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The Brothers. A Tragedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
by Young, Edward
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- Used - Good
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- 1753
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- Pamphlet
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$27.00
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London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet, disbound from a larger work, with remains of leather along the spine. No original wrappers present, if issued. 86 pp. An English take on the ancient Greek tragedy. Originally written in 1728, it wasn't performed until 1753. Written by Edward Young, perhaps best known for his long work of… Read more about this item Item Price
$27.00
The Brig By Kenneth H. Brown. Show Flier for a Living Theatre Staging
by Clay, Iris (artist)
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- Used - Good
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- Unbound
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$135.00
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New York: Living Theatre, presumed Publisher. Unbound. Good. no date, circa 1963. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. A flier advertising the play, "The Brig," by Kenneth Brown and first staged at the Living Theatre in 1963. The play, an antiauthoritarian work based on Brown's experiences incarcerated while in the Marines, won an Obie Award. The Living… Read more about this item Item Price
$135.00
Tallulah Bankhead in Noel Coward's "Private Lives." Beginning July 22, 1946. Colonial Theatre, Boston Playbill
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- Used - Good
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$27.00
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No Place: No Publisher. Wraps. Good. No publisher, place or date. Presumed Boston, 1946. Photo illustrated wraps with Tallulah Bankhead on the front cover. Unpaginated. Ads throughout. Playbill for this revival staging of the play Private Lives by Noel Coward. The play originally premiered in the UK in 1930, and starred Noel Coward. It also had a brief… Read more about this item Item Price
$27.00
Elektra
by Pound, Ezra; Fleming, Rudd. Reid, Richard (editor)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
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- 1987
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- Cloth
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$18.00
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Charcoal cloth in unclipped jacket. 103 pp. A previously unpublished play by Ezra Pound, being a modern rendition of Sophocles' work. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading and rubbing to the jacket and book. Item Price
$18.00
One Act Play Magazine. July, 1937
by Hughes, Langston et al.
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- Used - Good
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- 1937
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$49.00
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New York: Contemporary Play PublicationsNew York, 1937. Wraps. Good. Printed wraps. Pagination runs 194-288. Single issue of this publication devoted to shorter drama, with this containing the play, "Soul Gone Home," by Langston Hughes. With plays by N.K. Smith, Felix Fair and others. GOOD+ condition. Minor soiling, staining and uneven fading to the covers. Item Price
$49.00
Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Moliere. Nouvelle Edition. Tome (Volume) II Only
by Moliere
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1741
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- Vellum
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$59.00
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Basle (Basel), Switzerland: E and J.R. Thourneisen, Publisher, 1741. Vellum. Very Good. Bound in vellum. 504 pp. With 8 full page engravings. All text in French. Volume two only of a collection of plays by Moliere, this containing comedies. Included are eight plays, "La Princesse D'Elide;" "Le Mariage Force;" "L'Amour Medecin;" "Le Misanthrope;" "Le Medecin Malgre Lui;" "Le… Read more about this item Item Price
$59.00
Comedies de Terence. Nouvellement Traduites Avec Le Latin A Coste
by Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
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- Used - Good
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- 1686
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- Full Leather
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$86.00
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Paris: Chez le Veuve de Claude Thiboust, 1686. Full Leather. Good. Full leather. 6 by 3 ¾ inches. (6), 315, (2) pp. Text in French and Latin. A collection of comedic plays by African-Roman playwright Terentius, or as more commonly known, Terence. He was originally enslaved and brought to Rome, being freed after impressing his enslaver with his… Read more about this item Item Price
$86.00
Love's Labour's Lost
by Shakespeare, William
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- Used - Good
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- 1904
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- Leather
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$43.00
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Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1904. Leather. Good. Navy blue leather with a guilt illustration on the front cover. Miniature book, measuring 2 by 1 3/8 inches. 368 pages. Miniature version of this play by William Shakespeare. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy scuffing to the head and tail of the spine, with small splits to the leather along… Read more about this item Item Price
$43.00
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by Shakespeare, William; Rackham, Arthur (artist)
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- Used - Good
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- 1908
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- Cloth
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$297.00
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New York/London: Doubleday, Page and Co./William Heinemann, 1908. Cloth. Good. Illustrated paper covered boards with a green cloth spine. 134 pp. 40 color plates as well as a few black and white illustrations. An illustrated edition of the Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring the art of Arthur Rackham. GOOD condition. Moderate uneven browning to the covers… Read more about this item Item Price
$297.00
The Duplex. A Black Love Fable in Four Movements
by Bullins, Ed
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1971
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- Cloth
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$81.00
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. First edition, with no statement of later printings. Beige cloth in unclipped dust jacket. 166 pp. A play by Ed Bullins, a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and Minister of Culture in the Black Panther Party. GOOD jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Some… Read more about this item Item Price
$81.00
Wolf Pack. Part of the Children's Theater Series
by Yaltsev, P.
