Edward Owen Marsh (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with some edge wear, toning and a few tears.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Impression. 1953 first edition, first impression. Size octavo, 201 pages. Brown cloth covered boards with black titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, light offsetting and a few faint spots to end-papers otherwise contents are clean. Dust jacket condition very good, corners and spine ends rubbed and lightly chipped, edges rubbed with tiny nickswithout loss, spine very slightly sunned, not price clipped. With black and white photographs on glossy paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Smart copy in dustwrapper which has minor loss to top edge. In new plastic overwrapper.

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (poor); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG++. Dust Jacket Condition: VG++. 1st UK Edition. Drama of aerial combat, based on the author's own experiences during WW2. 'With a Foreword by Air Marshall Sir Robert Saundby'. BOOK:- Spine head and heel crush, one small corner bump. Fade on the spine head ridge. Ink name on front pastedown. JACKET: Intact, with price. Two small tears, one small perforation. Peripheral chipping on the spine head and the flap top hinge corners. Spine is mildly browned. Scan on request.…

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardback. First Edition. Hardback. 202pp. A study of the work of Jean Anouilh the French playwright best known for his adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. Brown cloth is very clean. Binding is sound. Attractive dust jacekt is lightly rubbed to the edges with some loss to the head of teh jacket spine and some suffing and surface damage also to the the jacket spine. Not price clipped. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket Very good copy in good+ dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. A study of a gifted playwright. Dj chipped and sunned on spine. Book is tight and pages unmarked though spine is faded and worn.

Cloth 201pp + 14pp pl.Clean & bright VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1953. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket rear has a couple of short closed tears. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref PP207. Jean Anouilh: Poet of Pierrot and Pantaloon by Edward Owen Marsh. Published by W. H. Allen, London.…

Hardback. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition in English. First edition in English. Crown 8vo. 98pp. Red cloth, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket design by Harry More-Gordon. Faint foxing to top edge, a hint of soiling to rear dustwrapper panel, with a shallow chip to crown of lightly sunned spine, else Fine. Translated from the French by Edward Owen Marsh. Premiered on 10th December 1957 at the New Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, London, after an Oxford Playhouse try-out. It was directed by Frank Hauser, and starred John Justin, Jill Bennett, Alan MacNaughtan, Lally Bowers, and Ian Hendry. Originally staged under the title Le Rendez-vous de Senlis, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier on 30 January 1941, in a production directed by André Barsacq. That starred Michel Vitold, Denise Bosc, Jean Dasté, Madeleine Geoffroy, Georges Rollin, and Monelle Valentin. A man's ultimately fruitless attempt to impress the girl he loves by hiring actors to portray his imaginary wealthy parents. Forming part of Anouilh's pièces roses or "pink plays", and additionally comprising Le Bal des voleurs [Carnival of Thieves] (1938), and Léocadia [Time Remembered] (1940), the focus of these urbane comedies is on fantasy substituting reality. A prolific French dramatist whose career spanned five decades, Anouilh is best remembered today for his 1944 adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama Antigone, viewed as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1953. W.H.Allen. First Edition. Very Good Condition book in similar grade dustwrapper. Not price clipped and without inscriptions.

1st edition torn dust jacket Very Good octavo 201pp., frontis., b/w pls., Price-clipped. Ownership inscription o / w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1953 W H Allen Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket.

dj. First Edition. [French Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.98 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to cloth. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Harry More-Gordon, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp copy, with some toning and chipping to jacket spine. Near fine. An English translation of a two-act French play first performed in Paris in 1937.…

Condition: Poor. Used, dust jacket outer edges and corners have minor scuffs and small tears, outer pages have Brown marks, cover has light scratches and marks, book content is in very good condition.