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More than the ear discovers. God in the plays of Christopher Fry.

Wiersma, Stanley M. · 1983 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Chicago, Loyola University Press, 1983. Original cloth with good dustwrapper (a few small tears, frayed at edges, taped to inside backcover). 304 pp. With bibliographical references and index. Literary criticism that brings to see the relationships between Fry's works, the issue…

The BATTLE Of The KNIGHTS, A Northumbrian Legend. Part First

[Provincial Printing]. 'Junius' · 1826 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$330.00 (€299.40 | £249.74 | ¥52,703)

Alnwick: Printed by M. Smith, 1826. One sheet, printed recto only. Title printed in outline lettering. Quote from Shakespeare under the title. Text double column. 22 stanzas of 4 lines each. 10-3/4" x 8-5/8". Some wrinkling, fold lines & light soiling. A VG copy. A printed balla…

The Staple of News [suivi de] The Devil is an Ass • The Staple Of Nevves. A Comedie Acted In The Yeare, 1625. – The Diuell Is An Asse: A Comedie Acted In The Yeare, 1616.

Ben JONSON · 1631 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)

Deux pièces du "plus grand des contemporains de Shakespeare" (Ian Donaldson) | Robert ALLOT John BEALE | Londres 1631 | 20 x 32 cm | Relié | Editions originales. Reliure pastiche en basane brune, dos à cinq nerfs encadrés de filets à froid, pièce de titre rouge estampée à l'or…

Women & Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of A Room of One's Own

Woolf, Virginia; Rosenbaum, S. P. · 1992 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£43.90 (€52.63 | $58.01 | ¥9,264)

Blackwell Publishers. First Edition. Fine Condition. Fine. Fine/Fine 1st ed 1992 Blackwell Publishers hardback, unclipped DJ, illustrated, fresh and unblemished copy in protective Mylar jacket cover. Size: octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2kg. Category: Liter…

At the Sign of the Swan, An Introduction to Shakespeare's Contemporaries

Judith Nunn, foreword by Trevor Nunn · 1986 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Harrap Limited, London, 1986. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Clean unclipped dust-jacket, fresh pale grey covers with bright gilt lettering on spine, sound binding, clean pages, previous owner's name on front end-paper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped We…

The Private Correspondence of David Garrick

David Garrick · 1831 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831-1832 . First edition. Hardback. The impressive two volume first edition of the personal correspondences of enormously influential 18th century English actor Davis Garrick. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes. Il…

Balderdash & Piffle. English words and their curious origins

Alexander Games · 2006 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

BBC, 2006, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 304, Discover the fascinating stories behind the words and phrases we use every day. English is now the world's most popular second language, understood by over 700 million people across the globe. Its use is amazingly broad: not only is …

Aubrey's Brief Lives. Edited from the original manuscript and with an introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick.

JOHN AUBREY. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus. 8vo. cxiv, 408pp. Re-bound into maroon cloth with a gilt lettered and bordered leather spine label. With a portrait frontispiece and twenty-eight plates. Some spotting to the edges, a small area of staining to the top ed…

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E. Clerihew Bentley · 1929 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Methuen & Co. 1929. First edition. Cloth. A humorous collection of poetry, each quatrain is a satire of a well-known figure including George the Third, Shakespeare and Signor Mussolini First edition. With illustrations by G. K. Chesterton, Victor Reinganum, Nicholas Ben…

The Pageant of English Poetry, Being 1150 Poems and Extracts by 300 Authors

Varied · 1919 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1919. Leather. An abundant collection of poems and extracts by 300 notable authors, with a frontispiece. In full brown crushed morocco, with gilt to top edge.With a frontispiece depicting Milton, Shelley, Keats, Shakespeare and…

Ideas and Ideals

F. W. B. · 1920 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

Wirksworth, The Brooks Press, 1920. First edition. Hardback. A very neat first edition of this collection of thoughts by important writers. Limited to 1,000 copies. First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies on unbleached Arnold handmade paper. A collection of written thoughts and i…

Ulysses: A facsimile of the manuscript

James Joyce · 1975 · Boeken aan de Vecht

€240.00 ($264.53 | £200.19 | ¥42,247)

New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/ Rosenbach Foundation, 1975 As good as new, linen binding, 1st edition Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three blue cloth bound quarto volumes with white lettering on front boards and spines. Facsimile pages of Joyce's manuscript. Three octavo…

Frederick the Great (portrait) Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis 1825.

