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Shakespeare's Works: 24 volumes in leather box.
by Shakespeare, William
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Publishers Box
- Published
- 1910
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- Full Limp Leather
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- 1
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$508.68
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New York: Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co. N.d. [c. 1910's]. 32mo. In 24 volumes complete in its uncommon original box. Publisher's full limp morocco in assorted colours and grains; gilt lettering and devices to boards and spines, red edges and marbled endpapers. Small format with each volume measuring 5.5cm x 8cm. Wear to joints and edges of box. Slight fading… Read more about this item Item Price
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Under Milk Wood
by Thomas, Dylan
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Full Morocco
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$579.51
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1954. Small 8vo. First Edition. ix, 101 pp. Recently bound in full dark blue morocco, with gilt lettering to spine, raised bands, gilt border to boards, marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. An attractive clean copy. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition. 1954. Item Price
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Fire in Heaven
by Abse, Dannie
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1956
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$32.20
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London: Hutchinson 1956. Small 8vo. First Edition. 112 pp. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Darkened spine and rubbed panels. Ink name of previous owner, the writer Andrew Salkey, to ffep, otherwise internally clean. This work was performed at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1952. Abse is considered as one of the best Welsh writers of the 20th century. . Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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King Henry VIII. The Chiswick Shakespeare.
by Shakespeare, William; Dennis, John (intro)
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 1902
- Binding
- Gilt Decorated Cloth
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- 1
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$45.07
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London: George Bell & Sons 1902. 16mo.Illustrated. xii, 142, [4] pp. Full green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to boards and spine, slightly dulled; decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Light ink marking to front board. Some rubbing, bumping and slight fraying to joints and extremities. Ink name to pastedown and some foxing throughout. Frontispiece, title page and other black… Read more about this item Item Price
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Play
by Albee, Edward
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$193.17
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London: Jonathan Cape 1964. Small 8vo. Review copy with publisher's slip. 242 pp. Publisher's yellow boards in dust jacket; black top-edge. Jacket edgeworn with short tear to front panel. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership names. Jacket not price-clipped. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1964. Item Price
$193.17
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The Mad Islands and The Administrator: two radio plays
by MacNeice, Louis
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1964
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$57.95
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London: Faber and Faber 1964. 8vo. First edition. 112 pp. Purple hardback with gold lettering to spine in dust jacket (not price clipped). Bottom right corner bumped; edges slightly yellowed. Internally clean and neat. Irish poet and playwright, Louis MacNeice, wrote prolifically as a screenwriter, with more than 150 scripts to his name in his time at the BBC. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard
by Gilbert, W. S.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1924
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- Gilt-decorated Morocco
- Quantity Available
- 1
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$1,223.41
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London: Macmillan and Co 1924. Small 8vo. First thin paper edition. xii, 564 pp. Navy blue Ramage morocco binding with intricate gilt decoration to boards and spine and turn-ins. All edges gilt, silk endpapers. A few spots to prelims and endpapers. Internally clean. With 350 humorous and charming in-text illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. The Ballads were to become a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Nibelung's Ring: An Act by Act Guide to the Plot & Music
by Wagner, Richard ; Buesst, Aylmer
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1932
- Binding
- Half Morocco
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$77.27
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London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd. 1932. Small 8vo.Prize Binding. xx, 217 pp. Half morocco over cloth boards with gilt crest of Queenswood School, Herts. to front board; gilt lettering and devices to spine; t.e.g. Minimal wear and rubbing to extremities and boards. School prize bookplate. Internally clean. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1932. Item Price
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The Works of William Shakespeare [The Red Letter Shakespeare] in 39 Volumes (complete)
by Shakespeare, William; Chamber, E. K. [ed.]
