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Salome, la Sainte Courtisane, a Florentine Tragedy

Oscar Wilde · 1917 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1917. Leather. The fifth edition of this collection of plays from Oscar Wilde. Fifth edition. A collection of plays from Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and playwright renowned for his work in the early 1890s. The plays included are: Salome Depicting the se…

&Apos;It Is Never Too Late to Mend&Apos;. A Matter of Fact Romance

Charles Reade · 1857 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Richard Bentley, 1857. Leather. A copy of Reade's nineteenth-century novel, and later play, in a half calf binding. New Edition. With the pictorial bookplate of Henry Stuart Maclean Jack to the front pastedown. Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an Eng…

Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta

Pablo Neruda; Ben Belitt [translator] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Alcove Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. A smart first UK edition of this play from Chilean poet-diplomat Pablo Neruda, a review copy with original reviews. Dual language book with both the original Spanish text and translation into English. First UK edition. Review…

The Living Room

Graham Greene · 1953 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Heinemann, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Graham Greene's thrilling drama about a woman who introduces her new lover - who happens to be married - to her family. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust w…

My Mermaid Princess Palace: A Pop-Up Book

Alison Green · 2007 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Alison Green Books, 2007. Hardback. A delightful pop-up scene of a magical mermaid palace, included with press-out characters to play with. A spectacular pop-up palace to accompany the story of 'Princess Sandy's Magical Mermaid Ball&apos. With wonderfully detai…

Peg Woffington

Charles Reade · 1855 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition. Cloth. The first American edition of this historical novel about the Irish actress Peg Woffington. The first American edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking rear free endpaper. This work was written by British …

The Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1889 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

New York, White and Allen, 1889 . Leather. A beautifully illustrated limited edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners, illustrated by Frank M. Gregory, and signed by the publisher. Number sixty-six of one-hundred and fifty limited edition copies produced, si…

Fantasio: A Comedy in Two Acts

Alfred de Musset; Maurice Baring [trans.] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

Haarlem, The Pleiad, 1929 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated limited edition of Alfred de Musset humorous play, designed by Frederic Warde. Limited to five-hundred and fifty hand numbered copies, of which this is number one-hundred and thirty-five.Translated from the original Fr…

The Voysey Inheritance

Granville Barker · 1910 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1910. Paperback. Scarce second impression of this play in five acts by Granville-Barker in the original wraps. Play in five acts by English dramatist Harley Barker-Granville, written in 1903-5 and first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1905 fea…

The Rehearsal

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; Montague Summers [ed.] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)

Stratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1914. Cloth. A bright facsimile edition of George Villiers's satirical play, one of five-hundred and ten copies. A satirical play addressed specifically to John Dryden and the pretentious theatre of the Restoration tragedy. F…

Noah and the Waters

Cecil Day Lewis · 1936 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of the first trade edition of Cecil Day Lewis's morality play inspired by the Biblical story of Noah's ark. The first trade edition of this work, issued together with a l…

The Indian Exiles

[August von Kotzebue] · 1800 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, J. Wright, 1800. Disbound. A disbound, scarce English edition of von Kotzebue's play. Die Indianer in England is a comic play, first published in 1790. Featuring such characters as Mr. Tradely, his sons Samuel and Robert, Saberdar, Ganem and Fazie, it is set in Mr. …

Yes and No, and, for Whom the Bell Chimes

Graham Greene · 1983 · Rooke Books

£315.00 (€377.63 | $416.23 | ¥66,474)

London, The Bodley Head, 1983. Cloth. A superb limited edition volume of two plays by Graham Greene, one of seven hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. A limited edition of seven hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered three hundred and sixty six.Signed by t…

Werner, a Tragedy

Lord Byron · 1823 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, John Murray, 1823 [1822]. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first issue copy of this lesser known tragic play by Lord Byron. The first edition, first issue, without 'The End' or an imprint to page 188.Though dated 1823 to the title page, this work was act…

Everyman

Thomas Derrick · 1930 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London and New York, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this religious story and moral play told through lovely woodcuts by the artist Thomas Derrick. First edition of Everyman by Ernest Rhys in the original publis…

On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts

W. H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood · 1938 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, Random House , 1938. First edition. Cloth. W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's last collaborative play, first US edition in its unclipped dust wrapper. One W. H Auden and Christopher Isherwood's plays written in collaboration. The first US edition, preced…

The House of the Octopus

Charles Williams · 1945 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Edinburgh House Press, 1945. Cloth. A play by Charles Williams, a British poet known for being a member of the Inklings, complete with a dust wrapper. This is a religious play in three acts exploring Christian faith and spirituality.Written by Charles Williams (1886-1945…

Touch & Go

D. H. Lawrence · 1920 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, C. W. Daniel, 1920. Paperback. A superior copy of D. H. Lawrence's play, in its original dust wrapper. This is a rather political play by Lawrence, detailing the struggle between Labour and Capital.David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer and poet, k…

Yes and No, and, for Whom the Bell Chimes

Graham Greene · 1983 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, The Bodley Head, 1983. Cloth. A fine limited edition volume of two plays by Graham Greene, one of seven hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. A limited edition of seven hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered four hundred and sixty five.Signed by the…

Classic literature 1668 I Euripides. Feniciaensche of Gebroeders van Thebe. Treurspel. Amsterdam, for the widower Abraham de Wees, 1668, 63+[1] pp.

Euripides; Vondel, Joost van den (trans.) · 1932 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€54.50 ($60.07 | £45.46 | ¥9,594)

Modern binding, 200 x 160 mm, 4º: A-H#4, 63 [1] pp. Title page with printer’s mark (well) and “Elk zyn beurt” (everyone gets his turn). With sticker on the flyleaf: Geschenk van Dr. W.G.J. van Koeverden aan de bibliotheek van het aartsbisschoppelijk klein seminarie, december 193…