11. Lorca, Federico Garcia / O’Connell, Richard L. (translator) / Graham-Lujan, James (translator).

Three Tragedies of Federico Garcia Lorca: Blood Wedding – Yerma – Bernarda Alba.

New York, New Directions, 1947. 14 cm x 21 cm. 378 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

12. Tombs, H.H.

Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand No. 5. Edited by H.H.Tombs.

Wellington, Harry H. Tombs Limited, 1949. 19.2 cm x 24.7 cm. 183 pages. Black and white and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers, pastedowns, edges and pages throughout. Minor discoloration to page margins and edges. Open tear to title page. Front endpaper contains previous owner name and date in black ink. Binding strong. From the library of New Zealand Artist Keith Money with an old entry by D.A.Money in 1949 on the titlepage.

13. Freund, Philip / [Jørgen Claudi]

Prince Hamlet.

New York, Bookman Associates, 1953. 14.5 cm x 21.6 cm. 70 pages. Book designed by Richard Miller. Garamond type. Art work by Floriano Vecchi. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing and discoloration to endpapers and edging. Highlighter markings to top edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. With his bookplate / Exlibris to front pastedown (Exlibris design by Brian Lalor). Includes a letter as ephemera (dated 1956) to Mrs Erik Haugaard from Mr. Jorgen Claudi, Assistant Head of the Drama Department of Statsradiofonien. Following Mrs Haugaard forwarding Freund’s play to the department, Mr Claudi, in a damning fashion, declines to broadcast Philip Freund’s Prince Hamlet: “….If a great Danish author had adapted a classic in an inspired, modern form, it could be reasonable to try such eksperiment [sic]. But as the author is a rather unknown American, it is not to be expected that the Danish Radio should broadcast it……”

14. Beaumont, Ernest.

The Theme of Beatrice in the Plays of Claudel.

London, Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1954. 14 x 22cm. (9), 102 pages. Original clothbound hardcover. Very good condition, spine very slightly scuffed, small ink mark on front board, endpapers slightly foxed. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

15. Roth, Samuel (editor).

American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free. Volume Four / Number Sixteen – [with the printed dedication to Ernest Hemingway]. This Volume includes: “Venus & Adonis” – Behind the Scenes with Catherine, Russia’s Voluptuary Czarina. By Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. / The Merry Muses of Robert Burns / George S. Viereck – Was Shakespeare a Man or a Woman ? / Norman Lockridge – The Women of Plentipunda / etc.

New York, American Aphrodite, 1955. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 227 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Small tears and some fraying to dustjacket.

16. Golding, William.

The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1958. 13 cm x 21 cm. 80 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

17. Aristophanes.

The Birds and The Frogs. With an Introduction by Dudley Fitts.

One Volume. Connecticut, The Heritage Press, 1959. 20 cm x 28 cm. The Birds: XII, 52 pages / The Frogs: XVII, 62 pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Original Hardcover in illustrated slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

18. 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.

19. Broch, Hermann.

Die Entsühnung. Schauspiel in der Hörspeilfassung umd mit einer Einleitung von Ernst Schönwiese.

Lizenzausgabe. Wien, Bergland Verlag, 1961. 11 x 20 cm. 78 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur minimalen Gebrauchsspuren am Einband. [Neue Dichtung aus Oesterreich – Band 80/81 – Herausgeber: Rudolf Felmayer].

20. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.

The Critic. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Robert Herring.

London / New York, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. / St. Martin’s Press, 1963. 12 x 18cm. (32), 92 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth. Binding and boards in very good condition, pencilled underlining and annotations to text. Ex-library, label affixed to front endpaper. [English Literature Series].