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1905
- Binding
- Decorated Cloth
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- 1
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$772.68
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London: The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd. 1905 - 1908. 12mo. c. 1905. 39 volumes complete. 37 plays and 2 volumes of Poems. Cream coloured cloth with lovely green and red Arts & Crafts decoration on front covers and spines by Talwin Morris. Top edge burnished green. Title-pages in red & black. Frontis to each volume. Some minor bumping at spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of Shakespeare. In three volumes
by Shakespeare, William and edited by Howard Staunton
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1860
- Binding
- Full Calf
- Quantity Available
- 1
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$772.68
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London: George Routledge & Co. 1858 - 1860. Large 8vo. In 3 volumes complete. lxviii, 746; [iii], 771; [iii], 816 pp. Full calf with gilt-decorated borders to boards and gilt decoration and lettering to spines; raised bands; gilt-decorated turn-ins; a.e.g; marbled endpapers. Some bumping and rubbing to extremities, with light scratches to boards. Light, scattered foxing, heavier at prelims. Illustrated… Read more about this item Item Price
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Quite Early One Morning: Broadcasts By Dylan Thomas
by Thomas, Dylan
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$77.27
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London: J .M. Dent & Co. 1954. 8vo. First Edition. x, 181 pp. Blue hardback with gilt lettering in pictorial jacket, not price clipped. Jacket chipped at spine ends and extremities with minor loss; rear panel spotted. Minor yellowing and ink inscription to front endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Frontis photo. Collection of radio scripts broadcasted by Thomas for the BBC… Read more about this item Item Price
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Waiting For Godot
by Beckett, Samuel
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$611.70
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London: Faber & Faber 1956. 8vo. First English Edition. 94pp. Yellow hardback in black & white pictorial jacket, not price clipped. Jacket yellowed with minor wear around edges. Boards clean. Slight offsetting to endpapers and ink name to ffep., but otherwise internally clean. With a publisher's note on page 5 explaining that the play text is that used in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The First Folio of Shakespeare : Based on Folios in the Folger Library Collection. The Norton Facsimile
by Shakespeare, William; Hinman, Charlton
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Slipcase - Marked
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1996
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780393039856
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- 1
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$141.66
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New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company 1996. Folio. Facsimile edition. xxvii, 928 pp. Publisher's quarter faux maroon leather over illustrated silk boards. Gilt lettering & decoration to spine. Ribbon bookmark. Book is in fine condition. In gilt-lettered slipcase, which has a few dents and shelfwear to edges. Tear to top right-hand open edge. A very handsome volume. 0393039854… Read more about this item Item Price
$141.66
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Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
by Thomas, Dylan
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Impression
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$160.98
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1954. Small 8vo. Second Impression. ix, 101 pp. Hardback with gilt lettering to spine in green jacket, not price-clipped. Slight wear to jacket extremities, a 3cm tear to front panel and a few other small tears; minor sunning to spine. Internally clean. With sheet music and songs at the rear, the tunes of… Read more about this item Item Price
$160.98
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Hey Nonny Yes : Passions and Conceits From Shakespeare
by Fordham, Hallam and Edward Ardizzone
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1947
- Binding
- Pictorial Boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
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$38.63
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London: The Saturn Press 1947. Small Square 8voIllustrated. Unpaginated. Original pictorial boards in pictorial jacket. Light bumping, rubbing and wear to extremities of jacket and book. Internally clean. Jacket is not price clipped. A selection of 473 fragments from Shakespeare with lively illustrations by Edward Ardizzone throughout. 15 cms tall. . Very Good. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. 1947. Item Price
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The Glasgow Stage
by Baynham, Walter
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1892
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- 1/4 Calf
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- 1
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$38.63
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Glasgow: Robert Forrester 1892. Small 4to.Limited Edition. Large Paper Edition. Limited to 100 copies, of which this is no. 87. [v], frontis, 221, viii pp. Quarter calf with gilt lettering to spine over cloth boards; t.e.g. Bumping and wear to extremities. Light foxing to prelims, but otherwise internally clean. Photogravure frontis. of the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street. A detailed study… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vivien Leigh: A Bouqet
by Dent, Alan
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780241018064
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- 1
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$96.59
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London: Hamish Hamilton 1969. 8vo. First Edition. 219 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. Jacket has some rubbing and wear, with a few short tears. Minor bumping and marking to boards and spine. Generally internally clean. Uncommon. Dent was a friend of Leigh's. 0241018064 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1969. Item Price
$96.59
The Moon's a Balloon
by Niven, David
- Condition
- As New
- Jacket Condition
- Slipcase
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$45.07
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London: The Folio Society circa 2010. 8vo. xx., 308 pp. Shrink-wrapped. As this is shrink-wrapped, we have not determined which printing this is. Originally published in 2009, there was a reprint in 2010. . As New. Hardcover. 2010. Item Price
$45.07
Just Wild About Harry: A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes
by Miller, Henry
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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$38.63
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London: MacGibbon & Kee 1964. 8vo. First UK edition. 106 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in price-clipped jacket. Jacket is lightly edgeworn with minor marking to rear panel. Internally clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. 1964. Item Price
$38.63
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Edited with a Glossary by W. J. Craig
by Shakespeare, William
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Slipcase - Marked
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1957
- Binding
- Full Leather
- Quantity Available
- 1
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$77.27
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London: Oxford University Press 1957. 8vo. The Oxford Standard Authors edition. viii, 1164, [3] pp. Full lambskin in slipcase; top edge gilt; gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Some wear to slipcase. Minor bumping to corners and rubbing to spine. Minor marking to bottom edge. Internally clean. . Very Good. Full Leather. Reprint. 1957. Item Price
$77.27