The Wooster Group Work Book by Andrew Quick - October 19, 2007

Humphrey Milford, 'Oxford Library of Prose & Poetry' series, London, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 89pp. Gilt- and blind decorated green cloth. Some modest internal spotting. Spine a little damp-stained. A bright copy in the scarce dust wrapper, which is marked and fox-spotted and has been much repaired. Name of former owner neatly inked to the front pastedown..

New York: Grove Press, 1978 First printing, first edition, as stated. Signed by David Mamet directly on the title page. Light toning to jacket flaps, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).

New York, Grove Press Inc, 1981, hardcover, 111 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing stated, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge and corner nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The prolific playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and author takes us to a merchant marine ship sailing the Great Lakes where eight crew members talk about sex, gambling, drinking, and fighting to relieve the boredom. ISBN 9780394519524

London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12… Read More

New York, Viking, 1986, hardcover, First Edition, First Printing, Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight tight and clean with no markings, slight corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, slight corner and edge bumps, two tiny spots to front panel, light rubs to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. Essays and opinions on various, wide-ranging subjects, from the actor's craft to old-time pool halls, and a lovely tribute to his favorite bitches. ISBN 9780670811403

Brown, 1991. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. With one page ALS by author and one page copy of note author received from actor Jeremy Irons regarding his work. Plays include: The Judgement, In the Day of Josiah, The Mission, The Vineyard, On Clovis, Brunhilda, Marozia, and Catherine II. Fine in fine dust jacket./Letters very good.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

NY: Karz-Cohl Pub, 1983. First edition thus. Trade softcover. Published NY: Karz-Cohl Pub., 1983, first printing. Square folio wrappers, 10" x 11", xi+174pp., illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Some edge curl to the covers, binding tight, text clean, unmarked. Very good minus. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First Edition, Fifth Impression. 186 p., frontispiece photograph of Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews; 21 cm. Black cloth with lavender spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by David Lyons. "Fifth printing" and price "$3.50" on front flap. Book is in Near Fine Condition: spine ends lightly rubbed; clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: spine ends rubbed and chipped; lightly soiled.

London: Theatre Quarterly, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Two Volumes. 8vo - 8" x 10.2". Finally bounded by The Cordex Modern Bookbinders Ltd. Blackburn. Red leather with gilt titling to the spine. Each volume include four periodicals: Volume I: Jan-Mar 1971, Apr-Jun 1971, Jul-Sep 1971, Oct-Dec 1971; Volume II: Jan-Mar 1972, Apr-Jun 1972, Jul-Sep 1972, Oct-Dec 1972. Text-block edges show slightly browning. Contents clean and firm. Very solid binding. .