Plays
ARISTOPHANIS COMOEDIA PLUTUS. Adiecta Sunt Scholia Vetusta. Recognovit ad veteres membranas, variis lectionibus ac notis instruxit, et scholiastas locupletavit Tiberius Hemsterhuis.
Harlingae or Harlingen: Ex Officina Volkeri van der Plaats, 1744. Hardcover. Octavo: xxiv, 484, [25] p. with woodcut intials and vignettes. Period full vellum binding, with handwritten titles at the spine head. The contents are..... More
THE NORMAN CONQUESTS: A Trilogy of Plays
London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Each of the plays in this trilogy depicts the same six characters over the same weekend in a different part of a house: Table Manners is set..... More
SISTERLY FEELINGS & TAKING STEPS
London: Chatto & Windus, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn on the front flyleaf. A pair of comedies by the prolific British playwright and director. Sisterly Feelings is the first of Ayckbourn's..... More
A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S VERSIFICATION, with an Inquiry into the Trustworthiness of the Early Texts, an Examination of the 1616 Folio of Ben Jonson's Works, and Appendices Including a Revised Text of Antony and Cleopatra
New York: AMS Press, 1969. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1920 first edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. The top corners are lightly bumped; otherwise very good. More
LOOLIE AND OTHER SHORT PLAYS
New York and Los Angeles: Samuel French, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by E.P. Conkle to screenwriter Robert Reeves on the title page. A collection of six short plays by the Nebraska author..... More
THE GREEN PASTURES: A Fable
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930, this play portrays episodes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African..... More
HOME CHAT, SIROCCO, "THIS WAS A MAN": Three Plays with a Preface
London: Martin Secker, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. A trio of Coward's inter-war successes: Home Chat (1927) is a comedy about a married woman's fidelity; the play Sirocco (1927) concerns free love among the wealthy; while..... More
FRANKENSTEIN: Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley
London: Faber and Faber, 2016. Wraps. Signed on the title page by the cast of the 2019 production of this play by A Noise Within in Pasadena, California. Dramatic adaptation of Mary Shelley's chilling fable..... More
WONDERFUL TOWN: A New Musical Comedy, Music by Leonard Bernstein
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The Tony Award-winning musical about two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress, respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in..... More
WONDERFUL TOWN: A New Musical Comedy, Music by Leonard Bernstein
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Joseph Fields on the front flyleaf. The Tony Award-winning musical about two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress..... More
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, or The Mistakes of a Night
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Hardcover. First edition thus. The classic 18th century comedy of manners brilliantly illustrated by Hugh Thomson. The first of the Cranfield School of British artists who abandoned..... More
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST: A Play in Three Acts
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. A prequel to Hellman's 1939 drama The Little Foxes, this play focuses on the wealthy, ruthless, and innately evil Hubbard family and their rise to prominence..... More
CRIMES OF THE HEART
New York: The Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Octavo: [vi], 125, [1] pp. Original blue paper-covered boards over a yellow cloth spine with blue-stamped titling. Ink..... More
THE MOON IS BLUE, With an Introduction by Ben Hecht
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. A comedy in three acts, The Moon is Blue had a run of 924 performances on Broadway, and was adapted for the screen by Otto Preminger, who..... More
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO APHRA BEHN
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
THE ROYAL FAMILY: A Comedy in Three Acts
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. A bittersweet bouquet to the glory of the Great White Way, portraying the off-stage melodrama of the Cavendish clan, a dynasty of acting..... More
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES
London and New York: Routledge, Warnes, & Routledge, 1859. Second Edition. Hardcover. James Sheridan Knowles (1784–1862) was an Irish playwright and actor, renowned primarily for his contributions to the 19th-century English theater. Initially a poet..... More
THE SHRIKE
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Winner of the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this play in three acts is set in the mental ward of a city hospital..... More
A CLEARING IN THE WOODS
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The entire life of a young woman is shown during the course of the play, which was first presented by Roger L. Stevens and Oliver Smith at..... More
HOME OF THE BRAVE
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first stage play, which explores the effects of the hell of jungle combat against the Japanese in World War II on a diverse group of..... More
INVITATION TO A MARCH: A New Comedy
New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. A play in three acts concerning the efforts of a young woman to choose between a conventional fiance who puts her to sleep and a a poor..... More
THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO: A Comedy
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A play about the bittersweet romance between a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe and a shopkeeper she meets in Venice. Directed..... More
KISMET: A Musical Arabian Night, Music and Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest
New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The Tony Award-winning musical set in a fictional Baghdad in the times of The Arabian Nights. The story concerns a wily poet who..... More
THE GREAT SEBASTIANS: A Melodramatic Comedy
New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A play in three acts concerning a bickering show business couple touring Europe doing a phony, high-end vaudeville mind-reading act. The Great Sebastians..... More