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réf. 11316Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. English version by Eric and Maja Bentley. Very Good in a Very Good jacket unclipped but struck-through $3.50 generally toned and rubbed a chip at the bottom edge of the back panel. Black boards rubbed at the bottom edge with white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound clean internally. The first book appearance in any language of these two plays by the author of The Threepenny Opera. University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
1958réf. 25091Berlin: Deutchen Akademie Der Kunste 1958. First Edition. Large 8vo pp. 37 63 90. In German. Three volumes in a publisher's cloth folder. All paper wraps. The three volumes are: Aufbau Einer Rolle Laughtons Galilei; Aufbau Eine Rolle Buschs Galilei these two are mainly photographs; and the text of Brecht's play Leben Des Galilei. Books nice folder little worn. llustrated with Laughton's 1947/48 performance in the U.S. Performed when he worked with Brecht on the English language version and the later performance by Busch in 1956 in Brecht's Berliner Ensemble. Deutchen Akademie Der Kunste unknown books
1965réf. 3921Berlin: Suhrkamp 1965. 21 volumes. Original boards or original cloth. Very good and fine copies. First editions except vol. I of Stücke which is a later printing of Brecht's collected works The first 12 of 14 eventually published volumes of plays and the first 9 of 10 of poems. W.-G. 64 77. Additional shipping will be required. Suhrkamp unknown books
1955réf. 45579Berlin: Berliner Ensemble 1955. First edition. Softcover. vg. Octavo. 20pp. Original photo-illustrated wraps with blue and red lettering on framed label of cover protected by modern mylar. Cover photo is a city scape of Chicago at night. Design Karl-Heinz Drescher. Pamphlet produced by the Berliner Ensemble on the occasion of the production of Brecht's play "Im Dickicht der Städte" with texts by Bertolt Brecht Herbert Jhering Alfred Kurella and Margrit Pittmann. Brecht's play shows the degradation of human beings in the late capitalist society. Pamphlet includes notes on the play by the Berlin ensemble. Illustrated with stage sketches by Caspar Nehers and Andreas Reinhardt and three stage photographs of the performances at Munich and Berlin theaters one by the Berlin Ensemble. Laid in a three fold octavo flyer with color photo of New York City and caption "Shlink: Die Menschenhaut in natürlichem Zustande ist zu dünn für diese Welt deshalb sorgt der Mensch dafür daß sie dicker wird The human skin in its natural state is too thin for this world therefore humans take care so it becomes thicker. A conceptual art piece featuring printed sample texts found in various media from America West- and Nazi Germany on verso. Pamphlet and flyer in very good condition. Berliner Ensemble unknown books
réf. 2369Prague Nase Vojsko 1962. 4to. Cloth bound book with original dust jacket. Translated by Ludvik Kundera with illustrations by Hoffmeister. 117 pp. unknown books
1965réf. 34191Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag 1965. All are first editions except Vol I and IX. 12 vols. 12mo. Patterned paper over boards title labels. Fine in almost fine dust jackets 2 are torn. Lower board of Vol. W bowed. All are first editions except Vol I and IX. 12 vols. 12mo. Suhrkamp Verlag unknown books
réf. 1406662Salem: higginson Book Company. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarrto Two volumes continuously paged: xx 1752 pages. In Fair condition. Spines are blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners soiling/stains over all. Text block has smudging to endpapers penciled underlining and marginal notation throughout. Illustrated: b&w photographs maps. Reprint of edition “Printed for the Board of Publication of the Schwenkfelder Church Pennsburg Pennsyllvania by Rand McNally & Company New York 1923”— title page. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Net Desk work area. 1406662. FP New Rockville Stock. higginson Book Company hardcover books
1962réf. 369061New York: LeRoi Jones / Diane Di Prima 1962. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. 12pp. Single sheets printed both sides and secured with a staple. Folded once for mailing with post office cancel stamp and mailing label with some toning and wear at the extremities and a couple tiny holes at the fold very good. An influential mimeograph published by Jones and di Prima featuring some of the most important poets of the 20th Century. Unlike other magazines this so-called "newsletter" was distributed via a mailing list many of which were noted poets journalists critics publishers and artists. For this reason most copies were hand addressed or affixed with a mailing label and stamp and folded for mailing. This copy is addressed to poet Cid Corman editor of the influential poet magazine Origin. This issue features contributions from Jones Charles Olson David Meltzer Mike Strong Joseph LeSueur George Brecht John King and Frank Buck. [LeRoi Jones / Diane Di Prima unknown books
1970réf. 168340New York: Heiner Friedrich 1970. Second Edition a trade softcover original with all inserts present. The faithful reprint of the seminal Fluxus manifesto originally published in 1963. INSCRIBED by editor Jackson MacLow on the front wrapper verso: "This copy for David and Ellie and Blaine / Jackson / 3/11/74." Good to Very Good in perfect bound red-and-black wrappers with loss at the bottom fore-edges and moderate fading on the spine and page edges. Fluxus Codex US. Heiner Friedrich unknown books
1927réf. 70584Berlin: Im Propylaen-Verlag 1927. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Photographic papercovered boards. A little rubbing and a slight bump at the foot of the spine still an about fine copy. Im Propylaen-Verlag hardcover books
