Search Results: Plays from Great Northern Books

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1953. Third edition augmented by two new plays. Hardcover. Good/fair. First Edition, thus, with two previously unproduced plays and a new introduction. In bright yellow cloth lettered in green, on page [ii] Donald Windham's name is misspelled Wyndham and asterisks mark three plays that are out of print. On the inside flap the publisher notes that the "new edition" adds two plays. (Crandell [A2.I.C]) Dustjacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Former owner's name on free front endpaper. Dustjacket is chipped along top edge and foot of spine, not affecting author, title, or image.

New York: H.K. Fly Company, 1908. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Illustrated with black & white photographs and art nouveau designs. Ex-library with minimal markings.

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1986:May. v.3:no.2. Periodical. Very Good in Wraps . In a free and easy conversation with director Mark Lamos, the playwright talks about audiences, social conscience and his own work, from 'The Crucible' to 'Salesman' on TV." Cover of magazine and article are illustrated with black and white photographs of Miller. Also includes the complete text of Lanford Wilson's 'Lemon Sky.'

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. First printing. "A play about Alice James, the bedridden sister of William and Henry James, and her imaginative meetings with such characters as Lewis Carroll's Alice, Emily Dickenson, and Margaret Fuller." [from publisher] Small crease to front flap, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1960. First edition thus?. Paperback. Very Good. Adapted from his novel of the same name. Includes original cast list and property plot.

New York: Modern Library, [1956]. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Dustjacket design from 1978-1986. Translated and introduced by Stark Young. Includes the plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters. A clean unmarked copy with a dustjacket with slight edgewear.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1918. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Translated by A. Teixeira de Mattos. A play by the Nobel Prize winner. Debossed flower design on front, back, and spine of cover, with author and title in gilt. Top-edge gilt wtih title page in red and black. Ex-library with minimal markings, weak front hinge, still a very bright, presentable copy.

[Frankfurt am Main]: Suhrkamp, 1965. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Paperback with dustjacket, a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: Grove Press, 1960. Sixth Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Very Good +. An Evergreen Original, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Includes black and white photographs from the first American performance. A clean, unmarked copy.

Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1910. First edition. Ex-Library. Ex-library with minimal markings. No dustjacket.

New York: Samuel French, 1917. Acting edition?. Trade Paperback. Ex-Library. Ex-library with tattered covers, still a good reading copy.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1962. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Complete in 6 vols. Each volumes includes pictorial endpapers with play index, prefaces, with different sepia frontispiece portraits. Former owner's bookplate on half title pages, else a clean, unmarked, tight, bright set lacking dustjackets.

Minneapolis: Cornelius Publishers, 1966. First edition thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Translated by Norman Ginsbury. Spine slightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Viking Press, 1949. Second printing before publication. Hardcover. Very Good +. "Death of a Salesman" won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Illustrated endpapers and cover based on the drawings of Jo Mielziner. A clean, unmarked copy lacking a dustjacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. First British edition of the Pulitzer Prize winning play. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page for a charity auction for the Graham Home for Children and dated the year of publication. Also includes prospectus from the charity. Title page is also embossed with the seal of the school. White book jacket is slightly soiled. First two letters in Albee's name are faded on front dustjacket.

Zürich: Verlag der Arche, 1965. 9. Auflage. Hardcover. Good. Slight edgewear to dustjacket and book. Ships from USA.

Zürich: Verlag Oprecht, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. Clear plastic "dustjacket" torn, else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA..

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, [n.d.]. First edition?. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good. Ten Cent Pocket Series No.353. Slim, inexpensive reprints of the world's great literature, philosophy, and social thought. The Little Blue Book Company was founded by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), who believed that everyone, regardless of income, should be exposed to history's best literature. The booklets, which cost as little as a nickel apiece, were small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. The works were wildly popular and eventually sold over five hundred million copies. Slight creasing to wrap cover.

New York: Modern Library, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Translated, with an introduction by Morris Bishop. Includes the plays: The Precious Damsels -- The School for Wives -- The Critique of The School for Wives -- The Versailles Impromptu -- Tartuffe -- The Misanthrope -- The Physician in Spite of Himself -- The Would-Be Gentleman. Some rubbing and edgewear to dustjacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. With introduction by William Archer. Ex-library with minimal markings.