Henrik Ibsen als Dichter und Denker
Halle: Verlag von Max Niemeyer, 1906. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Text in German. Small owner's name on the titlepage, boards a trifle rubbed, near fine. Scarce. More
Halle: Verlag von Max Niemeyer, 1906. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Text in German. Small owner's name on the titlepage, boards a trifle rubbed, near fine. Scarce. More
Unbound. Two page typed carbon addenda to a contract Signed by George Abbott to direct an Off-Broadway play entitled "A Girl to Remember", dated in 1963. The addenda alters the start of rehearsals and makes changes to Abbott's compensation. The 1964 production of the show was notorious because of backstage..... More
New York: Random House, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Printed cloth cover with black and white photo pasted on front cover. Very good with light foxing to pages, price inked on front fly, spine darkened, lacking the dustwrapper. Based on the play Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill. More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Percy Hammond. Tiny ownership signature, and the foredge is foxed, else near fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny hole on the spine, little larger than a pinprick. The play was written specifically for Helen Hayes, who starred..... More
New York: Random House, (1960). Softcover. Near fine in stapled wrappers with a bit of rubbing to the spine. Program from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Inscribed by cast members Pat Stanley, Howard da Silva and Nathaniel Frey. More
New York: Samuel French, 1926. Softcover. First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Printed brown wrappers. Unopened pages with tiny tears at the margins (not affecting text), small chips and tiny tears at the edges of yapped wraps, very good. Briefly Inscribed by Abbott on the..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Presentation inscription, else a fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight chips at the upper extremities. The author was a successful screenwriter as well. Scarce in jacket. More
Ryton, Dymock: The Author, 1911. Softcover. First edition. 12mo. 29, [1]pp. Sewn printed blue wrappers. Faint creases on wraps with corresponding creases on pages, near fine. More
Toronto: Basilike, 1976. Softcover. First edition. 31pp. Sewn cream wrappers. Lightly soiled wrappers, still very good or better. More
Toronto: Basilike, 1976. Softcover. First edition. 31pp. Sewn cream wrappers. Near fine with touch of sunning, typically light wear to yapped edge and small splashmark on rear wrap. One of 175 copies. More
London: Vallentine, Mitchell, (1973). Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Small ownership label of poet Daniel Hofmann, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with several internal tape shadows, but with one on the front panel. Inscribed by the author to Hoffman: "For Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan. affectionately..... More
(London): Penguin, (1992). Softcover. First edition of the play. Printed wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by Abse to poet Daniel Hoffman. With a flyer for the play with the names of the opening night cast. More
London: Transatlantic Review, March, 1963. Softcover. Single issue. Wrappers. 144pp. Stories, interviews, poetry, plays, and art by John McGahern, Tohmas MacIntyre, Robert Rubens, Ann Jellicoe, Donald McWhinnie, Marianne Sinclair, David Pryce-Jones, Colin Spencer, Alison Bevis, Alan Brownjohn, Robert Fichter, Herb Greer, Virginia Moriconi, Jeanne-Ruth Hammer, Daphne Athas, David Posner, Larry..... More
Dallas: Southwest Review, 1942. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by John Rosenfield. Front hinge starting, spine lightly toned, very good. Barrett H. Clark's copy, with his pencil signature on front flyleaf. Clark was an exceptionally important figure in modern American drama, aside from authoring many books, he served as the longtime..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1936. Softcover. First edition. Small octavo.128pp. Card wrappers with printed applied gray paper dustwrapper. Theatre-themed bookplate of Theodore Johnson inside front wrap and a little toning on the wrappers, else fine. Printed wraparound band present but with a tear. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1924). Hardcover. First edition. 712pp. Owner's name and address penned on front fly, small ink spillage on copyright page and the next affecting the text of the preface, pencil underlining and marginalia, good only lightly soiled cloth lacking the dustwrapper. More
Chicago: 1893. Unbound. Autograph Letter Signed from Lenette “Lettie” Wilson to her mother in Algona, Iowa, in which she discusses her visit to Hull House in Chicago in 1893. Twenty pages in ink, Signed “L.” Two light horizontal folds, very good. With the original mailing envelope on which “Hull House”..... More
New York: Samuel French, 1923. Softcover. Acting edition. 12mo. Stapled printed wrappers. 16pp. Moderately soiled wraps, four unopened pages, near fine. More
New York: Samuel French, 1923. Softcover. First edition. 16mo. 25pp. Stapled printed yellow wrappers. Scattered foxing on first and last few pages, wrappers a little soiled, else near fine. More
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, (1961), (1962). Hardcover. First editions. Volumes 6 and 7. Volume 6: Preface by Saul Bellow. Octavo. xviii, 238pp. Boards have a few scuff marks with bumping at the bottom corner of rear board, lightly toned spine, very good. Volume 7: Preface by Joseph Wood Krutch. Octavo. xviii..... More
(Frankfurt): Suhrkamp Verlag, 1968. Hardcover. Later printing. Volume eleven only. 339pp. Text in German. Corners lightly bumped, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with short tears on bottom edges, spine faded. More
London: J.M. DENT & SONS, (1936). Hardcover. Reprint. 16mo. 437pp. Plus fifteen pages of Everyman's Library List by Ernest Rhys. Translation by John Stewart Blackie. Some pen underlining and marginalia, spine faded, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper. Everyman's Library, Classical, #62. More
(New York): Penguin Books, (1985). Softcover. Reprint. Translated by Robert Fagles. Introductory essay, notes and glossary by Robert Fagles and W.B. Stanford. Mass market paperback. 335pp. Pages lightly age-toned, bottom edge on rear wrapper creased and chipped, good only. Classic Greek drama. More
London: John Murray, 1831. Hardcover. First edition. Large paper copy. Translated from the Greek, illustrated by a dissertation on Grecian tragedy, by John S. Harford. Octavo. xvi, 267pp., engraved title with vignette and 15 engraved plates as issued (without one plate: "Euripides, Sophocles and Æschylus"), errata slip with list of..... More