Plays by Odets Clifford, First Edition (31 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. first edition/seventh printing book is tight with no markings, mild soiling to page edges, wraps have some rubbing and light soiling, price sticker on upc code along back bottom.

Condition: Good. 1963. First edition thus. 271 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Special brown streaked paper used, stage direction in margins (pencil), G+ or better.

First edition As new and bright glossy stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Glossy all around. Gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG, author's first book incl. plays Awake & Sing, Waiting for Lefty and Till the Day I Die. Reprint of Boni & Liveright edn of same year.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth, red lettering on the spine. Has some light wear but is in condition. We ship fast. Has some writing inside the front cover from the previous owner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & bright. Beige linen boards/NF w/trace bowing. DJ/None. Endpapers showing discoloration; tracepaper remanent to fEP (book plate removal?). Frontispiece: Stage scene photo; loose at lower edge. Collection of the three plays that earned Philadephia born, Bronx raised Clifford Odets (1906 - 1963) a reputation of a leading proletarian playwright, although he was less concerned with workers than the "fraud" of middleclass sector who were becoming increasingly aware that many of their cherished ideals were no longer based on reality. Awake and Sing (1935) and Till the Day I Die (1935) are about the struggle of German communists at the beginning of Hitler's regime. Waiting for Lefty (1935) deals with a taxi strike.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Six Plays of Clifford Odets by Clifford Odets stated 1st Modern Library Edition. Published by Modern Library (#67). "very good condition, some jacket wear, marks, clean and tight"BX20.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Three, brilliant plays by the ill-fated and gifted Clifford Odets; this copy is almost Fine, with lightest spine wear, otherwise bright and unmarked; first U.K.edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. first printing in this edition. no.67. $2.45 publishers price on inside flap.vg hardback in vg dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 54 pp + 74 pp, 1935 copyright but not stated as first edition, less common than the "Three Plays" edition issued that same year; book is tight but shows some foxing & some soiling, the dustjacket (now in mylar) shows edge wear, including some small pieces missing. [24].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Second Issue, after the previous Covici-Friede edition. A Fine copy in tan buckram, lacking the dustwrapper. 74pp. Clean and unmarked. Q15967.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Preface by the author. Binding style 8 in red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Boards with some sunning on the top and bottom edges, bottom corner of cover gently bumped and a bit of offsetting in the gutters, a nice very good or better copy in a sunned and worn, near very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears. The plays are "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," "Golden Boy," "Rocket to the Moon," "Till the Day I Die," and "Paradise Lost.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xi, 15 [sic]-114, [1]-54, [1]-74 p. Binding square, corners sharp; contents very good. Edgewear and chipping to dust wrapper, with loss to head of spine, water-spotting to foot of spine. Glassine protector torn. 430 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Toledano 67.2*. A Fine copy in deep red cloth, in a Near Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, slight rubbing to spine-tips, and slight soiling of real panel. Plain endpapers. 433pp. with a Preface by Odets. Odets was at the height of his fame during this time. Q15249.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped tan dust jacket with brown lettering, small chip to head of spine and small tear to bottom of front flap fold, in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid tan boards with sharp corners, black lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in dull pale brown cloth stamped in dark brown at spine, lacking a dustwrapper. First Issue with integral title page and tan striped text stock. 54pp./74pp. Very slightly cocked. Q05557.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: CHIPPED, FRAYED & PRICE CLIPP. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine book of Odets"s plays, Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the day I die. very fine unopened review copy. Clean and bright with nice top stain. End papers and paste downs and fore edge a trifle foxed. Book is a review copy with publishers notice tipped into book. " Please do not release review prior to the above date. ( May 15 1935)" All three plays were copy righted in 1935. Awake and Sing was first performed by the Group Theater at Belasco Feb. 19th 1935. Waiting for Lefty was first performed at the Longacre Theater March 26th 1935 and Till the day I die was first staged on March 26th at the Longacre theater at the same time as waiting for Lefty. An important collectible, in very fine condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Oatmeal cloth first edition. Backstrip is a bit flattened and toned; very slightly cocked. Endpages slightly toned. Leaves are crisp. "Plays 5" pencilled to ffep. The DJ in mylar with $2.50 flap price intact has a few tiny dampstains and slight toning to spine, a short closed tear to rear panel and rubbing to joints, hint of edgewear to crown. ; Tan buckram stamped in brown and yellow, brown topstain. No add'l printings indicating first edition. Frontis photo is partially detached, textblock edge is foxed. Tiny sticker remnant to fep. Sound binding, unmarked. The DJ in mylar with flap price intact has very slight edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Edition 1935 $2.50 On Flap. Signed In Year & Month Of Publication."Cifford Odets 10/16/35." Beautiful Copy Scarce In This Condition. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. From the library of novelist John Sanford with his signature: ÒJohn Sanford, Hollywood, Cal. Sept. 12, 36.Ó and his ownership blindstamp. Fine clean copy without dust jacket. John Sanford was one of the longest surviving expatriate American novelists who went to Paris in the thirties, and eventually was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He was a close friend of Nathanael West and lived with him while he was writing Miss Lonelyhearts; reading and helping West correct the proofs. Sanford was married to Marguerite Roberts, the noted screenwriter, best known for the film True Grit.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [i]-xi, [1], 15-114, [1]-54, [1]-74, plus frontispiece. Book is fine. Dust jacket a little wrinkled and chipped along the edges; somewhat tanned along spine; not price-clipped ($2.50), VG+ in mylar. Published in the same year as the Covici Friede First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First Random House Edition. A Fine copy in tan buckram, top edge maroon stain (very rich), in a Very Good tan dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with several very tiny chips from extremities and one smoothed diagonal scratch along spine and front spine-fold. 114pp./54pp./74pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Q14329.

