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Description: 22.1cm x 14.3cm. XIV, 297 pages. Original Hardcover. Close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. [ATLA Monograph Series, No. 18] Includes for Example: Catechetical Instruction among Early Lutheran Settlers in America/ The Swedes and Finns/ The Dutch/ The Germans/ German Catechisms issued prior to the first official Catechism, 1744-1785/ Zinzendorf's Catechism/ Brunnholtz's Catechism/ Marburger Gesang-Buch/ Der Kleine Darmstadtische Catechismus/ Henrich Miller Revision/ Kuntze's Revision/ The Catechism of the Pennsylvania Ministerium/ Independent German Catechisms/ Catechisms of Valerius Tscherning/ Velthusen's Catechism Series prepared in Germany for the Carolinas/ Henry Ernst Muhlenberg, Abriss der Bhristlichen Lehre/ Goehrung's Order of Salvation 1798/ The Moravian Editions of Luther's Catechism (1802 and 1816)/ Lochman's German Catechisms/ Early English Catechisms, 1749-1811/ Catechism of Brunnholtz and Koch/ Carl M. de Wrangel/ Kuntze's Catechism/ Kuntze-Strebeck Catechism/ The "Endress" Catechism/ New York Ministerium/ Endress' English Pennsylvania Catechism/ Philip F. Mayer/ John Schmucker/ The "Bardstown" Catechism/ Anthony T. Braun/ Quitman's "Evangelical Catechism"/ Frontier Catechisms by Paul Henkel/ German Luther Catechisms 1809-1811/ The German Christian Catechism (1811-1816)/ Conrad F. Temme/ Steck/ Carlisle/ Jager/ H. Wm. Scriba's "Anfangsgrunde", 1834/ English Catechisms during the rise of American Lutheranism/ F. C. Schaeffer's Catechism/ Lochman's Principles of the Christian Religion/ E.L. Hazelius' Manual for Catechization/ The General Synod Catechism/ H.N. Pohlman/ Canajoharie Catechism/ "Gettysburg" Catechism/ David Henkel/ John G. Morris/ Charles A. Smith/Elling Eielsen/ Erik Pontoppidan/ Joint Ohio Synod Catechsms of 1831 and 1842/ Dresdner Kreutz/ West Pennsylvania Synod Catchism 1845-1850/ E. Peixoto's "Leitfaden"/ Ohio Synod, Easter District/ William Shart/ The South Carolina Synod Catechism/ Henry Ludwig/ St. John Easton/ Conrad Miller/ Fr. Wyneken's "Spruchbuch" etc. Sprache: english.
Seller: West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
MILLER, ARTHUR. The American Clock. A Play. New York Dramatists Play Service 1982, 1982.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Paperbound. Illustrated with a black & white photograph by noted photographer Inge Morath of actors William Atherton and Joan Copeland in a scene from the play. Near fine copy.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982.
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Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, copy 285 of 2000. Signed by Al Hirschfeld. Fine. Quarter Burgundy aniline leather, stamped gilt spine, with hand-screened pictorial fabric over boards. In fine slipcase box with stamped gilt spine. Corresponding Feb 1983 issue of The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club laid in, in fine condition. Foreword and introduction to author by Jessica Tandy. Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (1911 - 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Beckett to Mel Gussow on title page: "For Mel Gussow / With all good wishes / Sam Beckett / 24.6.83." Publisher's original white wrappers, front wrapper and spine lettered in blue and black. About fine, with just some light toning to spine and edges. Overall, an excellent association copy, from Mel Gussow's personal library. In Catastrophe, an imperious director and his assistant prepare a man, who stands on an 18" black block with his eyes looking down, for the last scene of a dramatic performance. After making dehumanizing adjustments to the man's appearance, like stripping him down to his pajamas, they do a run through of the scene, which ends with the director exclaiming "There's our catastrophe! In the bag." They do one more run through, but this time the man raises his eyes defiantly to the crowd. Catastrophe, often interpreted as a commentary on totalitarianism, was dedicated by Beckett to imprisoned Czech playwright, Václav Havel. The play was filmed as part of the Beckett on Film project (2002), directed by David Mamet and starring Harold Pinter as the Director. Mel Gussow (1933 - 2005) was an American theater and movie critic who contributed more than 4,000 articles and reviews to the New York Times over a span of 35 years. Gussow first met Beckett in 1978, and the two continued to meet and converse informally on life and art about once a year for the next 10 years until Beckett's death in 1989 (their final meeting was at Beckett's French nursing home where he later passed away). Gussow drew from these meetings to write his book, Conversations with and about Beckett (1996) - one in a series of four "Conversation" books, the others featuring conversations with playwrights Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard. Gussow's Beckett book is particularly illuminating given that the enigmatic playwright famously declined to do interviews for most of his lifetime. Gussow also wrote Beckett's NYT obituary in 1989, titled "Samuel Beckett is Dead at 83; His 'Godot' Changed Theater."
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.