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The Norton Shakespeare, Based On the Oxford Edition
by William Shakespeare
"Based on the Oxford edition."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 3381-3407) and indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 3381-3407) and indexes.
The Mercury Shakespeare, Edited For Reading and Arranged For Staging By Orson Wells and Roger Hill, the Merchant Of Venice
by Orson Wells William Shakespeare
Four Great Historical Plays Of William Shakespeare - Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Partii, Henry V, Richard IIi
by Introductory Notes By Henry W Simon William Shakespeare
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Troilus And Cressida (New Penguin Shakespeare S.)
by Shakespeare, William
Paperback. Very Good.
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€11.39
Shakespeare: Rare Print Collection
by EATON, Seymour, ed
Philadelphia. hardcover. 147 loose plates, including a duplicate of no. 4, part 5. Twelve parts in total, enclosed in portfolio. Small thick 4to, cloth-backed decorative boards with fabric ties. Philadelphia, 1900.<br/> <br/> No. 261 of the Connoisseur Edition. Very good copy.<br/> <br/>
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€70.89
Richard II The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
by Shakespeare, William, Kenneth Muir, editor
Signet Classics. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1963. Mass Market. B000BV3BR2 . Mass Market Paperback in very good condition. Squared, tightly bound with the previous owner's name and notes on the front free end paper, otherwise a bright & unmarked text. Light wear to the covers & edges. One dog-eared page. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 255 pages .
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€5.02
COMMENTARIES ON THE HISTORICAL PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE. Shakespeare. Two volume set.
by Courtenay, Thomas Peregrine
London: Henry Colburn, 1840. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). Two volume set. Three quarter leather bindings with moderate shelfwear and rubbing. Each volume has two attractive leather spine labels. Vol. I: xiv, 314 pages. Vol. II: [ii], 340 pages of text including an index. Moderate foxing to first and final several pages of both volumes, with minor foxing scattered throughout the texts. First edition. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and...
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€226.85
Explanations & Emendations of Some Passages in the Text of Shakespeare and of Beaumont and Fletcher
by Morehead, Robert [Martin Scriblerus]
Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Co, for Archibald Constable and Co and Manners and Miller, 1814. Octavo. [4] 56 pages. One of the scarcest studies on the text of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher. This was produced in an edition of 100 copies and Morehead uses the name Martin Scriblerus. Bound in newer paper wraps, brown binding tape and new paper label. A very clean copy without foxing or names. Very scarce. [Halkett& Laing (2nd ed), v. 2, p. 240; Jaggard, W. Shakespeare Bibliography, p. 221.].
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€259.93
Scenic Form in Shakespeare
by Jones, Emry
Oxford at The Clarendon Press. 1971. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. This is an ex-library copy with a stamp to the bottom edge and publications page. The pocket has been removed leaving an abrasion to the rear pastedown. Faint marking to upper edge of front cover. 269 pages. Focuses on the invention and shaping of scenes in Shakespeare's work. The book ends with a detailed examination of four of the...
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€13.59
John Gielgud The Authorized Biography
by MORLEY, Sheridan
Black and white illustrations, octavo, pp. 528.
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€13.66
Shakespeare's England (A Cassell Caravel Book)
by Editors of Horizon Magazine in consultation with Louis B.Wright
London: Cassell. 1965. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial boards. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Black and white drawings. Previous owner's neat initials to front pastedown. 153 pages. Presents Shakespeare against the colouful tapestry of his times. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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€12.36
Bernard Shaw Volume I The Search for Love 1856-1898
by Holroyd, Michael
London: Chatto & Windus. 1988. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White/Sepia plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. viii, 486 pages. Volume I takes Shaw from his birth in 1856, through a series of love affairs, to his marriage in 1898. . 2nd Impression. Hardback.
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€11.12
Last Things in Shakespeare.
by MORRIS, Harry
Publisher's light gray cloth with darker gray spine lettering, octavo, pp. xii, 348. Illustrated.
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€18.90
Shakespeare's Life and World
by Duncan-Jones, Katherine [Compiled and Introduced by]
London: The Folio Society. 2004. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition in Very Good slipcase. Illustrated with colour and Black & white plates. Decorated boards in light fawn slipcase. Excellent condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 208 pages. Mingles passages from Shakespeare's own works with a wide variety of other materials to suggest the richness and diversity of all his worlds interwoven with the main outlines of his...
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€13.59
SHAKESPEAREAN MEANINGS
by Sigurd Burchhardt
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. 6 x 9 in. Brown cloth boards. Condition is GOOD ; no wear, binding tight. Text has margin notes and markings, some in ink. DJ is VERY GOOD ; price-clipped, edges worn, quite riubbed, a touch foxed. Shake. Stax.
