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First Edition of The Gingham Dog; Inscribed by Lanford Wilson to Alan Schneider, Director of the Original Broadway Production

WILSON, Lanford [Alan Schneider].

The Gingham Dog.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1969.

First edition of the play that marked Lanford Wilson's Broadway debut. Octavo, original publisher's black cloth, top stain black. Association copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page to the director Alan Schneider, "To Alan, in thanks and appreciation for a great job on this play - and for an experience which was easy and fun and rewarding (a great deal more than I had hoped for my Broadway trip). It's great, also, just to know wonderful people working in the theater. Also, of course, to my girl, Eugenia - Lanford. 11/13/69." The recipient, Alan Schneider, directed the original Broadway production of The Gingham Dog at the John Golden Theatre in 1969, the playwright's Broadway debut. Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States. He directed the American premiere of Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett's preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter's plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee's Who's Afr...

Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 152237

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First Edition of Anastasia; Inscribed by Adapter Guy Bolton to Alan Schneider, Director of the Original Broadway Production

MAURETTE, Marcelle; Bolton.

Anastasia.

New York: Random House, 1955.

First edition of Guy Bolton’s English adaptation of Marcelle Maurette’s Anastasia. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the director of the original Broadway production, “With great affection — and gratitude for his work in bringing this play alive from Guy October ’55" beneath Alan Schneider’s ownership inscription, “Alan Schneider March 12, 1955 Lyceum Theatre.” Alan Schneider directed the American premiere of Anastasia, which opened at the Lyceum Theatre on December 29, 1954, with Viveca Lindfors as Anna and Eugenie Leontovich as the Dowager Empress; his ownership note was made at the theatre during the production’s run. Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States: he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Very good ...

Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 152201

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First Edition of Cancer; Inscribed by Michael Weller to Alan Schneider, Director of the American Premiere

WELLER, Michael [Alan Schneider].

Cancer.

London: Faber & Faber , 1971.

First British edition of Michael Weller's celebrated comic play of the 1960s generation, produced in America under the title Moonchildren. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the director Alan Schneider, "For Alan, ...if we just change the title and cut that bit where...and change scene 5 & 6 and...and write a different ending and... Mike Weller. 17.7.72." The recipient, Alan Schneider, directed the American premiere of Moonchildren at the Arena Stage in Washington in November 1971 and the Broadway production that followed at the Royale Theatre in February 1972. Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States. He directed the American premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett's preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Harold Pinter's plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In very good condition. An exceptional association copy un...

Price: $975.00 Item Number: 152243

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First Edition of The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks and Democracy and Esther; Inscribed by Romulus Linney to Director Alan Schneider

LINNEY, Romulus [Alan Schneider].

The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks and Democracy and Esther: Two Plays

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

First edition of this collection of two plays by Romulus Linney. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Alan Schneider with many thanks and best wishes, Romulus Linney, New York, April 1973.” The recipient, Alan Schneider, was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States: he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.

Price: $650.00 Item Number: 152218

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First Edition of I Never Sang for My Father; Inscribed by Robert Anderson to Alan Schneider, Director of the Original Broadway Production

ANDERSON, Robert [Alan Schneider].

I Never Sang for My Father.

New York: Random House, 1968.

First edition of Robert Anderson’s autobiographical drama, later the basis for the Academy Award–nominated 1970 film. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, top stain blue, illustrated with black-and-white production photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Dear Alan, Thank you for guiding this one through the shoals and narrows. It was a beautiful job — Best, Bob. July 12, 1968.” The recipient, Alan Schneider, staged the original Broadway production of I Never Sang for My Father, which opened at the Longacre Theatre on January 25, 1968 with Hal Holbrook, Alan Webb, Lillian Gish, and Teresa Wright. The playwright’s warm tribute to a “beautiful job” affectionately credits Schneider with steering the production “through the shoals and narrows.” Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States: he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 196...

Price: $500.00 Item Number: 152216

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Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter; Alan Schneider’s Annotated Director’s Copy for the American Premiere of The Dumb Waiter

PINTER, Harold. [Alan Schneider].

The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter.

New York: Grove Press, 1961.

First edition, early printing of the first American edition of Pinter’s paired plays. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, an Evergreen Original. Alan Schneider’s working copy, annotated in his hand: the half-title is marked “Director’s Copy,” with his name, telephone exchanges, and Hastings-on-Hudson return address, “Please Return to: Alan Schneider,” and a penned directory of his production team, among them the designer William Ritman. Schneider directed the American premiere of The Dumb Waiter, on a double bill with The Collection, at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1962, in settings by Ritman. Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States: he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In good condition. The director’s own working copy.

Price: $400.00 Item Number: 152208

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