Play von punch (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Faded spine. Content is clean and bright. No DJ.

First Thus. Zustand: good. good Punch early 1900s? hardcover book complete illus brown boards of Mr Punch ex Wiltshire Collection of Early Childrens Books In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. (viii) 146pp. Red cloth boards with black titles to front cover and spine in protected unclipped dustwrapper. Ownership inscription to top of half title. Boards lightly worn and bumped. Wrapper sunned and faded with repairs which cannot be seen from the front to top and bottom of spine panel. Textblock clean tight and bright. A very good robust copy.…

1p, 12mo. Letterhead in green. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor traces of glue from mount adhering to blank reverse. Addressed to 'My dear Chudleigh'. He asks him to accept 'the accompanying volume', which he ordered to be bound for him 'weeks ago but it has only turned up this morning'. He is 'delighted to know that Pinero's brilliant play seems to he having the great success it deserves'. (Pinero's farce 'Preserving Mr Panmure' ran for 99 nights from 19 January 1911 at the Comedy Theatre.) Guthrie's 1885 novella 'The Tinted Venus' served as the basis of the 1943 Broadway musical 'One Touch of Venus', with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, which was made into a 1948 Hollywood film starring Ava Gardner and Robert Walker. …

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, blind lettering to the upper panel. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains [x] 146 printed pages of text. Spine a little sun faded to the corners, ownership name to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in scarce Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chips to the corners and spine corners. We currently hold in stock 5 other titles by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUMOUR (Satire, Cartoon).…

See the entry for Grey and Taylor in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Begins: 'Dear Mr Taylor - / I am just come home from seeing "the ticket of leave man," & before I go to bed I must thank you for an evening of very great enjoyment.' It pleased him 'to see so good a play, not taken from the French, but really English, [the play was in fact adapted from the French] & teaching the public what is true instead of encouraging a popular delusion of the day'. Taylor has been 'very lucky too' in his actors, and 'the whole play is capitally got up, & I do not know that I ever enjoyed one more'. Good firm valediction: 'Very faithfully / Grey'.…

4pp., 12mo. On aged paper, with minor traces of gum from mount. Taylor begins: 'My dear Charles Neville | I was glad to receive your letter, for it showed that the seed I had taken pains to sow had not fallen, as most seed so sown in the theatre does fall, upon an ungrateful soil. I am very glad for your own sake, as well as that of fthe play, that your impersonation of William the IIId has made such a good mark, and a mark of the right kind - as a presentation of a historical personage of note in distinctive character.' Neville has 'much to learn - especially in the very difficult point of modulation of the voice, which shd. be as flexible & transparent to shroud the thought through it, as a robe of India muslin to shroud the form.' He urges Neville to 'work at this night & day', and to 'not be satisfied till you have tamed your rebellious organ'. He should 'always take good advice, & be grateful for pains bestowed upon you by those whose advice & instruction are disinterested, sound, and founded on a high conception of your art.'.…

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The first page headed 'Act III', and the whole tightly-written and filled with deletions, interpolations and marginal notes, providing a valuable insight into the creative process of one of Victorian England's most successful dramatists. The last page breaks off: 'Handeside confesses his own desperate attachment. Markham '. 'A Sister's Penance' was a great success, with 83 performances at the Adelphi between 26 November 1866 and 2 March 1867.…

Leipsic : Friedrich Volckmar. London : William Tegg & Co., and A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. (circa 1850-1860). 25,5 x 20,5 cm, 32 pp. Reliure modeste non titrée, déchirure à la couture sans gravité, sinon bon exemplaire.