WAITING FOR GODOT
First edition in English of Beckett's influential and enigmatic "tragicomedy in two acts."
First edition in English of Beckett's influential and enigmatic "tragicomedy in two acts."
First edition thus, issued as part of Grove Press's Collected Works of Samuel Beckett, of the nihilist masterpiece.
Limited first edition of this play written early in Carver's career, which "revealed the depths of [his] anguish" at being locked into a domestic life (30).
First edition thus of this pair of comedies by 18th-century playwright William Congreve, with stylish Beardsley-esque illustrations.
First printing of this examination of the Moscow Revolutionary Theater, established in 1922 to stage productions that promoted Soviet ideology – with signed woodcut print by Vladimir Favorsky.
First printing of this tragedy-farce by Soviet playwright, poet, and translator, with attractive cover and frontispiece art by multifaceted artist Vladimir Favorski.
First printing of this collection of four short plays by Pushkin, with atmospheric woodcut illustrations by multifaceted artist Vladimir Favorski – one of Favorski's final works.
Beautiful book edition of Housman's play about Queen Victoria, illustrated in black and white by famed Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard.
Association copy first printing of the famous play, inscribed by both authors to Bryna Untermeyer and Louis Untermeyer, the poet, editor, and critic who was an early supporter of the playwrighting duo.
First printing of one of the best-known American plays of the 20th century, tackling freedom of thought with the contemporary threat of McCarthyism as underlying subtext.
First printing of the script of the beloved Tony-winning Broadway musical based on Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION.
Attention must be paid to this handsome first printing of the classic play by a giant of the American theater.
First printing of this collection of "teleplays" for Black audiences by a Black writer, chronicling "the Black struggle to 'make it' in white America during the decade of the sixties" (Foreword).
Limited signed special edition of Eugene O'Niell's second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the story of the cataclysmic effects wrought on a sailor and his family by his hatred of the sea.
Limited signed special edition of the acclaimed play, a veiled commentary on the US occupation of Haiti.
Limited signed special edition of this Existentialist anti-Capitalist play, which sees a working man descend into madness after realizing he matters little to the rich people of New York.
First edition thus, a handsome edition of the two plays, with production notes about the first performance of EQUUS.
First printing of this collection of eight plays by the Pulitzer-winning writer, director, and actor, including collaborations with Patti Smith.
First printing of the famous Broadway play about two mismatched roommates, the basis for the 1968 film and 1970s television series.
First printing of the script for the Tony-winning Victorian slasher musical, based on the classic 19th-century Penny Dreadful story.
First printing of Spark's only play, inscribed with love to a "Howard," likely poet Howard Sergeant, with whom Spark was briefly involved in earlier years.
Lengthily inscribed first printing of the book and lyrics to the beloved musical.
First edition of the play version of John Steinbeck's landmark work, following the tragedy of two migrant farm workers in the Great Depression.
Signed limited edition of this play by the Irish playwright and friend of James Joyce.
First printing of the classic existential absurdist play, a grimly humorous exploration of two minor characters from Shakespeare's HAMLET.