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Condition: Very good, light edge wear and slight scuffing on covers, light crease at rear cover, previous owner's and price on inside front cover.In french, with notes, analyses, and commentary by Denise-P. Cogny and Pierre Cogny.

Grove/Evergreen E-130, New York, 1958. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, tape repair at interior corners, spine creases and light nicks, light soiling on white area of rear cover.The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant judge, and still another a victorious general, while a bank clerk defiles the Virgin mary. These costumed diversions take place while outside a revolution rages on which has isolated the brothel from the rest of the rebel-controlled city. In a stunning series of macabre, climactic scenes, Genet presents his caustic view of man and society.

Applause Books, New York, 1998. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine has nicks and creases, slight spine adhesive separation but book is intact.The totally restored, revamped and researched blow-by-blow recounting of the most spectacular title bout in the blood-soaked history of Hollywood. "This book documents in rare detail the back-room haggling and the attempted ego-bashing that is part of the movie business." Gene Siskel; "Told with the passion of an advocate yet with the objectivity of a crack reporter, The Battle of Brazil is a chilling, inevitably hilarious account of a great film that almost got away." USA Today.

Vintage V-207, New York. Later printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, light sunshadow.This English edition includes the plays Caligula, The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu), State of Siege (L'État de siège), and The Just Assassins (Les Justes).

Signet, New York. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear, corner creasing, scuff marks on covers, spine creases, underlining, a well read book.Includes an introduction to the play by Sylvan Barnet, the full text with detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page keyed to the numbered lines, commentaries and a short biography.

Vintage, New York, 1987. First edition. Condition: Near fine softcover.From the publisher: Drinking in America played to sold-out houses for month after month, when first introduced, Off Broadway. Why? Because Eric Bogosian's hit one-man show invented a crazed comic world of agents, pimps, hustlers, evangelists, yuppies (so 80's), and the occasional Texas ceramic salesman out on the town.

Grove Press, New York, 40th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, light scuffing on covers, light nicks on spine.Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.

Signet, New York, 1987. 21st paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight spine nicks and crease, crease at top left rear cover corner.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.

Signet, New York, 1988. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks and creasing, light crease at top left rear cover.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.

Penguin, New York, 1983. 11th paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, scuffing, spine crease, price sticker on rear cover, previous owners name on inside front cover, some underlining. Well read copy.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and creasing at spine, light corner bumps.Catalogue published in conjunction with the Mallarme, Debussy, Nijinski exhibition at the Musee dOrsay in 1989.

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner creases, light toning on spine, very light soiling on white backgrounds on rear cover.The screenplay of the 1987 movie by Barbet Shroeder and starring Faye Dunaway and Mickey Rourke.

Thomas Nelson, London, 1957. 10th printing. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and bumping at corners, slight fading due to age . No dust jacket.Includes The Old Bull... by Bernard Gilbert, Allison's Lad... by B. M. Dix, Summer Comes to the Diamond O... by Robert Finch, Catherine Parr... by Maurice Baring, The Valiant... by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass, The Bishop's Candlesticks... by Norman McKinnel, The Princess and the Woodcutter... by A. A. Milne, Campbell of Kilmohr... by J. A. Ferguson, Michael... by Miles Malleson.

Faber, London, 1986. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine creases, light nicks at spine ends.This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The result is the most painful and disturbing screen drama of the 1980s.

Condition: Advance uncorrected proof, very good in paperwraps, slight wear at top and bottom where labels have been removed (presumably by the critic who received this advance uncorrected proof before selling it on), light soiling on back as well crease line, slight edge nicks. Uncommon copy that is signed.Created by Eric Bogosian and Ted Savinat.Original New York production of Talk Radio by New York Shakespeare Festival produced by Joseph Papp. The original version of Talk Radio was produced in 1985 at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Metropolitan Arts Commission.

Bantam, New York, 3rd paperback printing. Condition: Very good, edge and corner wear, spine creasing, light scuffing.The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1969. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, previous owner's name in ink on first page, price clipped.From the publisher: The first two plays are based upon classical Greek legend and the third deals with Columbus' epic voyage. All three concern man's struggle to overcome fate and to triumph over his own weaknesses. A major them in Kazantzakis' writings.

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1950 edition. Condition: Good, Green boards with gold lettering, slight edge wear and corner bumps, spine has slight nicks and slight bowing, light scuffing on covers. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover.Includes Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and 7 others. Includes the original photogravures by E.J. Sullivan.