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New York: Scribner’s, 1940. First Edition. A scarce book, of which only 1174 copies were printed. Front endpapers browned from a formerly laid in newspaper clipping, else near fine in a dust jacket with minor browning and spotting.
[A collection of almost all the plays, over half in first editions; also the major poetry and translations] by Vondel, Joost van den
by Vondel, Joost van den
[A collection of almost all the plays, over half in first editions; also the major poetry and translations]
by Vondel, Joost van den
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Vondel, Joost van den (17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) Dutch playwright, poet translator. A collection of almost all the plays, over half in first editions; also the major poetry and translations. 48 separate works bound in 12 vols, quarto. 11 in uniform contemporary vellum, 1 in modern gray wrappers. Mostly published by Abraham De Wees (1639- 1696).
All the important the plays are collected here including Lucifer (1654)* (said to have influenced John Milton), Jeptha (1659)** (his "theatrical compass"), Adam in Ballingschap (1654), Leewendalers (a glorification of the Peace of Münster, called the most perfect drama our poet has left us.) Included are Vondel's translations of Euripides' Feniciaensche van Thebes [Phoenician Women] (1668) and Sophocles' Herkules in Trachin (The Trachiniae) (1668). Vondel's translations of the works of Ovide are collected (1671), as are his translations of Virgil in two editions (in prose, De Wees, 1646 and in verse, Visser, de Coup, et. al. after De Wees plates, 1696). Finally, there are two volumes of his collected poetry (Leonard Strik, 1683) and a number of his beautiful religious poems, including the alte Geheimenissen [Mysteries of the Altar] and Brieven der Helige Maeghden (1687).
All the works are published in quarto, most by Abraham de Wees, or, after he died, his wife Joannes de Wees with the distinctive title page engraving of bucket hanging above a well. Several of the works are illustrated with etchings by important Dutch painters and engravers: Cornelius Galle, Jan van Luykens, Abraham Bloteling (Blooteling), and others.
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All the important the plays are collected here including Lucifer (1654)* (said to have influenced John Milton), Jeptha (1659)** (his "theatrical compass"), Adam in Ballingschap (1654), Leewendalers (a glorification of the Peace of Münster, called the most perfect drama our poet has left us.) Included are Vondel's translations of Euripides' Feniciaensche van Thebes [Phoenician Women] (1668) and Sophocles' Herkules in Trachin (The Trachiniae) (1668). Vondel's translations of the works of Ovide are collected (1671), as are his translations of Virgil in two editions (in prose, De Wees, 1646 and in verse, Visser, de Coup, et. al. after De Wees plates, 1696). Finally, there are two volumes of his collected poetry (Leonard Strik, 1683) and a number of his beautiful religious poems, including the alte Geheimenissen [Mysteries of the Altar] and Brieven der Helige Maeghden (1687).
All the works are published in quarto, most by Abraham de Wees, or, after he died, his wife Joannes de Wees with the distinctive title page engraving of bucket hanging above a well. Several of the works are illustrated with etchings by important Dutch painters and engravers: Cornelius Galle, Jan van Luykens, Abraham Bloteling (Blooteling), and others.
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The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts
by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
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Porgy: A play in four acts
by HEYWARD, Dorothy and HEYWARD, Du Bose
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London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12…
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Commedie.
by ROSSI, Gio Gherardo de
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1790 1ed Comedies of Gherardo Rossi Italian Theater Plays Bassano 4v BINDINGGiovanni Gherardo de Rossi was an 18th-century Italian poet and playwright best known for his 16 comedies. These works were published in a fine, four-volume set printed in Bassano – a beautiful example of late 18th-century Italian theater!
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ROSSI, Gio Gherardo de
Commedie.
Bassano, 1790. First edition.
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by DREISER, Theodore
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London: Constable, 1930. Hardback. Very Good. Uniform English Edition". 8vo, pp. [vi], [390], [2]. Fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bumped, bands of sunning to top and bottom edges. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, review clipping laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original muted brown paper dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned and creased, head of spine frayed, wear to extremities. Still, a pleasing copy. Very good/ very good. Unusual in the trade. Originally published in 1916 by John Lane in New York and London, Constable's new edition featured an additional four plays, 'Phantasmagoria,' 'The Court of Progress,' 'The Dream' and 'The Hand of the Potter'. The laid in review draws attention to the cinematic facets of the playwright's work: "Mr. Theodore Dreiser's collection of plays is a reminder of the films' continuous and increasing influence upon the theatre. This influence is neither wholly good nor wholly bad; its effect depends upon the innate quality of…
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Les tragedies de Robert Garnier, conseiller dv roy, lieutenant general criminel au siege presidial & seneschaussee du Maine
by GARNIER, Robert
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1616 Robert Garnier Tragedies French Theater Plays Ancient ROME Brutus PorciaRobert Garnier was a 16th-century French poet who is best-known for his collection of tragic plays. These tragedies, however, did not necessarily resemble of the tragic play of classical literature – they were much shorter and featured long monologue speeches followed by melodic chorus sections rather than more traditional back-and-forth dialogue.
