Drammaturgia e teatro

The scribleriad: an heroic poem. In six books

CAMBRIDGE, Richard Owens (1717-1802) · 1751 · Fine Editions Ltd

$574.00 (€520.78 | £434.47 | ¥91,631)

London Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row Six parts in one volume. 4to: xvi,31,[1]; 31,[1]; 31,[1]; 32; 32; 27,[9]pp, each book with separate title page, frontispiece, and pagination, the seven full-page plates engraved by Boitard a...

[Foulis Press] The gentle shepherd. A pastoral comedy

RAMSAY, Allan (1684-1758) · 1788 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.87 | £548.01 | ¥115,577)

Glasgow printed by A. Foulis, and sold by D. Allan, Dickson’s Closs, Edinburgh, also by J. Murray, No. 32. Fleet-Street, and C. Elliot, Strand, London First Edition thus First Illustrated Edition of this widely popular pastoral comedy in vernacular Scots, with glossary and ev...

[Harlem Renaissance] Copper Sun; with decorations by Charles Cullen

CULLEN, Countée P. (1903-1946) · 1927 · Fine Editions Ltd

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,795)

New York Harper & Brothers First Edition Two copies in different binding variants (one a later issue) of the poet's second collection. Crown 8vo (190 x 127mm): xi,[1],89,[1]pp, illustrated throughout. First Printing (with "first edition" and "G-B" on copyright page): Publisher...

Spenser’s Faerie queene. A new edition with a glossary, and notes explanatory and critical by John Upton . . . In two volumes [Extra-Illustrated]

[John Upton] SPENSER, Edmund (1552?-1599) · 1758 · Fine Editions Ltd

$2,149.00 (€1,949.74 | £1,626.62 | ¥343,059)

London printed for J. and R. Tonson First Edition thus First Annotated Edition, illustrated (grangerized) with the full suite of 32 double-page plates by William Kent for the 1751 edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, published by Stephen Wright and John Brindley (ESTC T35152). ...

Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London [Large-Paper Copy]

GAY, John (1685-1732) · 0 · Fine Editions Ltd

$2,149.00 (€1,949.74 | £1,626.62 | ¥343,059)

London printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet First Edition First Issue, large-paper copy (engraved headpiece on p. 1 depicts a street scene, not a phoenix, with elaborate engraved ornaments, not printer's ornaments, on pp. 21 a...

[Armorial Binding] Praedium Rusticum

VANIÈRE, Jacques (1664-1739) · 1707 · Fine Editions Ltd

$476.00 (€431.86 | £360.29 | ¥75,987)

Paris [Lutetiae Parisiorum] Apud Joannem Le Clerc First Edition 12mo: [6],268,[12], with engraved initials and head and tail pieces, and 10 charming full-page plates by Laurent Cars after Dumesnil, one at the beginning of each book. In Latin. Full speckled calf, contemporary t...

Hedda Gabler [Skuespil i fire akter]

IBSEN, Henrik (1828-1906) · 1890 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,174.00 (€1,065.14 | £888.62 | ¥187,413)

København [Copenhagen] Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel & Son) First Edition First Printing of perhaps Ibsen's "most frequently performed play in the modern theatre." (PMM) In Danish (then the literary language of both Denmark and Norway). Foolscap 8vo: [4],236pp. Publ...

The North Ship

LARKIN, Philip (1922-1985) · 19451965 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.93 | ¥67,686)

London Fortune Press Early Reprint Second (unauthorized) Edition, originally published by the Fortune Press in 1945. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],36pp. Publisher's smooth maroon buckram (some copies bound in brownish-orange buckram, no priority known), spine lettered in gilt, bottom e...

Chamber Music

JOYCE, James (1882-1941) · 1918 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.93 | ¥67,686)

Boston The Cornhill Company First Edition thus First Unauthorized American Edition of Joyce's first regularly published work, with print run estimated at 1000 copies. Small, slim 8vo: 20 unnumbered leaves, with 36 numbered Elizabethan-like poems chronicling the growth of a you...

