May SALE: books in our Drama, Humor, and Russian History sections priced at $100 or less are 30% off!
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, and items sold on consignment. Additional items are available for sale in our open shop.
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Near fine in near fine purple and white dust jacket with white title to front panel and blue title to white spine. Index, 369 pages. Russian History. RUS23/5082. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More about The Making of America's Soviet Policy
New York: Macmillan and Co, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 volumes. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor fading to spines and edges and one small spot of soiling to spine of volume I. Previous owner's written in pencil to front free end pages of both volumes. Else is clean and bright. Vol: 314 pages, Vol II: 354 pages. DRA/081617. Very Good. More about Collected Plays. 2 Volumes
New York: PublicAffairs, (2011). Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Fine in fine grey dust jacket with black and white title to front and spine panels. Pristine interior. Bibliography, 316 pages. Russian History. RUS/100311. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More about Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
New York: PublicAffairs, (2011). Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Fine in fine grey dust jacket with black and white title to front and spine panels. Pristine interior. Bibliography, 316 pages. Russian History. RUS/050919. Fine / Fine. More about Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very good in very good white illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. 8vo. Contents bright and clean. 194 pages. Drama. DRA/5162. Very Good / Very Good. More about More Stately Mansions
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1926). Hardcover. Fourth printing. SCARCE IN DUST JACKET. Very good in very good blue illustrated dust jacket with blue title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Interior is clean and bright. 238 pages. DRA/081617. Very Good / Very Good. More about Plays: Desire Under the Elms, "The Hairy Ape", Welded
New York: Liveright, (1927). Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in brown cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Slight bumping to spine end and corners. Slight yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright. Off-white illustrated dust jacket with brown title to front and spine panels. Chipping, creasing, and minor soiling to dust jacket. 374 pages. DRA/081617. Very Good+ / Very Good. More about Representative Plays of Eugene O'Neill
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, as such. Very good minus orange cloth backed brown paper boards. Minor soiling to boards, spine darkened, edges and corners worn. Inner flaps of the dust jacket are present and laid in. Bookplate to front pastedown Text is clean and bright. No loose pages or signatures, though a split in textblock early in book, thus front hinge starting. Binding remains tight. 285 pages. Drama. DRA/11203. Very Good. More about The Emperor Jones, Diff'rent, The Straw
New York: Atheneum, (1965). Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in very good black dust jacket with gilt/brown title to front and spine panels. Ex libris with sticker to front panel of dust jacket, stamp to front free end page and to title page. Inside flaps of dust jacket are neatly adhered to the front paste downs. Text is clean and bright with several photographic illustrations throughout. 128 pages. DRA/081617. Very Good+ / Very Good. More about Golden Boy
New York: Random House, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in very good light blue dust jacket with blue title to front and spine panels. Minor edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Interior is clean and bright with photographic illustrations. 366 pages. Russian History. RUS/050712. Very Good + in Very Good DJ. More about Memoirs: The Testament of Conscience of a Russian Writer (1st Edition
New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1957. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./361 pp./contents bright, crisp, and clean. Russian History. RUS9/5112. Very Good. More about The Terrorists: The Story of the Forerunners of Stalin
Annapolis: Maryland Office for the Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution, Maryland State Archives, 1986. Paperback. 8vo. Fine in white side stapled paper wrappers with black title and illustration to front wrapper. Pristine interior. 19 pages. MD/062315. Fine. More about A More Perfect Union: A Play about the Annapolis Convention
London: C. Arthur Pearson, [1895]. Paperback. Part Four. Folio sized. Bound in side-stapled patterned white paper wrappers with black title and illustration to front cover. Includes full page photographic illustrations of many popular actors of the day such as Sara Bernhardt, Mabel Love, Edward Terry, and Rose Dearing. 64 pages. PHOTO/051314. Very Good. More about Pearson's Photographic Portfolio of Footlight Favourites by Eminent Photographers. Part Four only
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. Hardcover. Nf/Nf Dj/large 8vo./contents crisp and clean/many illustrations/240 pp./new evidence reveals that Tsarevich Alexei may have escaped execution and was subsequently adopted by a peasant family. Russian History. RUS1/5082. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More about The Escape of Alexei, Son of Tsar Nicholas II: What Happened the Night the Romanov Family was...
