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...

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

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

London: Richard Bentley, 1839. First Edition. Read More about Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian

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 about Volpone: or The Foxe. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan together with an...

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 about The Harold Clurman Theatre and Lucille Lortel ... Present the World Premiere of Samuel Beckett's...

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

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 about Bell's Theatre

Boston: FA Searle Printing, 1869. RIP. James Henry Hackett (1800-1871) started playing Rip in 1830. Read More about Broadside: Boston Theatre. Benefit of Mr. Hackett New Year's Night. When he will perform, for the...

Boston: FA Searle, 1868. Read More about Broadside: Boston Theatre. Last Week Positively of "The Great Tragic Queen, Mrs. F.W. Lander...

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 about Broadside: Boston Theatre. Richings' English Opera. "Crispino and the Fairy!" and...

Boston: F.A. Searle Printing, Job Printer, Journal Building (up one flight), 118 Washington Street, 1870s. BOSTON IN WORCESTER. Read More about Broadside: Music Hall, Worcester. Last Night but two of the Boston Theatre Company. Fast Night!,...