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 of this pair of comedies by 18th-century playwright William Congreve, with stylish Beardsley-esque illustrations.
First printing of this history of the Granada Television series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, published in tribute to Jeremy Brett and the role that "fascinated, frightened, and consumed him."
First US edition of this historical comedy, an ironic portrait of English manners, morality and attitude at the turn of the century.
Beautiful book edition of Housman's play about Queen Victoria, illustrated in black and white by famed Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard.
First printing of the script of the beloved Tony-winning Broadway musical based on Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION.
Signed first edition of Milne's first collection of plays, an aspect of his writing career now criminally overlooked.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 260 numbered copies signed by Milne, of this play in three acts of a modern marriage between a writer and a woman he meets at the British Museum.
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 Shaffer's notorious, Tony-award-winning drama of pathological sexuality, religion, and violence.
First edition thus, a handsome edition of the two plays, with production notes about the first performance of EQUUS.
Gorgeously bound 9-volume set of Shakespeare, all uniformly bound in early 19th-century full tree calf with elaborately gilt-stamped spines.
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 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 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 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.