Herbert Nigel Playfair (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good plus or better, light general wear, soiled. Cloth Pages browned, foxed in varying degrees throughout. Armstrong, John.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Armstrong (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ.First printing. Minimal wear to hard back book. 124 pages. Pages are clean and tight.Illustrated endpapers. No name or inscription.

Condition: Good. 1926. First Edition. 125 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second printing. No dust jacket. Cloth boards have edge wear, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine, slightly soiled. Foxing to pages. No writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd. Hardcover. 125 pages. Some soiling to covers. Foxing to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Armstrong (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. 125 pages Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated endpapers.Boards are dark orange with illustrated label on front.No name or inscription.2nd impression.

Cardboard Covers. Condition: Fine. Small Octavo in orange cloth with paper label to front; 124 p., [8] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; 21 cm. Uncommon. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Armstrong John (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Good condition for its age. An entertainment produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Charming, witty illustrations. Brown cloth cover.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. Illustrated by John Armstrong Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

First edition, octavo hardcover (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.

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in the original cloth paper decorated boards. Some slight wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, tight, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 124 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Subjects; Musical revues, comedies, etc. Librettos. Illustrated books British Isles 1926. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Pastedown Over Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Armonstrong, John (illustrator). First Edition. London: Unwin, 1926. First edition. Textured orange cloth binding with illustrated pastedown showing Elsa Lancaster as a chorus girl. Illustrated endpapers showing the two authors and the characters as puppets on a stage. Illustrated half-title and title. Foreword by Galsworthy. 8 additional black and white plates plus additional in-text illustrations. 125 pp. Light wear, light soiling, previous owner name to front endpaper. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. John Armstrong (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1926 first edition hardback with dustwrapper.This is the revue that was performed at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 1926.Interior has ex pencil price mark otherwise clean interior with all pages tight in binding, cloth covers have small tippex? to front. Dustwrapper has several chinks missing as shown in photos but has been included for completeness,

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in the original cloth paper decorated boards. Some slight wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, tight, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 124 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Subjects; Musical revues, comedies, etc. Librettos. Illustrated books British Isles 1926. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

orange cloth, original dw torn with pieces missing, the script of an entertainment as produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, with a foreword by John Galsworthy illustrated by John Armstrong.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Indeed. John Armstrong (illustrator). First Edition. A.P. Herbert & Playfair's famous revue, with foreword by Galsworthy. Orange cloth with white paper title labels. Lovely bright, clean hardback with numerous plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in slightly rubbed cloth, with very light rubbing to the edges. Inscribed on the title page from A.P. Herbert to Michael MacLiamoir. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Armstrong, John (illustrator). 125 pp. Cloth with title labels onlaid to spine and board, in pictorial jacket. Jacket torn with loss to head of spine and top corner. Infrequent spotting. Foreword by John Galsworthy. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 125 pages; Description: 125 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Literature. Genre: Drama / Play Script. Impressively illustrated throughout with colourfully illustrated end-papers. 3 Kg.

HERBERT, A.P. & PLAYFAIR, Nigel. Riverside Nights. An Entertainment Written and arranged by.as produced at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Illus. by John Armstron. Orig. cloth with paper labels, dust jacket (torn). London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1926). First edition. A very good copy.

HB. FIRST. T Fisher Unwin (1926) First Edition in orange boards with cover label pasted to front and spine.Small bookseller label to tail of front past-down endpaper and gift inscription (dated 25/8/1927) to reverse of front free endpaper.Binding is slightly loose and there is minor foxing but otherwise in good condtion. Scans available if required.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 125 pages; Description: 125 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Literature. Genre: Drama / Play Script. Impressively illustrated throughout with colourfully illustrated end-papers. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. Original stapled souvenir theatre programme 8½'' x 5½'' in black and white patterned paper covers with white paper title label to the front cover. Contains 8 printed pages of text with advertisements. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Condition: Very Good. Original stapled souvenir theatre programme 8½'' x 5½'' in black and white patterned paper covers with white paper title label to the front cover. Contains 8 printed pages of text with advertisements. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. John Armstrong (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this humorous drama from A. P. Herbert and Nigel Playfair. First edition. Illustrated with three plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A humorous drama written as "an entertainment" for the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith by Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, an English humorist, novelist, playwright, and law reformist, and Sir Nigel Ross Playfair, an English actor and director, known particularly as actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre in the 1920s. Illustrated by John Rutherford Armstrong, a British artist and muralist who also designed for film and theatre productions. With an introduction by John Galsworthy, an English novelist and playwright. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and minor fading to the extremities. Minor bumping to the board edges. Original unclipped dust wrapper is worn with light wear and chipping to the extremities resulting in loss to the panels and spine. The odd small closed tear with the odd mark to the panels. Light sunning to the spine and panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good. book.

Foreword by John Galsworthy. 125 pp. Illustrated by John Armstrong. 8vo, publisher's cloth with paper labels in dust jacket. First edition. Wheatley's bookplate, designed by Frank C. Pape, on verso of front free endpaper; fore-edge foxed; slight soiling at the top edge; in a jacket with some chipping to the top of the spine, just affecting the first word of the title; dime-sized chip to the bottom right corner of the front panel; and some soiling to the back panel. Inscribed by A. P. Herbert to Dennis Wheatley on the half-title.