Doctor Johnson A Play
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 120 pages. 22.5 x 16 cm. Frontispiece, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Bookplate. More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 120 pages. 22.5 x 16 cm. Frontispiece, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Bookplate. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Baskin, Leonard. Hardcover. 153 pages. 29 x 18.5 cm. Introduction by Irma Jaffe. With drawings by Leonard Baskin, and with an original lithograph by Leonard Baskin of "Hickey," the main character in the play. Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club laid-in. Limited edition..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 198 pages. 26 x 19.5 cm. Limited Edition, copy 390 of 775 signed by O'Neill. Text printed in blue and black. This work won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1929, and was the basis for the MGM 1932 film starring..... More
London: Eliot Stock, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 298 pages. Royal 8vo, 24 x 19 cm. Eighteen black and white illustrations (three are folding). Large-paper copy in the Camden Library Series. A history of Elizabethan theatres (according to the author's criterium, theatres in existence in 1596) established outside the limits of..... More
London: Robert Triphook, 1813. Hardcover. 492, 700 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm, First modern edition, and first reprint since 1580, and the best edition of this important source book for Shakespeare (amongst others), printed from the early editions. These early tragedies herein adumbrate a large portion of the Elizabethan drama..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. 199 pages. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated with twelve water colors (collotype process) by Sylvan Savage. Limited edition, copy 405 of 1500. Signed by Savage. The English version by Brian Hooker, with a new introduction by him. Laid-in and dated August 10, 1936..... More
New York: Privately Printed, 1925. Rogers, Bruce. First edition. Hardcover. [VIII] 54 pages. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Edwin Rudge in Oldstyle type on rag paper. WARDE 116. Spine slightly darkened. More
London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1924. Hardcover. 99 pages in text. 32.5 x 24.6 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 100. Introduction by Harley Granville-Barker, printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper and bound by Riviere & Son. Line blocks are by Emery Walker. Illustrations by Norman Wilkinson, five full page color..... More
London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. Nash, Paul. Hardcover. 109 pages in text. 33 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 this copy unnumbered, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper which was bound in vellum or oasis morocco (this copy in the latter). Signed by Paul Nash, Harley Granville-Barker, and Albert..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 25 pages. Limited edition, copy 673 of 860, copies by Pynson Printers, signed by James Stephens. Corners rubbed. Owner inscription. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Thomson, Hugh. First edition thus. Hardcover. 198 pages. 33 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 554 of 1000 signed by Hugh Thomson. Twenty-two tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards, plus additional black and white illustrations in the text. GORDON RAY p181, said Thomson "was..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1922. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 25 X 18.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 210 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn and James McDonald from John Payne's translation out of the Old French. Cover, title pag and initials by Joseph Sinef. Almost as new copy. More
Jackson, Mississippi: Palaemon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 20 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy F of 50 signed in blue ink by Eudora Welty. The title was produced as part of the Off-Broadway production, "the Little Revue," which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City..... More
Jackson, Mississippi: Palaemon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 20 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 signed by Eudora Welty. The title was produced as part of the Off-Broadway production, "the Little Revue," which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City, 22 May 1956. Title..... More
[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Palaemon Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Four leaves. 26 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy III of 50 copies with an original aquatint by Ann Carter Pollard and signed by Ann Carter Pollard and Eudora Welty. The Story first appeared in "River," published in Oxford, Mississippi in March..... More
[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Palaemon Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Four leaves. 26 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 150 copies signed by Eudora Welty. The Story first appeared in "River," published in Oxford, Mississippi in March 1937. Title page printed in red and black. A tale centered in Vicksburg..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Hardcover. 143 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The author notes, "These two experiments in Elizabethan play writing were wholly mine. The third illustrates another phase of of Elizabethan work, so frequent as to make the actual authorship of almost any Elizabethan scene a fair..... More
London: R. Bentley, 1691. Fifth edition. Hardcover. 21 1/2 x 16 cm. A classic work of Restoration drama first published 1677, but first acted with acclamation and success three years earlier. CBEL, Vol. VIII, p.145 notes, "....Wycherley's last and best comedy.....Wychereley's masterpiece cannot but be regarded as an admirably bold..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 94 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, one of 450 copies. John Quinn's bookplate front cover paste-down. Original contributions by Yeats (6 poems), Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, and other Rhymer’s Club members. Purportedly, Yeats proposed this collection because "I wanted to..... More
London: Lawrence And Bullen, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pages. 17 x 10 cm. Frontispiece by Jack Yeats, adverts leaf and half title. Publisher's name all in caps at bottom of spine. WADE 8. Owner inscription free front endpaper dated Xmas 1893, back cover decoration in blind. Backstrip worn head..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 141 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece by T.J. Nettleship. The present volume represents Yeats's second collection of poetry. In addition the play The Countess Kathleen, the collection includes some of Yeats’ finest early lyrics, including “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,”..... More
London & New York: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Dodd, Mead & Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. 16.5 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies printed for England (of which 400 hundred are for sale) and 150 copies printed for America. WADE 294. 15 pages..... More
London: Hodder And Stoughton, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 57 pages, 24 x 17.5 cm. Fresh, clean copy, wide text margins, owner inscription dated 1900, book dedicated to Lady Gregory. Backstrip gilt lettering bright as well as the two front cover gilt decorations. WADE 30. More