24 favorite one-act plays

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gently rubbed corners, extremely gentle rubbing to rear board-rear edge, bright pages in tight binding, very mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, very gently rubbed DJ corners, sunned DJ spine, extremely light fading to DJ, else near fine in near fine jacket. A sharp copy.. Octavo in blue multicolored DJ, blue spine, 455 pages, 22 cm. A collection of international plays that includes works by Miller, Coward, Giraudoux, Synge, Chekhov, and Lady Gregory. Contents: A memory of two Mondays / Arthur Miller -- The Browning version / Terence Rattigan -- 27 wagons full of cotton / Tennessee Williams -- Sorry, wrong number / Lucille Fletcher -- Glory in the flower / William Inge -- Hands across the sea / Noel Coward -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The happy journey / Thornton Wilder -- Here we are / Dorothy Parker -- The traveler / Marc Connelly -- The still alarm / George S. Kaufman -- The moon of the Caribbees / Eugene O'Neill -- The maker of dreams / Oliphant Down -- The flattering word / George Kelly -- The tridget of Greva / Ring Lardner -- The Apollo of Bellac / Jean Giraudoux -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- The ugly duckling / A.A. Milne -- The jest of Hahalaba / Lord Dunsany -- In the shadow of the glen / J.M. Synge -- Cathleen ni Houlihan / William Butler Yeats -- A marriage proposal / Anton Chekhov -- Spreading the news / Lady Gregory -- A Florentine tragedy / Oscar Wilde. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.