Drammaturgia e teatro

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London; New York; Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Cloth. A handsome copy of this work by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, profusely illustrated with numerous plates throughout. A theatrical work by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Undated, dated using Copac. Sheridan was a 18th centu...

Pearson&Apos;S Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Howard Staunton (Ed) · 0 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London, C Arthur Pearson, c1920. Leather. A three volume set of William Shakespeare's complete works. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert. Illustrations to this work are engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Undated, dated using Copac. Edited by Howard Staunton, a Shakespearean s...

The Dark Is Light Enough

Christopher Fry · 1954 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A play by popular author, Christopher Fry. The first edition, held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper design by Ronald Searle. This comedy follows Fry's previously popular works 'The Lady's Not...

The Picture of Dorian Gray a Play in Three Acts and Prologue from the Romance of Oscar Wilde

Grace Constant Lounsbery; Oscar Wilde · 1913 · Rooke Books

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

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1913. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition dramatisation of Oscar Wilde's seminal novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted for the stage by Grace Constant Lounsbery, with a Rex Whistler bookplate. An excellent firs...

Look Back in Anger: A Play in Three Acts

John Osborne · 1957 · Rooke Books

£365.00 (€437.57 | $482.30 | ¥77,026)

London, Faber and Faber , 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first impression of John Osborne's hugely successful play, 'Look Back in Anger', considered the first work of kitchen sink realism. First edition, first impression.With the publisher's or...

Crisis in Heaven an Elysian Comedy

Eric Linklater · 1944 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.38 | ¥4,852)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this well-known play. Eric Linklater (1899-1974) was a British writer best known for his novels and short stories. This play was first produced at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh on February 28th, 1944. ...

She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith · 1773 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London, Siegle, Hill and Co, c1914. Cloth. Nice pocket size miniature leather binding with half title page and gilt fore edge. She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English li...

Oeuvres de J.B. Poquelin de Moliere

J. B. de Moliere · 1799 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Paris , Didot , 1799. Leather. The complete collection in eight volumes of the works by French playwright J. B de Moliere. The works of French playwright Moliere.  The original French edition. Eight volumes, collated complete. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was better known by his ...

Les Deux Heritages Suivis de L&Apos;Inspecteur General Et Des Debuts D&Apos;Un Adventurier

Prosper Merimee · 1853 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Paris, Levy Freres, 1853. Leather. A collection of plays by French dramatist Prosper Merimee. This collection has three plays by Merimee: 'Les Deux Heritages, or, Don Quixote', 'L'Inspecteur General' and 'Debuts D'un Adventurier&apos. Written...

Theatre

Jean Giraudoux · 1954 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, Grasset, 1954. Leather. A two volume set of plays by Jean Giraudoux. Illustrated throughout with 18 colour plates. Number 796 of limited 4700 copies. Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist and playwright considered among the most important French dramatists of t...

The Country Wife

William Wycherley · 1934 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1934 . Hardback. Limited edition of Wycherley's popular Restoration satire, profusely illustrated in colour. Signed by renowned illustrator Steven Spurrier. Limited edition. No. 328 of 1000 copies.In publisher's original quarter-cloth bin...

The Great Barry Ono Song Book

Barry Ono [Frederick Valentine Harrison] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Not Stated, c1918 . Paperback. A vanishingly scarce and highly entertaining song book of the variety theatre act Barry Ono and Maude Walsh, who performed the popular shows 'Peace at our Price' and 'After the Peace&apos. The 'sixteenth (enlarged) edi...

The Art of the Actor

I. Rapoport [Iosif Matveevich Rapoport; Joseph Rapoport]; Herbert Marshall [trans.] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, New Theatre Play Service, c1940 . Cloth. A very scarce English language translation of Iosif Rapoport's essay on the art of acting, published for the "New Theatre" Play Service and translated by Herbert Marshall. Translated from the original Russian by Herbert Mar...

The Confidential Clerk

T. S. Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of T. S. Eliot"s The Confidential Clerk, a verse play first performed at the 1953 Edinburgh Festival, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original blue...

Shakespeare&Apos;S Comedy of the Tempest

William Shakespeare · 1908 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour plates by Edmund Dulac, this is a wonderful first edition of Shakespeare's late play. The first edition of this work to feature the illustrations of Dulac. The first tr...

Left-Handed Liberty: A Play About Magna Carta

John Arden · 1965 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

London, Methuen and Co Ltd [in association with The Mermaid Theatre], 1965. Cloth. A very scarce limited 'Mermaid' edition of this play centring on the Magna Carta, written by John Arden. A very scarce copy of the first Mermaid edition, limited to 1,000 copies. This ...

Popular Entertainments Through the Ages

Samuel McKechnie · 1931 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. 1931 . First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated first edition tracing the history of English popular entertainments, complete with four colour plates and the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cl...

The Complete Works of George Farquhar

George Farquhar; Charles Stonehill · 1930 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Bloomsbury , The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Vellum. A splendid collection of plays from Irish dramatist George Farquhar, published in this two-volume limited edition run by The Nonesuch Press. A limited edition. Bound in quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Number 78 of 100 co...

Prefaces

George Bernard Shaw · 1934 · Rooke Books

£89.00 (€106.70 | $117.60 | ¥18,782)

London, Constable, 1934 . First edition. Leather. A fine example of the first edition of this collection of literary criticism and political writing from George Bernard Shaw. The first edition, first impression of this work.In a scarce half morocco variant of the publisher&apo...

The Plays of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · 1803 · Rooke Books

£1,125.00 (€1,348.69 | $1,486.53 | ¥237,408)

London, By T. Bensley for Wynne and Scholey and J. Wallis , 1803-1805 . Leather. An impressive set containing the plays of William Shakespeare, handsomely bound in a contemporary gilt-decorated straight grain morocco, complete in ten volumes. Complete in ten volumes. Uniformly...