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New York: Samuel French, 1939. 24 pp. Spine discolored, stain at top of spine affecting wraps only, repriced with stamp, price sticker shadow, one inch crease extending through all pages. No marks in text. There is a five-page preface by the author. ''Poverty is something I have been privileged to know and respect. It is something I have always wanted to avoid, of course; and being a writer, it is something I have avoided. To be truly alive, in spite of poverty, is to defeat poverty. To be able to write is to be truly alive.'' ''Last year Mr. Saroyan's first play, My Heart's in the Highlands, was successfully produced on Broadway, and this season his The Time of Your Life has won the acclaim of all professional critics.". First Edition. Wraps. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

[i-vi,1]-111,[112-121] pp. Octavo, fine/near fine; though the dj appears to be price clipped, the price stamp of the National Theatre Bookshop in London appears just there. Carefully annotated theater programs, annotated by Gielgud from the age of 13 to 21, were saved by his mother and donated to the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection. Gielgud adds comments 70 years later. Generously illustrated throughout with photos of the programs and of the productions, perhaps more than 150 photos. Produced to celebrate his 90th birthday. Inscribed by Gielgud in May, 1994, and shortly after by Dave & Matt to Dr. T. (composer Millard Thomson).

Buffalo, New York: Meow Press, 1995. 35 pp. An edition of three hundred printed in May 1995. A play in verse from a scenario by Ben Yarmolinsky and Charles Bernstein, music by Ben Yarmolinsky. First Performance February 23, 1992, with Carla Wood as Jenny Midnight, Tom Bogdan as Daeman Dudley, and Stephen Kalm as Boris Frame. Cover art by Susan Bee. There's a bridge / I can't cross / melting like a / boy with pickled / eyes. She breaks / the board over / the crystal desk / embodied with heiroglyphic / inscriptions then hides / under the folds / of the tears / mumbling about frozen / papaya and the / boat to Tonawanda.'--Jenny Midnight from Part One: The Crystal Desk.. Limited. Wraps. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Methuen, 1981. 256 pp. Some bumping to corners. No marking to pages or creases in spine. Edited by David Cook. Includes Introduction: Jonson's life; Jonson's Comedy; VOlpone; The Structure of Volpone; Sources; The Text; The Notes; Acknowledgements; VOLPONE; Notes: Person of the Play; Dedication; The Argument; Prologue; The Text. A fine edition with useful apparati. . Trade Paperback. Very Good.