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1795212574London: Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman 1795. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter blue polished calf gilt spine t.e.g. Covers detached. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman unknown
196327565Andre Deutsch 1963. 8vo. First Edition; black tweed cloth gilt back a near fine copy unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly browned and with one small loss at upper edge of front panel. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM RALEIGH TREVELYAN TO GEORGE RITCHIE WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Widely regarded as a modern classic James Saunders' pioneering drama was first performed at the Questors Theatre Ealing i Andre Deutsch, hardcover
1776DEMO016704IGeneve SW 1776. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate engravings. 12mos contemporary full tree calf extra extra-gilt spines marbled papers. <br/><br/>Edited by Mons. Voltaire. Originally published in 1774. Very handsome set for one of France's greatest dramatists. Ex libris Sir Richard Bedingfeld probably the 5th Baronet Bedingfeld of Oxborough 1767-1829; however vol. 8 has an inked inscription indicating it was given to C. Bedingfeld -probably his wife Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham Bedingfeld. Note: the frontispiece to vol. 1 identifies its artist as Elizabeth Thiebau. Copperplate engravings. hardcover
19612348<p>London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1961. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 3/8 x 5 inches; 188 x 125 mm 134 pages in original black cloth titles in gilt to spine in a photo illustrated unclipped dust jacket hard cover. <br /><br /><strong>INSCRIBED</strong> by Harold Pinter on the title page to Jacques Brunius: "To Jaques Brunius from Harold." Yes Pinter misspelled Jacques. Brunius 1906-1967 was a French actor and director. He also translated some of Pinter's plays into French including one of the plays in this book A Night Out. Thus a nice literary association. <br /><br />The book contains A Slight Ache A Night Out The Dwarfs as well as five revue sketches: Trouble in the Works The Black and White Request Stop Last to Go and Applicant. <br /><br />The title play here A Slight Ache is a dark comedy about an English couple Flora and Edward who interrogate a poor and silent match seller who stands outside their gate every day. The play was first performed on the BBC's Third Programme on July 29 1959 and starred Maurice Denham and Vivien Merchant Pinter's wife. The stage version opened on January 18 1961 at the Arts Theatre in London and starred Emlyn Williams Alison Leggat and Richard Briers. <br /><br />We find no other signed presentation copies of this book in the market. It's especially noteworthy because of Pinter's collaboration with the recipient Jacques Brunius. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light toning to page edges but otherwise clean and unmarked. Near Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that has rubbing to panels toning to upper edges of the flaps and to verso of the jacket and a few small nicks to the extremities.</p> Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover
181632820636<p>8vo. Six volumes. Contemporary calf nicely rebacked at an early date spines gilt. Some wear browning. An attractive set.</p><p>Contains the following: Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus and Lust's Dominion; John Lyly Mother Bombie Endymion and Midas; Middleton Women Beware Women A Trick to Catch the Old One The Spanish Gypsy The Changeling More Dissemblers Besides Women; Dekker Wonder of a Kingdom Old Fortunatus; Rowley A New Wonder a Woman Never Vext; Webster Appius and Virginia; Chapman May Day Monsieur D'Olive Bussy D'Ambois; Webster and Rowley Thracian Wonder; Marston's Antonio and Mellida What you Will and Parasitaster: or the Fawn; Heywood The English Traveller The Royal King and Loyal Subject A Challenge for Beauty.</p><p>This very scarce set was conceived as a continuation of Dodsley's famous <i>Select</i> C<i>ollection of Old Plays</i> 1744.</p> London: Rodwell and Martin
1921021493New York: Samuel French 1921 First printing of the first edition publisher's original binding 157pp. with 3pp. ads. Signed and inscribed by Durant on the FFEP: to Mrs. Jesse Lasky wife of the co-founder of Paramount Studios Jesse Lasky includes a typed letter signed by Durant to Mrs. Lasky dated in year of publication. Some toning to spine light rubbing/wear to spine ends and corners and a bookplate on front paste-down else book in fine condition. Samuel French hardcover
