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On 4 x 9.5 strip of paper. In good condition, with light signs of age. Reads 'Truly Yours | Jno. B Buckstone | T. Q. H'. Presumably cut from a letter in response to a request for an autograph.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On 17.5 x 11 cm leaf of pink paper, extracted from an autograph album. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. In a large sprawling hand: 'All good wishes / Ivor Novello'. On the reverse: 'The "Cock-lodger" July 1943 / Don. Dobson / (Dobbie)'.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextNo Man or Woman should have to suffer oppression Luther.It s your Birthright to be free, my Love.KING tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Baw s hero, Dr.

Page, 20 x 15.5cm, extracted from Autograph Album, one rough edge (extraction process), very good condition. See image.

2pp., 12mo. On first leaf of a bifolium, the blank second leaf of which is laid down on a leaf of yellow paper removed from an album. In good condition, lightly-aged. He thanks her for her letter, '& the good opinion you express upon the performance'. He hopes to accept her invitation when he no longer labours under 'the heavy pressure of work, now rather weighing me down'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. He had taken on the management of Drury Lane in 1849, and had hoped to profit from the Great Exhibition, but retired from it in 1851, having incurred substantial losses. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, on the first leaf of a bifolium, with the reverse of the second leaf bearing minor traces of mount, as well as the following annotation in a contemporary hand: 'Jas: Anderson Esqre / Lessee Drury Lane / Theatre / T Bateman Esqre. / a P. Whelan'. Anderson addresses to 'Peter Whelan Esqr.' and gives an untidy signature 'James Anderson'. He takes 'the very first opportunity' to think him for his 'very kind note of the 7th. inst', and assures him of his 'earnest wish to adopt your advice as early as my circumstances will permit'. He ends by begging Whelan's 'acceptance of my sincerest thanks'.

See the entries in the Oxford DNB for his brothers Robert Barnabas Brough and the subject of this letter Lionel Brough, as well as that of C. L. Kenney. 1p, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight discoloration in one margin from the wax seal, and evidence of mount on blank second leaf. Folded for postage. Addressed to 'Chas Kenney Esq / &c &c' and signed 'William Brough'. Begins: 'My dear Kenney / My brother, Lionel Brough makes his appearance at the Polytechnic Institution to-morrow (Monday) in a new comic and musical Entertainment - subject "Cinderella."' He would 'esteem it a particular favour' if Kenney 'could give him a notice in the Herald and Standard'.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with unobtrusive spike hole through both leaves. The signature is unclear, and appears to read 'Eleyn Zahn', but the only one of Charles Kenney's sisters with a name beginning in 'E' was Ellen. She asks for a private box for the following Thursday on behalf of her sister 'V. Kenney [ Virginia Kenney, born 1821]and self'. She refers to his 'long and prosperous reign', and fears that it will be 'long before we shall enjoy the gratification of seeing both you and Mrs. Kean again, as we leave for Paris in a few days'. A manuscript note at the end, by Kean's secretary, reads 'I hahve sent it. | It is a married sister of Charles Kenney'.

Zustand: Very Good. Original souvenir theatre programme 10'' x 8''. Contains 4 printed pages of text. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Zustand: Fine. First edition in publisher's original purple card wrap covers [soft back]. 12mo. 7'' x 4¼''. Contains frontispiece, 82 pp. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0781901913163 POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

On leaf of light blue paper, 8.5 x 12 cm, removed from an autograph album. Very good.

1 page. 1 vols. 12mo. 1 page. 1 vols. 12mo. Notifying the editor of Fraser's that he and a friend will be places on the Dramatic Free List of the Theatre and that they would appreciate his friendly support. Morris (1800-1856) was an actor and also wrote several comedies, John (1802-1890) a pianist, was also a composer, writing operas as well as other forms of music. To the Editor of "Fraser's Magazine" [J. W. Parker II]. Folds, integral leaf removed, some light discoloration, else very good.

English actor and playwright (1780?-1829). 1 page, 16mo, on bifoliate with address ('J. Winston Esqr | 3 Church Street | Cov Garden') on reverse of second leaf. Paper discoloured, otherwise in good condition. 'Dear Winston | Will you be kind enough to give the bearer an order for Two to the H Mkt [Haymarket] for the Evening. I am Dr Sir | Yrs very truly | Danl Terry'. Wrapped in 4to piece of paper on which are transcribed in a neat contemporary hand two quotations regarding Terry from the European Magazine.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Author's second published work. Two plays each containing three characters and concerning aspects of love. They were presented in May 1962 at the Globe Theatre, and both starred Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams. Maggie Smith won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Leading Actress. Contains 107 pp. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams to the front and rear covers. Rubbing to the edges and corners, short closed tear to the foot of the spine, not price clipped, 12s. 6d. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. PLAYS (Theatre Performance).

Zustand: Good. - Octavo. 25 words penned in black ink on a sheet of ctream paper, approximately 6-3/4 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. The letter is mounted on a slightly larger piece of tan paper. Signed "Yours very truly / Daniel Terry" with his Alfred Place address and the date below the signature. There is some light staining to the letter's left bottom corner with some tiny marks to its left margin. Folded twice for mailing. Good. Terry's note addressed to "My dear Kelly" is accepting an invitation to dine with Kelly and a mutual friend.Daniel Terry [c. 1780-1829] was an English actor and playwright who made his career in London, Edinburgh and the northern English provinces. He was a close associate of Walter Scott and adapted several of Scott's works for the stage. The first of these was a musical adaptation of "Guy Mannering", in which Terry appeared in March 1816.

Zustand: Good. - sc - A 5-1/2 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide sienna toned photograph by Sarony mounted on 6-1/2 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide brick red board with the photographer's name and address printed at the bottom of the mount. The image portrays Robert Drouet seated attired in a three-piece suit with necktie over the stiff upright collar of a white shirt. The actor holds a cane and gloves in one hand, a hat in the other. Signed and dated "Robert Drouet / 1900" in black ink at top right of the photograph. There is some rubbing affecting the edge of the actor's head and shoulder and a few scratches to the edges of the photograph. Good. Born in Clinton, Iowa, the American actor and playwright Robert Drouet (1870-1914) first joined a theatrical company at 16 and later managed his own Shakespearean repertoire company. He played leading parts with Robert Downing and went on the play the part of General Delarouche in "Paul Kaubar", Citizen Pierre in the play of that name, Colonel Jack Brereton in "Janice Meredith" (based on Paul Leicester Ford's novel), and John Austin in "The Girl With the Green Eyes", among other roles. One of the most celebrated playwrights of his day, he authored "Doris", "The White Czar", "Montana", "Tomorrow", "An Idyll of Virginia", "Fra Diano", and "Captain Bob".

12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper, with traces of previous mount adhering to the corners of the blank reverse. Of course Hollingshead should 'wait till the last night of "used up" ' before writing to Mathews, who has 'hunted up Buckstone - hunted up Turpin - but in vain. Not a box to be had'. He has sent 'the best I could get': '3 Dress Circle to Mrs Smiles with "Mr Hollingshead's best compliments." '. In a postscript states that if Hollingshead wants 'a box for the "Overland Route" before the last night' he will be 'too happy'. 'There is always a run on last nights.'.

SOFTCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 8vo in stiff glossy card covers, 207pp. This copy belonged to Annie Hulley, who played the character Irene Ruddock (A Lady of Letters) in a production of Talking Heads for Bridewell Theatre, and has her pencil markings on the relevant pages. Tipped-on to the half title leaf, with tape to one end, is a hand-written postcard from Bennett to Hulley touching on the character Irene Ruddock and the real person she was based on. Annie Hulley trained at Bristol Old Vic and is best known in the UK for playing regular characters Gwen Loveday in Coronation Street, Karen Moore in Emmerdale and for her writing . [CONDITION: The book is in VERY GOOD+ condition (mild reading crease to spine, speck of rub to cover corner tips), postcard is in fine condition ] . __To see more of our Plays and scripts type DbbPLAYS in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with small hole through both leaves. He will be too busy over the following days to visit Clark in person, 'and so I send you the first act of the MSS I talked to you about - I may say I read the 1st. act one afternoon to Miss Terry who wanted to take it to Webster - but I was disinclined'. If Clark 'had anything to do with it - the Blacksmith would be the [last word underlined] part'. He asks Clark to return it as soon as he can: 'as this is the American copy - and they expect it (but of course won't get it) by next mail'.

