Gellert Lawrence (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good in a very good price-clipped dustjacket.; 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1958. Bi-color boards/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/Poor; intact, edge worn w/losses to upper spine. First published New Fathoms, 1950; this is the first 1958 printing by Citadel Press. Nobel & Pulitzer winner Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953) arrives at the Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, MA in 1916 w/a trunkful of plays. "Bound East for Cardiff" was immediately staged. The remaining "trunkful" lay hidden for years as the playright's new works received acclaim. This volume contains those lost works, all written 1913 to 1915, and all non-royalty plays and very stageable. They are: 1, Abortion; 2, The Movie Man; 3, The Sniper; 4, Servitude, Acts I, II & III; and, 5, A Wife for Life.…

117 p. Hardcover (Fine copy.).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 117 pages. A fine as new copy. Large format oblong HB in a crisp complete dust jacket.

Molto Buono.

Original-Pappband. Condition: Sehr gut. 4 Original-Pappband en 117 pp.

First edition of this collection of the playwright's early plays, written as a young man. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This volume adds richly to the American playwright's store-house of drama, particularly in the short one-act form, so popular in the era's progressive small theater movement. An introduction by Rockefeller grant recipient Lawrence Gellert brings the young O'Neill and his time into sharp focus with an exhaustive historical survey of the social scene of which the young playwright sought to make himself an integral part.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Good+ dust jacket. Tanning on FEP and front flap. Rubbing and light bumping along dust jacket edges. Chipping at spine crown. Open tears at front panel corners.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Beige wraps with black titles. Wraps are toned with some edge and corner wear. Wraps have small tape repair at top of spine and parting at bottom of spine. Wraps are still attached but very fragile. Interior is excellent. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 32 pages; One of two collections of African-American protest songs from the 1930's published by Gellert from his collection. Musical arrangements by Lan Adomian. Unusual early collection of protest lyrics. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Minus. A Very Good Minus staple bound paperback, showing minor soiling, particularly to the wrappers, toning, and creasing. "Copyright 1939 by Lawrence Gellert Int. Copyright Secured" stamped below the table of contents. 31 pages. 7" x 10.25". Hungarian-born Lawrence Gellert (1898-c. 1979), in the 1920s and '30s, collected a significant number of field-recorded Black American folksongs, primarily comprising blues and spirituals. By the latter part of the 1930s, however, his focus was on protest songs, and he published Negro Songs of Protest in 1936 and Me and My Captain, chain gang songs, in 1939. The front matter in Me and My Captain suggests an additional two volumes were intended, but there is no evidence they were ever produced. The music was arranged for voice and piano by Russian-born, Jewish-American composer Lan Adomian (1905-1979). A blurb from Langston Hughes on the rear inside panel reads, "Of inestimable value." .…

Wrappers. Condition: Bueno. 1st ed. 14.5x21. 31pp. Wrappers. Rare German compilation of 16 Black protest songs published by the activist, song writer and actor Ernst Busch and Russian musicologist Grigoriĭ Mikhaĭlovich Shneerson. Stain in upper corner (see photos.). English & German.

Wrappers. Condition: Bueno. 1st ed. 17.5x25.5. 31pp. Wrappers. 24 protest songs with score and words collected by Lawrence Gellert. Some light marking on the covers, interiors clean. Rare, only 2 copies on WorldCat. English.