W ROBERTSON DAVIES (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Brown Cloth. Very Good/Sl. Chipped & Worn, G. 8vo. pp xiv 193. Second year of festival.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth boards lightly worn, corners rubbed w/ slight fraying of cloth in bottom right corner of front board, creased in top right corner of front board and bottom of rear, slight flecked staining to front board, shelving-worn at base of spine; Pages age-toned, light spotting to edges and endpapers, top-edge sprayed dark blue, offsetting on endpapers and pages 30-31 & 106-107, no ownership marks or annotation, B&W plates; Various newspaper clippings related to text laid in rear; Binding tight. ; 5.75 x 8.75"; 210 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. First Edition. vii, 207 p. 23 cm. 10 b&w plates. Cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket spine missing and the remaining chipped panels are held together with tape. Book spine has crease and softened ends. Signatures on front endpaper. 4 p. advertising leaflet and order form included. An occasional ink mark. Hole in interior rear hinge. The rare first edition of Robertson Davies' first book. Davies left Canada to study at Balliol College, Oxford, receiving a BLitt degree in 1938. The next year he published this book, his thesis. "The object of this study is to demonstrate the way in which the Shakespearian women's roles are written to exploit fully the capacity of the boy actors for easy and febrile emotion without demanding the greater range of passion which only time and experience can bring" (p. 27).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of the author's first book. 1st printing. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.9 inches). Illustrated with 8 mono plates. Original blue cloth with blind stamped device to upper board, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained blue. With the rare dustjacket. Spine a little dull but a very good copy in the nicked and mildly tanned dustjacket with a single tiny chip at the bottom rear hinge corner. --- Many copies were pulped during the war making this a scarce title. In a letter to a collector written in 1951 Davies reported having no spare copies of this book and that his best guess was that no more than 600 were in existence.

First edition; 8vo; 9 black and white plates, including frontispiece, text block slightly age-toned, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark blue top stain, light rubbing to extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped with loss, a few small closed tears and creases along top edge, evidence of sticker removed from rear panel affecting text, vertical line in pencil close to spine; a very good clean copy overall. The noted Canadian author's first book, his Oxford honours thesis, on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Uncommon in the dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good-. First U.K. 208 pages in very good, clean condition; edges and endpapers a little yellowed. Previous owner's bookplate on the fep. Illustrated with 8 plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Embossed design on the upper cover. Light wear on corners, head/tail of spine. White DJ with illustrations and blue titles. Spine and edges darkened. One inch chip at head of spine. Small chips and tears on the corners and edges. Not price clipped. VG/GOOD-. Book.