Category: Theatre

Pride and Prejudice. A St James's Theatre programme

By: Austen, Jane (dramatized by Helen Jerome)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Gilbert Miller & Max Gordon : 1937

Seller ID: 019166

Condition: Good

Not dated - c.1937. Small slender octavo, pp [20], including period advertisements, paperback, the upper cprner slightly bruised throughout, otherwise in good condition, the covers with a clear cellophane protection, slight markings from this on the endpapers. [The upper cover is by Rex Whistler, and the whole stage production was designed by him but not illustrated in the programme. SCARCE.
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Image for The Masque Number 2 - Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler; The Masque Number Three - Oscar Wild and the Theatre; Number 5 - The Masque of Christmas

The Masque Number 2 - Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler; The Masque Number Three - Oscar Wild and the Theatre; Number 5 - The Masque of Christmas

By: Beaton, Cecil;Agate, James; Whistler Rex

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, The Curtain Press : 1947

Seller ID: 019199

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Three parts, illustrated, small slender octavo, pp 20; 24, 36, with a subscription slip loosely inserted, paperbacks, the covers a little age-toned.
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The Old Vic King Lear reviewed. [The Masque, A Theatre Notebook Number 1]

By: Brown, Ivor. (edited Lionel Carter)

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Curtain Press Ltd : 1946

Seller ID: 019167

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Slender 12mo, pp 16, illustrated, paperback, a very good copy. [The Old Vic Company at the New Theatre. Laurence Olivier was Lear and Alec Guinness played The Fool, with Margaret leighton as Regan.]
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Fan Fare - a collection of recipes from Friends of Pitlochry Festival Theatre

By: Friends of Pitlochry Festival Theatre (edited by Barbara Liddell]

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Pitlochry, : 1979

Seller ID: 017978

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

First reprint. 12mo, pp vi, 169, an extra recipe ("The Admiral's Tonic") pinned to title page, otherwise just a little used internally, paperback, covers a little worn and rubbed.
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The Blacks - a clown show

By: Genet, Jean

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber : 1960

Seller ID: 010067

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First UK edition. Translated by Bernard Frechtmann, small slim 8vo, pp 96, a very good clean copy, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped, but which is a little age-toned (particularly on the lower cover), very slightly chipped and frayed, and slightly marked on its inner surface. Overall though a rather good copy.
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Songs of Two Savoyards

By: Gilbert, W.S. & Sullivan, Arthur

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd and Chappell and Co. : 1892

Seller ID: 014740

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 268, all edges gilt, a little age-toned internally, but otherwise very clean and tight, pale blue/green cloth with bevelled edges, decorated in gilt and pale mauve, a little dull and marked, head and tail of spine slightly frayed.
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The Schoole of Abuse, and a Short Apologie for the Schoole of Abuse (1579)

By: GOSSON, Stephen

Price: £13.50

Publisher: 35, Wheelys Road, Birmingham, Privately Published ? : 1868

Seller ID: 006383

Binding: Boards

Condition: Fair

Edited by Edward Arber (English Reprints series). Small slim 12mo, pp 80, uncut edges, grey paper-covered boards, rubbed and frayed, joints cracking on the spine, but all still tight and sound. [Stephen Gosson (April 1554 - 13 February 1624) was an English satirist. He was baptized at St George's church, Canterbury, on 17 April 1554. He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1572, and on leaving the university in 1576 he went to London. In 1598 Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia mentions him with Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Abraham Fraunce and others as the "best for pastorall", but n...
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The Autobiography of James Gregson - actor, playwright, broadcaster, journalist.

By: Gregson, James (edited by Barry D. Smith)

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Brighouse, E R Smith Publications : 2011

Seller ID: 009409

ISBN-13: 9780957000100

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xii, 252, clothbound, a very good copy in dustwrapper.
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A Play Which Tells of a Road That Leads to Heaven - Six Dalecarlian Wall-Paintings

By: Lindstrom, Rune

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Stockholm, Svenska Kyrkans Diakonistyrelses Bokforlag : 1955

Seller ID: 009513

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: Good

With illustrations and decorations by the author, printed in red and black, large slim 8vo, pp 100, decorated boards, spine very slightly gae-marked. The boards are a bot bowed, otherwise this is quite a good clean copy in a dustwra;pper which is a little worn and browned. [The play was performed for many years at the outdoor theatre at Leksand. The simple plot comprises - "The young peasants Mats and Marit are about to marry when a disease breaks out in their village. Marit gets accused of being a witch and sentenced to death. After she has been burnt alive Mats leaves the village and seeks ...
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Nobodaddy - A Play

By: Macleish, Archibald

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Dunster House : 1926

Seller ID: 000826

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, Octavvo, pp 67, black decorative cloth with blue title and design on front cover and spine, no dust wrapper, very slight wear and fade to cloth, very slight sunning to uncut edges. This being one of 750 copies only, the title page in blue and green was designed by W.A. Dwiggins. This copy belonged to the late Anthony Huxley and has his signature on the front endpaper. A good copy. [MacLeish, 1892 - 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry.]
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Drama and Society (Themes in Drama Volume 1)

By: Redmond, James

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1979

Seller ID: 009702

ISBN-13: 9780521220767

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations, 8vo, pp xii, 321, very slight age-toning to the pages, otherwise a really excellent copy in a dustwrapper which has the slightest suggestion of fading to the spine and a very tiny crease at its spine head..
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The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The Rivals. St Patrick's Day. The Duenna. The School for Scandal. The Critic. A Trio to Scarborough.

By: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (edited by Iola A. Williams, with an introduction)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited : 1926

Seller ID: 014565

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Small thick octavo, pp 384, a little age-toned, an iscription on the front endpaper, top edge gilt, half morocco, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, three small gilt initials on the upper cover, slightly worn and faded, joints rubbed. [A Mudie bindijng, with their small gilt stamp on the front endpaper.]
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The School for Scandal

By: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (Sir Laurence Olivier - introduction)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society : 1949

Seller ID: 014731

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Nine colour and five plain plates by Cecil Beaton, large octavo, pp 120, a little age-toned, slight foxing (a little heavier on the endpapers), an inscription on the front endpaper, red cloth with gilt decoration, very slightly worn, spine slightly dull.
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The Comic History of the Co-0ptimists

By: Sterne, Ashley & De Bear, Archibald

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins : 1926

Seller ID: 003840

First edition. Well illustrated, small 8vo, pp 128, orange cloth with black lettering, slightly worn and a little marked, the spine is dull and very slightly frayed at the top. [The story of a twenties stage troupe, whose company included Stanley Holloway and Hermione Baddeley.]. Alan Titchmarsh's copy, with his bookplate.
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The Duchess of Malfi

By: Webster, John. (Rylands, George & Williams, Charles - introductory essays)

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Sylvan Press : 1945

Seller ID: 014729

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with line drawings by Michael Ayrton, slim octavo, pp 88, a little foxing and age-toning internally, an inscription on the front endpaper, cloth dull and slightly marked, the spine a little faded and with a suggestion of fraying to the lower joint.
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The Art of Ruth Draper - her dramas and her characters

By: Zabel, Morton Dauwen

Price: £6.20

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 1960

Seller ID: 018907

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 396, extremely clean internally, purple cloth in very good condition, in a price-clipped dustwrapper which is just slightly worn.
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