Drammaturgia e teatro

Cinnamon and Angelica. A play. (THE PUBLISHER'S COPY)

JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY. · 1920 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 111pp. The publisher's own copy, in a handsome fine binding, and with Conden-Sanderson's pencilled ownership signature to a blank preliminary leaf. Full black cloth, with partially defective gi...

The Land. A play in three acts.

PADRAIC COLUM. · 1905 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Printed at Dublin University Press and issued as the third number of the 'Abbey Theatre Series'. 8vo. 51pp. Card wrappers featuring an unaccredited pictorial design. Chipped with an inch of loss to the bas...

Trifles and Six Other Short Plays (Two of them written in collaboration with George Cram Cook).

SUSAN GLASPELL. · 1926 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 151pp + [iv] list of contemporary British dramatists. Paper-covered boards with printed spine and title labels. Some bruising to the backstrip ends, and a trace of wear to several corner tips. A nice crisp ...

Akhnaton. A Play in Three Acts.

AGATHA CHRISTIE. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Collins, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 157pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's final play, and her only historical work, originally written in 1937 at around the tim...

Sleuth. A play.

ANTHONY SHAFFER. · 2015 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Calder & Boyars Ltd., 'Playscript' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 93pp + [iii] publisher's advertisements. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Edges and endpapers very lightly spotted. A very good copy in chafed, spotted and so...

The White Carnation. A play.

R. C. SHERRIFF. · 1953 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 116pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A speckling of very light spotting to the top edge. Contemporary former owner name and date neatly inked to the front pastedown (obscured by the ...

Lettice and Lovage. A Comedy in Three Acts.

PETER SHAFFER. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Andre Deutsch Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 95pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny trace of soiling to the top edge, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Shaffer's delightful satirical comedy, written ...

Happy Birthday, Wanda June. A play.

KURT VONNEGUT. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued two years after the US edition. 8vo. 119pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A small area of staining to the head of the pastedowns. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipp...

And so ad infinitum (The Life of the Insects). An Entomological Review, in Three Acts a Prologue and an Epilogue. Translated from the Czech by Paul Selver. Freely adapted for the English Stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax.

THE BROTHER CAPEK (i.e. Josef and Karel Capek). · 1923 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, The first English edition. Slim 8vo. 69pp. Lettered card wrappers, very lightly faded at several edges and with a tiny trace of chipping to the spine ends. A very good of the first English translation of the most ...

Battle of Angels. A play.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. · 1945 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Pharos, Utah, spring, 1st Edition, First edition of the author's first book, which comprises the whole issue of the first and second number (a double issue) of the periodical 'Pharos'. Tall 8vo. 123pp + [iv] advertisements. Red lettered card wrappers, rubbed and a little nicke...

contributes his play 'Pillars of Salt' - his first bookform appearance - to the anthology Four Jewish Plays. Edited with a two-page introduction by H. F. Rubinstein.

PAUL SCOTT · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). The publisher's file copy, with an "archive copy" inkstamp to the base of the title page. 8vo. 303pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A strip of near-invisible narrow browning to the free end...

Masses and Man. A Fragment of the Social Revolution of the Twentieth Century. A play. Translated from the German of 'Masse Mensch' by Vera Mendel.

ERNST TOLLER. · 1923 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

The Nonesuch Press, London, 1st Edition, The first English edition of Toller's play, originally written in 1919 (and apparently the first English translation of any of his writings). Crown 8vo. x, 58pp. Black and fawn batik boards with a paper spine label (and a spare tipped t...

The Tragedy of Faust. A play. (INSCRIBED)

JOHN EVELYN. · 1959 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The Favil Press Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (this being #59). This copy additionally inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. Slim 8vo. 32pp. Blue cloth lettered i...

School Ties. Two boarding school scripts.

WILLIAM BOYD. · 1985 · Clearwater Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 144pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges and endpapers lightly spotted. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by some spotting to the flaps. A twenty-...

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays.

DEREK WALCOTT. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First UK edition (first printing), issued two years after the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 326pp. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's black top edge dye and pictorial endpapers. A small area of li...

Semi-Detached. A Comedy.

DAVID TURNER. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) of the first West End play by the dramatist and Mary Whitehouse-provocateur. 8vo. 121pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine. A narrow strip of light partial browning to the free endpapers. Very good in slig...

Curtmantle. A play. (INSCRIBED)

CHRISTOPHER FRY [Richard Church]. · 1961 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to poet Richard Church. Slim 8vo. 99pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A light speckling of spotting to the to...

Lithuania. A Play in One Act. With a preface by John Drinkwater.

RUPERT BROOKE. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 3rd Edition, The first English edition (overall the third edition, following editions printed in Chicago in 1915 and Cincinnati in 1922). Slim 8vo. 38pp. Card wrappers (issued simultaneously with a casebound edition). The wrappers lightly tanned and...

Thirst. And Other One Act Plays.

EUGENE O'NEILL. · 1914 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

The Gorham Press, 'American Dramatists' series, Boston, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) of O'Neill's first book, a collection of five one-act plays. 8vo. 168pp. Cloth-backed boards with paper spine and title labels, the former somewhat darkened. Boards just a littl...

Landscape.

HAROLD PINTER. · 1968 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Emanuel Wax for Pendragon Press, [London],, 1st Edition, First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies for sale in the UK (this being #449). Slim 8vo. Textured paper-covered cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. In fine state, no dust wrapper called for. A super copy of Pinter's...