THE COLLECTED SHORTER PLAYS
First edition of this complete collection of Beckett's 25 short plays and playlets for stage, radio, and screen, from 1957's ALL THAT FALL to 1984's WHAT WHERE.
First edition of this complete collection of Beckett's 25 short plays and playlets for stage, radio, and screen, from 1957's ALL THAT FALL to 1984's WHAT WHERE.
First edition of Beckett's three-act play, written in French just before the composition of WAITING FOR GODOT, posthumously published by permission of the Beckett estate in the English translation of Michael Brodsky.
Signet movie tie-in edition, of the play that "changed American theater forever" (NEW YORK TIMES).
First edition, first printing of this mammoth anthology, including Hemingway's only play and four previously uncollected stories.
Limited first US edition of James Joyce's only play, a semi-autobiographical story of the tangled lives of two couples.
Signed first edition of McNally's play, a reimagined life of Christ and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.
Clean first edition, first printing of this tale of a playwright who leaves Broadway success by the author of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.
Beautifully bound set of the works of the French playwright, from the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, who was among the most celebrated book collectors of her era.
First edition of this play based on E. M. Forster's 1924 novel, a story of scandal and racism that takes place in British colonial India during the rise of the Indian independence movement.
Gorgeously bound 9-volume set of Shakespeare, all uniformly bound in early 19th-century full tree calf with elaborately gilt-stamped spines.
First edition of the illustrated script for the Old Vic Company production of HAMLET, broadcast on CBS in 1959, gorgeously illustrated by Shahn.
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 Steinbeck's experimental work, an amalgam of play and novel similar to OF MICE AND MEN.
First edition of the play version of John Steinbeck's landmark work, following the tragedy of two migrant farm workers in the Great Depression.
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.
Limited deluxe issue of the Thomson edition, illustrating the popular historical novel about the Irish actress from the Georgian era, one of 200 large-paper copies on handmade paper.
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 edition of Wilson's delightful illustrated pseudo-biography of his cat Sylvia and her rise to fame and fortune in cat show business.