1p., 16mo. In fair condition, on aged paper, laid down on damaged leaf from album. At head, in another hand: 'for Saturday'. Reads: 'My dear Sir: | I shd. feel greatly obliged if you could without inconvenience to yr interest, give me a box, any night this week, to see King Lear.' At head is note in another hand (see below): 'for Saturday'. From the collection of Macqueen-Pope, who has written at the foot of the leaf on which the letter is mounted: 'To Chas Kean Princess's Theatre | Note at top, either by CK or Massingham the boxoffice m[ana]g[e]r.'.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. Barrett writes: 'Dear Hall Caine/ | The scheme promises well. I have made an arrangement for eight weeks at the Princess's. I thought it better to fight for the play there. Will certainly have a fair chance, although there can be no .' According to Barrett's entry in the Oxford DNB, he returned from the Globe Theatre 'to the Princess's, where he began work with Hall Caine on adapting The Deemster, renamed Ben-my-chree (17 May 1888). It was his only real success, and he added it to his repertory on his second American tour, which began in Boston on 14 October 1889, and this time took in St Louis and San Francisco.'.

See his entry, and that of his father Charles and wife Madame Vestris, in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 8vo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, on lightly aged paper, with slight damage at head of second leaf, the blank reverse of which carries traces of glue from mount. Folded once. Madame Vestris had died two and a half months before the writing of this letter, which evinces a surprising intimacy. Begins: 'My dear Mrs Williams / Here's a pretty business! Was there ever such disappointment. On looking at the newspaper (12 o clock) I see the opera is not done tonight and the "Busy Body" put in its place at the beginning of the evening, so farewell to our plans for to-day.' He asks her to promise that she will visit soon, in order to 'make up to me for losing you to-day'. He has 'a great mind to send some chops in my letter for perhaps you have no dinner and when G[?] comes home ravenous his eyes will be like saucers with rage.' He ends 'Pray for my sake send to the Butcher's at once. / In great dudgeon / Faithfully yours / C J Mathews'. Postscript: 'When I left Drury Lane last night at a quarter to 12, Lucia di Lammermoor was settled which would have given till 10 o clock at home. Now I must leave at 1/2 past 5.'.

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. In good condition. 11.5 x 9 cm card, without illustration. Printed in red at head: 'MICHAEL REDGRAVE.' The message concerns the London production of Fry's 'The Lark' (a translation of Anouilh's 'L'Alouette'), which opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, on 11 May 1955. Redgrave would star in Fry's next play, 'Tiger at the Gates' (a translation of Giraudoux's 'La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu'), which premiered in New York on 3 October 1955. Written out in an elegant calligraphic hand, and reading: 'My dear Christopher: / This is rather late for the first night but I hope better than never. / The show goes well, I think. / Yours / Mike.' See Image.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. The valediction reads 'Yours alway faithfully / Arthur W. Pinero', and it is written with quite a flourish: the 'y' of 'faithfully' hooks downwards in a long squiggle, exrending downwards past the right of the termination of Pinero's signature, which rises upwards, being dotted above and below the signature's underlining. He feels that her 'kind letter is all the more welcome inasmuch as it gives signs' that she is recovering from her recent illness. 'We have indeed been greatly concerned at the bad news we have heard of you. I hope that the present fine weather will set you up completely.' He thanks her for what she says about his play 'The Thunderbolt': 'I fear it is rather too serious an affair for the taste of the ordinary playgoer; but we shall see.' He ends with 'repeated acknowledgments'.

