Drama from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Introduction by Lewis Casson. Illustrations by Charles Mozley. 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown cloth over bevelled boards with black pictorial stamping. xxix, 138pp. Numerous illustrations, full-page color plates, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Faint binding wear only, with tiny scuff at upper right of front board, else internally… Read more about this item

Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Introduction by Alan Strachan. Illustrations by Clarke Hutton. 4to. Quarter linen with gilt-lettered calf spine label and pictorial paper over boards. ix, 169pp. Line drawings, full-page color plates. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Handsome copy of these back-to-back plays first published in 1912 and 1897 -- first title in the LEC's 42nd… Read more about this item

New York: Phaedra, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Red patterned paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 237pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket (only) rubbed and a bit scuffed. Nice first edition of (as front jacket panel shouts) "Three New Dramatic Works.

Paris: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Preface by A.P. Herbert. Illustrations by Mariette Lydis. Folio. Dark blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decorations. 121pp. Top edge gilt. Full-page lithographs. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Tight and quite handsome copy of this large, early LEC production -- eighth title in their eighth series. This special copy bears a… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Illustrations by George Him. Narrow 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, slipcase. xxxiv, 215pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Tight and bright LEC production, their 7th title in the 34th series, containing Shaw's 1897 play "The Devil's Disciple" and 1898 play "Caesar and Cleopatra." This unique… Read more about this item

New York: The Tenny Press, 1927. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 135pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this curious study of a mysterious late 16th century play to which several dramatists' names were attached, always Anthony Mundy and Thomas Dekker and even William Shakespeare as reviser. In 1942 Tannenbaum published… Read more about this item

Chicago: Americana House, 1954. Hardcover. Foreword by Ralph G. Newman. Small 4to. Coarse tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 148pp. Fine/near fine. First edition, with a signature of Newman (founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop) tipped to the front flyleaf.

New York: Random House, 1934. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 57pp. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly age toned and spine rather darkened, with small chip at spine head/tail. Handsome first edition of this work for which Virgil Thomson composed the score -- considered groundbreaking in every respect including its all-black… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press, 1952. Hardcover. Translation by Theodore Martin. Introduction by Thomas Carlyle. Illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Small 4to. Tan cloth with brown spine lettering and decoration, slipcase. 160pp. Frontispiece, numerous full-page illustrations, pictorial endpapers; all in brown. Fine/very good. Mild edgewear to slipcase. Tight, handsome trade edition of the sumptuous Limited Editions Club edition of the… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press, 1962. Hardcover. New version by Gilbert Seldes. Illustrations by Pablo Picasso. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and cream decorated paper over boards, slipcase. 117pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of slipcase wear. Tight, handsome later trade edition of the celebrated 1934 Limited Editions Club edition (one of their most… Read more about this item

Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, n.y.. Hardcover. Birds" introduction by Dudley Fitts and illustrations by Marian Parry. "Frogs" translation by William James Hickie, introduction by Gilbert Seldes and wood engravings by John Austen. 4to. Blue cloth with spine gilt lettering and front board pictorial giltstamping, slipcase. xii, 52pp; xviii, 62pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Handsome, pristine later printing (ca. 1980s) of… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press, 1990. Hardcover. Introduction by Lewis Casson. Illustrations by Charles Mozley. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and tan cloth with red pictorial stamping, slipcase. xxix, 138pp, 63pp. Color illustrations. Near fine/fine. Tight, handsome later reprint edition of the Limited Editions Club's two-volume 1962 production of this 4-act drama first published in 1903… Read more about this item

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with front board gilt lettering. 23pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Spine light sunned, else tight and near fine. Handsome first edition, with colophon at front noting 250 numbered copies (this #100) on handmade paper and boldly signed by Housman.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 250pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket quite age toned and edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips -- but complete and overall quite presentable. A tight and quite attractive early printing of this Pulitzer Prize winner by… Read more about this item

London: Dent, 1967. Hardcover. Edited by M.R. Ridley. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 462pp. Fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight and attractive copy of #383 in the "Everyman's Library" series (first published in this form in 1909, revised 1955). Contains Marlowe's plays "Tamburlaine the Great" (all… Read more about this item

Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. Translation by H. Baker and J. Miller. Introduction by Henry Peyre. Illustrations by Serge Ivanoff. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, paper-covered slipcase. xvi, 197pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. Spine slightly sunned, else tight and fine. Superb reprint edition of the Limited Edition Club's edition pairing these late 17th century comedic… Read more about this item

Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. Edited by Herbert Farjeon. Illustrations by Edy Legrand. 4to. Grey cloth with silver spine lettering and decoration, paper-covered slipcase. 138pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Spine lightly sunned and slipcase a bit so. Handsome reprint edition of the 1939 Limited Editions Club edition of this tragedy, noted on title page as "The text… Read more about this item

London: Dent, 1964. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jackets. xiv, 322pp, 8pp ads, (2pp ads); xv, 312pp, 4pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Fine/near fine. Faintest of sunning to jacket spines (only) and small ownership signature on each front pastedown. Superbly tight and bright later printing of Everyman's Library #491 and #492, first… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 159pp, (1pp). Near fine/very good. Typically sunned spine to otherwise sharp jacket. Quite attractive, tight first U.S. edition of this comic verse play -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is the signature of one of the lead actors from… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 108pp. Very good/very good. Binding a tad sunned along edges; jacket spine age toned. Handsome first edition of this play in verse -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front pastedown is a fine signature from the lead character of the 1958 first… Read more about this item