The Classical Treatise of the 17th-Century French Drama
The Whole Art of the Stage. Containing Not...
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by William Cadman, et al, 1684. First English edition. The Classical... Read More
Price: $1,250
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The Green Goddess. A Play in Four Acts.
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1926. Third printing. Signed "Ronald Colman" on flyleaf. Colman played the part of The Temple Priest when it was first acted in Philadelphia and later New York in Dec. and Jan. 1920 & 1921. Read More
Price: $300
Early Thomas Arne Operetta
An Hospital for Fools. A Dramatic Fable. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. To which...
London: printed for J. Watts at the Printing - Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1739. First edition; without half-title. Early Thomas Arne Operetta. First performed on November 15, 1739 at Drury Lane, where Arne was house composer. A relatively early operetta by Arne (1710-1788), who is often credited with... Read More
Price: $750
Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More
Price: $250
The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis? a play in three acts.
London: Faber and Faber, [1935]. First edition, one of 2000 copies. Read More
Price: $250
The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy.
London: R. Wellington, 1712. Later edition. Banks was a lawyer turned playwright, who wrote "One of the most consistently popular tragedies on the London stage" (Sutherland English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century"). Dryden contributed the Prologue and the Epilogue to this historical tragedy, first printed in 1682, then 1685, 1693, and 1699. Read More
Price: $350
The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy.
London: R. Wellington, 1703. Later edition. Banks was a lawyer turned playwright, who wrote "One of the most consistently popular tragedies on the London stage" (Sutherland English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century"). Dryden contributed the Prologue and the Epilogue to this historical tragedy, first printed in 1682, then 1685, 1693, and 1699. Read More
Price: $400
Autograph letter in the third person “Mr. Morris Barnett and Mr. John Barnett”.
London: Princes Theatre, St. James's Square, n.d [received 20 Nov. 1849]. Notifying the editor of Fraser's that he and a friend will be places on the Dramatic Free List of the Theatre and that they would appreciate his friendly support. Morris (1800-1856) was an actor and also wrote several comedies... Read More
Price: $60
Beardsley's Last Book
Volpone: or The Foxe. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan together with an eulogy of the...
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Beardsley's Last Book. Beardsley had intended a series of 24 drawings for Jonson's Venetian comedy, but died before completing it, at the age of 26. Read More
Price: $500
The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher; The Text formed from a New Collation of the Early Edition. With Notes and...
London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1843-1846. First Dyce edition. Read More
Price: $600
Presentation copy
En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes.
[Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit, [1986]. Presentation copy. A lovely association copy to a significant Beckett collaborator in the last years of his life. The presentation reads: "For Rick with love from Sam Sept 88". Waiting for Godot was the play that secured Beckett's lasting fame. No matter that he'd been... Read More
Price: $3,000
Author's presentation copy & fine association
Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces.
New York: Grove Press, 1960. Evergreen edition. Author's presentation copy & fine association. Beckett's inscription reads: "for Teresita with love from Sam London, 1.3.84". A one act play, with nothing but the title character and a tape recorder on stage, Krapp's Last Tape was written for the Irish actor Patrick Magee... Read More
Price: $2,500
![The Harold Clurman Theatre and Lucille Lortel ... Present the World Premiere of Samuel Beckett's What Where[,] Catastrophe[,] and Ohio Impromptu. Samuel Beckett.](/pictures/thumb/311857.jpg?v=1528748483)
Inscribed by Beckett
The Harold Clurman Theatre and Lucille Lortel ... Present the World Premiere of Samuel Beckett's What Where[,] Catastrophe[,] and Ohio Impromptu.
New York: [1983]. Inscribed by Beckett. Inscribed, "to Bill Targ with all good wishes Sam Beckett". William Targ (1907-1999) was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and Beckett collector. His wife Roslyn Targ (1925-2017) was Beckett's... Read More
Price: $400
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet.