194715717New York: New Directions 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 171 pages. Lavender boards slightly faded on spine. Board edges have rubs and bumps. Light trace of erasure on front free endpaper. Bright lavender dust jacket with price of $2.75 intact is slightly faded at spine: the author's name in gold is hardly visible on spine. Jacket has a 1" chip at bottom of spine small narrow chip at top and 3" crease and scratch on rear panel. Tape inside the jacket at a couple of tears is slightly visible on outside. Mylar dust jacket cover protects it. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover
20022092902144200791Yagi shoten 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Yagi shoten paperback
31829LONDON THE GOLDEN HOURS PRESS 1933. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES FOR SALE 250 WERE PRINTED. THIS IS NUMBER 9a. QUARTO ORIGINAL GREEN BUCKRAM BEVELLED EDGES T.E.G. UNTRIMMED PAGE EDGES. WITH FOUR FULL PAGE WOODCUTS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS INCLUDING THE FRONTIS. THE TYPE IS BEMBO REVIVED FROM AN EARLY ALDINE FOUNT. THE PAPER IS PURE RAG HAND-MADE. OF THE EDITION OF 200 A BALANCE REMAINED AND THESE WERE TAKEN OVER BY HOLLIS AND CARTER LIMITED AND OFFERED IN A LESS ELABORATE BINDING AND NUMBERED 1a ONWARDS. tHIS IS ONE OF THOSE COPIES. SLIGHT FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. AND SOME SLIGHT FADING TO THE GREEN BOARDS NO SLIPCASE. A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS SCARCE WORK. LONDON, THE GOLDEN HOURS PRESS, 1933 hardcover
1934DEMO016439INew York: Random House 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo 57pp. black cloth; dj chipped archivally repaired chips; inked name of Nancy Doss on front pastedown some toning to endpapers from dust jacket. <br/><br/>Wilson A21a. Full-page inscription by Gertrude Stein to O. J. Kedlec a collector from Forest Park Illinois. Stein's inscription repeats the title of this work and she wrote it from Bilignin par Belley Ain France." Random House hardcover
20202081502111906461Toho shubbansha 2020. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Toho shubbansha paperback
193714616London: Limited Editions Club / Curwen Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Limited Edition Copy No. 4 of only 1500 signed by the illustrator on the colophon page. Publisher's full cream/white cloth with a single gilt decoration on cover. In slipcase. Illustrated with 12 watercolor plates by Marie Laurentis. Translated from French with an Introduction by Edmund Grosse. Marie Laurencin 1883 1956 was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. Spine mildly soiled cover lightly marked former owner's name written on ffep. Slip case has light watermarks and soiled but sturdy else very good. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . Watercolors. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xi 214 pp. Signed by Illustrator . Limited Editions Club / Curwen Press hardcover
18671710London: Joseph Lilly. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1867. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Original publisher's brown cloth gilt lettering on spine blind-stamped decorative front and rear panels brown endpapers fore and bottom edges deckle. Accompanied with an Introduction and Illustrative Notes. Four additional items are included with the book: 1 An autograph letter signed written on both sides of a sheet from the publisher Joseph Lilly dated August 21 1867 and sent from Covent Garden explaining how he acquired the rights to the current book as follows: "Dear Sir I gave L750 for the folio volume of the Old Ballads & Broadsides at the sale of the library of George Daniel Esq at "Sotheby's" Auction Rooms in July 1864. I do not know the date of Mr. Daniel's birth. He was about 75 years old at the time of his death. I think he was born in Newgate or . I think his father or mother's family was in the worsted trade. If I can get a portrait of him I will send it to you. Yours truly signed Joseph Lilly." 2 Another note is tipped-in to the front endpaper in a different hand as follows: "George Daniels Ballads With autograph note of Mr. Lilly the publisher stating that he gave upwards of L700 for the original. sic and Scarce portrait short Memoir of Mr. Daniel __ - Only a comparative few copies printed." 