Adding Machine by Rice Elmer, First Edition (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3 books: KINGSBLOOD ROYAL. Sinclair Lewis. Random House. 1947. 348p. hardcover no dust jacket, boards lightly bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib, front endpaper torn out- + If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis. Lewis, Sinclair. Southern Illinois University Press. 1997. 363p. trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean--0809321394 ISBN 13: 9780809321391 + Three Plays About Business in America. The Adding Machine / Beggar on Horseback / All My Sons. Elmer L. Rice, George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Arthur Miller. Pocket. 1972. 266p.xlib paperback, with usual xlib stamps/card pockets etc. --9.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Three Elmer Rice books, all very good or better. The Show Must Go On is a novel. In jacket. The other two are first edition hardcover plays without jackets. No writing. M05116.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. With 7 black and white photographs by Francis Bruguiere of the Theatre Guild stage production. Wear to spine ends and and corners. Soiling to spine and covers with some tape residue to front cover. Webbing at hinges beginning to show at front pastedown and exposed the page length at the 18th and last page. Still a solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; xiii, 961 pages ; 25 cm ; LC: PN6112; Dewey: 808.82 ; OCLC: 602872 ; Contenst: John Ferguson / by St. J. G. Ervine -- Mr. Pim passes by / by A. A. Milne -- Liliom / by Ferenc Molnar -- He who gets slapped / by Leonid Andreyev -- The adding machine / by Elmer Rice -- Saint Joan / by Bernard Shaw -- Goat song / by Franz Werfel -- The silver cord / by Sidney Howard -- Porgy / by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward -- Strange Interlude / by Eugene O'Neill -- Hotel universe / by Philip Barry -- Reunion in Vienna / by R. E. Sherwood-- Mary of Scotland / by Maxwell Anderson -- Rain from heaven / by S. N. Behrman. ; green cloth ; no dustjacket ; foxing, small spot on spine, else VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. With a foreweord by Philip Moeller. 143pp., black and white photographs. sm. 8vo. Bright orange cloth with black titles on front cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown page, minor finger-soiling on covers, spine slightly darkened; overall a near fine attractive hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo, pp 143. Original publisher's black cloth over red cloth boards, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "To Erin, with my love, Elmer, Los Angeles, May 1931." Foreword by Philip Moeller. Slight tanning to endpapers, with slight nick at head of spine but no loss, overall sound, very good. Signedes.

First edition. Octavo. pp [xvi], 143. Eight plates from photographs by Francis Bruguiere showing the expressionistic stage sets designed by Lee Simonson. Despite its reputation as a landmark in American theatre history the play ran for no more than two months when it first appeared on Broadway and has seldom been revived since then. A film version was produced in 1969.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''To Edward G. Robinson from Elmer Rice - August 1923.'' In the play Robinson played the role of the heavenly being Shrdlu, this being an early stage appearance.Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Small bump to top corner of rear cover. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper. An important association copy.