The Dramatist (59 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages with some spotting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. by 'The Dramatist'. The story of the first production of a play called Honour Bound, from first meeting to the first night supper party Good - red cloth covers a little worn and marked, inscription to ffep, occasional grubby marks to pages, no DJ. 270pp 0.

Condition: Very Good. 3 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. With list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Encounter; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, with UK list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Octavo (Standard Book Size). Category: Retrospective Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 31 pages. Some foxing. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 25 cms. Category: Nineteenth Century Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

One page, 12mo. Very good on lightly-aged grey paper. Reads 'Dear Sir. | Here is the autograph you require. | Faithfully your's | [signed] Edmund Yates'. The words 'Here' and 'to' are slightly smudged.

On 1.5 x 6 cm. slip of paper. In good condition, with light signs of age. Presumably cut from a letter in response to a request for an autograph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. H/B red cloth bds, VG+, sl. marking/staining, pencil inscript. on prelim., small stamp 'Swaffam & District St. Raphael Club', pp269, foxing on pge edges, contents bright and tight. A scarce book.

12mo, 3 pp. 30 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged and creased paper. He sends a 'list of pieces' which he considers 'suitable for a Short Company'. The first piece named is 'The Silver Lining (the St James's Comedy)', in which he says there are 'only 4 Men & 3 women exclusive of Helen Maltravers'. Other plays are named with the numbers required, including 'A New Drama in 3 Acts by John Oxenford written for the Princess's Theatre - there are but 2 Men & 2 women excluding Miss Aylmer's part.' Postscript reads 'If it should meet your Views Miss Aylmer would play "Leah" for her benefit - otherwise she would do one of the other pieces named'. The identity of the author is difficult to establish, the address in Bedford Row being occupied by solicitors' offices.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original nutmeg tonic cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5¾''. Contains photographic frontispiece, 126 + i pp. Ink name and address to the front free end paper and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. DJ is covered in mylar; Very Good condition; BOOK covered in Bright Blue Cloth, Spine #11, clean Kent Endpapers. ABOUT: From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [x] 180 page play. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips and short closed tears to the spine ends and edges, not price clipped, 15/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. PLAYS (Theatre Performance).…

See his entry, and Manby's, in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, on first leaf of bifolium, with the blank second leaf carrying traces of tape from the mount. Neatly folded for postage. Addressed to 'My dear Manby' and signed 'Jno. B Buckstone'. In addition to his work as an engineer Manby was for many years involved in the management of the Adelphi and Haymarket theatres. Buckstone begins by finrming him that he is enclosing a 'fresh Bill', and has 'sent in the proposal, for a Policy of £300, which will be issued in a few days', and which he will forward to Manby, 'with thanks for your thought of such arrangement as it has only expedited what I intended to do for myself'. He takes it for granted that Manby will 'hold the Bill due on Tuesday next till you are in possession of the Policy'.…

Having left the Church of England for Roman Catholicism, Rose had had a number of well-received plays produced on the London stage before the huge success of his creation 'Mrs Brown'. 'Mrs Brown at Home and Abroad' was performed at the Egyptian Hall in 1864, and the 'Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance' refers to 'Mr. Arthur Sketchley's snug little auditorium at the Egyptian Hall' for a performance of 'Mrs Brown at the Play'. When Artemis Ward's Panorama appeared at the Egyptian Hall in 1868, 'the place selected for the display of his quaint oratory' was described as 'the room long tenanted by Mr. Arthur Sketchley'. 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Reads: 'My dear Sir | A Box for this evening will very much oblige | Yrs very truly | A Sketchley'. …

1p., 12mo. On aged and stained paper, with small spike hole. Reads: '23rd Oct. 1858 | My dear Sir | I have given Sergeant Glover of the M[orning] Chronicle a Private Box for Monday. | Yours entirely | J. W. Cole'.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A PERENIAL FAVORITE. Bright green cloth Boards #11, 1963-67, with bright gold lettering on spine; Kent Endpapers. DJ is covered in mylar; in Very Good condition also. STORY: A plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. In April, thousands of rats stagger into the open and die. When a mild hysteria grips the population.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back, grey paper lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains (x), 326 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout by J. H. Dowd. Light foxing to the closed text block edges. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips to the spine ends and top front cover, not price clipped, 8s 6d. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.…

Novello's three decades of unprecedented success began with the First World War song 'Keep the home fires burning'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 8.5 x 13.5 cm publicity photograph on postcard, printed in sepia. In good condition, with tiny dink at top left. Captioned at foot 'MR. IVOR NOVELLO'. Prim-looking with side-parting in white shirt, tie, and dark double breasted suit, the darkness of which makes the signature 'Ivor Novello' rather difficult to make out. Scan on application. …

There were around thirty 'Paul Temple' radio serials between 1938 and 1968, along with four films, a dozen books, a television series and a newspaper cartoon strip. Despite obituaries in the major British newspapers Durbridge has not been granted an entry in the Oxford DNB. On 14 x 5.5 cm piece of light-blue laid paper, cut from a typed letter. In good condition, lightly aged. Good clear signature. Reads 'Thank you for your nice poem - / Best wishes to Dave. / Francis Durbridge'.…

2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. The letter begins: 'My dear Lloyds, | However I may grieve at any misunderstanding between you and James - I cannot interfere. I have given him the Knowledge some time ago - & I again remembered [sic] him of it yesterday - that I am unable any longer to pay for his Board & lodging - and that he must henceforth trust to his own exertions for a livelihood: & as he is no longer a Boy - but a Man of seven & twenty years of age, I imagine he will endeavor to do his best.' All he can do under the circumstances is offer advice, 'which is simply - if you cannot agree to live together till June, then let him seek a lodging elsewhere, & both parties will be satisfied'. He has asks James's sister Jane 'to see, & to reason with him on the subject', he hopes 'with a satisfactory result'. …

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, aged and lightly-creased. The letter begins: 'Four thousand thanks for the very kind manner in which you have given the notice of my dearest wife in your last number.' The notice will be extremely gratifying 'to her family and any of the many who loved her'. Mrs Planché was also a playwright, and is thought to have collaborated with her husband on a number of works.…

12mo, 1 p. Eight lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Asking if Webster requires a seat at a celebratory dinner for George Washington, 'Tickets not to exceed one Guinea'.

Condition: Fine. Size: chrysanthemum size.

Condition: Fine. Size: chrysanthemum size.

One page, 12mo. Very good, if a tad grubby. Thanks Draper for his 'amiable but unconvincing' note. 'Do you not know that I was irritated into bad language by being accused of "d - d impertinence? This, too, before I said a discourteous word. - Goodman [the writer Edward John Goodman], of course, rules the Committee [of the Savage Club] and even you have listened to the voice of that Israelitish charmer.' Concludes 'Mais n'importe. Either this evening or tomorrow I send in my resignation. I will neither apologize, nor renew the matter in cold blood.' Signed 'Henry S. Leigh'. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Gray DJ covered in mylar; wear on top and bottom spine edges; Per Kamin, inside listings has Faulkner, As I Lay Dying but not listed is Faulker's Pylon making this a Spring 1967 book. BOOK is covered in clean Kelly Green cloth; Kent Endpapers. STORY: A plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. In April, thousands of rats stagger into the open and die. When a mild hysteria grips the population. …