ALADDIN.

The Playbook for Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp. [A Play for the Toy Theatre.]. Text in five languages. NEAR FINE COPY

Pollocks Toy Theatres,, [1972]. Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and full-page coloured illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Facsimile of original 'Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured'. SCARCE.

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BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE.

The Playbook for Blackbeard the Pirate. [ A Play for the Toy Theatre.]. Text in four languages. NEAR FINE COPY

Pollocks Toy Theatres,, [1972]. Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and full-page coloured illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Facsimile of original 'Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured'. SCARCE.

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CURTIS], [Richard

Black-Adder. The Whole Damn Dynasty. FINE COPY OF A CUNNING PLAN

Michael Joseph,, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The scripts of all four series of the much-loved (and respected) BBC comedy.

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Sonstige Stichworte: mstock, television, black-adder, blackadder

DORAN John

'Their Majesties' Servants'. Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Edited and revised by Robert W. Lowe [from the Author's annotated copy]. [Large Paper Edition with plates in duplicate.] LARGE PAPER EDITION IN ROXBURGHE BINDING; 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED

John C Nimmo,, 1888. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, ON LARGE PAPER, with 3 copper-engraved portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), title in red and black, 47 fine copper-engraved portraits (all original tissue guards present), and 80 fine wood-engravings in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original Roxburghe binding of blue cloth boards, maroon cloth backs with new printed paper labels, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 66) WITH ALL PLATES PRESENT IN TWO STATES: ON JAPANESE PAPER AND PLATE PAPER, AS INDIA PROOFS. With personal pictorial boookplate on front paste-downs, and 24pp publisher's catalogue (dated October 1887) bound in at end of third volume.

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Sonstige Stichworte: theatre, stage, english stage, john doran, betterton, thomas betterton, kean, edmund kean

FLANDERS Michael

[Theatre Programme]. At the Drop of Another Hat. Theatre Royal, Haymarket. First Performance October 2nd, 1963 NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Theatre Royal, Haymarket,, 1963. 8vo., with 3 full-page portraits; original printed, wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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FREEDLEY George

A History of the Theatre. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Crown, New York NY,, [1941]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper with one or two short closed tears.

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Sonstige Stichworte: theatre, freedley, george freedley, john reeves

GILBERT & SULLIVAN.

The Gilbert and Sullivan Operas Illustrated. Season 1939. By Arrangement with the Rupert D'Oyly-Carte Opera Company. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

The Sphere,, 1939. Folio, First Edition, with numerous coloured, tinted and monochrome photographs throughout, title very lightly spotted; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements on front and rear wrappers.

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Sonstige Stichworte: theatre, opera, operetta, gilbert and sullivan, d'oyly-carte

GUINNESS Alec

My Name escapes Me. The Diary of a Retiring Actor. With a Preface by John Le Carre. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hamish Hamilton,, [1996]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Sonstige Stichworte: theatre, cinema, guinness, alec guinness, le carre, john le carre, smiley, george smiley

JACK THE GIANT KILLER

The Playbook for Jack and the Giant Killer. A Play for the Toy Theatre. [Adapted from the original of J.K. Green.] Text in four languages. NEAR FINE COPY

Pollocks Toy Theatres,, [1972]. Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and full-page coloured illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Facsimile of original 'Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured'. SCARCE.

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McGREGOR Tom

The Making of 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Harper Collins,, [2003]. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured photographs (a number full-page) throughout and endpaper charts; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The official companion to Peter Weir's hugely successful feature film (2003) starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany.

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Sonstige Stichworte: cinema, film, o'brian, patrick o'brian, jack aubrey, stephen maturin, peter weir, russell crowe, paul bettany

McKENNA Virginia

The Life in my Years. [Foreword by Joanna Lumley.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oberon,, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs in the text, and pictorial endpapers; sage cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Sonstige Stichworte: cinema, theatre, mckenna, virginia mckenna, born free, bill travers, violette szabo, leo marks,

PINTER Harold

Old Times. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: 150 COPIES WERE PRINTED

H. Karnac,, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition thus; orange buckram, black buckram back lettered in gilt, red top, black endpapers, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY XIV/XVIII HORS DE COMMERCE). This limited and signed edition was published by arrangement with Methuen and appeared simultaneously with their standard edition.

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Sonstige Stichworte: theatre, pinter, harold pinter, modern first editions, modern firsts

PRESSBURGER Emeric

One of Our Aircraft is Missing. [The Story of the Film.] FINE COPY IN MODERN BOARDS

HMSO,, 1942. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs from the film throughout; strongly bound in brown buckram, upper board with printed paper label, terracotta endpapers, ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a fine copy. The profusely illustrated book of of the classic WWII film of the same name (1942) written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as their first venture under the Archers brand. Starring Hugh Burden, Eric Portman, Bernard Miles and a host of others, the film is now widely regarded as one of the finest of British wartime dramas. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Sonstige Stichworte: cinema, ww2, wwii, michael powell, emeric pressburger,

PRICE Nancy

The Heart of a Vagabond. [Foreword by Sir Norman Birkett.] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND A.l.u

Museum Press,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and with loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Arguably the most evocative of the author's several books expressing her knowledge of, and love for, the South Downs of Sussex. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE : 'TO THE LADY WHOSE FACE ALWAYS GIVES ME PLEASURE' AND ADDITIONAL QUOTATION 'OUT OF THE COMPLICATED HOUSE CAME I TO WALK BENEATH THE SKY'. Loosely inserted is a signed photograph of the author and an unsigned holograph letter on stationery giving her summer (High Salvington, Sussex) and winter (Brompton Road, London) residences. Nancy Price CBE (1880-1970), actress, author and theatre director, and founder of the People's National Theatre (based at the Little Theatre, Adelphi, in the heart of London's theatreland, until its destruction in the Blitz of 1941).

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Sonstige Stichworte: theatre, nancy price, sussex, south downs, shepherds

STANISLAVSKY [Constantin]

Stanislavsky produces Othello. Translated from the Russian by Dr. Helen Nowak. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER

Geoffrey Bles,, [1948]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece; red cloth, gilt back, dark top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.

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Sonstige Stichworte: theatre, stanislavksy, constantin stanislavsky, othello