Drama from Page 1 Books

Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. German: Ancient Chinese Love Comedies: Selected from the original Chinese texts and translated by Hans Rudelsberger. 7 Chinese plays in German. Wide 8vo. Rebound in red leather boards, gilt titles, with inset from original silk binding. Each play has a tipped-in color frontis. Very good (slight chip to spine… Read more about this item

New York: Bowling Green Press, 1927. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. Limited Edition, No. 1139 of 1240 copies SIGNED by Moore on limitation page; 8vo, rebound in three-quarter leather with new eps; vg- (paper edges of boards worn; bump to top edge of rear board; wear to gilt band on spine; spine ends lightly bumped; edges and… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1951. Hardcover. Good. A New Directions Book stated, no additional printing information; MISSING dj, unsure of printing or if book club edition (no blindstamp on rear cover); 8vo, brown cloth; good (covers and spine faded and soiled; title worn off of spine; cloth on spine ends worn and frayed; 0.5inch tear and chip to cloth along… Read more about this item

Chicago: 53rd State Press, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. June 2012 printing; 8vo, paper covers; vg (light soiling to covers; edgeworn; spine ends lightly bumped; small crease to bottom edge of front cover); text clean and unmarked; 172pp.

New York: Julian Messner, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Poor. First Edition, no additional printings; 8vo, black cloth; vg- (spine ends bumped and cloth worn; corners bumped and worn, top corners to boards; bottom edges of boards bumped; pages toned) in poor dj (very heavily chipped and torn, tears repaired with Filmoplast; rear flap almost detached; 3… Read more about this item

Verona: Bortolamio Merlo, 1642. Later . Hardcover. Good+. The Faithful Shepher: A Pastoral Tragicomedy by Guarini (1538-1612). This is a later edition; first edition published Venice in 1590; this play in Italian verse created controversy between the 'Ancients' and 'Moderns' of Italy at the time and was very popular; the play was also the basis for the madrigals… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. Limited Edition, 68/500 copies, SIGNED by O'Neill on limitation page; 4to, art vellum boards/leather lettering piece on spine; vg- (boards bowed; spine ends bumped; spine head heavily worn with three tears to vellum, two of which could become chips; small green smudge to top right hand… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition, complete number line starting at 1; vg (boards bowed; bottom front corner bumped) in vg+ dj (shelf-rub shadow on front cover); 80pp.

Bread and Puppet, 1995. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. R.T. Simon photos. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus 1994." A chronicle of the annual Festival of the Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont, which ran till 1998 (the group still is active). This is an oblong miniature (2.25" x 4.75") in stapled wraps. It has no text but… Read more about this item

London: John Lane, 1894. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st edition, newly rebound in brown leather with a gilt-stamped red leather title piece and Florentine marbled endpapers. New binding fine; the text pages are about good plus. All are toned brown near the edges. The first blank (of 2 before the title page) bears a gift inscr. in… Read more about this item

New York: William R. Scott, 1938. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Limited First Thus, no additional printings, one of 750 copies; 8vo, blue-gray cloth, no dj; vg (cocked; spine and its title piece sunned; edges darkened; eps and pages toned); 75pp.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition of the play (the novel was published in 1911), in the uniform edition of The Plays of J.M. Barrie. Blue cloth, vg, no dj; very slight outer wear, with some toning of the title pieces, and an owner's name and date written small on the… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1907. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Good. Limited Edition, No. 255 of 430 copies; 4to, red cloth, no dj; good (boards rubbed, worn, and sunned; two large stains and splash marks on front board; water spots on half-title page; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; bottom corners worn to boards; spine sunned, its title… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan. Hardcover. Fair. A mixed set (as usual) of the British edition; all are uniformly bound in green cloth with gilt 'TH' monogram on cover, which indicates that vols. 1 & 2 were remaindered copies rebound to be issued as a set after the 3rd volume was published. Vol. 1 is the 2nd printing, 1904 (the 1st… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 1st, brown cloth, vg+ (pages tanned) in nf dj. 147 pp.

Chicago: Privately Printed by the Falcon Press, 1951. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Good. Robert L. Smith. Limited Edition, No. 1 of 500 copies; INSCRIBED by the artist Smith on ffep 'to Dottie, with gratitude for your charm and forbearance - Don Roberto'; 8vo, decorated paper covers, no dj; good (2.5 inch tear to top of front joint, 1.25… Read more about this item

NY: Trayor Lane, 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st, purple cloth, vg (part of blue top edge sunned, and short tear at top of spine), no dj, in a vg- original slipcase with the top panel beginning to tear. 340 pp. + appendix. INSCRIBED on ffep and dated Sept. 12, 1935.

New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Leon Bakst. Reprint of the limited edition folio with black and white illustrations; 4to, red cloth, no dj; vg (spot on front board, white smudge on rear; bottom edge of rear board and bottom corners bumped; spine ends bumped; eps and pages toning). 18pp + 54 plates.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Probably the First Edition of this 'novelization' for young people of 6 stories from Euripides' plays; preface is dated April 1879. 12mo, green cloth, aeg, no dj; good (cocked; spine faded, spotted, and chipped at top; corners worn to boards; odd armorial bookplate covering most of the… Read more about this item

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1917. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. First Edition, no additional printings; 8vo, tan boards with suede spine, no dj; vg- (shelfworn; suede faded to brown, may have once been green; spine and front hinge waterstained; tear and wear to suede at spine head; corners heavily worn; top rear corner worn to board; bookplate… Read more about this item