Craig Edith Christopher John (12 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Biography. Covers rubbed and sunned, faded on the spine and around the edges, spine ends bumped. Interior clean and tight, pages toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ellen Terry's Memoirs With a Preface, Notes and Additional Biographical Chapters by Edith Craig and Christopher St. John. Hardcover published in 1932 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, No jacket. Spine darkened with minor wear to corners and spine tips.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Condition: New.

1st edition, hardback, 359pp, pages browning, text otherwise clean and sound, owner's stamp and inscriptions on endpaper, inner hinges weak with webbing exposed, red cloth, rubbed and soiled, Fair condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are worn and marked.Gift inscription.Some tanning.Excellent binding.[R.M]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Octavo. Book.

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Condition: Good. 1970 reprint. No jacket. Boards have light shelf wear/marks/minor bumps to corners. Lightly marked textblock with bump to top. Content very good.

The subject of the present letter is, as Marshall's entry in the Oxford DNB explains, her 'translation of a play by the first female dramatist, Hrotsvit. 'Paphnutius' was given a world première by Craig for the Pioneer Players in January 1914.' The recipient, Henry Mackinnon Walbrook (1865-1941), was the drama critic of the Pall Mall Gazette. 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, on dusty discoloured paper, with slight rust spotting from paperclip. She asks if he 'could spare time' to see her for a few minutes, as she thinks she could give him 'some further information about the enclosed [not present] which would make an interesting article for the P. M. G.' If Walbrook 'cannot be bothered' to write the article she can do so herself, 'but I am anxious not to do this as the translation is my work'. She asks him to 'telephone when I may see you'. As he has been 'so kind in helping me on one or two other occasions', she feels sure he will forgive her for 'asking for your interest in this production, which really is worth [last word underlined] your interest'. Minuted in pencil at head of first page: 'Passed on to F. A. H. Eyles for Interview.'. …

First edition. With a two page autograph letter signed by Christopher St John to English theatre historian Walter McQueen Pope loosely inserted. In the letter St. John thanks McQueen Pope for agreeing to deliver the tribute to Ellen Terry at the 1952 Ellen Terry Performance held at Priest's House in Smallhythe. Also with two black and white postcards of Priest's House. 8vo., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. Wrapper with a little chipping and creasing otherwise a very good copy. This festschrift includes contributions from, inter alia, Edward Gordon Craig, Dame Sybil Thordike, Violet Pym and Vita Sackville West.…