Various publishers, 1825-1850. Contemporary notations on the front blanks, listing the plays present; notations in pencil and ink on several of the individual plays, with information about the cast of characters, where the play was performed, etc. The majority are American reprints of English plays, but they are contemporary plays.....
New York, Los Angeles: Samuel French, 1932. First edition. A three-act play set during one night in Taos, New Mexico, in 1847 "among rebels fighting hopelessly to prevent Taos from being absorbed into the United States, as the rest of New Mexico had been. Anderson depicts the imperialism of the.....
New York: Published by the Longworths, 1812. First American edition. NCBEL III, 1130; American Bibliography 25271. Slightly later note on the advertisement page by a previous owner and actor.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Philadelphia: Published by Asbury Dickins . . . H. Maxwell, Printer, 1801. First edition. American Bibliography 700; Hill, American Plays, 144. The first book by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862), a Philadelphian who later became a prominent congressman and lawyer. Edwy and Elgiva was successfully performed at Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street Theater.....
Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke, (1889). First edition. OCLC 20927090 records five copies (HEH, Chicago, Harvard, NYPL and Brown). A collection of 22 short comedies by Frances Aymar Mathews (c.1865-1925), New York novelist and playwright. See Wright III, 3641-43 for three other work by Mathews.
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Second edition, considerably rewritten. OCLC 20222941 records three copies (Harvard, La Salle and Brown). A three-act operetta by American author Owen Wister (1860-1938) on the follies of prohibition. Macmillan published the first edition in 1923, as it had been performed at the Tavern Club in.....