Plays from Great Northern Books

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1953. Third edition augmented by two new plays. Hardcover. Good/fair. First Edition, thus, with two previously unproduced plays and a new introduction. In bright yellow cloth lettered in green, on page [ii] Donald Windham's name is misspelled Wyndham and asterisks mark three plays that are out of print. On the inside flap the publisher… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. The fourth play by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Heidi Chronicles." A clean unmarked copy.

[New York]: Composing Room & Graphic Arts Typographers , 1971. First edition thus. Slipcased. Near Fine. Designed by Daniel Haberman. Illustrated by Jack Wolfgang Beck. "Fifth in a series of annual keepsakes prepared for the friends of the publishers." [from introduction]. Quarter bound black faux leather on brown linen boards with brown marbled endpapers. Housed in brown… Read more about this item

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1986:May. v.3:no.2. Periodical. Very Good in Wraps . In a free and easy conversation with director Mark Lamos, the playwright talks about audiences, social conscience and his own work, from 'The Crucible' to 'Salesman' on TV." Cover of magazine and article are illustrated with black and white photographs of Miller. Also … Read more about this item

London: Samuel French, 1954. First edition thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and stage diagrams. Former owner's name stamped on inside cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. First British edition of the Pulitzer Prize winning play. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page for a charity auction for the Graham Home for Children and dated the year of publication. Also includes prospectus from the charity. Title page is also embossed… Read more about this item

New York: Modern Library, [1956]. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Dustjacket design from 1978-1986. Translated and introduced by Stark Young. Includes the plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters. A clean unmarked copy with a dustjacket with slight edgewear.

New York: Modern Library, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Contents: Mourning Become Electra ; Ah, Wilderness! ; All God's Chillun Got Wings ; Marco Millions ; Welded ; Diff'rent ; The First Man ; Gold. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Later printing. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. "Night of January 16th was first published in an edition for amateur theater organizations in 1936, using a version edited by drama professor Nathaniel Edward Reeid. The play's title changed multiple times. Rand's working title was Penthouse Legend. The play was called The Verdict… Read more about this item

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. No printing indicated. "Night of January 16th was first published in an edition for amateur theater organizations in 1936, using a version edited by drama professor Nathaniel Edward Reeid. The play's title changed multiple times. Rand's working title was Penthouse Legend. The play was called The… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, 1954. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good /good. Selected with a foreword by the author. Introduction by John Gassner. Contents: Genius Without Fetters -- Before Curtainrise -- The Shadow of a Gunman -- Juno and the Paycock -- The Plough and the Stars -- The Silver Tassie -- Within the Gates -- Purple… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1970. First edition thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. An Evergreen Original. Introduction by John Lahr. "What the Butler Saw," was Orton's final play and the second to be performed after his death. A tight, clean, unmarked copy.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1983. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Fool for Love by Sam Shepard and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife / words by Sam Shepard ; music by Sam Shepard & Catherine Stone. A clean, unmarked copy.

Minneapolis: Cornelius Publishers, 1966. First edition thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Translated by Norman Ginsbury. Spine slightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Grove Press, 1960. Sixth Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Very Good +. An Evergreen Original, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Includes black and white photographs from the first American performance. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: New American Library, 1963:October. First printing. Paperback. Very Good +. Three early plays by the author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. First printing. "A play about Alice James, the bedridden sister of William and Henry James, and her imaginative meetings with such characters as Lewis Carroll's Alice, Emily Dickenson, and Margaret Fuller." [from publisher] Small crease to front flap, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1960. First edition thus?. Paperback. Very Good. Adapted from his novel of the same name. Includes original cast list and property plot.

New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1959. First edition thus?. Paperback. Very Good +. Adapted from Nathanael West's novel by Howard Teichmann. Includes a list of the orginal cast.

New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1955. First edition thus?. Paperback. Very Good +. Includes a list of the original cast and cast photography, and an introduction by Stark Young. Foote won Academy Awards for his screenplays for the movies, "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies."