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Bumper Film Book.

Spring Books, 1111. Hard Cover, Early 1950s - Features Ben Hur and Gigi. 160 pp, cloth boards with light damp stain, dustjacket with two tears to top of spine, no loss. Numerous b + w and colour pictures of stars such as Elvis, Doris Day etc. articles (apparently) by Richard Burton, Tony Curtis, Joan Collins, Kirk Douglas, biographies of Kenneth More and interviews with 'back room boys' etc... Very Good /Good.

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Book number: 689

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: films, cinema, Richard Burton, Elvis, Doris Day, Estelle Winwood, Disney

Allan, William and Brown, Christopher G et al

The Journal of Hellenic Studies Volume 126 2006.

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2006. First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 235pp. Beige soft covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Includes - Divine justice and cosmic order in early Greek epic, Pindar on Archilochus, Xenophon's Cyropaedia and military reform in Sparta, Melody..in ancient Greek musical instruments, Xenophon and the alternative to realist foreign policy, the competence of theatre audiences in fifth and fourth century Athens and Mixed choruses and marriage songs a new interpretation of the third stasimon of the Hippolytos... Fine.

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Book number: 17857

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Pindar, Archilochus, Xenophon, Greek History, Greek Theatre, Greek Music

Arden, John

Books Of Bale.

Methuen, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover, 532 pp. Complete dustjacket. Very clean. The story of a Tudor bishop and playwright, set in Shakespeare's London... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 1760

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Shakespeare, theatre, Marlowe

Armitage, John

Man at Play Nine Centuries of Pleasure Making.

Warne, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover, 192pp, complete dustjacket with one closed tear to edge. B + w illustrations. One small light mark to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and Near Fine. A history of pleasure in England from medieval times to the present day... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 12603

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Sport, Football, Cricket, Racing, Social History

Armstrong, William (ed) and Arlett, Vera and Corrie, Joe et al

8 New One-Act Plays of 1938 6th Series.

Lovat Dickson, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover, 223pp, red cloth covered boards. Internally clean. Plays by Vera Arlett, Joe Corrie, Geoffrey Thomas, Stuart Ready, M H Noel-Paton, James Lansdale Hodson, W Eric Harris and F Sladen-Smith.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 11095

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Play, Theatre

Bakewell, Geoffrey and Bernsdorff, Hans and Biles, Zachary et al

The Journal of Hellenic Studies Volume 127 2007.

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2007. First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 268pp. Beige soft covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Includes - Agamemnon 437: chrysamoibos Ares, Athens and Empire, P.Oxy. 4711 and the poetry of Parthenius, Celebrating poetic victory, Memnon on the siege of Heraclea Pontica, the tryphe of teh Sybarites, a historiographical problem in Atheneus, the fallacy of the willing victim, Trauma ek pronoias in Athenian law, a new monograph by Aristarchus?, creating the Academy, Pronomos and Potamon two pipers and two epigrams... Fine.

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Book number: 17858

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Greek History, Greek Theatre, Agamemnon, Aristarchus

Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John

The Knight of the Burning Pestle.

Robert Holden, 1925. Hard Cover, 125pp, brown cloth covered boards, hand cut foredge. Flyleaf removed and previous owner's name on label to inner board, a few spots of foxing to bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy. Prepared by G B Harrison, one of the Fortune Play Books series... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 5871

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Theatre, Play

Beckerman, Bernard (ed)

Five Plays Of The English Renaissance.

Meridian, 1963. Mass Market Paperback, 533pp, edges a little browned with age. A couple of creases to covers, but internally clean. Text and notes of Doctor Faustus, Volpone, Duchess of Malfi, Women Beware Women and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore... Very Good.

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Book number: 4307

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Christopher Marlowe, Faustus, Volpone, Malfi, John Ford. Thomas Middleton, John Webster

Bennett, Michael

A Chorus Line Theatre Royal Programme.

1976. Soft Cover, Soft covers, now browned to edges and with one edge creased. Theatre Programme for the first UK production from 22nd July 1976 at the Theatre Royal Drury lane, London. Cast list and CVs the British Company and list of musical numbers. Rare... Very Good.

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Book number: 5161

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: theatre Programme

Bolt, Robert

A Man For All Seasons A Play of Sir Thomas More.

Heinemann, 1970. Soft Cover, Reset edition. 118pp, softback covers. Notes by E R Wood. Original owner's name stamp on flyleaf, otherwise clean and Near Fine. Preface by Robert Bolt. The text of the play about SIr Thomas More... Very Good.

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Book number: 7360

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: play, theatre, film, Thomas More, saint, martyr, tudor

Bridie, James

Daphne Laureola Pitlochry Festival Theatre Programme.

Pitlochry, 1964. Soft Cover, 3 folding pages, giving the cast and other information about the performances of Daphne Laureola at the Pitlochry Festival in 1964. Sheila Gish was Maisie... Very Good.

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Book number: 6447

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Gish, theatre program, Pitlochry

Brook, Donald

The Romance Of The English Theatre.

Rockliff, 1947. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 208pp, pink cloth covered boards, faded to spine. B + w illustrations. Ex college reference library, so small stamps on foredge and title page, otherwise a clean copy. A history of the theatre and famous actors... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 3137

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: actor, Emlyn Williams, stage

Broome, J H and Moliere

Moliere L'Ecole Des Femmes and Le Misanthrope.

Grant & Cutler, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover, 83pp, green soft covers. A couple of very light spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise a very clean copy. Part of the Critical Guides to French Texts series - characters and themes, structure etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 11107

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: French Literature, Play, Theatre

Buckman, Peter

All For Love A Study in Soap Opera.

Secker & Warburg, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover, 226pp, Complete illustrated dustjacket, a very little rubbed to the top edge. Internally very clean. An analysis of TV soap operas - the stock characters, the plots and how they are interwoven, the writers, the lives of the actors, direction, production, critics - and the viewing public... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 12383

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Television, Television Serials, TV

Cawley, A C (ed)

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays.

Dent, 1970. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, Everyman edition. 266pp, blue boards.Ex school library - a couple of stamps, one small mark to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Introduction, Notes, and text of the medieval play and a collection of medieval pageants... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 12909

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Medieval, Theatre