Drama from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Fine. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 186 of 200 numbered and signed copies.

New York: Random House, 1953. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Jacket with a trifle of soiling. A fine copy. 8vo. Photographs by Slim Aarons. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket by Clifford Strohl Associates. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Alan and Phyllis Sues: "For Alan & Phyllis - Two more loyal supporters a playwright never… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1943. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine and portion of front cover faded, the latter also spotted. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. First edition. A dedication copy "To Hugh ['Binkie'] Beaumont, the play's producer, inscribed by the playwright on the front free endpaper: "For Hugh from Noel Coward." (...all Noel's plays had been presented in England… Read more about this item

New York: Samuel French, 1937. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some light soiling to wrappers. A nice copy. 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers. New edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper: "The new edition, Helen dear, with many memories - Dan, Christmas 1941!" The printed dedication reads: "For Helen… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Robert Stodart, et al., 1818. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Somewhat worn, narrow surface cracks to joints, label wanting, internally some foxing and occasional marginal smudges and discolorations. 8vo. xix, [1], 461, [3] pages. Original drab boards, untrimmed; in a green half-morocco slipcase. First edition, first issue; leaf of Stodart ads at end. An excellent… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Near fine save some light darkening to the sheets. 8vo. Later buckram, original printed wrappers bound in, untrimmed. First edition. Inscribed by Bernstein on the half-title to the dedicatee's wife, the actress Patricia Patterson: "à la meilleure partenaire de Charles à la Marmanche Pat affecteuresment Henry Bernstein." Patricia… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Very lightly marked. 8vo. 60 pages. Original pale blue printed wrappers. First edition. The dedication copy (as usual "To My Wife" Constance), signed by Masefield on the half-title in ink and inscribed by him below this in pencil: "For Con from Jan. Nov. 3, 1947." A very good copy of… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. Some light shelfwear, with owner's inscription on the half title. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. 160 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Folio. Illustrations and an original lithograph by Jack Levine. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated black cloth; original slipcase. Lacks original glassine, otherwise fine. LIMITED EDITION, number 63 of 2,000 copies SIGNED by the Levine and Bentley.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First edition. Fine. Though slightly leaned, the jacket square and with only modest shelfwear at ends of spine, owner's name on front free endpaper, price intact, spine unsunned. 8vo. 173pp. Original green cloth; original printed dust jacket. A superior copy of Connelly's classic play (and early Farrar imprint), winner of the 1930… Read more about this item

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First edition. Mounted clippings on endleaves and preliminaries browning and obscuring text. 8vo. 322pp. Original cloth-backed printed boards. A curiously extra-illustrated copy, in which an early reader mounted photographs of O'Neill and Louis Wolheim, and clipped reviews, on every page up to page one (tipped at corners so although the title and… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Light toning to glassine spine, a few spots on slipcase. Folio. Illustrated by Shannon Stirnweis. Original red cloth-backed pictorial boards; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Introduction by Walter Kerr.

Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited edition, number 605 of 2000 copies signed by the illustrator. A few chips to glassine, otherwise fine. Folio. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton. Original half linen, decorated cloth; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Introduction by Alan Strachan.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. A few tiny chips to glassine, otherwise fine.. Folio. Illustrations and an original lithograph by Jack Levine. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated black cloth; original glassine; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 605 of 2,000 copies SIGNED by the Levine and Bentley.