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1985réf. 2079Living Theatre. A Tribute to Julian Beck. New York: Publisher Not Stated 1985. First Edition First Printing. Single sheet folded to create 4 pages measuring 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches 212 x 140 mm when folded. Printed on heavy paper stock with ragged edges to the cover and second page. Program for a memorial tribute to Julian Beck cofounder of the Living Theatre one of America's premier experimental theatre groups. The event took place on November 25 1985 at the Joyce Theater in New York. It featured film segments photographic slides and tributes by numerous artists and writers including John Cage Jackson Mac Low Larry Rivers John Ashbery Amiri Baraka Kenneth Koch and Abbie Hoffman. Beck's wife Judith Malina also spoke; she cofounded the Living Theatre with Beck in 1947. Beck 1925-1985 won numerous awards for his theatre work. Late in life he acted in films including Francis Ford Coppola's "Cotton Club" and left behind a body of nonfiction and poetry. His 1972 book "The Life of the Theater" featured essays on theatre and politics. See The New York Times obituary of September 17 1985 section B page 6. OCLC shows no institutional holdings of this program although a separate search locates one at New York University. Yale holds an invitation to the event. A scarce piece of Living Theatre ephemera honoring cofounder Julian Beck. Wonderful cover depicting Orphée drawn for the Living Theatre by Jean Cocteau. SCARCE. CONDITION: Slight soiling to final page. Near Fine. Publisher Not Stated books
1951réf. 2157New York: The Living Theatre 1951. First Edition. Small Quarto 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 160 mm 16 pages in stapled printed wrappers. Program for Kenneth Rexroth's four short plays in verse on classical Greek themes. "Beyond the Mountains" opened at the Living Theatre on December 30 1951 with Living Theatre co-director Judith Malina playing several roles. Julian Beck directed with music by Richard Stryker sets and costumes by Garrick Maxwell choreography by Tei Ko and lighting designed by Marjorie Spitz. This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes an essay on "The Poetic Theatre" by Harold Norse a poem "The Last Supper" by Oscar Williams an article on "Vanguard and Theatre" by Paul Goodman who wrote "Faustina" which was performed at the Living Theatre following "Beyond the Mountains." There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes as well as an advert for drawings by Kenneth Rexroth each priced at $35. A list of Living Theatre sponsors includes John Cage Merce Cunningham Anaïs Nin Betty Parsons William Carlos Williams and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds. SCARCE. CONDITION: Edge wear and a couple of tiny nicks to wrappers light toning to pages. Near Fine. The Living Theatre books
1935réf. 2155San Mateo California: Drama Teachers Association of California 1935. First Edition. Small Quarto 9 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 234 x 157 mm 50 pages in illustrated stapled wrappers. Helpful hints for putting on amateur plays especially at schools. Chapters deal with such areas as costumes make-up set design playwriting acting directing dance lighting etc. Striking woodblock illustrations by Samuel W. Beeman. OCLC shows eight institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Skidmore California State Humboldt State Los Angeles Public Library Library of Congress Northwestern University of Washington and Waseda University. SCARCE. CONDITION: Faint creasing to upper wrapper and preliminaries from a previously removed paper clip mild creasing to lower wrapper and a few pages. Printed on high-quality paper. Very Good or better. Drama Teachers Association of California paperback books
1936réf. 1978Denby Edwin and Orson Welles. Horse Eats Hat. New York: The Federal Theatre Project/Works Progress Administration 1936. No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create a four-panel program measuring 9 x 6 inches 230 x 150 mm when folded. Printed in blue ink on white paper stock. A scarce program guide for the play "Horse Eats Hat" written by Edwin Denby and Orson Welles with music by Paul Bowles. Welles directed and appeared in the play which featured Joseph Cotten Arlene Francis and many others. In the play adapted from a French farce a horse eats a hat "and the owner of the horse must get the owner of the hat another hat because she can't go home to her husband without it." The New York Times September 28 1936 page 14. "Horse Eats Hat" was performed at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York as part of the Federal Theatre Project during the Depression. Managing Producer: the great John Houseman. At the opening the Times informs us "Half the audience was pretty indignant and the other half quite amused.It can be fought about at a top price of 55 cents." OCLC shows a poster of this play held by the Library of Congress but no institutional holdings of the program guide. SCARCE. CONDITION: Vertical crease some soiling and edge wear. A Very Good copy. The Federal Theatre Project/Works Progress Administration books