1962réf. 40304New York: Living Theatre 1962. Very Good. New York: Living Theatre 1962. First Edition. Broadside flyer printed mimeograph on blue stock. Previous horizontal fold and light toning else Very Good and sound. Program to a Living Theatre group performance whose proceeds were used towards the publication of An Anthology "You may subscribe to an anthology in the lobby or by sending $2.98 To: La Monte Young.". Performances include Comb Music by George Brecht; Afro-American music by Henry Flynt with La Monte Young; and one of Yoko Ono's earliest American performances in both her piece The Chair #1 and her then-husband Toshi Ichiyanagi's piece Mudai #1. Living Theatre unknown books
1966réf. 41602New York: Abrams 1966. Very good. Inscribed first edition of this founding document of performance and environmental art - the first such work by a major publisher Abrams. A founding document of performance and environmental art and the first by a major publisher Kaprow's ASSEMBLAGE ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS was originally planned as an official Fluxus publication see CODEX p. 288 but eventually evolved into this broader book. Artists covered include Robert Rauschenberg Claes Oldenburg Red Grooms and George Segal with contributions from Wolf Vostell George Brecht Kaprow and others. The recipient is almost certainly photojournalist Paul Berg whose photos are included in this volume and fall roughly where Kaprow suggests they should though there is no such plate 164. Berg photographed and covered Kaprow's happening "Push and Pull" for the ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH in 1963. The uncommon hardcover issue of this important resource it is scarce signed especially with any kind of association. 12'' x 12''. Original brown burlap covered boards. Lacking original clear vinyl jacket. Black endpapers. 341 3 pages. Inscribed by Kaprow to early preliminary: "For Paul on / his birthday - / A nostalgic / time in which / you played a / part see pl. / 164 somewhere / deep inside! / - in friendship / Allan K." Sunning to lower edges spine faded. Else clean and sound throughout. Abrams unknown books
1930réf. 3243881930. Duplicated typescript printed rectos only. Prologue and 4 acts paginated individually. 6 20 17 9 12 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Metal brads. Toned some light inking of a few pages. Duplicated typescript printed rectos only. Prologue and 4 acts paginated individually. 6 20 17 9 12 pp. 1 vols. 4to. My station in life Is that of a clerk. But privately There are two things I love Surpassingly: Good wine And the women Of other men. Acting script of the Ethel van der Veer translation of a Chinese play Circle of Chalk which tells a tale of disputed inheritance discord and murder in the tenth century C.E. The play was first popularized in the west through a German translation by Klabund Alfred Henschke produced in Berlin in 1925 and also produced in London from a script by James Laver with Anna May Wong as the heroine. Independent of these productions Ethel van der Veer's translation was published in 1933. The Circle of Chalk must be counted as a key source for Bertholt Brecht's postwar drama Die Kaukasische Kreidekreis. The present text is uncredited but follows the van der Veer with the frequent addition of stage directions many of which now seem "Brechtian" in the way characters turn to face and often directly address the audience. unknown books
1928réf. 011176Vienna: Universal- Edition A. G. 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. Rebound copy lacking paper covers with 220 stamped in the middle of the right margin on page 31 thus indicating either one of 300 copies of the first printing or perhaps less likely one of 500 copies of the second printing. Rebound in 1/4 cloth over dark beige and black marbelized boards oversized to original leaf dimensions with separate sheets bound in between each leaf of text. 79 pp 1. Internally fine. Covers a wee soiled. Universal- Edition A. G. hardcover books
1960réf. 160202New York: The Living Theatre 1960. Vintage flyer for an experimental music show held at The Living Theatre on March 14 1960. Flyer advertises performances by John Cage George Brecht Alfred Hansen Allan Kaprow Richard Maxfield John Herbert McDowell and Robert Rauschenberg. Among the pieces performed were Kaprow's "Sound Piece 1958" Brecht's "Candle Piece for Radios" and "Card Piece for Voice" Rauschenberg's "Telephone Music" Maxfield's "Cough Music" and "Symphonie Pastorale" Cage's "Imaginary Landscape No. 5" and "Suite for Toy Piano" Hansen's "Bibbe's Tao" and McDowell's "Music for a While." Founded in 1947 The Living Theatre laid the foundation for a robust underground art scene in the New York City. After more than a decade of successful original radical stage productions and adaptations of works by playwrights such as Bertold Brecht and Gertrude Stein founders Judith Malina and Julian Beck used their space and resources for the nourishment of the arts more broadly offering the theatre for literary benefits film screenings and musical performances such as the ones advertised here. 8.5 x 12.75 inches. Near Fine. The Living Theatre unknown books
1933réf. 138407Germany: Kinematrade 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933 as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. The last and arguably most important communist film of the Weimar era "Kuhle Wampe oder" is according to screenwriter Brecht a "Collective Presentation" that tells the tale of a family in early 1930s Berlin. After the son is prolongedly unemployed he commits suicide and the family is forced to relocate to a shantytown known as "Kuhle Wampe" or "Empty Stomach." Created under severely limited material conditions with filming constantly being broken up by the Weimar government's paramilitary SA agency the film attempts to depict archetypes of the times including an intellectual clash on a subway between members of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Banned first by the failing Weimar Republic and subsequently by the Nazi Reich the film was believed to have been lost until it reappeared over 20 years later in East Germany in 1958. This poster likely originates from screenings held in November 1933 by an unknown pro-communist organization in Philadelphia at the short-lived left-leaning Philkino theater. A US screening of this film dating before the film's disappearance and only just after the very beginnings of Hitler's rise to power makes this poster not only very scarce but one of significant historical value. The poster touting "Kuhle Wampe" as "The Film Hitler Burned" features an image of a man with a hammer and sickle attacking two snakes that form the Nazi swastika and touts the involvement of members of the "Labor Sports Union" in the film. 9.5 x 13 inches letterpress on pale faded pink stock. Very Good with expected moderate wear. Kinematrade unknown books
