(laminated boards; no dust jacket) [moderate rubbing/scuffing to covers, top corners very slightly bumped]. (Contemporary Theatre Studies, Volume 5) Series "Beginning in the 1980s Edward Bond's dissociation with the established theatre was inevitable as many leading theatre, such as the RSC and the Royal National Theatre, produced plays antithetical to his belief in a new and useful theatre. Consequently, most of Bond's latest plays were not staged in London but given performances in the regions or abroad. This separation from the London theatre as a venue for his latest work along with ... View More...
[light external wear, a few tiny red ink marks on bottom edge]. This issue contains the following plays: "The Meat Rack," by Kathleen Kimball; "The Service for Joseph Axminster," by George Dennison; "Is She Izzy or Is He Ain'tzy or Iz They Both," by Lonnie Carter (including music and lyrics; music by Robert Montgomery); "Cop and Blow," by Neil Harris; "Perfection in Black," by China Clark; "Helliocentric World," by Sebastian Clarke; "The Wall," by Ben Caldwell; "One the Two of Us," by William Adell Stevenson III. View More...
[an array of tiny white rubbed/scuffed spots on front cover, otherwise only lightly worn]. This issue contains the following plays: "Larry Parks' Day in Court," by Eric Bentley; "Four Infiltration Pieces," by Marc Estrin; "The Ride Across Lake Constance," by Peter Handke; "The Wax Engine," by Robert Nichols. This was likely the first English-language publication of the Handke piece (translated from the German by Michael Roloff), the play itself having been "recently presented at Lincoln Center." (Its characters include "Emil Jannings," "Erich von Stroheim," and "Elisabeth Bergner," but they... View More...
[light external wear, small scraped area near bottom of front cover, soft diagonal crease at upper right corner of front cover, a few tiny red ink marks on bottom edge]. This issue contains the following plays (all apparently written for radio or television, although there's nothing explicitly stating that apart from the little slug on the front cover: "The Resolution of Mossie Wax: A TV Documentary," by Stephen H. Foreman; "Audioplay 2: Safe," by Jakov Lind; "On the Eve of Publication," by David Mercer; "Ol-Dopt; or, The Adventures of Charles and Emily Ann Andrews: A Radio Serial," by David ... View More...
[light handling wear, a little fading to spine, a few tiny red ink marks on bottom edge]. This issue contains the following plays: "The Life and Times of J. Walter Smintheus," by Edgar White; "Eunuchs of the Forbidden City," by Charles Ludlam; "Free This Day: A Trial in Seven Exhibits," by Himilce Novas; "Jazznite," by Walter Jones. This was likely the first publication of the Ludlam play View More...
[modest external wear, some rubbing to covers]. Plays contained in this issue: "Kontraption," by Rochelle Owens; "Crabs, Cross-Country," by Sally Ordway; "The Tommy Allen Show," by Megan Terry; "Intersections 7," by Paul Epstein (a musical piece, subtitled "Prelude and Jam for Five Performers"); "The Black Terror," by Richard Wesley. View More...
[all issues in uniformly nice condition, with just a touch of wear along the spines of a few, and a single inked note on the rear cover of one; six of the nine have the original subscriber's address label affixed to the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) The first nine issues of this very content-rich quarterly newsletter devoted to the repertory theatre scene in (mostly) America. All issues are either 16 or 20 pages in length, and feature primarily stories (often with interviews) about notable individuals or theatre companies, as well as about the general state of repertory theatre. Although t... View More...
[nice clean tight copy with no discernible wear (a review copy, with publisher's slip laid in); the jacket has been slightly insect-nibbled at various points along the top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) The Woodman's early theatrical success (and technically his first published book), filmed in 1969 with Jackie Gleason taking over the role played by Lou Jacobi on the stage, as head of an American family trapped behind the Iron Curtain, in an unnamed "Middle-European" country. View More...
[an "actor-used" copy with extensive underlining and annotation (see notes), worn along spine, some dog-earing to covers and early pages, some discoloration and light soiling to covers, slight splitting at both ends of spine]. (stage diagram) Allen's early theatrical success, filmed in 1969 under the unsubtle direction of Howard Morris, with Jackie Gleason taking over the role played by Lou Jacobi on the stage, as head of an American family trapped in an unnamed "Middle-European" country behind the Iron Curtain; filmed again for TV in 1994, with Allen himself directing and star... View More...
(illustrated oversize wraps) [minor surface wear to covers, slight dog-earing to bottom right corner of front cover; spine is faded, and a previous owner has written "The Lunts" on it with a sharpie]. (B&W photographs) Souvenir program book from ANTA's tribute to Lunt and Fontanne, held on June 11, 1972, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Approximately 120 pages, illustrated with numerous photographs from their careers and including numerous congratulatory ads that such publications invariably contains, plus a comprehensive chronology of the Lunts' respective (and joint) careers, by Alan Hew... View More...
