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1796rif. 052215London: Miller Bond-Street; Cawthorne Strand; Symonds Pater-Noster-Row; Crosby Stationer's Court; Martin And Bain Fleet-Street; And Vernor And Hood Birchin-Lane 1796. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 31 Pp. Sheets About 22 Cm Tall. Modern Brown Cloth Spine Gilt. Complete Clean Small Edge Chip To Title Page Which Also Has The Date "1796" Written At Bottom Matching The Printed Date Of The Introduction. Scarce; Worldcat Records 11 Institutional Holdings. Miller, Bond-Street; Cawthorne, Strand; Symonds, Pater-Noster-Row; Crosby, Stationer's Court; Martin And Bain, Fleet-Street; And hardcover
1930rif. 052543Washington Dc: Associated Publishers 1930. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated By "J. L. W. X 373 Pp. Brown Cloth Lettered And Illustrated In Black. First Printing 1930. Fine. No Wear Or Marks. Associated Publishers hardcover
1938rif. 049475New York City Ny: Contemporary Play Publications 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 133 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First Edition. Near Fine Gilt Bright. Dust Jacket Worn Small Chips And Tears. Inscribed By The Author To Social Artist William Gropper And His Wife. Emjo Basshe Born Emmanuel Iode Abarbanel Basshe Or Emanuel Joseph Jochelman 1898 -1939 Was A Lithuanian-Born Jewish American Playwright Of Spanish Descent A Recipient Of A 1931 Guggenheim Fellowship And One Of The Initial Members In 1935 Of The Communist Party-Founded League Of American Writers. He Immigrated To The United States In 1912 Graduating From Columbia University In 1919. He Began His Theatrical Career With The Provincetown Playhouse And In 1920 Went To Massachusetts Working With Boston's Peabody Playhouse Then Chelsea Arts Theatre And Cambridge's Castle Square Players All During 1920-22. Returning To Provincetown Playhouse He Remained Until The Premiere In 1925 Of His Play Adam Solitaire Directed By Stanley Howlett And Featuring 19-Year-Old John Huston. Basshe Then Moved To Pennsylvania Becoming Director Of The Stage Repertory Of Philadelphia Where His Three Short Plays The Bitter Fantasy The Star And Soil Were Presented. Again Returning To New York Basshe Co-Founded With Four Others The New Playwrights Theatre Initially Finding A Temporary Home At The 52Nd Street Theatre Where It Premiered On March 9 1927 His New Play Earth Directed By Russell Wright And Hemsley Winfield. On November 29 1927 Basshe's New Play Centuries Set Among Jewish Residents Of A New York City Tenement House Had Its Premiere. Directed By The Author The Production Had A Cast Of 27 Including Future Film Star Franchot Tone And Lasted For 39 Performances. Continuing As A Director Basshe Next Helmed The Playhouse's Production Of Upton Sinclair's Prison-Based Drama Singing Jailbirds Which Featured Future Character Star Lionel Stander As One Of The Prisoners. Premiering On December 6 1928 The Play Lasted 79 Performances. Provincetown Playhouse Dissolved In April 1929 And Basshe Pursued His Career As A Broadway Director At Other Venues Co-Supervising North Carolina Playwright Paul Green's Musical Drama Roll Sweet Chariot Set According To Its Description In "A Negro Village Somewhere In The South". The Production Premiered At The Cort Theatre On October 2 1934 And Lasted 7 Performances. Another Green Play Directed By Basshe Turpentine Opened June 26 1936 And Closed In August Following 62 Performances. On May 13 A Month Before The Premiere Of Turpentine Basshe's Anti-War Satire The Snickering Horses With A Cast Of 34 Was Staged At Daly's 63Rd Street Theatre As The Concluding Presentation Of Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project Experimental Theatre Three-Performance Cycle Of Three One-Act Plays With The Other Two Being George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores And Condensed Into One Act By Alfred Saxe Molière's The Miser. In January 1939 Basshe Staged A Production Of Three One-Act Plays: Paul Vincent Carroll's The Coggerers Later Renamed The Conspirators Jean Giraudoux's Mr. Banks Of Birmingham And Josephinna Niggli's The Red Velvet Goat Which Opened At The Hudson Theatre On January 20 1939 And Closed The Following Day. The Sf Encuclopedia Says That In General His Plays Can Be Understood As Agitprop And Seem To Have Been Particular Successful At The Heart Of The Great Depression Before The New Deal Began To Rescue America From The Effects Of Unmonitored Capitalism. Of Sf Interest Is Doomsday Circus: A Dramatic Chronicle 1938 Seemingly Unproduced During His Lifetime An Expressionist Hortatory Burlesque With Some Similarities To Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine In Which The Coming Near Future Ownership Of The World By A Single Multi-Tentacled Corporation Is Rendered As A Circus. Contemporary Play Publications hardcover
