Item 222961Lille Eyolf. Skuespil i tre akter.
Price: $1,000
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1894. First edition. First edition of Little Eyolf. Read More Item Details for Lille Eyolf. Skuespil i tre akter Add to Wish List
Item #222961
It's time to dim the lights and raise the curtain, as James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present All the World's a Stage, our newest catalogue dedicated to some of history's greatest playwrights. With inventory spanning from landmark 16th-century editions of ancient Greek plays to Eugene O'Neill's tribute to his old drama teacher there is something for the most devoted of thespians to the amateur dramatist. Highlights include the first octavo Shakespeare with the poems; a remarkable association copy of The Cocktail Party with a pre-publication presentation inscription from T.S. Eliot to American friend, poet, and critic Allen Tate; and several portrait photographs taken by Carl Van Vechten.
Price: $1,000
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1894. First edition. First edition of Little Eyolf. Read More Item Details for Lille Eyolf. Skuespil i tre akter Add to Wish List
Item #222961
Price: $2,500
London: Printed by Thomas Hodkin, for H.[enry] Herringman, E.[dward] Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. WWotton, G. Conyers, 1692. First Complete Collected Edition. First Complete Collected Edition. The first complete collected edition, and the first to be printed in one volume. Jonson saw only the first three plays through the..... Read More Item Details for The Works of Ben Jonson, which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, and are now Reprinted in One. To which is added a Comedy called the New Inn Add to Wish List
Item #307326
Price: $750
New York: December 10, 1934. Beatrice Kaufman (1895-1945) was the wife of wife George S. Kaufman, a playwright in her own right, and the East Coast representative of Samuel Goldwyn Pictures. It was Beatrice who, upon reading the galleys of Steinbeck’s OF MICE AND MEN sent to her by Steinbeck’s..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Beatrice Kaufman Add to Wish List
Item #56151
Price: $1,000
New York: Dec 9, 1932. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Clare Boothe Luce Add to Wish List
Item #219123
Price: $1,000
New York: Dec 9, 1932. Variant of the portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Clare Boothe Luce Add to Wish List
Item #219290
Price: $500
London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1751. Second edition, revised, after the first edition of 1740; and the second printing of "Rule Britannia", also revised, with new stanzas added by Lord Bolingbroke. "Rule, Britannia!" Originally written for the stage by Thomson and Mallet, with music..... Read More Item Details for Alfred: a Masque. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants Add to Wish List
Item #222968
Price: $400
New York: The Viking Press, [1964]. Signed Limited First edition, one of five hundred copies for private distribution and four hundred ninety-nine copies for sale. SIGNED BY ARTHUR MILLER on colophon page. Read More Item Details for After the Fall Add to Wish List
Item #41312
Price: $1,000
Roxbury [Connecticut]: June 21, 1975. A fine tribute by Miller, touching on his association to photography through his wife, Inge Morath. With signed notes by journalist James Reston ("To one of the great ones of our time ...") and Thornton Wilder ("We exchange *impressions* gratefully ..."). Read More Item Details for Autograph Note, signed ("Arthur Miller") and dated ("June 21/75, Roxbury") to Alfred Eisenstaedt: "As a photographer's husband I can appreciate the ancient prayer-'Let there be light-the right kind.' With Inge's and my best wishes."[With:] Autograph Note, signed ("James Reston"), April 3, 1975 [And:] Autograph Note, signed ("Thornton Wilder"), July 4, 1975, on verso Add to Wish List
Item #237087
Price: $4,000
New York: Viking Press, 1949. First edition, Second Printing before Publication. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the title-page: "To Frank Krohn Best, Arthur Miller." Read More Item Details for Death of a Salesman Add to Wish List
Item #310226
Price: $1,500
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. A Rare Inscribed Copy. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf: “For Ruth Cooper, Without whom nothing [underlined] would happen right! Best luck, Arthur Miller.” A fine association copy of this book, which is rarely found inscribed. Ruth Cooper worked for MCA Management, Ltd., which..... Read More Item Details for A View from the Bridge Add to Wish List
