W Robertson Davies (19 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 94, No. 7, Whole No. 564. Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. Photo cover of Malachy McCourt & Ronan O'Ceallaigh. Includes "The Theft of the Christmas Stocking" by Edward D. Hoch; "A Snaking Suspicion" by H. R. F. Keating; "The Swap" by Joseph Leonard; "A Taste for Foxglove" by Sharon Pisacreta; "Stand Like a Lion" by M. W. Keiper; "I Hate It When They Do That" by Al H. Malone; "A Walk to the Paradise Garden" by June Thomson; "A Scary Printout" by Arthur Porges; "The Great Queen Is Amused" by Robertson Davies; "The Jury Box" by Jon L. Breen; "Adele Cleary" by Richard Selzer; "Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas" by John Mortimer; "Just Wait and See" by Elizabeth A. Dalton; "EQMM Readers Award"; "The Small Bearded Man" by Terry Mullins; "Martha and Her Brothers" by Carol Cail; "Youdunnit" by Peter Lovesey; "The Key Ring" by David pierce; "The Obituarists' Outing" by Tim Heald; 'Index to Volume 94". Creasing; tanning; edge and corner wear; minor soiling; light label ghost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brown Cloth. Very Good/Sl. Chipped & Worn, G. 8vo. pp xiv 193. Second year of festival.

Single issue magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: TZ Publications. Near Fine. 1982. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Includes the article/review "Digging the Boogens" by Stephen King, interview with Robertson Davies, etc. Pictorial wrappers, 102 pages, illustrated. Near Fine copy with light wear and pages lightly tanned. mag12.

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Unmarked book in fresh covers. 112 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. 72 pp., photos, oversize softcover, magazine format. Davies' contribution (pp. 54-55) is on the state of Canadian literature. Also: Farley Mowat, Hugh MacLennan, W. O. Mitchell, Roderick Haig-Brown, Earle Birney et al. VG copy with light wear, creasing, some short tears, mostly to rear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Color & b&w (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing; . Record of the first year of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival held in Ontario, Canada. Essays by Tyrone Guthrie, and Roberston Davies. Illustrtaed with color drawings of the actors in costume by Grant MacDonald. 126 clean, unmarked pages; dj in mylar; ownr's name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ.Minimal wear to hard back book. 208 pages.Pages are clean,tanned and tight. Name on f.e.p.very top corner.Very feint and minor marks to boards. Images available.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth boards lightly worn, corners rubbed w/ slight fraying of cloth in bottom right corner of front board, creased in top right corner of front board and bottom of rear, slight flecked staining to front board, shelving-worn at base of spine; Pages age-toned, light spotting to edges and endpapers, top-edge sprayed dark blue, offsetting on endpapers and pages 30-31 & 106-107, no ownership marks or annotation, B&W plates; Various newspaper clippings related to text laid in rear; Binding tight. ; 5.75 x 8.75"; 210 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket, 8 1/2 by 6 inches, 207 pages, notes, index. Ex library, np plastic jacket, I have removed most of the spine label paper fragment remaining. Gilt stamp of Stockton Public Library on front cover. Binding has wear to corners and spine ends. Outer rear hinge split, re-glued and now tight. Front inner hinge also previously cracked, re-glued and now tight. Rear hinge ok. Typical library marks, otherwise pages clean. all plates present. I will not ship this book overseas.

First edition thus. 8vo. [vii], 207 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Cloth binding, gilt lettering, no jacket, ex-library, else good copy. (80699).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue boards with a little rubbing to gilt lettering on spine, rubbing to corners, edges and hinges, bumped corners, tanned page edges and spotting to eps. The very top corner of the loose fep has been removed.

