Samuel t farquhar (5 risultati)

Journal. Condizione: Very Good+. (Vol. I, No. 3). [nice copy, binding fully intact, some uneven fading to rear cover]. Early issue of the one of the earlier American academic film journals, "published under the joint sponsorship of the University of California and the Hollywood Writers Mobilization," the latter represented on the editorial board by John Howard Lawson. Feature articles in this issue: "Early Film Production in England" by Georges Sadoul; "Acting and Behaving" by Alexander Knox; "They Stopped at Nothing" by John Elliot Williams (about the history and practice of movie advertising); "Advanced Training for Film Workers: Russia" by Jay Leyda; and "Advanced Training for Film Workers: France" by Charles Boyer. (Listed as members of the Motion Picture Advisory Committee are quite a few filmmakers of left/progressive orientation (some of them future blacklistees), including director Vincent Sherman, from whose estate this copy was acquired.) NOISBN.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. First Printing in burgundy-stamped pink papered boards with burgundy cloth shelfback, Complimentary Copy from the Manager of the University of California Press Samuel T. Farquhar with his 'compliments of' card laid in, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, trace shelf wear to boards & slight toning to pages, else an exemplary unbumped copy of this finely-printed tribute to the Czech statesman and first president of the then-new state of Czechoslovakia; sm 8vo; 28pp; illus frontispiece. Complimentary Copy.…

the "Sierra Club Bulletin", June, 1934; V.19 No.3. Original printed wrappers, illustrated, 108 pages, the Farquhar story pages 48-55. Also, Charles L. Stewart, "Early Ascents of Mt. Shasta", pp. 58-70, and, in "Notes and Correspondence", anonymous, "The Search for Walter A. Starr, Jr.", pp. 81-85. A Fine copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. Roach's Edition. 8 volumes containing 30 plays with separate title-page and pagination, 28 with an engraved frontispiece, 28 printed by J. Roach at either Russell-Court/Russel-Court or Woburn-Street with "Roach's Edition" at head of title-page, 1 published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd, and 1 printed in Dublin "for the Booksellers." Full tree-calf, gilt-stamped maroon leather spine labels. Contemporary ink signature to front blank in each volume, first four volumes with ink date of 1814. Covers scuffed and rubbed, some tanning, foxing and offsetting to text, some text pages and plates trimmed at lower edge, vol. 3 hinge between plate and title-page of "Isabella" cracked though tight and holding. Overall, a very good, scarce set of early Regency theatricals. Contents include: Thomas Otway - Venice Preserved, n.d.; The Rev. Henry Bate - The Flitch of Bacon, 1808; T. Knight - The Honest Thieves, 1797; Arthur Murphy - The Citizen, n.d.; George Lillo - George Barnwell, n.d. [1813?]; Mrs. Centlivre - A Bold Stroke for a Wife, 1806; Charles Coffey - The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphosed, 1808; Sir John Vanbrugh - Lovers' Quarrels, or Like Master, Like Man, 1806; [???] Artaxerxes. An English Opera, n.d. (without frontispiece); [Thomas Southerne] - Isabella or The Fatal Marriage, [1811]; Kane O'Hara - Midas. An English Burletta, n.d. [1802]; David Garrick - Bon Ton or High Life Above the Stairs, 1811; Shakespeare - Othello, n.d [1803]; Isaac Bickerstaff - Love in a Village, 1807; Mrs. Brooke - Rosina, n.d. [1816]; Henry Fielding - Tom Thumb, A Burlesque Tragedy, 1811; [???] The Tailors. A Tragedy for Warm Weather, n.d. [frontispiece dated 1805]; Mr. Bickerstaff - The Hypocrite, A Comedy Altered from C. Cibber, 1811; Beaumont & Fletcher - Rule A Wife & Have A Wife, 1808; Arthur Murphy - Three Weeks After Marriage, 1811; George Colman - The Jealous Wife, 1807; G. Colman & David Garrick - The Clandestine Marriage, n.d. [without frontispiece]; A. Murphy - The Way to Keep Him, 1807; R.B. Sheridan - A Trip to Scarborough, 1811; [Sheridan] - The School for Scandal, Dublin, 1800; Sheridan - The Rivals, 1811; Samuel Foote - The Mayor of Garratt, 1809; Edward Young - The Revenge, n.d. [frontispiece dated 1805]; A. Murphy - All In The Wrong, 1808; George Farquhar - The Beaux Stratagem, 1811. James (or John) Roach was a bookseller and compiler who kept a shop in Drury Lane near the Theatre Royal. His bookshop on Drury Lane stocked everything from children's anthologies to salacious prints, and he is credited with producing one of the first part-publications - a collection of poetry published over two years. He published an infamous pamphlet entitled Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (a notorious catalogue of courtesans and their various specialties) which landed him in prison for several months. However, with his new found notoriety, he released a selection of theatre books which sold very well.…