1p, 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight wear at head repaired on reverse with archival tape. The context of the letter is explained in Fawcett's entry in the Oxford DNB: 'In September 1829 Fawcett was superseded in the management of Covent Garden [] the theatre in which he had been a main prop for thirty-nine years. With a salary of £100 a year allowed him as treasurer and trustee of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund he retired to a cottage at Botley, near Southampton.' The letter begins: 'Some weeks back I enclos'd you a draft for £10 intended for the Widow Paulo. - | Since which I have by Coach directed for you my private Book of Accts. Of C: G: Fund, with a request that you wou'd return it to me when done with.' As being without the book is inconvenient to Fawcett, and it is unsatisfactory 'to want knowledge of either transmittance reaching their destination', he asks him 'to send my Book directed for me to the care of Mr Joseph Lomer Southampton by Colyers Coach from Bell Savage Ludgate Hill, or Old White Horse Cellar Piccadilly' (these being two leading coaching inns). Fawcett will be obliged by 'any intelligence about balance, or other Fund news'. Postscript: 'Be so kind as to send the Bankers book to be made up and after it is done let it come with the other'.

1p., 12mo. Lithograph engraved facsimile of Garrick's autograph manuscript on unwatermarked wove paper. In fair condition, lightly aged. The origin of the engraving is unclear. Headed: 'Some additional shift to ye Comic part of ye Midsummer Night's dream. | Song for Epilogue | By Quince, Bottom Snug, Flute Starvling, Snout.' The first nine lines of the poem follow, beginning: 'Most noble Duke to us be kind, | Be you and all your Courtiers blind, | []'. The poem as published in Colman's edition of 1763 does not feature the penultimate line: 'That will not do at Court:'. The facsimile of Garrick's signature is at bottom right: 'D. Garrick.' Only copy traced is at Harvard.

The phrase 'Box and Cox' has entered the English language. See the OED, and the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, landscape 12mo. Neatly inserted in a trimmed windowpane mount. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Signed 'John M Morton'. Begins: 'Dear Webster. / As Mr Anson informs me that you are "on the forward course to regenerated health" I hope I need not apologise for writing again. I find a letter of your's respecting Woodcock's little game [produced in 1864] & two one act farces, you offer me £15 per Act with the privilege of repurchasing the pieces at the same price in the event of your not having produced them'. He asks if he will do the same 'in the case of the 4 Acts' he has recently sent him. 'If not, let me beg of you to return them by post, as I really cannot afford the expence of coming to Town!' He continues: 'I was served with a Writ yesterday for the first time in my life!!' and adds ruefully: 'I'm afraid the veteran farce writer's "little game" is nearly up!" He concludes with surprising candour: 'Thank God I could never get any children - not for want of trying I'm ashamed to say.'.

See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Taylor's in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, and folded once. In worn envelope with Penny Red stamp and postmark, and slight loss around flap. The envelope was no doubt retained because it was addressed by Delaunay to 'Sir Tom Taylor / Lavender Sweet [sic] / Wandsworth'. A neatly laid written and laid out communication, addressed to 'Cher Monsieur Taylor' and signed 'Yours truly / L Delaunay / de la Comedie française'. He regrets that he and his wife cannot accept Taylor's 'très cordiale invitation', as they accepted a similar one ten days before from 'Mr. & Mrs William Spottiswode' [sic]. He concludes with the thought that it would have been 'bien agréable de faire plus ample connaissance avec un homme d'un esprit aussi fin et aussi distingué'.

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains 225 pp with monochrome photograph of Yukio Mishima who is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously: it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence. On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of his militia entered a military base in central Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and tried to inspire the Japan Self-Defense Forces to rise up and overthrow Japan's 1947 Constitution, which he called 'a constitution of defeat'. When his attempt failed, he committed seppuku (suicide). Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch. Member of the P.B.F.A. JAPAN (History & Culture).

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains 225 pp with monochrome photograph of Yukio Mishima who is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously: it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence. On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of his militia entered a military base in central Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and tried to inspire the Japan Self-Defense Forces to rise up and overthrow Japan's 1947 Constitution, which he called 'a constitution of defeat'. When his attempt failed, he committed seppuku (suicide). Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch. Member of the P.B.F.A. JAPAN (History & Culture).