Original Plays (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated with photographs of the original productions of the plays; also featuring woodcuts by J.J. Lankes and Mary De B. Graves (illustrator). 1924 date to copyright page, but no date to title page, so this is a later printing -- possibly as late as the 1930s. First known appearance in a book by Thomas Clayton Wolfe (following the separate publication of his "Crisis in Industry") in the form of his play "The Return of Buck Gavin / The Tragedy of a Mountain Outlaw." (Wolfe played the lead in the 1919 first stage production -- the glossy photo at the play's start here depicts a bearded Wolfe as the title character.) Features four other plays, seven other glossy photos and two woodcuts by J.J. Lankes and another by Mary De B. Graves. 173 pp. Reduced from $30.

Decorative Hardcover Canvas. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. 199 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. No dust jacket. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations.

Illustrated from photographs of the original productions of the plays. (illustrator). Very Good (gilt bright with little very faint dampstain covers; some occasional wear text with several pages with wear or with short tears). 8vo., red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine; 311 pages First Edition. Signed inscription from Koch on the front endpaper: ?Ever your Fellow Playmaker. Frederick H. Koch. C.D.A. Award 1937.? Frederick Henry Koch [1877-1944] was founder of the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina and considered the father of American folk drama. Playmakers? theatre became the first state-subsidized playhouse in America and its company toured the Southeast presenting folk plays. His students include Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Anderson, and Paul Green. Signed.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

The Provincetown Plays Third Series The Two Sons: Neith Boyce, Lima Beans: Alfred Kreymborg, Before Breakfast: Eugene G O'Neill New York: Frank Shay Publisher, 1916. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good. 207p octavo., A very good copy in orang (illustrator). Very good in orange wrappers printed in black with artwork on the front wrapper. Light chipping to the front edges and soiling to the front panel. An uncommon collection of three plays, including Eugene O.Neill's "Before Breakfast." Very good minus. with a 2" mark along the spine edge. And a little chip at the bottom corner of the front wrapper.