Poems 1930-1933

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985) · 1933 · Fine Editions Ltd

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,729)

London Arthur Barker Ltd First Edition First Impression. Slim 8vo: [8],38pp. Publisher's black linen spine stamped in gilt, grey paper-covered boards lettered in black (without dust jacket, as issued), bookplate and gift card tipped to front paste-down. Near Fine or better, co...

The Deserted Village, A Poem

GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774) · 1770 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,399.00 (€1,269.28 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,331)

London Printed for W. Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine street, Strand First Edition First Issue (with erroneous catchword "Careless" for "Thus" on p. 9) of one of the most influential poems of the eighteenth century, condemning the enclosure of land into vast landsca...

Jumpers

STOPPARD, Tom · 1972 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

London Faber & Faber First Edition First Impression ("First published in 1972) of Stoppard's first full-length play following "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead." Slim 8vo: 91,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven scarlet cloth, spine stamped in gilt; typographic dust jacket print...

Baby Doll

[Thomas Lanier Williams, writing as] WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911-1983) · 1957 · Fine Editions Ltd

$101.00 (€91.63 | £76.45 | ¥16,123)

London Secker & Warburg First UK Edition First Impression of the script for Williams's first original screenplay. Small 8vo: 140pp, with black-and-white stills from the film. Publisher's scarlet V cloth, spine lettered in silver, illustrated dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Very F...

Rhymes of a PFC [Inscribed to Edith Sedwick Gibson] [Baldpate]

KIRSTEIN, Lincoln (1907-1996) · 1964 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

New York New Directions First Printing First Edition (so stated). Square 8vo: [viii],179,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven beige cloth, spine lettered in black, brown paper-covered boards decorated in blind with PFC stripes, brown laid end papers, brown pictorial dust jacket pri...

[Sammelband of five plays, comprising] Xerxes. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields; The tragical history of King Richard III. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Alter’d from Shakespear by C. Cibber; Perolla and Izadora. A tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Her Majesty’s servants; Ximena: Or, The heroick daughter. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty’s servants; [and] Cæsar in Ægypt. A tragedy. At [sic] it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s servants

CIBBER, Colley (1671-1757) · 1736 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

London Early Reprints Collection of five plays by Cibber, of various editions, dates, and imprints, each with copper-engraved frontispiece and title page printed in red and black (except Perolla and Izadora). 12mo: 72; 71[1]; 70,[2]; xxxvi,[2],58; 83,[1]pp. Xerxes: printed for...

The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals [Provenance]

GAY, John (1685-1732) · 1721 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

London Jacob Tonson Third Edition Small, slim 8vo: [16],60,[4]pp, with frontispiece, six full-page copper-engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail pieces. Later polished calf, flat spine (rebacked) lettered in gilt, speckled boards framed with French fillet, gilt turn-ins, all ...

Poems attempted in the style of Milton. By Mr. John Philips, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon. With his life by Dr Sewell

PHILIPS, John (1676-1709) · 1744 · Fine Editions Ltd

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.52 | ¥58,108)

London printed for E. Curll, in Covent-Garden, 12mo: xxx,42;72pp, with frontispiece portrait of the poet, frontispiece to the separately paginated Cyder, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary speckled calf, covers framed with double fillets in gilt, spine with five raise...

The works of Edmund Waller Esqr. in verse and prose published by Mr. Fenton

WALLER, Edmund (1606-1687) · 1729 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,039.00 (€942.66 | £786.44 | ¥165,862)

London printed for I. Tonson in Ye Strand First Edition Large 4to: [18],450,xci,[1]pp, with engraved title page, four full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait of Waller engraved by Vertu after Kneller), and numerous superb head- and tailpieces and hist...

The Member of the Wedding A Play

McCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967) · 1946 · Fine Editions Ltd

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,217)

New York New Directions First Printing First Edition (no additional printings noted) of the drama, adapted by the author from her novel for the stage. 8vo; [10],118pp. Publisher's mauve cloth, spine titled in burgundy, fore-edge untrimmed, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, ...

Thank You, Fog : Last Poems

AUDEN, W. H. (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973) · 1974 · Fine Editions Ltd

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,729)

London Faber & Faber First Impression First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black dust jacket priced at £1.75. Fine (and unre...