SOUVENIR ACIS AND GALATEA MASQUE OF LOVE AS PRODUCED AT THE GREAT QUEEN STREET THEATRE, MARCH 10TH, 1902 by Craig, Edward Gordon, and Martin Shaw - 1902

Ditchling Common, Hassocks, Sussex, England : Saint Dominic's Press, 1932. SCARCE in collectible condition, #49 of 200 copies printed at Saint Dominic's Press. Quarter blue leather over blue cloth boards, gilt lettering at spine, illustrations by Dunstan Pruden. Hilary D. C. Pepler was the founder of Saint Dominic's Press and an associate of Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton. Very Good Plus, the boards a bit rubbed, text clean and bright. . Limited and Numbered Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo. Limited Edition.

Volume 7 only of the 10-volume collection of stage portraits from the mid-19th century.Title page with vignette and 83 (of 100) handcoloured lithographic plates of actors, opera singers and ballet dancers in costume of their roles by Alexandre Lacauchie, Victor Dollet and Louis Lassalle, lithographed by Decan and Destouches, Paris.Includes the famous Italian ballerinas Fanny Cerrito and Caroline Rosati, French dancer Marie Guy-Stephan, actress Mlle. Alphonsine, soprano Marie-Charlotte Lemercier, and many more mid-century stars.Missing plates 601 603 606 607 609 614 619 625 637 638 670 671 674 675 681 697 and 700.The series was published from 1844-1870 in 10 volumes with 1,000 plates.Condition: Half red buckram split on the gutter, marble boards scuffed, but plates bright and vivid with fine handcolour, a few slightly spotted.Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois… Read More

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Hardcover in slipcase. Good/No Jacket, as issued. SIGNED Presentation Copy in Slipcase, #524 of the special limited edition (501-550 were for presentation). Signed by O'Neill in black ink. Though not indicated, this volume is from the library of T. R. Smith, chief editor and adviser at Liveright throughout its heyday in the 1920s and responsible for publishing some of O'Neill's works (including an early volume of one-act plays and Strange Interlude in 1928). Trilogy of plays containing Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted. Includes Working Notes and Extracts from a fragmentary work diary, facsimile pages inserted in rear pocket. Stained & spotted white vellum with beveled edges, gilt-stamping and black spine label. Scarce slipcase in fair condition with fragile & cracked edges and old tape repairs. Binding solid and untrimmed/uncut, but covers are rather spotted & darkened. O'Neill was a Puitzer and Nobel Prize winning American playwright, considered one of… Read More

Program pamphlet for first season of the Living Theatre. Preview of Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and "Ladies' Voices", Pablo Picasso's "Desire", T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes" as well as Kenneth Rexroth & Paul Goodman. Also W.C. Williams "Reply" prose and an early piece by John Cage. Cover illustration by Picasso.Very good preserved condition considering the fragile nature of the publication.

Lorraine Hansberry's tour de force was the first Broadway play produced to be written by a Black woman. A Raisin in the Sun explores the dynamics of a Black family in America as they confront prejudice and the profound barriers due to racism in all aspects of their daily lives. Before its debut, Hansberry worked as a Black civil rights activist and journalist for Black papers, and is now known to have been a closeted lesbian, leading to intense isolation even after she was catapulted into fame.
The play debuted at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1958 and the book was published the following year, it includes photographs of the original production, and therefore documents a crucial moment in the history of performance arts.
Hardcover, 142 pp. Quarter cream cloth and textured marbled brown card, with paper label photograph of actor Glynn Turman as Travis in centre. Some wear on top and bottom edges of cloth in the spine, overall in very good condition. Dust jacket is in good condition, with chips at… Read More

Ditchling Common, Hassocks, Sussex, England : Saint Dominic's Press, 1932. SCARCE in collectible condition, #49 of 200 copies printed at Saint Dominic's Press. Quarter blue leather over blue cloth boards, gilt lettering at spine, illustrations by Dunstan Pruden. Hilary D. C. Pepler was the founder of Saint Dominic's Press and an associate of Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton. Very Good Plus, the boards a bit rubbed, text clean and bright. . Limited and Numbered Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo. Limited Edition.

Volume 7 only of the 10-volume collection of stage portraits from the mid-19th century.Title page with vignette and 83 (of 100) handcoloured lithographic plates of actors, opera singers and ballet dancers in costume of their roles by Alexandre Lacauchie, Victor Dollet and Louis Lassalle, lithographed by Decan and Destouches, Paris.Includes the famous Italian ballerinas Fanny Cerrito and Caroline Rosati, French dancer Marie Guy-Stephan, actress Mlle. Alphonsine, soprano Marie-Charlotte Lemercier, and many more mid-century stars.Missing plates 601 603 606 607 609 614 619 625 637 638 670 671 674 675 681 697 and 700.The series was published from 1844-1870 in 10 volumes with 1,000 plates.Condition: Half red buckram split on the gutter, marble boards scuffed, but plates bright and vivid with fine handcolour, a few slightly spotted.Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois… Read More

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Hardcover in slipcase. Good/No Jacket, as issued. SIGNED Presentation Copy in Slipcase, #524 of the special limited edition (501-550 were for presentation). Signed by O'Neill in black ink. Though not indicated, this volume is from the library of T. R. Smith, chief editor and adviser at Liveright throughout its heyday in the 1920s and responsible for publishing some of O'Neill's works (including an early volume of one-act plays and Strange Interlude in 1928). Trilogy of plays containing Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted. Includes Working Notes and Extracts from a fragmentary work diary, facsimile pages inserted in rear pocket. Stained & spotted white vellum with beveled edges, gilt-stamping and black spine label. Scarce slipcase in fair condition with fragile & cracked edges and old tape repairs. Binding solid and untrimmed/uncut, but covers are rather spotted & darkened. O'Neill was a Puitzer and Nobel Prize winning American playwright, considered one of… Read More

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1882. " from original papers in the Lord Chamberlain's Office, the State Paper Office, and other sources." xii, 437; viii, 463 pages. SCARCE in contemporary fine binding. Bound in half calf over marbled boards, the circular armorial bookplates of William Rule Westwood Chafy-Chafy, Rous Lench Court and the blindstamp of W.& H. Smith Booksellers, Evesham front end pages. A Very Good set in tight bindings, boards a bit rubbed. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Program pamphlet for first season of the Living Theatre. Preview of Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and "Ladies' Voices", Pablo Picasso's "Desire", T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes" as well as Kenneth Rexroth & Paul Goodman. Also W.C. Williams "Reply" prose and an early piece by John Cage. Cover illustration by Picasso.Very good preserved condition considering the fragile nature of the publication.