First UK Edition. Hardcover. London: The Cresset Press, 1949. Octavo; 133pp. First UK edition. Pale blue dust jacket with text in red and black. Red cloth binding with text on spine and cover stamped in gold. Dust jacked is price-clipped, with some foxing, toning, and rubbing on edges. Spine is..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 132pp. Printed dustjacket with original $3.95 price; book in oatmeal cloth with black and red design and lettering. Jacket shows a few clean tears neatly repaired on the inside with..... More
London: John Bell "British Library," 1796. Presumed First Thus. 12mo; each play separately paginated, total of 584pp + 6pp of tipped-in engravings showing staged scenes for three of the five plays. Calf with blind-stamped borders on front and rear panels, gilt-dentelled panel edges; blind-dentelled inner edges; gilt-stamped spine with crimson..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1980. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 191pp. Printed red and white dust jacket with original $9.95 rice; book in blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Misbound with page block upside-down in the boards. Jacket lightly..... More
First Edition. New York: The Overlook Press, 2003. First Edition. Signed by author without inscription and dated 2003 on title page. Illustrated dust jacket with original $22.95 price intact; book in white and orange boards with spine in gilt. Some very light shelfwear to edges of dust jacket..... More
First Edition. New York: Atheneum, 1975. First Edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page without inscription but dated "1996." Printed green and blue dust jacket with original $7.95 price; book in black boards with spine in gilt and blind-stamped on front cover. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly worn..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; ix + 255pp, including bibliography and index. Sixty-two B&W primary source documentary illustrations, some full page, others embedded in text. Brown dust jacket with curtained proscenium outline on front panel. Royal blue boards. Gilt spine lettering. Top of text-block stained marigold..... More
Hardcover. New York: Rinehart., 1949. First edition with publisher's mark on copyright page. Octavo; 480pp. Red/orange dust jacket with price marked through in black marker. Orange binding with lettering stamped in gold and black on spine. Dust jacket has several small, closed tears along top edge and rubbing on head..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. London: Methune, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (5"x7.5"); 159pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original price. Black textured paper over boards with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket has small chips and a few small tears and rubbing along edges. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First Edition. 12mo; 148pp. Brown card softcover with lettering and borders in black on face and spine. Reglued spine; hinges eroded but still holding. All corners bumped with some crimps to corners of textblock, now straightened. All outer surfaces lightly soiled. A...... More
Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine..... More
New York: Random House, 1955. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 162pp. Photo-illustrated title page with scene from the Broadway production. Beige and red dust jacket over gray cloth-covered boards with mounted performance photo to front and gilt and black lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a couple small tears at top back, toning..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 260 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper, "For Pat and Jim, / with the warm regards of / John Loftis / March 2, 1952." Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original $4.00 price; book in red cloth-covered boards..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Stated First Edition. Small Octavo; xvii + 124pp. Navy blue boards with gold lettering on spine and title reversed out against framed gold ground on front panel, including small nautical device, which is repeated on half-title page. Missing dust jacket. Spine nudged..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1872. New and Revised Edition. Quarto. 860 pages. Rebound in contemporary half leather with gilt decoration, five raised bands, and red leather label to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Clarke worked on the concordance for 16 years, and, although it was called 'as..... More
Hardcover. Berwick: R. Taylor, 1771. 16mo (6.75" x 4"); [ii], 68, 51, 74, 34, 87. Rebacked with contemporary calf to front and back boards and original endpapers retained. Corners bumped and worn, with some general scuffing and smudging to leather. Front hinge cracked after "Man-Hater" title page, with leaf separating..... More
N.p.: [Walter Wanger, prod.], [1936]. Suggested screen treatment, largely in prose, for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Blue paper covers bound by brass brads with typed titling. 44 numbered leaves. Likely earliest draft of what would become the 1939 film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by William Wyler, which..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Random House, 1941. Stated First Printing. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); [xvi], 182p. Original dustjacket with $2.00 price; book in blue cloth with red and gilt title to front and spine. Jacket edgeworn with a small, clean tear at top near spine, bumps and chips to..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1963. First Edition, with "E5" code is at bottom of page 135. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [viii], 135p. Printed black dustjacket over black buckram boards with orange lettering to spine. Price-clipped dustjacket worn at spine ends..... More
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1900. Library of English Classics. Octavo; viii, 455pp. Rebound in textured blue leather with gilt rules and red title card with gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers with gilt-ruled leather overlays, and gilt to all page edges. Binding unsigned. Boards bowing outward a bit at fore-edge..... More
New York: Random House, 1960. SIGNED by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Printed dustjacket showing $13.95 price; book in black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a tiny tear with faint crease at bottom front and a small, light waterspot, else just light edgewear..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Turquoise and navy decorative dust jacket by noted Czech book designer Rudolph Ruzicka. Binding also by him, in aegean-blue cloth with silver and turquoise spine stamping, including ivy motifs; author's initials, with ivy motif, stamped in turquoise on front panel. Standard Knopf..... More
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; xiv + 129pp. Six pages of B&W stage production photos. Illustrated three-color jacket by Grant MacDonald; rarely reproduced photo of young whippersnapper Davies on jacket back. Black boards with crimson spine lettering; title and author reversed out of embossed crimson..... More
Limited Edition. London / New York: Constable and Co. / Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Two Volumes. Limited Edition of 1025 copies. Octav (8.5" x 6.5"); I: liv, 231p, II: [iv], 257p. Red leather with red cloth spine and gilt lettering. Covers Bumped at corners and along edges, with some discoloration..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: New Directions, 1955. First Edition, First Printing with no credit to New York Times on copyright or to scene and costume designers on page xii. Tan cloth boards with black lettering to spine; [xiv], 197p. Missing dustjacket. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends..... More