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1939rif. 380726New York: Contemporary Play Productions 1939. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 108pp. Gray wrappers printed in red. Slight age-toning just about fine. Six plays the best known being Bertolt Brecht's The Informer. Other contributors include Peter Bernt Jerome L. Schwartz H.S. Kraft Peter Nikl and Wiliam Kozlenko. Contemporary Play Productions unknown books
1938rif. 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
1976rif. 294706Boston: David R. Godine Publisher 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book club edition. Translated by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Introduction by A.R. Braunmuller. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. David R. Godine, Publisher hardcover books
1966rif. 617217New York: Grove Press Inc 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Translation by Eric Bentley. Parallel text in German and English. Small bump on front board near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning. Grove Press, Inc hardcover books
1944rif. 617148New York: New Directions 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Binding slightly cocked near fine in a very good dust jacket with small nicks and tears and toning. New Directions hardcover books
1939rif. 617082New York: Contemporary Play Productions 1939. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. Gray wrappers printed in red. Small chips and tears at the bottom margin of four leaves toning on the spine and edge of wraps very good. Six plays the best known being Bertolt Brecht's The Informer. Other contributors include Peter Bernt Jerome L. Schwartz H.S. Kraft Peter Nikl and Wiliam Kozlenko. Contemporary Play Productions unknown books
1954rif. 617072Boston: Chrysalis 1954. Softcover. Near Fine. Periodical. English version by Eric Bentley. Stapled wrappers. Staples slightly oxidized near fine. Publisher's letter with the order form detached not present laid in. A play in nine scenes. Chrysalis unknown books
1965rif. 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
rif. 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
2002rif. 300922Glover VT/St. Johnsbury: Bread & Puppet Theater/Troll Press 2002. Pamphlet. 24p. 8.5x11 inches essays photos drawings very good expanded corrected reprint booklet in stapled red pictorial wraps. Originally published as an 8p. booklet in 1983. Bread & Puppet Theater/Troll Press unknown books
1973rif. 528638Rushden Northamptonshire: Sceptre Press 1973. Unbound. Fine. First edition thus. Translated by Eric W. White. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Fine. Copy 141 of of 150 numbered copies. Sceptre Press unknown books
1963rif. 409404Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Volume five only. 303pp. Text in German. Boards slightly bowed with dampstain on on rear about very good dust jacket with corresponding stain tears on edges. Suhrkamp Verlag hardcover books
1944rif. 1402758New York: A New Directions Book published by James Laughlin 1944. Hardcover. Octavo 140 pages. In Good minus condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is tan with brown print. Dust jacket has illustrated front panel brown print; toning to spine peripheral toning long tears to hinges tears to spine portion of bottom edge torn away. Price clipped. Boards in black cloth; wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has slight stain to fore edge name in ink on front pastedown penciled underlining. Illustrated: one b&w plate portrait of author. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1402758. FP New Rockville Stock. A New Directions Book published by James Laughlin hardcover books
1961rif. 597290New Orleans: Tulane University 1961. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. 138pp. Printed wrappers. Spine and wraps lightly toned very good or better. Contributions by Bertold Brecht Kurt Weill Max Frisch Eric Bentley Werner Hecht James Schevill and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Tulane University unknown books
1970rif. 590922London: The Review 1970. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 80pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Featuring "Poets of East Germany Introduced by Michael Hamburger." Robert Lowell by John Bayley Peter Porter by Clive James Ted Hughes by John Fuller and more. Poetry by Bertolt Brecht Wolf Biermann Gunter Kunert and others. The Review unknown books
rif. 334235Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag no date. 24p. includes covers 3.75x7.25 inches texts in German essays book listings very good pamphlet in stapled pictorial wraps. Advertising catalogue for the complete works offered by Aufbau. Appreciation and critique by several Brecht scholars and authors. Aufbau-Verlag unknown books
1982rif. 106350NY:: Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1982. Hardcover. In the English version by Desmond Vesey. With the English lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Illustrations and an original lithograph the frontispiece by Jack Levine. This copy is out of series not numbered of a limited edition of 2000 copies. SIGNED by Jack Levine and Eric Bentley. Publisher's Monthly Letter laid in. Near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 155 pages . Limited Editions Club, hardcover books
1945rif. 17875New York: Aurora Verlag 1945. First edition. Softcover. g. 8vo. 111pp. Original wraps. 24 scenes by Brecht capturing the fear and suffering in Hitler's Third Reich. He wrote this powerful work while in exile in Denmark. It was produced on the American stage under the title "The Private Life of the Master Race." Some discoloration creasing and rubbing to wraps. Spine sunned. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Wraps starting to separate from bock block still holding. Text in German. Wraps in good interior in very good condition. Aurora Verlag unknown books
1905rif. 20320Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung 1905. Hardcover. g. 8vo. x. 218 1 pp.3/4 leather over marbled boards with spine rebacked in blue cloth. Repair in crude tape to inside of both boards alongside spine Work of Hebrew Poetry with Poems by Shelomo Ibn Givrol Baha ibn Pakudah Yehuda al-Harizi etc. With indeces and errata page at end. Poems in vowelized punctuated Hebrew with German commentary and notes on bottom of pageg preface table of contents indexes and errata page in German. Age wear to binding. Browning throughout. In Hebrew and German see above Overall good condition. J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung hardcover books
1947rif. 514070Urbana Illinois: Department of English of the University of Illinois 1947. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 64pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Foredge and wrappers with small stains 2" chipped tear at spine foot covers slightly tanned about very good. Contains the first appearance of "In the Element of Antagonisms" by Wallace Stevens Edelstein C176; additional contributions by Bertolt Brecht Byron Vazakas Howard Moss Nelson Del Bittner and more. Department of English of the University of Illinois) unknown books
1986rif. 597986Sudbury Suffolk England: Ambit Books 1986. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. Slim small quarto. 15pp. A fine copy. Signed by Logue on the half-title. Ambit Books unknown books
1966rif. 161735New York: Grove Press 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Book has a few small wrinkles at top and bottom of spine a hint of bumping at corners. Dustwrapper wrinkled at spine ends; minor yellowing to top edges of white dustwrapper. Dustwrapper front flap has fold running length of flap. Grove Press hardcover books
1969rif. 291006Paris: TNP 1969. Magazine. 40p. includes covers 8.25x10.5 inches texts in French illustrated with production stills and photos of Hitler Mussolini and Nazis from WWII performance dates etc. very good theatre magazine in stapled pictorial wraps with very expressive Adolph photo on cover. TNP was founded in Paris in 1920 by Firmin Gémier as a theatre for the masses. This issue focuses on the Brecht play which was being performed that year and invites comparisons to the Fascists of WWII. Also coverage of the music programs that season with an article on Pia Colombo performing Brecht-Weill tunes. One holding located in OCLC as of 8/2022. TNP unknown books
2006rif. 1388057Madrid: Cátedra 2006. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo 1805 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is white with brown and black print illustration. Dust jacket has slight edge wear toning to spine peripheral toning. Boards in black cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has brown ribbon marker. Text in Spanish. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Section. 1388057. FP New Rockville Stock. Cátedra hardcover books
rif. 10580B&w illus. Unpaginated. 12mo pictorial softcover. Amsterdam: Tuja Books 2005. Scarce catalogue of Brecht editions multiples etc.; edition of 1000 copies. Near fine. unknown books
