VINTAGE THEATRE EDITIONS
Collectors items. The rare and the beautiful.
THE BLUE BIRD
by Maurice MaeterlinckBeautiful edition from 1912, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Matos, lavishly illustrated by F. Cayley Robinson.
A play for children first published as L’Oiseau bleu in 1908.
In a fairy-tale-like setting, Tyltyl and Mytyl, the son and daughter of a poor woodcutter, are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search the world for the Blue Bird of Happines.
Methuen and Co.
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AS TIME GOES BY,
BLACK PIECES
Mustapha MaturaRare edition of these remarcable plays, the first to deal with the lives of West Indians living in Britain
First edition from 1972
Calder Publications
EQUUS
Peter Shaffer
First edition from 1975
Andre Deutsch
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
Tennessee Williams
First edition from 1961
Secker & Warburg, London
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT
Tennessee Williams
First edition from 1960
Secker & Warburg, London
THE ACTOR’S WAYS AND MEANS
by Michael Redgrave
1956 edition
Heinemann London
THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF JOHN WHITING
VOL. 1 AND 2
Rare first edition (1969) Edited and with comments by Ronald Hayman.
John Whiting was an avant-garde author, highly controvesial in his lifetime.
With his free style he paved the way for other authors like Beckett and Pinter.
Heinemann London
CELESTINA
or The tragi-comedy of Calixto and MelibeaEdition c 1910 of the first know theatre play in the Spanish Language.
Translated by James Mabbe.
Routledge
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SALESMAN IN BEIJING
Arthur Miller
First edition from 1984, signed by the author, with picture by Inge Morath.
Methuen
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A vintage Collection of plays by Harold Pinter, with some first and early editions
BETRAYAL
Harold Pinter
First edition from 1978
Methuen
A NIGHT OUT
Harold Pinter
Samuel French
early edition, from 1961
THE HOTHOUSE
Harold Pinter
First edition from 1980
Methuen
OLD TIMES
Harold Pinter
First edition, 1971
Methuen.
LANDSCAPE
SILENCE
Harold Pinter
First American edition by Grove Press, 1970
A SELECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS ON HAROLD PINTER’S PLAYS
With contributions by Peter Hall, Ruby Cohn, John Arden among others.
First edition from 198 by Macmillan
ONE FOR THE ROAD
Harold Pinter
Early Methuen edition from 1985, with original production pictures by Ivan Kyncl.
COLLECTED SCREENPLAYS COLLECTION
Vol 1 and 3
Harold Pinter
Faber and Faber
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Great titles to research on the life of actors and theatre companies during the Victorian Era.
THE KEELEYS ON THE STAGE AND AT HOME
Walter Goodman
Edition from 1895
FIFTY YEARS OF AN ACTOR’S LIFE Volume 2
John Coleman
Edition from 1904
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THE LIFE OF NOEL COWARD
Cole Lesley
Published by Jonathon Cape, London (1976) 1st Edition.
SIGNED and inscribed by Sheila Hancock. Very unique and personalised volume.
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Some Brecht volumes, vintage, collectable, or plain beautiful.
COLLECTED PLAYS VOL 2
Forms part of the series edited by John Willett and Ralph Manhim
Publised by Methuen, 1979.
COLLECTED PLAYS VOL 6
Forms part of the series edited by John Willett and Ralph Manhim
Published by Methuen, 1987
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
Trnslated by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman,
First dedition from 1976, Published by David R. Gdine, Boston
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