Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Genet, Jean. The Balcony. Grove Press/Evergreen Book, 1958.
Price: US$2.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Genet, Jean. The Balcony. Grove Press/Evergreen Book, 1958.
Price: US$2.16 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Genet, Jean. THE BALCONY. Grove Press, Inc., 1958.
Price: US$3.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some notes and underlining throughout; 115 pages
Seller: Neil Shillington: Bookdealer/Booksearch, hobe sound, FL, U.S.A.
Jean Genet. The Balcony. Grove Press/Evergreen Book, 1958.
Price: US$10.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fair-Good condition, slight creasing, used/well loved.
Seller: Windhover Books, Lake Gardens, VIC, Australia
Price: US$13.26 + shipping
Description: 21 x 14 cm. 118 Seiten. Original-Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Roland Gögler, Leutkirch, Germany
Genet, Jean. The Balcony. Grove Press / Evergreen, N Y, 1958.
Price: US$17.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 118 pages. Light wear to cover.
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Genet, Jean, translated by Bernard Frechtman. The Balcony. Grove Press Inc., New York, 1958.
Price: US$19.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, pp. 118, pictorial cover with very light toning but overall bright, gently rubbed, spine faded and lightly creased, interior largely clean and crisp, page edges have yellowed, corners on two pages creased, binding tight.
Seller: Charles Vivian Art & Antiques, Rosscarbery, CORK, Ireland
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An examination of power in society, set in a brothel while revolution rages on the street below. Basis for the 1963 movie starring Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, and Lee Grant. First U.S. edition. Lightly bumped and rubbed, front hinge a bit loose.
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.10 + shipping
Description: in-8°, pp. 115 con 7 ill. f.t. Bross. edit. ill. Guasti al dorso. Tracce d'uso con note e sottolineature all'interno.
Seller: Libreria Gullà, roma, ROMA, Italy
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 118pp. Gray cloth hardback, DJ VG, First American Edition, The Balcony : A Play in Nine Scenes,
Seller: Karen Wickliff - Books, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Jean Genet. The Balcony: A Play. Grove Press, New York, 1958.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Pickwick Bookshop, Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
Jean Genet. The Balcony. Grove Press, 1958.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing.
Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Genet, Jean. The Balcony - a play in nine scenes. Grove Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1958.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii + 118 pp, translated by Bernard Frechtman. Binding tight, first signature protruding slightly, pages clean and unmarked, gray cover cloth with gilt letters. Unclipped DJ in protector. with slight age-toning to spine and extremities (faint). Size: Slim Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
GENET, Jean. The Balcony. Grove Press, New York, 1958.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American trade edition. Fine in a modestly foxed near fine dust jacket. A major expressionist play. Because of the simultaneous paperback issue, the hardcover is uncommon.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Jean Genet; Bernard Frechtman (Transl.).. The Balcony.. New York: Grove Press., 1958.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 118 pp. Very Good. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Newspaper clipping and personal letter laid in. Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 ?2017), The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films.She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone.She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema.? Among her publications are ?The Mystery of B. Traven? and "Eye on the World,? a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
GENET, Jean. The Balcony. Grove Press, New York, 1958.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American trade edition. Fine in a lightly age-toned, near fine dustwrapper with a faint pencil or ink mark on front panel. A nice copy of this major expressionist play. Because of the simultaneous paperback issue, the hardcover is uncommon.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Grove and First American edition. 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Fine in almsot fine dj
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
GENET, Jean.. The Balcony. A Play in Nine Scenes.. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1958, 1958.
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, first printing, translated from the original French. First published in 1956, Genet's play of revolution, reality, and illusion has attracted many prominent directors, including Leonard Nimoy who directed a 1966 film adaptation. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown. Negligible foxing to edges, minor offsetting to endpapers, a near-fine copy in the price-clipped dust jacket, slightly soiled and rubbed, small chip to top edge, a very good example.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
GENET, Jean. The Balcony. Grove Press, New York, 1958.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American trade edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed and soiled, near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of this major expressionist play. Because of the simultaneous paperback issue, the hardcover is remarkably uncommon.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2898.59 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, signed limited issue, copy I of 26 lettered copies, specially bound and signed by Genet in turquoise ink. The Balcony was first published in French in 1956. Copies in such superb condition are notably uncommon. Octavo. Original quarter brown cloth, beige paper boards, titles to spine and front board in gilt. The binding sharp, internally crisp; a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3220.66 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, signed limited issue, copy Q of 26 copies lettered and signed by the author in turquoise ink, specially bound. This copy is from the libraries of two eminent collectors, with their bookplates to the front pastedown: Robert A. Wilson, proprietor of the famous Phoenix Bookshop in Greenwich Village, and Donald G. Drapkin, whose collection was sold with Christie's in 2005. Robert A. Wilson's New York Times obituary described the Phoenix as a "sanctuary for new poetry, an important trading post for first editions and a hangout for his, and his customers', literary idols", including many of the Beat poets. The Balcony was first published as Le Balcon in French in 1956. Three distinct versions exist, published in 1956, 1960, and 1962. This, Frechtman's first English translation of the play, was based on Genet's second version of the play (1960). Peter Zadek directed the first English-language production of the play at the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1957. It has since attracted many prominent directions, and was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Joseph Strick (1963). Octavo. Original quarter brown cloth, beige paper boards, titles to spine and front board in gilt, colophon to front in pink and grey. Head of spine gently bumped, gilt to spine a touch dulled, very pale occasional damp stains to lower boards, else a near-fine copy, firm and clean.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom