Drama
Format
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Title
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Author
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Publisher
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Date
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Condition
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Price
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PB
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Madame President
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Acton, Wallace
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Samual French
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1937
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Nice Copy.
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50.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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The Gods- Our Image
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Adams, Paul L.
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Voltaire Press, NY
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1963
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Fine/VG, some color flaking. 8vo. Inscribed by author.
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65.00
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PB
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Prometheus Bound
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Aeschylus (Gilbert Murray trans.)
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George Allen & Unwin, London
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1962
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Fair to G. Small splits to cover, some discoloring
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10.00
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HC
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The Making of a Musical (Fiddler on the Roof)
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Altman, Richard & Kaufman, Mervyn
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Crown, NY
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1971
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Soiled cover. Good copy
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15.00
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PB
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The Theatre and it's Double
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Artaud, Antonin
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Grove Press, NY
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1958
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1st edition thus Fine
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25.00
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HC
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War in Heaven
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Barry, Phillip
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Coward-McCann, NY
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1938
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G+
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250.00
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PB
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Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel: The Marx brothers Lost Radio Show.
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Barson, Michael editor
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Pantheon, NY
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1988
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Fine copy. Illus.
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5.00
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HC/DJ
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The Actor at Work
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Benedetti, Robert L.
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Prentice Hall
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1970
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Fine book/good DJ, minor tears and scuffing. as issued, fine, 287pp, 8vo, ills. Presents a complete overview of the fundamental processes of acting. 8th printing
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7.50
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PB
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Seventeen: A Musical Comedy
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Benson, Sall and Kent Gannon
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Samuel French, Ny
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1954
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Musical based on Booth Tarkington novel. G+, slight yellowing
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20.00
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PB/1st
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The Dramatic Event
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Bentley, Eric
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Beacon, NY
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1956
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G+, pc. 8vo 278p Contains criticism of nearly 60 different theatrical works.
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5.00
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PB/1st
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Hamlet (reading and playing guide)
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Brown, John Russell.
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NY: Schocken,
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1966
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G+. (Shakespeare Institute Studies. )
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10.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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Honest, Abe; Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?
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Burrows, Abe
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Little Brown, Boston
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1980
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Fine/G+. Slight dj edge fray. Tour guide to the magic of backstage world of theater, radio, and film.
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12.00
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PB
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Four Contemporary American Plays
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Cerf, Bennet
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Vintage, NY
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1961
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G+. The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky---A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry--Toys in the Attic by Lillian Hellman and The Andersonville Trial by Saul Levitt
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3.00
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HC
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words
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Chapman, Graham, Cleese, John, Gilliam, Terry, Idle, Eric, Jones, Terry, Palin, Michael.
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Methuen, London
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1989
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Fine/ no DJ's pictorial covers, original wraps. Two volume set. The whole show in words. 5x9. 5
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20.00
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PB
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The Complete Faulty Towers
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Cleese, John and Connie Booth
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Manderin
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1989
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VG, one corner chipped.
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5.00
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HC
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The Modern Theatre
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Corrigan, Robert W.
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Macmillan, Ny
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1964
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Fair. Spine split, wear but solid copy
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10.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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RELATIVE VALUES: A Play in Three Acts
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Coward, Noel
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London: William Heinemann Ltd.,
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1952
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VG, minor edge bumps/poor, included but missing spine. Coward's comedy was originally produced at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1951.
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18.00
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HC
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The Theatre of the Greeks
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Donaldson, John William DD
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Geaoge Bell, London
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1879
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illus. w/ pullout engravings. Very good copy.
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90.00
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EP
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When Pigs Fly
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Driver, Sara
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Private
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ND
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A film by Sara Driver. Presentation of projected film project to star Marianne Faithful
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10.00
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EP
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Two Serious Ladies
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Driver, Sara
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Private
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ND
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A film by Sara Driver. Based on Jane Bowles novel. Presentation of projected film project with actors biographies.
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10.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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Five Chinese Communist Plays
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Ebon, Martin editor
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John Day Co
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1975
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Fine book in Fine price clipped dust jacket. First printing. [English, Chinese]. xxi, 328 p. ; 24 cm. The white-haired girl. --The Red detachment of women. --Taking the bandits' stronghold [Taking Tiger Mountain by strategy]. --The red lantern. --Azalea Mountain.
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20.00
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HC
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Plays Without Footlights
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ed. Galbraith, Ester
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Harcourt Brace, NY
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1945
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Review copy. Good a bit soiled
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5.00
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HC
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Euripides
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Euripides
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W. Drugulins, Leipzig
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1886
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VG+ In German, front hinge loose, all else very good. Marbled fore and follow sheets and edges, decorative and gilt covers.
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35.00
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PB
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Medea/Hecabe/Electra/Heracles
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Euripides
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Penguin, Baltimore
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1976
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G+
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2.00
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PB/1st
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Houdini on Magic
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Gibson, Walter B. and Morris N. Young (Edited by)
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Dover Publications, New York,
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1953
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280pp, 8vo 8-9, 1st edition. Fine large format Dover book, well illustrated. LC- 53-13518
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5.00
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HC/DJ/1St
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My Theater
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Gide, Andre; trans jackson mathews
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Alfred A. Knopf, NY,
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1952
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Fine/G+ DJ, First US Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾ tall. 275 pp. Fine/VG Top Corners Bumped. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. Black boards. 292 pp.This is a handbook for writhers of English Prose. ISBN:0394729366 Five plays Saul, Bathsheba, Philoctetes, King Candaules, and Persephone, as well as Gide's essay The Evolution of the Theater..
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45.00
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PB/1st
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
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Gilliatt, Penelope
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Bantam Books
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1971
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G+. The script of the John Schlesinger film produced by Joseph Janni for United Artists. A 16-PAGE PORTFOLIO OF SCENES
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5.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway.
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Goldman, William
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World
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1969
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Fine/VG+ DJ. Goldman's seventh book, a literate commentary on Broadway in the sixties. A hard-hitting but honest look at all aspects of the Broadway scene which will leave the reader with a far greater understanding of the 1960's theater than he started with. Indexed. By the author of The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, the screenplay to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and many more.
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30.00
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HC/DJ
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The Fifty Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood
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Goodman, Ezra
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Simon & Shuster, NY
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1961
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DJ chipped. Book good.
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15.00
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HC/DJ
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Scoundrel Time
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Hellman, Lillian
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Little Brown, Boston
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1976
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Fine copy/ in chipped damaged DJ. Lillian's drama of HUAC and quisling Hollywood. In 1952, Hellmann joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellmann refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial. Nonetheless the experience brought devastating controversy and loss. First published in 1972, her retelling of the time features a remarkable cast of characters, including her lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett, a slew of famous friends and colleagues, and a pack of scoundrels -- ruthless, ambitious politicians and the people who complied with their demands.
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4.00
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PB
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Tips on the Theatrical Art
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Hennessy, Dan and Yowell, John
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Haldeman-Julius, Kansas
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1928
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Little Blue Book # 1284. Very good copy
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15.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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Life and the Theatre
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Hudson, Lynton
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NY: Roy Pub
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nd
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F/G+ DJ save for attached triangular chip on cover. Discusses the growth of modern European drama between the two world wars.
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12.00
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PB
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Magic Tricks & Card Tricks: Two Volumes Bound as One
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Johnson, Wilfrid
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Dover Publications, New York,
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1954
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Fine copy. Dover large format PB, well illustrated.
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5.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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Preaching and the Dramatic Arts
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Jones, E. Winston
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Macmillan, NY
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1948
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F/F p.c.
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35.00
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PB
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Baptism and the Toilet
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Jones, Leroi
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Grove Press, NY
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1967
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White and blue covers, 62 pp. First edition, first printing of two of Jones' earlier plays. Pencil underlined, Price cut otherwise very good.
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10.00
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PB
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Ben Jonson 3 Plays: Valpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist
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Jonson, Ben
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Hillard Wang, NY
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1958
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G+
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5.00
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HC
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Psychology of Acting
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Kjerbuhl-Paterson
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Expressions
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1935
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No DJ. Book G+.
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15.00
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PB
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The Astoria Studio
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Koszarski, Richard
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Dover, NY
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1983
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227 Stills and photos, 143pp. Cover a bit creased but this is a fine somewhat obscure Dover book.
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35.00
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PB/2nd
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Unfair Arguments with Existence
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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New York: New Directions
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1963
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VG 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾. seven plays for a new theatre.
