Stapleton, Michael.
The Sadler's Wells Opera: A Pictorial Record
(A and C. Black, 1954).
With ninety-five photographs. Hardback. Good+ in rather torn dustwrapper. 66pp. Order No. NSBK-A11783
Keywords: B0000CJ0IY, opera, Sadler's Wells, dancing, singing, theatre, entertainment, leisure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, singers, Sadler's Wells Opera Company
Price £9.00.
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De Hempsey, Sidney.
Practical Punch and Judy:
(Arcady Press [John Alexander], Reprint, 2004).
This useful guide to starting Punch and Judy first appeared in 1953 as a series of articles published in the monthly magic magazine "The Wizard", which is now, sadly, defunct. Reprinted 2004. Booklet. Fine. 28pp. Order No. NSBK-F12597
Keywords: Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Punch and Judy, puppets, puppet, puppetry, theatre, marionette, marionettes, puppeteer, puppetteer, puppet master, professor, professors, hand puppet, hand puppets, scripts, script, show, seaside, sea side, humour, humor, street theatre, street theatres, street entertainment, social history, social historian, traveller, travellers, magic, illusions, conjuring, history, showmen, showman, shows, show, Sidney De Hempsey, Sidney de Hempsey's, booklet
Price £16.95.
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Hilton, Della.
Second Unto None: Marlowe and Early Drama
(Durham Academic Press, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. 184pp. Order No. NSBK-A12340
Keywords: 1900838060, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, theatres, stage, plays, drama, literature, literary, actors, actresses, playwrights, writers, dramatic, theatrical, Christopher Marlowe, seventeenth, sixteenth, century
Price £12.00.
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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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Bentley, Eric.
Bernard Shaw:
(Methuen, 2nd British edition, 1967).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf; ex-library with usual library stamps & stickers, a good working copy in slightly yellowed, creased dustwrapper. xviii + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-A7591
Keywords: B0000CNJNK, George Bernard Shaw, biography, biographies, history, literature, literary, politics, religion, drama, theatre, plays, Shavian, stage
Price £5.00.
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Chambers, E.K.
The Mediaeval Stage:
(OUP, rpt., 1967).
Volumes 1 and 2 only. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good in slightly stained dustwrapper. 419pp. Order No. NSBK-A11260
Keywords: 0198115121, theatres, stage, plays, drama, literature, literary, actors, actresses, playwrights, writers, dramatic, theatrical, sixteenth, seventeenth, century
Price £20.00.
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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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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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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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Anderson, Madge.
The Heroes of the Puppet Stage:
(Jonathan Cape, 1924).
With illustrations by the author. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps. Some soiling / streaking to cloth, a little cracking internally at spine, otherwise a good solid working copy. vi + 420pp. Order No. NSBK-A14241
Keywords: B00088FF4A, puppets, Punch, Mr Punch, puppetry, history, stage, theatre, puppet shows, marionettes, Punch and Judy, leisure, entertainment
Price £28.00.
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