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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1970. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Very fine in very close to fine dust jacket. A superior copy of this scarce title.
[A collection of almost all the plays, over half in first editions; also the major poetry and translations] by Vondel, Joost van den
by Vondel, Joost van den
[A collection of almost all the plays, over half in first editions; also the major poetry and translations]
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Vondel, Joost van den (17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) Dutch playwright, poet translator. A collection of almost all the plays, over half in first editions; also the major poetry and translations. 48 separate works bound in 12 vols, quarto. 11 in uniform contemporary vellum, 1 in modern gray wrappers. Mostly published by Abraham De Wees (1639- 1696).
All the important the plays are collected here including Lucifer (1654)* (said to have influenced John Milton), Jeptha (1659)** (his "theatrical compass"), Adam in Ballingschap (1654), Leewendalers (a glorification of the Peace of Münster, called the most perfect drama our poet has left us.) Included are Vondel's translations of Euripides' Feniciaensche van Thebes [Phoenician Women] (1668) and Sophocles' Herkules in Trachin (The Trachiniae) (1668). Vondel's translations of the works of Ovide are collected (1671), as are his translations of Virgil in two editions (in prose, De Wees, 1646 and in verse, Visser, de Coup, et. al. after De Wees plates, 1696). Finally, there are two volumes of his collected poetry (Leonard Strik, 1683) and a number of his beautiful religious poems, including the alte Geheimenissen [Mysteries of the Altar] and Brieven der Helige Maeghden (1687).
All the works are published in quarto, most by Abraham de Wees, or, after he died, his wife Joannes de Wees with the distinctive title page engraving of bucket hanging above a well. Several of the works are illustrated with etchings by important Dutch painters and engravers: Cornelius Galle, Jan van Luykens, Abraham Bloteling (Blooteling), and others.
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All the important the plays are collected here including Lucifer (1654)* (said to have influenced John Milton), Jeptha (1659)** (his "theatrical compass"), Adam in Ballingschap (1654), Leewendalers (a glorification of the Peace of Münster, called the most perfect drama our poet has left us.) Included are Vondel's translations of Euripides' Feniciaensche van Thebes [Phoenician Women] (1668) and Sophocles' Herkules in Trachin (The Trachiniae) (1668). Vondel's translations of the works of Ovide are collected (1671), as are his translations of Virgil in two editions (in prose, De Wees, 1646 and in verse, Visser, de Coup, et. al. after De Wees plates, 1696). Finally, there are two volumes of his collected poetry (Leonard Strik, 1683) and a number of his beautiful religious poems, including the alte Geheimenissen [Mysteries of the Altar] and Brieven der Helige Maeghden (1687).
All the works are published in quarto, most by Abraham de Wees, or, after he died, his wife Joannes de Wees with the distinctive title page engraving of bucket hanging above a well. Several of the works are illustrated with etchings by important Dutch painters and engravers: Cornelius Galle, Jan van Luykens, Abraham Bloteling (Blooteling), and others.
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Operation Sidewinder.
by SHEPARD, Sam.
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The Homecoming
by PINTER, Harold
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London: Methuen & Co, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper. In custom chemise and quarter morocco gilt and cloth slipcase. Inscribed by Pinter to Vivien Merchant, the lead (and only) actress in the play, who was also his wife: "June 1965 To Vivien. Thank you! David." Pinter was an actor as well, and here uses his stage name, David Baron. *The Homecoming* won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1967, and Merchant was nominated for Best Actress. As good an association as possible in what is probably the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's best-known and commercially most successful drama.
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The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts
by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
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British Theatrical Gallery: A Collection of Whole Length Portraits with Biographical Notices
by Daniel Terry
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Title page, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates with corresponding pages of explanatory text. Twenty fine hand-coloured engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and actresses after paintings by Harlow, Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others.Actors include Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, ballerinas Mlle. Lisa Noblet and Mlle. Felicite Hullin, ballet dancer Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, Henry Gattie and Mme. Maria Theresa Bland in the farce Monsieur Tonson, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, Charles Young, etc.Daniel Terry (1780-1829) was an English actor and friend of Sir Walter Scott, many of whose novels he adapted for the stage.Condition: Half honey-coloured leather binding with five raised bands, gilt leather title label, marbled boards. Interior clean and bright with fine hand-colouring, slight discoloration to title page.
