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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, 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.
Signed first edition of McNally's play, a reimagined life of Christ and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 edition of the illustrated script for the Old Vic Company production of HAMLET, broadcast on CBS in 1959, gorgeously illustrated by Shahn.
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 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.
Signet movie tie-in edition, of the play that "changed American theater forever" (NEW YORK TIMES).
First edition of this landmark neoclassical tragedy — the first documented performance using moveable scenes — with exquisite double-page etchings of the stage by an influential innovator of the form.
First printing of the first complete one-volume hardcover edition of Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning two-part play, in original slipcase.
First edition, first printing of the Arthur Laurents-penned book of the Tony-award winning musical, a US American ROMEO AND JULIET.
Inscribed first edition, first printing of Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical memory play, his first stage success.
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.
Signed first edition of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman.
Lovely signed first edition of this collaborative work about a black family living in a white Boston neighborhood during the introduction of bussing.
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 edition of these plays, including the Agatha Christie-an CLEVER DICK and the Holmesian SHERLOCK'S LAST CASE, by a playwright with "no great partiality for the works of A. Conan Coyle" and "no particular interest" in the detective genre.
Book club edition of Gillette's own signature piece, issued by Doubleday following the play's mid-'70s stage revival, and bearing a gift inscription to noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong.
First printing of this second volume of Cushing's memoirs covering his two decades with Hammer Films, including his first appearance as Sherlock Holmes in 1959's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Working script for the original Harold Prince-directed Broadway mounting of Sondheim's innovative classic of musical theater.