Three Plays: The Broken Calabash. Parables for a Season. The Reign of Wazobia
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. Soft cover. 8vo. African American Life Series. Soft cover. 173 pp. Fine. More
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. Soft cover. 8vo. African American Life Series. Soft cover. 173 pp. Fine. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full teal cloth. 89 pp. Spine tilted. Cloth rubbed at extremities, sunning to top and tail edges. Ink ownership inscription, some light foxing and offsetting to ffep. Dust jacket cropped (but not price clipped) to..... More
Menston, England: The Scolar Press, 1969. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. pink card wrappers. Unpaged, [48], [26 pp. publisher's blanks]. Sunning to extremities, rubbing to spine. More
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes in custom paper slipcase. Foreword by Robertson Davies. Half blue cloth, blue paper boards. Illustrated endpapers. 198 pp; 314 pp. B&W photos in text. Slipcase is edge worn, else a fine set. An elegant, entertaining, and authoritative chronicle of..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. 55 pp. Very light rubbing to spine ends. Some minor rubbing to extremities of dust jacket and some light soiling to rear cover. Fine overall. The poems in this collection were all written in the last nine months..... More
London: Samuel French Inc. Soft cover. 16mo. N.d., [ca. late 1800s?] French's Acting Edition No. 38. Orig. brown paper wrappers. 63 pp. Light creasing to covers. Light staining to fore edge. Some pencil annotation to interior. More
Lipsiae: Car. Tauchmitii, 1819. Hardcover. 8vo (88.9mm x 127mm). Half bound calf over marbled boards. Editio Stereotypa. xxvii, 27O p.p. Text in Latin. Frontispiece of Publius Terentius Afer. Ownership signatures on front pastedown endpaper, front fly-leaf and head of title-page. Marginalia on p. 15, partially affecting text. Light foxing. Lacks..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1927. Hardcover. 8vo (7.5" x 10"). Title gilt on spine. xi, 363 pp. Owner inscription on front free endpaper with note. Bruising on spine edges and corners. Pages lightly browned. Overall, book is in very good condition. More
New York: American Book Company, 1899. Hardcover. 18mo. 157 p.p. Vinyl. No jacket. Red page edges. With engravings. Light bumping to extremities. Bruising to top of boards. Interior clean. Near fine copy of book. More
New York: Samuel French Inc., 1935. Soft cover. 12mo. The Junior League Plays. Orig. green card wraps, staple bound. 63 pp. Spine darkend, covers lightly creased. Samuel French (Canada) Limited copyright laid-in to copyright page and Canadian price sticker to foot of front cover. More
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. Soft cover. xii, 253 p.p. Light scuffing to covers and fore-edge. Covers tight. A near fine copy. More
London: James Bell, 1791. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. [1791-1797]. 4 Volumes. Brown half calf over marbled boards, x, [3], 14-106pp; vii, [3], 10-147, [1]; vii, [2]10-99, [3];iv, [3], 8-128pp; vi, [3], 10-142; v, [3], 8-120pp; viii, [3], 12-112; viii, [3] 12-109pp; xii, [1], 14-115pp; v, [2]..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1967. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full burgundy cloth, tan cloth spine label to upper spine. Top edge burgundy. xxi, 387 pp. Very slight bumping to corners and spine ends. Stamps to ffep. Else fine. Dust jacket bumped to extremities, short tear to top..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. yellow cloth. All edges green. vii, 756 pp. Spine tilted. Sticker ghots to rear pastedown. Dust jacket price clipped, worn to extremities. In Lardner, as Seldes points out, we had our most effective instance of the popular writer who had genius..... More
London: William Pickering, 1825. Hardcover. 3.5" x 2" Miniature edition of t he Plays of Shakespeare in 9 volumes, in custom slipcase. Vol 1: [vi] 306 p.p.; vol 2: 279 p.p; vol 3: 294 p.p; vol 4: 326 p.p; vol. 5: 321 p.p.; vol. 6: 348 p.p.; vol. 7: 320..... More
Glasgow: Harper Collins, 2006. Hardcover. 8vo. [lii], 1436 p.p. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. In dust jacket. Text clean. More
Nelson Doubleday, Inc. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1970?] Quarter tan leatherette, orange leatherette boards. vi, 570 pp.; vi, 571-1140 pp. Bumping to extremities. Spines slightly tilted. Scuff to spine label of volume 2. Dust jackets are price clipped, edge worn, sunned to spines, with..... More
London: T.C. and E.C. Jack. Hardcover. 4.5" x 7" N.d., [ca. 1910s?] Orig. red cloth, blind The Era Shakespeare device to front board. 126 pp. Sunning and rubbing to spine, darkening to edges of boards, a few spots of soiling to front board. Toning to interior. More
London: Constable and Company, 1932. Hardcover. 16mo. Pocket Edition. Dark blue cloth, gilt on spine and cover, TEG, xxix, 78pp. Bookplate of Robert Murray Bell. Light wear to tips, o/w about fine. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. [ca. 1952]. Black paper boards. Unpaged. Illustrated with [4] B&W photographs from the Paul Gregory Production starring Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke, and Agnes Moorehead, directed by Charles Laughton. Spine tilted, light chafing to extremities..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960. Hardcover. 18mo. Orig. blue paper boards. lviii, 195 pp. Spine tilted and sunned. Rubbing to extremities. Toning to interior. More