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Galerie Dramatique: Vols. 1-4: Costumes des Theatres de Paris
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Collection of 277 hand-coloured lithographic portraits of French actors and actresses from the first 4 volumes of this rare series.No title page or prelims, mostly disbound plates loosely inserted within original bindings for Vol. 1 and 2, plate numbers from 1 to 392.Portraits of actors, actresses, dancers and opera singers by Alexandre Lacauchie and Victor Dollet, lithographed by Jules Rigo, Decan, Lebref.Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.Condition: Red leather bindings with fine gilt decoration on spines and boards, water damaged but holding, acting as portfolio for the loose plates. Plates with some damp-staining to lower edge, mostly outside the image, toning and spotting. Most plates disbound but all with vibrant fine hand coloring and gum arabic high lighting. Sold as a collection of plates.Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois Victor Dollet (1815-??) was a French painter, lithographer and printmaker.
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Operation Sidewinder.
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The Homecoming
by PINTER, Harold
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London: Methuen & Co, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper. In custom chemise and quarter morocco gilt and cloth slipcase. Inscribed by Pinter to Vivien Merchant, the lead (and only) actress in the play, who was also his wife: "June 1965 To Vivien. Thank you! David." Pinter was an actor as well, and here uses his stage name, David Baron. *The Homecoming* won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1967, and Merchant was nominated for Best Actress. As good an association as possible in what is probably the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's best-known and commercially most successful drama.
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The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts
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British Theatrical Gallery: A Collection of Whole Length Portraits with Biographical Notices
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Title page, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates with corresponding pages of explanatory text. Twenty fine hand-coloured engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and actresses after paintings by Harlow, Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others.Actors include Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, ballerinas Mlle. Lisa Noblet and Mlle. Felicite Hullin, ballet dancer Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, Henry Gattie and Mme. Maria Theresa Bland in the farce Monsieur Tonson, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, Charles Young, etc.Daniel Terry (1780-1829) was an English actor and friend of Sir Walter Scott, many of whose novels he adapted for the stage.Condition: Half honey-coloured leather binding with five raised bands, gilt leather title label, marbled boards. Interior clean and bright with fine hand-colouring, slight discoloration to title page.
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Collection of 277 hand-coloured lithographic portraits of French actors and actresses from the first 4 volumes of this rare series.No title page or prelims, mostly disbound plates loosely inserted within original bindings for Vol. 1 and 2, plate numbers from 1 to 392.Portraits of actors, actresses, dancers and opera singers by Alexandre Lacauchie and Victor Dollet, lithographed by Jules Rigo, Decan, Lebref.Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.Condition: Red leather bindings with fine gilt decoration on spines and boards, water damaged but holding, acting as portfolio for the loose plates. Plates with some damp-staining to lower edge, mostly outside the image, toning and spotting. Most plates disbound but all with vibrant fine hand coloring and gum arabic high lighting. Sold as a collection of plates.Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois Victor Dollet (1815-??) was a French painter, lithographer and printmaker.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection)
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."
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Dr. Johnson: A Play
by Newton, A. (Alfred) Edward, 1864- 1940
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Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press 1923. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press [Updike, Merrymount] 1923. Hard Cover. Signed. xvii, 120 pages, plates; 23 cm. "Of the five hundred and eighty-five copies of this Hand-made Paper Edition, this is copy number 18", signed by the author. Bound in decorated paper with green linen spine & paper spine label. Updike, Merrymount Press Bibliography 586. Stock#OB145. VG.
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Another Part of the Forest
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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[Order Form for Henry Vaughan's Sacred Poems]
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The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Thais (Universal Library)
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Anatole France. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library Edition. No date or statement on copyright page. Circa 1929. USED. VERY GOOD/GOOD ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Dust jacket has a bit of loss at top of spine. Glossy black boards with silver, green and black titling and ornamentation. Lime green endpapers. No frontispiece or any other photos appear in this edition. 5 7/8 X 8 ½. 154 pages. "Thais is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the 1890 novel "Thais" by Anatole France, a story of forbidden love. Cinema, Film History. Silent Film Era.
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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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Old Theatre Days & Ways
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W.J. Lawrence. Old Theatre Days & Ways. First published 1935 by George Harrap & Co. Ltd., London. ANGLOPHILIA. THEATRE HISTORY. PERFORMING ARTS. BRITISH HISTORY. ISBN 9781131731827. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 256 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8. This copy is located in United States.
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The Plays Of Eugene O'Neill (Three Volume Set): Volume I: Strange Interlude, Desire Under The Elms, Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, The Moon Of The Caribees, Bound East For Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, In The Zone, Ile, Where The Cross Is Made, The Rope, The Dreamy Kid, Before Breakfast, Volume II: Mo
by Eugene O'Neill
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