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The White Devil (Chandler Editions in Drama).

Webster, John, introduction by Travis Bogard, · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

San Francisco, CA, Chandler Pub Co, (1961). VG PB. Chandler centered the destinies of his characters around the lives of two protagonists, Victoria and Flamineo. The woman's story is one of high passion and considering that Victoria is to be played by a boy of marked sexual capa…

The Astrologer's Handbook

PARKER, JULIA · 1997 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£6.68 (€8.01 | $8.83 | ¥1,410)

Chancellor Press. 1997. (ISBN: 9781851522965). Paperback. Paperback in good condition, minor creasing to cover. 1997 reprint Chancellor Press. This reference guide to astrology shows readers how to practice astrology and use it in daily life, recognizing the key characteristics …

Basketball Techniques and Tactics

THOMAS, VAUGHAN · 1972 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Faber and Faber. 1972. Hardcover. Hardback with D/J in good condition. Some dust stains to page edges. 1st page with year information missing. D/J shows price of 4.50 originally to buy new. With numerous line drawings, diagrams, and photographs of actual game situations. From d/…

Life of a Drum

GEBLER, CARLO · 1991 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£20.04 (€24.02 | $26.48 | ¥4,229)

Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1991. (ISBN: 9780241130742). Hardcover. A woman's life dramatically changes when she marries a refugee on a whim. Years later she is told he has died a sudden heart-attack. This is a novel about life in England in the 50s, seen through the eyes of a Hungaria…

Bridge : Card by Card

REESE, TERENCE AND SCHAPIRO, BORIS · 1969 · Godley Books

£6.25 (€7.49 | $8.26 | ¥1,319)

London, Hamlyn. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0600003574) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.25 inches. Ill.: Michael Holford. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not pric…

King of Soccer

CHARLES, JOHN · 1957 · Godley Books

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,849)

London, Stanley Paul. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, light foxing to page edges and very minor bumping to upper rear corner and spi…

Scévole. Tragédie. Par Mr. Du Ryer.

DU RYER, Pierre. · 1644 · Jack Baldwin - Rare Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

[France: 17--] Half title only. Part of Tome III of a collected edition, probably 18th century. 12mo. Paginated: [1], 466-575p. Quires signed: Qq5-8, Rr-Bbb in alternate 4s and 8s. Limp parchment covers (a fragment of a 17th-century legal document); manuscript spine title. Owne…

Race: What Can the Churches Do?

JOHNSON, KEITH. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Epworth Press,1979. For The People In The Pew series. "aims to show that the presence of black and brown people here is not to be feared or resented. The churches and Christians, especially at the local level, have a role to play in educating themselves and those around …

Cyclops. Edited by R. Hunter and R. Laemmle.

EURIPIDES, · 2020 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€37.50 ($41.33 | £31.28 | ¥6,601)

Cambridge University Press, 2020. XII,268p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. ‘Once dismissed as the uninspired product of an ‘overworked  playwright’, or paid scant regard in numerous studies of Greek theatre for much of the last century, Euripides’ Cyclop…

Marie Stuart, Tragedie (en cinq actes)

(Pierre-Antoine Lebrun) · 1820 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£86.00 (€103.10 | $113.64 | ¥18,149)

not given, not stated (Paris), 1820. Second Edition. 2e edit. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. This volume is bound in half-leather with marbled boards. The volume includes a limited title-page, probably the half-title giving the title and 2e edit. with the original cas…

Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems

Barbarina Brand · 1821 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of Barbarina Brand's privately printed poetry and play anthology, a lovely work showing her intellectual accomplishments. The first edition of this work. This work was privately printed.A very s…

Geography of Abbe Gaultier

Abbé Aloïsius Édouard Camille Gaultier; Adolphe Jacques Quetelet · 1844 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Brussels, La Societe Nationale, 1844 . Cloth. The sixteenth edition of this little French book of geography by Abbé Gaultier with maps, games, and questions to teach geography through play rather than memorisation, with two fold-out plates. The sixteenth edition in the publishe…

Letters to George the Account of a Rehearsal

Max Stafford-Clark · 1989 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London , Nick Hern Books, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this insight into director, Max Stafford-Clark's working methods, with two loosely inserted letters. The first edition, first impression of the work. Presentation copy, signed by the author to t…

The Great Magoo

Ben Hecht; Gene Fowler · 1933 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

New York, Covici-Friede, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart, dust-wrapper-clad first edition of Hecht and Fowler's notoriously unsuccessful play, with colour illustrations by Herman Rosse. First edition.   In the publisher's original black cloth binding, encased in t…

Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas · 1957 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, J.M. Dent and Sons, 1957. Cloth. An uncommon limited edition for the Readers Union of a radio drama commissioned by the BBC and written by prolific Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas. A scarce limited edition of Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices, written by distinguishe…

Misalliance and Androcles and the Lion

Bernard Shaw · 1914 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Constable and Company LTD, 1914-23. First edition. Cloth. Two smart volumes containing six popular plays of the leading Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, uncommon to see in early dust wrappers. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Two volumes of George Bernard Sha…

Follow the Dream

Florence Ryerson; Alice D. G. Miller · 1951 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

New York, Samuel French, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Florence Ryerson and Alice D. G. Miller's charming and humorous play about a young woman's divided heart. The first edition, first impression of this vanishingly scarce work. In the …

In Arcadia

W. Macneile Dixon [William Macneile Dixon] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Blackie and Son Limited, 1933. First edition. Hardback. The signed first edition of In Arcadia, a curious poetic anthology written by scholar William Macneile Dixon, including a play on Thomas Rhymer. The signed first edition of In Arcadia, a poetic anthology written by …

A Sammelband of Eighteenth Century Works: The Distrest Mother, a Tragedy; the Funeral: Or, Grief a-la-Mode; the Grave; the Loves of Hero and Leander; Fair Circassian

Mr. Phillips; Sir Richard Steele; Robert Blair; Mr. Sterling · 1700 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.60 | $455.87 | ¥72,805)

London; Glasgow; Edinburgh, Tonson; Foulis; Gray; Walthoe, 1700-1800 . Leather. A charming sammelband consisting of five very scarce eighteenth century editions of literary works, including poetry and plays. Present in this volume are:The 1754 edition of the play 'The Distr…

Games for Family Parties and Children

Mrs. Valentine · 1814 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1870. First edition. Cloth. An amusing first edition collection of games for children and their families to play at gatherings, published in the late nineteenth century and written by Mrs. Valentine. First Edition.In the publisher's original…