[London]: [1931]. Beerbohm, Max. First edition, Number 134 of 900 copies. At the request of Charles Cochran, the producer of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta, Beerbohm did drawings of Coward, Cochran, and the principals: Peggy Wood, Georges Metaxa, and Ivy St. Helier. This was the last book of caricatures Beerbohm published. Read More
Price: $200
SIGNED by Coward, Cochran, and Cast
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet.
London: [1931]. Number 84 (?) of 100 copies. SIGNED by Coward, Cochran, and Cast. Rare portfolio commemorating Coward's hugely successful 1929 operetta. "Sentiment is out of fashion," says Beerbohm in his note. "Yet Bittersweet, which is nothing if not sentimental, is not a dead failure ... Sentiment goes on; unaffrighted... Read More
Price: $2,000
LARGE PAPER
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn. With Life and Memoirs.
London: John Pearson, 15, York St., Covent Garden, 1871. Facsimile edition of the1724 third edition of The Plays …, and of the 1735 edition of The Novels . First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER COPY. LARGE PAPER. Read More
Price: $1,000
Bell's Theatre.
London: 1792. Each signed by Alistair Cooke Harvard, January, 1933. Purchased while he was putting on Plays at Harvard for the Hasty Pudding. Read More
Price: $150
![The History of the English Stage from the Restauration [sic] to the Present Time. Including the Lives, Characters and Amours Of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses. With Instructions for Public Speaking; wherein The Action and Utterance of the Bar, Stage, and Pulpit are Distinctly considered WITH: Memoirs of Mrs. Anne Oldfield. Thomas Betterton.](/pictures/thumb/60172_2.jpg?v=1438724568)
Extra-Illustrated
The History of the English Stage from the Restauration [sic] to the Present Time. Including the Lives, Characters and Amours...
London: E. Curll, 1741. First edition. Extra-Illustrated. Read More
Price: $1,250
IRISH SHENANIGANS
Broadside: Academy of Music. J.B. Booth of Boston Theatre. Monday Night, Dec. 21st, 1868, The Great Irish Drama, "Arrah Na...
Boston: F.A. Searle Printing, 1868. IRISH SHENANIGANS. Read More
Price: $200
RIP
Broadside: Boston Theatre. Benefit of Mr. Hackett New Year's Night. When he will perform, for the first time here in...
Boston: FA Searle Printing, 1869. RIP. James Henry Hackett (1800-1871) started playing Rip in 1830. Read More
Price: $150
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Broadside: Boston Theatre. Benefit of Mrs. F.W. Lander who will on this Friday evening, Nov. 27th produce for the first...
Boston: F.A. Searle Printing, Friday Evening, Nov. 27th, (1868?). MARIE ANTOINETTE. Read More
Price: $100
Broadside: Boston Theatre. Last Night but One of the Charming LOTTA who will appear in 6 Different Characters, with Banjo...
Boston: FA Searle Printing, 1869. Lotta Crabtree Jim wants to know if this play, Female Detective was a big deal at the time. Read More
Price: $75
Broadside: Boston Theatre. Last Week Positively of "The Great Tragic Queen, Mrs. F.W. Lander who will repeat her last great...
Boston: FA Searle, 1868. Read More
Price: $100
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Broadside: Boston Theatre. Last Week Positively of The Great Tragic Queen Mrs. F.W. Lander who will repeat her last great...
Boston: F.A. Searle, 1868. MARIE ANTOINETTE. Read More
Price: $100
"Six Degrees of Crime, or Wine, Women, Gambling, Theft, Murder and the Scaffold"
Broadside: Boston Theatre. Richings' English Opera. "Crispino and the Fairy!" and Boucicault's Splendid Drama of the "Long Strike, or The...
Boston: F.A. Searle Printing, Job Printer, Journal Building (up one flight), 118 Washington Street, 1870s. "Six Degrees of Crime, or Wine, Women, Gambling, Theft, Murder and the Scaffold" Read More
Price: $150
Broadside: Music Hall in Worcester. Return of the popular Boston Theater Company for a week of legitimate Drama. "School for...
Boston: F.A. Searle, 1869. Read More
Price: $100