Plays & Films from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1860. Illustrated by Port frontis each volume. 2 volumes. Period 3/4 honey calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt spine stamping. 12mo (18x11,cm). pp. xv, 643; 671, [1]. Near Fine. Leather has been conditioned, minor wear to a beautiful set with no ownership. Vie de Moliere par Voltaire. Comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comedie-ballets. influence… Read more about this item

Norwalk. CT: Easton Press, 1981. Illustrated by Seong May woodcuts. (Collector's Library of Famous Editions) Second thus edition. c.1967. Full 22k gold printed and decorated black leather, moire endpapers, silk marking ribbon, aeg, Easton unaffixed bookplate laid in. Imperial 8vo. pp. xviii, 158. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued/Fine Notes from The Archives and Bookplate (laid in). Foxing starting at frontis… Read more about this item

Norwalk. CT: Easton Press, 1967. Edited by Herbert Farjeon. Illustrated by 6 full page watercolors by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) and cover illustrations commissioned in 1939. (Collector's Library of Famous Editions) Second thus edition. 1596 performance, 1598 publication, c.1623 first folio, c.1939. Full 22k gold printed and decorated midnight blue leather, moire endpapers, silk marking ribbon, aeg. Imperial 8vo. pp. [8],… Read more about this item

Boston: Walter H. Baker Co, 1933. First edition. c.1918. Stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 141, [3] Ads. Good. Pencil owner and notation, cover wear..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First thus US edition. (c.1918 London). Green paper covered boards printed black. 12mo. pp. 186. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Period ink owner..

London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co., Ltd. (Morrison & Gibb Ltd., Edinburgh), n.d. "Fifteenth thousand" edition. Blue decorated cloth. 16mo. pp. 128. Very Good. Cap and corner wear, owner bookplate, small bookseller ticket. Nine shorts for amateur performance..

Wien & Leipzig: Gerlach & Wiedling, 1923. Illustrated by Karl Hauf woodcuts. First edition. Cloth backed paper covered boards. 16mo. pp. 49, [1], [2] blank. Very Good+/No jacket, as issued. Former owner bookplate and gift inscription..

Berlin: bei F. T. de La Garde, 1806. Illustrated by 6 hand colored copper-engraved plates (by Muller) in caricature after designs of Georg Melchior Krause 1737-1806. First edition. Limp terra cotta faux leather cloth, a.e.g. 12mo (13.3cm). pp. 298, [6] Ads (Contents 1-3), colophon. Good/In mylar protector. Worn and cracked covers but still attached, shaken with several stains and spots… Read more about this item

London: Jarrold & Sons (Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.), n.d. Translated by [Borrow by 1829, with additions in 1857, officially publishing the Death of Balder in 1892, eleven years after the death of Borrow]. Limited edition. c.1773 as Balders D¿d [historically the English translation "The Death of Balder" is listed as 1889]. "An Edition of 250 Copies only will be printed.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House (A Random House Play), (1961). Illustrated by b&w two-page cast photo and two plates in text. Fireside Theatre Book Club edition. c.1960-1 (synopsis, lyrics, book). Blue cloth and topstain with navy spine tilting. 8vo. pp. 144. Very Good+/Very Good-/No price in mylar. Traces of edgewear to binding, small dampstain to topstain in sunned jacket (spine and… Read more about this item

Paris/GenŽve: Librairies Fischbacher/Librairies A. Jullien (Imprime par Pache-Varidel & Cie, Lausanne), 1904. Illustrated by b/w vignettes. DeauxiŽme edition. Green cloth, printed gilt, uncut, teg, floral green & gilt eps. Inscribed by author in French on front pastedown. 16mo. pp. viii, 301, [5]. Notes, Index, colophon. VG/No jacket. Some cap and corner wear, slight dulling of spine, old pressed violettes pp.… Read more about this item

Dublin / Boston: Maunsel & Co., Ltd. / John W. Luce & Co. (John Falconer, Dublin), (c. 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1909). Illustrated by Tissue Port frontis (by Signor A. Mancini). Later edition. {voice and melody lines, pp. 197-203 music}. Buckram backed blue paper boards, paper spine title, uncut. Cr.8vo. pp. [vi], [8], 3-211, [1] Permission...Ireland...England, Scotland and the Colonies....… Read more about this item

Hartford, CT: Edwin Valentine Mitchell [1890-1960], [Facsimile of] 1926. Illustrated by first letter. Assumed facsimile edition. c.1828 in Blackwood's Magazine, c.1854 in Theological Essays and Other Papers. Yellow printed stiff wraps. Foolscap 4to. pp. 64. Near Fine. Old (very faint) corner crease to rear cover, internally fine..

New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1870. Translated by Theodore Martin from the Danish. Stated Third Revised edition. [first appeared in 1845], c.1850, 1866. Royal cloth, beveled boards, gilt topboard emblem, original brown endpapers, teg. 16mo (17.5cm). pp. xii, [2], 100, 9 Ads. About Very Good. Binding worn and mottled, ffep tight at head, light edge toning and several bottom page… Read more about this item

New York: Crown/Theatre Communications Group, (1988)/(1987; text & lyrics, 1989; photos). Illustrated by color/Heidi Landesman jacket, pp. [4] Martha Swope b/w photo stills. Stated first (&#1)/First thus (NAP) edition. c.1987 Text & Lyrics. 2 volumes. Navy cloth, illus. eps/Blue boards. Demy 4to/Demy 8vo. pp. [iv], 90, [2]; [xiv], 138, [6]. Fine/Near Fine/Unclipped price in mylar. Traces of wear to… Read more about this item

N.P: Automobile Legal Association, 1937. Illustrated by b/w line drawing of stage setting. Blue wrap printed blue. 12mo. pp. 18, [2]. VG. Edges sunned on covers, Street light dots in text (appropriately) colored in (red, green, yellow). "A one-act play published and produced under the auspices of the A.L.A. This play is presented in the interest of the… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1902. Illustrated by scenes from the photoplay. Mary Pickford edition. Red embossed cloth, printed black. 12mo. pp. [viii], 369, [7]. VG/Good/No price in mylar. Ink owner and gift inscription in sunned jacket with chips and closed tears. (Fiction)..

Racine, WI: Whitman, 1935. Illustrated by b/w scenes from the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Picture. Based on the novel "Malibu" by Vance Hoyt. A Big Little Book. Color pictorial boards. Square 36mo. pp. 156, [3] last photo and ads. VG/No jacket. Tape repair to spine ends of several beginning pages, moderate page darkening, edgewear and several scrapes, yet quite a nice… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, (1964). Translated by Richard and Clara Winston from the German. Stated first US edition. c.1963 as Der Stellvertreter. Cloth backed red boards. 8vo. pp. 352. Very Good/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear to binding and jacket..

Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co Translated by William Archer from the Norwegian. (c.1890, John W. Lovell Co.). Ibsen's Plays, Price .25. Taupe wraps printed black, decorated red. 12mo. pp. 124, [6] Ads (including cover). VG. Light cover stains and scrapes, several faint dogears, unusually clean copy. Translator note..