Description
For sale is a Very Rare paperback edition, third printing of Unfair Arguments With Existence: Seven Plays for a New Theatre by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. First Edition unstated 1963 New Directions. Third Printing stated and a $1.50 rear cover price.
The exterior of this trade paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, illustrated covers with two corner creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, rubbed spine ends, moderate edge wear and rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with a small price sticker on the first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
These seven short plays spring from a strange wide-ranging imagination, and they bring to life a series of brilliant stage figures, each isolated in his own world, each with his obsessions (which in our age Ferlinghetti says may replace fatal flaws of classic drama). From the conventional realism of The Soldiers On No Country the plays move progressively toward more abstract forms such as the pure, premeditated action of The Nose Of Sisyphus, in an area the author calls third stream theatre, just short of the unrehearsed happenings. Very American in idiom, these plays nevertheless place Ferlinghetti closer in form and content to Ionesco, Genet and Tardieu than any other American playwright. Contents: The Soldiers of No Country, Three Thousand Red Ants, The Allegation, The Victims of Amnesia, Motherlode, The Customs Collector in Baggy Pants, The Nose of Sisyphus.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