Condition: very good. 1st Edition. xv,[1],255pp. 12 mo in original red (variant) cloth with illustrations (including frontispiece) from drawings by Grant MacDonald. Scarce in the first printing. very good First printing of the second book by celebrated Canadian author and critic, Robertson Davies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. vii, 207 p. 23 cm. 10 b&w plates. Cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket spine missing and the remaining chipped panels are held together with tape. Book spine has crease and softened ends. Signatures on front endpaper. 4 p. advertising leaflet and order form included. An occasional ink mark. Hole in interior rear hinge. The rare first edition of Robertson Davies' first book. Davies left Canada to study at Balliol College, Oxford, receiving a BLitt degree in 1938. The next year he published this book, his thesis. "The object of this study is to demonstrate the way in which the Shakespearian women's roles are written to exploit fully the capacity of the boy actors for easy and febrile emotion without demanding the greater range of passion which only time and experience can bring" (p. 27).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of the author's first book. 1st printing. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.9 inches). Illustrated with 8 mono plates. Original blue cloth with blind stamped device to upper board, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained blue. With the rare dustjacket. Spine a little dull but a very good copy in the nicked and mildly tanned dustjacket with a single tiny chip at the bottom rear hinge corner. --- Many copies were pulped during the war making this a scarce title. In a letter to a collector written in 1951 Davies reported having no spare copies of this book and that his best guess was that no more than 600 were in existence.

First edition; 8vo; 9 black and white plates, including frontispiece, text block slightly age-toned, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark blue top stain, light rubbing to extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped with loss, a few small closed tears and creases along top edge, evidence of sticker removed from rear panel affecting text, vertical line in pencil close to spine; a very good clean copy overall. The noted Canadian author's first book, his Oxford honours thesis, on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Uncommon in the dustjacket.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's rare first book. 8vo., pp. vii, 207, [1] [Bibliography]. Publisher's [electric] blue cloth covered boards, clean blue topstain, gilt-lettered at the spine with the blind-embossed crest on the front cover. Eight black & white plates. A very nice, near fine or better copy, in a very good or better copy of the rare [pc] illustrated white dustwrapper showing minimal use; 1 tear neatly mended on the verso of the back panel. An excellent, bright, unfaded example of this Davies highspot & in definite collector's condition. Davies account of the life & training of the Elizabethan boy actors, a consideration of their particular abilities & shortcomings, & discussion of the extent to which these actors set free or hampered Shakespeare in his female characterizations. Very scarce indeed. Most of the edition was pulped to accommodate the paper shortage of the war years. Perhaps a few hundred copies were actually sold which accounts for its infrequent appearance on the market. In the last twenty-five years, less than a dozen copies have surfaced in varying states of perfection or lack thereof, usually without dustwrapper, in both the Toronto & Montreal markets.

Condition: fine. 1st Edition. vii,207,[1]pp. Octavo. 8 plates (including frontispiece). Original cobalt blue cloth, blue top edge; in rare price clipped illustrated dust jacket, spine slightly darkened, with minor chipping head and foot of spine, and minor dampstains on spine; name on front free endpaper. Author's first book on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Much of the production was pulped for the war effort, probably less then 500-600 copies survived (according to the author).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First U.K. 208 pages in very good, clean condition; edges and endpapers a little yellowed. Previous owner's bookplate on the fep. Illustrated with 8 plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Embossed design on the upper cover. Light wear on corners, head/tail of spine. White DJ with illustrations and blue titles. Spine and edges darkened. One inch chip at head of spine. Small chips and tears on the corners and edges. Not price clipped. VG/GOOD-. Book.

Condition: very good. 1st Edition. vii,207,[1]pp. Octavo. Rich blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and stamped decoration on front cover. Very light wear to ends of spine and corners. Previous owners name on front free endpaper in blue ink. Some foxing on the page before the frontis and the title page. B.W frontis showing Edward Kynaston, the last of the boy actors. Contains 8 B/W plates in very good condition with only some minor wrinkling. Light foxing on a couple of pages throughout- otherwise a clean and tight copy. In RARE dust jacket, price clipped. Dust jacket is discoloured at spine and edges with some professional restoration done, including to a 4" closed tear down front of dust jacket. A lovely copy. very good Davies?first book, his Oxford honours thesis, reflects his early and abiding interest in play-acting and illusion. Very rare especially in dust jacket.