1938rif. 049474New York City Ny: Contemporary Play Publications 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 133 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First Edition. Near Fine Gilt Bright. Emphasis Marks In Blue Pencil Throughout Also Notes "Dubbed" Next To Many Characters' Descriptions Indicating Perhaps A Radio Performance. Inscribed By Basshe "To Mollie Hand In Hand We Go On". Dust Jacket Torn And Chipped Bottom Of Spine Laid In Loosely. Emjo Basshe Born Emmanuel Iode Abarbanel Basshe Or Emanuel Joseph Jochelman 1898 -1939 Was A Lithuanian-Born Jewish American Playwright Of Spanish Descent A Recipient Of A 1931 Guggenheim Fellowship And One Of The Initial Members In 1935 Of The Communist Party-Founded League Of American Writers. He Immigrated To The United States In 1912 Graduating From Columbia University In 1919. He Began His Theatrical Career With The Provincetown Playhouse And In 1920 Went To Massachusetts Working With Boston's Peabody Playhouse Then Chelsea Arts Theatre And Cambridge's Castle Square Players All During 1920-22. Returning To Provincetown Playhouse He Remained Until The Premiere In 1925 Of His Play Adam Solitaire Directed By Stanley Howlett And Featuring 19-Year-Old John Huston. Basshe Then Moved To Pennsylvania Becoming Director Of The Stage Repertory Of Philadelphia Where His Three Short Plays The Bitter Fantasy The Star And Soil Were Presented. Again Returning To New York Basshe Co-Founded With Four Others The New Playwrights Theatre Initially Finding A Temporary Home At The 52Nd Street Theatre Where It Premiered On March 9 1927 His New Play Earth Directed By Russell Wright And Hemsley Winfield. On November 29 1927 Basshe's New Play Centuries Set Among Jewish Residents Of A New York City Tenement House Had Its Premiere. Directed By The Author The Production Had A Cast Of 27 Including Future Film Star Franchot Tone And Lasted For 39 Performances. Continuing As A Director Basshe Next Helmed The Playhouse's Production Of Upton Sinclair's Prison-Based Drama Singing Jailbirds Which Featured Future Character Star Lionel Stander As One Of The Prisoners. Premiering On December 6 1928 The Play Lasted 79 Performances. Provincetown Playhouse Dissolved In April 1929 And Basshe Pursued His Career As A Broadway Director At Other Venues Co-Supervising North Carolina Playwright Paul Green's Musical Drama Roll Sweet Chariot Set According To Its Description In "A Negro Village Somewhere In The South". The Production Premiered At The Cort Theatre On October 2 1934 And Lasted 7 Performances. Another Green Play Directed By Basshe Turpentine Opened June 26 1936 And Closed In August Following 62 Performances. On May 13 A Month Before The Premiere Of Turpentine Basshe's Anti-War Satire The Snickering Horses With A Cast Of 34 Was Staged At Daly's 63Rd Street Theatre As The Concluding Presentation Of Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project Experimental Theatre Three-Performance Cycle Of Three One-Act Plays With The Other Two Being George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores And Condensed Into One Act By Alfred Saxe Molière's The Miser. In January 1939 Basshe Staged A Production Of Three One-Act Plays: Paul Vincent Carroll's The Coggerers Later Renamed The Conspirators Jean Giraudoux's Mr. Banks Of Birmingham And Josephinna Niggli's The Red Velvet Goat Which Opened At The Hudson Theatre On January 20 1939 And Closed The Following Day. The Sf Encuclopedia Says That In General His Plays Can Be Understood As Agitprop And Seem To Have Been Particular Successful At The Heart Of The Great Depression Before The New Deal Began To Rescue America From The Effects Of Unmonitored Capitalism. Of Sf Interest Is Doomsday Circus: A Dramatic Chronicle 1938 Seemingly Un-Produced During His Lifetime An Expressionist Hortatory Burlesque With Some Similarities To Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine In Which The Coming Near Future Ownership Of The World By A Single Multi-Tentacled Corporation Is Rendered As A Circus. Contemporary Play Publications hardcover