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5.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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It Takes More than Talent
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LeRoy, Mervyn
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf,
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1953
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Fine book/G_, frayed, damaged DJ. First Edition. How to get a job in the movie industry. First book by the producer/director who gave us Little Caesar and Quo Vadis.
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35.00
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HC/DJ
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Radio's Best Plays
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Liss, Joseph
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Greenburg, NY
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1947
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A collection of the very best years of radio. Play's by MacLeish, Corwin, Wolfe, James Mason Brown, Benet, Arthur Miller, Rosten and more. DJ a bit chipped. Book is good.
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35.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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Shakespeare's Hamlet: A New Version
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Mamoulian, Robert
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Bobbs Merrill, NY
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1965
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Fine/VG+, price cut. The complete text of the play which eliminates the Elizabethan archaisms of speech.
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35.00
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HC/1st
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Trio
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Maugham, Somerset
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Doubleday, NY
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1950
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G+ spine wear
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5.00
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PB
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Three Comedies
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Maugham, Somerset
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Pocket, NY
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1969
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G+, other than price cut.
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5.00
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PB
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Encounters: 6 One Act Plays
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Melfi, Leonard
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Samuel French, NY
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1967
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VG, bumps, clean and solid. A brilliant playwright. Edition not stated.
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12.00
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PB
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Rocky Wooing
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Michell
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Samual French
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1935
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Nice Copy.
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50.00
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PB
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The Price
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Miller, Artur
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Bantam, NY
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1969
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G+, nice copy. Play in popular edition.
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3.00
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PB
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Midnight Call
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Morris, Gordon
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Samual French
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1936
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Nice Copy.
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50.00
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HC/DJ
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Comedy
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Potts, L. J.
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Hutchinson U., London,
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1960
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Fine/ G+ DJ, minor spine wear. 3rd edition 5x7.5. 174 indexed pages. A detailed study of comedy in English literature.
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18.00
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HC
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I Have Been Here Before: A Play in Three Acts
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Priestley, J. B
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Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY
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1937
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Very Good red cloth, Dust jacket badly chipped. Book fine.
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35.00
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HC/DJ
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I Have Been Here Before
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Priestley, J.B.
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Heinemann, London
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1937
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DJ frayed Book G+
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35.00
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HC/DJ
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Habima
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Raikin Ben-Ari w/ forward By Howard Clurman.
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Thomas Yoseloff,
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1957
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Fine/Good, some splits and wear to spine. P.c. Edition not stated. Story of world acclaimed Jewish theater group, unique acting company born in Moscow during the Russian Revolution. Illustrated with black & white photographs and artwork. 8vo, gilt-lettered black cloth.
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24.00
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HC
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The Abbess of Jouarre
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Renan, Ernest
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G.W. Dillingham London
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1888
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VG/no DJ, fore page appears to be removed, may be as published. Edition not stated.
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24.00
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PB
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Taxi
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Riley, Alice
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Samual French
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1927
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Nice Copy.
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65.00
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HC/DJ
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THE GREAT PO SEIN. A Chronicle of the Burmese Theater.
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Sein, Kenneth and Joseph A. Witney
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Indiana University Press, IN
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1965
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VG+/VG some splits, one small chip to DJ spine bottom. Price cut. Edition not stated. Illustrated by Photos, and Drawings By Ba Lone Lay. An account of the development of the theater in Burma over the last eighty years as mirrored in the work of the Barrymores of Burma, the Great Po Sein and his family.
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8.00
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PB
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Major Barbara
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Shaw, George Bernard
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AHM, Illinois
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1971
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Written on cover, Character names highlighted. The play that inspired 'Guys and Dolls'.
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2.00
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HC/DJ
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O'Neill: Vol 1: Son and Playwright Vol 2: Son and Artist
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Sheaffer, Louis
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Little Brown, Boston
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1968
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Two volume set. DJ's very good (slight spine splits). Books clean and solid, G+.
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15.00
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HC/DJ
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Vaudevillians: A Dictionary of Vaudeville Performers
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Slide, Anthony
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Arlington House, CN
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1981
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Book Fine/some wear to DJ 4to - over 9_ - 12 tall. ISBN: 0-87000-492-1. illus.
