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Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. terracotta cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 152 pages. Illustrated. List of Titles. Chronological List. 347 entries; the present compilation is based primarily upon the Wegelin list and the Atkinson catalogue, and purports to be the first bibliography in print of the plays written and published between 1714 and 1830 by: [1] American authors; [2] foreign authors living in America; and [3] American authors living abroad.
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American Plays Printed 1714-1830 A Bibliographical Record
by Hill, Frank Pierce (Compiler)
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The Apostle A Drama In A Prelude And Three Acts
by Moore, George
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London: William Heinemann, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. half vellum, and gray boards. Near fine in very good dust wrapper with paper spine label, latter toned.. 125 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 738 of 1030 printed from hand-set type on Van Gelder paper, signed by George Moore. Fresh, clean copy, partly unopened, book-label.
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Ayuli A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue
by Binyon, Laurence
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Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1923. Hardcover. Orig. decorated paper over boards. Very good. 103 pages. 19 x 13 cm. The British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama, N0.5. Clean copy.
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The Beggar's Opera. Written by Mr. Gay; To Which is Prefixed the Musick to each Song
by Fraser, Claud Lovat (Illustrator)
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London: William Heinemann, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. 93 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 40 of 430, printed on hand-made paper (350 copies for UK and 50 for USA). Full page, tipped-in color portraits with tissue guards of all the characters in the play. Laid-in, the original Programme of the play presented at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on June 5th, 1930 at 8.15. Fraser died in 1924 at the age of thirty-one at the height of a brilliant career. Tiny owner inscription pastedown front endpaper. Front cover slightly abraded.
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The Book Of The Rhymers' Club
by Yeats, William Butler
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London: Elkin Mathews, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mustard cloth. Very good. 94 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, one of 450 copies. John Quinn's bookplate front cover paste-down. Original contributions by Yeats (6 poems), Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, and other Rhymer's Club members. Purportedly, Yeats proposed this collection because "I wanted to have copies of Dowsons poems. He had read them to us at the Cheshire Chease." WADE 291. Laid-in a play bill from the Grand Opera House, Chicago (33 x 12.5 cm) for "Final Performances The Irish Players from the Abbey Theater, Dublin dated March 12, 1912. Five plays noted, three by Lady Gregory, one each by Yeats and Doyle with complete casts for each. Crease to front and back covers, backstrip extremities worn, spine paper label faded.
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Bye-Bye Brevoort; A Skit
by Welty, Eudora
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Jackson, Mississippi: Palaemon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter black morocco and dark blue/gray boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. 20 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy F of 50 signed in blue ink by Eudora Welty. The title was produced as part of the Off-Broadway production, "the Little Revue," which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City, 22 May 1956. Title page printed in red and black as are the contents.
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Bye-Bye Brevoort; A Skit
by Welty, Eudora
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Jackson, Mississippi: Palaemon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards, front cover paper label printed in black and red. Fine. 20 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 signed by Eudora Welty. The title was produced as part of the Off-Broadway production, "the Little Revue," which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City, 22 May 1956. Title page printed in red and black as are the contents.
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The Celtic Twilight. Men And Women, Ghouls And Faeries
by Yeats, William Butler
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London: Lawrence And Bullen, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, backstrip evenly faded to brown. Very good. 212 pages. 17 x 10 cm. Frontispiece by Jack Yeats, adverts leaf and half title. Publisher's name all in caps at bottom of spine. WADE 8. Owner inscription free front endpaper dated Xmas 1893, back cover decoration in blind. Backstrip worn head and foot with slight loss.
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The Cocktail Party a comedy
by Eliot, T.S.
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London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine in nicked and spine darkened dust wrapper. 168 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Appendix: music and original cast. 10. 6d. price noted on dust wrapper. This edition published one year later than the play's performance at the Edinburgh Festival of 1949. Slight loss at dust wrapper head.
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The Coming of Gabrielle A Comedy
by Moore, George
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London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only, 1920. First edition. Boards. Half vellum and gray boards, slight darkening to spine else fine in very good gray cloth dust wrapper with paper spine label.. 146 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 606 of 1000 signed by the author. Very fresh, crisp copy. Three by one centimeter Book-label front cover paste-down.
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The Confidential Clerk
by Eliot, T.S.
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London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very good in nicked and spine darkened dust wrapper. 136 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 10. 6d. price noted on dust wrapper. Last page with The Cast of the First Production at the Edinburgh Festival, 1953. Owner inscription free endpaper dated 1954.