1929rif. 049478New York City Ny: Brentano's 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Xii I 122 Pp. Green Cloth Faux-Wood Boards. First Printing. Signed By Author Samson Raphaelson; By Dorothy Gish The Lead Actress For Its Opening In Boston And Signed "Compliments Of Sidney Ross- May 1 1929". Worn Front Hinge Cracked Spine Cloth Foxed And Damp Stained With Lettering Readable. Samson Raphaelson 1894 -1983 Was A Leading American Playwright Screenwriter And Fiction Writer. While Working As An Advertising Executive In New York He Wrote A Short Story Based On The Early Life Of Al Jolson Called The Day Of Atonement Which He Then Converted Into A Play The Jazz Singer. This Would Become The First Talking Picture With Jolson As Its Star. He Then Worked As A Screenwriter With Ernst Lubitsch On Sophisticated Comedies Like Trouble In Paradise The Shop Around The Corner And Heaven Can Wait And With Alfred Hitchcock On Suspicion. His Short Stories Appeared In The Saturday Evening Post And Other Leading Magazines And He Taught Creative Writing At The University Of Illinois. Raphaelson's Second Play Young Love Was Banned In Boston When Authorities Found It Too Racy. It Starred Dorothy Gish One Of The Leading Actresses Of The Day. Three Of His Subsequent Six Plays Produced On Broadway Were Chosen For Publication In The Annual Ten Best Plays Of The Season Compiled By Burns Mantle The Widely Read Critic Of The New York Daily News At The Time The Largest Circulation Daily In The U.S. They Were Accent On Youth 1934 Skylark 1939 And Jason 1941. Accent On Youth Was A Critical And Popular Success Both On Broadway And In London's West End Where The Young Greer Garson Played The Leading Role. Skylark Another Substantial Hit Starred Gertrude Lawrence. Jason Was Less Successful Commercially But Won High Praise From The New York Critics. One Called It "The Best Play Of The Season" And Added That It Contained "Some Of The Finest Writing To Grace A Stage In Several Years." Another Commenting On One Main Character Inspired By The Colorful Writer William Saroyan Wrote: "Many Authors Have Tried To Put Into Their Plays Characters That Possess The Picturesque Qualities Attributed To Saroyan But Mr. Raphaelson Is The First To Do The Thing Successfully." His First Wife Was Rayna Simon From Chicago Who Also Studied At The University Of Illinois. She Became A Legendary Figure Rayna Prohme Thanks To Vincent Sheean's Bestselling Book Personal History In The 1930S. She Played A Role In The Chinese Revolution And Died In Moscow In 1927. Raphaelson Was Married For 56 Years To Dorothy Wegman Known To Friends And Family As Dorshka. The Name Was Given To Her By Her Friend Marion Benda A Fellow Dancer In The Ziegfeld Follies In The Early 1920S. Dorshka Raphaelson Published Two Novels: Glorified An Account Of Her Life In The Follies And Morning Song A Highly Praised Story About Growing Up In New York's Washington Heights. Brentano's hardcover
1947rif. 049467Hong Kong: Wide World Press 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Xiv 13 Pp. Illustrated Wrappers In Similar Illustrated Dust Jacket. First Edition. Slight Wear But Faint Damp Staining Along Top Edges Of Book Pages And Dust Jacket. Inscribed By The Author In 1947 To American Social Artist William Gropper And His Wife Sophie "Two More Internationalists" And Dated 1 May 1947. Charles Fenn 1907-2004 Was Born In England And Emigrated To The U.S.A. As A Young Man Eventually Becoming A Naturalized U.S. Citizen At The Time Of His Marriage. He Began Working As A Freelance Photographer And In 1941 Was Assigned By A Magazine Called Friday To Cover The Long-Running War In China Which Had Been Invaded By Japan Several Years Previously. Friday Folded While Fenn Was In China; He Then Began Working For The Associated Press Filing Photographs From China And Subsequently Also From Burma As The War Widened In Scope. On His Return To The Us In 1943 Fenn Became An Officer In The U.S. Marine Corps And Was Immediately Assigned To The Office Of Strategic Services Oss. Back In China He Was Assigned To The Air Ground Aid Services Agas Where He Engaged In The Rescue Of Downed Pilots And Liaison With Prisoners Of War In Indo-China And Adjacent Areas Of China. His Primary Task However Was To Gather Intelligence Regarding Among Other Things The Political Orientation Of The Inhabitants Of What Was Then French Indo-China. Following The End Of The War His Marriage Had Ended So He Went To Hong Kong Where He Engaged In Several Different Business Ventures. After Two Years He Moved Back To London His Childhood Home Where He Attempted To Become A Successful Writer. After Marrying His Second Wife Fenn Left London Once Again During The Mid-1970S Moving To Schull West Cork In The Republic Of Ireland Where He Spent The Rest Of His Life. He Wrote A Memoir Of His Oss Years. All Of Which Shows The Old Truth That Independent Writers Make Good Espionage Agents At Least Before The Current Crop Who Are Unable To Write Much Besides "I Am A Good Boy" Or I Am A Good Girl" And Childish Fantasy Like The Vietnam Intelligence Reports The Libyan Intelligence Reports The Iraqi Nuclear Intelligence Reports The Afghani Invasion Intelligence Reports The Steele Dossier And Unending Crap Besides. Oh Let's Add The Pre-1989 Reports About The Mighty Russian State. Wide World Press hardcover