[moderate wear to book extremties, some fading to cloth around perimeters of both covers and at spine; jacket is a bit tattered, missing about two inches from top of spine, some degree of paper loss at most corners, small ragged closed tear at bottom of front panel, etc.]. Treatise on the economic conditions facing the American theatre in the late 1920s, historically interesting from at least two particular perspectives: (1) being just prior to the stock market crash in October 1929 (the book was ; and (2) appearing in the midst of the movies' transition from silents to talkies. The book is ... View More...
[front hinge a little weak, slight fading to cloth at edges of covers and spine, attractive full-page vintage bookplate on half-title page; jacket spine is browned, jacket has some shallow chipping along top and bottom edges, minor paper loss at corners]. (endpaper maps) Historical drama about the difficulties endured by General George Washington's army during the Winter of 1777-78, "the dark days [when] the fortunes of the rebellious colonists were at their lowest ebb and defeat at the hands of Great Britain's trained mercenaries seemed inevitable." After a month or so of out-of-tow... View More...
[a nice tight copy with no significant wear, downgraded a bit due only to some ink notes on the rear endpaper (a review copy, with original publisher's slip laid in); jacket has a few small closed edge-tears]. (B&W photographs) Drama about a widowed college professor and his troubled relationship with his aging father. The 1970 movie version, directed by Gilbert Cates, starred Gene Hackman and Melvyn Douglas. [NOTE: Although the book doesn't bear the typical Random House "First Printing" statement, it was (as noted) a review copy, so I assume the omission of the printing statement is... View More...
(no dust jacket, probably as issued) [nice sound clean copy, with just a touch of wear at the extremities; the bottom corners of the paper spine label have chipped off, but with no loss of text on the label itself]. Facsimile reprint of the original (1895) edition, which itself essentially reprinted the theatrical reviews from "The World" covering productions on the London stage during 1894. Preface by George Bernard Shaw; includes a "Synopsis of Playbills" for the year by Henry George Hibbert. Among the productions of interest: "Gentleman Jack," the British staging o... View More...
[nice clean book (review copy with publisher's slip laid in), minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to top of text block; jacket lightly spotted on spine, one short closed tear at bottom of front panel, very shallow insect-nibbling along bottom edges of both flaps and bottom of front panel, a bit of soiling to edges of rear flap]. (3 B&W photographs) The play that made Jayne Mansfield a star. It was also the basis, after a fashion, for the 1957 film of the same name, although in "adapting" the play writer-director Frank Tashlin substantially re-imagined it, transmuting Axelrod's savage satire o... View More...
[light wear to lower extremities; jacket browned at spine (as typical with RH plays of this period), miniscule chipping at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) Comedy about an elderly eccentric and her disturbed, pyromaniacal granddaughter, the latter looked after by a governess with a green thumb and a mysterious past. The original 1955 Broadway production starred (in the respective roles) Gladys Cooper, Betsy von Furstenburg and Siobhan McKenna, and ran for 182 performances; a West End (London) production the following year featured Edith Evans, Judith Stott and Peggy Ashcroft; Evans repeated he... View More...
[some age-toning at edges of covers and along spine, small bump and slight tear at lower front hinge, a couple of short diagonal creases at bottom right corner of front cover, long faint diagonal crease at top corner of rear cover, stamped on both covers (and once inside) "IMPORTANT! RETURN Story Dept." (but without specifying what entity's Story Dept.), a number of pencil annotations in the margins of Act One]. Comedy of manners about a romantic triangle. The original production starred Leslie Howard (who also co-produced), and marked his return to Broadway after his intial foray in Hollywoo... View More...
(no dust jacket) [nice clean book, with just light wear to extremities]. (B&W photographs) Proletarian drama, adapted from Grace Lumpkin's 1932 novel about the Gastonia strike. Don West, in his introduction (originally published as a review of the play in The Daily Worker), states: "With keen and discriminating understanding, with sensitive and sympathetic strokes, Albert Bein paints this picture of an awakening South, of a youthful and gigantic proletariat testing its strength, of the unity of black and white workers being welded over prejudice and lies by a common interest. ... It is on... View More...
[moderate shelfwear, light bumping to several corners, agency stamp on front pastedown (hidden by jacket flap); jacket shows wear and minor wrinkling along top edge, wear at several corners, minor soiling to front panel, tiny tears at top of spine and bottom of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Two Oxford men (Bennett and Moore) teamed up with two Cambridge men (Cook and Miller) in this "satirical review which treats calmly and ruthlessly of the hydrogen bomb, the end of the world, religion on television, capital punishment, race relations and the emerging African nations. It is funny on all su... View More...
[some visible wear along edges and spine, short diagonal crease at top corner of rear cover]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the playwright on the half-title page: "for ___ & _____ / with love from / Caroline / Christmas 1981." (Also laid in is a Christmas card from the playwright, with a brief note to the recipients.) "A free adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy which follows the spirit of the original but is far more than a mere translation. It is a light-hearted play with plenty of action, humour, and a happy ending! The cast can number as few as forty or as many as a hundre... View More...
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