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- Used - Fair
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- 1925
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$32.00
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Moscow: No Publisher, 1925. Wraps. Fair. No publisher. Moscow: 1925. Wraps. 52 pp. All text in Russian (Cyrillic). A play for children, roughly translated as Wolf Pack. Written by P. Yaltsev, a Russian playwright who apparently wrote several one act plays. FAIR/GOOD condition. Ex-library, with several stamps from a Mutual Aid Society on the covers and interior. Moderate… Read more about this item Item Price
$32.00
From Graces to Gargoyles: A Social Essay on the Theater in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1762-1850
by Suffern, Richard Winslow
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- Used - Good
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- 1972
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$22.00
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Portsmouth, NH: Seacoast Arts Council, 1972. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 55 pages. With a chronology laid in at the rear. Illustrated. A short but detailed account of the Portsmouth Stage Company and theater in general in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, including the ninety years following the political fight over the theatre that first began in 1762. Drawn… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
The Art of Rehearsal
by Shaw, Bernard
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1928
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$32.00
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New York: Samuel French, 1928. Wraps. Very Good. Blue printed wraps. Small booklet. 14 pp., plus one page of ads. A separate printing of this work that first appeared in Collier's Weekly, musing on rehearsals for theater performances. VERY GOOD condition. Minor wrinkling and edgewear to the covers. Item Price
$32.00
After the Ball. Vaudeville Sketch in One Act
by Shelland, Henry E.
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- Used - Good
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- 1906
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$22.00
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New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1906. Wraps. Good. Pale yellow wraps. 6 pp., plus ads. A play or long skit written for Vaudeville performances, featuring a young man and woman and a variety of short gags/jokes. GOOD condition. Minor to moderate soiling, minor spotting and staining to the wrappers. Uneven toning. Faint diagonal crease to the text block.… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
This War, a Satire for the Times
by No author given. (Brown, John Sullivan)
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- Used - Poor
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- 1863
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$54.00
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New York: S.W. Wood and Co, 1863. Wraps. Poor. Printed wraps. 80 pp. A book length poem on the Civil War, pro-Union and anti-Confederacy, calling politicians of the South traitors, as well as rejecting slavery and its apologists. POOR/FAIR condition. Large bitten/nibbled area affecting most of the upper rear edge and upper rear margin. From the rear cover… Read more about this item Item Price
$54.00
Drifting Fires. An American No
by Beichman, Janine; Makoto, OOKA (translator)
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- Used - Good
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- 1986
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$49.00
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Japan: Shichigatsudo Press, 1986. Wraps. Good. Red printed wraps. 30 pp. Text in English and Japanese. With a fold out sheet advertising a staging of the piece. An "American" play using the form of the Japanese No. By Janine Beichman, an author and scholar specializing in Japanese poetry. GOOD condition. Moderate uneven fading and offsetting to the covers.… Read more about this item Item Price
$49.00
Theatre Arts Monthly. April, 1933
by Various authors
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- Used - Good
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- 1933
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$27.00
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New York: Theatre Arts Inc, 1933. Wraps. Good. Printed yellow wraps. Pagination runs 253-328. Single issue of this magazine devoted to theater arts, with this having articles on the Russian theater scene, new Italian ballet, a roster of new playwrights, etc. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy uneven darkening and browning to the wrappers. Minor soiling and a few… Read more about this item Item Price
$27.00
The Awakening of Spring. A Tragedy of Childhood
by Wedekind, Frank
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- Used - Good
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- 1910
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- Cloth
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$216.00
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Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1910. Cloth. Good. Second edition, stated. Reddish brown cloth. 161 pp., plus ads. Translated from the German by Francis J. Ziegler. English language edition of this early German modernist drama, being rather controversial due to its subject matter. The play explores teenage sexuality, puberty, masturbation, homoeroticism, sadomasochism, rape, sexual abuse and suicide, while criticizing society's… Read more about this item Item Price
$216.00
The Stage. March 1933
by Various Authors
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- Used - Good
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- 1933
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- Wraps
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$22.00
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New York: John Hanrahan, Publisher, 1933. Wraps. Good. Red illustrated wraps. Folio. Color illustration of Lynn Fontanne on the front cover, by Fred Wallace. An issue of this magazine devoted to theater, featuring articles on various dramas, including American Dream, with photos of Douglass Montgomery. With pieces on Alien Corn, Melody, We the People and others. GOOD condition.… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
Four Theatre Trade/Advertising cards depicting characters in My Partner
by No author given
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- Used - Good
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- Unbound
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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$22.00
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No Place: No Publisher. Unbound. Good. No publisher, place or date, perhaps circa 1879. Printed by the Forbes Co., Boston. Cards measure 5 ¾ by 2 ¾ inches and are printed on thin card stock. Obverse depicts characters from the drama "My Partner" in black and white against a gold background, with the reverse containing blurbs and praise… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