1937rif. 049533New York City Ny: Dance International 1937. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 96 Unnumbered Pages Fine Illustrations Throughout 30.5 Cm. Spiral Bound Metal. Fully Illustrated Catalog Of An Exhibition And Program For A Series Of Performances And The Related At Exhibit At Rockefeller Center Sponsored By Dance International In New York Nov. 29 1937 To January 2 1938 To Celebrate The First Years Of 20Th Century Dance. It Discusses Important Figures Including Martha Graham Ruth St. Denis Yeichi Nimura Anita Zahn The Mordkin Ballet Charles Weidman And Many Others. Dance In Art Is Also Recognized With Examples Of Work By Designers Such As Bakst Benois Beaton Haupt And Others. The Lists Of Sponsors And Other Supporters And Contributors Is Almost A Who's-Who Of The Elite Of 1930'S Dance From Astaire And Bill Robinson To George Balanchine And Michel Fokine To Martha Graham Hanya Holm Ruth St. Denis Etc. Dance International paperback
1968rif. 2519New York: Atheneum 1968. First Edition First Printing. Edward Albee's adaptation of a play by English playwright Giles Cooper in which a suburban housewife becomes a call girl. Cooper's play premiered at the Arts Theatre in London in 1962 in a production of the Royal Shakespeare Company while Albee's adaptation was first performed in 1967 at the Plymouth Theatre in New York. It starred Barbara Bel Geddes as Jenny Barry Nelson as her husband Richard and Beatrice Straight as Mrs. Toothe the brothel keeper. And for what it's worth Luis Buñuel's film Belle de Jour starring Catherine Deneuve appeared the same year and had the same theme. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 140 mm 201 3 pages in black cloth yellow top stain titles in gilt to spine in a printed unclipped dust jacket Albee photo on lower panel. CONDITION: Very light soiling to top edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket that shows light shelf wear. A beautiful copy. Atheneum hardcover
1928rif. 050277New York City Ny: Samuel French 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. 144 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Red. First Printing. Very Good Light Usage. Inscribed By Producer A. H. Woods "To My Favorite Agent" Laura Wilk. Wilk Was A Very Well-Connected Broadway Agent At The Time. Albert Herman Woods Born Aladore Herman; 1870 -1951 Was A Hungarian-Born Theatrical Producer Who Spent Much Of His Life In The Usa. He Produced Over 140 Plays On Broadway Including Some Of The Most Successful Shows Of The Period Sometimes Under The Name Of The Production Company 'Al Woods Ltd. Woods Was Born In Budapest Hungary To A Jewish Family But His Family Brought Him To The United States As An Infant. He Grew Up On The Lower East Side Of Manhattan. As A Child He Would Skip School To Go To Theatrical Shows Where He Developed The Goal Of Becoming A Producer Himself. Woods Formed An Early Partnership With Sam H. Harris And Paddy Sullivan Running Tour Companies Of Popular Melodramas Starting With The Bowery After Dark. His First Broadway Production Was The Evil That Men Do In 1903. His Work On Broadway Escalated After The Popularity Of The Touring Melodramas Declined. Woods Had A Stable Of Favorite Playwrights Most Notably Owen Davis Who He Worked With For Several Years On Melodramas Such As Nellie The Beautiful Cloak Model. When Woods Turned To Producing Regular Broadway Shows He Focused On Bedroom Farces Starting With The Girl From Rector's In 1909. During A Trip To Europe In 1911 He Bought The Us Rights To The World's First Full-Color Feature Film The Miracle Which Eventually Premiered In New York 1913. Also In 1911 He Starting Building The Eltinge Theatre On 42Nd Street Named For One Of His Most Successful And Profitable Stars The Female Impersonator Julian Eltinge. By May 1911 A Run Of The Fascinating Widow Starring Eltinge At The Boston Theatre Was Expected To Have Receipts Of $500000 By The Time It Finished. From C1912 He Took Over The Leases Of A Large Number Of Berlin Theatres Including What Became The Ufa-Palast Am Zoo To Put On 'Kino-Vaudeville' Shows A Mix Of Variety Acts Imported From The Us Interspersed With Silent Films. He Was Also Involved With The American Millionaire Joe Goldsoll In The Building Of The German Capital's First Free-Standing Purpose-Built Cinema The Ufa-Pavillon Am Nollendorfplatz. When He Became Successful Woods Continued To Emphasize His Humble Roots And Was Known For His Folksy Manner With Everyone. He Greeted Patrons At The Eltinge As "Sweetheart". Upon Being Introduced To King