Drammaturgia e teatro

Poems and Plays

Jane West · 1799 · Rooke Books

£1,275.00 (€1,528.51 | $1,684.74 | ¥269,063)

London, T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799. Leather. A scarce copy of poems and plays by the conservative author, Jane West. Bound in calf with gilt lettering and spine decoration. Complete in Two Volumes. "West's reputation in her own day was for the clear didacticism of her...

The Crier by Night: A Play in One Act

Gordon Bottomley · 1902 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, At the Unicorn, 1902. First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of this one-act play by English poet Gordon Bottomley, a Unicorn Press publication. First edition, published by the Unicorn Press or 'At the Sign of the Unicorn&apos. Very scarce.Later pu...

Theatre de Poche

Theophile Gautier · 1855 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Paris, Librairie Nouvelle, 1855 . First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this collection of dramatic works by Theophile Gautier, including three never before published pieces. In the original French.The work of French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and a...

The No Plays of Japan

Arthur Waley · 1922 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1922. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first American edition of these illustrated Japanese plays compiled by English orientalist, Arthur David Waley. The first US edition.In the publisher's quarter cloth binding, with orange paper covered boa...

3 Vols the Poems of Robert Browning

Robert Browning; Arthur Waugh [Intro.]; Ernest Rhys [Ed.]; Charles W. Hodell [Intro.] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. 1911. Cloth. A uniform three-volume Everyman"s Library set bringing together Robert Browning"s major poetry, including "The Ring and the Book," with contemporary scholarly introductions. In the publisher's original green cloth bindings.A un...

The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems

William Butler Yeats · 1935 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York , The Macmillan Company , 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this play from celebrated Irish dramatist and post, W. B. Yeats, with the previous owner's scholarly notes. First edition. In the original quarter cloth, with paper boards. 'The Kin...

L&Apos;Oeuf de Heron

W. B. Yeats; Roger Giroux [trans.] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Paris, Editions Premieres, 1950 . First edition. Paperback. A fine example of the limited edition of Giroux's French translation of Yeats's 'The Herne's Egg', one of only 25 copies printed on Marais paper. Translated into French from the original Engli...

On Baile&Apos;S Strand

W. B. Yeats · 1907 · Rooke Books

£72.00 (€86.32 | $95.14 | ¥15,194)

Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1907 . First edition. Paperback. The first separate edition of W. B. Yeats's drama based on the early Irish folk story Aided Óenfhir Aífe. The first theatre edition, first separate edition of this work, based on the revis...

1909-1935

Samuel Odmann; Henrik Ibsen; Henryk Sienkiewicz; Brita Von Horn; Carl Svenson-Graner; Sigfrid Siwertz; Jakob Knudsen; Jonas Lie; Leo Tolstoy · 1909 · Rooke Books

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

Stockholm; Kobenhavn, Albert Bonniers Forlag; Gyldendalske Boghandel; Vart Hems Forlag; B. Wahlstroms Bokforlag; Varthems; Saxon & Lindstroms , 1909. Leather. A lovely nine volume set of leather bound works in Swedish. A lovely nine volume set of twentieth century works in Swe...

Poems and the Gold of Lestelle: A Tragedy in Three Parts

John Herbert Bell · 1929 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Herbert Jenkins Ltd, c.1929 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart presentation copy of this scarce collection of poetry, along with a play, by John Herbert Bell in the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth.A vanishingly scarce collectio...

Cassell&Apos;S Illustrated Shakespeare: The Plays of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke [ed.] · 1864 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.33 | $759.78 | ¥121,342)

London, Petter and Galpin Cassell, [1864-1868]. Leather. A very pleasing illustrated set of Cassell's 'Illustrated Shakespeare' series, in half calf, with many full-page illustrations by H. C. Selous. A wonderfully illustrated set of Cassell's 'Illustr...

Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum; Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, the Festivals of Fools and Asses - the English Boy-Bishop the Descent Into Hell - the Lord Mayor&Apos;S Show the Guildhall Giants - Christmas Carols, &C.

William Hone · 1823 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, William Hone , 1823. First edition. Cloth. A first edition collection of unpublished medieval miracle plays, compiled and analysed by William Hone. First edition. In the publisher's original printed cloth binding.Illustrated with engravings on copper and wood, in...

The Gay Lord Quex a Comedy in Four Acts

Arthur W. Pinero · 1900 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London , William Heinemann, 1900. First edition. Leather. A smart copy of the comedic play exploring the romantic entanglements of the character Lord Queux, half bound in morroco with binder's stamp. Half bound in burgundy crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with binder's...

Salaman & Absal: An Allegory

Jami; Edward Fitzgerald [translator] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Alexander Moring Ltd. The De La More Press, 1904. Leather. An illustrated translation of an allegorical Sufi poem by the Persian Sufi poet Jami, with illustrations throughout. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates. Collated complete. A translation of this a...

The Plays of Shakespeare (Favourite Classics)

William Shakespeare; George Brandes [intro.] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, William Heinemann, 1904-1921. Cloth. A lovely set comprising forty of William Shakespeare's plays, bound here into twenty volumes. From the 'Favourite Classics' series. The Plays of Shakespeare from the publisher's 'Favourite Classics' ser...

Faust

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

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1908. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated copy of this translation of Goethe's tragic play Faust, translated by English writer Abraham Hayward. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen colour plates. Collated complete. Considered by many to...

The Doom of Devorgoil, a Melo-Drama & Auchindrane; or the Ayrshire Tragedy

Sir Walter Scott · 1830 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Edinburgh, Cadell and Compnay , 1830 . First edition. Leather. The first edition, second issue, or first reworked edition of this pair of plays from Sir Walter Scott, comprising 'The Doom of Devorgoil' and 'Auchindrane&apos. The first edition, second issue. Orig...

The Plays of Aristophanes

Aristophanes; Benjamin Bickley Rogers · 1910 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, George Bell & Sons; Bell & Daldy, c1890-1910. Vellum. Five smart volumes of the surviving plays of Ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, translated with notes from Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Five volumes. Presentation copy with an ink inscription from Rogers to th...

The Noble Jilt, a Comedy

Anthony Trollope; Michael Sdleir [ed.] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Constable & Company, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first edition of Anthony Trollope's posthumously published play about a broken engagement and the Republicans in Bruges in the 1790s. The first edition of this work, of which only five-h...

The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

Philip Massinger; John Ford; Hartley Coleridge [intro.] · 1840 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Edward Moxon, 1840 . Leather. An impressive collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic works from playwrights Philip Massinger and John Ford. A wonderful collected edition of plays by Philip Massinger and John Ford, two important dramatists of the late Elizabethan...