CHAPMAN, J., · 1825 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€86.25 ($95.07 | £71.95 | ¥15,183)

1825, 16,5x11,5cm, with margins 27x21cm, (stipple) engraved portrait by J. Chapman with small view of the emperor inspecting troops, some age staining, fold outside plate, John Chapman (active 1792-1823), engraver, one of the most gifted stipple engravers of the late eighteenth …

Theater heute 12/1996. THEMA: Slobodan Snajder: Schlangenhaut.

1996 · Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Friedrich Seelze 1996. ca. 72 S. Standardeinband. Bibl.-Ex. INHALT: Peter Stein: Aus seiner Rede zur Verleihung des Kortner-Preises. Ulrike Kahle: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. Werner Burkhardt: Saisonstart in Bremen mit Garcia Lorcas Dona Rosita und Macbu nach Shakespeare und Jarry. Sta…

Chamber of horror. Unlocked by John Hadfield. An anthology of the macabre in words and pictures.

Hadfield, G. J. [Geoffrey John]. · 1965 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€38.00 ($41.88 | £31.70 | ¥6,689)

(London), Studio Vista, ( 1965]. 320 S, Mit 36, teils farb. Abb. im Text u. auf Tafeln. 26 cm. OPp. m. SU. Mit Texten von Milton, Crabbe, Dickens, Bradbury, Poe, Shakespeare, Wilde, Lewis, Browning, Hardy, G. Greene, E. Bronte, Sheridan le Fanu, R. Dahl, Baudelaire, Bierce, Joh…

Erste. [HEFT 2] / Januar/Februar 1986. Zweite Ausgabe des Magazins für das Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg. (Hrsg.: Dietmar N. Schmidt. Red.: Joachim Nickel).

1986 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

(Hamburg, Olaf Schnakenberg, 1986). 22 Bll. Miz zahlr. tls. farb. Abb. Gr.-4to. 40 cm. OU. Insgesamt erschienen nur 4 Hefte der Zeitschrift (1.1985 - 4.1986). Dieses Heft enthält u.a. ein Gespräch mit Peter Brook; Porträt des Schauspielers Ulrich Wildgruber; Beiträge zu Zadeks …

Nenad V. Karpov: aquarellen, crayons, tekeningen *GESIGNEERD en met ORIGINELE TEKENING*

Metzelaar, Gerard · 1984 · Klondyke BV

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 1984; Aalsmeer : Gerlings; 168pp.; Stofomslag wat rafelig aan randen, kleine scheurtjes geplakt, kleine stukjes stofomslag afgescheurd. -- Conditie: Goed; Originele linnen band, stofomslagveel (paginagrote) afbeeldingen in kleur en z/w;…

Shylock and the Jewish Question

YAFFE, MARTIN D. · 1999 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€21.80 ($24.03 | £18.18 | ¥3,837)

Baltimore, John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999. XII,210 pp. As new. Paperback. Emphasizing that The Merchant of Venice is a work of political philosophy as well as literature, Yaffe raises the intriguing possibility that Shakespeare presents Shylock not as a typical Jew, but as a ba…

Some Silver Wrought By the Courtauld Family of London Goldsmiths in the Eighteenth Century

Courtauld [ Inscribed Copy ] · 1940 · George Jeffery Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

Privately Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Inscribed on free endpaper '' C. Dowman from S. A. Courtauld 1940 ''Limited to 100 copies.Book measures 35x26cm. Collation, xii,129pp, 64 plates, illustrated frontis. Bound in original publishers linen backed marble boards, with gi…

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER

DE QUINCEY, Thomas · 1930 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

Oxford. Limited Editions Club. Small folio (10" x 13-1/2") bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 12 lithographs drawn on the stone by Zhenya Gay and printed on hand-made Kelmscott paper by B. H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press. Copy #139…