Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1921. 1.-3. Tausend. Hardcover. 8vo. 82,[2],pp. Paper-covered boards. Some age wearing and minor staining and discoloration to binding. A play about the social revolution of the 20th century by the controversial German Communist playwright. Text in German. Binding in good, interior in very good condition. More
Berlin: F. Fontane & Co., 1906. Hardcover. 8vo. 145pp. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Discoloration and some staining to marbled paper. Ribbon marker. Decorated endpapers. A comedy in five acts. Text in Gothic script. Translated by Josef Kainz..... More
Boston: John W. Luce, 1907. Hardcover. 8vo. 170pp. Decorated brown cloth. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped and rubbed. Wear to corners. Some staining and discoloration to binding. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Ex-libris of Joseph Rauch on inside of front board and signature of same on free front..... More
Milano: Ubulibri / Electa Editrice, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [12], 343, [1]pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over black cloth with white lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable yearbook of the performing arts for 1980, profusely illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text b/w photographic reproductions. Minor and sporadic creasing along..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First American edition. Softcover. Octavo. XI, [1], 144pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Publisher's logo on title page. The Eternal Road is a remarkable play originally published in German under the title: Der Weg der Verheissung – The Way of the Covenant, by Austrian novelist and..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1988. Book-Club edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4"). [16], 108pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over paper covered boards, with yellow lettering to spine. ""Speed-the-Plow" is a play by David Mamet which is a satirical dissection of the American movie business, a theme Mamet would revisit..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago, (1936). Fourth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxviii, 386 pp. Blue buckram binding w/dj. Some wearing to edges. Corners bumped. Head and tail of spine bumped. Dj chipped and creased to edges. Frontis. Signed by previous owner. Illustrated with many b/w photos, drawings and maps. In good condition..... More
(Toronto): Key Porter Books, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 112 pp. Black cloth binding with dj. With b&w and color photographs. In very good condition with very good dj. More
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. Limited ed. Hardcover. 4to. x., 272pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Spine and covers bumped, rubbed and scuffed. Corners worn. Spine split, signatures pulling starting at page 16 chapter 2. Foxing at the beginning and end of the book, as well as the front and back..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. ix., 335pp. Orange cloth with black lettering. Slight bumping and rubbing on head and tail of spine and corners. DJ rubbed, chipped and a closed tear. A biography of the man who built the Swan Theater. Overall the book is in good+..... More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1944. Softcover. 8vo. 96pp. [27-123]. Original wrappers. Head and tail of spine, edges and corners chipped and rubbed. Slight yellowing along spine and perimeter of edges on the front and back covers. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 27, No..... More