Search Results: Theatre & Plays from Pazzo Books

Madrid: I. Sancha, 1829. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary acid calf, wear at corners, Text in Italian with facing Spanish translation. First published in Italian in 1818. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 045374.

London: A. Dodd, 1714. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition. Later but fairly early half leather over marbled boards, front board detached. Browned and foxed throughout, but intact and completely legible. Lacking the frontis. (6), 64pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 042345.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good. Green morocco sunned to an even brown on spine; marbled boards and endpapers, an attractive copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 038498.

London: John Darby, 1722. Second Edition. Disbound. Good Condition. Disbound, title page detached and browned. Age toned throughout, trimmed close on top touching the running title. Complete with preface by Steele and Epilogue. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042344.

1711. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Disbound from a larger volume, pages 1153-1223, but complete with the frontis. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 042340.

Madrid: Los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, 1837. Second Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. 5 volumes rebound in burgundy leather backed cloth - original front wrap bound in on volumes 2-5, first title worn with a small tear, scattered browning and foxing, a few old ownership marks, otherwise unmarked and very clean internally. Attractively printed with engraved tailpieces. Published the year of de Larra's unfortunate suicide. 192; 183; 178; 182; 193pp Size: 16mo . 5-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: 045373.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Jacket sunned on top edge and along spine, short tear to edge of rear panel and a few small ships and tears along edges - still attractive and intact otherwise. Decorative endpapers, top edge dyed pink. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: 041911.

Paris: Editeurs Associes - François Bernouard, 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Original yellow wraps, spine perished, worn at edges, Inscribed by the author to Max Dorian. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Poetry. Inventory No: 045164.

Francfort: Frans Rottenberg, 1688. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Later full burgundy morocco by Zaehnsdorf, hinges cracked and weakening, largish chip to spine, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. First three pages chipped at the edges, small paper repair to page 5, scattered light foxing. 89, (3)pp. The first edition of a notorious book about the former wife of Moliere, a celebrated actress who started the Théatre Guénégaud. She married M. Guerin after the playwright's death which occasioned this embellished story. Despite the fact that it is often considered more a novel than history, much of the information was included in Moliere's various biographies. It went through a number of editions over the years, under a few different names - all the early ones are quite scarce. "la plus complete...et la plus belle" and "à la fin les Portraits en vers des comédiennes d'Hotel Guénégaud, qui… Read More

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Wraps discolored, detached and heavily chipped, front with significant loss at the top edge, lighter at bottom edge, and a 2" teat at the bottom center; rear wraps with modest chipping at edges. String binding failing and nearly disbound - but generally very good internally, a few small marks, light chipping to page edges. The first state without the fleurons following "Desire" on the cover (Ahearn 721). The cover and title page (of the same image) by Aubrey Beardsley. A notoriously fragile book and often found in even more compromised condition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 045992.

Paris: NRF (Nouvelle Revue Française, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original printed wrappers, a touch soiled and creased, last few pages modestly soiled and creased on the upper right. Very rare original offprint edition of Artaud's manifesto first published in the October issue of Nouvelle Revue Française. 12pp. Later collected with other texts and published as Theatre et son Double in 1938, Artaud's conception of theater as a crowbar that can violently and unexpectedly unlock the subconscious was enormously influential. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 045553.

London: Edward Moxon, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition. 2 volumes bound in one, foxed, age toned early one, generally clean otherwise. Binding worn but sound, half calf over watered silk, label chipped, with the bookplate of Archer Ryland on the front endpaper. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: 042316.

Nyons, 1976. Soft Cover. Very Good. Dampstain at tail of spine affecting front and rear cover, slight soiling, otherwise VG. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 033498.

Merlin, 1768. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Two volumes, five parts, bound as one in contemporary speckled calf, spine a little dry, front hinge cracked but sound. Light scattered foxing. The first two volumes, published in 1768, of what would become a six volume set by 1773. Attractively printed with headpieces. 362pp; 366pp. Duplessis 320. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2 volumes of the 6-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 045988.

London: C.W. Daniel, 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Light wear to salmon card covers, brown wrapper with two large tears with loss, one to the bottom edge, one at the head of the spine. Intact and attractive otherwise. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 042980.