New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts. Articles include the full text of Irwin Shaw's antiwar play, "Bury the Dead," its first published appearance. There's also a profile..... More
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Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974. Short guide to an exhibition of Chinese art works owned by James Cahill (1926-2014), the renowned scholar of Chinese paintings. The guide contains an informative introduction by curator George Kuwayama followed by four black-and-white illustrations and a list of..... More
Farnham, Surrey: The Sceptre Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Slender volume of poems by the Scottish poet George MacBeth (1932-1992), number 63 of 74 numbered copies from a total edition of 100 copies. There are three poems here: The Wolves, The Pain, and The Hector Syndrome. Small..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1949. An analysis of how the CIO labor federation went from being a progressive Left organization to a reactionary, anti-Communist group that's too cozy with Wall Street profiteers and warmongers. George Morris (1903-1997) was Labor Editor of the Communist Party's Daily Worker. DETAILS..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, pp. xxv, 530 pages. An insiders' account of the espionage battle in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the building of the Wall in 1961. These authors certainly know..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Includes the plays "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, "Winterset" and "High Tor" by Maxwell Anderson, "The Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan, "Watch on the Rhine" by Lillian Hellman and "The Patriots" by Sidney..... More
West Haven, Connecticut: Foundation for Promoting Enduring Peace, [1952?]. No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create [4] pages, each measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 216 mm). Rare leaflet on U.S.-Soviet relations, from a Christian Left perspective. The author pleads for better understanding of Russian..... More
London: Constable and Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. A comedy about royalists and democrats and featuring a lengthy preface by Shaw explaining the background to the play. He then veers off into a discussion of the current political scene in Britain. 12mo., xxix, 78 pages. A Very Good copy..... More
New York: Samuel French, 1928. First Edition Thus. 16mo, 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (90 x 160 mm), 14, [2] pages in original stapled blue wrappers printed in green and black. Fore edge of front wrapper with deckled edge, other edges trimmed. Some light handling wear. A Near Fine..... More
London: The Fabian Society, 1893. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches / 208 x 135 mm), 27, [1] pages in wrappers. Pamphlet arguing against anarchism and in favor of social democracy, based on a paper that George Bernard Shaw read to the Fabian Society in..... More
Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966. Reprint. Copy previously owned by the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., with his bookplate pasted to the verso of the front cover. George Bernard Shaw's play about a young woman working for the Salvation Army who clashes with her father, an arms dealer. PHYSICAL DETAILS..... More
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1913. First Edition Thus. 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 inches; 180 x 125 mm), xix, 210, [2] pages, yellow-green cloth, in a printed dust jacket. George Bernard Shaw's 1891 essay on the plays of Henrik Ibsen, presented here with a new preface..... More
London: The Fabian Society, 1909. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 inches / 21 1/2 cm ), 23, [1] pages in stapled red wrappers. Photographic portrait of Shaw by Marie Leon. Pamphlet criticizing the conservative anti-socialist writer and economist W.H. Mallock. According to Shaw, Mallock believes that..... More
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1926. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of plays, including the first appearance of The Fascinating Foundling, which Shaw subtitled, "A Disgrace to the Author." PHYSICAL DETAILS: 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 inches / 180 x 127 mm), v, 246, [2] pages, including..... More
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New York: Samuel French, 1934. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm), vi, [2], 120 pages, in gray cloth, titles in black to spine, in the rare, unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Longshoremen go on strike, refusing to load munitions on ships bound..... More