George V Woods Addressed The Monarch Who Was Older Than Him As "Kid" And Took The Opportunity To Promote One Of His Productions Declaring It To Be "A Regular Show". Woods Was At His Peak In The 1920S Producing Such Hits As Ladies' Night 1920 The Demi-Virgin 1921 The Green Hat 1925 The Shanghai Gesture 1926 Filmed In 1941 And The Trial Of Mary Dugan 1927. However He Lost Most Of His Fortune In The Early 1930S And Never Fully Recovered. In The 1930S His Only Major Hits Were Five Star Final 1930 And Night Of January 16Th 1935. When Woods Staged The Sheldon Davis Comedy Try And Get It In August 1943 Critics Expressed Hope That It Would Revive His Flagging Career But It Closed In Less Than A Week. It Was His Final Production. Although Woods Continued To Read Scripts And Attempt To Generate Interest He Was Unable To Stage Any Productions After 1943. He Died On April 24 1951 In His Residence At The Hotel Beacon In New York. The Once Wealthy Former Producer Ended His Life Bankrupt. After A Memorial Service Attended By Many Prominent Theater Personalities His Remains Were Cremated. Woods Produced A Number Of Bedroom Farces Which Critics And Local Authorities Often Saw As Pushing The Boundaries Of Propriety. In Several Instances Woods Encountered Legal Troubles As A Result. Samuel French hardcover
1903rif. 050252Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd. 1903. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 7 1/4" Tall. 244 Pp 4Pp Catalogue Of "Works By The Same Author" Without The 16 Pp Publisher's Catalogue Also Found In Some Copies Of The First Printing. Original Green Cloth Gilt Top Edge Gilt. Worn Browned Title Clear But Author's First Name And Publisher's Name Are Partly Worn Away; Two Tiny Frays At Top Edge Of Spine. Bookplate Of Ambassador To Argentina And Author Frederick J. Stimson 1855-1943 "Tenan Propositi" With His Signature Dated August 1903. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd. hardcover
1916rif. 050487The Century Company 1916. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Viii 838 Pp. Brown Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Cover Stamped In Blind. First Printing With 1916 Date On Title Page. Near Fine Gilt Brilliant. Dust Jacket With $2.50 Price Stamped Out And New $2.75 Price Stamped On By Publisher Dust Jacket With Light Wear Minor Losses At Corners Slight Browning And Foxing. The Century Company hardcover
1935rif. 050551New York City: E. P. Dutton 1935. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Xv 110 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First American Printing 1935 In The Dutton Dust Jacket With This Title Fifth From End In List On Rear Flap. Book Fine Gift Inscription Dated 1937. Dust Jacket With Light Wear 1" Tear At Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge. Complete Sets Of The New Temple Shakespeare In Jacket Are Available But Not In First Printings. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1966rif. 050579Cleveland And New York: The World Publishing Company 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Photographs; With Ticket Stub From The Karamu Theatre. Vii 216 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Black And Gilt. First Printing Stated 1966. Book Near Fine Gilt Brilliant Immaculate But Some Very Faint Water Marks In Center Of Fore Edge Of Text Block. Dust Jacket Price Clipped Light Wear Damp Spotting To Spine Panel. No Marks But From The Library Of Russell Jelliffe And Rowena Woodham-Jelliffe 1892- 1992. With A Ticket Stub From The Karamu Theatre Circa 1930/ Priced $1.20. Rowena Woodham-Jelliffe Became A Pioneer In The Field Of Interracial Theater As An Outgrowth Of Her Career As A Social Worker And Co-Founder Of Karamu House. Born And Raised In New Albion Ill. She Came To Ohio In 1910 To Enter Oberlin College Where She Served As President Of The Oberlin Women's Suffrage League And Met Her Future Husband Russell W. Jelliffe. After A Year Spent Jointly As Graduate Students At The University Of Chicago Rowena And Russell Were Married And Came To Cleveland To Establish The East Side Settlement House That Eventually Became Karamu. To Help Draw Their Largely African American Constituency Into The Settlement's Program Mrs. Jelliffe Began Producing Children's Plays With Interracial Casting. An Adult Dramatic Group The Gilpin Players Was Organized In The Couple's Living Room In 1920. A Permanent Theater Was Opened In 1927 After 2 Summers' Study By Mrs. Jelliffe At The School Of Theater And Dance In New York. Besides Directing 100 Plays At Karamu From 1920-46 She Sometimes Wrote Plays For The Children And Once Completed A Play By Langston Hughes When The Final Act Failed To Arrive In Time. Mrs. Jelliffe Was Also A Campaigner For Civil Rights Helping To Integrate The Wade Park Manor Dining Room In 1926 And Marching With Martin Luther King Jr. In The 1960S. Her Papers Are At Case Western University. The World Publishing Company hardcover