3 Also laid-in is the portrait of George Daniel referred to in Mr. Lilly's note and 4 a short somewhat poetic memoir of him curiously captioned "Memoir of D._ _G." The note on the endpaper describes the portrait and memoir as scarce as there were only a few copies printed. NB: A large number of the 19th Century acting editions are promoted as containing "remarks by D. _ _G" i.e. George Daniel. These remarks are usually two to three pages in length and contain relatively non-critical comments about the play and its production. These prefaces consist primarily of a synopsis of the play but occasionally they contain interesting anecdotes that shed some light on both the cultural and theatrical landscape of his time. Fortunately in a few of the scripts the critic's nom de plume is forgotten and he is identified as George Daniel 1789-1864. He was a descendant of a Huguenot family that settled in England in the 17th century. Even as a young man he was a prolific writer mostly of poetry but at the age of 18 he completed Dick Distich a novel in three volumes. Yet it would be as a poet that Daniel was to gain his first taste of pseudonymous fame as "P___P___ Poet Laureat." P___ P___ Poet Laureat's first poem was a "sprightly squib in verse" entitled "R_y_l Stripes; or a Kick from Yar_th to Wa_s; with the particulars of an Expedition to Oat_ds and the Sprained Ancle." It was an account of the horse-whipping given to the prince regent by Lord Yarmouth for "making improper advances" to his mother-in-law. The poem was immediately and simultaneously suppressed and highly popular. Daniel's original manuscript is kept in the British Museum. Broadly satirical pieces such as the poem described above brought Daniel into the company of "a number of literary friends" most notably Charles Lamb and Robert Bloomfield. At the same time his exposure to the theatrical milieu of London began to grow and he befriended some of the greatest actors of the time. The value that the actor John Kemble placed on his friendship was demostrated by a "white satin" bill of fare the actor presented to Daniel in the green-room at Covent Garden. This occurred on the night of Kemble's final performance there on June 23 1817. This memento is also the property of the British Museum. In 1818 Daniel made his debut as a playwright with a piece entitiled "Doctor Bolus." It was successfully presented at the English Opera House and at the Lyceum. He followed that one year later with "The Disagreeable Surprise" and in 1833 with "Sworn at Highgate." Yet it seems that George Daniel's greatest contribution to the arts of 19th century London is in neither his poetry or his plays but rather as an editor and book collector. Between 1823 and 1831 thirty-nine volumes of "British Theatre with Remarks Biographical and Critical printed from the Acting Copies as performed at the Theatres Royal London" were published by John Cumberland and edited by George Daniel. Fourteen more volumes were added by 1832. Later he also edited similar publications of acting editions for T.H.Lacy and Davison. The University of Washington a collection of many acting editions with remarks by Daniel from a variety of publishers. Bates refers to Daniel as a book collector one whose estate brought great wealth to his descendants when it was sold. His collection included a first folio of Shakespeare David Garrick's cane a cassolette or carved casket made out of the mulberry-tree from Shakespeare's garden as well as many other books and artifacts from the Elizabethan age. For ten days starting on July 24 1864 his entire collection was sold at auction. His heirs received 15865 pounds and 12 shillings. One of his greatest friends it seems was the artist Robert Cruikshank with whom he collaborated on many of the acting editions as well as on other publications. Daniel's last work was called "Love's Last Labour Not Lost" which contained recollections of both Charles Lamb and Cruikshank. " Dennis Barnett University of Washington. A very rare association copy of this scarce first edition. Small neat former ownership inscription on the fep; endpapers separated but hinges holding text is clean tight and square. VERY GOOD. Association Copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxxvi 318 1 pp. Signed by Notable Personage Related . Joseph Lilly hardcover
197816865JLos Angeles: Hall Bartlett Films 1978. Original 195 page shooting script beautifully hardbound in blue gold-embossed leather. This script was a presentation gift from the film’s director Hall Bartlett and his wife Lupita Ferrer co-star of the picture to Bill Thomas the costume designer for the film. On the front board beneath the title in the bottom right is stamped in gold: "For Bill With our gratitude for the talent and spirit you are bringing to our film. Lupita and Hallâ€. Bill Thomas earlier won an an Oscar for his costume designs for Spartacus. Based on the book by Oscar Lewis Bartlett was co-screenwriter for the film with Cesare Zavattini who wrote the screenplay for