American Drama
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The World of Tennessee Williams
by Leavitt, Richard F. (Editor)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First Edition.
SIGNED by Tennessee Williams and Richard Leavitt (the editor), number 64 of 250 copies. A lavishly illustrated book on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto, 176 pages, in dust jacket with slipcase (hard cover).
CONDITION: Near Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket in original cardboard slipcase. Errata slip laid in. Slipcase a bit dusty.
SIGNED by Tennessee Williams and Richard Leavitt (the editor), number 64 of 250 copies. A lavishly illustrated book on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto, 176 pages, in dust jacket with slipcase (hard cover).
CONDITION: Near Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket in original cardboard slipcase. Errata slip laid in. Slipcase a bit dusty.
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€269.21
Tennessee Williams
by Bloom, Harold (ed.)
New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Later printing. Octavo, 211 pages. A compilation of essays on Tennessee Williams's work. From the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series on famous writers, this one being an "updated edition" of the book on Williams. Hardcover, issued without a dust jacket. Near Fine, with some minor bumps to the spine.
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€33.06
Tennessee Williams: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
by Bak, John S. (editor)
New York: New Directions, 2009. Later printing. Octavo, 313 pages, paperback. Fine. Slight bump at bottom of spine.
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€14.17
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[SIGNED] Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources
by Mamet, David
Mamet, David. Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources. Woodstock and New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 2001.
First American Edition, 1st Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), xv, [1], 336 pages, in fabulous illustrated boards and dust jacket by Mick Brownfield (hard cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet's wild and crazy novel with an even wilder premise: The Internet crashes and scholars reassemble the past from the unreliable memories of Ginger, wife of ex-President... Read more about this item
First American Edition, 1st Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), xv, [1], 336 pages, in fabulous illustrated boards and dust jacket by Mick Brownfield (hard cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet's wild and crazy novel with an even wilder premise: The Internet crashes and scholars reassemble the past from the unreliable memories of Ginger, wife of ex-President... Read more about this item
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€94.46
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN THEATRE
by Bordman, Gerald
New York: Oxford University Press. 1984. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Double column format. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 734 pages. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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€15.51
The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces
by Bangs, John Kendrick
New York: Harper & Brothers. 1896. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Navy cloth boards with decoration to face & gilt title to face & spine. Light rubbing to edges. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. Contents include The Bicyclers, A Dramatic Evening, The Fatal Message, and A Proposal Under Difficulties. John Kendrick Bangs [1862-1922] was an American writer, editor and satirist. . 1st Edition....
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€21.71
Hotel Universe
by Philip Barry
Very Good Copy. Some slight marks and bends to outside cover, otherwise pristine pages. Barry thought enough of the play to have lines from it carved on his tombstone: "All things are turned to a roundness. Wherever there is an end, from it springs a beginning." Many critics regard "Hotel Universe" as Barry's best play. The two-hour piece is unusual in that Barry wrote it to be performed without an intermission. Written in 1929 while Barry was in Cannes, the play is set in a small seaside...
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€5.67
Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality and Mid-20th Century Drama
by Paller, Michael
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. The author examines Williams's plays from the 1940s through the 1980s against the backdrop of his life story and the culture in which he worked. Octavo, 269 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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€23.62
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[SIGNED] Homicide
by Mamet, David
Mamet, David. Homicide. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 220 x 135 mm), xv, [1], 126 pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page of this paperback original, a screenplay for a crime drama Mamet directed starring Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy. "Homicide" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won Mamet a "Screenwriter of the Year" award from the London Critics' Circle... Read more about this item
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 220 x 135 mm), xv, [1], 126 pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page of this paperback original, a screenplay for a crime drama Mamet directed starring Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy. "Homicide" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won Mamet a "Screenwriter of the Year" award from the London Critics' Circle... Read more about this item
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€141.69
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[SIGNED] The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness
by Mamet, David
Mamet, David. The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness. New York: Grove Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 137 mm), 87, [1] pages, in cream-colored cloth, titles in blue to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Two of his early plays, both of them in the form of radio programs.
CONDITION: Slight fading to spine titles. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket that has very light toning to the flaps.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 137 mm), 87, [1] pages, in cream-colored cloth, titles in blue to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Two of his early plays, both of them in the form of radio programs.
CONDITION: Slight fading to spine titles. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket that has very light toning to the flaps.
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€94.46
Tennessee Williams: A Study of the Short Fiction
by Vannatta, Dennis
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. A chronological survey of Tennessee Williams's short fiction by a professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Octavo, 142 pages. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Very slight age-toning to pages, as well as to flaps of dust jacket.
