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The Tempest; with Notes, Examination Papers, and Plan of Preparation

By: Meiklejohn, J.M.D. (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, W. & R. Chambers, Limited: 1897

Seller ID: 002282

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original deep blue-green cloth lettered in black on boards. Minor abrasion and fading to spine, otherwise good plus. 126 pp.
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Chef- D'oeuvres De Moliere; Precedes De Sa Vie et D'une notice De Ses Pieces; Tome Troisieme

By: Moliere

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Lyon, De L'imprimerie D'amable Le Roy: 1791

Seller ID: 004208

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original brown soft cover. Untrimmed edges. Text in French. Plays written between 1657 and 1673, the year Moliere died during the fourth performance of Le Malade Imaginaire. L'e Cole des Maris, Les Precieuses Ridicules, George Dandin ou Le Mari Confondu, Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Sicilien ou L'amour Peintre. All are comedies, the last being a comedie-ballet. No writing or marks. First four leaves starting to split about an inch from head and foot of spine, but all in one piece and easily readable with care. The oldest soft cover we've had ! 304 pp.
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Desperate Stages; New Brunswick's Theatre in the 1840's

By: Mullaly, Edward

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books/ Goose Lane Editions: 1987

Seller ID: 006770

ISBN: 0864920679

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige softcover. A newspaperman, a director, and an actor come together to create real life drama in New Brunswick in the 1840's. 113 pp.
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Shakespeare and the Ordinary Man

By: Murphy, Dr. George H. (M.D.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1939

Seller ID: 011873

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Blue paper boards backed in beige cloth. Dr. Murphy makes the case for reading Shakespeare. First free endpaper missing. Previous owner's name. 41 pp.
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A Star Is Born

By: Nicol, Eric and More, Dave

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1968

Seller ID: 012633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"I arrived in New York as a nobody, but I left it as a complete nonentity."- Prologue. Among several other things, the budding playwright learns to be careful with his stage directions in the script. For example: HARRY: Yes. (NODS HIS HEAD.) The actor does not like this kind of stage direction because he prefers to interpret the word "Yes" himself. 91 pp.
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The Emperor Jones

By: O'Neill, Eugene

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Appleton-Century: 1934

Seller ID: 000070

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

One of the Appleton Modern Plays, with a study guide for the screen version of the play. This is believed to be the first appearance of the study guide. Grey cloth cover shows mildew residue along right edge, and there is a bookplate. Pages are evenly browned. 64 pp.
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The Art of Drama

By: Peacock, Ronald

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1960

Seller ID: 001385

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original bright red cloth on boards. DJ has one short closed tear. Sequel to The Poet in the Theatre. Peacock puts forward a theory of art images and their relation to experience, and then examines characteristic "intertextures" of imagery and language. - DJ. Light foxing and DJ soil. 263 pp. with index.
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It Happened This Way

By: Rand, Rev. Royden Nelson

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Albany, N.Y., Le Vere L. Fuller (Book Club of the Air): 1932

Seller ID: 013288

Binding: Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original light blue paper over boards with pastedown label, backed in dark blue cloth. Wear to corners and edges of cover. Reverend Rand was the very active Baptist pastor who moved from PEI to serve Manlius Baptist Church in New York. After short stints at Fulton and Albany he devoted his full time to broadcasting radio dramas in 1932 on WOKO and WABT, serving as full-time Continuity Director. Some of his radio characters were Father Knickerbocker, the Quick Quiz Conductor, and Santa Claus, among others. He died suddenly in 1937 at the age of 50. 144 pp.
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The Winslow Boy: A Play in Two Acts (Four Scenes)

By: Rattigan, Terence

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dramatists Play Service, Inc.: 1946

Seller ID: 003618

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original pale grey card covers lettered and decorated in black. The plot centres on a student who is expelled from a naval academy before WWI, in London. Notes and questions for students by Enid A. McGregor. Previous owner's name in pencil. 94 pp.
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Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Second

By: Rolfe, William J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1899

Seller ID: 011324

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Maroon cloth on boards. Lettered in gilt. Pp. 128-133 have stains in gutters, not affecting readability. 227 pp. with index.
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The Viola Allen Acting Version of The Winter's Tale