ditector Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D in 1952. This handsome presentation piece was bound by the noted Hollwood bookbinder the California Bookbinding Co. and has its seal on the inside of the front cover. “The Children of Sanchez is a 1978 Mexican-American drama film based on the book with the same title by Oscar Lewis. The movie's well-known soundtrack titled Children of Sanchez was created by jazz musician Chuck Mangione. Its opening song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.Tthe film takes place in Mexico and stars Anthony Quinn in real life a Mexican born Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca in Chihuahua Mexico Dolores del Rio and Lupita Ferrer. “The film chronicles the life of Mr. Sanchez Anthony Quinn and his struggles with the culture of poverty around him. A widowed farmer he cares for his family in a marginal area of Mexico City. While being a hard worker who feels the duty to financially support his family he is still an aggressive domineering man and a womanizer. His main conflict is with his daughter Consuelo Lupita Ferrer a rebellious girl who attempts to break free from her father. She strives to escape her role of dutiful daughter and pursue her own dreams. Consuelo likes to talk with her grandmother Dolores del RÃo who secretly advises her to find a man and get married. This is the only way that she an uneducated poor woman can escape her father.†wikipedia. Hall Bartlett Films hardcover
1960012319Moscow: Vserossiiskoe teatral'noe obshchestvo / Russian Theatrical Society 1960. This is a very good 5 volume hardcover set complete three volumes with dustwrappers two without. All volumes very clean inside no marks. The off white dustwrappers are tanned and have a few stains to the spine of the last volume only and several closed edge tears. Two volumes have faint tan stains to top page-edge not visible internally. All text in Russian. The set is edited by V. F. Ryndin. All drawings by V.I. Kozlinskii. Additional editing and text by Elena Kurbatova and Elizaveta Berman. This set covers Russian costume design for staged productions from 1750 to 1917. In other words from the beginning of Russian drama to the Russian Revolution. All volumes are illustrated with drawings similar to fashion drawings in French and German periodicals from the late 19th century. All volumes have some color drawings as well as black & white. All volumes also have some technical details to guide the costume designers making period costumes: some of the illustrations are like pattern designs for tailors. A spectacular resource. 12" high X 9" wide 170 & 182 & 182 & 182 & 222 pages. The volumes were all published between 1960 and 1972. Volume 1: 1750-1830 volume 2: 1830-1850 volume 3: 1850-1870 volume 4: 1870-1890 volume 5: 1890-1917. Foreign buyers should expect extra postage. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Vserossiiskoe teatral'noe obshchestvo / Russian Theatrical Society Hardcover
1922047776London Uk: Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 87 Pp. Light Grey Boards With Spine And Front Cover Paper Labels Lettered In Brown. First Printing. Quite Scarce; Fraying At Ends Of Spine Boards Beginning To Split Along Spine Gutters. Paternal Inscription Dated 1931 With Recipient's Elaborate Pasadena Blindstamp On Verso And Recto Respectively Of The Front Free Endpaper. Quite Scarce. In The Illustrated Dust Jacket Which Is Worn And Torn Darkened And Slightly Soiled From Handling Small Losses At Corners No Loss Of Lettering Or Design. Torahiko Kori 1890-1924 Left Tokyo University Without Graduating To Join The Editorial Staff Of Shirakaba A Literary Magazine In 1909. Early In His Short Literary Career Kori Torahiko Became An Enfant Terrible Of The Shirakaba School A Group Of Writers And Artists Whose Works Reflected The Liberal Democratic And Humanistic Spirit Of The Taisho Era 1912-1926. At The Age Of Twenty Kori Began Editing And Publishing With Yanagi Muneyoshi Soetsu Founder Of The Mingei Movement And Around 1923 Became A Frequent Contributor To The Major Literary Magazines Of The Day. In 1909 Kori Torahiko Won First Prize In The Contest Held By Taiyo Sun Magazine With His Play Titled "The Matsuyama Family" Which Brought Him Into Prominence As A Promising Dramatist. His Fame Was Established When The Imperial Theatre Staged His Play Dojoji 1912. The Following Year He Left For Europe. At London Kori Met Esther Sainsbury The Poetess And They Remained Friends Till His Death. He Wrote Plays In London; His First Drama To Be Staged There Was "Kanawa" Iron Ring 1917. Another Of His Plays "Toils Of Yoshitomo" Ran For Three Weeks At The Little Theatre London. Other Plays Similarly Staged Were "Saul And David" And "Absalom." "The Toils Of Yoshitomo" Was Translated Into Several European Languages Including German French And Italian. He Was One Of The Few Japanese Writers Who Worked Abroad. Despite His Close Association With The Shirakaba School Kori In His Taste For Romantic And Decadent Literature Was At Odds With The Prevailing Shirakaba Partiality For Realist Literature Particularly That Of Tolstoy. In His Mature Prose Style Kori Also Turned Away From The Shirakaba Writers' Tendency To Sinewy Colloquialism And Airy Realism In Favour Of A More Flowery Convoluted Prose Style À La D'Annunzio Or Walter Pater. An Unattributed Evaluation States " In Japan One Lone Voice Persisted In Hailing The Greatness Of Kori Long After His Early Death. Mishima Yukio Saw In Kori'S Plays The Essence Of Tragedy. Mishima Rated Kori As The Natural Successor To Such Classic Japanese Tragedians As Zeami Chikamatsu And Mori Ogai. Mishima'S Modern Noh Plays Was Written In Implicit Homage To Kori And Stands Today As A Continuation Of Many Of The Themes That Kori Reworked So Successfully In His Dramas. Shiga Naoya Concluded His Reminiscence Of Kori With His Regret That He Had Let Kori Go To England. "Kori Should Have Stayed And Worked In Japan. If He Had He Might Not Have Died So Young.' Kori'S Early Death Was Undeniably Tragic But Given His Long History Of Sickness And The Fact That He Received The Best Medical Treatment Available At The Time His Premature Death Would Have Been Unavoidable Whether He Had Been In Japan Or Europe. Had Kori Never Left Japan He Might Now Be Known As A Renowned Writer Of The Shirakaba School But Because He Left For Europe And Britain We Have The Toils Of Yoshimoto Arguably The Greatest Dramatic Achievement By A Japanese Playwright ". <br/> <br/> Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press hardcover
17820005107London: Printed for the Author and sold by S. Hooper 1782. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo; xvi 192 pages modern quarter sheep extra gilt spine marbled boards. Rare. <br/><br/>First issue without the "Additional Subscribers" Eddy & Fleeman Preliminary handlist of books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson subscribed 48. After a military career Parker prospered as a theatrical performer and raconteur treading the boards throughout the British Isles. "His wit humour and knowledge of the world rendered him at one time an indispensable appendage to convivial gatherings of a kind - DNB." Dr. Johnson Sir Joshua Reynolds and others befriended him and both are listed here in the Subscriber's List. He was a prominent Freemason. Included here is his Dissertation on Masonry dedicated to George Montagu. ESTC T128727. Engraved frontispiece. Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Hooper hardcover
18990005331London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1899. The Larger Temple Shakespeare. Hardcover. Very Good . Plates cuts. Duodecimos half crimson calf raised bands extra glt spines: bound by Morrell Bindery London for E. P. Dutton Co. in New York. <br/><br/>1899 - 1904. This is the text of the Cambridge Edition with textual changes by Sir Israel Gollancz. Vol. 12 is The Sonnets and Poems with a biography of the Bard and Notes. Extensively illustrated in black & white and color. Note: lacks vol. 8 containing Henry 8 Troilus & Coriolanus. Illustrated with Plates cuts. Jaggard SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY p. 555 . J. M. Dent & Co. hardcover
1980100146<p>Dallas: Pressworks 1980. First edition limited to 376 copies <em>signed</em> by Warren & illustrator Bill Komodore of which 350 were numbered and meant for sale and 26 lettered meant for use of the contributors and publisher. This copy is one of the 26 lettered issue. Copy "W ." Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards in acetate dustwrapper. With actetate inserts protecting color illustrations laid-in as issued. 4 pp music score by Alexie Haieff in stapled printed wraps laid-in as issued. Fine condition. Lettered copies are not commonly available. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.</p> Pressworks hardcover
