Drama & Plays from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An early 20th century ghost story based on the author's successful play, which had 231 performances in the 1000-seat Belasco theater in 1911-1912. This novelization was published a few months after the play ends. It is illustrated with three color plates by John Rae, one of… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. An early reprint of this collection of plays first published by John W. Luce in 1917. 207 pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shallow chipping at the spine ends; signed "Dunsany" on the front free endpaper.

Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's verse-play set among enslaved people on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. Dove also served as the US Poet Laureate. This is one of 224 numbered copies, signed by the author on the title page. 140 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. Ten short radio plays. viii, 163 pages. Currey, Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, p. 171. First edition (first printing). A very good or better hardcover copy in a fair dust jacket, missing 2-1/2 inches at the spine and a corresponding triangle-shaped piece from the back panel. Previous… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. One of the great American plays, winner of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for best play. First edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). In the correct first printing dust jacket, with no New York Drama Critics Circle award mention. A near fine copy… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Comedia Productions, 1960. Ephemera. Very good. A production script for an undetermined production of this musical based on the characters from Steinbeck's Cannery Row. The initial 1955 production was widely panned, but it has been produced in smaller theaters around the US. This version, with Leslie Abbott's Comedia Productions imprint is undated, but may… Read more about this item

New York: Arthur Cantor / Studio Duplicating Service, 1972. First Edition. Ephemera. Very good. An original script for the Americanized version of a French play, a comedy about a young woman, Suzanne, who talks her way into Gene's small apartment on West 12th Street in New York City. The play ran for five days at the… Read more about this item

[London]: [H. M. Tennent] Printed by Scripts Limited, 1973. Ephemera. Near fine. An early draft of Rattigan's two part play, presented here with the main play, about a marriage (based on Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), followed by a short work, featuring the same actors, based on Tosca. The second play underwent a number of changes and when… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pamphlet. Fine. An offprint of the publication of this early Carver play in Common Knowledge (vol. 2, no. 3, winter 1993), with an introduction titled "On Carnations" by Edward Albee. Carnations was written in 1962 when Carver was a student at Humboldt State College (now University). It was first published in… Read more about this item

[New York]: New Directions Book, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The play Thomas had just finished when he died. xiv, 107 pages. First American edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a few short tears and minor wear to the spine ends.… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Illustrated by Pene DuBois (costume sketches). First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light chipping to the top of the spine. Inscribed on the half-title, "For Melba Bennett a friend of Phil's, Jessamyn West." With Bennett's bookplate on… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An early Mamet play. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket but for a bit of tanning along the top edge. Original $8.95 price printed on the flap.