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By: N/A
Price: $45.50
Publisher: 1954
Seller ID: Books006602
Original handbill, program, and newspaper review of the March 4, 1954 performance of tenor Jan Peerce and pianist Warner Bass at the Queen Elizabeth Auditorium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Peerce at that time was the leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company. As the review attests: "One of the greatest receptions ever given an artist in Halifax was accorded Jan Peerce... as he was called back for repeated encores for 40 minutes at the conclusion of his concert...last night". An impressive program that included a relatively early performance of Samuel Barber's "Sure On This ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $188.50
Publisher: Boston, Walter H. Baker & Co.: 1889
Seller ID: Books007376
Condition: Very Good
7.3 x 4.8 inches. 16 pages plus 8 pages of ads at rear. Some splitting to spine fold but original sewn binding holding fine with covers secure. "P.H. Boys Club" to top of front cover in old ink; else unmarked. A remarkably well preserved example of this scarce work. WorldCat shows no institutional holdings of this Baker edition. Tremont, Boston, 1842 list of Characters (and Costumes) at front, with Mr. T.D. Rice in the title role. List of "Baker's Darkey Plays" verso front cover (this title not listed). View more info
By: Abbott, E.A.
Price: $19.50
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications: 1966
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: Books005680
Condition: Very Good
xxiv, 511pp. previous owner's name to ffep., notes on final blank page. This book is a facsimile reprint of the third, revised edition published by Macmillan and Company in 1870. View more info
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Kentville, N.S., Like No Other Press / Gaspereau Press: 2013
Seller ID: Books009722
ISBN: 97809919385
Condition: Very Good
60 pages. Clean and unmarked, with no spine crease. View more info
By: Bertolt Brecht
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, Methuen: 1990
Seller ID: Books009878
ISBN: 0413180506
Condition: Very Good
xvii, 268 pages. Edited and mainly translated by John Willett. Jacket is price clipped. Personal Rockwell Kent-inspired pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Binding sound, no inscriptions. View more info
Price: $93.75
Publisher: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Books010279
ISBN: 1894031660
Condition: Very Good
90 pages. With an Afterword by Peter Sanger. First edition with full numberline. Measures 11 x 7.5 inches. Clean and unmarked, with light soiling to shoulderband at rear. View more info
By: Curtis, Ariana Wormeley and Daniel Sargent Curtis
Price: $406.25
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1868
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Books010591
Condition: Very Good
141 pages. Cloth rubbed and spine sunned. Pencil note re. authorship to half title. Sound binding. Presumed first printing as there is no indication of later issue/edition. View more info
Price: $52.00
Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin and Company: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Books008256
Condition: Very Good
vii, 91 pages. Light soiling and small chips off jacket extremities (now in brodart). Clean, unmarked interior with sound binding. View more info
Price: $188.50
Publisher: London, Greening Co., L: 1901
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: Books010181
Condition: Good
xvi (Preface to Second Edition), pp. 7-424, Second edition has Special Preface to meet preconceptions and Misconceptions. front hinge secure but endpaper splitting, spine sunned, otherwise tight and clean View more info
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By: Drinkwater, John
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, sidgwick & Jackson: 1923
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: Books009517
Condition: Very Good
73 pages. Salmon cloth sunned; edges dusty; offsetting to endpapers. Binding sound. On the first rear endpaper is tipped in a spine label. Inscribed in 1926 by Drinkwater "For the P.E.N. Club" with the lines from page 6: "So the uncounted spirit wakes to the birth of uncounteded circumstance". Eighteenth impression: November, 1923. View more info
By: Euripides; Rev. J. R. Major
Price: $357.50
