Charles Agvent

IN THE SUMMER HOUSE

BOWLES, Jane · 0

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Cloth with pictorial inset on the front cover. Illustrated with a photograph. Novelist's only play, about a tense relationship between a mother and daughter.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER

O'BRIEN, Liam · 0

$1,062.50 (€964.00 | £804.23 | ¥169,668)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Cloth with pictorial inset on the front cover. Illustrated with a photograph. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by nearly the entire cast and the producers to a fellow member of the cast, Nancy Devlin, who played Laurie Pennypacker. Most notable among...

BORN YESTERDAY

KANIN, Garson · 1946

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. A comedy about government corruption and the power of the individual to effect change. It was one of the most successful nonmusical Broadway productions in history. Illustrated with a photograph. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page...

STATE OF THE UNION

LINDSAY, Howard and CROUSE, Russel · 0

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about a fictional Republican presidential candidate. Illustrated with a photograph. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by both authors to bookseller Lew D. Feldman, founder of the House of El Dieff an...

GIGI

LOOS, Anita (COLETTE) · 0

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Colette's novel dramatized by Anita Loos and starring Audrey Hepburn. A Farrar, Straus and Giroux photograph of Colette with the cast of the 1927 revival of LA VAGABONDE is laid in.. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a slightly dar...

CAROUSEL

RODGERS, Richard and HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar · 1946

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. A musical with book and lyrics by Hammerstein based on the 1909 play LILIOM by Feranc Molna. With photos from the Broadway first run featuring John Raitt and Jan Clayton. Perhaps its most memorable song is "You'll Never Walk Alone." Ad...

WARNER-BROTHERS PICTURE CREDITS

1957

$1,250.00 (€1,134.11 | £946.15 | ¥199,609)

[Los Angeles]. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.. First Edition. Thick volume (8" x 10") in screw-bound black leatherette with over 600 mimeographed pages containing a chronological listing of movie credits from the silent film era of 1917 to 1956, including films that have been los...

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS PROP DOOR INVENTORY CATALOG

1950

$937.50 (€850.59 | £709.61 | ¥149,707)

[Los Angeles]. [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ]. Collection of 8" x 10" ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS and diagrams of doors available to be used in films with detailed annotations regarding each, all housed in a leatherette three-ring binder. Contains 11 linen-backed silver gelatin photo...

ANDROCLES AND THE LION, OVERRULE, PYGMALION

SHAW, George Bernard · 1916

$4,375.00 (€3,969.40 | £3,311.53 | ¥698,631)

London. Constable. First Edition. First Printing of one of Shaw's most popular plays, PYGMALION, a radical reworking of Ovid's classic tale with a feminist twist. Shaw wrote PYGMALION for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell who appeared to be the only actress willing to say the ...

THE PLAYS OF EUGENE O'NEILL

O'NEILL, Eugene · 0

$4,375.00 (€3,969.40 | £3,311.53 | ¥698,631)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Third Printing of each of the three volumes, and each volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to Gerald Stram, the grandson of his third wife, actress Carlotta Monterey. Issued without dustwrappers, the three bo...

MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA

O'NEILL, Eugene · 1931

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. Horace Liveright, Inc.. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: to his step-daughter Cynthia Stram: “To Cynthia--/with love! -- and admiration/for a game sport!/'Step-Father Gene.'/Jan. 1932.” O'Neill dedicated this title to Cynthia's...

EMMY AWARD

1986

$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)

[Chicago]. [R. S. Owens & Company]. Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing in a Children's Series" to David Korr for SESAME STREET (1985-86). Consisting of a cast copper and nickel, gold-plated trophy weighing approx. 7 pounds, the statue stands 15-1/2" tall and depicts ...

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA, GETTING MARRIED, & THE SHEWING UP OF BLANCO POSNET

SHAW, George Bernard · 1911

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

London. Constable and Company Ltd.. First Edition. Green cloth. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author to Sir Almroth Wright on the half-title page: “to Sir Almroth Wright/in whose laboratory the Doctor's Dilemma was/incubated, and in whose brain it was made possible,/from G. Bern...

SONGS FROM "ANNIE GET YOUR GUN" Inscribed to Harold Arlen

BERLIN, Irving · 0

$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)

[New York]. [Irving Berlin Music Co.]. First Edition. Small folio (9" x 12") privately printed by Berlin for friends and bound in flexible dark brown leather with gilt lettering on the front cover; including "Harold Arlen" in the bottom right corner; 63 pages. Includes sheet m...

RED HOT AND BLUE. A MUSICAL COMEDY

PORTER, Cole · 1936

$5,000.00 (€4,536.46 | £3,784.61 | ¥798,435)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Small folio (9" x 12-1/8") bound in red, white, and blue silk over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. This magnificent volume contains the lyrics, melody, and piano accompaniment for the ten songs from this popular C...

INCIDENT AT VICHY Inscribed to Lanford Wilson

MILLER, Arthur · 0

$4,375.00 (€3,969.40 | £3,311.53 | ¥698,631)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Miller to Pulitzer-winning dramatist Lanford Wilson on the front endpaper: "To Lanford Wilson/Arthur Miller." A fine ASSOCIATION COPY.. Wilson's Sag Harbor ownership stamp at the top of the front endpaper. Near Fine in a ...

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Inscribed to Lanford Wilson

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 0

$18,750.00 (€17,011.71 | £14,192.29 | ¥2,994,133)

(New York). New Directions. First Edition. Pink pictorial paper boards in unclipped pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Pulitzer Prize-winner and one of the great dramas of modern times, this copy INSCRIBED by Williams to fellow Pulitzer-winning dramatist Lanf...

THE GLASS MENAGERIE Inscribed to Lanford Wilson

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 0

$15,625.00 (€14,176.42 | £11,826.91 | ¥2,495,111)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Bound in the publisher's coarse, dark reddish-orange cloth, one of three bindings with no priority established among them. Crandell A1.I.a. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph from the original production. Only 5000 copies of this ...

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Inscribed to Lanford Wilson

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 0

$10,625.00 (€9,639.97 | £8,042.30 | ¥1,696,675)

(New York). New Directions. First Edition. First Printing (one of about 7100 copies), with no credit to the New York Times on copyright page and no credit on p. xii to Jo Mielziner and Lucinda Ballard. Illustrated with a photograph from the production. Pulitzer Prize-winning p...

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 1956

$437.50 (€396.94 | £331.15 | ¥69,863)

London. Secker & Warburg. First British Edition. Director Peter Hall's copy, SIGNED by him and dated 1956 on the front endpaper and with the note “Fire Down Below” written by him on the bottom of the page. Illustrated with a photograph from the production. Winner of the Pulitz...