American Drama

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1896. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Navy cloth boards with decoration to face & gilt title to face & spine. Light rubbing to edges. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. Contents include The Bicyclers, A Dramatic Evening, The Fatal Message, and A Proposal Under Difficulties. John Kendrick Bangs [1862-1922] was an American writer, editor and satirist. . 1st Edition.... Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape. 1970. Octavo Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous Owner's name/details to Preliminary Pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 294 pages. Major essays and articles about American theatre written between 1957 and 1968 and contains a selection of the author's reviews. . 1st thus. Hardback.

"Based on Goethe's Elective Affinities"Very Good. VG++, Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2000 Production Official Script. Comb binding, pages very clean, Like New - no markings. Steven Dietz is an American playwright and theatre director. Called "the most ubiquitous American playwright whose name you may never have heard", Dietz has long been one of America's most prolific and widely produced playwrights. In 2019, Dietz was again named one of the 20 most-produced playwrights in America.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1987. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 460 pages. A moving and sometimes shocking biography of the controversial British theatre critic and writer. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Fine text, cover and binding. Yellowing has begun. Price of $20.00 on inside page.

Very Good Copy. Some slight marks and bends to outside cover, otherwise pristine pages. Barry thought enough of the play to have lines from it carved on his tombstone: "All things are turned to a roundness. Wherever there is an end, from it springs a beginning." Many critics regard "Hotel Universe" as Barry's best play. The two-hour piece is unusual in that Barry wrote it to be performed without an intermission. Written in 1929 while Barry was in Cannes, the play is set in a small seaside... Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1999. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic cover. As new condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 348 pages.. The autobiography of the late, great American playwright and screenwriter. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Like new. Unread/pristine clean pages. Very slight shelf wear apparent to cover."THE STORY: The play follows the romance of Betsy and Michael, a pair of twenties/early thirties, bright, ambitious downtowners who meet at a play and experience instant, overwhelming chemistry-the magic and misery of the wound that can only be healed by the sword that inflicted it. We not only watch the romantic heroes interact, but their thoughts are revealed as well - their insecurities, fears, and dreams about... Read more about this item

Good Copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Numerous production photos throughout.Some shelf wear apparent. (Slight damage to outside, upper spine -see photos- book still tight) "The trip itself, like a spooky show in a carnival tunnel, is full of bright, surprising images, scary and funny. --The Village VoiceFunny, rich, erudite, playful, assured. --Soho NewsFew playwrights have Jenkin's skill at theatrical sleight-of-hand … it supplies an ingenuity which cannot fail to stimulate both the theatre... Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press. 1984. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Double column format. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 734 pages. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked in full cloth binding. 378pp. Lightly rubbed jacket now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.