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Les tragedies de Robert Garnier, conseiller dv roy, lieutenant general criminel au siege presidial & seneschaussee du Maine
Roven: Raphaël du petit Val, 1616
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The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts
by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
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New York: Scribner’s, 1940. First Edition. A scarce book, of which only 1174 copies were printed. Front endpapers browned from a formerly laid in newspaper clipping, else near fine in a dust jacket with minor browning and spotting.
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Ziegfeld (Signed Association Copy)
by Higham, Charles
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Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1972; First Edition; 8vo, 245 pages; photo Illustrated. Biography of America’s greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld, creator of the famed "Ziegfeld’s Follies." Inscribed and signed on the f.f.e.p. by Matilda "Goldie" Golden, Ziegfeld’s indispensable private secretary, who entered his employ in 1923 and assumed immense importance in his life, as confidante and keeper of secrets of the Ziegfeld Empire. Very Good, in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean, crisp, and bright.
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1937 DIXIE CUP "SCRAPBOOK OF PHOTO STARS" PREMIUMS (23 OF 24)
by Dixie-Vortex Company
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Chicago: Dixie-Vortex Company. Very Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. These DIXIE CUP PREMIUMS were given to a patron when they had 12 collectible ice cream lids with miniature photos of stars. After collecting the 12 needed lids required to trade for one photo, most children decided it was better to keep all 12 lids rather than trade them for one photo therefore increasing the high collectibility and scarceness of the premiums. A series of 24 different stars were published for each year along with a special cover. I These full-color large-format premiums feature beautiful artwork and rich color printed on heavy card stock paper. Each premium was designed with a color stripe & two holes along the left edge for easy binding in a scrapbook. Each year the color of the stripe & the lettering changed; thus, although undated, each year's issue is distinctive. The reverse of each 8 x 10-inch premium features 1-black-and-white stills from the star's recent films along with a…
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British Theatrical Gallery: A Collection of Whole Length Portraits with Biographical Notices
by Daniel Terry
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Title page, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates with corresponding pages of explanatory text. Twenty fine hand-coloured engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and actresses after paintings by Harlow, Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others.Actors include Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, ballerinas Mlle. Lisa Noblet and Mlle. Felicite Hullin, ballet dancer Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, Henry Gattie and Mme. Maria Theresa Bland in the farce Monsieur Tonson, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, Charles Young, etc.Daniel Terry (1780-1829) was an English actor and friend of Sir Walter Scott, many of whose novels he adapted for the stage.Condition: Half honey-coloured leather binding with five raised bands, gilt leather title label, marbled boards. Interior clean and bright with fine hand-colouring, slight discoloration to title page.
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Galerie Dramatique: Vols. 1-4: Costumes des Theatres de Paris
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Collection of 277 hand-coloured lithographic portraits of French actors and actresses from the first 4 volumes of this rare series.No title page or prelims, mostly disbound plates loosely inserted within original bindings for Vol. 1 and 2, plate numbers from 1 to 392.Portraits of actors, actresses, dancers and opera singers by Alexandre Lacauchie and Victor Dollet, lithographed by Jules Rigo, Decan, Lebref.Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.Condition: Red leather bindings with fine gilt decoration on spines and boards, water damaged but holding, acting as portfolio for the loose plates. Plates with some damp-staining to lower edge, mostly outside the image, toning and spotting. Most plates disbound but all with vibrant fine hand coloring and gum arabic high lighting. Sold as a collection of plates.Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois Victor Dollet (1815-??) was a French painter, lithographer and printmaker.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection)
by Christie, Agatha
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."
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Another Part of the Forest
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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[Order Form for Henry Vaughan's Sacred Poems]
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London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).
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Dr. Johnson: A Play
by Newton, A. (Alfred) Edward, 1864- 1940
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Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press 1923. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press [Updike, Merrymount] 1923. Hard Cover. Signed. xvii, 120 pages, plates; 23 cm. "Of the five hundred and eighty-five copies of this Hand-made Paper Edition, this is copy number 18", signed by the author. Bound in decorated paper with green linen spine & paper spine label. Updike, Merrymount Press Bibliography 586. Stock#OB145. VG.
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The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Thais (Universal Library)
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Anatole France. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library Edition. No date or statement on copyright page. Circa 1929. USED. VERY GOOD/GOOD ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Dust jacket has a bit of loss at top of spine. Glossy black boards with silver, green and black titling and ornamentation. Lime green endpapers. No frontispiece or any other photos appear in this edition. 5 7/8 X 8 ½. 154 pages. "Thais is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the 1890 novel "Thais" by Anatole France, a story of forbidden love. Cinema, Film History. Silent Film Era.
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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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Old Theatre Days & Ways
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W.J. Lawrence. Old Theatre Days & Ways. First published 1935 by George Harrap & Co. Ltd., London. ANGLOPHILIA. THEATRE HISTORY. PERFORMING ARTS. BRITISH HISTORY. ISBN 9781131731827. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 256 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8. This copy is located in United States.
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Marilyn: A Biography
by Mailer, Norman
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This Book is by Pulitzer-Prize winning American Author, Norman Mailer. In this work, Mailer provides the written words while the photographs are provided by a list of noted photographers, whose names are in the frontispiece credits. Mailer carefully describes the life and personality of Marilyn Monroe, an American idol and actress, with all its complexities. It is a great read for both men and women. This is a First Printing from 1972.
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