elala2431London: 1856-57. MORTON John Maddison 1811-1891. How Stout Youre Getting! A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 23. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 495. MORTON John Maddison. Betsy Baker! Or Too Attentive By Half. A Farce. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 19. etched frontis. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 495. MORTON John Maddison. The Two Bonnycastles. A Farce. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 21. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 495. YATES Edmund 1831-1894 & N.H.HARRINGTON. A Night At Notting Hill And Original Apropos Sketch. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 14. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 404. MADDOX J.M. A Fast Train! High Pressure!! Express!!! A Short Trip. 8vo. pp. 20. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 472. MORTON John Maddison. A Thumping Legacy. A Farce. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 18. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls IV 362. .OXENFORD John. Family Failing A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 30. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 509. MORTON John Maddison. John Dobbs. A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 22. etched frontis. by T.H.Jones. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 363. TWENTY MINUTES With A Tiger. A Farce In One Act Adapted From The French. 8vo. pp. 24. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 760. MORTON John Maddison. Whitebait At Greenwich. A Farce. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 21. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 495. TAYLOR Tom 1817-1880. Blighted Being. A Farce In One Act. Adapted From The French Vaudeville Une Existence Décolorée. 8vo. pp. 24. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 592. TAYLOR Tom. Still Waters Run Deep An Original Comedy In Three Acts. 8vo. pp. 58. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 592. MORTON John Maddison. Grimshaw Bagshaw And Bradshaw. A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 21. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 495. OXENFORD John. Twice Killed A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 24. etched frontis. by Findlay. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls IV 367. BROUGH Robert Barnabas 1828-1860. Medea; Or The Best Of Mothers With A Brute Of A Husband. A Burlesque In One Act. 8vo. pp. 33 1. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 278. DANVERS H. A Comic Scene Inculcating And Entitled A Conjugal Lesson. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 18. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 336. LILLIE Hubert. As Like To Peas. A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 28. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 459. TAMING A TIGER A Farce In One Act Adapted From The French. For Private Representation. 8vo. pp. 20. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 760. MORTON John Maddison. Slasher And Crasher! An original Farce. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 21. etched frontis. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls IV 363. MORTON John Maddison. Done On Both Sides A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 36. etched frontis. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls IV 363. HORNE Lenox. Two Heads Are Better Than One. A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 16. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 426. BUCKSTONE John Baldwin 1802-1879. A Kiss In The Dark. A Farce. In One Act. 8vo. pp. 17. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls IV 275. JERROLD William Blanchard 1826-1864. Cool As A Cucumber. A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 26. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 436. BROUGH William 1826-1870. Trying It On. A Farce In One Act. 8vo. pp. 22. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy nd. Nicolls V 278. bound in 19th century half calf gilt back covers detached head of spine chipped scattered foxing. Manuscript list on front free-endpaper of Pieces acted Winter Season/56 Spring Season/57 & scattered notes. All presumably were published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1856-57 London: [1856-57] unknown
1862213321Calcutta.: Bangala Press. 1862. Title pages in English and Sanskrit iv 277 pages occasional spotting and toning; original saddle-stitched stiff plain yellow card wrappers dusty and spine chipped with an added stiff dark grey wrapper-- title and author attractively hand-lettered in black ink label of the London and Edinburgh booksllers Williams and Norgate fl. 1842-1928 previous owner's neat inscription to the front free endpaper in good condition.<P> Scarce printing of a Sanskrit drama based on the Ramayana by the 8th Century scholar and poet BhavabhÅ«ti telling the story of Rama's later life his coronation the abandonment of Sita and their reunion. Edited by Premachandra TarkabaÌgiÌsaÌ then Professor of Rhetoric at the Sanskrit College of Bengal under the direction of the Principal Edward Byles Cowell 1826 –1903 a noted translator of Persian poetry who was to become the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University. Whilst he was at the Sanskrit College he famously discovered a manuscript of Omar Khayyám's quatrains in the Asiatic Society's library and sent a copy to London for his friend and student Edward Fitzgerald. <br> <br>We can trace only handul of copies held worldwide.<P> <b>When referring to this item please quote stockid 213321</b> . Bangala Press. unknown
