[PEELE, GEORGE]

The Old Wives Tale 1595

Oxford: The Malone Society, 1965. Reprint. Buff cloth cover spine on papered boards. 230mm x 190mm (9" x 7"). [48pp.]. Printed for the Malone Society by Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press 1908. A play by now assumed to have been written by George Peele and first printed in England in 1595. The play has been identified as the first English work to satirize the romantic dramas popular at the time. Although only the titles of most of these popular works have survived, they seem to be unrelated composites of popular romantic and fairy-tale motifs of the era.. VG : in very good condition with glassine dust jacket. Ink mark and inscription to upper edge of front pastedown .

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[MIDDLETON THOMAS]

The Second Maiden's Tragedy

Oxford: The Malone Society, 1964. Reprint. Buff cloth cover spine on papered boards. 230mm x 190mm (9" x 7"). xiii, 78pp. Printed for the Malone Society by Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press 1909. The Second Maiden's Tragedy is a Jacobean play that survives only in manuscript. It was written in 1611, and performed in the same year by the King's Men. The manuscript was acquired, but never printed, by the publisher Humphrey Moseley after the closure of the theatres in 1642. In 1807, the manuscript was acquired by the British Museum. Victorian poet and critic, Algernon Swinburne, was the first to attribute this work to Thomas Middleton; this judgement has since been joined by most editors and scholars.. VG : in very good condition with glassine dust jacket. Ink mark and inscription to upper edge of front pastedown. Some pages uncut .

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Book number: k3741

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BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW

The Admirable Crichton

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916. The Star and Garter Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 320mm x 250mm (13" x 10"). 235pp. Tipped in illustrations and line drawings. N.B: Heavy book- extra shipping needed for overseas.. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover lighlty rubbed and edge darkened. Ownership details on paste-down. Teg .

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Book number: jmb01ac

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BENNETT, ALAN

Forty Years on

London: Faber & Faber, 1969. Reprint. Paperback. 200mm x 120mm (8" x 5"). 78pp.. VG: in very good condition with marked and chipped dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep .

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Book number: g2778h

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BERGER, JOHN; BIELSKI, NELLA

A Question of Geography

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1987. [First UK PB Edition.]. Paperback. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 59pp.. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing to cover. Page edges browning .

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Book number: a1315g

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BROWN-GUILLORY, ELIZABETH

Their Place on the Stage. Black Women Playwrights in America

Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1988. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xiv, 163pp. This important contribution to African American and women's studies analises the dramatic works of America's black women playwrights.. G: in good condition with rubbed and edge-torn dust jacket. Ex lib with usual stamps and markings. Previous owner's plate to front pastedown .

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Book number: a1353

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BROWNING, ROBERT

Strafford: An Historical Tragedy

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1837. First Edition. Brown card cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 131pp, 4pp ads. 'Strafford' was the first of three plays that Browning wrote, and was produced at Covent Garden in 1837.. G : in good condition without dust jacket in green cloth inner folder and with green cloth slipcase with leather spine. Minor staining to slipcase due to water damage.Tear to front cover and minor shelfwear. Prelims lightly foxed and with previous owner's bookplates. Additional bookplate to pastedown of cloth inner folder. Contents otherwise clean and tight .

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Book number: k3051

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DERRICK, THOMAS [ILLUS.]; RHYS, ERNEST [ED.]

Everyman: A Moral Play

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover. 290mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). 100pp. 73 wood-cuts by Thomas Derrick.. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket .

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Book number: e4654

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FERGUSON, RACHEL ['RACHEL' OF PUNCH]

The Stag at Bay

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1932. First Edition. Illustrated grey card cover. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 159pp. No. 10 in Ernest Benn's New Ninepenny Novels series. Rachel Ferguson (1892-1957) became a suffragette at age 16 (I was as militant as authority allowed me to be. I wanted to go to prison but was refused on the score of age). She began her writing career as a drama critic and after 1925 wrote as Rachel in Punch. 'Stag at Bay' is her third novel.. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover rubbed and marked .

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Book number: k4844

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FOTHERINGHAM, E M

The Bad Temper Bureau. A Play for Children in One Act

London: Samuel French Ltd, 1920. First Edition. Softback card cover. 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). 32pp.. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Previous owner's inscription .

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Book number: e9571

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HERMAN, JOSEF

Frans Masereel. The Radical Imagination

London, West Nyack: The Journeyman Press, 1980. Reprint. Illustrated card cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 64pp.. G : in good condition without dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: k0965

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HOUSTOUN, MARY

A Dream on Devil's Water. A Pageant Play in Eight Acts

Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1929. First Edition. Paperback. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 40pp.. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Covers rubbed and sunned, with ink name to front .

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Book number: g5961

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LEACH, ROBERT

The World of Folk Play. Harraps Theatre Workshop

London: George Harrap & Co Ltd, 1978. First Edition. Illustrated card cover. 240mm x 190mm (9" x 7"). 32pp.. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Sm. abrasion to rear cover. Previous owner's inscription to upper edge of title page .

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Book number: k3537

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SAMUEL FRENCH LTD

French's Catalogue 1940

London: Samuel French Ltd, [1940]. First Edition. Illustrated paper covers. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 207pp.. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover creased and marked. Some creasing to corners within. Minor browning within. Binding tight .

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Book number: q0083

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MIDDLETON, THOMAS

The Witch

Oxford: The Malone Society, 1963. Reprint. Buff cloth cover spine on papered boards. 230mm x 190mm (9" x 7"). 95pp. Printed for the Malone Society by Charles Batey at the Oxford University Press 1948 (1950). The drama is a Jacobean play, a tragicomedy and was acted by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre. It is thought to have been written between 1613 and 1616. It was not printed in its own era, and existed only in manuscript until it was published by Isaac Reed in 1778.. VG : in very good condition with torn glassine dust jacket. Ink mark and inscription to upper edge of front pastedown .

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Book number: k3737

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