Drammaturgia e teatro

Tennyson (the Penguin Poets) Bound Together with Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Pelican Books) & the Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

Alfred, Lord Tennyson; William Shakespeare · 1941 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Harmondsworth, Middlesex , Allen Lane; Penguin Books , 1941-1942. Leather. A strikingly bound volume offering Tennyson's poems, Canadian poetry and a play by Shakespeare. Three works bound into one volume, in full morocco. Including the following:'Tennyson' (The...

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare · 1910 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, William Heinemann, 1910 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Shakespeare's celebrated comedic play, with colour plates by Hugh Thomson. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth. A wonderfully illustrated edition of Shakespeare's celebrated play, &apo...

Incident at Vichy

Arthur Miller · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Secker and Warburg, c1965. Paperback. A very scarce uncorrected proof of this one-act play by Arthur Miller. The very scarce uncorrected proof of the first edition. In the publisher's wraps, with the proof's original unclipped dust wrapper. 'Incident a...

Contemporary Playwrights: Arthur Miller

Ronald Hayman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Heinemann, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this enlightening examination of Arthur Miller's plays. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.British critic and biographer, Ronald Hayman di...

Marco Millions

Eugene O'Neill · 1927 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1927 . First edition. Hardback. A wonderful signed limited edition, first edition, American playwright Eugene O'Neill's drama about Marco Polo. The limited edition, first edition of this work, in the publisher's original slip case.N...

Desire Under the Elms

Eugene O'Neill · 1925 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1925 . First edition. Cloth. Costume and set designer Frank Poole Bevan's own copy of the first separate edition of Eugene O'Neill's New England-set play. The first separate edition of this play, the 'Provincetown-Greenwhich Play...

Strange Interlude

Eugene O'Neill · 1928 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Eugene O'Neill's celebrated experimental play, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first UK edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.&apos...

The Confidential Clerk

T. S. Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Faber & Faber LTD, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue, of this comedy play by T. S. Eliot. The first edition, first issue of this work, with the issue point 'Ihad' for 'I had' on page 7.In the unclipped first issue dust wrapp...

The Elder Statesman

T. S. Eliot · 1959 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of T. S. Eliot"s third play to have been produced at Edinburgh. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper."The Elder Statesman" is a play in verse by T. S. Eliot, concer...

In a Balcony

Robert Browning · 1902 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, The Laurentian Press, 1902 . Cloth. A beautifully designed limited edition of Robert Browning's one-act play, which was originally written in 1853. An uncommon limited edition, with this being number 98 of 265 numbered copies printed on hand-made Van Gelder pape...

The Passing of the Essenes: A Drama in Three Acts

George Moore · 1930 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1930. Vellum. A signed limited edition copy of this Biblical play by influential Irish writer George Moore. This edition is limited to 775 copies, of which 750 are for sale. This copy is number 272. Signed by the author to the limitation page.Â...

The Making of an Immortal: A Play in One

George Moore · 1927 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York , The Bowling Green Press, 1927. First edition. Hardback. A lovely signed limited edition of this one-act play from influential Irish writer and art critic George Moore. First edition, limited to 1,240 copies signed by the author, this copy being number 659. Author&a...

La Centenaire de Moliere

Jean-Baptiste Artaud · 1773 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1773. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce play written upon the centenary of Moliere, in the original French. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original French. A comical play published upon the centenary of th...

Faust

Johann Wolfgang Goethe; Abraham Hayward [translator] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1908. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated copy of this translation of Goethe's tragic play Faust. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen colour plates. Collated complete. Considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and one of the g...

The Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Howard Staunton [ed.] · 1864 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1864. Leather. A superb complete set of the works of Shakespeare, edited with notes and biographical information by Howard Staunton, and uniformly bound by Zaensdorf. A four-volume set uniformly bound in full calf, with gilt detailing to t...

Royal Opera House Covent Garden: State Performance by Command of His Majesty the King in Honour of the Visit of the President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun

None · 1939 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, Finden Brown and Co. LTD, 1939. Paperback. An uncommon programme for a performance of 'Sleeping Beauty' given before the French President and his wife, and the King of England, in 1939. An uncommon work.Front and rear wrap designed by Rex Whistler.The program...

The Living Room

Graham Greene · 1953 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Heinemann, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Graham Greene's thrilling drama about a woman who introduces her new lover - who happens to be married - to her family. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust...

The Confidential Clerk

T. S. Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of T. S. Eliot's successful and influential play, present here in the first issue, and with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. The first issue, with 'Ihad&a...

Landscape

Harold Pinter · 1968 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Emanuel Wax for Pendragon Press, 1968 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the limited edition first edition of Harold Pinter's drama about difficulties of communication within a marriage. No. 224 of 1,000 copies of this work intended for sale in the Br...

On Actors and the Art of Acting

George Henry Lewes · 1875 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1875. First edition. Cloth. An excellent second edition of this interesting work on the art of acting by the English theatre critic, George Henry Lewes. The second edition, published the same year as the first edition. In the publisher's origi...