1910042330New York: The Macmillan Company 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii 272 Pp. First Edition. Light Brown Cloth Printed In Black With Title "Theft" And Authorjack London" In Box At Top Of Spine "The Macmillan Company" In Three Lines At Bottom Of Spine.; The Primary Binding Is In Maroon And White Cloth Variants Identified In Sisson/Martins In Gray Cloth And Olive Cloth But This Is An Unreported Variant In Light Brown Cloth; All Of The Plain Cloth Bindings Are Probably Remainder Bindings. One Of 900 Copies Only Of The First Printing With Broken Type On Pp 47 And 65. Near Fine Clean Hinges Tight Lettering Strong No Fraying No Marks Slight Dust And Discoloration To Cloth. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1749313420Verlag Georg Rhodius Stochdorph Straßburg 1749. Hardcover Holz ohne Schutzumschlag Zustand: kurzer Vermerk im Buchdeckel ansonsten keine Eintragungen. Bis Seite 6 leicht wurmstichig ca. 30 Seiten sind eselohrig. Lädierter Einband. Bindung hält noch gut. Rücken Ecken Kanten sind berieben/bestoßen. Verlag Georg Rhodius Stochdorph, Straßburg, hardcover
1914264105Dieterich`sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Theodor Weicher Leipzig 1914. Hardcover Leinen Zustand: keine Beschädigungen eine Namenseintragung. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Dieterich`sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Theodor Weicher, Leipzig, hardcover
19552089<p>Tempo Playhouse Playbill Stein Gertrude and Jean Genet. <strong>Julie Bovasso and Cletus L. Gundy Present a Tempo Playhouse Production: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March": Selections From the First Reader and Jean Genet's "The Maids." </strong>New York: Tempo Playhouse 1955. <br /><br />A rare playbill for the first plays presented by Julie Bovasso's Tempo Playhouse in New York: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March: Selections From the First Reader" and Jean Genet's "The Maids." In fact this was the first production of "The Maids" in the United States. Both plays were directed by Strowan Robertson with sets and costumes by Lester Hackett. <br /><br />The 24-year-old Bovasso founded the theatre with $250 from the sale of a painting by her husband George Ortman. She rented an apartment at 4 St. Mark's Place in the East Village and built a small stage and a box office. See Stephen J. Bottoms "<em>Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement"</em> pages 37-38. <br /><br />The playbill doesn't give the opening date but a small item in The New York Times of March 10 1955 states the opening would take place on Saturday March 12. The Times also placed the location of the opening at Speyer Hall Playhouse 184 Eldridge Street which must have been a temporary venue.<br /><br />Bovasso played the role of Claire in "The Maids" which ran until mid-July 1955. The following year the Village Voice initiated the Obie Awards for Off-Broadway. Bovasso won the first Obie for Best Actress and Tempo Playhouse received a special citation that year.<br /><br />Bovasso's co-stars in "The Maids" were Joyce Henry as Solange and Fran Malis as Madame. Being the versatile actress that she was Bovasso also apparently played Solange at times.<br /><br />For the Stein production -- which was actually two plays: "In a Garden" and "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters" -- the actors were Herbert King Philip Stanley Pitts Kit Raccoon Nancy Ponder Lucy Willow Anne Edwards Helen and Marcia Pavia Ellen.<br /><br />Just like playbills for the Living Theatre the Tempo playbill lists paintings and sculptures for sale at the theatre. Painters include Joan Mitchell Perle Fine Lois Dodd Angelo Ippolito Michael Goldberg Margaret Barlett George Ortman and Miles Forst and the sculptors Marisol Escobar and William King. <br /><br />This playbill is rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings although a separate search turns up a copy at the University of Florida. <strong>RARE</strong>. <br /><br /></p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers.</p><p>CONDITION: Some creases and folds but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.</p> Tempo Playhouse paperback