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. Hardcover. Theater owner and playwright, Augustin Daly's copy, auction number 2631. Pencil notation "Augustin Daly Collection" beneath number. First edition. Includes three portraits and copies of letters from men of eminence and other original documents of interest to play-goers. English actor and theater manager Samuel Phelps (1804 - 1878) was best known for his performances as Hamlet and King Lear. He managed Sadler's Well Theatre in London where he insisted that Shakespearean plays be returned to the original text from the first folios. Bound in three quarter tan leather over marbled paper covered boards with red label "Stage Biography" and green title / author label beneath. This is part of a series of books Daly had bound in a matching style, all labeled "Stage Biography." Rubbing, pulling, and wear to leather. A few smudge marks to margins, but clean and bright overall. Unopened pages. Top edge gilt with marbled endpapers. Bound by R.W. Smith. 436 page plus 32 pages of ads. DRA/031419. Very Good. More about The Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps
Little Bird Books, 2004. Softcover. Scarce early mini-comic created by cartoonist Lark Pien. Lark Pien (born c. 1972) is an American cartoonist who has created the minicomics Stories from the Ward, Mr. Boombha, and Long Tail Kitty, the last of which won her the Friends of Lulu Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2004. Her work has also been showcased in the Flight comics anthology. Pien earned her Bachelor of Architecture in 1995 from California Polytechnic State University. She began making comics in 1997. She is based in Oakland, California. This story of the long tail kitty follows his imaginary adventures and misadventures on one night. He encounters the circus and elephants, a fortune teller who informs him that he is going to like brocoli, robots and more. Entertainingly drawn comic strip style by Pien in black and white. Bound in multi-colored paper wrappers. Very good save for a couple of light marks on rear cover. Interior pages near fine. 4 x 5.5 inches. Unpaginated [38 pages]. Near Fine. More about Full Moon Night, Long Tail Kitty
London: William Heinemann, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. SCARCE. Original blue cloth covered boards with black title to front board and to spine. Illustration to front board. Interior is clean and bright. Binding is very tight. A beautiful copy. 292 pages. Drama DRA/4073. Very Good +. More about The Benefit of the Doubt
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960. Hardcover. First Methuen and first hardbound edition. Fine in black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. In a blue illustrated dust jacket with white title to spine. The jacket is lightly rubbed with a small closed tear on the front panel. Jacket is price-clipped. 159 pages. DRA/101416. Fine / Very Good. More about The birthday party and other plays
Boston-Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1981]. Hardcover. First American edition. Foreword by John Fowles. Fine in maroon cloth boards with grey cloth spine titled in metallic red ink. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of textblock, otherwise bright and fine. In grey dust jacket titled in dark maroon with a short closed tear and minor wear to edges. 104 pages. DRA/101716. Fine / Very Good. More about The French lieutenant's woman, a screenplay
London: Rupert hart-Davis, 1959. FIRST EDITION TWELFTH IMPRESSION. Hardcover. 12mo. In red cloth covered boards with illustrated red DJ. Interior pristine. 126pp. HUM/080206. Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus dj. More about Notes on Lifemanship
New York: Random House, 1992. Hardcover. First edition signed by author. Mint in fine price-clipped d.j.; author formerly worked on Soviet State Television; 220 pp. Russian History. RUS/1313. Fine. More about Eyewitness. A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Union
New York: The Dial Press, 1982. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./contents bright, crisp, and clean/367 pp. Russian History. RUS17/5132. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More about The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Intelligence Analysis and Russian Military Strength
London: William Heinemann, (1934). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. FIRST UK EDITION. Very good in very good- off-white dust jacket with red title to front and spine panels. Heavy browning and a large chip to the bottom 4th of the spine panel make the title on spine difficult to read. Browning and edgwear to dust jacket. Minor yellowing to pages. Text is clean and bright. 108 pages. DRA/082417. Very Good / Very Good Minus. More about Eden End: A Play in Three Acts
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Hardcover. 8vo. In dark blue boards with gilt title to spine. In blue dust jacket with black title to spine and front panel. Minor fading to spine panel of jacket. Old price stickers to jacket, else clean. 462 pages. RUS/050819. Fine / Very Good. More about The Last Czar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
Kensington, MD: ESCOAA Images, 1996. Gheissair, Nick. Paper Boards. 4to. Full color glossy paper covered boards with white and red title to spine. Pristine interior filled with full color photographic illustrations. Tight binding. Full color illustrated dj with blue spine panel and red title. Minor scuffing to dj. 120 pp. RUS/070505. Fine in Fine dj. More about Russia and Beyond