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Amber Lane Press Ambergate 1982 Vg/Vg (very light browning to upper edge of intact dj, book no fault) octavo 127pp. Delightful personal collection of portraits, pencil sketches and reminiscences freom 25 years of sketching and painting people from the theatre.

Macdonald and Janes London 1978 Fine/near fine (dj lightly faded side of spine else book and dj both no fault) large octavo 192pp. First edition. The story of American and British troop entertainment in the second world war. Based on official records, personal reminiscences and contemporary accounts. B/w illustrations throughout; photographs, cartoons, programmes etc.

Collins London 1972 VG/VG (clean bright dj faded on spine and one or two small chips at edges, clean maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine, contents tight and bright without fault) octavo 352pp. First edition. Biography of Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndyke written by their eldest son. 20pp b/w photographs.

BONANZA BOOKS 1949 VG/G dj is not price-clipped. has edgewear and chipping to both ends of the spine, and some loss. 1 inscriptions. Octavo. for all lovers of the theatre.

Reinhardt & Evans, 1950 VG. no dj. neat signature to ffep . good clean tidy copy. rounding to ends of spine, but no loss. spine sunned. Biography of one of the greatest most exciting actors who ever lived

Phaidon Press Ltd, 1994 VG. no dj card covers. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. the author outlines the development of drama throughout the world over the last 3,000 years, from its origins in primitive dance rituals to the 1990s

Macmillan London 1974 VG/Vg (intact dj lightly rubbed at upper edge, clean black cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, contents very tight and unmarked) octavo 262pp. First edition. Autobiography. Fifty years in the theatre. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Theatre Royal Drury Lane London 1958 Vg (silver boards bumped at top of spine, front and rear hinges cracked and contents almost disbound, all clean bright and unmarked) quarto. Souvenir book of the 1958 production with b/w photographs, star profiles, etc.

Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons London 1960 G (pale blue boards faded on spine and around edges, gilt titles on spine, tape marks front and back endpapers, one or two light pencil marks else contents clean) octavo 48pp. Second edition. Foreword by Peggy Ashcroft. A practical book for students.

Bromley Theatre Guild 1999 Near fine (no dj, purple pictorial card covers, bottom tip of front cover lightly rubbed, internally as new) octavo landscape 105pp. First edition. Celebrating the first 50 years of Bromley Theatre Guild, a confederation of amateur dramatic societies in the area. B/w illustrations. SIGNED by the author.

Methuen London 1982 Vg (no dj, pictorial card covers, a very good clean tight copy, school stamp pre-title page, no other marks) octavo 218pp. First paperback edition. Charting the rise of the theatre director in the late 19th century and following his emergence as one of the most important figures behind the staging of any play today.

Peebles Press New York 1977 Vg/Vg (dj lightly faded on spine and lightly rubbed at edges, neat gift inscription front free endpaper else contents without fault) large octavo 255pp. Intimate memoirs provide a behind-the-scenes view of the early childhood and coming of age of the legendary actrress. Includes her only novel "In the Clouds". Over 60 b/w illustrations.

A and C Black London 1995 Near fine (no dj, pictorial card covers, a near fine clean bright tight copy with no marks or inscriptions, corners of front cover very lightly rubbed and very slight insignificant cockling bottom edges of pages) large octavo 100pp. Covers every aspect of how to create a pantomime, from choosing or writing a… Read more about this item

Haum Educational Publishers Pretoria 1987 Vg (no dj, black laminated pictorial boards, very light surface indentations back board, a very good clean bright sound copy with no marks or inscriptions) octavo 250pp. Second impression. With chronology and notes.

Davis-Poynter London 1975 Fine/near fine (clean bright dj very lightly creased top of spine, price clipped, contents clean tight and bright throughout) octavo 215pp. The history of the Chichester Festival Theatre, how it came to be built, and the use to which it has been put.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1963 Vg/good+ dj has some rubbing to edges and isolated to surface - showing some flaking of colour top layer. internally a lovely clean copy. all pages present and tightly bound in. no inscription. price-clipped. B&W photographs) Scenario for the great ponderous Russian epic, illustrated with stills and Eisenstein's own drawings. "Free of technical… Read more about this item

George Ronald, Oxford, 1950 VG. Red boards with sunning to spine. First Edition. 158pp. 5 plates . browning to ffepsages - wartime paper ? - but text itself is clean and bright. tightly bound. prior owner sticker on reverse of back board

Robson Books, London, 1974 VG/VG not price-clipped. no inscriptions. boards are clean and brightly titled. attractive copy. 1st edition.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cloth Covered Boards, Gilt. Very Good. Very Good. A very nice copy of this interesting translation from the french, three pages advertisments in rear.

Edinburgh University Press 1991 Fine/near fine (fine crisp bright copy in near fine unclipped dj, no marks or inscriptions) octavo 227pp.Fifteen distinguished scholars and theatre practitioners explore a wide range of late 16th and early 17th-century English plays primarily as peices of performance both then and now.