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The House Beautiful

Channing Pollock · 1931 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

New York, Samuel French, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Channing Pollock's play about the true meaning of happiness in opposition to materialism, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.  In the publisher's origina…

The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems

William Butler Yeats · 1935 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York , The Macmillan Company , 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this play from celebrated Irish dramatist and post, W. B. Yeats, with the previous owner's scholarly notes. First edition. In the original quarter cloth, with paper boards. 'The King …

Le Souper Interrompu: Avec Cinq Dessins Rehausses D&Apos;Aquarelle

Pierre-Jean Toulet · 1922 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Paris, Le Divan, 1922. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition play by the French poet and writer Paul-Jean Toulet, signed and beautifully illustrated with hand enhanced watercolour paintings by Louis Suire, and in the original, very scarce glassine dust wrapper. A limited e…

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne · 1957 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

London, Faber and Faber, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this influential 'kitchen sink drama' from English playwright and screenwriter John Osborne. The first edition, first impression of John Osborne's important realist play, …

Any Wednesday; Any Wednesday Playbill

Muriel Resnik · 1964 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Stein and Day; Playbill, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Muriel Resnik's popular comedy play, in the original dust wrapper, and present alongside the scarce Playbill for the play's first run on Broadway. The first edition, first impression o…

The Art of the Actor

I. Rapoport [Iosif Matveevich Rapoport; Joseph Rapoport]; Herbert Marshall [trans.] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, New Theatre Play Service, c1940 . Cloth. A very scarce English language translation of Iosif Rapoport's essay on the art of acting, published for the "New Theatre" Play Service and translated by Herbert Marshall. Translated from the original Russian by Herbert Marsh…

The World Aflame

Julius Hopp · 1918 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

New York, Theo. Gaus' and Sons, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce signed first edition of a fascinating anti-war play inspired by the ensuing First World War, written by New York playwright Julius Hopp The very scarce signed first edition of The World Aflame, writ…

The Fisher Boy, a Poem. Comprising His Several Avocations, During the Four Seasons of the Year

William Henry Ireland · 1808 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1808. Hardback. A nicely bound copd of William Henry Ireland's poem 'The Fisher Boy', published after his Shakespeare forgery scandal under a pseudonym. A poem by William Henry Ireland about a young fisher boy, divided up into four …

Ideal Husband, an

WILDE, Oscar · 1899 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$3,250.00 (€2,948.63 | £2,459.58 | ¥519,045)

London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. A Play of Conscience and Corruption - Wilde at His Brilliant Peak" First Edition, Limited Issue - From the Library of Esher Place WILDE, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899.…

Letter from Maurice Donnay to Vincent to Jacques Des Roches, (Pseudonym of Jean-Gabriel Vacheron)

Donnay, Maurice (1854*-1945)), writer and Jacques Des Roches, (pseudonym of Jean-Gabriel Vacheron, 1897-1936), recipient · 1939 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Paris: 1939. Als. one page regarding a planned meeting.. The following biography was originally published in The Continental Drama of Today. Barrett H. Clark. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914. p. 145.. Maurice Donnay was born in 1854 at Paris, of a well-to-do middle-class …

Gore Ot Uma A.S. Griboedova V Postanovke Moskovskogo Chudozestvennogo Teatra Trop D' Esprit Porte Malheur. (Woe to Wit)

GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr Sergeevich; Nikolai Efimovich EFROS; Vladimir Ivanovich NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO; N K Piksanov; S V Chekhonin · 1923 · Wittenborn Art Books

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

Moscow-Peterburg: : Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo, 1923. 24 x 31 cm. Original wraps. 267pp. The Verskomödie Gore ot uma criticizes Russian society. A senior official described it as a "satirical pamphlet against Moscow" . The actual story of the play is rather thin, and the portra…

More Letters from a Nut. With an introduction by Jerry Seinfeld

Ted L. Nancy · 1997 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1e druk, 1997; Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc; 192pp.; Gebonden boek met losse stofomslag. Gave boekband met fris en schoon binnenwerk, gaaf stofomslag. Bovenkant boekblok paar roestvlekjes. -- Conditie: Goed; Ted L Nancy continues his gently su…

TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD: A COLLECTION OF STAGE SERMONS BY A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE

[SHAW, George Bernard] · 1932 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.66 | £7,094.96 | ¥1,497,245)

n.p.. Privately Printed. First Edition. Printed wraps. Laurence AA16d. This is one of five different states of the "ROUGH PROOF-UNPUBLISHED" of this play typically used as rehearsal or prompt copies. This particular state includes the coda written at Malvern, where the play prem…

Hedda Gabler [Skuespil i fire akter]

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

$1,174.00 (€1,065.14 | £888.48 | ¥187,495)

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. Publis…

The Duchess of Malfi

Webster, John; George Rylands and Charles Williams (Introduction) · 1945 · Bookbarrow

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Sylvan Press, London, 1945. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Red Cloth), Illustrated by: Michael Ayrton. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Titles; publisher's note; introduction & dramatis personae to front. First published in 1623, the play is loosely based on events that occurred …

First Fam'lies of the Sierras

MILLER, JOAQUIN · 1876 · S. Howlett-West Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Chicago, IL: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1876. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is the First American Edition, which is "much revised" from the London edition, of 1875. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corner…

The Drama Of Love, Life & Death In Shakespeare

Anthony Holden · 2000 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Mitchell Beazley 2000 Hardback 160 Shakespeare is as much a figure of the 20th and 21st centuries as he is of the 16th and 17th, and Shakespeare in Love stands as evidence of our fascination. Written by a recognized expert, this book addresses two significant factors behind this…

The Face of Violence

J. Bronowski · 1954 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Turnstile Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this essay and play on violence by Polish-British philosopher Jacob Bronowski. First edition. A famous radio play written in a free and urgently rhythmic verse, dealing with the journey of an imaginary…

Pinkie and the Fairies

W. Graham Robertson · 1909 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, William Heinemann, 1909. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated copy of this fairy play in three acts, written by W. Graham Robertson. First performed in 1908 at His Majesty's Theatre, London, starring Ellen Terry. With an illustrated title page, six plates, and few in-tex…

The Virgin in the Garden

A. S. Byatt · 1978 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of A. S. Byatt's interesting novel, revolving around a play about Queen Elizabeth I. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'The Virgin in the Gard…