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Summertime. Photographs of Americans at Play 1850-1900

Rinhart, Floyd and Marion · Valley Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Clarkson N. Potter (l978) Paperback, Quarto, 189pp., Slight wear. V.Good- NY Numerous b&w photos

Zapad. Pyesa [West. The play] (Russian edition)

Babel, I. · 1928 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€714.90 ($787.95 | £596.42 | ¥125,825)

Artel pysmennykiv Kruh, 1928. 96 pp. Hardcover. First edition. Language: Russian. Condition: good. Defects: tears (spine), damaged (binding). No illustrations. Print run: 5,000 copies. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with tracking after …

Spektakl Skazki Pushkina [Play Tales of Pushkin] (Russian edition)

Zon, B. V. · 1939 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€26.80 ($29.54 | £22.36 | ¥4,717)

Iskusstvo, 1939. Hardcover. Language: Russian. Condition: good. Black-and-white illustrations. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with tracking after receipt of payment (bank transfer or PayPal); delivery time 12–28 business days including …

Play guitar

N.N. · 2001 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

Silverdale Books, 2001 Hardcover. 256 pages. Text in English. As new.

Play for Murder

Norman Deane [John Creasey] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this atmospheric Soho-set murder mystery by John Creasey, writing as Norman Deane, complete with the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  First edition.  Complete with …

The Works of Samuel Foote, with Remarks on Each Play and an Essay on the Life, Genius and Writings of the Author

Samuel Foote [ed. by John Bee] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of collection of comical plays by the witty Cornish playwright, known as the 'English Aristophanes&apos. The first edition of The Works of Samuel Foote, a very scarce literary …

Play Dead

Harlan Coben · 1991 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Piatkus, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this thrilling novel from Harlan Coben. "A nonstop, closely-knit thriller from start to finish, Play Dead takes us careening through suspense, intrigue, and mistaken identity." With original photographic d…

The Little Blue Light a Play in Three Acts

Edmund Wilson · 1951 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this play by Edmund Wilson. Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters. Wilson was interested in modern culture as a whole, a…

Easter a Play for Singers

John Masefield · 1929 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

London , William Heinemann, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetic play by John Edward Masefield. Masefield (1878 – 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the aut…

The Iron Chest: A Play in Three Acts

George Colman the Younger · 1796 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Cadell and Davies, 1796. Leather. A scarce second edition of this play in three acts from British writer George Colman the Younger. Second edition. Scarce work. A play composed after the novel Things as They Are by William Godwin. A melodrama, following the villain is Si…

England&Apos;S Pleasant Land: A Pageant Play

E. M. Forster · 1940 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this moving play from English author Edward Morgan Forster. First edition. A moving play in which Forster depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of class, in a country set…

Little Red Riding Hood & Hansel and Gretel Listen and Play Story Books

0 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

U.S.A. Hallmark, c1960. Paperback. Two smart marked proof and production copies of these charming pop-up books for children. Without the original record. Two volumes. Scarce works. From Hallmark's listen and play story series of classic children's tales and fairy stori…

The Doves of Venus; My Husband Cartwright; the Play Room

Olivia Manning · 1955 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Melbourne; London, Heinemann, 1955-1969. First edition. Cloth. A three volume set comprising of The Doves of Venus, My Husband Cartwright and The Play Room by British novelist and poet Olivia Manning. This set is comprised of three first editions, all in original publisher'…

Our Ostriches, a Play of Modern Life in Three Acts

Marie Stopes · 1923 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923 . First edition. Paperback. The scarce first edition, first printing of this play by Marie Stopes. The first edition, first printing of Our Ostriches, A Play of Modern Life in Three Acts by Marie Stopes in the original publisher's pa…

Mary Stuart, a Play

John Drinkwater · 1923 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1923. Leather. A gorgeous prize-bound later impression of John Drinkwater's historical play. A play based on the life of Mary Stuart.Written by John Drinkwater, a poet and playwright known for his plays based on historical figures.Awarded to…

The Lion and the Unicorn: A Play in Three Acts

Clemence Dane [Winifred Ashton] · 1943 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1943. Hardback. An excellent limited edition copy, signed by the author, of this illustrated play by Clemence Dane. A limited edition printed to one thousand copies signed by the author, this volume being number two hundred and ten in the series. A…

Between Sunset and Dawn. A Play in Four Scenes

Hermon Ould · 1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this play by Herman Ould, signed by the author to the front free endpaper. First edition. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Very scarce. With publisher's advertisements to …

Oxford Pamphlets 1914: Volume IV; Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915; XVI: The Farmer in War-Time; British & German Steel Metallurgy; the War and the Cotton Trade; the War and Employment; Prices & Earnings in Time of War; XVII: Alsace-Lorraine; the Evolution of Thought in Modern France; Russia and Britain; Rumania: Her History and Politics; Poetry and War; Coronel and the Falkland Islands; Bombastes in the Shades : A Play in One Act; National Ideals; Canada and the War.

Murray; Lindsay; Barker; Fisher; Muir; C. S. Orwin; J. O. Arnold; S. J. Chapman; A. L. Bowley; F. Y. Eccles; Ernest Dimnet; Percy Dearmer; D. Mitrany; Sir Herbert Warren; A. Neville Hilditch; Laurence Binyon; P. E. Matheson; A. B. Tucker · 1914 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)

London; Edinburgh; Glasgow; New York; Toronto; Melbourne; Bombay, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1914-1915. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. An exciting collection of First World War pamphlets from the Oxford University Press. First edition of this collection printe…

Girls of Summer: A Play in Three Acts

N. Richard Nash · 1957 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

New York, Samuel French, Inc. 1957 . First edition. Cloth. Theatre critic and book collector Clive Hirschhorn's vanishingly scarce first edition of N. Richard Nash's heart-warming Broadway play. The very scarce first edition, first printing. This work is very scarce in…

Works from the Shakespeare Society 1841: The Debate between Pride and Lowliness: By Francis Thynn. 1841: The School of Abuse, Containing a Pleasant Invective Against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters &C. By Stephen Gosson. 1842: Notes of Ben Jonson&Apos;S Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. 1842: Pierce Penniless&Apos;S Supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash. 1842: Timon, a Play. 1843: Honour Triumphant; and a Line of Life: Two Tracts by John Forde, the Dramatist, Unknown to the

Various · 1841 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€928.96 | $1,023.88 | ¥163,501)

London, The Shakespeare Society, 1841-1851. Cloth. A remarkable sixteen volume set of literary criticism concerning Renaissance drama printed for the Shakespeare Society. Several of these works are edited, with notes and an introduction, by John Payne Collier. The Shakespeare So…