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Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; with an Introductory Essay and Notes

By: A Citizen of the West [Owen, Robert Dale]; [Mackay, Robert W. Stuart]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New-York, George Dearborn: 1837

Seller ID: 2289646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot, corners exposed, moderately foxed throughout, ink name on front endpaper and flyleaf. 1837 Hard Cover. Sabin 58021. Sabin gives both Owen and Mackay as possible authors, without providing rationale in support of either. Mackay is listed as the copyright holder on this copy. A historical drama focused on the life of Pocahontas, the Native American daughter of chief Powhatan famous for saving the life of John Smith. She later converted to Christianity and wed John Rolfe.
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The Shaksperian Stage [Shakespearian]

By: Albright, Victor E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Columbia University Press: 1909

Seller ID: 2308117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presentation copy inscribed by author. Boards toned, board edges rubbed, pencil notes and notecard pasted to front paste-down endpaper. 1909 Hard Cover. xii, 194 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Miracles and Longer Moralities; Interludes and Shorter Moralities; A Typical Shaksperian Stage; Some Principles of Restoration Staging; The Shaksperian Method of Stage Presentation; The Shaksperian Method of Stage Presentation (Continued); Appendix; Critical Bibliography; List of Plays.
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The Plays of Aristophanes, Volume Two [2]: The Birds; The Frogs; Lysistrata; The Thesmophoriazusae; The Ecclesiazusae; Plutus; Glossary (The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: Aristophanes; Rogers, Benjamin Bickley

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982

Seller ID: 2306985

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A couple tiny scuffs to gilt on edges. 1982 Full-Leather. 439 pp. Original brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes: The Birds; The Frogs; Lysistrata; The Thesmophoriazusae; The Ecclesiazusae; Plutus; Glossary. Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers, illustrations by Jean de Bosschere. This edition was produced as the second of two volumes for The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World.
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Image for New Voices in the American Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Death of a Salesman; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Seven Year Itch; Tea and Sympathy; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 258)

New Voices in the American Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Death of a Salesman; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Seven Year Itch; Tea and Sympathy; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 258)

By: Atkinson, Brooks; Williams, Tennessee; Miller, Arthur; Inge, William; Axelrod, George; Anderson, Robert; Wouk, Herman

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1955

Seller ID: 2306235

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket price clipped, jacket lightly toned. 1955 Hard Cover. xi, 559 pp. 2-page terminal publisher ad. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, silver titles & rules on spine, blind-stamped emblem & border on front board. A collection of American plays, with a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. Includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk.
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Three Plays: Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape (The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century)

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2307936

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A few tiny scuffs on spine. 1981 Full-Leather. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of three plays by the renowned Irish novelist and playwright who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. Includes: Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape.
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My Brother Brendan

By: Behan, Dominic

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1965

Seller ID: 2268440

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink note on front endpaper. 1965 Hard Cover. 159 pp. Dominic Behan's bottle book uncorks the same Dionysian spirit as Brendan's Confessions of An Irish Rebel (see p. 153). Much of the story is reconstructed from Brendan's own lips, and nearly all is personal observation. Dominic's portrait of Brendan is more savagely graphic and uninhibited, covers some of the same incidents, fills in the missing parents, and carries the reader nine years farther to Brendan's funeral. He writes with as much love as his irascible, scathing brother will allow him f...
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All the World's a Stage: Speeches, Poems and Songs from Shakespeare

By: Boux, Dorothy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Shepheard: 1994

Seller ID: 2144567

ISBN: 0856831468

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very light edge wear to upper rear jacket. Very Good. 1994 Hard Cover. A gorgeously illustrated version of the greatest speeches and scenes from the works of Shakespeare.
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The Eastman Theatre: Fulfilling George Eastman's Dream

By: Brayer, Elizabeth

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rochester, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.: 2010

Seller ID: 2269234

ISBN: 061539373X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed without inscription by the author, photographer, designer, project manager, and philanthropist Betty Strasenburgh on the title page. Jacket edges a bit rubbed. 2010 Large Hardcover. 203, [1] pp. The Eastman Theatre: Fulfilling George Eastman's Dream provides a stunning celebration of the history and renovation of the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York. The book is richly illustrated with period imagery as well as breathtaking photographs by award-winning photographer Andy Olenick. Part one of the book presents the importance of music to George Eastman; part two traces...
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Life of Galileo (Penguin Classics)

By: Brecht, Bertolt

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 2008

Seller ID: 2302311

ISBN: 0143105388

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed. 2008 Trade Paperback. Galileo ranks alongside Mother Courage and Mr. Puntila as one of Brecht's most intensely alive, human, and complex characters. In Life of Galileo, the great Renaissance scientist is in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. Unable to satisfy his appetite for scientific investigation, he comes into conflict with the Inquisition and must publicly renounce his theories, though in private he goes on working on his revolutionary ideas.
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The Later English Drama (Student's Edition)

