Search Results: Plays from The Owl at the Bridge

"This catalogue is dedicated to Professor S. Foster Damon, Curator Emeritus of the Harris Collection, who has seen and loved many of these plays, who has versed himself in American traditions and antiquities, and who shares joyfully with others his recollections and his knowledge." Typescript, 51 pages, index at end; stapled in blue paper; Good+. Stock#ofc0502.

NY, Grove Press [c1966]. 'Sixteenth printing'. Soft Cover. 'In a stunning series of macabre, climactic scenes, Genet presents his caustic view of man and society.' 96, [13] pages, photos, 20 cm.; paper; good+.Stock# 31596.

OFFPRINT from Modern Language Studies [Oxford University Press], 1969, pages 244-261; 24 cm. Contrasts Calderón's El Pintor de su Deshonra with others of his honor plays. Printed on recto only. Inscribed to Alan S. Trueblood. Very Good. Stock#45771.

Harcourt, Brace, NY [1954]. 'First American edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 159 p. Dj clipped, spine faded, some red-pencil underlining; good. Stock#100253.

Penguin Books [c1981]. Soft Cover. Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, during the witch trials. 'I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history. The fate of each character is exactly that of his historical model, and there is no one in the drama who did not play a similar-- and in some cases exactly the same-- role in history.' 152 p., 20 cm.; pictorial paper covers; minor wear, some ink marking; good. 31927.

New York, Viking [1968]. Soft Cover. 139 p.,19.5 cm. First performed and published in 1949. Thirty sixth printing. Stock# 30,196x. Good/ paper. Another copy. Imprint date: 1970. Forty-third printing. Good+/ wrappers

New York, Washington Square, [1970]. Soft Cover. [v], 277 p., 18 cm. The four plays are: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion. Series: The Complete Greek Tragedies. Stock# 40,098. Vg/ paper.

Chicago Uni. Press [c1955]. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Soft Cover. Alcestis, Translated by Richmond Lattimore. The Medea, Translated by Rex Warner. The Heracleidae, Translated by Ralph Gladstone. Hippolytus, Translated by David Grene. Translator's introduction to each play. ix, 221 p., 20 cm.; orange pictorial paper covers; VG. 31512.

Chicago U. Press [c1968]. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Soft Cover. 228 p., 20 cm. Electra, translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule; The Phoenician Women, translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; The Bacchae, translated by William Arrowsmith. Translators' introduction to each play. Pictorial red paper covers a bit scuffed; VG. stock#31514.

Chicago Uni. Press / Phoenix Books [c1969]. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Soft Cover. The Cyclops [&] Heracles, Translated by William Arrowsmith; Iphigenia in Tauris, Translated by Witter Bynner; Helen, Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Translators' introductions to each play. 264 p., 20 cm.; blue pictorial paper covers; VG. 31513.

Dramatists Play Service Inc. [1969]. Soft Cover. Set in the Giddens house in a small town in the South. 81 p., scene design, property list, copy of first performance program; stapled in printed paper wrappers; VG. 31933.

Copyright, 1904, by Samuel French, NY & London. 'No. 78'. Soft Cover. 25, [3] p., stage design; stapled in printed paper wrappers; closed tears to front cover, chips from rear cover, rubber stamp on front cover; good. 31934.

Wellesley, MA, 1952. Periodical. OFFPRINT. pp. [145]- 153.23 cm. "Sobretiro de Estudios Hispanicos: Homenaje a Archer M. Huntington." Fichter was the great scholar of Lope. Stock# 41,957x. Vg / offprint.

Bard/ Avon [1975].. 143 p.; paper; pages darkening; good+. Play. First published in 1938, it won the Pulitzer Prize in drama that year. stock#101313. American literature.

New York, Vintage, [197??]. Soft Cover. xxv, [1], 446 p. 18.5 cm. Contents: 1.) Prometheus bound and 2.) Agamemnon, by Aeschylus 3.) Oedipus the King, and 4.) Antigone, by Sophocles.5.)Alcestis and 6.) Medea, by Euripides. 7.)The Frogs, by Aristophanes. Stock# 40,096. Vg/ paper.

N.Y., Bantam, [1972]. Soft Cover. xviii, 342 p., 18 cm. "The definitive modern translation by Arvid Paulson." Includes: Easter, Miss Julie, The Father, The Stronger, The Bond, Comrades, and Crimes and Crimes. Stock# 32,848.Vg/ paperback.

Two bookseller lists. Performing Arts: 233 items, typescript; Drama: 49 pages, 225 items. Both in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0265.

Doubleday, NY [196-?]. Hard Cover. 44 p., 7 color illus.; 24 cm. "'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?' 'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.' 'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.' 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?' 'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time...'" Color pictorial boards; dj clipped, worn, ink inscription; good+. Another copy, ink inscription, dj worn;… Read More

Yale University Press, 1972. Includes Terms and Concepts; Appearance and Reality; Experience of Contradiction; World as Theatre; Art as Play; Metaphysical and Meditative Devotion; Baroque Epic; Sacrificial Hero; End of the World. With folded newspaper page from TLS, 6 Sept. 1957, "What Is Baroque?" reviewing Imbrie Buffum's book. Ink owner name of distinguished hispanist Alan S. Trueblood. Hard Cover. 229 pages, index; 22 cm. Dj chipped, worn; good. stock#45801.

Softcover. 50, [6] pages; 20 cm. Six very short plays by the author of 'Italian-American Reconciliation': The Red Coat; Down and Out; Let Us Go Out into the Starry Night; Out West; A Lonely Impulse of Delight; Welcome to the Moon. New in printed blue wrappers. Stock#33982x/h.