1939réf. 2040Moskvin I. The Soviet Theater. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1939. First Edition First Printing. 24mo 5 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 143 x 110 mm 30 2 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. A pamphlet on the Soviet theatre by the acclaimed actor Ivan Moskvin 1874-1946. It was issued in 1939 for distribution at the New York World's Fair and features black-and-white photos of several theatre productions. As might be expected Moskvin highlights the growth of theatre in the Soviet Union and defends Socialist realism. CONDITION: Some toning to wrappers a bit of creasing to a few pages and rusting of staples. Overall a Very Good copy. Foreign Languages Publishing House books
1930réf. 2043Ballets Russes Georges-Michel Michel; Waldemar George; and Nathalie Gontcharova. Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew par Michel Georges-Michel Waldemar George / Le Costume Théatral par Nathalie Gontcharova. Paris: Pierre Vorms 1930. First Edition First Printing. Small Quarto 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 270 x 185 mm 31 1 pages in printed wrappers. A sumptuously illustrated tribute to Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes issued in 1930 one year after his death. Diaghilev rendered here as Diaghilew created one of the world's most innovative ballet and opera companies and hired some of the greatest artists of the 20th century to design sets and costumes. Artists represented here include Picasso Laurencin Braque Derain de Chirico Rouault Bakst and others. The book features 19 plates depicting sets and costumes with four of the plates in color. There is also a photo of Diaghilev taken several days before his death at the young age of 57. Michel Georges-Michel and Waldemar George have written introductions while Nathalie Gontcharova has written about costumes; the book is illustrated with several of her designs for sets and costumes. There is also a complete list of the troupe's productions and a list of all the artists who designed sets and costumes. All text is in French. This book should not be confused with a 1955 revised edition. An altogether wonderful tribute to the Ballets Russes. CONDITION: Light edge wear toning to the wrappers especially the lower wrapper. Internally clean bright and unmarked. A beautiful Near Fine copy. Pierre Vorms paperback books
2007réf. 1460New York: Grove Press 2007. First Edition Thus. 8vo 8 1/2 inches / 217 mm 10 xvi 348 pages. Hardbound in purple cloth gold lettering to front and to spine. Fine in a purple slipcase that's slightly rubbed. Overall a Fine copy. SIGNED by Tom Stoppard. One of 250 copies of the limited edition; this is copy #97. The Coast of Utopia consists of three plays: Voyage Shipwreck and Salvage. Each appears here in this single volume. The plays originally were published in 2002 with a three-volume set appearing in 2003. Stoppard subsequently revised the texts and added an introduction for this edition. Issued in a slipcase and without a dust jacket. Baker and Wachs A29.b. SCARCE SIGNED. Grove Press hardcover books
1939réf. 1481New York: Theatre Arts Committee 1939. First Edition. Quarto 11 3/4 inches x 8 3/4 inches; 292 x 220 mm 31 1 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers soft cover. Scarce monthly magazine of the Theatre Arts Committee a left-wing theatre group that was active in supporting victims of the Spanish Civil War. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photos. The cover story by Leon Turrou discusses the film "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." Turrou was a former G-man who served as technical adviser on the film. Vera Caspary delves into the Zurich theatre world; Michael Blankfort writes about his profession screenwriting; Kenneth White describes a new puppet film for the World's Fair; Robert Stebbins reviews movies; Eleanor Flexner reviews theatre; and Aaron Copland contributes a short article on music. Scarce in commerce. CONDITION: Soling to covers internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy. Theatre Arts Committee paperback books
1971réf. 1262London: The Aldwych Theatre 1971. First Edition. Octavo 9 x 5 1/4 inches / 230 x 132 mm 20 pages in the stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Harold Pinter at his biography page "To Milton from Harold" and SIGNED by the stars Vivien Merchant Dorothy Tutin and Colin Blakely and director Peter Hall at their biographies. The program for the first production of Old Times staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre beginning June 1 1971. This was Pinter's first full-length play since The Homecoming and the fifth of his plays to be given its stage premiere by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Although book editions of this play are readily available we find no copies of the program for the London stage production in commerce as of January 2021. Copies such as this signed by the three actors the director and Pinter himself would be even more elusive. RARE SIGNED. CONDITION: Covers lightly rubbed and soiled corners a little creased contents lightly toned. A Very Good copy. The Aldwych Theatre books