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40.00
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HC
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China on Stage
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Snow, Lois Wheeler
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Random House, NY
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1972
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Fine copy.
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40.00
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PB
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The Oedipus Cycle
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Sophocles
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harvest, ny
|
|
Title page gone
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1.00
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PB
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Antigone
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Sophocles
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Pocket, NY
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1973
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G+
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2.00
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HC/2nd
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Acting
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Speaight, Robert
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cassell, GB
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1947
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G+, owners plate. 2nd
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3.00
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PB
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Siddharta Becomes the Buddha
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Sri Chimnoy
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Sky, NY
|
nd
|
G+, some minor stain and bumps copy of this scarce edition
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ask or best ofer
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HC/1st
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T. Macci Plavti Mostellari
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Sturtevant, Edgar H.
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Yale University Press, New Haven
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1925
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VG, moderate wear.
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12.00
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HC
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Modern American and British Plays
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Tucker, S. Marion
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Harper & Bros., NY
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1931
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VG/no DJ.8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. 946pp
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15.00
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PB/signed
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RED EYE OF LOVE: A Comedy
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Weinstein, Arnold
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Grove, NY
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1962
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Fine 1st edition, signed by playwright. 8vo, pictorial white wraps (lightly soiled) with illustration from photographing blue & black on front wrap. 92 pp. & 4 pp. of B&W illustrations from photographs [production photos] (small stain to fore-edge with tiny stains to front edges of prelims & a few pages of text). Good. First edition. Inscribed by the playwright and signed.
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25.00
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PB/1st
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Marat/Sade: a play by Peter Weiss
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Weiss, Peter
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NY Pocket
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1966
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VG copy slight yellowing. Basis for chilling 1966 Peter Brook musical of stage and film about performance staged by inmates of French insane asylum, directed by de Sade. Winner of the 1965-66 season New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards, Brilliant musical. Cast photo on cover.
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7.50
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PB
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Citizen Kane
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Wells, Orson
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Mimeograph
|
nd
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The shooting script, looks like the forties. Blue bound script in G+ condition. Ex libris from studio.
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125.00
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PB
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Joe, A Screenplay
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Wexler, Norman with an introductoryreview by Judith Crist
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Avon
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1970
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vg+. The Oscar nom. screenplay for a sleeper of 1970 that was 20 year old Susan Sarandon's 1st movie. 16pgs. of stills. Scarce. paperback orig edition. Binding is paperback.
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45.00
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HC/DJ/1st
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty, the Final Years of Byron and Shelley
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Whipple, A.B.C.
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Harper & Row, NY
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1964
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Fine/VG, some minor spine soil. First Edition. 8vo 298pp. Dramatic recreation of the tempestuous last years of Shelly and Byron.
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28.00
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PB
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Acting and Stage Movement
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White, Edwin & Margarita Battye
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Arc, NY
|
1963
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G+ illus. b/w
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15.00
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PB/1st
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Acting and Stage Movement: a Complete Handbook for Amateurs and Professionals
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White, Edwin and Battye, Marguerite
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ARC Books, NY
|
1963
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Fine copy. Illus.
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15.00
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PB
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The Long Christmas Dinner: Play in One Act
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Wilder, Thornton
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Harper, NY
|
1964
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G+ first thus.
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5.00
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PB
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and other Plays
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Williams, Tennessee
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New Directions, NY
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1953
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Fair, pages mis-set, pages loose, complete
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5.00
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PB BOXED
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The Stage
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Wilson, J.A.
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1882
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Good for age. Loose pages 3 volumes bound together of periodical The Stage Vol VI, V and I. !/92- 6-83
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45.00
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PER
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International Theatre #1
|
|
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1955
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G+
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5.00
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PER
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Show
|
|
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1962
|
Fair 7/62
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2.00
|
PB
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Religious Drama: 5 Plays
|
|
World, NY
|
1965
|
G. pc, scuffed
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5.00
|
PER
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The Drama Review Vol 13 #2
|
|
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1968
|
G+ Winter 1968. some cover wear and bumps
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2.00
|
PER
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N.Y. Theatre Review
|
|
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1979
|
G+ April 1979
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2.00
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PER
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N.Y. Theatre Review
|
|
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1979
|
G+ March 1979
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2.00
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