Plays from lobstabooks

Maunsel and Company Ltd Dublin 1911 Vg (no dj, clean brown paper-covered boards with ivory-coloured backstrip just a little darkened on spine, gilt titles spine and front board, page tops gilt, light foxing endpapers, a little speckling rough-cut page edges and top of one or two margins else a very tight copy with clean bright pages) 12mo… Read more about this item

Duckworth and Co London 1915 VG (no dj, clean olive green cloth with black titles, light browning free endpapers, trace of old pencil price on front free endpaper, pages clean and unmarked) 16mo 84pp.

George G Harrap and Co London 1960 G (no dj, green cloth darkened on spine and few white paint spots spine, just a hint of browning page edges, no inscriptions, a sound tight copy with ink and pencil annotations to one play) 12mo 255pp. First edition. 10 plays.

Faber and Faber London 1968 G (no dj, pictorial card covers with flapbacks, light tanning spine and edges and back cover lightly soiled, internally a very good clean bright copy with no marks) octavo 85pp. First edition. With cast list of first London performance at the St. Martin's Theatre March 28th 1968.

Samuel French Ltd London 1948 Vg (no dj, stapled cream card covers with red/black lettering and illustration front cover, neat ink ownership inscription top of front cover, small pencil marks back cover, contents clean with no marks or annotations ) 12mo 31pp. A comedy in one act. French's Acting Edition No.498.

Samuel French Ltd London 1948 Vg (no dj, stapled marbled green/cream card covers with black lettering, cover and contents are clean and unmarked throughout) 12mo 24pp. A play in one act. French's Acting Edition No.551.

William Heinemann London 1896 Vg (no dj, blue cloth with WH logo on back board, front board with decoration of actors' masks, brown spotting to endpapers only, bookplate front fixed endpaper and old price in pencil, small pencil initial and date front free endpaper, names of cast neatly written in pencil alongside names of the characters on first page… Read more about this item

London: George Allen, 1924. Vg (no dj, matt grey paper covred boards with ivory cloth backstrip tanned on spine, gilt titles spine and embossed gilt heraldic device front board, possibly unread as pages clean and unmarked and some still uncut, prize plate front fixed endpaper and scattered foxing outside fore-edges) 12mo 112pp. Three plays. The Tinker's… Read more about this item

Bernhard Tauchnitz Leipzig 1908 Vg (no dj, green cloth with one small pink stain top of front cover, gilt title on gilt banded brown leather plate on spine, cloth lightly worn head and tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed, top page edges gilt, green marbled endpapers with light scattered foxing front free endpaper andf ew speckles back free… Read more about this item

Theo Gaus' Sons New York 1976 Vg/Vg (unclipped intact dj lightly discoloured at edges, clean blue cloth with bright gilt titles, a tight crisp clean copy with no marks or inscriptions, possibly unread, dust speckles top page edges and touch of light browning outside fore-edges) octavo 151pp. First edition. Tragi-comedy in three acts.

William Heinemann London 1952 Vg/Fair (clipped dj is intact but reinforced with browned and grubby tape round all edges and also on spine, one small clean tear at head of spine and tiny area of loss, clean red cloth with gilt lettering and black title panel on spine, gilt facsimile signature front board and black title panel… Read more about this item

Grove Press New York 1964 Vg/G (unclipped dj with three or four small tears at edges (less than 1/2"), front flap creased, clean grey paper-covered boards with red cloth backstrip, gift inscription front free endpaper, no other marks, a very good clean tight copy with faint browning outside edges) 12mo 352pp. Third printing. The full, uncut text… Read more about this item

Jarrolds London undated Vg (no dj, clean black cloth with gilt titles on spine, one bottom corner rubbed, paper cracked at front hinge but hinge firm, light browning and spotting prelims and last 2 pages, light spotting outside page edges, few light spots margins of first few pages else pages clean and binding very tight) octavo 252pp. Contains… Read more about this item