Tales of Many Lands by [Tytler, Margaret Fraser] - 1845

New York, Viking, 1986, hardcover, First Edition, First Printing, Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight tight and clean with no markings, slight corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, slight corner and edge bumps, two tiny spots to front panel, light rubs to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. Essays and opinions on various, wide-ranging subjects, from the actor's craft to old-time pool halls, and a lovely tribute to his favorite bitches. ISBN 9780670811403

Constable, London, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 114pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges lightly spotted and fly-leaves a little browned. A very bright copy in chipped, chafed, dust-marked and slightly ragged dust wrapper in two parts (cleanly torn at the rear panel-spine panel joint)..

London: William Miller. Very Good. 1810. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. Vol's 2 & 3 only. Clean full leather with gilt ruled border. Spine with gilt Lettering. Texts tight, clean & intact. Both volumes with a pictorial title page. Marbled endpapers. Prior owners book plate. Chipped spine heads and lightly rubbed corners. Theatre; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1212 pages .

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1954, hardcover, xvi-95 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Good dustjacket Signed by the Author simply "Gene" and inscribed "To Diana" on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end bumps, small stain to top edge of textblock. Dustjacket, unclipped bearing original price, rubs, edge nicks, small chips, stain to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. In the five plays studied here: Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Antigone, Corneille's Polyeucte, Maeterlinck's Aglavaine and Selysette, and Samain's Polypheme the tragic experience of man's defeat in an unequal struggle against destiny is examined in the light of the conflict between his worldly and his spiritual aspirations. Introduction by Norman J. DeWitt. ISBN 9780816660001

NY: Knopf, 1987. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1987, first printing. 4to., 12" x 10 3/4", xi+323pp., illustrated with nearly 600 color and b/w photographs. Black cloth with gilt titles. Most theatergoers don't know that the scenic designer for the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof got his start in revolutionary Russia's avant-garde. Son of the Grand Rabbi of Kiev, Aronson rejected Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold's communal theater when he fell under the spell of constructivist set designer Alexandra Exter. Arriving in New York in 1923, Aronson faced the predicament of a cosmopolitan artist confronted with a commercial theater that was in many ways backward. Undaunted, he designed sets for Yiddish theater, then worked for Harold Clurman's Group Theatre on Odets's Awake and Sing. His association with Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince at last gave him a chance to apply Exter's ideas of remaking reality in personal terms by making… Read More

Humphrey Milford, 'Oxford Library of Prose & Poetry' series, London, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 89pp. Gilt- and blind decorated green cloth. Some modest internal spotting. Spine a little damp-stained. A bright copy in the scarce dust wrapper, which is marked and fox-spotted and has been much repaired. Name of former owner neatly inked to the front pastedown..

New York, Grove Press Inc, 1981, hardcover, 111 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing stated, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge and corner nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The prolific playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and author takes us to a merchant marine ship sailing the Great Lakes where eight crew members talk about sex, gambling, drinking, and fighting to relieve the boredom. ISBN 9780394519524

London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12… Read More

O'Neill, Eugene: Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy (1931 First Edition, Horace Liveright, Inc. w/Dj) DRAMA. Three Plays, or parts: Homecoming, The Hunted, The Haunted. RARE. Used. Very Good Condition/ Good- Original unclipped dust jacket. Original Cover Price is $2.50. Jacket has some loss at the spine. Now protected by mylar wrap. Please see our photos. Plot Summary: "Mourning Becomes Electra is a story styled after the Greek legend and the title refers to how the lead character is condemned to a life of mourning the disasters that befall her family. In the Greek legends, Electra is the sister to Orestes, and they are the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon."

Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."