Drammaturgia e teatro

The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart · 1791 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

Reading; London, Smart and Cowslade; F. Power and Co, 1791. Leather. A very scarce anthology of the poetical works of Christopher Smart, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. A very scarce work.Complete in two volumes.An anthology of the poetical works of Christopher Smart...

Those Were the Days: Panorama with Figures; a Place of One"S Own; Gentle Caesar: A Play in Three Acts; Sing High! Sing Low!; Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics; Collected Stories; on the Continent: A Book of Inquilinics; Fee Fi Fo Fum! a Book of Fairy Stories; Tales My Father Taught Me

Osbert Sitwell · 1938 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, Macmillan; Hutchinson; Gerald Duckworth , 1938-1963. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing selection of plays, short stories and essays from Osbert Sitwell, the majority of which are first impressions. Offering a set of nine works from English writer Osbert Sitwell, varying...

Le Faust

Goethe; Henri Blaze · 1842 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, Charpentier, 1842. Leather. A French translation of Goethe's magnum opus, a tragic play in two parts. 'Faust' is Goethe's magnum opus, a tragic play following Doctor Faustus, a German necromancer who sells his soul to the devil, in an exchange for kn...

In the Summer House

Jane Bowles · 1954 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

New York, Random House, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Jane Bowles' popular play about a mother and daughter and their fraught relationship. The first edition, first printing.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.'In the Summer House' is a...

The Cocktail Party

T. S. Eliot · 1950 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of the most popular play of T. S. Eliot, with a programme for the production a the New Theatre loosely inserted. The first edition, first issue, with the misprinting to page 29 'You shall ...

The Making of an Immortal: A Play in One Act

George Moore · 1927 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, The Bowling Green Press, 1927. First edition. Hardback. A smart first US edition of this short play from Irish novelist George Moore, limited to 1240 copies signed by the author. First US edition. Limited to twelve hundred and forty copies signed by the author, of wh...

The Clouds: A Comedy

Aristophanes; James White · 1759 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.43 | $640.86 | ¥102,349)

London, T. Payne, 1759. Hardback. A scarce English language edition of this Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes. A scarce English language edition of this comedic play by Aristophanes, translated by James White.This comedy was written in 423 BCE for the City Dionysia, though ...

Goethe Faust: Eine Tragodie

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1922 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Jena , Eugen Diederichs , 1922. Cloth. A smart volume containing both parts of Goethe's tragic play 'Faust', printed in blackletter in the original German. Containing two parts in one of 'Faust', a tragic play by German polymath and one of the most inf...

Pandora. Ein Festspiel.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · 1923 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)

Zurich , Verlag Seldwyla , 1923 . Leather. A strikingly illustrated edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play, this edition with illustrations by Ludwig von Hofmann. A limited edition. Signed by the artist. Bound in quarter morocco with paper-covered boards. Written by...

Plays of Protest

Upton Sinclair · 1912 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A scarce anthology of four brilliant plays by Upton Sinclair, the first edition. The first edition of this anthology of four plays by Upton Sinclair.A scarce work.Including 'The Naturewoman', 'The Machine...

Red Bird

William Ellery Leonard · 1923 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, B. W. Huebsch, Inc, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this historical play by William Ellery Leonard, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Red Bird' is a brilliant a...

The Literary History of the Adelphi and Its Neighbourhood

Austin Brereton · 1908 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Cloth. A smart second edition of this illustrated history of the Adelphi Theatre in London, signed with an inscription by the publisher. Second edition. Signed with an inscription from the publisher, Thomas Fisher Unwin, an English publisher who ...

Joan la Romee: A Drama

Frank Harris · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Nice/New York, Imprimerie Nicoise/Frank Harris Publishing Co. 1926. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this play from Irish-American editor and writer Frank Harris. First edition. A little-known play following the life of Joan of Arc, a patron saint of France, ...

Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy

Odin Gregory; Theodore Dreiser · 1920 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this tragic play from American writer Odin Gregory. First edition. A tragic play following Caius Gracchus, the son of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who seeks to honour his murdered brother in va...

The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with a Memoir by James P. Browne, M.D. Containing Extracts from the Life by Thomas Moore

Richard Brinsley Sheridan; James P. Browne; Thomas Moore · 1884 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Bickers and Son , 1884. Leather. A leather bound two-volume set containing the works of Sheridan, together with a memoir by James P. Browne. A set of works from Irish-born playwright impresario and Whig politician, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Complete in two volumes. B...

A Word to the Wise, a Comedy, As It Was Performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane

Hugh Kelly · 1775 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Edward and Charles Dilly , 1775. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce new edition of Hugh Kelly's comedy play that was performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. A new edition.In the publisher's wraps.A scarce copy of this comedy play by Irish writer Hugh Kelly. It...

J.B. A Play in Verse

Archibald Macleish · 1958 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, eleventh printing, of this play written in free verse from American writer Archibald MacLeish. First edition, eleventh printing. A modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical f...

Tortesa the Usurer

N. P. Willis; Nathaniel Parker Willis · 1839 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Samuel Colman, 1839. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce tragi-comedy drama play by noted American author Nathaniel Parker Willis, the first edition. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Original wraps are bound in. Part of Colman's dramatic...

The Comedy of As You Like It

William Shakespeare · 1903 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

East Aurora, The Roycroft Shop, 1903. Leather. One of the popular and entertaining comedies of Shakespeare, a smart edition in the original binding. A Roycroft edition of one of Shakespeare's comedies.'As You Like It' was first published in the First Folio, and ...

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Shakespeare; W. J. Craig · 1926 · Rooke Books

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

London, Oxford University Press Humphrey Milfrod, 1926. Cloth. A uniqely bound collection of the works of Shakespeare, this copy with an inscription by important American suffragist Almira Hollander Pitman. A collection of the complete works of National Bard William Shakespear...