Bertolt Brecht Author (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Arcade Paperback edition with complete print line. Tight, clean copy; minimal wear to edges and corners.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Evergreen Black Cat Edition: 1967. 312 pp. Text in German and English. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Light foxing on page edges.

Paperback. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 15th Printing. 189 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Occassional pen markings on text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st Grove Weidenfeld Evergreen Ed. 1991. 126 pp. Flawless copy. Jo Bonney (Cover Design); John Howard (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 7.56x5.04x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 7.80x5.16x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 11th Printing, 1977. 144 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Small stain on bottom edge near spine. Light foxing on page edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Book has faint shelfwear to corners. Faint 3inch crease to back cover, as well as a length-long crease to spine. Very faint crimp to corners of last handful of pages. Otherwise, pages are bright white. Binding very solid. No rips, stains, or other markings here. An excellent travel reader.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 13th Printing 1977. 294 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Top right corner of front cover is creased. Light foxing on page edges. Leo Manso (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 7.56x5.04x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 6.14x0.20x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. German language. 4.57x0.55x7.48 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 140 pages. German language. 4.57x0.47x7.48 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 150 pages. German language. 4.57x0.51x7.40 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 180 pages. German language. 4.65x0.51x7.44 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. German language. 4.57x0.59x7.40 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Remainder stamp on bottom edge, else new and unread.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 117 pages. German language. 4.57x0.43x7.40 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Octavo, 140 pages. In Good minus condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is tan with brown print. Dust jacket has illustrated front panel, brown print; toning to spine, peripheral toning, long tears to hinges, tears to spine, portion of bottom edge torn away. Price clipped. Boards in black cloth; wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has slight stain to fore edge, name in ink on front pastedown, penciled underlining. Illustrated: one b&w plate (portrait of author). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1402758. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Review copy staplebound paperback in good condition. This volume is bowed, with 'REVIEW COPY' stamped to the front cover and title page. Cover edges are bumped and rubbed, with a tear at the spine head. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. German language. 6.69x0.63x9.45 inches. In Stock. Spitzer, Katja (illustrator).

Hardcover. Second edition. Octavo, 1805 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is white with brown and black print, illustration. Dust jacket has slight edge wear, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Boards in black cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has brown ribbon marker. Text in Spanish. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1388057. FP New Rockville Stock.…

dj. First English Language Edition. 8vo, Original boards with dustjacket. 140 pages. illustrated with a portrait of Brecht and his wife by Ernst van Leyden. 19 x 15 cm. In English. This Holocaust-era play consists of seventeen of the twenty-eight scenes of Brecht's chronicle "Fears and miseries of the third reich." It gives a description of Hitler's New Order in Germany in the 20th century. "Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (German: Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches), also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, is one of Bertolt Brecht's most famous plays and the first of his openly anti-Nazi works. It premiered on 21 May 1938 in Paris. This production was directed by Slatan Dudow and starred Helene Weigel. The production employed Brecht's epic theatre techniques to defamiliarize the behaviour of the characters and to make explicit the play's underlying message. The play consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including 'the Physicist', 'Judicial Process', and 'the Jewish Wife'. It was followed by many more plays that were openly anti-Nazi (Arturo Ui, etc.) and attempted a Marxist analysis. They were written while Brecht was in exile in Denmark and were inspired by a visit to Moscow, where he experienced the growing significance of the anti-Nazi movement there." (Wikipedia) SUBJECT(S): Fascism -- Germany -- 20th century -- Drama. Authors, German -- 20th century. German literature -- 20th century. German drama -- 20th century. OCLC: 611844 Some markings. Light wear to dust jacket. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket. Very Attractive Copy (PSB-1-12-LEXCCGG-'m).…

Set Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. (1982.) 4to. Limited signed and numbered edition, 1 of 2,000. SIGNED by Jack Levine and Eric Bentley on the limitation page at the rear of the book. Some sunning to spine. Slight bumping and creasing to head of spine. Some creasing to top left corner of rear board. Faint scuffing to boards. Signifigant bumping and creasing to closed side of slipcase, with leather worn away to reveal board beneath in several places at head and along joints. Some scuffing to panels of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase. Illustrator.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 48 pages. German language. 5.00x0.12x8.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 670 pages. German language. 7.17x1.18x10.91 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. Special Edition. 1st Printing. 150 pages. Published in 1963. The author's succinct account on subject. One of the most valuable books on the art and achievement of Western drama ever written in the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many as well as Print On Demand. Published in a tiny first print run as a Hill And Wang "Drama Book" hardcover mini-book by FSG. For a book of specialized interest, it has never been out-of-print, and is the author's most celebrated achievement. There is NO ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. Without DJ, as issued. NOT Print On Demand, as listed by ABEBooks' subhuman AI morons. Presents, in its true first format, Lionel Abel's "Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form". Radically asserts, even insists, that tragedy is dead, has been dead for thousands of years, along with the demise of foundational Greek civilization. Since Racine and Shakespeare, we have always had a "not-tragedy" dramatic form that we have not properly NAMED, "tragedy" having such prestige among playwrights and audiences alike. So Lionel Abel helpfully gives us one: Metatheatre, the serious dramatic form that owes an immeasurable debt to Greek tragedy, but is not itself tragedy. The crucial difference between Sophocles and Shakespeare is not the role of fate in human lives, but what moderns have sometimes called "agency". Which, in essence, is self-consciousness. Oedipus never had it - and so was victimized and destroyed by forces beyond his control. Hamlet had self-consciousness - and to an extreme, excruciating degree: Thinking, ruminating, pondering, plotting, scheming, then pulling back in order to think some more whether "to be or not to be". As such, Hamlet is the first full-fledged "intellectual/philosopher" character of Western drama, the man of thought rather than a man of action. Unwilling until the very end to act, he too is defeated by forces that destroy him and those around him. But unlike Oedipus, he is fully aware of the destruction that is about to be unleashed because HE is its primary agent. He is "agency" as ultimate destroyer because "agency" is, in the end, susceptible to a terrible fate albeit consciously. Hailed upon its appearance as perhaps the most insightful analysis and appreciation of Western drama, the book has had an outsize and enduring impact and influence on ALL subsequent thinking about the theatre. Lionel Abel was himself a playwright, producer, stage director, actor, translator of European drama (notably, Sartre), and drama critic; his engagement with theatre was at the highest level of personal commitment imaginable. It is not possible to think about theatre today without taking into account his masterly little book. An absolute "must-have" title for Lionel Abel and theatre collectors. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (Hill And Wang) available online and despite its imperfection (visible wear with age) is still in near-fine condition: Every single internal page remains clean and unmarked. Please note: ALL other copies available online are subsequent editions or Print On Demand as the book has never been out-or-print. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest intellectual/writers of the 20th century. A near-fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LIONEL ABEL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). no.…