Drama from Berthoff Books

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1902 pages, with General Introduction by Harry Levin, textual editing by G. Blakemore Evans, introductory essays Shakespeare's Text, Chronology and Sources, Appendices A - Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, B - Records, Documents, and Allusions, C - Annals (chronologies). Contributions from Frank Kermode, Herschel Baker, other scholars. Illustrated with seven color plates,… Read more about this item

Aufbau-Verlag Berlin und Weimar, 1964. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 451 pages, some black and white illustrations. The reader includes works by and about Heinrich von Kleist. 8vo, beige cloth with rubbed black and gold lettering and decoration, moderate soil and wear including bump to top corner and text block, edges and pages age-tanned. Name… Read more about this item

ICM Artists, 1980. Soft cover. Good. 34 pages (including covers, which are numbered). Souvenir Book for 1980 North America Tour of the Peking Opera Theatre. B&w and full-page color photos. Large pamphlet (9-1/4" x 12") stapled in stiff card wraps, light shelf wear, heavier at top of fold where there is creasing and a 1" tear, rubbed along… Read more about this item

Schiller Institute, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 562 pages. Translations include Wilhelm Tell, essays on aesthetics and on history, poems. Trade paperback, slight wear to corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 451 pages, with 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Collection includes Don Carlos, the Letters on Don Carlos, the essays "Theater Considered as a Moral Institution" and "On the Aesthetical Education of Man", some poems, and the Ghost Seer. Trade paperback, shelf wear, chip to heel, edges… Read more about this item

The Peter Pauper Press, 1944. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 121 pages. A pretty edition of Hamlet, printed "on specially-made Peter Pauper paper," by Peter and Edna Beilenson's publishing company. Printed with some type (scene numbers) red. 8vo (5-1/2" x 9-1/4"), brocade pattern over boards, worn through to cardboard in spots and heavily worn on edges/corners of boards, backstrip entirely… Read more about this item

Caxton House, Inc., 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 248 pages, with one-page introductory note by Arthur Zeiger, Chronological Table of the life and works of Chekhov. Nine plays, including the major ones - The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya. 8vo, black cloth with faded gilt lettering and decoration, spine and boards around edges sunned, some foxing… Read more about this item

Harper Perennial (HarperCollins), 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 387 pages. A new translation by Paul Schmidt, an actor and playwright who strove for his American English translation to retain the grace and subtlety of Chekhov's Russian. He provides a short introduction, and notes after each play. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, dust soil/foxing to top edge, some stains… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 367 pages. First Dover edition of Randolph T. Weaver's translation, published 1929 by George G. Harrap & Co., of the 1924 study of Commedia dell' Arte. Subtitled: "The Improvisation - Scenarios - Lives - Attributes - Portraits and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of the Commedia dell' Arte." With index, bibliography,… Read more about this item

Bantam Books, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 372 pages + 12 of front matter, with Notes including bibliography of criticism, Glossary, genealogy of Orestes chart. Second printing of Bantam edition, from Viking hardcover edition 1975. Nearly 100-page introductory essay "The Serpent and the Eagle" by the translator and W.B. Stanford. Mass-market paperback, wear to wraps, top edge foxed,… Read more about this item

Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. PARTLY BILINGUAL EDITION RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. Edited and Introduced by Patricia Blake. Ten pages of explanatory notes. Original Meridian Book, first printing (April 1960). Blake's introduction is a 40-page essay on Mayakovsky's life, death, work, and the politics surrounding him in the Soviet Union. The dozen poems are printed… Read more about this item

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 93 pages, including 15 pages of photographs of performances of Jedermann (Everyman). Mass-market paperback, black smudge near top of front cover, a bit of chipping to top edge. Pencil notation on inside back cover, gift inscription from one friend to another on ffep.

Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 207 pages. Translation of historical play published in Italian 1969, set in the 13th century and the biography of Pope Celestine V. Includes 18 pages of historical notes on the Conclave of Perugia, Pope Boniface VIII, and the treatment of Celestine by Dante and Petrarch. 8vo, brown paper over boards with… Read more about this item

Random House, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Vol. 1 - 1186 pages, Vol. 2 - 1236 pages. Second printing. Glossary in Vol. 2. Each volume has a b&w frontispiece, photo of a theater or performance. 8vo, green buckram sunned on spine, titles on spine faded, some rubbing and soil, greenish gray topstain, light shelf wear, edges and end papers… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 240 pages. Essays touch on Greek drama, Hamlet, Chekhov, G.B. Shaw, T.S. Eliot, plot and action, "the mimetic perception of action". 8vo, gray cloth browned with age and soiled, silver gilt lettering in black inset on spine, faded gray topstain, other edges age-tanned, gray end papers, wear particularly to crown and… Read more about this item

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. 386 pages. Collection of plays first published in hardback 1952. Edited by Eric Bentley, translations by Bentley, Gerardo Guerrieri, Arthur Livingston, Edward Storer. Mass-market paperback, wraps a little shelf worn and rubbed along spine, patches of foxing to edges, binding tight. Name of former owner written on… Read more about this item

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 86 pages. Jan. 1936 note by TSE describes this as a "second edition," compared with the version in which the play was produced at the Canterbury Festival in June 1935. 8vo, black cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear with sharp corners, isolated dust stains on a… Read more about this item

Grove Press, 1966. Soft cover. Fair. 144 pages. Fourth printing of first Evergreen Black Cat Edition. "Revised English version" by Eric Bentley, who first translated the play in 1947, with his introduction dated 1965. Mass-market paperback, reading crease, spine soiled and split 1" at bottom, creases and tear to back cover, shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge,… Read more about this item

Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1961. Soft cover. Good. 370 pages, with general index and index to Brecht's works. Sections: The Man, The Artist, Pitfalls of Commitment, The Real Brecht; part 5 includes chronology of his life, descriptive list of works, bibliography, and "Brecht in America." Mass-market paperback, spine creased and rubbed, wraps age-toned and with average wear. Marginalia, mostly… Read more about this item

Grove Press/Evergreen Black Cat, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 172 pages, with Bibliographical Notes. "English versions by Eric Bentley", who wrote a Foreword dated 1964. The plays besides the title play are In Search of Justice, The Informer, The Elephant Calf, The Measures Taken, The Exception and the Rule. Fragments of another are provided in an appendix. A… Read more about this item