Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Volpone!: December 1971.

La Comedie-Francaise, · 1971

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, Comedie-Francaise, (1971). G lg sz PB. Laid in program from "Becket ou l'Honneur de Dieu piece en quatre actes, de M. Jean Anouilh" with analyse & photos.

20 Plays of the NO Theatre.

Keene, Donald, editor, · 1970

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Columbia University Press, (1970). 3rd printing. VG PB. Edge wear. illustrated with drawings by Fukami Tanro and from the Hosho Texts. Number LXXXV of the Records of Civilization.

An Introduction to the Theatre.

Whiting, Frank M., University of Minnesota, · 1969

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harper & Row, (1969). 3rd ed. G. Caramel-color binding, white/black lettering & design. Owner name on fore-edge, some underlining, cover scuffing. Many photos of theater productions, discussions of playwrights.

The Waltz of the Toreadors.

Anouilh, Jean, translated by Lucienne Hill, · 1957

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Coward-McCann, (1957). 1st Amer ed. G. Frontis photo of Mildred Natwick and Ralph Richardson. List of characters in order of appearance, action takes place in home of. General Saint Pe about 1910. The play first opened in NY Jan 17, 1956. Some owner notations, slight edge ...

Mass Appeal.

Davis, Bill C., · 1982

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, Dramatists Play Service Inc., (1982). VG PB. A new seminarian at a prosperous Catholic congregation appalls the older priest by his confession that he had led a life of. bisexual promiscuity before entering the priesthood. Meanwhile the seminarian challenges the older prie...

Mad Forest: a play from Romania.

Churchill, Caryl, · 1991

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, UK, Nick Hern, (1991). VG PB. Churchill's play on the Romanian revolution was written after she, the director, and group of students from London's Central. School went to Romania to work with acting students there and find out more about the events surrounding the fall...

J.B.: a play in verse.

MacLeish, Archibald, · 1958

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1958). VG in Fair DJ. "If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God, Take the even, take the odd." The justification of the. injustice is not, in this play, our blind acceptance of god's inexplicable will, nor our blinder acceptance of ...

Richard III: Folger Shakespeare Library.

Shakespeare, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, · 1996

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Washington Sq. Press, (1996). 7th ptg. VG PB. Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages. facing the text of the play, scene by scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, an int...

Unfair Arguments with Existence.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, · 1963

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, New Directions, (1963). 6th ptg. VG PB. Five short plays bring to life a series of brilliant stage figures, each isolated in his own world and obsessions, and. bring Ferlinghetti closer in form and content to Ionesco, Genet and Tardieu than to any American playwright. Slig...

Abraham Lincoln: a play.

Drinkwater, John, introduction by Arnold Bennett, · 1919

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1919). 10th ptg. VG in G DJ. Closely true to history with a skillful selection of episodes. Lincoln just as we should like to imagine him and as we believe. he was, rugged, indifferent to appearance, tender-hearted, humorous, sensitive to the feeling...

Obediently Yours, Orson Welles (a play in two acts).

France, Richard, · 1995

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

np, np, (1995). VG in clear cover. Typewritten xeroxed manuscript of France's play now playing in Paris until October 29, 2010. The play features M. Drouot who. according to some critics greatly resembles Welles. France's play is also the basis for Mascares (Masks) which playe...

Athalie: a tragedy by J. Racine with explanatory notes.

Racine, J., edited by Edward S. Joynes, · 1892

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY, Holt, (1892). New ed. G. Index. Green binding, some discoloration. Owner notations endpapers, corners bumped.

A Bold Stroke for a Wife.

Centlivre, Susanna, edited by Nancy Copeland, · 1998

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Peterborough, Ontario, Can., Broadview Press, (1998). VG PB. One of the most brilliant playwrights of her time and this is perhaps her finest example of masterful plotting of cosmic. intrigue.

"Street Scene" theater program, Davidson Theater, March 30, 1930.

Rice, Elmer, · 1930

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

np, Moebius Co., (1930). VG. Aqua program with ad inset of Pierce-Arrow auto from Thinker Motor Co., Milwaukee. 8 page brochure full of ads. Sl edge wear. Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1929.

Chitra: a play in one act.

Tagore, Rabindranath, · 1916

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Macmillan, 1916. Reprint. G ex-library. Blue binding, gilt lettering. Top of ft cover creased, library markings.

The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic.

Wasserstein, Wendy, foreword by Andre Bishop, · 1991

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Vintage, (1991). 1st ed 10thptg. VG PB. Graduating seniors try to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson; two young women. beseiged by mothers, loves, careers & a persistent answering machine, try to have it all; a brilliant feminis...

American Musical Theater: shows, songs, and stars.

Bowers, Dwight Blocker, · 1989

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1989. VG lg sz PB. The greatest musical, the greatest stars. Deep aqua binding, white, yellow, black lettering. Few rubs on binding.

Five Plays: Gods of the Mountain; Golden Doom; King Argimenes & the Unknown Warriors; Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk Hat.

Lord Dunsany, · 1921

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, 1921. Reprint. VG. Maaroon binding. Edge wear, owner name, glue mark where book plate removed.

Hamlet: the Academy Classics.

Shakespeare, edited by Samuel Thurber, Jr. & A. B. de Mille, · 1956

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Allyn & Bacon, 1956. VG. Navy blue binding. Frontis of Edwin Booth as Hamlet, photo of Sheakespeare's house at Strateford on Avon & room where he was. born. Other illustrations of play scenes. Owner name pencil fep.

The Life of Henry the Fifth: the Arden Shakespeare.

Smith, G. C. Moore, edited by, · 0

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Heath, nd. VG. Green binding, white lettering & pictorial of tree ft cover. Sl edge wear.