover & spine. $14.95.

231708 WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT. NY: Signet, 1962. 1st Signet paperback edition. Section of movie stills. $4.95.

242420 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. FIVE O'CLOCK ANGEL: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just 1948-1982. NY: Knopf, 1990. 407 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. Index. Preface by Elia Kazan. Commentary by Maria St. Just. ISBN: 0394564278 $5.95. Letters written over three decades to St. Just, his dearest friend and confidante.

252081 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. BABY DOLL. Signet, 1956. 128 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback printing / edition. Photos from the film and Carroll Baker on cover. Signet #S1334. 35 cent cover price. $7.95.

252082 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Signet, 1958. 158 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback printing / edition. Photos from the film and Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor on cover. Signet #S1590. 35 cent cover price. $4.95.

252086 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. MEMOIRS. Bantam, 1976. 334 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback printing / edition. Photos. Index. ISBN: 055302745X $2.5.

247405 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. WEALES, Gerald. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1965. 46 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback. #53 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: B0006BNGE0 $5.95.

243401 WILLINGER, David (ed.). AN ANTHOLOGY OF BELGIAN PLAYS 1970-1982 Troy: Whitston Publishing, 1984. 731 pages. First edition. Hardcover, gilt-stamped red cloth. Preface by David Willinger. Translations by Luc Deneulin, Karl SeSloovere, and Luk Truyts are uniformly excellent. ISBN: 0878752722 $17.95. Collects Hugo Claus, Rene Kalisky, Jean Louvet, Jean Sigrid, Lucinenne Stassaert and Ivo Van Hove. Willinger introduces each dramatist, giving pertinent information about their ideas, styles, and theatrical innovations. Explanatory essays on Belgain theatre in general, and on Flemish and French-language drama in particular, by Jacques DeDecker, Jaak Van Schoor, and Mark Quaghebeur respectively add important historical background material.

241013 WILSON, Jean. THE SHAKESPEARE LEGACY: The Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre. Godalming: Bramley Books, 1995. xii + 211pp. Hardback. Illustrated. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 1858338298 $11.95. A systematic investigation of the material evidence that bears upon the theatre and theatrical presentations of Shakespeare's day, including the 1989 discovery of the Rose Theatre, followed later that year by the uncovering of the site of the Globe theatre.

232851 WOLFE, Welby B. MATERIALS OF THE SCENE: An Introduction to Technical Theatre. NY: Harper & Row, 1977. 315 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0060471840 $6.5.

237158 WOOLF, Virginia. FRESHWATER: A Comedy. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. 76pp. Hardback. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo. Illustrated by Loretta Trezzo. ISBN: 0151334870 $11.95.

246281 WOOLF, Virginia. [Edward Gorey, illus.]. FRESHWATER: A Comedy. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Harvest , 1985. 86 pages. 1st Trade paperback printing / edition. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo. Signed by the Illustrator, Edward Gorey. ISBN: 0156335409 $85.

244672 WRIGHT, William. LILLIAN HELLMAN: The Image, the Woman. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1986. 507 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0671526871 $4.95.

246835 WRIGHT, William. LILLIAN HELLMAN: The Image, the Woman. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986. 507 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0671526871 $5.95.

232616 YU, Cao. THE CONSORT OF PEACE. Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, 1981. 154 pp. First edition. Yellow paper boards with gilt stamping on cover & spine. $29.95. Translated from the Chinese by Monica Lai. One of China's most important dramatists of 20th century.

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