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The Countess Kathleen And Various Legends and Lyrics; Cameo Series
by Yeats, William Butler
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green boards and quarter parchment, yapp edges. Teg. Very good in fine folding chemise and green morocco backed slipcase backstrip evenly faded to brown. 141 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece by T.J. Nettleship. The present volume represents Yeats's second collection of poetry. In addition the play The Countess Kathleen, the collection includes some of Yeats' finest early lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," and "The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland." The work is dedicated to his long-time love, Maud Gonne, and many of the poems reflect Yeats's burgeoning interests in alchemy and esotericism. WADE 6: "500 copies were published in September 1892." Front and back free endpapers toned, owner inscription front free and quotation from Sir Philip Sydney, "An Apology for Poetry." Backstrip toned.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
by Rostand, Edmond
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. Orig. rust colored linen front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Fine in nicked brown slipcase with paper spine label. 199 pages. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated with twelve water colors (collotype process) by Sylvan Savage. Limited edition, copy 405 of 1500. Signed by Savage. The English version by Brian Hooker, with a new introduction by him. Laid-in and dated August 10, 1936 the LC advance notice card. Bookplate. Fresh, bright copy.
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Death Of A Salesman; Certain Private Conversations In Two Acts And A Requiem
by Miller, Arthur
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984. leather_bound. Full brown Nigerian goatskin. Fine in fine brown slipcase. Leonard Baskin. 176 pages. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Foreword by the author. Designed by Benjamin Shiff, illustrated with five etchings by Leonard Baskin, curiously at the time, same age, 63 as Willy Loman, printed at the Wild Carrot Press on Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper, the leather binding by Gray Parrot. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 1500 signed by Baskin and Miller. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. Also laid-in a copy of the New York Time "Style," of Friday, November 30, 1984 article of a party held at the Algonquin Hotel celebrating the publication. Among the guests: Raphael Soyer, Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon, Stephen Spender and Miller. NEWMAN & WICHE 540. Bright, very fresh copy.
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Doctor Johnson A Play
by Newton, A. Edward
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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Two-toned crimson boards and blue/green cloth, paper spine and front cover labels. Very good. 120 pages. 22.5 x 16 cm. Frontispiece, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Bookplate.
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The Duke of Sacramento A Comedy in Four Acts
by Baer, Warren
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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. Hardcover. Fleur-de-lis blue boards and tan cloth. Very good. 77 pages. 24 X 16 cm. Sketch by Jane Bissell and color illustrations by Arvilla Parker. Reprinted from the edition of 1856. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, with original Grabhorn announcement laid-in. Free endpapers toned. GRABHORN 212.
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The Dutch Courtesan
by Marston, John
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Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Peter Davison. The Fountainwell Drama Texts Series. Critical Introduction. Textual Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Having collected all extant copies of the 1605 quartos, Davison believes this to be the definitive text of the play.
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Early London Theatres [In The Fields]
by Ordish, T. Fairman
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London: Eliot Stock, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter red morocco and black cloth. Very good. 298 pages. Royal 8vo, 24 x 19 cm. Eighteen black and white illustrations (three are folding). Large-paper copy in the Camden Library Series. A history of Elizabethan theatres (according to the author's criterium, theatres in existence in 1596) established outside the limits of the cities. Index. Few small scuffs to the spine, paint spot on rear cover.
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The First Tome Of The Palace of Pleasure, Beautified, Adorned, And Well Furnished With Pleasant Histories And Excellent Novels. Very requisite for Delight and Profit; From the Edition printed by Thomas Marsh, 1575. Edited By Joseph Haslewood
by Painter, William
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London: Robert Triphook, 1813. Hardcover. Contemporary half calf, blue cloth decorated in blind in raised floral motif, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. 2 vols. Very good. 492, 700 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm, First modern edition, and first reprint since 1580, and the best edition of this important source book for Shakespeare (amongst others), printed from the early editions. These early tragedies herein adumbrate a large portion of the Elizabethan drama. Haslewood has added some biographical notes, including collations of all the early editions, and notes on the variations of the text. Painter, clerk of Queen Elizabeth's Ordinance compiled the collection of stories, and like others amassed a personal fortune through embezzlement, endemic in the Elizabethan civil service. An austerely, wide margined but finely printed work. Book labels, very clean and fresh internally, slight toning first few endpapers Vol.I, modest extremity rubbing, tight binding, raised bands gilt decorated.
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The Ghost Plays Of Japan
by Beck, L. Adams
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New York: Japan Society, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white boards, front cover paper label with gilt border. Fine. 35 (3) pages. 32 x 21 cm. 1000 copies printed for the Japan Society. Tipped in and full page plates in color, printed in red and black. An attempt to introduce No Plays to a Western audience. Very bright, fresh copy.
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