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€14.18
Making Shakespeare : From Stage To Page
by Stern, Tiffany
London and New York: Routledge. 2005. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 188 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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€24.71
The Tempest, with commentary (based on the Arden Shakespeare) -- in Arabic
by Shakespeare, William, ed. by Quiller-Couch, Arthur, G. Wilson Knight & Frank Kermode
Kuwait: Ministry of Information, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 255 pp. In Arabic.
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€18.90
THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE BOOK. A Comprehensive Handbook for Playgoers. Signed by Mary Mann.
by Branson, Clark; Mary Mann
Los Angeles, CA: Clark Branson, 1984. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. Oblong octavo (8vo). x, 274 pages of text including an index. Bright yellow paperback binding with minimal shelfwear including a small bump to one corner. Illustrated by black & white photographs. Signed and inscribed by the editor on the title page "To Dr. Marder from [signed] Mary Mann." Includes articles by Jack Viertel and David Meyers. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the...
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€23.63
![The Plays of William Shakespeare. Accurately printed from the text of the Corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens, esq. With Glossarial Notes. In Nine Volumes [Complete in 9 Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/083/1121083050.0.b.jpg){kind=small}
The Plays of William Shakespeare. Accurately printed from the text of the Corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens, esq. With Glossarial Notes. In Nine Volumes [Complete in 9 Volumes]
by William Shakespeare
London.: Printed for J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, H. L. Gardner &c., 1803. Hard. Good. 16mo.. Illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece.. Good. Bound in contemporary full calf. Three boards are detached and there is some chipping cracking to the bindings. Marbled endpapers. Name penned to each front fly-leaf. A touch of mild damp-staining. Minor foxing and toning.
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€146.62
Baby Doll Pressbook
by Williams, Tennessee
Hollywood: Warner Bros., 1956. 1st Edition . Pressbook. Very nice 24pg. pressbook for Elia Kazan's film "Baby Doll" that had a screenplay by Tennessee Williams. The film was met with tremdous controversy including a public comdenation from New York City's Cardinal Spellman. The film was favorably reviewed and received Oscar nominations for Carroll Baker & Mildred Dunnock's performances and William's screenplay. Memorable also for the great photo of Baker in a baby crib...
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€165.41€132.33
Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Won: New Evidence from the Account Books of an Elizabethan Bookseller
by Baldwin, T. W
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First edition, 1957. Thin quarto, cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 42 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, some rubbing and wear to the dust jacket including some chipping along the top edge.
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€24.10
An Index of Characters in English Printed Drama to the Restoration.
by Berger, Thomas L.; William C. Bradford
Englewood, CO: Microcard Editions Books, 1975. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [vi], 222 pages of text including a bibliography. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear and minimal soiling. No dustjacket, as issued. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the inside of the rear cover. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare..
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€118.15
SHAKESPEARE HIS WORLD AND HIS WORK
by M. M. Reese
London: Edward Arnold, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean with minor wear. Binding tight. Text edges foxed, as are endpapers. Text unmarked. Shake. Stax.
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€18.90
Shakspere (Shakespeare) Allusion Books; Part I A.D. 1592-98, Published for the New Shakspere Society
by Ingleby, C. M., Esq., M.A., LL.D. (Inscribed)
London: N. Trubner & Co, 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. Inscribed by the author on front wrapper, which is bound in; 12mo, 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards; 188 pages. Laid in is a copy of a letter from Humphrey Moseley, 3 pages, concerning allusions to Shakespeare. Uncut, internally very clean and bright. Bookplate of Jerry Melton. A very good + copy.
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€330.82
Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613
by Alvin Kernan
Publisher's black lettered red cloth over red paper-covered boards, octavo, pp. xxiii, 230. Illustrated.
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€14.18
KING HENRY IV: Part One
by Shakespeare, William
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Reprint. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black leather, gilt lettering on spine, red and gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Illustrated with Art Deco style drawings by Eric Gill. . Edges of boards just beginning to fray, former owner's name and date on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD. . Drawings. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. 146 pp .
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€23.63
The Leopold Shakspere: The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with 'The Two Noble Kinsmen' and 'Edward III', and an Introduction by F. J. Furnivall.
by Shakespeare, William
London.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., No date but circa 1890. Reprint , twenty-second thousand.. Contemporary scarlet tree calf over beveled boards with burgundy borders, raised bands, gilt spine title on black label, gilt webbing in spine panels, gilt borders on covers, gilt decorations to turn-in, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.. Light shelfwear to foot of spine, otherwise a near fine copy in a splendid binding.. 8vo.. Heavy book, will require extra shipping. weight: 4.0 lb. Illustrations in text.
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€231.57
![THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WINDSOR EDITION DE LUXE [CT IN 20 VOLS]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/396/169/688169396.0.m.jpg)
