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1) Polyeucte: tragedie en cinq actes, en vers
Corneille, P. (edited by Gustave Masson)

Hachette, London, 1941. New edition. Paper covers. Good /No Jacket. Good, cover soiled, owner's signature, pencil notes in text. vi, 77, (10) pp. more information

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2) Murder in the Cathedral
Eliot, T.S

Murder in the Cathedral
Faber and Faber, 1946. 3rd edition, 11th impression. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. V.g./v.g. (jacket soiled, with a few sm. edge tears), owner's signature, eps browned. Becket meets his doom. 88 pp. more information

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3) The complete plays of Ben Jonson
Jonson, Ben

The complete plays of Ben Jonson
J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940. 2 vols. Reprint, first published in 1910; Everyman's Library no. 489. Hard covers, no wrapper. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., vol. 1 with sl. shelf-wear. Owners' signatures. Vol. 1: xxvii, 642, 16 pp. more information

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4) Tamburlaine the Great; Doctor Faustus; the Jew of Malta; Edward the Second
Marlowe, Christopher (edited by Havelock Ellis, introduction by J.A. Symonds)

Tamburlaine the Great; Doctor Faustus; the Jew of Malta; Edward the Second
Ernest Benn Ltd, 1947. The Mermaid Series. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. V.g./v.g., extremities of wrapper sl. frayed, owner's signature. lxviii, 430 pp. more information

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5) Le Misanthrope: comedie en cinq actes; with a life of Moliere by G.E. Fasnacht
Moliere, J. B. Poquelin de

Macmillan & Co, 1925. reprint of 1890 2nd ediiton. Hard covers, brown paper jacket. Good /Fair. Good, owner's signature, some pencil notes in text.xxi, 116, (4) pp. more information

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6) Stand for my father: an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
Rudman, Michael (artistic director)

Stand for my father: an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh, 1970. Theatre programme. Paper covers. Good /No Jacket. Stain on front cover, staples rusty. A rare programme from the golden age of The Traverse, with a strong cast (Nigel Hawthorne, Tim Preece, Paul Freeman, Roland Oliver) most of whom played at least three parts - six in the case of Tim Preece. Directed by Michael Rudman, the script was by Francis Coleridge and John Hudson. 4 pp. plus advertisements inside covers. more information

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7) Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare, William; edited by A.E. Morgan and W. Sherard Vines

Blackie & Son, n.d. (c. 1943). The Warwick Shakespeare. Hard covers, no wrapper. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., owner's signatures; 227, iv pp. (the latter on pale blue paper) more information

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8) The complete plays of Bernard Shaw
Shaw, Bernard

Odhams Press Ltd, 1934. Hard covers, no wrapper. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., donor's inscription, some pages folded at tips of corners; plum-coloured boards with impressed design (bust of Shaw), preface headed 'A warning from the author' (pages v-vi). Contains all 42 plays. vii, 1219 pp. more information

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9) The pleasure of his company [programme]
Taylor, Samuel

The Opera House, Manchester; Messrs Howard & Wyndham Ltd, 1959. Staple bound. Paper covers. Good /No Jacket. 6d seal (broken) on fore-edge; corners creased, cover sl. soiled, but internally well preserved. Rare example of a theatre programme from Manchester's Opera House, featuring an early comedy appearance by the Manchester-born actor Bert Kwouk (villain's servant in two Bond films, and Inspector Clouseau's servant Cato in the Pink Panther films). The play, set in San Francisco, was directed by Nigel Patrick, who also played the lead role of Biddeford Poole. 12 pp. more information

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