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$37.00NY: New Directions (2000). First edition. 581 pp w/indexes. Fine in fine dust jacket. At publication price:
$350.00NY: New Directions (1971). First edition. 591 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Williams on the front free endpaper. Collects THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE, SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, and CAMINO REAL.$75.00NY: New Directions (1981). First edition. 358 pp. Light bump to one lower corner, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Collects 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON and fifteen other short plays.$55.00NY: New Directions (1981). First edition. 365 pp. One upper corner lightly bumped, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine and a short closed tear. Collects IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL and ten other plays.$40.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Company (1950). First edition. 163 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few very small chips.$35.00Berlin: Theater Freie Volksbühne (1988). First edition. [140 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with light edgewear. Texts in English and German translation.$25.00Wien: Carl Hanser (1982). First edition. [108 pp]. Foxing to page edges, else very good plus in printed wrappers.$50.00Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill (1971). First US edition. 382 pp w/appendixes. Top edge a little sunned near spine, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with some separation to the laminate over the gutters. Edited by Robin Skelton. Collects eight “Plays for the Miniature Theatre” and nine “Plays for the Larger Theatre,” with extensive supporting notes and articles.$75.00San Francisco: The Windsor Press (1926). First edition. 27 pp. Owner's name to first free end paper, else very good plus without jacket as issued. One of 750 copies. Printed by the Brothers Johnson at The Windsor Press on Rye Mill hand-made paper. A beautiful and delicate printing of this Yeats drama involving fairies, Irish folklore, and what happens on Midsummer Eve if you're not careful.
$150.00NY: Macmillan, 1908. First edition. xiii + 210 pp Very near fine in full dark blue cloth with elaborate gilt decoration along spine. t.e.g. Collects THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS, CATHLEEEN NI HULIHAN, and THE HOUR-GLASS. Wade 73.$25.00Santa Barbara: Garland-Clarke/Capra Press (1987). First trade paperback printing. 199 pp w/appendix. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$35.00NY & Tokyo: Weatherhill (1996). First edition. 189 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Donald Keene. Dated (June 16, 1998) and INSCRIBED by Shields.$12.50NY & London: Columbia University Press, 1969. First edition. 48 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in stapled wrappers.$45.00New Haven & London: Yale University Press (1995). First edition. xxii + 261 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$20.00Silverton: Fast Books (2011). First edition. 137 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers.$20.00NY: Henry Holt (nd). First edition. 111 pp. Small smudge on top edge, previous owner’s inked name and date to second leaf. In all, near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a small chip to top edge of rear panel.$15.00Toronto: Lester & Orpen Limited (1977). First edition. 228 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$20.00NY: Random House (1959). First edition. 481 pp. Previous owner’s name inside front board, else near fine in very good dust jacket with a chip. Prints Joyce’s ULYSSES IN NIGHTTOWN along with plays by Sean O’Casey, Jean Anouilh, Jacquetta Hawkes & J.B. Priestly, James Lee, Alfred Hayes, and James Forsyth.$150.00[Berkeley: Poltroon Press] 2012. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 13 1/8 x 17 1/2 inch illustrated poster, printed in four colors. Fine. Designed and printed by Alastair Johnston at his Poltroon Press. Johnston was commissioned to design a poster for this production, which design was then modified for promotional use. At Mamet’s request, Johnston printed a small run of copies for private distribution, a number of which were signed by Mamet for an edition. Thus, this is one of 20 numbered copies SIGNED by Mamet and Johnston.$45.00NY: Brentano’s (1925). First edition. Small bit of offsetting from the jacket to the front free endpaper, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toned spine and several edge tears. Translated from the Russian by George S. and Gilbert Seldes. Introduction by Oliver M. Sayler. Collects Lysistrada, Carmencita and the Soldier, The Daughter of Madame Angot, La Périchole, and Love and Death.$20.00NY: Grove Press (1960). First edition. 224 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a few spots of foxing to front panel. Collects plays by Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, James Merrill, and Lionel Abel. Introduction by Herbert Machiz.$45.00Boston: G.K. Hall (1978). First edition. xxi + 244 pp w/index. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued.$15.00Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964. First edition. 181 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$30.00NY: Morrow, 1961. First edition. 134 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with two short edge tears, some light rubbing, and sunning to spine. See Young 4063.$35.00Fairfield: John H. Willis (2002). Second edition, expanded, numbered issue. 49 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (26 /01/03) and INSCRIBED by Willis on the front free endpaper. While Wilde never made the long journey, Willis here does a thorough job making connections between Wilde, his circle, and Australia.$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1979. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 12mo. 85 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Translated from the original Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lamberg, concluding note by Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Choukri and Bowles.$20.00NY: Crown (1995). Uncorrected proof. 626 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers.$125.00Baltimore: Mary Owings Miller (1945). Summer. 18 pp. Hard bump to crown, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Prints Williams’ early poem “Everyman.” Work also by Paul Goodman, Edouard Roditi, Francisco Aguilera, and David Cornel DeJong, among others.
$150.00Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1985. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 116 pp. Very light bump to upper outside corners, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Six internal illustrations with a reproduction of a small collage by John Digby on the front cover. Near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies on Fava paper SIGNED by Windham.$40.00Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center (1980). First edition. 4to. 112 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers (lightly rubbed). Essays by John Rockwell and Robert Stearns. Heavily illustrated with production photographs.$17.50NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1988. Second trade paperback printing. 238 pp w/index. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. The first edition of this book was published under the title, The Wooster Group, 1975-1985.$20.00NY: Weatherhill (1974). First edition. 161 pp w/bibliography. Spine sunned, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. The two Yeats plays are “At the Hawk’s Well” and “The Dreaming of the Bones.” The two Noh plays are “Hagoromo” and “Nishikigi,” both translated by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound.