Drammaturgia e teatro

Aeschyli Tragoediae

Lewis Campbell · 1898 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898. Vellum. A smart copy of this translation of the tragedies of Ancient Greek writer Aeschylus edited by Lewis Campbell, in the original Greek. Scarce work. The works of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father o...

Plays Written for a Private Theatre

William Davies · 1786 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, E. Faulder, 1786 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce volume of five late eighteenth century plays, by William Davies. A very scarce first edition.In this volume, playwright William Davies - about whom little is known - presents five plays not ...

To Quito and Back

Ben Hecht · 1937 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

New York, Covici Friede, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Ben Hecht's drama about a South American political uprising, in the vibrant original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Be...

Oeuvres de J.B. Poquelin Moliere: Edition Collationnee Sur Les Textes Originaux

Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] · 1875 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Paris, Delarue, Libraire-Editeur, 1875. Leather. A very smart complete collection of works by French playwright Moliere. A collection of works by Moliere, complete in four volumes with two volumes to each.Bound in half morocco with cloth boards.Undated, dated from copies held ...

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza

Bernard Shaw · 1930 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1930. Cloth. A smart first edition of this satirical comedy from Irish writer Bernard Shaw, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. A satirical comedy about political philosophies which are represented by the characters. This...

The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway · 1717 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, J.T.; W. Mears, J. Brown and F. Clay, 1717-1718 . First edition. Leather. A scarce early eighteenth century edition of the works of dramatist Thomas Otway, including his plays, poems, and love-letters. A scarce two volume edition of the works of Restoration era dramati...

The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare the Tragedies of Shakespeare the Comedies of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · 1922 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press , 1922-1924. Leather. An attractive leather bound set of Shakespeare's works in three volumes. This set is bound in signed full calf by Oxford Binding with gilt detailing. A lovely collection of Shakespeare's works in...

Po&Apos; White Trash and Other One-Act Dramas

Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland · 1900 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Chicago, Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of one-act plays from American writer Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland. First edition. A series of one-act plays including: In Far Bohemia, The End of the Way, A Bit of Instruc...

The Nineteenth Hole of Europe: A Play in Three Acts

Vivian Connell · 1943 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Vivian Connell's play about the horrors of war, with loosely inserted letter from a friend of the author, regarding Connell's own view of the work. The first edition, firs...

The Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1889 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

New York, White and Allen, 1889 . Leather. A beautifully illustrated limited edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners, illustrated by Frank M. Gregory, and signed by the publisher. Number sixty-six of one-hundred and fifty limited edition copies produced, ...

Oeuvres de Regnard

Jean-François Regnard · 1824 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Paris, Mme Veuve Dabo, 1824. Leather. A complete four-volume set of the works of the distinguished dramatist Jean-François Regnard. A four-volume set in full tree calf bindings with marbled end papers and edges. Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709) was a dramatist who is consid...

The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods

Richard Wagner; Margaret Armour · 1910 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.45 | $2,510.17 | ¥400,841)

London; New York, William Heinemann; Doubleday page, 1910-11. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully and colourfully illustrated copy of Richard Wagner's epic four epic opera dramas, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham with tipped-in colour plates, scarce to see in thei...

Touch and Go

D. H. Lawrence · 1920 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, C. W. Daniel, 1920 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of D. H. Lawrence's political play, in the publisher's original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Majority of leaves...

The Adoration of the Soldiers (L&Apos;Adoration Des Soldats)

Emile Cammaerts; Tita Brand-Cammaerts [Trans.] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1916 . First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this play by Emile Cammaerts, alongside the English translation by Tita Brand-Cammaerts. First edition, in the publisher's smart white cloth binding, with gilt detaili...

The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher

Ben Jonson; Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Peter Whalley; George Colman · 1811 · Rooke Books

£570.00 (€683.24 | $753.05 | ¥120,252)

London, John Stockdale, 1811. Leather. The collected dramatic works of three eminent Renaissance playwrights, Jonson, Beaumont, and Fletcher, a nice set illustrated with portraits of the three men. Complete in four volumes.The collected dramatic works of Ben Jonson, Francis Be...

English Theatre

Various · 1821 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, John Bumpus; T. Hughes; J. Bysh, 1821. Leather. A scarce set containing the best of English theatre, predominantly from the eighteenth century. A scarce set, complete in thirteen volumes.Volumes I-IV contain tragedies, V-VIII comedies, and IX to XIII operas and farces....

But It Still Goes on: An Accumulation

Robert Graves · 1930 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Robert Graves's autobiographical work 'But It Still Goes On&apos. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the line &a...

The Confidential Clerk

T. S. Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this play by T. S. Eliot in the original dust wrapper with the first state misprint. The first edition. First impression, first state. With the original misprint on pp.7 with 'Ihad' instead of ...

Original Plays

William Schwenck Gilbert · 1910 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1910 . Leather. A fine-paper edition of W. S. Gilbert's original plays, in a smart, red calf binding. Rebound in a smart, full, red calf binding, by Henry Sotheran, London. The fine-paper edition of the work. First published c1856. A collection ...

The Future of the World

Charles David Ley · 1955 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Tunbridge Wells, Peter Russell, 1955 . First edition. Paperback. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce limited edition science fiction play. A presentation copy of this very scarce work, inscribed 'To Hilary Gardner with best wishes for this Christmas season and ...