Resultados de búsqueda: Theatre from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

London: Golden Cockerel, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. quarter bound parchment and decorated boards. Teg. Near fine. Sainsbury, Hester. 41 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Limited edition. copy 101 of 500 on English hand-made paper. Printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings. Printed from the edition of 1750. CHANTICLEER 70. Spine slightly darkened.

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, second issue. leather_bound. Full green levant with large central pictorial inlays of Grimaldi as a clown and as another theatrical character in various color morocco's within a geometric gilt frame. Aeg. Two vols. Cruikshank, George. 288, 263 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Half-titles, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 61 ENGRAVINGS including the 12 etchings by George Cruikshank, many hand-colored and folding (including a play bill from the Drury Lane Theater announcing his last public appearance, Friday, June 27. 1828), several proofs before letters. Grimaldi was considered the most celebrated of English clowns, know particularly for his pantomime. An early work of Dickens, who wrote the preface, the last chapter, and edited this work on the famous English actor and clown according to Johnson's biography. Gilt stamped, bound by Baytun; issue with the plate "Last Song" without a border. Spine in six compartments, raised bands gilt lettered, inner dentelles, original brown… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Fine. 313 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Frontispiece of Nell Gwyn from an engraving of the painting by Sir Peter Lely. Based on the life of Nell Gwyn, the Drury Lane favorite during the English Restoration. Printed by The Merrymount Press by D.B. Updike.

London: James Camden Hotten, 1869. Hardcover. Three quarter red morocco and matching cloth. Teg. Fine. 321 pages. 26.5 x 17.5 cm. 36 hand-colored plates, frontispiece with hand-colored vignettes. The last of the Tom, Jerry and Logic adventures -- Corinthian Tom dies in a riding misadventure, but Jerry weds a fine wife and settles into life as an esteemed country gentleman. First few and last leaves toned, plates generally clean with scattered toning at plate margins to some. Bound by Period Binders, Bath, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers.

London: R. Bentley, 1691. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf and dark beige boards. Very good. 21 1/2 x 16 cm. A classic work of Restoration drama first published 1677, but first acted with acclamation and success three years earlier. CBEL, Vol. VIII, p.145 notes, "....Wycherley's last and best comedy.....Wychereley's masterpiece cannot but be regarded as an admirably bold, effective and original piece of dramatic satire........a notable work, compactly written, carefully planned and effectively executed, and, in its honest purpose to castigate vice, not unworthy of the ideals of Ben Jonson himself." WING W-3754. Text embrowned and slightly cut down, a few heads shaved.

London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1924. Hardcover. Orig. full brown morocco, raised bands, spines decorated in gilt, rectangular cover panels decorated in gilt motifs and arabesques. Teg. Fine. 99 pages in text. 32.5 x 24.6 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 100. Introduction by Harley Granville-Barker, printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper and bound by Riviere & Son. Line blocks are by Emery Walker. Illustrations by Norman Wilkinson, five full page color colotype plates. Signed by Harley Granville Barker, Norman Wilkinson and Albert Rutherson. Wide text margins. Book label of F.R. Furber (Frank Robert Furber] eminent British golfer.

Avon, CT: Limited Edition Club, 1974. Hardcover. Orig. half beige basked weave linen and illustrated cloth. Fine in fine brown slipcase with paper spine label. Hutton, Clarke. 204 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton in black and white and full-color, designed by John Dyers. Limited edition, copy 1653 of 2000, signed by Hutton. Introduction by Alan Strachan.Laid-in LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 478. Crisp. very bright copy with original glassine overwrapper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 143 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The author notes, "These two experiments in Elizabethan play writing were wholly mine. The third illustrates another phase of of Elizabethan work, so frequent as to make the actual authorship of almost any Elizabethan scene a fair matter for debate. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Partly unopened. Bright, fresh copy.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth spine and yellow boards, paper spine label. Very good. 51 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Covers lightly soiled.

