Search Results: Drama from Dave Shoots, Bookseller

N.Y.: Brentano's, 1926 Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. Fifth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original dark green cloth on boards with pastedown spine label. DJ has chilpping all around, and small piece missing on lower right. Nearly 80 pp. Preface, as well as the script. Minor pencil notes on prelims. and P.O.N., OW very good. 163 pp..

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1939 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blue paper boards backed in beige cloth. Dr. Murphy makes the case for reading Shakespeare. First free endpaper missing. Previous owner's name. 41 pp..

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1899 Book. Illus. by Engravings By Hewet. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Maroon cloth on boards. Lettered in gilt. Pp. 128-133 have stains in gutters, not affecting readability. 227 pp. with index..

London: J.B. Dent & Sons, 1923 Book. Very Good. Flexible Leather. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Maroon flexible leather covers with ribbon bookmark. Shakespeare's coat-of arms and motto inside front cover. Frontispiece of Shakespeare's birthplace. Preface and Glossary by Israel Gollancz. 143 pp..

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1936 Book. Illus. by Photos. Good Plus. Soft cover. First ( No Additional printings). 6 1/4 x 7 3/4. Original soft cover with photo montage. First person text by eight-year-old Shirley, with several photos which include Mother, Father, Irvin Cobb, Gary Cooper, Jack Haley, and "Mary Lou", a current stand-in. Staples rusty, but no writing or other damage. All text and photos are complete and easily legible. 16 pp. including covers..

Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936 Book. Illus. by Photos. Good Plus. Soft cover. Authorized Edition. 9 1/2 x 10 Oblong. Original pictorial colour card covers. Some corner wrinkles and age toning. Text takes Shirley through a "typical" day, from her home to the studio, to lunch with Mother in her own four-room bungalow, a nap, "school" with her private teacher, then home, where she waits for Daddy to get home from his work at the bank. They play croquet before dinner, and after the meal there is always a story. In the summer, older brothers George and Jack are home from university and military school, so they might invite Shirley for some football. 32 stapled pages..

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1968 Book. Illus. by Sid Barron. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "I arrived in New York as a nobody, but I left it as a complete nonentity."- Prologue. Among several other things, the budding playwright learns to be careful with his stage directions in the script. For example: HARRY: Yes. (NODS HIS HEAD.) The actor does not like this kind of stage direction because he prefers to interpret the word "Yes" himself. 91 pp..

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, & Company, Limited, 1958 Book. Illus. by B/W Photos. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original grey cloth on boards. No writing. The only blemish I see is the remains of a price tag on DJ cover (The remains might be removed with water or steam). The introduction by Herbert Whittaker is masterful as he praises and lambastes the various actors. The photographs are so stolidly staged as to appear to be carved in wax if not in stone. To this recent immigrant "from away" (I came from Ohio over 40 years ago), seeing Don Harron greet William Shatner in The Taming of the Shrew brought wildly incongruous visions of Charlie Farquarson aboard USS Enterprise ! At any rate, this book will bring memories to anyone lucky enough to have visited Stratford's famous festival. 72 pp..

London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1897 Book. Illus. by Uncredited Drawings. Good Plus. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original deep blue-green cloth lettered in black on boards. Minor abrasion and fading to spine, otherwise good plus. 126 pp..

New York: The University Society, 1901 Book. Illus. by Colour Frontispiece By Gerald Moira, B& W Illustrations. Very Good Minus. 1/4 Leather on Cloth Boards. Booklovers Edition. 5 x 7 Inches. 1/4 red leather over red pebbled cloth on boards. Crest decoration embossed on front cover. Embossed owner's initial on FFEP. Top of leather spine is missing approximately 1/8" of the leather. 146 pp. including Glossary, Notes, and Questions..

Toronto: Macmillan, 1968 Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original orange paper boards, no DJ. A group of 10 plays suitable for classroom production, from Robert Arthur's Moon-Up to Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. Ex-school library, with card pocket removed card and stamps. Small piece of surface of cover repaired. Clean and unmarked. 274 pp..

N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905 Book. Illus. by Photos. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original blank paper cover with brown wrapper lettered in white. The name "Viola" on the wrapper is rubbed and hard to read. This version was arranged by Frank Vernon and presented by Miss Viola Allen and her company at the Knickerbocker Theatre, Dec. 26, 1904. Wrapper has half-inch tear at foot of spine. Previous owner's name. No other writing or damage..

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928 Book. Very Good. Full Leather on Flexible Board. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original bright red full leather on flexible boards. Unclipped DJ lightly worn head and foot. Previous owner's name. The play premiered in 1908 with the theme "behind every good man is a good woman." 120 pp..

N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1946 Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Trade Paperback. Canadian School Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original pale grey card covers lettered and decorated in black. The plot centres on a student who is expelled from a naval academy before WWI, in London. Notes and questions for students by Enid A. McGregor. Previous owner's name in pencil. 94 pp..

N.Y.: A.W. Lovering, 1887 Book. Illus. by Various. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original green cloth on boards. Brown endpapers. Front hinge of Volume 2 is badly broken, with many of the other volumes having lightly cracked hinges. No writing. Edges in red. A handy pocket size. Approx. 500 pp. each volume..