PLAYS from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney, Strawberry Hills: Currency Press / Belvoir Sydney, 2016. Revised, reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 134 pp. This is a major play from Australia's most explosive and challenging playwright Stephen Sewell. The play was first published in 1983, during the Neville Wran and Joh Bjelke-Peterson era. The play is an angry and tender look at… Read more about this item

London: Cassell & Company, 1934. 5th printing ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, good condition, orange boards, black border front cover, black title spine, endpapers & title page lightly foxed, light toning pages, light foxing pages, spine ends little worn, boards little rubbed (mainly bottom edge), cover corners little bumped, cancelled EX-LIBRARY (rubber stamps inside covers), front & inner… Read more about this item

London: L. & Virginia Woolf / Hogarth Press, 1931. Hardback small, no jacket, good condition, brown board cover (title label, little foxed), top edge foxed, some page edges foxed, pages lightly toned, some edgewear. 120 pp. A scarce collectible book of three verse plays from the press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf / Hogarth Press, 1932. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, good condition, marbled covers, title label front cover & spine, strong foxing edges & first few pages (lesser foxing title page, plus spotted foxing to margins of some other pages), pages little toned, some edgewear, bookseller sticker. 80 pp. Scarce collectible verse play… Read more about this item

Sydney, Kensington: University of New South Wales Press (UNSW Press), 1993. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, tiny hole one page, minor edgewear corners. 186 pp. This unique project of two plays originated from an idea and a dramaturgical concept by academic Gerhard Fischer. It has fascinating insights for anyone interested in modern theatre, in… Read more about this item

Sydney, Strawberry Hills: Currency Press, 2002. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, base spine rubbed, bottom corner front cover & few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 152 pp. Three plays by David Williamson about community conferencing - a process bringing together the victims and perpetrators of a crime in an attempt at reconciliation and rehabilitation. … Read more about this item

Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2015. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, few light creases covers, minor edgewear. 348 pp. This novel tells the complete story of The Water Diviner and is based on the original screenplay (now a major motion picture). It is inspired by true events found within personal accounts and official records from the Great… Read more about this item

Sydney: Currency Press, 2007. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few black & white photos (including frontispiece), front cover corner tips little creased, minor edgewear, faint remainder stripe bottom edge. 216 pp. This screenplay by Sue Smith follows the lives of the main players in a serious maritime industrial dispute that stopped Australia. A political thriller, war film, love story… Read more about this item

London: Cassell Ltd, 1980. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition, silver drawing front board, colour drawings, bottom edge & spine ends rubbed, minor edgewear jacket (lightly faded). 40 pp. This book was first published in 1906, and this classic reissue is as charming as it was then. One of a series of 'flower fantasies' produced by Crane towards… Read more about this item

Perth, Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2015. 1st ed.. Paperback, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear. 170 pp. This Australian novel is written in verse by an acclaimed playwright, about the strange and invisible ways people are drawn together and pulled apart.

Sydney: Currency Press, 1976. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, edges little foxed, minor edgewear corners. 106 pp. This play is located solidly in the physical location of Redfern. The changes that were happening at this time are reflected in the dialogue of the actors. The play is acted out in the years before the Vietnam… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sydney University Press (SUP), 1980. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pages lightly toned, minor edgewear jacket (little rubbed). 229 pp. A. P. (Andrew) Riemer examines Shakespeare's comedy plays and examines their curious, often teasing treatment of those moral, philosophical, and even religious issues that criticism has consistently isolated as representing Shakespeare's comic… Read more about this item

City Not Stated: Publisher Not Stated, 1800. Hardback very small, no jacket, good condition, rebound (decorative cover, new endpapers), pages little toned & creased, edges untrimmed, some minor foxing, minor edgewear. 162 pp. English Translation of title: 'Brother Morits, the Eccentric, or the Settlement for the Pelew Islands, Play in three Acts.' A play by the popular and prolific… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: H. Moolenijzer, 1805. 2nd ed.. Hardback small, good condition, no jacket, very good condition, marbled board covers (dark brown leatherette spine), vignette title page, pages little wavy (poor quality paper, minor creasing), untrimmed (edges roughly cut & toned), edgewear, minor annotation. 168 pp. An historic play translated from German into Dutch. Title (in English): "The East-Indiaman: A Stage… Read more about this item

London: Pollock's Toy Theatres Ltd, 1971. Paperback quarto, good plus condition, thick card cover, stapled (rusted), sepia (brown-coloured) drawings, colour card inserts at rear, spine ends chipped, endpapers toned, covers & bottom edges some pages little foxed, minor edgewear. Unnum pp. Cover title continues: Designed and adapted by Mr. Peter C. Jackson from the origiinal Toy Theatre play first… Read more about this item

USA: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. Facsimile ed.. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, cover design differs from stock photo. 304 pp. The collected poetry of the famous Australian bush poet. A printed copy of a facsimile reproduction of "The Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon", Ward Lock & Co., 1913, in "The World Library" series. Contains an introduction, plus two… Read more about this item

Sydney: The College Press, 1956. Paperback small, card cover, stapled pamphlet, good condition, front & rear cover & page corners creased, pages lightly toned, slight loss base spine, crease in front cover & title page, tiny tear fore-edge front cover & few pages, bottom corner rear cover removed, minor edgewear, rubber stamp. 27 pp. A little booklet published to… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company, 1922. Hardback small, no jacket, good plus condition, green leatherette cover (gilt pattern), browned spine (raised bands, gilt lettering), top edge gilt, pages lightly toned as usual, internally excellent. 211 pp. Spine title: King Lears Wife & Other Tales.

Sydney, Frenchs Forest: Dominie Publications, 1955. Paperback thin trade, card cover (little loose at base), stapled, illustrated cover, good condition, minor edgewear & edge tears, pages lightly toned, some scattered creasing, minor foxing rear cover, slightly loose at base of staple, scuff mark front cover (sticker removal), rubber stamp, owner's written name front cover. 23 pp. (Estimated date, 1950s,… Read more about this item

Sydney, Frenchs Forest: Dominie Publications, 1955. Paperback thin trade, card cover, stapled, illustrated cover, good condition, minor edgewear, lightly toned, crease top spine rubbed, staples rusted, light wear along spine, minor foxing edges, light toning rear cover, rubber stamp, owner's written name front cover. 30 pp. (Estimated date, 1950s, Trove catalogue.) The content of these plays and the shortness… Read more about this item