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Jumbo Jum. An Original Farce In One Act .

By: N/A

Price: $207.35

Publisher: Boston, Walter H. Baker & Co.: 1889

Seller ID: Books007376

Binding: wraps

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).
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Original 1954 JAN PEERCE Handbill & Program Nova Scotia Opera

By: N/A

Price: $50.05

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 ...
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A Shakespearian Grammar. An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Diffferences Between Elizabethan and Modern English

By: Abbott, E.A.

Price: $21.45

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications: 1966

Seller ID: Books005680

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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The Clouds of Aristophanes, with Notes

By: Aristophanes; C.C. Felton trs.

Price: $74.25

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, J. Owen: 1841

Seller ID: Books013219

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xii, 194 pages. First edition thus, with Preface dated June 1841: "It is hoped, that this little book may be of some service in promoting the study of the literature of Greece in the Unites States." Text in Greek; notes in English. Cloth and paper spine label worn; pencil notation to endpapers and occasionally within. Heavy foxing to first few and final few leaves, and occasionally throughout. Tideline to lower inch of most leaves. An acceptable working copy in sound binding.
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Remembering Colin. A Gathering of Poems for Colin Bernhardt

By: Bawtree, Michael, et al.

Price: $28.60

Publisher: Kentville, N.S., Like No Other Press / Gaspereau Press: 2013

Seller ID: Books009722

ISBN: 97809919385

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

60 pages. Clean and unmarked, with no spine crease.
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Ursa Major. A Polyphonic Masque for Speakers & Dancers

By: Bringhurst, Robert

Price: $103.13

Publisher: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press: 2003

Seller ID: Books010279

ISBN: 1894031660

Binding: Card covers

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.
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The Looms of the Gods. A Drama of Reincarnation

By: Carroll, John S.

Price: $68.75

Publisher: London, Constable and Company Ltd.: 1914

Seller ID: Books012236

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 88 pages, page edges untrimmed
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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage During His Own Time

By: Cibber, Colley

Price: $533.25

Publisher: London, R. And J. Dodsley: 1756

Seller ID: Books012759

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

[12], 324; 303, [30] pages. Two volumes. Contemporary claf rebacked preserving most of original spines. Armorial bookplate with motto Adversis Nitet Fortitudo on pastedown of each volume. Endpapers browned at edges; foxing to first few and final few leaves and occasionally within. Overall a clean, tidy set in sound bindings.
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The Spirit of Seventy-Six , or, The Coming Woman . A Prophetic Drama. Followed by A Change of Base , and A Change of Base and Doctor Mondschein

By: Curtis, Ariana Wormeley and Daniel Sargent Curtis

Price: $446.88

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1868

Seller ID: Books010591

Binding: Cloth

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.
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At My Heart's Core

By: Davies, Robertson

Price: $57.20

Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin and Company: 1950

Seller ID: Books008256

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vii, 91 pages. Light soiling and small chips off jacket extremities (now in brodart). Clean, unmarked interior with sound binding.
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Image for God in Shakespeare. The Course of the Poet's Spiritual Life with his Reflections thereon and his Resultant Conception of his World-Personality Inductively Established from his Text.

God in Shakespeare. The Course of the Poet's Spiritual Life with his Reflections thereon and his Resultant Conception of his World-Personality Inductively Established from his Text.

By: Downing, Charles (Clelia)

Price: $207.35

Publisher: London, Greening Co., L: 1901

Seller ID: Books010181

Binding: Cloth

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
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Abraham Lincoln, A Play [inscribed by Drinkwater for the PEN club]

By: Drinkwater, John

Price: $71.50

Publisher: London, sidgwick & Jackson: 1923

Seller ID: Books009517

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Euripides : Alcestis, Hecuba, Medea, Orestes, Phoenissae Edited, with Original Explanatory English Notes, &c., &c.

By: Euripides; Rev. J. R. Major

Price: $393.25

Publisher: London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman: 1838

Seller ID: Books007322

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Beatrice Chancy

By: George Elliott Clarke, George Elliott

Price: $37.82

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Polestar Book Publishers: 1999

Seller ID: Books011984

ISBN: 1896095941

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

160 pages, warm inscription from Clarke to former owner on title page
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Marionettes For All Ages

By: Goerdeler, Pearl Pomeroy

Price: $92.95

Publisher: New York, The Universal School of Handicrafts: 1941

Seller ID: Books007511

Binding: Coil bound card covers

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...
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Poems and Plays to which is prefixed the life of the author

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $195.75

Publisher: London, B. Newbery and T. Johnson: 1780

Seller ID: Books013287

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

x, 272, [6] pages; complete with frontispiece and three plates; pages 12 and 253 misnumbered. Extremities rubbed, upper joint split for an inch from top. Binding sound; contents clean.
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Essays by Oliver Goldsmith. Collecta Revirescunt

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $168.75

Publisher: Dublin, J. Williams: 1767

Seller ID: Books013290

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

iv, 248 pages. Joints split but boards secure. Pencil notation to front free endpaper, private ownership indications to title page. Binding sound; contents clean.
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