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Posthumous Parodies And Other Pieces, Composed By Several Of Our Most Celebrated Poets, But Not Published In Any Former Edition Of Their Works.

[ TWISS, HORACE (1787-1849) ] . · 1814 · Chilton Books

£148.00 (€177.43 | $195.56 | ¥31,232)

London : Printed For John Miller, 25, Bow-Street, Covent Garden, 1814 . 0. Signed first edition. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 725" x 4.75" x 0.2". pp. xi./[1p.]/pp.102/[2pp. - Errata / Adverts] . Brown Morocco spine and corners over green buckram boards. Spine with 5...

Five Finger Exercise. A Play.

SHAFFER, PETER. · 1958 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Samuel French Limited, 1958. French's Acting Edition. Pp.89, frontispiece photograph by Angus McBean. Stiff card covers, slightly rubbed, crease to rear top corner. G+.

Life of David Garrick. From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources.

FITZGERALD, PERCY. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.Ltd, 1899. New and Revised Edition, Containing Additional Important Matter. Biography of the celebrated 18th century English actor, playwright and theatre manager. Pp.xvi/480, frontispiece, occasional minor light spotting, owner's...

Performing the American Frontier. 1870-1906.

HALL, ROGER A. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 0521793203. 1st edition. "Examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of cinema..From famous personages such as Mark Twain and ...

Shakespeare Quarterly. No.1. Summer 1948.

FLATTER, DR RICHARD (EDITOR). · 1948 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Austrian State Printing Office, 1948. Founded under the auspices of the Austrian Ministry of Education. "This Quarterly, appearing in English, is intended to be a means of pulling down the walls between Austria and those parts of the world where Shakespeare's language ...

Late Night Theatre, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

MACQUEEN-POPE, W. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Plaistow: The Curwen Press, 1951. Late Night Theatre: With plays and players representative of the British Theatre presented by The Newspaper Proprietors Association by kind permission of the Directors of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Monday 9th July 1951 at 11pm. Organized by ...

The Impossible Theatre. The Chichester Festival Theatre Adventure. (Signed Limited Edition).

EVERSHED-MARTIN, LESLIE. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Phillimore & Co.Ltd, 1971. Specially bound Edition, limited to Two hundred and fifty copies, signed by the Author and numbered, of which this is No.128. "Leslie Evershed-Martin tells his own - behind-the-scenes - story, of what really happened, the indifference and out...

A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance.

RUBINSTEIN, FRANKIE. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. 0333488660. Second edition. "This dictionary examines previously unnoted puns on the erotic attitudes andpractices of the heterosexual and homosexual, the sexual deviant, and the impotent. It includes scatological puns in their usually bawdy conte...

The R.A.D.A. Graduates' Keepsake & Counsellor.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART. (R.A.D.A). · 1941 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1941. Printed for Private Circulation. Graduation gift for R.A.D.A. students giving advice for their future careers. 16.5cms x 10.5cms. Pp.39, presentation details (Presented to Peter Marshall by the Council of the Royal Academy of Dr...

Selected Poems. (D16).

SITWELL, EDITH. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952. Most of the poems in this volume have been published in the collection under the title of The Canticle of the Roe and the present selection has been made by Dr Sitwell. Pp.134,pages toned. Paperback, discolouration to spine. Good.

Discovering Theatre Ephemera.

MELLING, JOHN KENNEDY. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Shire Publications Ltd, 1974. 085263245. 1st edition. Shire Discovering No.185. "Theatre Ephemera is a wide term because it embraces theatre, music-hall, circus, opera, ballet, concert-party, puppets, films, television and revue, with items made of paper, cardboard, cloth, woo...

The Manchester Stage 1880-1900.

THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. · 1900 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, nd.(c.1900). Criticisms Reprinted from The Manchester Guardian. "This volume aims at indicating the varied excellence of the Manchester stage during the past twenty years, by a short selection of the judgments passed in the columns of the...

Marching Soldier by Joyce Cary .

CARY, JOYCE / SYBIL THORNDIKE (SIGNATURE) . · 1945 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Michael Joseph Limited, 26 Bloomsbury Street, 1945 . 0. First edition with signature of Sybil Thorndike. [2pp.]pp.5 --28 . Original brown cloth with gilt title to front board. Slip of paper taped to the verso of the front board: "To Peter Marshall, Good wishes for xmas...

Milton's Nativity Ode, Lycidas, Sonnets &c.

MILTON, JOHN / BELL, W. (EDITOR). · 1929 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1929. "This selection comprises, with only one notable exception (Comus), all the English poetry that Milton wrote between 1629 and 1660". 17.5cms x 12cms. Pp.xx/230/4(publisher's catalogue), owner's name to front free endpaper, slight toning...

Gremlins In The Cabbage Patch. A Novel. By John Paddy Christmas .

CARSTAIRS, JOHN PADDY · 1944 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, [no date - c. 1944] . 0. Signed first edition, lacking dustwrapper. pp.120. Wrapped in stamp adressed postal envelope to: Mrs. Nina Davidson. Red cloth covers, rather soiled, with black tles to spine. "W. H. Smith & Son's Library" label to verso o...

The London Theatre 1811-1866. Selections from the Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson.

BROWN, ELUNED. (EDITOR). · 1966 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1966. 1st edition. "Crabb Robinson's theatre records extend from 1811 to 1866 - which means that, as well as Mrs Siddons, Kemble and Mrs Jordan, he saw the juvenile Ellen Terry. That is a tremendous span of unprofessional reporting. It...

The Story of the Bristol Stage. 1490-1925.

BOARD, M.E. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: The Fountain Press, nd. (c.1925). History of theatre in Bristol. Pp.vi/57, black & white frontispiece, owner's details to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, rough-cut page edges, spotting to margins. Blue cloth, slightly rubbed. G+.

Stan Lee Presents: Doctor Strange. Master of the Mystic Arts No.2.

LEE, STAN AND DITKOI, STEVE. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

New York: Pocket Books, 1979. 0671825828. First Pocket Books printing July, 1979. This volume contains the complete Dr Strange epic originally presented in Strange Tales #130-144. Pp.160, colour cartoon illustrated story, slight toning to pages. Paperback, vertical creasing to...

The Dance of Death. (Pan G645).

BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Pan Book Limited, 1963. "Disturbing tales of worlds half-glimpsed but never fully seen, by a master of the weird and the malevolent". Pp.126/2(publisher's ads), pages toned. Paperback, creases to rear corners and chipping to top and tail of spine. Good.

Don't Mr Disraeli.

BRAHMS, CARYL AND SIMON, S.J. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949. "This is not a novel set in the Victorian age: it is a novel set in its literature. The characters move against a background of books read by the authors and their adventures are pinned into time by glimpses of the giants of that era." Pp.256, pag...