Newly Revised with several prefaces and an essay on prizefighting. Also The Admirable Bashville. Or, Constancy Unrewarded. Being the novel of Cashel Byron's Profession done into a stage play in three acts and in blank verse. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1901. Original mottled brown cloth with pugilist in... More
A Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts. In: [two issues of] The Chap-Book Semi-Monthly. Chicago: Stone and Kimball, June 1 & June 15, 1895. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black.. First Trade Appearance (? -- a London appearance came out the same month). The play "Robert Macaire" had been... More
![THE SISTERS [inscribed by Swinburne]. Algernon Charles Swinburne.](/pictures/thumb/8753.jpg?v=1536331978)
[from Swinburne to Meredith] A Tragedy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. 1 preliminary page ads plus 32 pp ads dated Oct 1891. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 1250 copies, of Swinburne's only verse play in contemporary speech.~This copy is inscribed by Swinburne on the half-title... More
A Comedy. Edited with a Preface by Michael Sadleir. London: Constable & Company, 1923. Original blind-stamped deep red cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. This is one of only two plays that Trollope ever wrote, as "the genre was uncomfortable to him." He wrote... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. Original grey paper-covered boards decorated in black with black cloth spine and printed label, with dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published on the same day as Macmillan & Co.'s UK edition; there were 1500 UK copies, but the number of American copies is unknown... More
![THE HERNE'S EGG [publisher's proof copy]. W. B. Yeats.](/pictures/thumb/13595.jpg?v=1507051292)
[a publisher's proof copy] A Stage Play. London: Macmillan and Co., 1938. Original plain tan wrappers. First Edition, of which this is a publisher's proof copy, bound in plain tan wrappers instead of maroon cloth. Consisting of only 1600 copies, this was "one of Yeats's last and most controversial plays..... More
