Search Results: Drama from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

New York: Viking Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1964. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0670109037 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have some light, but noticeable toning. The dust jacket is clean and mostly bright, but does have some toning to the spine, spine joints and edges of the front and rear panels. "Commissioned for the opening production of the new Lincoln Center Repertory Company, After the Fall, a major work, is Arthur Miller's first full-length play since A View from the Bridge was produced on Broadway six years before." .

New York: MacMillan Company. Very Good+ in Poor dust jacket. 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The book is in clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a prevoius owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks spots and large chips missing, especially from the spine4 ends and corners. "John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. He wrote the plays Berkley Square and Dracula." "In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's stage adaptation of Dracula for its American production. Balderston did some significant work on the adaptation, which was an… Read More

Syracuse, NY: The Willis N. Bugbee Company. Very Good-. 1922. Trade Edition. Stapled wraps. This is a smaller than trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The cardstock covers have small nicks to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. .

New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good+. 1900. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; Possible binding B (BAL). This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. (AEG) All Edges Gilt. This copy is illustrated with photographs of the drama. The front pastedown page has the bookplate of Jerome A. Hart adhered. There is a spot of paper loss to the to edge of the pastedown page. "Edward Noyes Westcott wrote the novel David Harum, which was published in 1898. That book became the basis for the David Harum radio program and for films of the same name made in 1915 and in 1934. The character was based on the real-life David Hannum, "a flamboyant banker, farmer, and horse trader", who lived in Homer, New York. The title character was a banker in Homeville, a village in New England. A confirmed bachelor, David Harum had a helpful… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Company. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1952. New Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ conditino and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and smallish chips, including a three inch long chipped tears to the rear spine joint and spine. A previous owner has used clear tape on the reverse of the dust jacket to help hold the tears together. "In this book, the best-known and most frequently quoted passages from all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets have been carefully selected and printed in Red in their context." (from the front blurb) .

Syracuse, NY: The Willis N. Bugbee Company. Very Good+. 1925. Trade Edition. Stapled wraps. This is a smaller than trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet covers are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright, with the exception of some nicking to the top corner of the text pages. .

Oakland, CA: The Holmes Book Company. Near Fine. 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a trade paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. .

Chicago, IL: T. S. Denison & Co.. Very Good+. 1928. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a smaller than trade sized booklet with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light generalized toning to the booklet covers, especially towards the spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. "The TS Denison Company was founded in Chicago in 1868 by Thomas S. Denison. The company was one of the first to produce minstrel plays in the United States. The company specialized in producing and exhibiting minstrel shows and comic operas, including acts such as blackface performers, and tour and theater companies. The company was known for its lavish productions and was especially popular in the Mid-west and South." (from the Homage Exhibit) Only one copy of this title found in OCLC. .

San Francisco, CA: Banner Play Bureau, Inc.. Very Good+. 1949. Paperback. This is a thin trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some beginning toning to the spine ends and top edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. .

Boston, MA: Walter H. Baker Company. Very Good. 1931. Reprint. Stapled wraps. This is a smaller than trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book covers have some rubbing, edge wear and light creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0394480074 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with the exception of some beginning edge wear and nicking to the spine ends and corners. "Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U. S. House of Representatives (for New York) , and later in 1982 to the U. S. Senate (for California). A grandson of a U. S. Senator, Vidal was born… Read More

Minneapolis, MN: T. S. Denison & Co.. Very Good. 0. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; c1930's edition. This is a smaller than trade sized booklet with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The top edge of the front book cover has a small triangular chip and some bumping. The booklet covers have some ground-in dirt and light generalized toning. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a tiny nick / tear to the top edge of most of the text pages, just where the bump is on the front cover. This is a catalogue of materials available related to minstrel shows, including plays, songs, skits, stage accessories, musical instruments, and advertising materials. "The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century. The shows were performed by mostly white actors wearing blackface makeup for the purpose of comically portraying racial… Read More

New York: H. K. Fly Company. Very Good. 1911. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; States 1908 but was actually published 1911. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and spine joints have some rubbing and generally light wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne. Violet Heming appears as the title character supported by several Paramount character stars." .

New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine. 1953. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The book is illustrated throughout with drawings by Ronald Searle. "To ask an actor to write a few words, by way of preface, on dramatic critics is like asking oil to make a comment on vinegar. I must hasten to add that you will find very little vinegar in this charming book. You will find, on the contrary, such charity, such affability and good sense that naturally you will ask yourself Why? How has this come about?" .

New York: MacMillan Company. Very Good+. 1905. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and lacks a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "MacKaye was born in New York City, New York. After graduating from Harvard in 1897, he traveled in Europe for three years, residing in Rome, Switzerland and London, studying at the University of Leipzig in 1899–1900. He returned to New York City to teach at a private school until 1904, when he joined a colony of artists and writers in Cornish, New Hampshire, and devoted himself entirely to dramatic work. ..He was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1914. In the 1920s, MacKaye was poet in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He lectured on the theatre at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and other… Read More

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0316708518 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The spine ends of the book covers have some beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a small black marker mark to the top edge of the text box by the spine. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1957. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. His early works were described by critics as "comedy of menace". Later plays such as No Man's Land (1975) and Betrayal (1978) became known as "memory plays". He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film. He also undertook a number of roles in works by other writers. He directed nearly 50 productions for stage,… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0151334870 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition nad has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. There is one long scratch to the rear panel and one small nick / tear to the front spine joint. The rear panel has some light ground-in dirt as well. "The two typescript versions of Freshwater, Virginia Woolf's only play, were discovered shortly after the death of her husband Leonard, in 1969. Both texts are published here for the first time. Freshwater is a hilarious farce based on Virginia's grewat-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. It takes place on the Isle of Wight, where Mrs. Cameron and her husband established an artists' colony in the 1870's." "Adeline Virginia Woolf… Read More

Boston, MA: John W. Luce & Co.. Very Good-. 1905. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and small edge nicks / tears, along with some beginning fraying. The paper label on the spine is noticeably toned. The paper label on the front cover has some lightly ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's large bookplate on the rear pastedown page (George H. Schmitter). "George Bernard Shaw (/'b? ? Rn? ? Rd/; [1] 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) , known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902) , Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range… Read More

Oakland, CA: Holmes Book Company. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and spots of rubbing to the gold overlay, especially to the spine. .

Hollywood, CA: Playgoer Publications, Inc.. Very Good+. 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is the play program for the First westcoast production of Hair following the Broadway production six months earlier. This is a trade sized booklet with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends, spine joints and corners of the covers have rubbing and light creasing. The text pages are clean and bright, though slightly toned. This production included Ben Vereen and Tom Smothers in the cast. The booklet includes black and white photos of the main castmembers, advertising that coincides with either the production or the hippy lifestyle. There's a blurb about the Aquarius Theatre and much more. "The West Coast version played at the Aquarius Theater in Los Angeles beginning about six months after the Broadway opening and running for an unprecedented two years.… Read More