Search Results: death of a salesman by miller arthur 1915 2005

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York : Viking press, 1949. 2nd edition before publication. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked orange cloth, with black stage vignette to front board. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 139 pages; Description: 139p. ; 20cm. Subjects: American drama -- American theatre -- 1940s. American literature -- 20th century. Arthur Miller -- plays. Notes: Death of a salesman was awarded the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

London: Cresset Press, 1949. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 128 pages; 16 cm. Summary: The play shows a series of chronological events which take place during one evening and the next day. At intervals throughout the play we see scenes from Willy's past enacted on the same stage set at the same time. On first consideration this seems more likely to confuse than reveal, but Miller had very strong reasons for staging the play in this way. Miller believes that the past is not something which is now behind us ... he says the past is with us all the time, informing and influencing our actions and choices. If we are to understand Willy, we must be aware of the emotional burdens and the formative influences which he carries with him from the past. Subjects: Sales personnel; Drama. Fathers and sons; Drama. Sales personnel United States; Drama. United… Read More

London: The Cresset Press, 1949. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression ("First published in Great Britain in 1949") of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century by one of the greatest American playwrights. Small, slim 8vo (185 x 119 cm): 133,[1]pp. Publisher's vivid scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold, grey dust jacket printed in black and red, unpriced but unclipped (Crandell gives a price of 7/6, but makes no mention of the jacket, whose flaps on our copy are blank, making this jacket an unrecognized variant). Slight oxidation to spine gilt, minor toning to jacket's spine panel, else Fine. Crandell A4e. This, Miller's second play (after All My Sons), premiered in New York at the Morosco Theater, with performances from February, 1949 until mid-November, 1950. It received enthusiastic reviews and numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Play—the first play… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, , 1981. Rilegato tela, custodia (cloth, slip-case). Ottimo (Fine). Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem. 8vo. pp. 140. Ottimo (Fine). Edizione illustrata di 500 es. numerati e firmati.