1934rif. 050645San Franbcisco: Bohemian Club 1934. Hardcover. Good. 46 Pp. Green Card Covers. Second Edition For The Revival Of The Play At The Bohemian Grove In 1934. Inscribed By "Good Luck To My Friend Bill Todt Wallace A. Sabin" And Additionally Signed By 22 Cast Members Opposite The Players' List. Damp Staining To Covers And Bottom Edges Of Pp 21 To End. The Original Play Is Quite Scarce This 1934 Revival Edition Even More So It Is Not Known To Wikipedia Or The Sources Upon Which It Is Based. H. Morse Stephens 1857 -1919 Was An Historian And Professor Of History At The University Of California Berkeley Who Helped To Purchase The Bancroft Library And Who Worked To Build Archives Of California History The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake And World War I. He Was Educated At Haileybury College And Attended Balliol College Oxford University Where He Was Granted A B.A. In 1880 And An M.A. In 1892. He Was A Staff Lecturer On The Oxford University Extension System From 1892-1894 And Lecturer On Indian History At Cambridge Writing Also For The Academy The Daily Chronicle The Speaker And 'Acting As London Correspondent For The Statesman And The Calcutta Friend Of India. Stephens Immigrated To The United States In 1894 And Took The Position Of Professor At Cornell University In The Department Of History Where He Taught European History. In 1902 Stephens Went To The University Of California As Professor Of History And Director Of University Extension A Position He Held From 1902-1909. He Served As Dean Of The University Of California College Of Arts And Sciences From The Fall Of 1918 Until His Death. During His Time At Berkeley He Worked To Build The Bancroft Library's Collection Of Historical Materials With Special Success In The Area Of Spanish And Mexican History Now Known As The Bolton Collection. Stephens Was Involved With The Bohemian Club And Wrote The Script For St. Patrick At Tara The Main Grove Play Performed In 1909 At The Bohemian Grove. The Play Depicted Saint Patrick And His Interaction With Druids Chieftains And Kings Of Ireland. Stephens Was An Active Member Of The American Historical Association Serving As Its President In 1915. His Most Notable Contribution In The Aha However Was As A Member Of The Committee Of Seven Which In 1899 Produced The Report The Study Of History In Schools For The Aha And Which Influenced The Teaching Of History In American Schools For The Next 40 Years. Wallace Arthur Sabin 1869 -1937 Was A Composer And Organist Born In Culworth Northamptonshire England. In 1894 Or '95 Sabin Moved To San Francisco To Serve As Organist For The Congregations Of Temple Emanu-El And St. Luke's Episcopal Church. He Became A Fellow Of The American Guild Of Organists Ago In 1899. He Was President Of The San Francisco Chapter Of Ago From 1911 To 1913 Then Again From 1923 To 1926. In 1915 Sabin Was The Official Organist Of The Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In One Concert He Directed The 400-Voice Exposition Chorus While Playing Organ Accompaniment As Camille Saint-Saëns Conducted The 80-Member Orchestra. Sabin Set Various Parts Of The Jewish Service To Music And Is Published In Stark's Service Book. In 1920 With Edwin H. Lemare And Uda Waldrop He Helped Inaugurate The Bohemian Club's Outdoor Organ Austin Opus 913 Set Into The Main Stage At The Bohemian Grove. Bohemian Club hardcover
1922rif. 047776London Uk: Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 87 Pp. Light Grey Boards With Spine And Front Cover Paper Labels Lettered In Brown. First Printing. Quite Scarce; Fraying At Ends Of Spine Boards Beginning To Split Along Spine Gutters. Paternal Inscription Dated 1931 With Recipient's Elaborate Pasadena Blindstamp On Verso And Recto Respectively Of The Front Free Endpaper. Quite Scarce. In The Illustrated Dust Jacket Which Is Worn And Torn Darkened And Slightly Soiled From Handling Small Losses At Corners No Loss Of Lettering Or Design. Torahiko Kori 1890-1924 Left Tokyo University Without Graduating To Join The Editorial Staff Of Shirakaba A Literary Magazine In 1909. Early In His Short Literary Career Kori Torahiko Became An Enfant Terrible Of The Shirakaba School A Group Of Writers And Artists Whose Works Reflected The Liberal Democratic And Humanistic Spirit Of The Taisho Era 1912-1926. At The Age Of Twenty Kori Began Editing And Publishing With Yanagi Muneyoshi Soetsu Founder Of The Mingei Movement And Around 1923 Became A Frequent Contributor To The Major Literary Magazines Of The Day. In 1909 Kori Torahiko Won First Prize In The Contest Held By Taiyo Sun Magazine With His Play Titled "The Matsuyama Family" Which Brought Him Into Prominence As A Promising Dramatist. His Fame Was Established When The Imperial Theatre Staged His Play Dojoji 1912. The Following Year He Left For Europe. At London Kori Met Esther Sainsbury The Poetess And They Remained Friends Till His Death. He Wrote Plays In London; His First Drama To Be Staged There Was "Kanawa" Iron Ring 1917. Another Of His Plays "Toils Of Yoshitomo" Ran For Three Weeks At The Little Theatre London. Other Plays Similarly Staged Were "Saul And David" And "Absalom." "The Toils Of Yoshitomo" Was Translated Into Several European Languages Including German French And Italian. He Was One Of The Few Japanese Writers Who Worked Abroad. Despite His Close Association With The Shirakaba School Kori In His Taste For Romantic And Decadent Literature Was At Odds With The Prevailing Shirakaba Partiality For Realist Literature Particularly That Of Tolstoy. In His Mature Prose Style Kori Also Turned Away From The Shirakaba Writers' Tendency To Sinewy Colloquialism And Airy Realism In Favour Of A More Flowery Convoluted Prose Style À La D'Annunzio Or Walter Pater. An Unattributed Evaluation States " In Japan One Lone Voice Persisted In Hailing The Greatness Of Kori Long After His Early Death. Mishima Yukio Saw In Kori'S Plays The Essence Of Tragedy. Mishima Rated Kori As The Natural Successor To Such Classic Japanese Tragedians As Zeami Chikamatsu And Mori Ogai. Mishima'S Modern Noh Plays Was Written In Implicit Homage To Kori And Stands Today As A Continuation Of Many Of The Themes That Kori Reworked So Successfully In His Dramas. Shiga Naoya Concluded His Reminiscence Of Kori With His Regret That He Had Let Kori Go To England. "Kori Should Have Stayed And Worked In Japan. If He Had He Might Not Have Died So Young.' Kori'S Early Death Was Undeniably Tragic But Given His Long History Of Sickness And The Fact That He Received The Best Medical Treatment Available At The Time His Premature Death Would Have Been Unavoidable Whether He Had Been In Japan Or Europe. Had Kori Never Left Japan He Might Now Be Known As A Renowned Writer Of The Shirakaba School But Because He Left For Europe And Britain We Have The Toils Of Yoshimoto Arguably The Greatest Dramatic Achievement By A Japanese Playwright ". Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press hardcover
1993rif. 016759England: Art Books International 1993. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Also now in a thin mylar cover with chips at the spine tips. Completely clean inside and out. Edited by Cathy Courtney. This is the first edition published in 1993. Illustrated mostly in black & white some color with drawings of Jocelyn Herbert's set and costume designs for most of her well known collaborations with playwrights like Samuel Beckett John Arden Arnold Wesker John Osborne and David Storey. Also vintage photographs showing her directors like George Devine Tony Richardson Lindsay Anderson and John Dexter. This book covers Herbert's work at the Royal Court with the English Stage Company and the Royal National Theatre as well as many smaller theaters. Contributions by directors actors and other colleagues from Peggy Ashcroft to Billie Whitelaw. 11" high X 10" wide 240 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Art Books International Hardcover
1994rif. 048100New York: Academy Editions Ltd / St. Martin's Press 1994. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 127 Pp. First American Printing 1994 Second Revised Edition. Fine. Fading In Thin Strip Along Top Edge Of Front Cover. Academy Editions Ltd / St. Martin's Press paperback
1969rif. 048152New York City Ny: Grove Press 1969. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 158 Pp. Blue Cloth Lettered In Silver. First Printing Stated. Very Near Fine In Very Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $4.95. Per Wikipedia Witold Marian Gombrowicz 1904 - 1969 Was A Polish Writer And Playwright. His Works Are Characterised By Deep Psychological Analysis A Certain Sense Of Paradox And Absurd Anti-Nationalist Flavor. In 1937 He Published His First Novel Ferdydurke Which Presented Many Of His Usual Themes: Problems Of Immaturity And Youth Creation Of Identity In Interactions With Others And An Ironic Critical Examination Of Class Roles In Polish Society And Culture. He Gained Fame Only During The Last Years Of His Life But Is Now Considered One Of The Foremost Figures Of Polish Literature. His Diaries Were Published In 1969 And Are According To The Paris Review "Widely Considered His Masterpiece" While Cosmos Is Considered According To The New Yorker "His Most Accomplished Novel". He Was Nominated For The Nobel Prize In Literature Four Times From 1966 To 1969. Grove Press hardcover
