Modern drama
New York: Atheneum, 1965. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. 190,[6] pp. Gift inscription on front free flyleaf to actress Coral Browne in the year of publication. Very good or better in a similar price-clipped dust jacket. First edition. TINY ALICE is a three-act play by American playwright Edward Albee.....
![Item #544 [Two Original Gelatin Silver Stills from the film:] THE NUN'S STORY. Audrey Hepburn,...](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/544.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708633356)
[New York: Rapho-Guillumette, c. 1959]. Two gelatin silver print borderless film stills, one with the photographer’s ink-stamp credit to verso and caption. (1) candid production set still of Audrey Hepburn in nun’s habit standing in a river in the Belgian Congo with many natives and production crew, 14 x 11.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece. Photographs. Uncorrected page proof of the first edition, being the shooting script of the eponymous film starring Harvey Keitel, Vanessa Redgrave, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe. Publisher's review letter laid in. Spine end faintly sunned and a bit.....
Greenwich & New York: The Dial, April 1923. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. xvi,[2],329-432,xxviii pp. Plates, one tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a fine copy. Barney's poem, which appears on pages 379-80, queries the usefulness of change for change's sake. NCB, as she was.....
![Item #547 [Original Gelatin Silver Production Still from the film:] SAYONARA. Marlon Brando,...](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/547.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708810016)
[Np: Np, c. 1957]. One large borderless gelatin silver print original film still, title in pencil on verso, 14 x 11 in. (36 x 28 cm) of Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka on the set of the film Sayonara, Brando staring intently at Taka while eating with chopsticks, Taka smiling.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1932]. Small octavo. Blue boards, spine lettered in red. First edition, first recorded binding. 31 pp. Sunning to edges and spine, no notations or inscriptions, very good; in a good, unclipped dusty typographical yellow dust jacket printed in blue, with a sunned and chipped spine, closed.....
![Item #293 THE ELDER STATESMAN A PLAY BY [...]. T. S. ELIOT](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/293.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673987153)
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1959]. First edition. Black cloth, gilt stamped spine. A near fine copy in a very good, only minimally rubbed, price-clipped typographic dust jacket. First U.S. edition, first printing. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later, and.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, May 1929. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. iv,[3],362-450,viii pp. Plates. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine copy. Lawrence's poem, which appears on pages 383-84, examines the modern reaction to bodies at play in its first appearance in print.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, July & August 1925. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. Two issues. Plates, frontis color plates by Pierre Bonnard & Marie Laurencin tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine, pristine copies. The first appearance of this important Taos story.....
London: Martin Secker, [1926]. First edition. Large octavo. Olive brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Small private bookplate in upper corner of the front pastedown, light foxing early and late, otherwise very good and bright. First edition, limited to five hundred copies. A little-known dramatic work (first produced in London.....
London: C. W. Daniel, Ltd., 1920. Stiff salmon wrappers with printed labels. First edition, "Plays for a People's Theatre. II." Small private library book label of Arthur Willliam Foster (1850-1930) on pastedown, wraps slightly tanned, otherwise a nice copy without the outer printed jacket. Arthur William Foster was born in.....
Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [1917]. Small octavo. Cloth and light brown boards stamped in gilt. The legendary bookshop, Sunwise Turn, Inc., held the copyright in 1916 but it is unclear that they published a copy although they published other titles by Dunsany earlier. A delightful bookseller's label from.....
New York: Yowl Press, Bluebeat Productions, 1964. First edition. Mimeographed typescript, stapled, and #5 & #6 formerly folded for mailing. 8.5 x 11 in. Postal addressing to Greenwich Village address on #5, an East Village address on #6, #7 unaddressed or folded. All very good, #7 near fine. First edition.....
![Item #785 [Original Souvenir Program for:] "MR. WONDERFUL" A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY [wrapper title]....](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/785.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756325205)
New York: [The Broadway Theatre, N.d. but ca. 1956]. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Black and white production stills and portraits, biographies of the performers and principals of the production. Neatly detached from wrapper at upper staple, some small spots on lower wrapper, else very good. A theatrical program for this musical.....
London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. First edition. Gilt cloth. A very good copy of this cheaply made wartime book in lightly soiled dust jacket with tiny dots on upper panel and a small loss at crown of spine. First edition. From the dust jacket: "The text of Miss Sayers' famous.....
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1911. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. First published in 1907, this is a later impression. 320 pp., four pages of "Works by the Same Author" follows the text. An attractive book plate for the collector Paul Hyde Bonner (1893 – 1968) is tipped onto the.....
[Cedar Rapids, IA]: Coe College, 6 & 7 March 1959. First edition. Oblong bright pink folio broadsheet, printed in red, folded to six panels. Near fine. A visually striking program for this double-header, featuring Bruce Kellner's illustrated lecture based on Stein's writings and letters, "When This You See Remember Me,".....
[New York: The Living Theatre, December 2, 1951. First edition. Octavo. Rice paper wrappers printed and decorated in black. 16pp. A fine copy of an often fragile and scarce item. First edition. A program for The Living Theatre's December 2, 1951 production of Stein's play at the Cherry Lane Theatre.....
New York, Hollywood, London, Toronto: Simon French, Inc., [1976]. Spiral bound, printed card wrappers. 99 pp. Possibly an Advanced reading copy; typed title taped to spine, else very good. Scarce. First edition. "BLOOMSBURY by Peter Luke was first performed at the Phoenix Theatre, London, England; Wednesday July 10, 1974" -- page.....
![Item #810 [Publicist's Press Release for:] A NEW LINE CINEMA RELEASE "POLYESTER." screenwriterr,...](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/810.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759001509)
New York: John Springer Associates, Inc., [1981]. First edition. Quarto. [2],7 leaves, printed on rectos only. Mechanically reproduced typescript with pictorial cover sheet. Staple absent from extreme upper left corner, with rust staining left behind, otherwise very good. A studio PR firm's promotional release for John Waters's first film to.....
New York: Viking:, 1966. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. 435 pp. Very good or better in a bright unclipped dust jacket whose price was altered by the publisher. First edition, Book of the Month Club Selection. Dame Rebecca's tale was made into a mini-series by the BBC.....
Boston: The Poet Lore Company, [July-August, 1916]. First edition. Tan wrappers printed in black and red. The "Vacation Number," with contributions from Jaroslav Hilbert, Gertrude Gardner Brainerd, George Norlin, Paul H. Grummann, and Oscar Wilde. Wilde's "The Happy Prince, A Play in One Act," dramatized by Lou Wall Moore and.....
[Murray, Utah & New York]: Pharos 1 / 2 & New Directions, Spring, 1945. First edition. Octavo. Original grey yap edge wrappers, printed in red. 122,[6] pp. 4 pages of adverts for contemporary periodicals follow the text. An unusually nice copy, with only a minimum of the inevitable sunning and.....
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1911. Original grey wrappers, printed in black, string bound. 19.5 x13 cm. 15,[1] pp. Final unnumbered page lists "The Works of W. B. Yeats." Third separate theatre edition. A tight, bright copy of the play; very good or better. WADE 63.
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1911. Original grey wrappers, printed in black, string bound. 19.5 x13 cm. 16 pp. First and only separate theatre edition. "The Green Helmet" is a play in verse that is part of a five play cycle based upon the Irish hero Cuchulain. First published by Cuala.....