Item #257271
Price: $500
Paris: L. Hébert, Librairie-Éditeur, 1882. Nouvelle édition. Read More Item Details for Oeuvres Complète... Précédée de L'Histoire de la Vie de Molière par Voltaire Add to Wish List
Item #42363
Price: $1,000
New York: February 15, 1941. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Ferenc Molnar Add to Wish List
Item #219051
Price: $300
N.p: n.d. [ca. 1980?]. Moser, Barry. Moser Portrait of Galsworthy. A strong and striking portrait of the famed novelist and playwright (1867-1933), who was awarded the Nobel Prize the year before his death. Read More Item Details for "John Galsworthy" Add to Wish List
Item #15036
Price: $400
New York: Dramatists' Play Service, [1939]. One of a few copies printed on Large Paper and signed by the contributors. One of a few copies on large paper signed by the contributors, who include: EUGENE O’NEILL (“Professor G.P. Baker, A Note and Some Communications”), JOHN MASON BROWN, DONALD M OENSLAGER..... Read More Item Details for George Pierce Baker. A Memorial Add to Wish List
Item #334841
Price: $2,250
[New York]: September 5, 1933. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Fine, atmospheric portrait of the playwright. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill Add to Wish List
Item #218818
Price: $1,750
[New York]: September 5, 1933. Fine, atmospheric portrait of the playwright. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill Add to Wish List
Item #218939
Price: $1,500
[New York]: Sept 2, 1937. Half-length portrait of the young playwright (1906-1963) seated, wiping his spectacles with a handkerchief. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Clifford Odets Add to Wish List
Item #211174
Price: $1,000
Edinburgh: William Grant, 1869. Unrecorded. An unrecorded dramatic adaptation, or perhaps precedent, of James Payn's short story "An Aunt by Marriage," collected in 1879 volume of his short stories, High Spirits. We find record of the play being produced in London in 1876, but no record of this Edinburgh (or..... Read More Item Details for The Substitute. An English Farce Add to Wish List
Item #301696
Price: $850
Barcelona: Reinhold Wetzig, 1930. No. 76 of 100 copies. Read More Item Details for Hamlet. Prince of Denmark. A New bibliophile edition printed on sheets of pure cork with the Spanish version … Add to Wish List
Item #312833
Price: $2,250
London: Harrap, [1936]. Rackham, Arthur. First edition, deluxe issue, no. 376 of 460 copies, signed by Rackham. Read More Item Details for Peer Gynt Add to Wish List
Item #246204
Price: $350
New York: Atheneum, [1969]. Book Club edition. INSCRIBED BY DUSTIN HOFFMAN. INSCRIBED by the play's star, Dustin Hoffman, to agent Mark Fleischman, with a reference to Schisgal's play LUV: “I am grateful (truly) / Luv, / Dustin / Thank you, Mark / (9-1-69). Hoffman, after years of struggle, had just..... Read More Item Details for Jimmy Shine Add to Wish List
Item #238730
Price: $750
London: Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1676. Second edition. Shadwell's (1642-1692) comedy of sexual intrigue at the fashionable spa at Epsom, Surrey, first published in 1673. Scarce. Read More Item Details for Epsom-Wells. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre Add to Wish List
Item #222965
Price: $6,000
London and New York: William Heinemann, and Doubleday, Page & Co, 1908. Rackham, Arthur. Deluxe Edition, no. 747 of 1,000 copies. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Rackham Edition, Finely Bound. "Rackham cast his spell over the play," notes Derek Hudson, "his drawings superseded the work of all his..... Read More Item Details for A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham Add to Wish List
Item #323553
Price: $2,500
London: Hodder & Stoughton Publishers, [1908]. W. Heath Robinson. One of 350 copies signed by the artist. A beautiful copy of this remarkable illustrated edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Though later in his career Robinson would become known for humorous illustrations and cartoons of whimsical machines, he..... Read More Item Details for Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night, or What You Will Add to Wish List
Item #314012
Price: $2,500
London: William Heinemann, [1926]. Deluxe edition with extra colored plate, No. 352 of an entire edition of 560 copies, 260 reserved for America. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Rackham's The Tempest, One of 560 Deluxe Copies. A lovely book, of which Hudson notes, "In 1926 an excitingly original..... Read More Item Details for The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Add to Wish List
Item #321848