First edition. With dramatic b/w illustrations by Lawson. Tartan paper to boards, quarter cloth. large 8vo. Rubbing to edges. Toning to spine. Occasional very light spotting within. Otherwise clean and binding tight. Good+ [more...]
First edition of Steen's first collection of plays, featuring colour illustrations by the author of characters and costumes. Includes a signed letter by Steen, describing her work to an admirer. 4to. DJ is toned, with tears to edges and loss to spine, rear [more...]
Quarter cloth binding of Galsworthy's collected plays, including The Silver Box and Strife. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Blind stamped decoration. 8vo. Toning to front cover. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Charming collection of quotes from Shakespeare that touch or lie somewhere between the extremes of Love and Hate. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Small 32mo. With pictorial covers. Crease to spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced calendar, with colour illustrations and quotations from Shakespeare for each month. With gilt raised decorations and initials. Bradel style binding with beveled edges and parchment style paper to boards. 12mo. Toning to covers. Previous ow [more...]
Definitive biography of the mercurial Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. With b/w plates. Complete with slipcase. Dust jackets are price-clipped with mild bumping and shelf-wear. Rubbing to slipcase. Previous owner's name to ffeps. Volumes otherwise c [more...]
(excluding the eight dramas). Handsome cloth binding with blindstamped decoration to cover and gilt to spine. Tissue guarded frontisportrait. Toning to spine. Previous owner's name and bookplate to end-papers. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of four of Ibsen's key works. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Tony Eubanks. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Nicely produced edition of two of Congreve's late 17th century plays, featuring b/w illustrations and decorations by John Kettelwell. Fetching purple cloth boards with gilt decoration. Illustrated end-papers. Fore-edge rough cut. Complete with DJ. Some mi [more...]
No date but c. 1890. A verse retelling of Shakespeare's play, with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. 4to. Rubbing to edges with small tears, cracking to spine and weakening to binding. Bookseller label and previous owner's name to cover. Toning wi [more...]
Pleasant soft leather suede binding of Browning's verse drama Pippa Passes. With frontispiece. No date but c. 1910. covers have some rubbing and nicks but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Broadway booklets edition of Macaulay's dramatic historical poems based on heroic episodes from early roman history, engraving to soft cover. Spine is rubbed with some loss. Binding starting but contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Shakespeare Head Press; Odhams; Basil Blackwell 1947
Printed in double columns. With all Shakespeare's plays and poetical works, including the Sonnets. Sunning to spine. Wear, bumping and rubbing to edges, Light foxing to fore-edge. Binding sound. Fair+ [more...]
Souvenir program for the 1949 first run of Novello's musical. With cast list, synopsis and b/w pictures of the performance. Soft velvet wraps with glassine jacket. Rubbing to edges. Jacket creased with tears and loss. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Pleasant Quarter leather Folio Society edition of Chacuer's canterbury Tales, done into contemporary verse by Coghill. The first printing. Illustrated by Woodcuts by Edna White. Decorated end-papers. Complete with slipcase. Mild shelf-wear to slipcase. Ru [more...]
No date but c. 1908. Charming collection of Childrens' plays, with b/w illustrations by G. F. Christie, plus colour plates. Rubbing to spine with some loss. Staining to covers. Previous owner's inscription to end-papers. Tanning and spotting within. Bind [more...]
From the uniform edition of Barrie's plays. Handsome blue leather edition of Barrie's comedy. Top edge gilt. Marbled end-papers. Rubbing to edges . Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
From the Stage Shakespeare series. Red cloth with gilt decoration to spine. With 8 b/w images of actors in the various roles. Plus three tipped in postcards of Lewis Waller as Henry. Top edge gilt. Toning to spine. Previous owner's name to front pastedow [more...]
From the Stage Shakespeare series. Red cloth with gilt decoration to spine. With 6 b/w images of actors in the various roles. Top edge gilt. No date but c. 1900. Toning to spine. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