1914réf. 1240Boston: The Gorham Press 1914. First Edition First Printing. Small 8vo 7 1/2 inches / 19 cm 168 pages. Printed paper labels to spine and front board. Eugene O'Neill's first book one of 1000 copies printed and featuring five plays: Thirst The Web Warnings Fog and Recklessness. O'Neill's father financed the $450 printing costs. The books didn't sell well so the publisher Richard G. Badger sold the remaining volumes to Frances Steloff who became the owner of the Gotham Book Mart in New York. Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. CONDITION: Spine darkened some light wear to spine edges soiling to top edge and fore edge. A Very Good or better copy lacking the rare dust jacket. The Gorham Press hardcover books
1992réf. 845No place listed: C.P. Stephens 1992. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED by Arthur Miller on the limitation page one of only 150 copies. There was also a trade edition. A bigamist has an accident and his two wives show up at his hospital bedside. Small 8vo. 14 142 7 pages. Near Fine with front board turned slightly outward. No dust jacket was issued. SCARCE. The Ride Down Mt. Morgan received its world premiere at Wyndham's Theatre London in October 1991 with Tom Conti as Lyman Felt Gemma Jones as Theo and Clare Higgins as Leah. Directed by Michael Blakemore and produced by Robert Fox. C.P. Stephens hardcover books
1966réf. 31334NY: Atheneum 1966. First edition. first prnt. Signed by Albee on the title page. Soil spotting on the bottom of the foreedge and topedge; dustjacket with faint dampstain at rear panel spine fold. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner; the first of three that Albee has been awarded. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Atheneum Hardcover books
1975réf. 4138NY: Atheneum 1975. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Signed by Albee on the title page. Few small foxed spots on the topedge; dustjacket with toned flap edges interior offsetting on the spine bottom not apparent on the outside and board corners just touched. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy. Atheneum Hardcover books
1986réf. 51118NY: Grove Press 1986. First edition first prnt. Signed by Mamet on the title page. Additionally he has stamped the page with his blue name chop. Dustjacket with two short closed tears one on the front panel bottom edge and the othe on the rear panel topedge and shallow creases on the front panel bottom edge. Tight bright copy in Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. among the leat available Mamet titles especially signed. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Grove Press Hardcover books
1996réf. 21122Los Angeles: Voctoria Dailey 1996. First edition. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. Inscribed by Martin on the illustrated front free endpage. "To Rob Best Wishes Steve Martin." Illustrations by Martin Mulll. Cloth-covered boards with illustrated lable on front board. Boards bowed; tiny foxed spot on topedge. Clean copy in Very Good condition. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Voctoria Dailey Hardcover books
1979réf. 100217Dallas: New London Press 1979. First edition. 150 copies were specially bound numbered and signed. This copy is one of the unsigned issue that has been specially signed by Purdy on the half-title page to which he has added "all good wishes." Purdy has also written his first name on the the first page of "A Day at the Fair." Presumably he began to sign the book there and then leafed over to the half-title page where there was more room. Issued without a dustjacket. Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. The image is of the book described and not a stock photo. New London Press hardcover books
1974réf. 900113Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. First edition the deluxe limited issue of 350 numbered copies signed by Oates on the limitation page of a total 1350 hardcover copies. Copy #140. Quarter-cloth with printed spine label and paper-covered boards in plastic dustwrapper. Design by Barbara Martin. Production photographs by James Tilton. Dustwrapper with chipped spine topedge. Fine condition in a Very Good dustwrapper. A play in twelve scenes first presented in NYC in Dec. 1973. Cast included Robert Guillaume Marcella Lowery F. Murray Abraham et al. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Black Sparrow Press Hardcover books
1967réf. 10954NY: Simon & Schuster 1967. First edition first prnt. Black & white photos of the original cast production which featured Jerry Orbach Cleavon Little and Judd Hirsch. Signed by Friedman on the front free endpage. Above his name he has written "Best wishes." Short remainder stripe on the bottom edge spine ends lightly pushed beginning toning on spine; dustjacket with quarter-inch chip on rear panel bottom edge. tiny closed tear on front panel and touched corners. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Friedman's first play. Uncommon signed. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
1945réf. 2153London: Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. n.d. 1945. First Edition First Printing. 12mo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm 11 1 pages in pictorial stapled wrappers. A short history of the Unity Theatre a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red." In 1938 Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play "Plant in the Sun." Moreover Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K. OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan Wisconsin Waterloo Auckland Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the National Library of Scotland. SCARCE. CONDITION: Mild external wear some soiling to lower wrapper staple rusted but internally clean and unmarked. First page stamped "Made in England." A Very Good copy. Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. books