1938réf. 576859New York: Hillman-Curl 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Desmond I. Vesey. Verse translation by Christopher Isherwood. Tiny stamped initials on half-title and copyright page else fine in handsome near fine dust jacket with a light toning on the spine. A novel later re-issued as Threepenny Novel loosely based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera filtered through Brecht's experiences among the criminal fringe elements of the Weimar Republic. A novelization by Brecht of his famous collaboration with Kurt Weill the 1928 musical drama The Three-Penny Opera the opera had not previously appeared in America. The play continues to be widely performed was filmed on many occasions and provided the popular hit song "Mack the Knife." A nick copy of an important title. Hillman-Curl hardcover books
1960réf. 384904New York: Reuben Gallery 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Single spirit-duplicated sheet. Quarto. Near fine with light wear along the foredge with a few tiny tears. A program for an early Happening performance held at the Reuben Gallery in New York by Allan Kaprow who coined the phrase to describe the emerging performance art that incorporated various forms of artistic expression such as text dialogue sounds colors music and audience participation. The pieces at this show featured: "Gossoon a chamber event movement" arranged by George Brecht with performances by James Waring John Baker and Jerry King; "E.G." by Robert Whitman starring Jim Dine Rosalyn Drexler Pat Oldenburg and Lucas Samaras; "Intermission Piece" by Kaprow; "Electronic Music" by Richard Maxfield who co-curated the Fluxus concerts at Yoko Ono's loft with LaMonte Young; and "Vaudeville Collage" written and performed by Dine. An important piece of ephemera from the then-emerging New York performance art scene of the early 1960s. OCLC locates no copies of this 1960 performance but one from 1959. Reuben Gallery unknown books
réf. 39919Executed on quality watercolor paper all but one with fabric swatches attached. Sheet size 380 x 275 mm. Depicting characters in the play including Mrs Shin Wang Mrs Yang God and Shen Te. Some minor browning. In very good condition overall. "The Good Woman of Setzuan drama a "parable in 10 scenes" by Bertolt Brecht produced in 1943 and published in 1953 as Der gute Mensch von Sezuan. The title has many English-language variants including The Good Person of Szechwan and The Good Soul of Szechuan. "The play is set in China between World War I and World War II. The title character Shen Te is a poor but warmhearted prostitute. Because she alone was willing to shelter three gods they have favoured her with a gift of money. She purchases a tobacco shop but finds that her kinsfolk and other customers take advantage of her kindness. To save her business Shen Te adopts an alter ego; dressing as a man and acting the role of her tough pragmatic cousin Shui Ta she is able to exact just payment. She is forced to assume this role so often that as Shui Ta she is accused of murdering Shen Te. In the climactic trial scene Shui Ta reveals that he and Shen Te are the same person. Bertolt Brecht . was a German poet playwright and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes." Britannica Online "Coming of age during the Weimar Republic Brecht had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924 where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann & Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre" and the Verfremdungseffekt. During the Nazi Germany period Brecht fled his home country first to Scandinavia and during World War II to the United States where he was surveilled by the FBI.3 After the war he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin after the war he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator actress Helene Weigel." Wikipedia Perdziola an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater opera and ballet has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera San Francisco Opera Santa Fe Opera Lyric Theatre of Chicago American Ballet Theater Shakespeare Theater in Washington Boston Ballet and Miami Ballet as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom the Finnish National Ballet the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards. unknown books
1931réf. 157959N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1931 film showing actress Lotte Lenya. With annotations in German in manuscript pencil identifying Lenya and photographer Tobin Warner on the verso along with an annotation noting the photograph as property of "Close Up" magazine. Based on the 1928 stage play "Die Dreigroschenoper" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. A biting socialist "play with music" based on Elisabeth Hauptmann's translation of John Gay's eighteenth-century ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera" and on four ballads by François Villon. Lenya would go on to receive a Tony Award for her performance in Marc Blitzstein's English version of the play in 1956. 9.25 x 12 inches. Very Good plus faintly age toned with light creasing on the top right corner. N.p. unknown books
