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New York: Library & Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Rare exhibition catalogue celebrating Caffe Cino, widely considered the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. The exhibition took place from March 5 to May 11, 1985, at the Vincent Astor Gallery of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts at… Read more about this item

New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts. Articles include a look at German films under Hitler; children's theatre in Moscow; the final installment of a three-part essay by the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein; the Los Angeles WPA project; union busting… Read more about this item

New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts. Articles include the full text of Irwin Shaw's antiwar play, "Bury the Dead," its first published appearance. There's also a profile of John Ford; the first installment of a three-part essay on film by… Read more about this item

New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts. Articles include "Air Raid Over Harlem: Scenario for a Little Black Movie," by Langston Hughes; "I Can't Sleep," a monologue by Clifford Odets; "Trudi on the Road," by Muriel Rukeyser; "Eddie Cantor Likes Peace," by… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Jean Genet's earliest play, first performed in Paris in 1949 as Haute Surveillance. Genet altered the text during rehearsal; this translation by Bernard Frechtman follows the acting version. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 inches; 200 x 128 mm), 40 pages, in unclipped, illustrated wrappers over heavy card stock… Read more about this item

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2005. Second Printing. INSCRIBED by Emily Mann on the half title and dated May 2006: "For -- / Many congratulations / Emily Mann." Four plays by the acclaimed playwright, who served as the artistic director and resident playwright at McCarter Theatre in Princeton for 30 years. The four plays are: Annulla: An Autobiography, Still Life,… Read more about this item

New York: Claes Oldenburg, 1962. Rare announcement for 10 performances of Claes Oldenburg's Ray Gun Theater for Winter-Spring 1962. The performances took place between Feb. 23 and May 26, 1962, at 107 E. 2nd Street in New York's East Village. The performances, or happenings, comprised: Store Days, Nekropolis, Injun (N.Y.C.), Voyages, and World's Fair. The recto features a photograph of Oldenburg… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966. Reprint. Copy previously owned by the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., with his bookplate pasted to the verso of the front cover. George Bernard Shaw's play about a young woman working for the Salvation Army who clashes with her father, an arms dealer. PHYSICAL DETAILS: 12mo (7 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 180 x 110… Read more about this item

New York: Samuel French, 1934. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm), vi, [2], 120 pages, in gray cloth, titles in black to spine, in the rare, unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Longshoremen go on strike, refusing to load munitions on ships bound for Europe. Why? If there's going to be a war, they're the… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1933. First Edition, First Printing. An angry, Depression-era play that chronicles the impoverishment of a factory worker's family and shines a spotlight on the corruption of the American financial and political systems. Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times theatre critic, called the play "a bristling indictment of the American political system." (The New York Times, January… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Limited, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. John Osborne's play about Martin Luther's religious revolution. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, on June 6, 1961, in a production by the English Stage Company. Albert Finney played the great man and Tony Richardson directed. (The front flap mistakenly says it was first performed in Paris in… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. A surly lawyer watches as his life falls apart due to his own awfulness. John Osborne's play opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on September 9, 1964, in a production by the English Stage Company. Nicol Williamson played the lawyer, and Antony Page directed. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/8… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. , 1955. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 125 mm), 103, [1] pages, in turquoise cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Jean Anouilh's play about Joan of Arc in a translation by the English playwright Christopher Fry from the… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. 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). Edward Albee's adaptation of a play by English playwright Giles Cooper, in which a… Read more about this item

Boston: 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… Read more about this item

London: 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.)… Read more about this item

New York: Routledge, 1993. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm), xviii, 536 pages, in gray cloth, black titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. A massive compilation of Bertolt Brecht's journals, covering the years 1934-1955 when the playwright lived in a variety of European countries as well… Read more about this item

Boston: John W. Luce, 1905. First Edition. The second book of H.L. Mencken, an analysis (and appreciation) of the plays of George Bernard Shaw. With a lengthy introduction by Mencken. PHYSCIAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 194 x 132 mm), black cloth, paper labels to front cover and spine (hard cover). CONDITION: Light scratch to front cover, moderate… Read more about this item

Moscow: A.A. Gorozhankin and K.A. Fisher, 1911-12. Twenty-six postcards, each 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (138 x 84 mm), featuring black-and-white photos of scenes from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and text descriptions in Russian. The Cherry Orchard opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on January 17, 1904, in a production directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky just six months… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 213 x 147 mm), 115, [1] pages, in original pink cloth, gilt titles to spine, in a printed dust jacket. Stephen Spender's drama in verse written for the Group Theatre in London. "More readily understood than Spender's poems is this allegorical drama based… Read more about this item