1958réf. 14372New York: Charles Scribner 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good . 8vo. 186 pp. With an introduction by Edward C. Aswell. A very good example of this Pulitzer prize winner. Some resideue from an old dustwrapper protector to a small area of the lower boards. Dustwrapper is sharp and unfaded. Charles Scribner hardcover books
1839réf. 19115New York: Harper & Brothers 1839 First regularly published edition of Sargent's second book. Foxing; some damp-staining to the upper margins of some leaves toward the rear; spine and board edges a bit sunned; a very good copy. 12mo original floral-embossed brown cloth gilt lettering 110 pages. A play revised from the preceding privately printed edition. Front free endpaper neatly excised. BAL 17201. Harper & Brothers, unknown books
1952réf. 2088New York: The Living Theatre 1952. First Edition First Printing. Small Quarto 9 1/8 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm 16 pages in stapled red wrappers printed on Japanese paper. Program for Paul Goodman's "Faustina" which opened at the Living Theatre on May 251952 starring Julie Bovasso as Faustina. Judith Malina directed and Julian Beck designed sets and costumes. This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes a "portrait sketch" of playwright Paul Goodman by Laura Perls; "Notes on a Ritual Tragedy" by Judith Malina; and a full-page drawing by Larry Rivers for "A City Winter and Other Poems" by Frank O'Hara. There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes; a list of paintings for sale by Julian Beck; and a list of sponsors which included John Cage Jean Cocteau Merce Cunningham Betty Parsons and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds. "Faustina" was an important milestone in Living Theatre history. The play's title refers to the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At the end of the play Faustina is supposed to step forward and chastise the audience for not leaping on stage and stopping a murder. However Julie Bovasso as Faustina felt this moment was pretentious and told the audience on opening night about her irritation. She quit the production after just a few performances. Stephen J. Bottoms Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement pages 25-26. Despite the controversy the speech "was the beginning of direct audience confrontation by the Living Theatre a technique used extensively in later productions." Theodore Shank American Alternative Theater pages 8-9. This program is rare and is notable for the use of stunning Japanese paper for the wrappers. OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at SUNY/Buffalo and Michigan. RARE. CONDITION: Slight toning to the pages and bit of edge wear to the Japanese paper wrappers. A beautiful production. Near Fine. The Living Theatre books
1928réf. 1379New York: Samuel French 1928. First Edition Thus. 16mo 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches; 160 x 90 mm 14 2 pages in original stapled blue wrappers printed in green and black. Shaw's letter to an Irish friend who sought advice on stage techniques for the theatre. The letter had been published in Collier's Weekly in 1922 with the title Make Them Do Well. The publisher of this volume Samuel French reprinted the letter in 1928 but with a different title: The Art of Rehearsal. Laid in is an old bookmark of New York antiquarian booksellers James F. Drake. First edition points present. Subsequent editions contained advertisements for later works by Shaw including The Apple Cart in the 2nd edition and Too True to Be Good in the 3rd edition Dan H. Laurence Bernard Shaw A Bibliography Clarendon Press Oxford 1983. A188. The first printing of this pamphlet is scarce to the market. CONDITION: Fore edge of front wrapper with deckled edge other edges trimmed. Some light handling wear. A Near Fine copy. Samuel French books
1812réf. 16074London: Longman 1812. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. bound in 4. 8vo contemporary 3/4 tan calf leather spine labels marbled boards edges & endpapers lightly rubbed. London: Longman 1812. Very good . Historical and critical memoirs of British and Irish dramatic writers and actors listed alphabetically. Compiled by David Erskine Baker Isaac Reed and Stephen Jones. Longman unknown books
1980réf. 100146Dallas: Pressworks 1980. First edition limited to 376 copies signed by Warren & illustrator Bill Komodore of which 350 were numbered and meant for sale and 26 lettered meant for use of the contributors and publisher. Copy "W ." Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards in acetate dustwrapper. With actetate inserts protecting color illustrations laid-in as issued. 4 pp music score by Alexie Haieff in stapled printed wraps laid-in as issued. Fine condition. Lettered copies are not commonly available. Signed By Author & Artist. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Pressworks Hardcover books
