DRAMA / American from Barbara Bilson Books

San Francisco: Lawton & Alfred Kennedy, 1972. Near fine (bumped corners, owner's name on front pastedown) without dust jacket or slipcase, apparently as issued. Beautifully printed and bound. Many pages uncut so book was never used. Originally written to give the Century (Woman's) Club all female plays, 1956 to 1969, and published here after the author's death.… Read more about this item

New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. Near fine (one lightly bumped corner) without dust jacket. An unabridged reprint of the first edition of 1938. It contains three plays written for the Federal Theatre which was established during the Depression to give unemployed actors and other theatre people a chance to work again. Introduction is by Hallie Flanagan, then the Director… Read more about this item

New York: Limelight Editions, 1994. Fine in fine dust jacket. The Best Plays of 1993-1994 is just that; since, however, this is the 75th anniversary of this series, there is a large section , "A Backward Glance at 75 Years," and in addition a 38-page selection of Hirschfeld's wonderful caricatures from this and previous volume's plays. 663 pages including index… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1941. Very good (sllightly sunned page edges, lightly edgeworn covers, previous owner's embossed impression at a few places at the beginning and end of the book, otherwise clean pages). No dust jacket. Conflicts between respected surgeon and his children, all complicated by the appearance of his wife-to-be who understands the children better than he does. Produced… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1982. Very good+ (slightly sunned cover edges, two short red remainder marks on top page edges) in near fine dust jacket (slightly sunned edges). This is an earlier version of O'Neill's "Anna Christie." Leslie Eric Comens, in the foreword, describes how this play represents not only an earlier version of his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Anna," but an… Read more about this item

New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1990. Near fine (sunned cover edge) in fine dust jacket. The script, including lyrics, of the Tony Award Musical Comedy, with production photos from the original cast. 200 pages including sketches of costume designs (Florence Klotz) and a couple of amusing drawings from Al Hirschfeld.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Phaedra , 1969. Near fine (slightly wrinkled top and bottom of spine, small faint stain on bottom page edges) in good+ dust jacket (rubbed--see scan, edgeworn, price-clipped). 238 pages. Nice picture of Saroyan on back of dust jacket, no longer the dapper man about town.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. 1997 David Hare film with Miranda Richardson & Mike Nichols, written by noted actor Shawn.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Random House, 1967. Very good+ (bright silver printing on the spine, but some sunning of the cover edges and slight discoloration of the page top edges) in very good dust jacket (rubbed, price-clipped, edgeworn, now protected in Brodart archival plastic). Play about "murder of three believers in Civil Rights," as the dust jacket subtitle indicates. Sklar includes a… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1965. Near fine (lightly soiled page edges) in very good+ dust jacket (light edgewear). The famous poet's first published plays, consisting of three plays based on stories from Hawthorne and Melville and tied together by the symbol of the flag. 194 pages. Each of the three plays is printed with a photograph from the… Read more about this item

New York: Hill and Wang/Mermaid , 1985. Very fine in very good+ dust jacket (rubbed, 1 closed tear at back panel, now protected--and disguised--by an archival protective cover). This is the first printing of Wilson's 1985 revision. Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for "Talley's Folly." 63 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Very good (owner's name & date on 2nd fep, lightly creased spine and slight separation between signatures in a couple of places but the binding is still firm; small bookstore sticker on rear pastedown) in good+ dust jacket (price-clipped, heavily edgeworn at folds, some small spots of something red--nail polish?--stuck to back panel). This… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1952. Limited edition in soft covers, originally not for sale. Interesting "publisher's note" by Paul Brooks which draws out the parallels between the story of the Trojan horse and contemporary American political attitudes, i.e. the fear during the McCarthy era that led leaders to adopt the "methods of our enemies." "Americans as well as Trojans… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1982. Fine (slightly used spine top and bottom) in very good+ dust jacket ( slightly edgeworn spine top and bottom; wrinkled back panel; now in Brodart protective jacket). Introduction by Katharine Hepburn who was in the first production. Thompson is author of ON GOLDEN POND. Photographs from the play include three of Hepburn.. 1st… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Very good (small water stain on bottom of covers and spine) in good+ dust jacket (heavily edgeworn along top including thin missing chips). See scans. This version incorporates O'Neill's revisions following the original production. 159 pages. Colors or covers and dust jacket are the Liveright uniform editions.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1967. MacLeish won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1959 for his play "J.B." Here he turns to a Greek myth that also deals with the presence of evil in the universe. Good (stained covers but the pages are fine) in very good- dust jacket (price-clipped, one piece missing from bottom of front panel near… Read more about this item