By: Brown, Calvin S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York and Chicago, The A.S. Barnes Company: 1914

Seller ID: 1843396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Second edition. Rear hinge starting. 1914 Hard Cover. xix, 571 pp. Contents include; Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer; Sheridan's The Rivals; The School for Scandal; Knowles' Virginius; Bulwer-Lytton's The Lady of Lyons; Richelieu. It is the object of this book to present in convenient and accessible form what has ben done best in English drama from the time of Goldman to the present [1914]. For this purpose six plays, all of which still retain a place on the stage, have been selected, and, that the usefulness of the book might be increased, a number of notes have been added. --From th...
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The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (Student's Cambridge Edition)

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston/NewYork/Chicago, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1895

Seller ID: 2263678

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, light stain along top edge, ink name on front endpaper. 1895 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 1033 pp. Robert Browning (7 May 1812 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Browning's early career began promisingly, but was not a success. The long poem Pauline brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rosse...
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The Tragedie of Chabot Admirall of France (Publications of the University of Pennsylvania Series in Philology and Literature, Volume X)

By: Chapman, George; Shirley, James; Lehman, Ezra

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co.: 1906

Seller ID: 2304843

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1906 reissue of 1639 quarto editions. Very minor general wear. 124 pp. Printed boards, cloth spine. The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France is an early seventeenth-century play, generally judged to be a work of George Chapman, later revised by James Shirley. The play is the last in Chapman's series of plays on contemporary French politics and history, which started with Bussy D'Ambois and continued through The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. As usual in Chapman's French histories, the characters and plot are based on actual historical perso...
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Motley Tales and a Play (The New York Public Library Collector's Edition)

By: Chekhov, Anton

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1998

Seller ID: 2197529

ISBN: 0385487304

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxix, 387 pp. This anthology provides an unusual selection of stories and a play from among the author's own favorites, including The Student and The Three Sisters. Drawing from such rare artifacts as the Moscow Art Theatre's album from its production of The Three Sisters (with Chekhov's wife in the role of Masha) and Vladimir Nabokov's handwritten lecture notes on Chekhov's oeuvre, this Collector's Edition of most-loved works offers readers the chance to become acquainted with Chekhov's tender humor through the author...
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Anton Chekhov: Greatest Plays

By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2265136

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 274, [6] pp. Black leather spine, grey cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, grey ribbon marker bound in. A collection of plays by Anton Chekhov, including: The Cherry Orchard; The Sea Gull; The Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya.
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Eight Plays (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2307017

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 572 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of eight plays by Anton Chekhov, translated into English from the original Russian by Elisaveta Fen. including: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; The Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Bear; The Proposal; A Jubilee.
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Longer Plays by Modern Authors (American): Beau Brummell; The Copperhea; Dulcy; The Intimate Strangers

By: Cohen, Helen Louise; Fitch, Clyde; Thomas, Augustus; Kaufman, George S.; Connelly, Marc; Tarkington, Booth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2302750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. xxvii, 357 pp. CONTENTS: Drama in America, an Introduction; Clyde Fitch - Introduction, Beau Brummell; Augustus Thomas - Introduction, The Cooperhea; George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly - Introduction, Dulcy; Booth Tarkington - Introduction, The Intimate Strangers; Selected Bibliography for the Study of Drama in America; A List of American Plays for Supplementary Reading.
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The Way of the World: Comedy in Five Acts

By: Congreve, William; Kronenberger, Louis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 2261913

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Special Publication: S26 laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edge faded. 1959 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 108 pp. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger, illustrations by T.M. Cleland. With piercing accuracy William Congreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of society where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversationand moneyeased the passage to success. Through sparkling, witty dialogue and brilliant characterisationLady Plyant, Valentine, Lady Touchwood, Mirabell and MillamantCongreve exposed the follies and vanities of that world, and suggested that ...
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Laughing Anne & One Day More: Two Plays

By: Conrad, Joseph; Galsworthy, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, John Castle: 1924

Seller ID: 2197196

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Page ridge and first few leaves foxed. 1924 Hard Cover. 127 pp., 3-page publisher ad bound in following text. 8vo. Two plays by the author of The Heart of Darkness and numerous nautical stories, with an introduction by John Galsworthy, author of The Forsyte Saga.
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The Battle of Nashville: A Pictorial Record of the Centennial Re-Enactment, Warner Park, December 12, 1964