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€18.89
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[SIGNED] The Cryptogram
by Mamet, David
Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 203 x 132 mm), 101 pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet's play about the breakup of a marriage from the viewpoint of a child. "The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing--the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers." (From the back cover).
This is the scarce soft-cover edition. There was also a hard-cover version published as a book-club edition.... Read more about this item
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet's play about the breakup of a marriage from the viewpoint of a child. "The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing--the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers." (From the back cover).
This is the scarce soft-cover edition. There was also a hard-cover version published as a book-club edition.... Read more about this item
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€141.69
The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde: A Play
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: Albondocani Press, 1984. First Edition. A previously unpublished one-act play that takes place in London. This is #128 of 150 numbered copies. Hand-sewn red marbled paper wrappers with white label on front printed in black. Publisher's one-page prospectus laid in. Fine. SCARCE. A gorgeous production featuring Swedish marble wrappers by William Ferguson and Nancy King of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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€165.30
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[SIGNED] The Chinaman: Poems
by Mamet, David
Mamet, David. The Chinaman: Poems. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing.Octavo (8 1/4 x5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 72 pages, in brown quarter cloth over black boards, titles to spine, in a printed, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. A slim volume of poetry by David Mamet, who is more often known as a playwright.
CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. A slim volume of poetry by David Mamet, who is more often known as a playwright.
CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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€94.46
Dark Ride & Other Plays
by Len Jenkin
Good Copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Numerous production photos throughout.Some shelf wear apparent. (Slight damage to outside, upper spine -see photos- book still tight) "The trip itself, like a spooky show in a carnival tunnel, is full of bright, surprising images, scary and funny. --The Village VoiceFunny, rich, erudite, playful, assured. --Soho NewsFew playwrights have Jenkin's skill at theatrical sleight-of-hand … it supplies an ingenuity which cannot fail to stimulate both the theatre...
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€13.70
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[SIGNED] We're No Angels
by Mamet, David
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 135 mm), 131, [1] pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet's screenplay for the 1989 comedy starring Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, and Demi Moore. A Paperback Original.
Mamet "gives the traditional prison-break story the personal Mamet imprint in a film that reverberates with his special blend of gripping suspense, slapdash buffoonery, and ingenious... Read more about this item
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet's screenplay for the 1989 comedy starring Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, and Demi Moore. A Paperback Original.
Mamet "gives the traditional prison-break story the personal Mamet imprint in a film that reverberates with his special blend of gripping suspense, slapdash buffoonery, and ingenious... Read more about this item
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€70.84
Moose Mating
by David Grae
Like new. Unread/pristine clean pages. Very slight shelf wear apparent to cover."THE STORY: The play follows the romance of Betsy and Michael, a pair of twenties/early thirties, bright, ambitious downtowners who meet at a play and experience instant, overwhelming chemistry-the magic and misery of the wound that can only be healed by the sword that inflicted it. We not only watch the romantic heroes interact, but their thoughts are revealed as well - their insecurities, fears, and dreams about...
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€5.67
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays: Tennessee Williams
by Saddik, Annette J. (editor)
New York: New Directions, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Twelve late plays by Tennessee Williams. Octavo, 311 pages, paperback. Fine.
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€14.17
The Play Goes On. A Memoir
by Simon, Neil
New York: Simon and Schuster. 1999. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic cover. As new condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 348 pages.. The autobiography of the late, great American playwright and screenwriter. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€15.51
Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams
by Voss, Ralph F. (ed.)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Essays on the influence of popular culture on Tennessee Williams (and vice versa); his relationship to Hollywood; his struggles with censorship and depictions of gender and sexuality, etc. Octavo, 251 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy.
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€23.62
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. II, 1945-1957
by Devlin, Albert J. and Tischler, Nancy M. (editors)
New York: New Directions, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. These letters are from Tennessee Williams's greatest period, which included such plays as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Octavo, 662 pages, hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.
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€28.34
Something Cloudy, Something Clear
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 85 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket with very light rubbing.
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€23.62
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[SIGNED] The Hero Pony
by Mamet, David
Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 215 x 145 mm), viii, 55, [1] pages, in red quarter-cloth over black boards, titles in silver to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet is best known as a playwright. But this book demonstrates his virtuosity as a writer; it's his debut collection of poems.
CONDITION: Very Good or better in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Pages moderately toned, which is often the case with this title, but clean and unmarked.
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet is best known as a playwright. But this book demonstrates his virtuosity as a writer; it's his debut collection of poems.
CONDITION: Very Good or better in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Pages moderately toned, which is often the case with this title, but clean and unmarked.
Item Price
€85.01
On To Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement
by Friedl, Bettina (editor)
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked in full cloth binding. 378pp. Lightly rubbed jacket now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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€26.92