1930rif. 303873Oxford: Oxford at The University Press 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 2 VOLUMES. N.B. Some pencil underlining and annotation to Volume I. Previous owners stamp and pencil inscription to inside covers of both volumes. Spotting to page edges and end papers. Some darkening to D/Js on both volumes with some chipping and rubbing. Volume II has a sellotape repair to head and tail of D/J spine. Oxford at The University Press hardcover
rif. 36271LONDON METHUEN 1990. VERY GOOD COPY IN A VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. LONDON, METHUEN, 1990 unknown
rif. 36322LONDON JOHN STOCKDALE 1811. 4 VOLUMES . GOOD. LEATHER SPINE CARD BOARDS WEAR TO THE BOARDS PARTICULARLY THE CORNERS AND SOME LOSS. LONDON, JOHN STOCKDALE, 1811 hardcover
1963rif. 047083New York: World Publishig 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 115 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Gilt And In Red. First Edition Stated. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $3.50 With 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel. Inscribed To Actress Elizabeth Talbot-Martin "To Liz- Who Brought Command And Talent And Great Heart To The First Performance Of These Pieces- With Gratitude And Affection Norman / Desilu Theatre July 1964". World Publishig hardcover
1961rif. 2348London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1961. First Edition First Printing. 12mo 7 3/8 x 5 inches; 188 x 125 mm 134 pages in original black cloth titles in gilt to spine in a photo illustrated unclipped dust jacket hard cover. INSCRIBED by Harold Pinter on the title page to Jacques Brunius: "To Jaques Brunius from Harold." Yes Pinter misspelled Jacques. Brunius 1906-1967 was a French actor and director. He also translated some of Pinter's plays into French including one of the plays in this book A Night Out. Thus a nice literary association. The book contains A Slight Ache A Night Out The Dwarfs as well as five revue sketches: Trouble in the Works The Black and White Request Stop Last to Go and Applicant. The title play here A Slight Ache is a dark comedy about an English couple Flora and Edward who interrogate a poor and silent match seller who stands outside their gate every day. The play was first performed on the BBC's Third Programme on July 29 1959 and starred Maurice Denham and Vivien Merchant Pinter's wife. The stage version opened on January 18 1961 at the Arts Theatre in London and starred Emlyn Williams Alison Leggat and Richard Briers. We find no other signed presentation copies of this book in the market. It's especially noteworthy because of Pinter's collaboration with the recipient Jacques Brunius. CONDITION: Light toning to page edges but otherwise clean and unmarked. Near Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that has rubbing to panels toning to upper edges of the flaps and to verso of the jacket and a few small nicks to the extremities. Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover
1919rif. 293Boston: Little Brown and Company 1919. First Edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 211 x 144 mm vii 298 pages in black cloth titles in gilt to spine in the scarce unclipped dust jacket. A collection of articles about the theatre by Edward Gordon Craig 1872-1966 a stage designer and theatrical producer and director. Although he directed only a handful of plays "his controversial theories of scene design and stagecraft gave him eminence in the European and American theater" The New York Times July 30 1966 page 25. For instance he favored three-dimensional stage effects and more innovative lighting than the traditional footlights. Copies of this book in the original dust jacket are scarce to the market. CONDITION: Rubbing to cloth fading to spine titles top edge dusty bottom edge a bit soiled. Internally a couple of stray ink marks but otherwise clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some soiling nicks and chips with slight fading to text. Overall a Very Good or better copy. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1917rif. 047570New York / London: John Lane Company 1917. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 104 Pp. Red Cloth. Gilt First Printing With 1917 Date On Title Page. Lightly Used Cover Gilt Brilliant But Fading To Spine Cloth And Gilt Although Lettring Clear. No Marks. A Hundred Years After This Was Written It Is A Curiosity Of Social Landscape. This Hardcobver First Issue Is Scarce. John Lane Company hardcover