London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good. 16 pages in text. Folio, 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 385 of 475. All plates printed recto only: total of sixteen costumes for the ballet and theatre, many hand-colored and/or double page or folding. The plates herein made during the years 1912-1914 for Harley Granville-Barker's productions. Covers a trifle rubbed, interior contents immaculate.

New York: Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. faux vellum spine, decorated boards, nicked paper spine label. Very good. Rogers, Bruce. [VIII] 54 pages. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Edwin Rudge in Oldstyle type on rag paper. WARDE 116. Spine slightly darkened.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige, basket-weave cloth. Very good. 192 pages. Ten tipped-in color plates, and ninety-one black and white illustrations. Forword by Charles B. Chochran. An historical overview of decor from the symbolic simplicity of the Greeks to modern times. Also presents six short studies of the work of contemporary stage and theater designers.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. leather spine and decorated boards. Fine in fine slipcase. Hirschfeld, Al. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 1538 of 2000, with line drawings illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, and signed at colophon by him. With LEC Monthly Letter for the tile laid-in, noting a description of the binding: " The fine aniline leather on the spine, in burgundy, complements the covering cloth, imported from Italy by Clarence House Imports of New York....the Chequered Lady pattern was hand-printed in thirteen colors." NORMAN & WICHE 532.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. leather spine and decorated boards. Fine in fine slipcase. Hirschfeld, Al. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000, with line drawings illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, and signed at colophon by him. With LEC Monthly Letter for the tile laid-in, noting a description of the binding: " The fine aniline leather on the spine, in burgundy, complements the covering cloth, imported from Italy by Clarence House Imports of New York....the Chequered Lady pattern was hand-printed in thirteen colors." NORMAN & WICHE 532.

Paris: Editions Des Quatre Chemins, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Rebound in green cloth, corners and backstrip extremities rubbed, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good. Approx. 22 pages in text. 28 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 193 of 425 on Arches from a total edition of 500. Two volumes in one. Volume I: 23 color lithographs with tissue guards of set and costume designs by Georges Braque, one black and white plate reproducing portrait of Georges Auric by Cocteau, and facsimile of page of music by Auric. Volume II: photograph of Braque by Man Ray, plus photographic plates by George Detaille of costumed Diaghilev dancers. Les Facheux, a ballet conceived by Boris Kochno after Moliere, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska to music by Auric, and first performed by the Diaghilev ballet at Monte Carlo in 1924. Text in French, original wrappers designed by Braque bound-in.

London: John Nimmo, 1888. board_book. Scarlet three quarter crushed morocco and marbled boards, matching endpapers. Teg. Near fine. 3 vols.. 436, 414, 428 pages. Royal 8vo, 25 1/2 x 17 1/2 cm. Fifty copper engraved portraits, each in two states (one on Japanese and the other on plate paper, as India proofs), and eighty mounted wood-engraved illustrations. Index in each volume. Limited edition, copy 291 of 300. Bound by Dawson & Nicholson. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, bookplates, joints and extremities occasionally rubbed, Vol.I front cover rehinged. Internally bright and clean.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. black linen cloth illustrated in gilt. Fine in fine matching black slipcase. Levine, Jack. 155 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Illustrations by Jack Levine with an original color lithograph by Levine. In the English Version by Desmond Fesey. With the English Lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Limited edition, copy 203 of 2000. Signed by Levine and Bentley. NEWMAN & WICHE 529. Bright, very fresh copy.

London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's quarter brown oasis morocco and thick light brown boards, Very good. Nash, Paul. 109 pages in text. 33 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 this copy unnumbered, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper which was bound in vellum or oasis morocco (this copy in the latter). Signed by Paul Nash, Harley Granville-Barker, and Albert Rutherson. Line blocks by Emery Walker. Six black and white plates and five color plates by Paul Nash. Wear to corners, extremities rubbed, interior fresh and clean.