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New York: Atheneum, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. black cloth. 74 pp. Spine cocked, faded at foot. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine.

Cornwall: Dyllansow Truran, 1988. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. A verse translation of Beunans Meriasek. x, 11-197. Paperback. This edition was prepared for a performance under the direction of Jerry Finch for the Cornwall Drama Association at the Cornish Eisteddfod, 1986. Printed primarily on coloured paper (pink, green, and goldenrod). Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Offset panel and price sticker to rear cover. Small damp stain to fore edge. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP. Beunans Meriasek (English: The Life of Saint Meriasek) is a Cornish play completed in 1504. Its subject is the legends of the life of Saint Meriasek or Meriadoc, patron saint of Camborne, whose veneration was popular in Cornwall, Brittany, and elsewhere.

London: The Rodale Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Buckland-Wright, John. 8vo. N.d., [1954]. Limited 1st edition, #193/1000. Lacks slipcase. Quarter black cloth, yellow cloth boards, silver stamped vignette to front board. A.E.R. 124 pp. [6] colour plates w/ tissues guards (tissue at 2nd plate is detached but present). Spine cocked and sunned, some general discolouration to cloth. Staining to upper corner of front pastedown, offsetting to free endpapers. 0.

New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo [5.5" x 8.5"]. Blue Cloth, 382pp. Fine in a near fine, but lightly soiled d/w. Divided into two parts: Yeat's Plays for Miniature Theatre (which he had performed for children), and Larger Plays which he'd written for a wider audience. Jack was the fifth child of William Butler Yeats, and in addition to his passion for plays also received recognition for his work as a painter. The plays here are collected between 1901-1964, seven years after the playwright's death.

London: Macmillan, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Brown cloth, v, 274pp. Laid-in card from Macmillan for Review. Light bruising on spine o/w fine in d/w. Jacket faded and clipped. Contains Purple Dust, Red Roses for Me, and a new one-act play, Hall of Healing.

Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 20. Soft cover. 126 p.p. The first English version of a 16th century play by Portuguese author and lawyer Antonio de Ferreira.

Lipsiae: Car. Tauchmitii, 1819. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (88.9mm x 127mm). Half bound calf over marbled boards. Editio Stereotypa. xxvii, 27O p.p. Text in Latin. Frontispiece of Publius Terentius Afer. Ownership signatures on front pastedown endpaper, front fly-leaf and head of title-page. Marginalia on p. 15, partially affecting text. Light foxing. Lacks rear free endpaper. Corners slightly bumped. Rubbing to boards and edges. Else a near fine copy of the comedies of the Roman playwright Terence.

Glasgow: Harper Collins, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [lii], 1436 p.p. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. In dust jacket. Text clean.

Nelson Doubleday, Inc. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1970?] Quarter tan leatherette, orange leatherette boards. vi, 570 pp.; vi, 571-1140 pp. Bumping to extremities. Spines slightly tilted. Scuff to spine label of volume 2. Dust jackets are price clipped, edge worn, sunned to spines, with a few short tears to extremities, and a large chip to spine head of volume one. A good+ set overall. 0.

Leicester: Blitz Editions, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Golden Heritage Series. Full black paper boards. 1114 pp. Edge toning to interior. Dust jacket is torn and creased to spine, some tape repairs, long tear to front cover, short tear to lower corner at front flap.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. xii, 253 p.p. Light scuffing to covers and fore-edge. Covers tight. A near fine copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Original jacket and blue cloth. x, [2], 173 p.p. Some sporadic scuffs to jacket covers. Light rubbing and sunning to jacket and inner flaps. Not price clipped. Slight bruising to spine ends and minimal rubbing to edges. Interior clean, tight. Otherwise a near fine copy. Part of a series of biblical cycles, the Cornish Ordinalia is comprised of three plays that covers the Creation to Christ's ressurection. Longsworth looks at the dramatic, liturgical, and theological aspects of these 14th century biblical dramas and its role in medieval literature and theology.

Cornwall: The Cornish Language Board, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Modern Cornish and English, facing translations. Soft cover. 216 pp. Spine sunned and creased, joints creased, light wear to extremities, sunning to fore edges, sticker ghost to foot of rear cover. The fourteenth century cycle of mystery plays known as the Cornish Ordinalia falls into three parts; the middle section, the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, appears in its entirety in this volume, for hte first time in modern Cornish orthography and accompanied by an English translation.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Special illustrated edition. Full tan cloth. Duotone illustrated endpapers. 139 pp. [8] pp. B&W plates of photos. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to edges, scuff to front cover, spine fading. Else fine.

New York: Samuel French Inc, 1934. Soft cover. Good. 12mo. Original blue paper wraps. Stapled and glued binding. 88 p.p. B&W illustration of stage set up. Creasing to covers, sunning to spine. The Boland daughter, Caroline, is bringing a prospect home - George, who does not approve of wealth. So the servants are dismissed and they are supposed to be camping out in a wealthy friend's house. But Flossie Hill, Mrs. Boland's sister, arrives from abroad. A telegram arrives saying another daughter, Hortense, is arriving with Prince Danilov as prospective husband. So the pretense has to be reversed. Both suitors begin to see something strange going on. The situation grows funnier as the play runs on to a climax that is generally a happy one for all involved.

New York: Samuel French Inc, 1935. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo. The Junior League Plays. Orig. green card wraps, staple bound. 63 pp. Spine darkend, covers lightly creased. Samuel French (Canada) Limited copyright laid-in to copyright page and Canadian price sticker to foot of front cover.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. [ca. 1952]. Black paper boards. Unpaged. Illustrated with [4] B&W photographs from the Paul Gregory Production starring Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke, and Agnes Moorehead, directed by Charles Laughton. Spine tilted, light chafing to extremities. Rubber stamp to ffep. Dust jacket is sunned and damp stained to spine, age toned, chipped to extremities (worse at head of front cover). 0.

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Augustan Reprint Society Number 251-252. Orig. tan card wrappers, sewn and glued. xii, iii, 80, [2], 2 pp. Fine.

London: Peter Owen Publishers, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo (super). 931 p.p., 32 p.p. of B&W plates. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine Rubbing to spine ends and corners, light chafing to boards in spots. Third volume of the Stage By Stage Series. Illustrated dust jacket. Touching on "Passion Plays" and "Mysteries and Moralities," this exploration also examines the folk farces that flourished during the Middle Ages. Discussing developments during the Renaissance in Italy such as the commedia dell'arte as well as exalted musical innovations culminating in operas and ballets, the book also discusses the drama of Europe--including Spain, France, Germany, Holland, and Great Britain--where theater reached an extraordinary climax in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in the work of Shakespeare and others. Providing a summary of Shakespeare's plays and how they have been interpreted through the centuries, this account also examines in detail his… Leer más

London: Faber and Faber, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. red cloth. 108 pp. Cloth chafed to extremities, spine slightly faded. Ink ownership inscription to ffep.