Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. Dust jacket shows much wear, chipping and some small tears. Internally completely clean. hardbound, 411 pgs.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning. Browning to book edges and edges of pages, doesn't affect text. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, still very bright, gilt title stamped on spine. Boards very good. Brings together McCarthy's lively controversial essays on the theatre from the 1930's to the mid 20th century.
Hardcover. New York, Disney Enterprises, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards decorated, glossy. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated endpapers. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape.
New York , Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. A collection of his articles on the theatre written betwen 1957 and 1968.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 373 pages, a rich collection of her film and theatre writing. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on title page otherwise clean.
Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. Illustrated with a b&w photograph. Light soiling to covers. Very light edgewear to covers, spine faded. Previous owner's signature. Record # 603179
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 4th Pr., 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages, soft cover. Green paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book opens with an illuminating discussion between Bloch and Adorno on the meaning of utopia; then presents 12 essays written between 1930 and 1973 on topics as diverse as aesthetic theory, genres such as music, painting, theater, film, opera, poetry, and the novel, popular culture in the form of fairy tales, detective stories, and dime novels. Previous owner's black ink markings are present on some interior pages throughout. Record # 34536
Hardcover. Oxford [Oxfordshire], 1st, October 24, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 197 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Small stamp on front end paper. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Stainer & Bell Ltd, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Sun fading to dust jacket spine. Foxing to edges of text block and slight yellowing to inside pages around edges. Otherwise tight copy. Color and black & white images throughout.
Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 2nd Pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Dust jacket shows light wear along edges. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Grant, 2nd Revised, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge weak. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Ex-library copy.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. One of 110 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper - this being hand numbered #42. Covers worn with rubbed edges and bumped corners. Spine label chipped. Front hinge paper cracked. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Features: J. L. Anderson: Japanese Swordfighters, American Gunfighters, Richard Meran Barsam: "This Is America" - Documentaries for Theaters. Clean, unmarked text. Record # 611321
Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster , reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Ithaca , Cornell University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue canvas with gilt lettering on black label spine. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.
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