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A delightful copy of the first printing of Worzel Gummidge, the much loved living scarecrow, familiar to many in the UK from the later 1970s BBC te...

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare. Copies of that surviving book are now so precious th...

A leather bound photographic album from 1884 by 'Photographic Artist' J. Dryburgh, of St Andrews and Dalkeith, in Scotland. A truly remarkable albu...

Original Autographed Framed Black and White Photograph; Signed by Mickey Rooney (1920-2014), world famous American actor, with an acting career spa...

Original Autographed Framed Black and White Photograph; Signed by Shirley MacLaine (born 1934), world famous American actor and author, with an act...

Original Autographed Framed Black and White Photograph; Signed by Jack Lemmon (1925-2001), world famous American actor with an acting career spanni...

Original Autographed Framed Black and White Photograph; Signed by Janet Leigh (1927-2004), world famous American actress with an acting career span...

A sumptuous, full colour, volume featuring more than 300 operas. Includes history, production details, key characters and scenes, and sample scores...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

A very smart set of 3 George Bernard Shaw works, all uniformly rebound in stylish modern cloth bindings. Comprising: Cashel Byron's Profession, Rev...

A handsome set of books by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), English novelist, dramatist and essayist. The books have been professionally rebound in matc...

A substantial volume of the works of the English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637), with a biography of his life. The Works of Ben Jonson;...

An interesting collection of vintage books on the development of television, the first of which dates to just 1933, the year after the first UK tel...

Mary Robinson (1757-1800) was a celebrity beauty of her day, known as an actress, writer, poet, and as the mistress of George IV, whilst he was Pri...

"The Companion...is an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and pe...

A nice example of this theatrical script, produced by Gowans & Gray of London and Glasgow. Featuring a very attractive cover with a colour prin...

A nice example of this theatrical script, produced by Gowans & Gray of London and Glasgow. Featuring a very attractive cover with a silhouette ...

Two anthologies compiled from the pocket literature broadsheets distributed to military serviceman in 1915, in the early days of The Great War. The...

A volume with two of the plays of Terence (Publius Terentius Afer - c. 190-159 BC). He was a Roman playwright and the author of six plays based on ...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote. (With an Introductory Memoir.) Edited by the Late William Cooke. Illustrated. Samuel Foote was born in...

Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...

The House of Memories, and Other Writings in Prose and Verse. By Robert Murray, J.P. A miscellany of the author's writings, with a Scottish slant. ...

A History Maker, by Alasdair Gray. A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art and literature in mod...

The Day of Glory; A Play in Three Acts, by H.E. Bates. A play about the impact of war on three generations of the same family. Some characters in t...

The Library; The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 10 Issues from the Seventh Series, including: Volume 17: No. 4, December 2016; Volume...

The Bee and Other Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, Together with the Life of Nash. Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Printed in Ox...

Maalesh; A Theatrical Tour in the Middle East, by Jean Cocteau. Translated by Mary C. Hoeck. Signed by the Publisher. Published by Peter Owen Limit...

Wallenstein ein Dramatisches Gedicht von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller). Comprises two main sections; Wallenstein's Lager (Wall...

Tragedie Del Conte Vittorio Alfieri, 1749-1803. A single volume collection of the works of Italian dramatist, Count Vittorio Alfieri, said to be th...

Mad Shelley, A Dramatic Life in Five Acts, by Elma Dangerfield.  Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British h...

Cambodian Dance; Celebration of the Gods, by Denise Heywood. With signed inscription to half title - 'With best wishes, Denise Heywood'. Published ...

The Tragedies of Aeschylus, Translated by R. Potter. A New Edition. Printed for J. Walker; T. Payne; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R.Leas; J. Nunn et a...

Collection of 12 Tauchnitz Editions of his Plays, by Bernard Shaw. The set comprises: Cashel Byron's Profession, Copyright Edition, 1914, Vol. 4468...

Everybody's Political, What's What?, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Bernard Shaw. Please ...

The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home; A Lecture, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by Geo...

The Common Sense of Municipal Trading, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Bernard Shaw. Pleas...

Translations and Tomfooleries, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Bernard Shaw. Please see ot...

The New Statesman; Special War Supplement; Common Sense About the War, by Bernard Shaw. Vol. IV. No. 84. Saturday, November 14, 1914. Additional Pa...

The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, edited by Thomas Keightley. Published by Bell and Daldy, London, 1865. An uncommon edition. Printed by ...

The Ion of Euripides, with a Translation into English Verse by A.W. Verralll Litt.D., of Lincoln's Inn Barrister-in-Law Fellow and Tutor of Trinity...

The Early Stuart Masque; Dance, Costume, and Music, by Barbara Ravelhofer. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021),...

The Gilbert & Sullivan Book, by Leslie Baily. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. Published by Cassell & Company Ltd, London,...

Chrestomathie française ou choix de morceaux tirés des meilleurs écrivains français. Ouvrage destiné à servir d'application méthodique et progressi...

Joan and Peter; The Story of an Education, by H.G. Wells. Casell and Company, Ltd, London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne, 1918. First edition. Pr...

Cities of the Plain; A Democratic Melodrama, by Alex Comfort (1920-2000). He was best known for his "The Joy of Sex" manual, which brought him worl...

Macaire; A Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts, by W.E. Henley & R.L. Stevenson. Published by William Heinemann, London, 1897. Part of a series of...

The Masque of Ancient Learning and its Many Meanings; A Pageant of Education from Primitive to Celtic Times Devised and Interpreted by Patrick Gedd...

The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles, with a Commentary abridged from the Large edition of Sir Richard C. Jebb, Litt.D., by E.S. Shuckburgh, Litt.D. P...