Yesterday's Muse Books

Aeschylus; Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond; Benardete, Seth G.

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume II [2]: Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens; The Persians; Seven Against Thebes (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 311)

New York: The Modern Library, 1956. Reprint. Hard Cover.

1956-63 printing, Toledano 311.1, binding style 8, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Address label on front endpaper redacted, ink underlining in introduction.

147, [5] pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, black titles panels and top edge. Translated from the Greek by.....

Price: $10.00

Anouilh, Jean; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Camus, Albert; Giraudoux, Jean; Cohn, Ruby (Introduction)

Four Contemporary French Plays: Antigone; No Exit; Caligula; The Madwoman of Chaillot (The Modern Library, No. 90)

New York: The Modern Library, 1967. First Thus. Hard Cover.

1967 first thus, Toledano 090.3, binding/jacket style 13n with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, brown and beige Fujita endpapers. Former library copy - usual marks. Minor pencil marks in text, minor water exposure to rear jacket panel with slight wrinkle.....

Price: $10.00

Atkinson, Brooks; Williams, Tennessee; Miller, Arthur; Inge, William; Axelrod, George; Anderson, Robert; Wouk, Herman

New Voices in the American Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Death of a Salesman; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Seven Year Itch; Tea and Sympathy; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 258)

New York: The Modern Library, 1955. Reprint. Hard Cover.

1963 printing, Toledano 258.3, binding/jacket style 10i, unnumbered list on verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket edges rubbed. Likely a married jacket, as the i jacket style was in use from 1954-9, and the 10 binding style only.....

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Bloom, Harold

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human [William]

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. 7th Printing. Hard Cover.

Seventh printing. Dust jacket lightly bumped. Light green ink stain on top pages, light green stain on page before page 1.

xx, 745 pp. America's uncontested expert on Shakespeare and author of The Western Canon presents a monumental analysis of each.....

Price: $9.00

Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways

Japanese Drama (Tourist Library: 6)

Japan: Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, 1936. Soft Cover.

Binding has been repaired. Light general wear to onion-skin wrapper.

84 pp. CONTENTS: Earliest Period of the Japanese Drama; Final Form of the Ancient Drama; Development of the Kabuki Drama; First Creative Period; Puppet Drama; Second Creative Period; Music.....

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Brecht, Bertolt; Willett, John (Editor and Translator)

Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

New York: Hill and Wang, 1992. Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Reprint. A nice copy.

294 pp. Edited and translated by John Willett. This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition.....

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Brewer, Rev. E. Cobham; Harland, Marion

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Volume I [1]

New York: Selmar Hess, 1892. First Edition. Large Hardcover.

First edition. Light general wear.

viii, 408 pp. Volume one only (of eight). Olive green boards with gilt titles and decor, all edges gilt. ILLUSTRATIONS: Photogravures and Etchings; Wood Engravings and Typogravures.

Price: $30.00

Brown, Calvin S.

The Later English Drama (Student's Edition)

New York and Chicago: The A.S. Barnes Company, 1914. Second Edition. Hard Cover.

Second edition. Rear hinge starting.

xix, 571 pp. Contents include; Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer; Sheridan's The Rivals; The School for Scandal; Knowles' Virginius; Bulwer-Lytton's The Lady of Lyons; Richelieu. "It is the object of this.....

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Chiba, Reiko

Painted Fans of Japan: 15 Noh Drama Masterpieces

Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1981. Reprint. Small Hard Cover.

Pages lightly toned.

41 pp. 5" x 4 3/4" fan shaped hardcover. Red background with yellow, green, white and gold stitching. "Noh Fans are an essential element element of Japanese theater and this collection of fans is a rare example of.....

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[Christie, Agatha] Saunders, Peter

Peter Saunders Presents the First 30 Years of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 1952-1982 [Thirty]

London: Theatreprint, Ltd., 1983. 3rd Printing. Stapled Binding.

3rd printing. Very minor general wear.

55 pp. A history of the first thirty years of Agatha Christie's murder mystery play, The Mousetrap, which first opened in London in 1952. Includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations, an introductory comment that.....

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Cone, John F.

Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Faint edge wear, jacket rubbed.

A story of the Manhattan Opera War of 1906-1910, in which Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House attempted to outsell the Metropolitan Opera.

Price: $15.00

Congreve, William; Kronenberger, Louis

The Way of the World: Comedy in Five Acts

New York: The Heritage Press, 1959. Cleland, T.M. Hard Cover.

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Special Publication: S26 laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edge faded.

xix, [1], 108 pp. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger, illustrations by T.M. Cleland. "With piercing accuracy William Congreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of "society" where the.....

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Coward, Noel

Design for Living: A Comedy in Three Acts

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Jacket reverse taped in multiple places, jacket stained, one inch tear along top edge of and ink mark on front jacket panel. Page ridges foxed.

139 pp. "Perhaps Mr. Coward is being satirical one.....

Price: $35.00

Coward, Noel

Present Indicative

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1937. Hard Cover.

No jacket. Endpapers lightly soiled.

viii, 371 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what.....

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Cox, John D.

Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power (Princeton Legacy Library)

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. A very nice copy.

xviii, 282 pp. "Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege."

Price: $15.00

Currimbhoy, Asif

Plays

New Delhi: Oxford / IBH, 1972. Hard Cover.

Lacks jacket. Ink stamp on endpaper, tiny smudge to bottom page ridge.

A collection of works from the Indian playwright who rose to prominence in the 1960's.

Price: $15.00

De La Barca, Pedro Calderon

La Vida es un Sueño

Madrid: Jorge A. Mestas, 1999. Trade Paperback.

Spanish language. Pages faintly toned.

One of Calderon's most celebrated plays of the Spanish theater.

Price: $6.00

Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist [Photoplay Edition]

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1912. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover.

Photoplay edition. Stamp-style bookplate featuring Dickens portrait affixed to front paste-down endpaper, ink gift note on front free endpaper, boards lightly soiled.

xv, [1], 432 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt image of Dickens on front board, black titles. Illustrated with.....

Price: $30.00

Drinkwater, John

Robert E. Lee: A Play

Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. No jacket, ink name and date to front endpaper.

128 pp. A play based on the life and events surrounding Robert E. Lee.

Price: $8.00

Dukes, Gerry

Samuel Beckett (Overlook Illustrated Lives)

New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.

161 pp. "His plays broke all the rules by dispensing with traditional concepts of plot, scene, and character, concentrating instead on the experience of the drama itself. An intensely private.....

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Dukore, Bernard F.

American Dramatists, 1918-1945

New York: Grove Press, 1984. Trade Paperback.

Spine lightly toned.

191 pp. "1918-1945 was the period when America's first wave of major dramatists came of age. The author explores a whole range of drama, from the realistic melodrama of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and the poetic and lyric realism.....

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Eliot, T. S

The Family Reunion: A Verse Play with a Contemporary Setting

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. Early printing. Hard Cover.

Jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips. Ink name on front free endpaper.

129 pp. "The Family Reunion is a play by T. S. Eliot. Written mostly in blank verse (though not iambic pentameter), it incorporates elements from.....

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Eliot, T.S. [Thomas Sterns]

The Cocktail Party: A Comedy

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1950. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.

Third printing. No jacket. Spine and boards lightly faded, ink note on half-title page.

167 pp. A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. “An authentic modern masterpiece” (New.....

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