PLAYS: Pleasant and Unpleasant
Inscribed association copy of this collection from the Nobel winning playwright, presented warmly to Alfred G. Arvold, who was instrumental in the US for the development and spread of the "little theater" movement.
Inscribed association copy of this collection from the Nobel winning playwright, presented warmly to Alfred G. Arvold, who was instrumental in the US for the development and spread of the "little theater" movement.
First printing of this collection of eight plays by the Pulitzer-winning writer, director, and actor, including collaborations with Patti Smith.
First edition of this uncommon history, covering the first 90 years of the important performers' charitable organization.
Inscribed first edition in English of this play about Stalin's Counter-Intelligence SMERSH and its political prisoners, originally conceived while the author was serving a sentence of hard labor in the Gulag.
First edition, review copy of the great American musical based on ("suggested by") the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, with music by Styne and lyrics by a still-obscure Stephen Sondheim.
First edition of Sondheim and Weidman's musical based on Perry's 1853 expedition to Japan, a Kabuki-influenced production with a demanding and ambitious Japanese-influenced score.
First printing of the book adaptation of Spielberg's ambitious, high-tech, and awe-inspiring film.
Inscribed first edition of Stamp's third volume of memoirs, covering the '60s — the decade in which the actor worked with Pasolini and Fellini and consorted with fellow legends Jean Shrimpton, Julie Christie, and Michael Caine.
Association first edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein in 1957 — and which Toklas repudiated.
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 US edition of Thomas's final completed work, a day of ghosts and villagers in a small Welsh coastal town, originally commissioned by the BBC as a radio drama and later adapted for theatre and film.
First edition of Thomas's screenplay adaptation of the classic Stevenson short story, first issued as a novella ten years after Thomas's death in conjunction with a planned but never produced Richard Burton film.
First printing of this Tony Award-winning play, the story of the conflicts within a Black family that are exposed when the son returns home from the military.
Signed limited first edition of Welty's one-act farce produced as part of the off-Broadway production "The Littlest Revue" at New York's Phoenix Theatre in 1956.
First edition thus, illustrated by Vassos, of Oscar Wilde's one-act Biblical play — with plates in bold Art Deco style and flavors of Beardsley.
First UK edition of the script for Tennessee Williams's controversial 1956 film, which the National League of Decency attempted to ban, in beautiful blue goatskin binding by Asprey.
First edition of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman.
Signed first edition of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman.
Inscribed first edition, first printing of Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical memory play, his first stage success.
First printing of Williams's most enduring play, a New Directions publication in the original dust jacket (carefully restored).
Signed first printing of Williams's most enduring play, a beautiful copy in the iconic Lustig-designed dust jacket.
First edition of Wilson's delightful illustrated pseudo-biography of his cat Sylvia and her rise to fame and fortune in cat show business.