Publisher: London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman: 1838
Seller ID: Books007322
Condition: Good
xvi, 116; lii, [2], 165; xv, 176; vi, [2], 158; xii, 168 pages. A pleasing volume of nearly 900 pages, very well printed, with the "&c., &c." being substantial: background, earlier criticism, appendicies, indicies, questions and so forth for each play. The plays are in Greek; notes &c in English primarily with classical testimonials in Greek and Latin. I have not found this edition listed in library holdings. Binding sound and supple with hinges fully secure. Contents clean and unmarked. Rubbing to head and foot of spine. Curl to top corner of pp. xix-12 of Hecuba. View more info
By: George Elliott Clarke, George Elliott
Price: $34.38
Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Polestar Book Publishers: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: inscribed and signed by author
Seller ID: Books011984
ISBN: 1896095941
Condition: Very Good
160 pages, warm inscription from Clarke to former owner on title page View more info
Price: $84.50
Publisher: New York, The Universal School of Handicrafts: 1941
Seller ID: Books007511
Condition: Good
52 pages. 11.25 x 8.5 inches. Profusely illustrated. Foreword by founder of the Universal School, Edward T. Hall [d. 1962, not the anthropologist]. Tanning and light soiling to card covers. Spiral wire binding holding well, with splitting along the upper cover for an inch at head and foot. Interior is clean and unmarked. Photos are captioned: "Connecticut Yankee" - Tony Sarg / Vandamm - Harry Burnett of the Yale Puppeteers with Helen Hayes as Victoria Regina / Remo Bufano / Edward Fitzgerald / Aggrippino (Papa) Monteo / Sylvia Block / Sue Hastings / "Finis" - Courtesy of Sylvia... View more info
By: Gow, Michael
Price: $19.50
Publisher: Paddington, Australia, Currency Press: 1995
Seller ID: Books009794
ISBN: 0868192112
Condition: Very Good
xviii, 57 pages plus photos. Light wear; no spine crease. View more info
Price: $31.25
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Books011793
Condition: Very Good
99 pages. Gift inscription to ffep. Dust jacket spine sunned, jacket lightly chipped. View more info
By: Greene, B. M.; foreword by Lorne Albert Pierce
Price: $28.60
Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1923
Seller ID: Books009633
Condition: Very Good
148 pages. Clean and unmarked, in sound binding. View more info
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Price: $118.75
Publisher: London, H.D. Symmonds: 1793
Seller ID: Books011092
Condition: Good
331, vi, [3] pages. Vol. 1 only; good only. Lacking title page, but pagination accords with the 1793 issue. Front board detached. Marginal staining to first 15 leaves and occasionally thereafter. Foxing to rear endpapers. Textblock sound. View more info
![Image for The Sunken Bell a Fairy Play in Five Acts. [[publisher's fine binding presentation copy]](/assets/images/product/Books010722_2ea7f322702e533c8c1fe32551a2c1f1.jpg)
By: Hauptmann, Gerhart. Charles Henry Meltzer, trs.
Price: $281.25
Publisher: New York, R. H. Russell: 1899
Seller ID: Books010722
Condition: Very Good
[xiv], 125 pages; with frontispiece tissue guarded. A card pasted at foot of half title reads: This is the first copy from the press of this edition and was especially printed for Miss Jean Irvine Struthers. Her bookplate to front pastedown; decorative JEAN within two circles on front; RHR monogram to rear lower right. Full green morocco, spine and top edge heavily sunned; offsetting to free endpaper edges from inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Miss Struthers (b. 1871) would marry Henry Francis Sears in 1904 [see June Hall McCash: The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony 139 ff]. View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press: 1964
Seller ID: Books001071
Condition: Good
viii, 248pp. Originally published as Vol. 34, Nos. 1-2 in the Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 1950. previous owner's name to ffep. View more info
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By: Hugo, Victor. A. Blanco Prieto trs.
Price: $84.50
Publisher: Barcelona, Biblioteca Arte Y Letras:
Seller ID: Books008183
Condition: Very Good
377 pages. No stated date of issue, c. 1885. One inch scuff to outer upper hinge. Binding sound and hinges secure. Peripheral staining to some leaves; tidy name inscribed to second front endpaper. Text is in Spanish. View more info
