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An Hospital for Fools. A Dramatic Fable. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. To which is added the Songs. with their Basses and Symphonies, and Transposed for the Flute. The Musick by Mr. Arne. Sung by Mrs. Clive. Thomas Arne, James Miller, Thomas ARNE.

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

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En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes. Samuel Beckett.

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

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Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces. Samuel Beckett.

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

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The Harold Clurman Theatre and Lucille Lortel ... Present the World Premiere of Samuel Beckett's What Where[,] Catastrophe[,] and Ohio Impromptu. Samuel Beckett.

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

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Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet. Max Beerbohm.

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

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Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet. Max Beerbohm.

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

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