Search Results: Plays from Clearwater Books

J.M.Dent, London, 1967. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 89pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. A hint of spotting to the front free endpaper and half-title. Binding slightly sprung. A nice bright copy in quite chafed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, unevenly faded at the rear panel and with a couple of short closed tears. Former owner gift inscription inked to the front endpaper..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 128pp. Green boards lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. Some very light partial toning to the free endpapers, and a very light scattering of spotting to the fore edge. The ghost of a partially erased former dealer's pencilled pricing to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in slightly rubbed, marked and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Miller's semi-autobiographical play: a thinly veiled personal critique centred on his recent divorce from Marilyn Monroe..

Faber, London, 1957. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 37pp. Plain card wrappers with an integral non-price-clipped dust wrapper featuring a design by Peter Snow (not issued in casebound format). A touch of light spotting and toning to the wrapper. Very good. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Beckett's first radio play, originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 13 January 1957. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Pharos, Utah, spring, 1945. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first book, which comprises the whole issue of the first and second number (a double issue) of the periodical 'Pharos'. Tall 8vo. 123pp + [iv] advertisements. Red lettered card wrappers, rubbed and a little nicked at the yapped edges. Former owner name inked to the head of the half-title. Faint tape residue marks to the endpaper corners. A very good copy. The full text of the author's three act play followed by his twelve-page 'The History of the Play (With Parentheses)' which details its composition and disastrous opening in Boston in 1940, and is followed by a brief 'Note of the Battle of Angels' by the director, Margaret Webster. Williams subsequently rewrote the play under the title 'Orpheus Descending' but its opening run in 1957 was brief and modestly received (although almost a smash hit in comparison to the original production)..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. Blue cloth with a tanned and chafed paper spine label. Spine ends rubbed. The backstrip cloth very lightly faded and the cloth just a little dust soiled. A very nice, crisp copy. No dust wrapper. Former owner details inked to the front pastedown..

Duckworth & Co., London, 1915. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 84pp. Green cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Some partial browning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in the uncommon dust wrapper, which is just fractionally rubbed and marked. A three act play, originally performed at the Kingsway Theatre, London in May 1915..

Raven Arts Press, Dublin, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - a paperback original. Slim 8vo. 61pp. Glossy card wrappers. The wrappers lifting a fraction, else in fine state. The author's second play, first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in August 1988. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Faber, London, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first play. Slim 8vo. 95pp. Red cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Two small inked numerals to the tip of the front free endpaper, else in fine state with slightly chafed and marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly tanned at the spine panel..

Bodley Head, London and Oxford University Press, London, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 141pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 91pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in lightly marked and chafed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's fifth play, first preformed in a sold-out run at the Royal Court Theatre, London in November 1971 under the direction of Lindsay Anderson before transferring to the Globe a month later (the subsequent Broadway production won the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for Best Play)..

Faber, London, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 92pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at THE spine. Printed on white laid paper. Just a trace of tanning to THE backstrip else a lovely crisp copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A radio play first performed on the BBC Home Service in October 1942. 15,500 copies were printed (this number probably split over the total of six impressions produced between 1944-1961). Armitage & Clark A19a..

Eyre Methuen, London, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - the uncommon casebound issue. Small 8vo. 84pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A small cross inked to the head of the rear free endpaper, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. The author's fourth play..

Faber, London, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Editions (first printings) the paperback issues, which were published simultaneously with the casebound examples. 8vo. 114pp, 106pp and 119pp. A hint of toning to the leaf margins, else all three volumes in fine state. Stoppard's trilogy debuted at the Olivier Theatre in June 2002 and ran there for six-months. It relocated to Broadway in 2006 where it won a record seven Tony Awards including Best Play..

Oxford University Press, London, 1963. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 401pp. Dark blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with just a touch of marking and dust soiling. Heath-Stubbs' nine-page introduction precedes the plays 'Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury', 'Judgement at Chelmsford', 'Seed of Adam', 'The Death of Good Fortune', 'The House by the Stable', 'Grab and Grace; or It's the Second Step', 'The House of the Octopus', 'Terror of Light' and 'The Three Temptations'..

Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) 8vo. 336pp. Two-tone boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly dust soiled. In virtually fine state with dust wrapper, fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities and with a single tiny area of loss. Sixteen plays..

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1963. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 94pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of very light toning to the margins of the free endpapers. A virtually fine copy in fair dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat chafed, toned and soiled with several tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips, and a tiny sticker with three inked numerals to the base of the front panel. Pinter's plays 'The Collection' and 'The Lover', followed by his six-page story 'The Examination' which was originally published in 1959 in the review 'Prospect'..

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1967. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 90pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Card wrappers, lightly marked and dust soiled. Very good. 'The Ruffian on the Stair' was first performed by the English Stage Society in August 1966 and later produced at the Royal Court Theatre in June 1967 as part of the 'Crimes of Passion' double-bill, which also saw the debut performance of 'The Erpingham Camp'..

Oxford University Press, London, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to poet Richard Church. Slim 8vo. 99pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A light speckling of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in lightly tanned, marked and spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Fry's first historical play, dealing with the reign of Henry II and Thomas Becket..

Michael Joseph, London, 1945. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 78pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Covers a little marked in places with a little spotting to endpapers. Quite a bright copy, albeit printed on cheap wartime paperstock. No dust wrapper. The author's only significant play, an RAF story that was produced in Salisbury in October 1945, broadcast by the BBC and later toured by the Arts Council. Eads A54..

The Cresset Press, London, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition, and yet considerably more uncommon. 8vo. 133pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Edges very lightly spotted. Former owner name neatly inked to the front pastedown alongside a small dealer plate, both of which are completely obscured by the wrapper flap. A very light vertical crease impacts the final forty-odd leaves, and with the ghost of some now erased pencilled notations to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy very good non-price-clipped (7/6 net) dust wrapper, very lightly toned at the spine panel with several slivers of loss from the spine ends and from several corner tips. A very respectable copy of the uncommon UK edition of the keystone of twentieth century US drama..