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The Complete Dramatic and Poetic Works of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, William; Edited by Frederick D. Losey. Published by the John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1926. First Edition edited by Losey. No additional printings on copyright page. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xvi, 1328pp. with frontispiece portrait; biography and an introduction to each play by Frederick D. Losey and with glossary… Read more about this item

The Works of William Shakspere; containing His Plays and Poems, William Shakespeare; Illustrated by W. Harvey. Published by George Bell, London, 1874. Tenth Edition: from the Text of the Editions by Charles Knight: with Glossarial Notes; and Facts connected with his Life and Writings, abridged from 'William Shakspere. A Biography'. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue leather with… Read more about this item

The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World. Collins, Paul. Published by Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 246pp., with suggested readings. Black boards with gilt titles. Volume is in fine, unread condition, in fine dustjacket Many of the original 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio were gone before the turn of the… Read more about this item

Shakespeare - A Crash Course, Graham, Rob. Published by Watson-Guptil, NYC, 2000 12mo up to 7½" tall. 144pp., illustrated, index, glossary. Glossy illustrated boards with matching dustjacket. Volume is in fine, unread condition, in fine dustjacket.

Shakespeare: The World As Stage, Bryson, Bill. Published by HarperCollins, 2019. Eminent Lives series. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 200pp. with title page portrait. Volume is in fine, unread condition with very light toning

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, Shapiro, James. Published by HarperCollins, 2005. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 429pp., illustrated, index, preface, prologue, biographical essay. Quarter brown over brown boards, mapped endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition; jacket has very light shelf wear.

Contested Will. Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shapiro, James. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 339pp., black and white illustrations, index. Quarter crimson over cream boards. Contents are in fine condition with a remainder mark to outside lower edge; light shelf wear to dustjacket. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why… Read more about this item

This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith. Published by Pelican, 2019. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 368pp Blue boards with black titles. Light toning and otherwise contents are in fine condition; light edge wear to dustjacket. A The Times Book of The Year 2019. 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer.… Read more about this item

Shakespeare, Michael Wood. Published by Basic Books, 2003. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352pp., with over 100 color and black and white illustrations. Quarter red over black boards, silver spine titles, black endpapers. In fine, unread condition. A brilliant piece of historical investigative journalism by acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood. Shakespeare is a fresh telling of the playwright's life based… Read more about this item

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485, Norwich, John Julius. Published by Scribner, 2000. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 401pp. with color pictorial section, 3 genealogical charts, maps, Royal Emblems, Bibliography, Index. Blue cloth boards with mapped endpapers. Volume is in fine condition; dustjacket has closed tear top edge and light shelf… Read more about this item

Shakespeare's Face, Stephanie Nolen. Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2002. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 365pp. with black and white and color illustrations, notes, index.S Black boards with bronze spine titles. Volume is in fine condition, jacket has light shelf wear. A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the… Read more about this item

Romances, William Shakespeare. Published by Everyman's Library, 1996. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 464pp., notes, bibliographies, chronology. Grey cloth boards with gilt spine titles on black panel, grey reading ribbon. In fine, unread condition. Contains Shakespeare's four Last Plays - The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline. Single-column text of the plays, features Signet footnotes

The Shakespeare Miscellany, Crystal, Ben; Crystal, David. Published by Penguin UK, Abrams Press, 2005. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 214pp., with timeline and index. Crimson cloth boards with gilt titles, dark blue endpapers, reading ribbon. In fine, unread condition. This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the… Read more about this item

Shakespeare's Flowers, Kerr, Jessica. Published by Longmans, 1969. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 86pp., Illustrated, Notes: Bibliography. Illustrations by Anne Ophelia Dowden. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Tape residue marks to endpapers and otherwise contents are free of markings, tears or folds. Dustjacket has a chip to spine and edge wear. Color illustrations accompany quotations from twenty-four Shakespearean dramas about… Read more about this item

Who's Who in Shakespeare, Johnson, Hamish; Quennell, Peter. Published by Routledge, 2006. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 228pp. Red cloth boards with white spine titles. In fine, unread condition. Arranged alphabetically, this is a complete A-Z guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays with detailed biographical information on each leading figure, and an analysis of the role and… Read more about this item

Chaucer, Ackroyd, Peter. Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2004. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 175pp. index, color illustrations. Black boards with silver titles, black endpapers. In fine, unread condition with the lightest of shelf wear to jacket.

Selected Poems: Pablo Neruda, Neruda, Pablo. Published by Grove Press, 1994. English and Spanish Edition. Ben Belitt [Editor]; Ben Belitt [Translator]; Luis Monguio [Introduction] 320pp. Card Covers. Light outside edge dusting and otherwise in fine, unread condition.

A Toute Epreuve: Gravures sur bois de Joan Miro, Eluard, Paul. Published by George Braziller, Inc, New York, 1984. Facsimile Reproduction Copy #75 of the Gerald Cramer, Geneve copy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Contains 2 parts. Primary volume contains Eluard's poem with 80 woodcuts in colour by Miro; boards, 92pp. Booklet containing an English-language introduction and history… Read more about this item

The Poetical Works of Taras Shevchenko; The Kobzar, Shevchenko, Taras. Translated from the Ukrainian by C.H. Andrusyshen and Watson Kirkconnell. Published by the Ukrainian Canadian Committee / University of Toronto Press, 1977. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 563 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt front and spine. Small label to free endpaper and stamp to pastedown, and otherwise, contents are… Read more about this item

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson; Mabel Loomis Todd [Editor]; T.W. Higginson [Editor]; George Gesner [Introduction]. Published by Gramercy, 1988. 256pp. Quarter rose over pink boards. Volume is in fine, unread condition; jacket has a very light turn up at front top edge.