Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1929. First edition, #232 of 250 numbered copies, signed by E. C. L. Adams. A play, written by a white physician in "black dialect," set in South Carolina. Read More about Potee's Gal. A Drama of Negro Life Near the Big Congaree Swamps by E. C. L. Adams
Price: $150
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 about The Green Goddess. A Play in Four Acts
Price: $300
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 about An Hospital for Fools. A Dramatic Fable. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's...
Price: $750
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More about Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit
Price: $250
London: Faber and Faber, [1935]. First edition, one of 2000 copies. Read More about The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis? a play in three acts
Price: $250
New York: privately printed, 1834. A copy in the original cloth of this "not published" American verse tragedy, with the title role written for Charles Kean. "It was first produced at the Park Theatre, November 1, 1831, and Ireland remarks that 'having many passages of rare merit,' it deserved more..... Read More about Waldimar. A Tragedy, in Five Acts
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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..... Read More about The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy
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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..... Read More about The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy
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London: Richard Bentley, 1839. First Edition. Read More about Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian
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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 about Autograph letter in the third person “Mr. Morris Barnett and Mr. John Barnett”
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London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Kirriemuir Edition. Read More about The Kirriemuir Edition of the Works of J.M. Barrie
Price: $1,100
[London]: Privately Printed, 1899. First edition. Barrie's team of authors and artists was founded in 1887, and was active from 1890 to 1913. According to his own account in The Greenwood Hat, they thought 'Allahakbar' was African for 'Heaven help us', and his less than skilfull team therefore became the..... Read More about The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899
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London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1843-1846. First Dyce edition. Read More about The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher; The Text formed from a New Collation of the Early Edition....
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New York: 7 January 1989. Becket & Giacometti as Lucky and Ponzo. Sculptor Michael De Lisio (1911-2003) writes to actress and writer Helen Bishop (1931-2015) about his ideas for a sculpture of Waiting for Godot with Beckett and Giacometti as Lucky and Ponzo. De Lisio was a keen devotee of..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Mike”), to Helen Bishop, about plans for a sculpture of Beckett’s...
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[Paris]: Librairie Compagnie. First Edition, 89 copies (plus 35 h.c.). Last published item by Beckett in his lifetime. Read More about Comment Dire
Price: $1,000
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952. First trade edition (after 35 signed copies on large paper), one of 2,500 copies. Beckett's masterpiece, and one of the defining works of the 20th century. A major innovation in modern drama, possibly the most important play of the 20th Century, and certainly the..... Read More about En attendant Godot
Price: $2,500
Paris: The Traveller's Companion No. 71, [1959]. First Edition. Read More about Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable A Trilogy
Price: $400
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Ryman, Robert. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Beckett and Ryman. Read More about Nohow On
Price: $2,750
New York/London: Blue Moon Books and John Calder, [1988]. Brocquy, Louis le. Edition of 200, with a further 26 copies designated A-Z, all signed by the author and the artist. This is copy J of 26. Inscribed. INSCRIBED, ONE OF 26 SIGNED. This a presentation copy on the half-title inscribed..... Read More about Stirrings Still
Price: $5,500
New York/London: Blue Moon Books and John Calder, 1988. Brocquy, Louis le. Limited edition, number 168 of 200, signed by the author and the artist. Superb Copy of Beckett's Last Work. Beckett's last work, with illustrations by Louis le Brocquy, including one original duotone lithograph. Limited to an edition of..... Read More about Stirrings Still
Price: $3,500
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First British edition, first printing, translated by Beckett himself. With the publisher's note tipped in. The English text of Beckett's most famous title, one of the great works of the world stage, and decidedly uncommon signed. A major innovation in modern drama, possibly the most..... Read More about Waiting for Godot
Price: $2,000
[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 about Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
Price: $200
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 about Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
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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 about The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn. With Life and Memoirs
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London: E. Curll, 1741. First edition. Extra-Illustrated. Read More about The History of the English Stage from the Restauration [sic] to the Present Time. Including the...
Price: $1,250