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Nimmo, Derek
As The Actress Said To The Bishop: Star Studded Stories From The Stage And Screen
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge and a little sunning around spine. 173pp. Autobiographical (and other) tales from star of stage and screen Derek Nimmo.
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Butler, Dorothy et al
Hyde Showtime Memories
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked front board, extremely faint marking to rear and no bumping to corners. 148pp. A fascinating and nostalgic collection of people and events which took place within the many theatre, operatic and musical societies and playhouses which have come and gone in Hyde, Greater Manchester and District in the twentieth century. Very well illustrated.
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The Editor
Souvenir programme : Royal Gala Performance of Il Trovatore in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales, at the Royal Opera House on 7th June, 1989.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 70pp. With all the details and discussion about the opera, performers, singers, Verdi etc. Frontispiece is a colour photographs of Charles and Diana. Tucked in is a 2-page programme of the event.
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Price, Nancy
Shadows on the Hills
Name/address stamp & date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with repair/crease to front, slightly sunned spine and nicks and chips to corners. 320pp. A volume of reminiscences by one of the most distinguished actresses over the first half of the 20th century.
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Ostrovskii, A.N.
Artistes and Admirers: A Comedy in Four Acts
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, price label to rear and no bumping to corners. Introduction on 37 pages plus 68pp. English translation by Elizabeth Hanson of this play - a Russian comedy. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Shaw, Bernard
Candida : A Mystery
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very tight pages with unmarked olive green boards, tanned end papers, very slight sunning to spine and very minor bumping to corners. Lower and fore-edges untrimmed and foxed. 151pp. Script for Bernard Shaw's mystery play,
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Davis, Derek Russell
Scenes of Madness : A Psychiatrist at the Theatre
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing and a trace of damp effect to rear. 204pp. Written by a Professor of Mental Health who believes that playgoers can learn as much about madness at the theatre as from textbooks of psychiatry, this study looks at the account from playwrights of the madness afflicting such diverse characters as Orestes, Oedipus, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Dr Faustus, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving, Ivanov and Blanche Dubois.
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Morrison, Matthew
The Soho Theatre, 1968-1981
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 200pp. A detailed study of the development of one of the most successful theatres of the last fifty years.
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Fitz-Gerald, S. J. Adair
The Story of the Savoy Opera
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine which has a ripple across it. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to spine edges, tanning to page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. 240pp. The story of the Savoy Theatre, the D'Oyly Carte productions and Gilbert & Sullivan. Very well illustrated with portrait photographs of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Gilbert & Sullivan etc and full page photographs of many of the actors from the Savoy productions.
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Weiss, Peter
Trotsky in Exile (Modern Plays)
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. 126pp. Script for the play which covers the whole of Trotsky's life in politics from the Tsarist regime in 1902 to his death in exile in Mexico in 1940.
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Lytton, Sir Henry
A Wandering Minstrel : Reminiscences
Neat book plate to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A clean very tight copy with lightly marked boards, tanned page edges, rubbing/slight bumping to ends of sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 287pp. Reminiscences of his life by actor Sir Henry Lytton, born 1867. Foreword by one time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Illustrated.
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Mackintosh, Iain
Pit, Boxes and Gallery : Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly sunned slightly foxed unmarked boards, rubbing to upper front corner and no bumping to corners. 48pp. The story of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds from 1819 to 1976.
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Chew, Shirley and Stead, Alistair (editors)
Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (Liverpool English Texts and Studies)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor fading to spine. 421pp. Eighteen substantial essays from critics, translators and eminent persons of British theatre which explore the idea and practice of translation.
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The Editor
Culture and Agitation: Theatre Documents
Name on title page. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to slightly dusty white covers. A very clean very tight copy with covers slightly marked at spine edge and no bumping to corners. 64pp. A series of short essays on political subjects in the theatre by six authors plus brief details of political theatre in Russia, China and Britain and on how to use street theatre.
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The Editor
Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked olive boards, clear gilt lettering/embossing to very slightly sunned spine and very tiny bump to lower front corner. 509pp. Plays for the theatre from the time of Charles II which were sought after following the dearth of plays during the twenty years of the Commonwealth.
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Quick, Diana
A Tug on the Thread : From the British Raj to the British Stage
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to top of front cover and no bumping to corners. 317pp. Autobiography and family memoir of actor Diana Quick. This is also a social history of the British in India. Illustrated.
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Katz, Dina (editot)
Artlook 99
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 36pp. South African art magazine from the 1970s with features on current painters plus dance, theatre and sculpture. Scarce.
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Mucha, Alphonse & Bridges, Ann (editor)
Alphonse Mucha : The Complete Graphic Works
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and the faintest of bumps to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor sunning. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 192pp. The works of Alphonse Mucha from the 1890s when he was at the height of his fame and producing his panneaux decoratifs and his celebrated posters for the theatre and other outlets. His style became synonymous with Art Nouveau. With 163 illustrations in colour.
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Aristophanes
The Plays of Aristophanes (2 Volumes)
Volumes 1 & 2. Both have tape marks and name to the end papers from previous owner's old cellophane wrappers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Only Vol 1 has a dust jacket. This has similarly tape marked dust flaps, Total of 509pp. The plays are The Acharnians, The Knights, The Birds, The Peace, The Frogs, The Trial of Euripides, The Clouds and The Wasps. Intro by John P Maine (vol 1) and John Hookham Frere (vol 2).
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Ganzl, Kurt
Barnum : Theatre Programme
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 20pp. Theatre programme for the West End production of Barnum starring Michael Crawford.
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Marston, John & Wood, H. Harvey (editor)
The Plays of John Marston in three volumes (Three Volume Set)
Three volume set. No marks or inscriptions to any volume. No creasing to covers or to spines. Three very clean very tight copies with unmarked dull green cloth boards, slight sunning to spines, dusty tops of page edges, a little foxing to end papers and page edges and minor bumping to one different corner of each volume. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Each copy with a spare replaceable spine title label at the rear of each. Total of 928pp. The plays of John Marston were written and first published around the end of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Volume I comprises Antonio and Mellida, Antonios Revenge and The Malcontent. Volume II has Sophonisba, The Dutch Courtezan, The Fawne and What You Will. Volume III has The Insatiate Countesse, East-Ward Hoe, Jacke Drums Entertainment and Histrio-Mastix. Publication dates of Volumes I, II and III are 1934, 1938 and 1939. A heavy set.
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The Editor
Kursaal : A History of Harrogate's Royal Hall
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright red cloth boards with gilt lettering, a very small mark to upper rear corner and no bumping to corners. 100pp. Published to celebrate the re-opening of Harrogate's Royal Hall after its restoration. Well illustrated history including all the stars who have performed there since 1903.
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Cox, Brian
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat : My Autobiography
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 374pp. Autobiography of actor Brian Cox, who recently starred in the smash hit Succession. Illustrated.
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IL TEATRO DI SAMUEL BECKETT
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