1. Baigent, H.V.

Stage Lighting. Written for the New Zealand Drama Council.

Wellington, The New Zealand Drama Council, 1949. 21cm x 13.5cm. 40 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Includes fourteen black and white illustrations. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Endpaper inscribed in ink by previous owner.

2. 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.

3. 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 !

4. [Croker, John Wilson].

Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq. – On the Present State of the Irish Stage. Fourth Edition, with considerable Additions.

Dublin, Printed by Graisberry & Campbell and sold by all booksellers, 1805. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 18 cm). XXX, 178 pages plus Errata-leaf. 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. Tear in Errata-leaf professionally repaired. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his name in ink to titlepage.

5. Cubillo De Aragon, Don Alvaro.

Comedias Escogidas. [Tomo Primero].

First Edition. Madrid, Con Licencia, 1826. 10.5 x 16 cm. 424 pages. Original Hardcover with gilt text on spine. Faded dampstain throughout. Bookblock slightly separating from binding. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. [Däubler, Theodor]

Festalmanach Universitäts Ball 1928.

[Berlin], Fischer, 1928. Klein Oktav. 64 Seiten mit zahlreichen Illustrationen plus im Anhang: “Programm zum Universitätsball 1928 am 14.Februar in den Gesamtraeumen des Kroll-Etablissements”. Original Softcover. Schlecht erhaltene Ausgabe dieses sehr seltenen Almanachs mit Beitraegen und Illustrationen bedeutender Autoren der Weimarer Republik. Vordere Broschur und Buchblock sehr gut erhalten. Hintere Broschur lose mit stark angeraendertem und geloesetn Programm zum Ball. Alle Illustrationen in sehr guter Erhaltung. Beiliegende: Zwei originale Eintrittskarten zum Universitaetsball (Herrenkarte und Damenkarte) / Ausserdem beiliegend zwei originale Eintrittskarten zur Staatsoper am Platz der Republik in Berlin am selben Tag.

7. Eliot, T.S.

The Cocktail Party. A Comedy by T.S. Eliot.

Second Impression of the First Edition ! London, Faber and Faber Ltd., MCML [1950]. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8. Ernst, Earle.

The Kabuki Theatre.

Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1974. 24 cm. XXVII, 296 pages. Illustrated with 38 pages of plates. Original illustrasted softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. An East-West center book.

9. [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.

10. Fountain, Robert / Coward, Malcolm (illustrator) / Whitcombe, Susie (illustrator).

The Art of the Traditional Circus: A History of the Circus and its Artists.

Askham, Palette Press, 2011. 27.5 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 216 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition. Signed by the author Robert Fountain on the titlepage.