A conversation between Tom and Ashley:
A: [holds skulls] To list or not to list…that is the question.
T: This doesn’t look like work…
A: I’m honing my thespian skills for my new drama e-list.
T: Less honing, more working.
A: The common people never understand real artists.
T: [points to desk] “Act” like a bookseller.
A: OK. Cocktail, please.
T: [walks away]
A: Alas, poor Thomas, I knew him well.
-end scene-
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Burns Mantle. Slight bump on the front board else fine in lightly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper. Inscribed by the editor: "To Shannon – Stout fella – Affectionately, Burns Mantle. 1937." Anthology includes the plays *High Tor*, *Tovarich*..... More
New York: Dutton, (1995). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Slip of paper laid in with an Inscription by Albee. A beautiful copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. A very uncommon title. More
[No place]: CBS Television Network, (1959): CBS Television Network, (1959). Softcover. First edition thus. Profusely illustrated in black and white by Ben Shahn. Quarto. Unpaginated. Text in black and in red. Illustrated in pictorial wrappers. Age-toning else near fine in age-toned and chipped, good original glassine wrapper. More
(New York): New Directions, (1963). Softcover. First edition. Paperback original. Slight age-toning to the wrappers, else near fine. More
London: William Collins, 1942. Hardcover. First edition. Light foxing to the endpapers else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with wear to the edges. More
New York: Program Publishing Co., (1943). Softcover. Very nearly fine in stapled wrappers with the spine a touch rubbed. Program for the Billy Rose production starring Muriel Smith and the comedy/vaudeville act Buck and Bubbles. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1944. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with a touch of toning to the spine. Laid in is a typed postcard Signed by Hellman. The play featured Montgomery Clift; the 1946 film directed by William Dieterle featured Douglas Dick, Robert Young..... More
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921. First edition. Early ownership record of noted Pittsburgh-area artist Russell Gould Twiggs. Fine in slightly spine-tanned, else fine dustwrapper. Includes the author's suggestions for the production of the play. A lovely copy and scarce in jacket. More
New York: The Viking Press, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with three small tears along the top of the front panel and a little toning on the spine. More
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1924). Hardcover. First edition. Near fine with a very faint dampstain on the front board lacking the dustwrapper. More
New York: Citadel, (1958). Hardcover. First edition of this title by this publisher, published originally in 1950 by New Fathoms. Both that, and this edition were unauthorized and Random House published *Ten "Lost" Plays* to fill the void. Very fine in like dustwrapper with some nominal rubbing. A lovely copy..... More
New York: Morris Jacobs, (1962). Softcover. Near fine in stapled wrappers with the spine a bit rubbed. Program from the Broadway musical, Inscribed by lead actress Diahann Carroll, in the role for which she won a Tony Award. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1946). Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight tanning to the spine and one small chip on the front panel. The author's first plays published in English. More
Chicago: William Benton/Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., (1952). Hardcover. Later edition, two volumes. Both volumes near fine, lightly soiled copies. No dustwrapper. More
New York: St. Martins, (nd-1978). Softcover. First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Decorated wrappers. Fine. A very uncommon proof of this poetry collection, the first original work by the author to be published by a major trade publisher. More
London: Pushkin Press, (1946). Softcover. First edition. Wrappers in dustwrapper. The word "Savoy" stamped on the front fly, fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. More
New York: Covici-Friede, (1937). Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped, good or better dustwrapper with some chipping near the bottom of the front flap fold, and a large but faint dampstain. An uncommon play, adapted by Steinbeck from his own novel. Filmed several times, first and most notably..... More
London: Secker and Warburg, (1964). Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a single internally repaired tear on the rear panel. More
New York: New Directions, (1947). Hardcover. Fifth printing. Decorated orange paper over boards. Very good with a little toning at the spine and some modest edgewear to the spine ends, without dustwrapper. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976). Hardcover. First edition. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo. Illustrated by Loretta Trezzo. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of toning at the extremities. More