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Berkeley Square A Play in Three Acts

By: Balderston, John L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan Company: 1929

Seller ID: A37745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Poor dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The book is in clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a prevoius owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks spots and large chips missing, especially from the spine4 ends and corners. "John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his ho...
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John Henry A Play

By: Bradford, Roark (with Music by Jacques Wolfe and Sets by Albert Johnson)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1939

Seller ID: A37728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; THis book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The linen covered boards have several spots of foxing, especially by the spine joints and some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with monochrome depictions of the staging of the play. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page (Esto B. Broughton). Also included is the cast list, featuring Paul Robeson as John Henry. "Bradford continued t...
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Everywoman Her Pilgrimage in Quest of Love (The Acting Version)

By: Browne, Walter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, H. K. Fly Company: 1911

Seller ID: A35205

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

B&W Photographs; States 1908 but was actually published 1911. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and spine joints have some rubbing and generally light wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne. Violet Heming appears as the title character supported by several Paramount character stars."
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Hearts Awake The Pixy: A Play

By: Burr, Amelia Josephine

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1919

Seller ID: 29786

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a small tear to the front spine joint of the book cover which has some associated wear and nicking. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have noticeable toning.
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When Knighthood Was In Flower Or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth

By: Caskoden, Edwin (Charles Major)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, William B. Perkins Publisher: 1907

Seller ID: A33761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have light bumping, rubbing, edge wear, and small bits of fraying. The lettering on the spine has been almost fully rubbed away and has started rubbing away on the front cover. The text pages are generally clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the play. This is the Julia Marlowe Edition. "Writing remained an interest of Major, and in 1898, he published his first novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower under the pseudonym Edwin Caskoden....
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The Green Pastures

By: Cripps, Thomas (edited and with Introduction by)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press: 1979

Seller ID: A37630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The Green Pastures is a 1936 American film depicting stories from the Bible as visualized by African-American characters. It starred Rex Ingram (in several roles, including "De Lawd") , Oscar Polk, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. It was based on the 1928 novel Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun by Roark Bradford and the 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by M...
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Cherokee Messenger A Play in One Act

By: Davis, Elisabeth Logan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Board of National Missions (Presbyterian Church): 1952

Seller ID: A35665

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

This is a trade sized paperback with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers of the book have toning and some light edge wear, along with one crease to the top front corner. The text pages are clean and bright.
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The Havana Inquiry A Self-Portrait of the Counter-Revolution

By: Enzensberger, Hans Magnus (translated by Peter Mayer with An Introduction by Martin Duberman)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1974

Seller ID: A37193

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks and tears, along with spots of rubbing and a couple of small chips missing. "Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren) is a German author, poet, translator and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr...Enzensberger has a sarcastic, ironic tone in many of his poems. Fo...
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An Experience of Critics and the Approach to Dramatic Criticism

By: Fry, Christopher, et al. (with a Prologue by Alec Guiness)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1953

Seller ID: 31950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The book is illustrated throughout with drawings by Ronald Searle. "To ask an actor to write a few words, by way of preface, on dramatic critics is like asking oil to make a comment on vinegar. I must hasten to add that you will find very little vinegar in this charming book. You will find, on the contrary, such charity, such affability and good sense that naturally you will ask yourself Why? How has this come ...
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Game of Fools A Play (of those fools, by those fools, and for those fools, who stubbornly refuse to perish from this earth)

By: Fugate, James (Barr)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, One, Incorporated: 1955

Seller ID: 29474

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Limited to 2000 copies - this is number 1622. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, though there is some generalized toning to the endpapers. Laid in is a flier for the purchase of the book. The dust jacket has edge wear, several tears, rubbing, toning and tidemarking, especially to the rear cover and flap. "Contrary to the statements of learned men on the subject, I do not believe the homosexual who tries to defend his state guaranteed rights or his beh...
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The Seesaw Log A Chronicle of the Stage Production...of Two for the Seesaw

By: Gibson, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1959

Seller ID: A35774

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There are a couple of small spots of discoloration to the top spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and smallish chips missing. "William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was an American playwright and novelist. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for The Miracle Worker in 1959, which he later adapted f...
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Unheard Melody