First Edition. Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy, fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel, couple of small dust-smudges, else Fine. The jacket spine, which is very prone to darkening on this title, is bright and unfaded.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 74. Bookplate on pastedown, clipping glued on flyleaf. cover is on upside down, o/w VG in slightly worn dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first Modern Library Edition. Inscribed by the author on the ffep to Louis Nizer, noted American trial lawyer and senior partner of the law firm Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in tan buckram, in a Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with small chips to spine-ends, fine split to rear spinefold. Retains original pagination of the separate plays. 114pp./54pp./74pp. Text clean and unmarked. This copy INSCRIBED "Sincerely, Clifford Odets" on the free front endpaper in fountain pen. Q20483. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, second issue of Odet's first book, containing his first three plays, "Awake and Sing!," "Waiting for Lefty," and "Till the Day I Die," all of which were written for and premiered by the Group Theatre in the first half of 1935. Copy belonging to Emanuel "Manny" Fried, an understudy to Group Theatre co-founder Harold Clurman in the earliest days of its existence. Fried who went on to both write and produce plays, would eventually refuse to testify at the HUAC hearings and be blacklisted. INSCRIBED to Fried by Odets on the half-title: "At the end of a long season, Sincerely, Clifford Odets. 7/13/35." Also signed round-robin with inspirational quotations by 25 other individuals. Nearly all were founding members of the Group Theatre, involved in its earliest productions, and nearly all went on to have major careers on the stage and in cinema. Included among the inscriptions are: John Garfield (who signs under his given name of Jules, "Spit on your hands and get to work"); Vincent Sherman (at this point an actor, but who would become a major Hollywood director; he makes mention here of his performance in a key 1933 film: "We both share in 'Counsellor-at-Law" / From one good communist to another / Vincent Sherman"); Elia Kazan (at this point working as an actor with only a bit part in one of the three plays); Stella Adler (actress, and later influential acting teacher of Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and Robert De Niro, among others, "Work hard, study hard, and someday you will play such parts as Bessie Berger"); J. Edward Bromberg (character actor, Red Channels list, 1950; "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush! Remember I said itGood nite! and good luck. / J.E. Bromberg"); Luther Adler (character actor, blacklisted 1950, "You get what it takes, then they don't catch you with your pants down / Luther Adler / 7/13/35"); Abner Biberman (character actor and later director, "Hope to write my name in your book someday"); Morris Carnovsky (character actor, blacklisted 1950); Actress Paula Miller (blacklisted 1950, later married Lee Strasberg and became Paula Strasberg, noted as an acting teacher and for being Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante); Sanford Meisner (actor and later one of the great acting teachers, whose more famous students included Robert Duvall, Grace Kelly, and Diane Keaton, "I'm a very ancient fossil but life's ahead of you. Go and do it. Thus Spake Sandy."). Also included are signatures from Roman Bohnen (blacklisted 1950), Walter Coy, Lewis Leverett (blacklisted 1950), Phoebe Brand (blacklisted 1950),Dorothy Patten, William Challee, Russell Collins, Dorothy Patten, Herbert Ratner, Ruth Nelson, Eunice Stoddard, Alexander Kirkland, costume designer Paul Morrison (signing here as Pete Morrison), Margaret Barber, Bob Lewis, and Harry Stone. The Group Theatre's importance to twentieth century drama and acting is difficult to overestimate. By some margin, the most significant document in book form from its early history we have ever encountered. In a custom clamshell box with maroon cloth and black calf quarter binding, titles in gilt. Very Good in an about Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding slightly shaken, minor soil to the top page edges. Jacket has a conservator's repair along the rear hinge fold, with some chipping at the spine ends and extremities.

First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with a half inch chip at the top of the spine. With 'Awake and Sing!,' 'Waiting for Lefty,' and 'Till the Day I Die.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.