By: Corn, Jack; Ellis, Jimmy; Rudis, Joe; Kovach, Bill

Price: $20.00

Publisher: ., Self-Published: 1965

Seller ID: 2282986

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

No jacket, spine starting to split from joints, edges lightly rubbed. 1965 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A Pictorial Record of the Centennial Re-Enactment, Warner Park, December 12, 1964.
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Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power (Princeton Legacy Library)

By: Cox, John D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2263725

ISBN: 0691067651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1989 Hard Cover. xviii, 282 pp. Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege.
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Plays

By: Currimbhoy, Asif

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Delhi, Oxford / IBH: 1972

Seller ID: 2305703

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks jacket. Ink stamp on endpaper, tiny smudge to bottom page ridge. 1972 Hard Cover. A collection of works from the Indian playwright who rose to prominence in the 1960's.
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La Vida es un Sueo

By: De La Barca, Pedro Calderon

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Madrid, Jorge A. Mestas: 1999

Seller ID: 2280013

ISBN: 8489163502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spanish language. Pages faintly toned. 1999 Trade Paperback. One of Calderon's most celebrated plays of the Spanish theater.
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Oliver Twist [Photoplay Edition]

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1912

Seller ID: 2281598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light stain to top margin corner, does not affect text, light spot on spine head. 1912 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, [1], 432 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt image of Dickens on front board, black titles. Illustrated with photographs from The Liebler Company's Centenary Celebration production of J. Comyn Carr's Adaptation of the Novel, first acted by a special cast at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, February 26, 1912. Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 183...
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John Drew

By: Dithmar, Edward A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes: 1900

Seller ID: 2207344

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front hinge starting, sticker to front paste-down endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1900 Hard Cover. vi, 137 pp. Includes photographic plates of Drew and other performers in various roles. John Drew Jr. (November 13, 1853 July 9, 1927) was an American stage actor noted for his roles in Shakespearean comedy, society drama, and light comedies. He was the eldest son of John Drew, who had given up a blossoming career in whaling for acting, and Louisa Lane Drew, and the brother of Louisa Drew, Georgiana Drew and Sidney Drew. As such, he was also the uncle of John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore and also...
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William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back

By: Doescher, Ian

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Quirk: 2014

Seller ID: 2307265

ISBN: 1594747156

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2014 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Many a fortnight have passed since the destruction of the Death Star. Young Luke Skywalker and his friends have taken refuge on the ice planet of Hoth, where the evil Darth Vader has hatched a cold-blooded plan to capture them. Only with the help of a little green Jedi Masterand a swaggering rascal named Lando Calrissiancan our heroes escape the Empire's wrath. And only then will Lord Vader learn how sharper than a tauntaun's tooth it is to have a Jedi child.
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William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return

By: Doescher, Ian

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Quirk: 2014

Seller ID: 2307267

ISBN: 159474713X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink inscription. 2014 Hard Cover. Prithee, attend the tale so far: Han Solo entombed in carbonite, the princess taken captive, the Rebel Alliance besieged, and Jabba the Hutt engorged. Alack! Now Luke Skywalker and his Rebel band must seek fresh allies in their quest to thwart construction of a new Imperial Death Star. But whom can they trust to fight by their side in the great battle to come? Cry Ewok and let slip the dogs of war!
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Robert E. Lee: A Play

By: Drinkwater, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1923

Seller ID: 2204034

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, ink name and date to front endpaper. 1923 Hard Cover. 128 pp. A play based on the life and events surrounding Robert E. Lee.
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American Dramatists, 1918-1945

By: Dukore, Bernard F.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1984

Seller ID: 1974162

ISBN: 0394623401

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine lightly toned. 1984 Trade Paperback. 191 pp. 1918-1945 was the period when America's first wave of major dramatists came of age. The author explores a whole range of drama, from the realistic melodrama of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and the poetic and lyric realism of William Saroyan's The Time of your Life to the comedies of Kaufman and Hart and the expressionism of The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice. Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets and Thornton Wilder are also discussed.
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The Family Reunion: A Verse Play with a Contemporary Setting

By: Eliot, T. S

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1939

Seller ID: 2298301

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. 129 pp. The Family Reunion is a play by T. S. Eliot. Written mostly in blank verse (though not iambic pentameter), it incorporates elements from Greek drama and mid-twentieth-century detective plays to portray the hero's journey from guilt to redemption. The play was unsuccessful when first presented in 1939, and was later regarded as unsatisfactory by its author, but has been successfully revived since the 1940s. Some critics have thought aspects of the tormented hero reflect Eliot's own difficulties...
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Poetry & Drama

By: Eliot, T.S.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press: 1951

Seller ID: 2278299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed. 1951 Hard Cover. The full text of a speech Eliot gave at Harvard University on the topic of verse drama.
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