By: Kincheloe, Clarence

Price: $30.00

Publisher: No Place, No Publisher Listed.: 1960

Seller ID: 30101

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Circa 1960. This mysterious little book is in Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is a paperback book. The book is in generally clean condition. The book cover hvae some edge wear, rubbing to the spine joints. The bottom rear cover has some nibbling by some rodent and the rear spine joint has a water spot which has discolored. The text pages have noticeable toning, but are otherwise mostly clean. The title page has water marking. Published sometime in the 1960's (approximately) , little is known of the author Clarence L. Kincheloe but much is known of the subject of the ...
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The Old Glory

By: Lowell, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1965

Seller ID: A39827

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright with the exception of several tiny edge tears to the spine ends and corners. "Mr. Lowell's first dramatic work, The Old Glory, consists of three plays, Benito Cereno, My Kinsman, Major Molineux, and Endecort and the Red Cross. Based on stories by Hawthorne and a novella by Melville, they are held together by the unifying symbol of the flag." (from Wikipedia)
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Fenris the Wolf A Tragedy

By: Mackaye, Percy

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan Company: 1905

Seller ID: A32258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

This book is in Very Good+ condition and lacks a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "MacKaye was born in New York City, New York. After graduating from Harvard in 1897, he traveled in Europe for three years, residing in Rome, Switzerland and London, studying at the University of Leipzig in 1899–1900. He returned to New York City to teach at a private school until 1904, when he joined a colony of a...
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George Bernard Shaw His Plays

By: Mencken, Henry L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, John W. Luce & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: A40393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and small edge nicks / tears, along with some beginning fraying. The paper label on the spine is noticeably toned. The paper label on the front cover has some lightly ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's large bookplate on the rear pastedown page (George H. Schmitter). "George Bernard Shaw (/'b? ? Rn? ? Rd/; [1] 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) , known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwr...
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After the Fall A Play in Two Acts

By: Miller, Arthur

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1964

Seller ID: A33088

ISBN: 0670109037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have some light, but noticeable toning. The dust jacket is clean and mostly bright, but does have some toning to the spine, spine joints and edges of the front and rear panels. "Commissioned for the opening production of the new Lincoln Center Repertory Company, After the Fall, a major work, is Arthur Miller's first full-length play since A View from the Bridge was produced on Broadway six years befo...
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The Modern Speaker Or Complete Manual Of Elocution Being a Choice Treasury of New and Popular Recitations, Readings, Dialogues, Original and Adapted Comedies, Tableaux, Etc.

By: Northrop, Henry Davenport (compiler and editor)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. H. Moore Company: 1896

Seller ID: A37798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. There is one small nick / frayed spot to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The covers have spots of ground-in dirt and one spot of fading to the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with photographs of people in dramatic poses. "In Western classical rhetoric, elocution was one of the five core discipl...
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Hair The American Tribal Love Rock Musical

By: Playgoer Publications, Inc.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hollywood, CA, Playgoer Publications, Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: A36358

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; This is the play program for the First westcoast production of Hair following the Broadway production six months earlier. This is a trade sized booklet with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends, spine joints and corners of the covers have rubbing and light creasing. The text pages are clean and bright, though slightly toned. This production included Ben Vereen and Tom Smothers in the cast. The booklet includes black and white photos of the main castmembers, advertising th...
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Night of January 16th A Comedy-Drama in Three Acts

By: Rand, Ayn (edited by Nathaniel Edward Reeid)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1936

Seller ID: A35630

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

This is the original 1936 edition of the play script (which followed the version that was originally entitiled "Woman on Trial". This is a small paperback / booklet with blue cardstock covers and a side stapled binding. The book is in Very Good - condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have toning and foxing along with some edge wear, creasing and small spots of rubbing / paper loss. The text pages are mostly clean and bright and there is an ink stamp of the Banner Play Bureau, Inc (of San Francisco) on the title page. "Ayn Rand (born ; February 2 January 20] 190...
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Three New Dramatic Works And 19 Other Very Short Plays

By: Saroyan, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Phaedra, Inc. Publishers: 1969

Seller ID: A35369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge tears and nicks, along with noticeable generalized rubbing to the easily damaged dust jacket. "An Armenian American, Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California. Many of his stories and plays are set in his native Fresno. Some of his best-known works are The Ti...
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