Charles Agvent

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 1956

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

London. Secker & Warburg. First British Edition. Illustrated with a photograph from the production. An attractive example of this Pulitzer Prize winner.. Slight lean to book. Near Fine in a bit darkened, Near Fine dustwrapper

THE ROSE TATTOO Inscribed to the Film's Director

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 0

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

New York. New Directions. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper "To Danny with my/heart's true love/Tennessee." Daniel Mann directed the original Broadway production of THE ROSE TATTOO after Elia Kazan turned down the job. The play won a Tony ...

TENNESSEE. Three Plays by Tennessee Williams. These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. The Glass Menagerie

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 20042007

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

Washington DC. Librix Continuum. First Edition. Three large folio (14" x 18") volumes hand bound and housed in a soft black matte finish clamshell box lined with carbon-colored suede luxe. Hand printed by Paolo Barbieri in Florence, Italy on a letterpress and hand set in Baske...

THE THEATRE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. Volumes 1-3

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 0

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

New York. New Directions. First Edition. These three volumes (a total of eight were eventually published) contain his most popular and enduring plays, including CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Each volume is SIGNED by the playwright on...

SELECTED PLAYS

WILLIAMS, Tennessee · 1980

$437.50 (€396.94 | £331.15 | ¥69,863)

Franklin Center, PA. Franklin Library. First Edition. Full gilt-decorated brown leather. The First Limited, Illustrated, and SIGNED collection of six of his most popular and enduring plays, including CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Ill...

WITHIN THE GATES

O'CASEY, Sean · 1933

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

London. Macmillan and Co., Ltd.. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: “Inscribed to/Horatia Calverley/by/Sean O'Casey/Chalfont St Giles/1933.” Sybil Horatia Calverley was a niece of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.. Small book label...

THE FLYING WASP A laughing look-over of what has been said about the things of the theatre by the English dramatic critics, with many merry and amusing comments thereon, with some shrewd remarks by the Author on the wise, delicious, and dignified tendencies in the theatre of to-day

O'CASEY, Sean · 1937

$1,187.50 (€1,077.41 | £898.85 | ¥189,628)

London. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: “Inscribed to/Jack Daly/by his old chum/Sean O'Casey/With warm affectionate Regards./London. 1937.” There are a number of letters from O'Casey to Daly in the National Librar...

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR Signed by Author & Cast to a Cast Member

HELLMAN, Lillian · 1934

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to actress Anne Revere dated "Dec 1934," and below that by the director, Herman Shumlin, who has INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Anne/The girl who made me lover her/Herman ...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on the Theater

MILNE, A. A · 181921

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

London. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "A. A. Milne" on both sides of 5-1/2" x 7-3/8" personal 11 Mallord Street stationery to “My dear Darnett” about the development of the theatrical drama. In part: "I salute you. And I prefer my present position -- in your company. But I ...

THIRST AND OTHER ONE ACT PLAYS. Louise Bryant's Copy

O'NEILL, Eugene (BRYANT, Louise) · 0

$75,000.00 (€68,046.84 | £56,769.16 | ¥11,976,531)

Boston. Gorham Press. First Edition. First book by this multiple Pulitzer Prize winner, perhaps the greatest playwright of the American theater, containing 5 short plays: THIRST, THE WEB, WARNINGS, FOG, and RECKLESSNESS. Atkinson AI-1-I: 1000 copies printed, financed by his fa...

HEART OF DARKNESS

CONRAD, Joseph · 1969

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.85 | ¥59,883)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-1/8" x 10-7/8") bound in half ivory-toned imported English sheep vellum and boards decorated by the illustrator with "an African Negro mask through which can be discerned a pair of Caucasian blue eyes." Introduction by Leo Gurko;...

NARRATIVE OF THE TEXAN SANTA FE EXPEDITION, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygua Hunting-Grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico

KENDALL, G. W. · 1856

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

New York. Harper & Brothers. Seventh Edition. Two 5" x 8" volumes in the publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt-titled spines, housed in a cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 5 plates and a large folding map of Texas. This edition is t...

ETHAN FROME

WHARTON, Edith · 1939

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,979)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in full green buckram with a delicate gilt decoration on the front cover; 158 pages. Illustrated with watercolors by Henry Varnum Poor. Designed by Fred Anthoensen. Copy #1232 of 1500 of this handsome edition of ...

THE SEA AROUND US

CARSON, Rachel · 1980

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Revised Edition. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full blue buckram with an overall design stamped in blind and the spine titling in gold; 284 pages. Introduction by Maitland Edey. Copy #1513 of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with 3 tw...

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

ROSTAND, Edmond · 1936

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,979)

Windham. Limited Editions Club. Small folio (9-1/8" x 11-1/2") bound in decorated linen with gilt lettering. The English translation by Brian Hooker with a new introduction by the translator. Illustrated with watercolors by Sylvain Sauvage. Copy #938 of 1500 copies SIGNED by t...

ARCHIVE OF 6 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)

TRILLING, Lionel · 1940

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

New York. Collection of 6 typed letters, mostly on 8-1/2" x 11" sheets including Columbia University stationery, totaling 11 pages to philosopher Philip B. Rice who served as associate editor of THE KENYON REVIEW from its founding in 1939 until he died in 1956. Subject matter ...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on Mid-Century African-American Literary and Social History

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 0

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

Handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of 4 yellow legal-sized sheets written on rectos only for an essay on Mid-Century African-American Literary and Social History. A partial manuscript, possibly unpublished. Present here are pages numbered 3, 4, 5, and 6. Bara...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the Short Story NORMAN'S DATE

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 0

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

Handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of 4 yellow legal-sized sheets written on rectos only for his short story "Norman's Date." A partial manuscript of this story which first appeared in PLAYBOY in 1982 and later collected in Baraka's 2006 book of short stories...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Albert Bigelow Paine, his Biographer

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 211910

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

Hamilton [Bermuda]. A fine four-page handwritten letter on bifolium mourning stationery SIGNED "S. L. C." to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, mentioning the death of his daughter Jean less than a month earlier. In full: "Thanks for your letter, and for its contenting news...

ARCHIVE OF 16 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEMS, Most Unpublished

AGEE, James · 1940

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

A collection of 16 MANUSCRIPT poems, all unsigned and undated but for two dated "16? November 1945," written in pencil on 14 8-1/2" x 11" sheets and one smaller sheet; housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. Four of the poems appear in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES AG...