Cryptogram by Mamet David, First Edition (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Edition. Pap. Slight shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. All orders ship by next business day! This is a new book. We are a small company and very thankful for your business!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine Hardcover In A Near Fine Dust Jacket. In This Gripping Short Play, David Mamet Combines Mercurial Intelligence With Genuinely Hitchcockian Menace. The Cryptogram Is A Journey Back Into Childhood And The Moment Of Its Vanishing The Moment When The Sheltering World Is Suddenly Revealed As A Place Full Of Dangers. On A Night In 1959 A Boy Is Waiting To Go On A Camping Trip With His Father. His Mother Wants Him To Go To Sleep. A Family Friend Is Trying To Entertain Them Or Perhaps Distract Them. Because In The Dark Corners Of This Domestic Scene, There Are Rustlings That None Of The Players Want To Hear. And Out Of Things As Innocuous As A Shattered Teapot And A Ripped Blanket, Mamet Re-Creates A Child Terrifying Discovery That The Grownups Are Speaking In Code, And That That Code May Never Be Breakable.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. CASEY RIORDAN (illustrator). 1st Edition. THIS IS AN UNUSED LARGE POSTCARD FOR THE PREMIERE CHICAGO PERFORMANCE OF DAVID MAMET'S PLAY " THE CRYPTOGRAM " DURING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE STEPPENWOLF THEATRE IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. THE POSTCARD HAS A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF A SHOCKED BOY'S FACE WHEN TOLD OTHAT HIS FATHER'S WAS LEAVING THE MOTHER. T HE ARTIST, CASEY RIORDAN , CAPTURES THE STUNNED GRIEF OF THE BOY'S FACE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1ST VINTAGE ED.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers. Play.

First Edition, 1995. Very Fine in glossy decorated wrappers, as issued, a paperback original. 101pp. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers. No hardcover edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 203 x 132 mm), 101 pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Mamet's play about the breakup of a marriage from the viewpoint of a child. "The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing--the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers." (From the back cover). This is the scarce soft-cover edition. There was also a hard-cover version published as a book-club edition. Uncommon signed. CONDITION: A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "I suspect that in time, The Cryptogram will take its place among Mamet's major works" John Lahr"Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a theme that runs right throughout Mamet's work: the notion that we use words as a destructive social camouflage to lie to others and ourselves.And here through all the repetitions, half sentences and echoing encounter of one question with another, you feel the characters devalue experience through their use of language. As Del cries in desperation at the end, 'If we could speak the truth for one instant, then we would be free.' Mamet's point is that we are held spiritually captive by our bluster and evasions." (Michael Billington, The Guardian)"Dense with thought, feeling and hard psychological insight.There is no spare flesh on this text: words, objects, images interlock in mutual dependence which is both natural and superbly contrived." (John Peter Sunday Times) A play by the author of "Speed-the-Plow", "Oleanna", "House of Games" and "Glengarry Glen Ross". This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.