Tomalin, Claire.
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King
(Penguin, rpt., 1995).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise very good. xx + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-C10026
Keywords: 0140159231, actresses, actress, actors, drama, theatres, theatrical, Mrs Jordan, women's history, plays, stage, William IV, Dora Jordan, eighteenth, nineteenth, century, courts, royalty, monarchs, monarchy, kings, Britain, British, England, English, biography, biographies, woman, biographical, lives, life history, life histories
Price £3.99.
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Hiatt, Charles.
Ellen Terry and her Impersonations: an Appreciation
(George Bell and Sons, 1898).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Original cloth browned with some soiling. Page edges soiled, endpapers also soiled. A good, tight working copy. x + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-A14453
Keywords: B001OP2VMU, Ellen Terry, theatre, acting, actresses, history, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 19th century, nineteenth century
Price £14.00.
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Gilbert, W. Stephen.
Fight and Kick and Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1995).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A10136
Keywords: 0340640472, Dennis Potter, life, lives, playwrights, stage, theatres, literature, twentieth century, 20th, dramatists, writers, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £5.00.
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Heriot, Angus.
The Castrati in Opera:
(Secker and Warburg, 1956).
Hardback. Frontispiece loose, ex library but in good condition. Dustwrapper soiled and torn / chipped. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A15792
Keywords: history, opera, entertainment, castrati, theatre, threatrical
Price £18.00.
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Stowell, Sheila.
A Stage of their Own: Feminist Playwrights of the Suffrage Era
(MUP, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. vi + 170pp. Order No. NSBK-C200
Keywords: 0719036771, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, feminism, playwright, drama, theatre, women writers, woman writer, Women's Movement, Edwardian, women's history, plays, New Woman, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage
Price £28.00.
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Hardwick, J. M. D.
Emigrant in Motley: The Journey of Charles and Ellen Kean in Quest of a Theatrical Fortune in Australia and America, as Told in Their Hitherto Unpublished Letters
(Rockcliff, 1954).
Hardback. Cloth faded and marked (slightly grubby), internally good. 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A3912
Keywords: B0000CJ0TP, Charles Kean, Ellen Kean, letters, stage, theatre, drama, theatrical, actress, actor, America, United States, Australia, emigration, emigrant, Victorian, nineteenth century, history
Price £5.00.
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Brereton, Geoffrey.
French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century:
(Methuen, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly faded dustwrapper. x + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A7244
Keywords: 0416782205, French, France, Europe, European, literature, comedy, comic, drama, entertainment, Renaissance, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth century, dramatists, playwrights, stages, theatres, history, farce, romantic, burlesque, bourgeois
Price £12.00.
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Seager, Donald.
Glove Puppetry:
(Macmillan, 1950).
Paperback. Covers darkened, otherwise good. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-G5221
Keywords: B0000CHS7U, puppets, puppet, glove puppets, making puppets, making glove puppets, toys, toy, craft, crafts, hobbies, papier mache, puppet theatres, puppet plays, Punch and Judy, children's puppets
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Fisher, David.
The War Magician: How Jasper Maskelyne and his Magic Gang Altered the Course of World War II
(Coward McCann, New York, 1983).
Britain's most bizarre secret weapon of WWII - he made the Suez canal disappear. Became an assassination target of Hitler's regime during WWII. A very scarce title. Hardback. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly discoloured, slightly worn dustwrapper. First Edition in 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A4731
Keywords: 0698111400, magic, conjuring, maskelyne, illusions, music hall, theatre, David Devant, jasper, Neville, war, Hitler, illusion, conjurer, warfare, war, magic gang, magician, magicians, magical, illusionist, jasper maskelyne, illusionists, Second World War, great britain, great british, england, english, war magician, history, david fisher, egyptian hall, illusions, deceptions, deception, deceptionist, deceptionists, decept, deceptive, deceptor, world war, wartime, war magician, magic gang, history, magic history, conjurers, conjured, J.N Maskelyne, white magic, World War II, World War Two, Inter-war, Interwar, Inter war
Price £38.00.
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Razzell, Peter.
William Shakespeare: The Anatomy of an Enigma
(Caliban, 1990).
Hardback. Some annotation to back endpaper, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 188pp. Order No. NSBK-A9160
Keywords: 1850660107, Shakespeare, literary, literature, Britain, British, England, English, history, playwrights, drama, theatre, plays, stage, William Shakespeare, sixteenth, seventeenth, 16th, 17th, John Shakespeare, Charlecote, poaching, deer
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