London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Miss Pope in the Character of Abigail. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 20-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin but without loss.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14242
London: Printed for S.A. & P. Thompson, ca. 1795. Volume 4 (the numeral being added in ink). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title and engraved musical notation throughout. Large 8vo, pp.60, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; lacking backstrip, joints cracked. Contemporary engraved label of Woodward's Musical Instrument and Music Warehouse, Birmingham, laid-down on upper blank margin of frontispiece. £140.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 5045
London: 1938 and later. The three programmes comprise: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Leonide Massie, Artistic Director. 1938 (4to, original wrappers); Ballet Rambert Arts Theatre Ballet & Opening Night of The Cave of Harmony. The Arts Theatre Club & The Ballet Club, Leicester Square, April-May 1940. (3-fold programme with portrait of Harold Turner, folded); & The St. James's Ballet Company presents a programme of new and original ballets ..... (4to, decoraive wrappers, Jan. 1949). Some dust marking, staples rusted. £14.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13415
London: Harold Fielding Concert Division, 1957. Souvenir programme. Photographic illustrations. 4to (10 5/8 x 8 inches), 8-pages. Original orange wrappers with portrait of Basie. Ticket stub formerly paper clipped to lower wrapper now loosely inserted, mark from paper clip to lower wrapper and last leaf. The programme leaf annotated in ink, else very good. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11606
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Miss Barsanti in the Character of Estifania. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 19-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin without loss. One leaf with long tear, without loss.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14238
London: 1954. Souvenir brochure. 4to, 16-pages, illustrated throughout, original coloured pictorial wrappers; some edge creasing. Togethe with the standard 8-page 8vo programme, original coloured pictorial wrappers.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13416
London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1889. 30th thousand. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 254-pages. Original bevelled brick red cloth blocked in black & gilt; headband crushed else a very good and bright copy.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17532
Original wrappers rubbed file punched & cockled. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17397
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mr King in the Character of Marplot; this detached. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 22-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin but without loss.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14244
London: Julian Braunsweg, 1949. Photographic illustrations throughout. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), 20-pages. Original gold wrappers with design in black by George Kirsta; some marking to wrappers but generally good. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11817
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mr. Dunstal in the Character of Dominic. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 22-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin but without loss.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14235
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First edition. Plates. Large 8vo, pp.xv:320, original blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt, uncut; spine slightly dulled; page edges browned; inner joints cracked but very firm; a very good copy. Bookplate to front pastedown. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 705
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mrs. Barry in the Character of Sir Harry Wildair. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 23-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin with the loss of just a few letters on one leaf.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14236
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mrs. Lessingham in the Character of Oriana; this detached 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 20-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin without loss
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14237
Dublin: Thomas Wilkinson, n.d. ca. 1780. 8vo, pp.24, disbound. Title browned and ink-marked, generally dusty and slightly edge-worn. Anonymous. Rare.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9007
London: Allen Lane, 2013. First edition, second impression. Coloured plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 629-pages. Original cloth; very good in like dust jacket.
£28.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17695
Figure of £4500 added in ink to title, one assumes the figure raised on behalf of the British Equity Club. 4to, 32-pages, original blue pictorial wrappers, silk tie bound; good. Gielgud played King Richard II in the play "Richard of Bordeaux".
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13751
Coloured plates, photographs. 4to, 28-pages, original textured yellow wrappers. The full-page photograph of Gielgud as Angelo, head & shoulders, signed across his hand. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13752
4to, 16-pages. Original coloured pictorial wrappers. Gielgud appeared as John Worthing in "The Importance of Being Ernest".
£21.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13753
Single sheet folded ; some browning. Gielgud played King Lear.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13745
Single sheet folded ; some spotting. Gielgud played Angelo. Ticket stapled to rear panel.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13746
Single sheet folded ; very good. Gielgud played Benedick.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13740
20-page small format programme ; rear cover a little soiled. Gielgud played Leontes.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13747
Single sheet folded ; slightly spotted. Gielgud played Julian Anson.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13742
Single sheet folded ; the pictorial front wrapper by Sheila Jackson. Gielgud played Oberon.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13749
Single sheet folded ; slightly spotted. Gielgud played Hamlet.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13741
Single sheet folded ; foxed, corner crease, plain back cover stained.. Gielgud directed.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13743
Single sheet folded ; slightly spotted. Gielgud played Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13744
Front cover shows Gielgud and Pamela Brown in costume in "The Lady's Not For Burning"; the photograph by Angus McBean. 40-pages; wrappers edge rubbed and a little soiled.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13750
London: George Routledge, 1870. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches), 154-pages. Contemporary quarter grained brown calf with green letterig piece, all edges marbled. With the half-title. Contemporary ownership inscription on title; very good.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17738
London: Printed for F. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1773. Goldsmith [Oliver]. She stoops to conquer: or, the mistakes of a night. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Doctor Goldsmith. The Second Edition. 8vo, pages (8):106:(2); with the half-title. |
Bound with: [Home, John]. The fatal discovery. A tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. London: printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand, 1769. 8vo pages (4):76:(2, Epilogue):(1, blank). Small blank upper fore-corner of title cut away.