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., McClure, Phillips & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 005538

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blank paper cover with brown wrapper lettered in white. The name "Viola" on the wrapper is rubbed and hard to read. This version was arranged by Frank Vernon and presented by Miss Viola Allen and her company at the Knickerbocker Theatre, Dec. 26, 1904. Wrapper has half-inch tear at foot of spine. Previous owner's name. No other writing or damage.
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Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like It

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, J.B. Dent & Sons: 1923

Seller ID: 011803

Binding: Flexible Leather

Condition: Very Good

Maroon flexible leather covers with ribbon bookmark. Shakespeare's coat-of arms and motto inside front cover. Frontispiece of Shakespeare's birthplace. Preface and Glossary by Israel Gollancz. 143 pp.
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Timon of Athens

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The University Society: 1901

Seller ID: 013312

Binding: 1/4 Leather on Cloth Boards

Condition: Very Good Minus

1/4 red leather over red pebbled cloth on boards. Crest decoration embossed on front cover. Embossed owner's initial on FFEP. Top of leather spine is missing approximately 1/8" of the leather. 146 pp. including Glossary, Notes, and Questions.
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Saint Joan; A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

By: Shaw, Bernard

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Brentano's: 1926

Seller ID: 001118

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green cloth on boards with pastedown spine label. DJ has chilpping all around, and small piece missing on lower right. Nearly 80 pp. Preface, as well as the script. Minor pencil notes on prelims. and P.O.N., OW very good. 163 pp.
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In Good King Charles's Golden Days; A History Lesson

By: Shaw, Bernard

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Constable and Company, Ltd.: 1939

Seller ID: 006895

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original illustrated tan paper boards. Set in the library of Isaac Newton's home in Cambridge in 1680. Newton takes part at age 38, with other eminent figures of history, including George Fox, the Quaker cleric, and several representatives from royalty. First presented at the Malvern Festifal in August, 1939. 120 pp. No writing or damage.
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Mr. Punch

By: Stead, Philip John

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Evans Brothers Limited: 1950

Seller ID: 011849

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Maroon cloth on boards. DJ nearly complete, with small edge chips. Inscribed to J.B. Bishop and signed. Everybody knows Punch, according to this author, who traces him from Italy to France, and finally, to England. The lighthearted text reads rapidly. Included is the libretto of Punch's Opera. 165 pp.
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Atalanta in Calydon; A Tragedy

By: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1866

Seller ID: 001382

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth with gilt decoration on bevelled boards. No DJ. Grecian urn in gilt on front, blind-stamped on back. Lightly bowed. A beautiful little book with a very interesting provenance! Previous owner's name, F.G. Fessenden, New York, Nov. 12th/65(sic). Presentation bookplate from Mrs. J.D. Fessenden, 1895, to Poland Spring Library. Partially superimposed is a bookplate of Poland Spring Library, Main State Building, South Poland, Maine, issued by Hiram Ricker and Sons, Inc. How many people in Poland Spring know that this building was an exhibit at the 1893 World's Fair in Ch...
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The Tinker's Wedding and Other Plays(Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen)

By: Synge. John M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Dublin, Maunsel and Company Limited: 1912

Seller ID: 001481

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original half-vellum on brown boards, gilt lettering. No DJ. 112 pp. plus critiques and ads. Untrimmed edges. Both endpapers age-toned, OW very good. Synge is credited with founding the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1904.
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Phormio (Pitt Press Series)

By: Terenti, P.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cambridge University Press: 1914

Seller ID: 007695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original grey cloth on boards. Edited by John Sargeaunt. Preface and Introduction in English. Text in Latin. Preface, Introduction, Text, Table of Metres, Notes, Vocabulary, Index. 98 pp. plus catalog. Liberally notated and underlined. Previous owner's name.
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Complete Works of Voltaire; 50-1760-1

By: Voltaire

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Voltaire Foundation; Taylor Institution: 1986

Seller ID: 010709

ISBN: 0-7294-0334-3

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

White (blank) softcover. Part of the Complete Works. French and English. 542 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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