1. [Kotzebue, August von].

“Sighs; or, The Daughter” / [Bound with an anonymously published title: “Alfred the Great: In which is related his conquests over the Danes; Entering the Danish Camp in Disguise; Separation from Ethelswitha; and his Death, after a Glorious Reign of Twenty-Nine Years and Six Months”].

Two works in one Volume. London, John Arliss, no year [c.1800]. Small Octavo. Pagination of “Alfred the Great”: Frontispiece, 36 pages / Kotzebue: 69 pages including Epilogue [without titlepage]. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition.

2. [Stephenson, Henry] [Lincoln, Abraham] Drinkwater, John.

Abraham Lincoln – A Play. With an Introduction by Arnold Bennett.

First Edition. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Octavo. XII, 112 pages. Hardcover / Original, illustrated boards with spinelabel. Signed in full by actor Henry Stephenson on the titlepage: “Henry Stephenson – 10.XII.20” / Binding slightly rubbed. Spinlelabel worn. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookseller Label from Brentano’s in New York.

3. Hart, Moss.

Act One – An Autobiography.

New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1989. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 444 pages. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Mac Liammóir, Micheál.

All for Hecuba – An Irish Theatrical Autobiography.

London, Methuen & Co., 1946. Octavo. Portrait Frontispiece, 390 pages. With 16 illustrations. Illustrated by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Some minor repair to the beautiful dustjacket. Excellent overall condition with only minor signs of foxing and some external wear. Including an interesting original newspaper clipping with an extensive obituary on Mac Liammóir by his friend and partner Hilton Edwards. Rare !

5. Shaw, Bernard.

Back to Methuselah [A Metabiological Pentateuch]. [With several items of Ephemera included] With a Preface by Mr.Shaw and with Wood Engravings by John Farleigh.

New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1939. 19 cm x 28 cm. LVI, 260 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective slip-case. Excellent condition edition with only very minor signs of external wear to the slipcase. The ephemeral items include an advertising card for this publication from “The Leicester Galleries, London” , The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Clb from July, 1939, Number 119. The printed Letter’s title was: “If there are Four Hitlers” / Also included is a pamphlet of the Limited Editions Club on the artwork of John Farleigh.

6. [Fletcher, John / Massinger, Philip].

Beggar’s Bush. Edited by John H. Dorenkamp.

First published 1647 Folio of ‘Comedies and Tragedies’ Beaumont and Fletcher. The Hague, Paris, Mouton & Co, 1967. 15 cm x 22 cm. 202 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor pencil markings in text and back flap of dustjacket.

7. Bowman, Anne.

Charade Dramas for The Drawing-Room. With Illustrations. [Acting Charades by Anne Bowman].

London, George Rutledge and Sons, no year (c.1895). Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 114 pages plus 6 pages of advertising. Original advertising endpapers and pastedowns present. With 8 illustrations (including the Frontispiece). All the illustrations show children acting a scene. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Frontispiece and a few of the other 7 illustrations cleanly detached but in very good condition. Binding a little shaky but still intact and rather firm. Ex Libris / Bookplate of J.B. Findlay to pastedown. Extremely rare !

8. Yeats, W.B.

Collected Plays.

Second Edition, Second Reprint. London, Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1960 14 cm x 20 cm. 705 Pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

9. De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo / [Giovan Gherardo de Rossi].

Commedie.

[Seconda Edizione]. 4 Volumes in 2 (complete set). Prato, Fratelli Giachetti, 1826. Octavo. Tomo Primo: XIX, 291, [1] pages / Tomo Secondo: 314, [2] pages / Tomo Terzo: 328, [2] pages / Tomo Quattro: 251, [1] pages. Original, wonderful and decorative vellum bindings. With new spinelabels. Very Rare, original edition of the second edition of de Rossi’s comedies.

10. [Mathews, Charles] Anonymous.

Constance : A Novel. The First Literary Attempt of a Young Lady. In Four Volumes.

Volume IV (of four) only. London, Printed at the Logographic Press, 1785. Small Octavo (10.5 cm x 17 cm). 256 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Professionally repaired and with new spine-label. Original Label / Sticker of “Hazard’s Circulating-Library , Cheap-Street in Bath”, mounted on front board. Binding slightly rubbed. Last page with lesion and minor tear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with the name of one of his children in ink on titlepage.