Bound with: King Arthur: or, the British worthy. A masque. By Mr. Dryden. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, ... The music by Purcell and Dr. Arne. The scenes by French and Carver. London: printed for W. Strahan, L. Hawes and Co. T. Davies, T. Lownds, T. Becket, and W. Griffin, 1770 ( an adaption by David Garrick of Dryden's play, A re-issue of the edition of the same year which has p.[9] unnumbered, with a reset titlepage and an advertisement on p.3). 8vo, pages: (4):49.
Three plays bound in one. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), contemporary tan calf; binding rubbed and chipped, upper joint cracked, lower board detached. Some marginal browning/foxing; overall good.
£250.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15154
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1988. Illustrated auction catalogue of 146 lots. 4to (10 x 8 inches), 146-pages. Softback, original coloured pictorial wrappers by Osbert Lancaster. Excellent with printed price list inserted. £10.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16710
London: George Routledge, 1911. First edition. Portrait frontispiece, illustrations in the text. 8vo, pp.viii:221, original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt and pictorially blocked in white. Spine faded, lower cover stained, headbands and corners rubbed, 2-inch split to outer lower joint, front free endpaper removed, last few leaves corner bumped, two edge nicks and crease to first leaf of preface, some foxing. £36.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10215
Paris: circa 1830. Text within decorative engraved border, the card measuring 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. Contemporary name & address in ink on the reverse, central horizontal fold; good.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16516
Unpublished. 1975. Being the Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of French of the University of Leicester. Folio, pp. 366, binder's cloth. Carbon typescript.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7874
The first work Marburg: N. G. Elwert'sche, 1884. The second work Paris: J. Maisonneuve, 1889; the third work Paris: Honore Champion,1914. Three works bound in one volume. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: 132:84:(2):viii:200:(1), contemporary maroon fine grained binder's cloth; very good £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16448
London: Dennis Dobson, 1946. First edition. Plates, folding table. 8vo, pp.160, original cloth; binding dulled, inscription on front free endpaper.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1638
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Miss Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 12-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin but without loss.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14241
Kuala Lumpur: Dwan Bahasa Dan Pustaka, 1974. 8vo, pp.xxviii:352, original blue cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper slightly edge-rubbed; internally, some very light creasing to first few pages else very good. £32.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6936
Moscow: Iskusstvo Art Publishers, 1988. First edition. Numerous coloured plates. Oblong folio (16 x 13 inches), original ribbed blue cloth blocked in gilt and purple with bound-in silk bookmark; contained in the original slipcase; the slipcase rubbed. Text in both Russian and English. The Art of the Ballet Russes. Very heavy, please enquire as to shipping. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13974
London: Ling Physical Education Association, n.d. Six 8-page pamphlets, each 8vo, original printed wrappers.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1964
London: Longmans, 1949. First Edition. Portraits. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches), 387-pages. Contemporary half brown calf, spine lettered in gilt direct and gilt ruled on raised bands, top edge gilt. Gilt arms of the King's School Canterbury on upper cover and prize label on front pastedown. Very good. £
15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17697
London: Sotheby's, 1979. Auction catalogues. Plates. Two volumes (9 1/2 x 7 inches)pages: 124 & 61 (735-Lots), original pictorial green wrappers; price lists loosely inserted. Good. £18.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16223
London: Duckworth, 1993. Second impression. Black & white photographic illustrations. Tall 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches wide), pp.294, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper spine lightly sunned, slightly bumped along edges, very minor shelf-wear; internally, excellent.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11504
Taylor's photograph 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Inscribed, "To Sally Best Wishes Elizabeth Taylor". Mounted to an album leaf wth an unsigned photograph of a boxer to the reverse.
Burton's photograph, 10 x 8 inches, inscribed, "To Sally with best wishes Richard Burton" this with remains of an album leaf to the reverse, pin holes to margins.
Both pieces from the collection of Sally Reynolds who was given these photographs when a telephonist at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
£350.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17282
London: B. Williams, circa 1870. Sheet music with chromolitho. cover by F. Sexton lithographed by J. Griffiths. Edge browned, old tape on blank inner margin; residue of tape to margins of blank rear cover. Ideal for framing. Complete with musical notation. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15097
Paris: Cahiers Danse et Culture, 1948. Plates from photographs. 8vo, pp. (36), original printed wrappers; wrappers a little bumped and spotted. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2830
Paris, n.d. circa 1950. Photographic illustrations thoughout of nudes and tableaux. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches), 12-pages. Original pictorial wrappers in red white & blue. Backstrip a little rubbed, very good. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11603
London: Will Day Ltd. 1928. Fully illustrated catalogue. 8vo, pp. 12, original pictorial cord-bound wrappers; excellent. The price of this gramophoe was £175.00 ! £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No.13417