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Published by Humphrey Milford/OUP, London, 1939
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Freely adapted for the English Stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax.Translated from the Czech by Paul Selver. (illustrator). Octavo, original wraps, pp 69. Previous owner's name blind-stamped, very good condition. Satirical play.
Published by The Regent Theatre, N. W. 1 (1921), London,, 1921
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Colour illustrated wraps and 4 pp. The programme for a famous play put on (and adapted) by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax at the Lyric in Hammersmith. The scenery and dresses were designed by Doris Zinkeisen who contributes the very attractive colour cover illustration of a woman with bare breasts dressed as a Mayfly. Very slight surface wear, slight rusting from staple; sound VG. A beautiful and rare ephemeron.
Published by Performance Programme Dated 29th June . 1936., 1936
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Original stapled illustrated souvenir theatre programme 8'' x 6''. Mervyn Peake's costume designs were first used in a 1932 production of The Insect Play and they were used again for this production. This programme reproduces a drawing by Peake on the front cover. Contains 24 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs of the cast and illustrated advertisements. Staples rusty and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.
Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1923
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first English edition. Slim 8vo. 69pp. Lettered card wrappers, very lightly faded at several edges and with a tiny trace of chipping to the spine ends. A very good of the first English translation of the most famous of the four Capek Brothers stage plays. It premiered in 1922 at the National Theatre in Brno, Czechoslovakia entitled 'Pictures from the Insects' Life' and was followed by successful American (1922) and British (1923) productions. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].
Published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Copenhagen, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Shanghai, 1923
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Uk Edition, First Print, small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-69 [70-72: blank], original lavender wrappers printed in black. First edition in English. Also known as "The Insect Play" (a.k.a. "The World We Live In"). "Perhaps the most brilliant of his plays, and the only unquestionable fantasy drama among them . mocks human life and pretensions through a series of beast-fable episodes in which various insects perform vaudeville versions of human behavior at the edge of extinction." - Clute and Grant (ed), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 164. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in Reginald (1979). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-75. Wear to the spine and uneven fade to the wrappers,internally clean. C.H. Norman's copy with his signature to the copyright page.
Published by Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, et.al., 1923
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. The Brothers Capek, Josef (1887-1945) and Karel (1890-1938), were prominent members of the intellectual and artistic life of Europe. Karel is more famous today, due to his science fiction classics 'R.U.R." and "War with the Newts," but they were frequent collaborators, as here. Josef was murdered in Bergen-Belson; Karel escaped the same fate by expiring from natural causes before the Nazis got to him. Originally written and published in Czech, this is the First Edition in English: "The authorized translation from the Czech by Paul Selver. Freely Adapted for the English Stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax." Some consider this a better play than "R.U.R." It was certainly famous among the modernist/leftist world, who made political connections, and an Irish version was even attempted by Flann O'Brien. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Printing. Bound in plum red paper with black titling on the front. Clean text; 69 pages. No real visible wear; the front cover and spine have faded to a sort of reddish tan; else a Fine copy. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, et.al., 1923
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First English Edition. Famous members of the modernist intelligentsia, the Capeks were also responsible for popularizing the term "robot" in Carl's play "R.U.R." This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition in English. Softcover; in brick red wraps with titling on the front cover in black. Clean text; 69 pages. Translation from the original Czech by Paul Selver. Spine has faded to a tan colour; else a Fine copy. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.