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Isaiah & Wisdom.

WHEDBEE, J.WILLIAM. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Nashville: Abingdon,1971. 1st ed. Whedbee "..analyzes those Isaianic speeches which are representative of different types of prophetic discourse, i.e,the parable, proverb, related didactic forms, woe oracles, and Isaiah's use of the term "counsel". By applying form criticism, Dr…

Prayers for Sundays. According to the Themes of the Alternative Service Book 1980.

COUNSELL, MICHAEL. (EDITOR). · 1994 · Chilton Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,216)

London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. 0005993520. 1st ed. "Counsell's book will start a new fashion, and will be popular not just with the clergy, but with many lay folk who now have to conduct the Intercessions at the Eucharist, or play a major part in the conducting of Famil…

Luther; After the Fall

Arthur Miller; John Osborne · 1961 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Secker and Warburg; Faber and Faber , 1961-1964. First edition. Cloth. A lovely pair of first edition plays by Arthur Miller and John Osborne, complete with their bright unclipped dust wrappers. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's unclipped dust wr…

Exposé de la conduite et des torts du sieur Talma, envers les Comédiens Français

[Delaporte] · 1790 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

Imprimerie de Prault | Paris 1790 | 13.8 x 21.6 cm | Relié | Edition originale publiée anonymement par Delaporte, secrétaire-souffleur de la Comédie-Française. Reliure à la bradel en toile noire, dos lisse, pièce de titre de chagrin rouge comportant des manques, plats de papier …

Les machabées, tragédie. Dédiée au roi

Antoine Houdar de LA MOTTE · 1722 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

Chez Grégoire Dupuis | Paris 1722 | 11 x 16.50 cm | relié | Edition originale de cette pièce, qui est suivie par Romulus, dont l'originale est de 1713. La seconde pièce possède sa propre page de titre et son privilège. Les deux pièces appartiennent à la même édition. Reliure en …

Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game.

Gerard-Jan Claes / Stéphane Symons · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

, Leuven University Press, 2023 Paperback, 176 pages 23x17cm Illustrated, full colour. fine!. ISBN 9789462703841. In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the first instalment of Children?s Games, a series of works by art…

E. Forrest As Metamora (the Wampanoag Indian). First Edition of the Lithograph.

Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888); Edwin Forrest (subject) · 1819 · Wittenborn Art Books

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.80 | ¥59,890)

New York: N. Currier, 1819. Handcolored lithograph. 38 x 25cm. sheet size. Time stained. Ref: Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, circa 1983, no. 1819; RUD-024. : Similar to Conn. 1644, but with changes in composition..…

Painlevé transcendents. The Riemann-Hilbert approach.

Fokas,Athanassios S., a.o. · 2006 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,682)

Providence, American Mathematical Society, [2006]. XII,553 pp. B./w. ills. Softcover. (Mathematical surveys and monographs, 128).At the turn of the twentieth century, the French mathematician Paul Painleve and his students classified second order nonlinear ordinary differential …

Euripides. Iphigenie in Aulis. Band 1. Einleitung und Text. Band 2. Detailkommentar.

STOCKERT, W., · 1992 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 1992. 2 vols. 152,153-654p. Sewn. Card board cover. Ex libris William Slater / Katherine Dunbabin glued to inside front cover. Vol.1: Upper corner front cover and first pages a bit bumped, pencil annotations in Dutch…

The Veteran: or, The Farmer's Sons: A Comic Opera. In Three Acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, with the the most distinguished applause.

KNIGHT (Edward): · 1822 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London: Printed by W. Glindon, Rupert Street, Haymarket. 1822. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Tall 8vo, 119 x 1133 mms., pp. [v] vi -vii [viii Dramatis Personae], [9] - 68, with a playbill, 333 x 122 mms., printed in black and white, tipped in before the text,contemporary half calf,…

The Oxford Shakespeare. Othello The Moor of Venice

Shakespeare, William · 2008 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Oxford University Press, 2008 Paperback. 491 pages. Text in English. As new. The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers…

Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice an Historical Tragedy in Five Acts with Notes the Prophecy of Dante, a Poem

Lord Byron · 1821 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, John Murray, 1821. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this play and poem by Lord Byron. The first edition of this work.Bound by Bayntun's of Bath.First impression, with Doge's speech on p.151 five and a half lines long.The play is set in Venice in 1355.…

Shadow Entertainments and How to Work Them, Being Something About Shadows, and the Way to Make Them Profitable and Funny.

A. Patterson · 1895 · Rooke Books

£2,900.00 (€3,476.61 | $3,831.95 | ¥611,986)

London, L. Upcott Gill, [1895] . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of this charming illustrated guide to shadow play, revealing how to create comic and crowd-pleasing entertainments with simple means. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.Â…

Journey&Apos;S End

R. C. Sherriff; Vernon Barlett · 1930 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1930. Vellum. A signed limited edition novel by R. C. Sherriff and Vernon Bartlett, set during the end of the First World War. A limited edition work, limited to six-hundred copies, of which this is numbered five-hundred and twenty-five.Signed by bot…

The Playmaker

Thomas Keneally · 1987 · Rooke Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1987. First edition. Cloth. First edition of the historical novel about the first play to ever be performed in Australia Written by Thomas Keneally, the writer of 'Schindler's Ark' (upon which the award winning 'Schindler's …

The Green Helmet, a Heroic Farce

W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, 1911 . First edition. Paperback. An attractive example of the first theatre edition of W. B. Yeats's entertaining short play in which three Irish heroes complete for the titular 'Green Helmet&apos. The 'first theatre ed…

Faust

Johann Wolfgang Goethe; Abraham Hayward [translator] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1908. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated copy of this translation of Goethe's tragic play Faust. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen colour plates. Collated complete. Considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and one of the gre…

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Stanley Revell [foreword]; T. S. Eliot · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford , Perpetua Press, 1988. Paperback. A limited reprinting of T. S. Eliot's preface to Charles Claye's play 'The Merry Masque', a nearly unknown piece of his writing. A limited edition of one hundred and fifty numbered copies, this copy being number 90. …

To Quito and Back

Ben Hecht · 1937 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

New York, Covici Friede, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Ben Hecht's drama about a South American political uprising, in the vibrant original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Ben …

The Commissary. A Comedy in Three Acts. As It Is Performed at the Theatre in the Hay-Market

Samuel Foote Esq. · 1765 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, P. Vaillant, 1765. Disbound. A second edition copy of Samuel Foote's comedic play, The Commissary. The eighteenth century thespian played the drama's central character Zachary Fungus in the opening performances at the Hay-Market Theatre. A second edition of Sam…