Search Results: PLAYS from Ray Boas, Bookseller

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 36pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0195018613 122pp.

Boston, MA: Branden Press Publishers, 1972. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0828313407 51pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. HC. very good, decorated gray cloth (hardcover). Plays included are: A Box of Monkeys; The Jack Trust; The Veneered Savage; and, Tulu. 257pp.

London: Constable and Company, Ltd, 1913. HC. good, olive green cloth (hardcover) light edgewear. 211pp.

Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. HC. very good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). color frontis, B&W ill.. The play gives a vivid and authentic presentation of four scenes from the actual life of Doctor Johnson. 120pp.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. HC. good++, decorated blue cloth (hardcover). B&W frontis. The Earth" was produced at the Kingsway Theatre on April 14, 1909. PLAYS OF TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Series. 158pp.

Manchester/Baltimore, MD: Manchester/Johns Hopkins, 1979. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W ill., map. ISBN 08081822522 A reliable and authoritative text along with an extensive introduction that examines the relationship between the three authors and the problem of their collaboration. 238pp.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0691067783 Composed in the early months of 1949, while Pound was under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order in Washington, D.C., this unpublished version of Sophocles' play documents a critical stage in the poet's writing career: with his subsequent rendition of Sophocles' Trachiniae and his ongoing translations from the Chinese classics, it signaled his return to sustained composition and his eventual decision to resume his life work, the Cantos. 103pp.

Edinburgh: William Aiken, 1854. PB. good, wraps (softcover) some soiling/chipping to covers. Small little pocket size softcover with some light soiling and chipping on the covers. 60pp.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1975. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0460101471 These three plays--Women Beware Women, The Cardinal, and Perkin Warbeck--are comments on politics and society, dramatic mirrors for magistrates, and each of them has in totality a relevance to the present century. 265pp.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1928. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). First performed in London on November 12, 1928. 31pp.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1911. HC. good+, gray cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 53pp.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. HC. good, vellum spine, brown paper covered boards (hardcover). B&W frontis. Limited Edition. 114pp.

London: Duckworth, 1930. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). ill. by S. Van Abbe. 104pp.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. HC. good, red cloth spine (hardcover) light edgewear to boards. 74pp.

Boston, MA: Walter H. Baker & Co, 1914. HC. very good, red cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. PATELIN belongs to a series of farces which had come mysteriously into being as early as 1277, when a little piece called THE BOY AND THE BLIND MAN was performed at Tournay. Most of these farces have been lost, but the hundred and fifty or so that happen to survive show clearly enough what must have been the character and range of all. Published in wraps, this copy was bound in red cloth and presented to the author William Stone Booth to who this work is dedicated. Tipped in the rear are two letters from the author to Stone discussing the work and how the dedication should be written. Also signed and dated by Stone on the front free endpaper. 121pp.

Menston, Yorkshire, UK: The Scolar Press Limited, 1973. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0854171258 Reproduced (original size) from a copy in the Bodleian Library. 96pp.

New York: Samuel French, Inc, 1930. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). French's Standard Library Edition." Adapted from Joseph C. Lincoln's SHAVINGS, first published in novel form in 1918. Successfully produced on Broadway opening February 16, 1920, starring Harry Beresford as "Shavings," and presented by Henry W. Savage. The play ran for 122 performances. Three photographs of the play, and stage plans. An exceptionally nice copy of this elusive play. 102pp.

London: Duckworth and Co, 1920. HC. good, olive green cloth (hardcover) wear top of spine (no jacket. B&W illustrations. 116pp.