Alan Dent Editor (26 results)

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (drama, hamlet) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing quarto hardback Black cloth gilt pictorial decoration. over 200 pages (unpaginated) Many illustrations from the 1948 film Very Good condition School prize label on inside cover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. dw separated and repaired, faded,mylar,339p.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is well worn at spine tips, is rubbed at the corners and some edges, and is mildly darkened on spine. 385 pages plus 13 page index.

Condition: Good. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1952 8vo. 385 pages. dust jacket taped to pastedowns. crayon inscriptions to ffep. binding tight. dust jacket age toned and soiled.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. 40 pp with black and white illustrations, staple bound in card covers, staples a little rusted otherwise sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Good hardcover. First Am. Pages light brown. Water stain on pages. Writing on front endpaper. Text clean. Top edge of spine bumped. Light water stain on bottom edge of rear cover.

Condition: Good. Victor Gollancz Ltd. London 1952 8vo. 339 pages. red cloth boards slightly age toned and soiled. previous owner bookplate to ffep. binding tight. rubbing and soiling to dust jacket.

Original Two-tone Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition in America.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red cloth binding with titles on spine in gilt. Clean unmarked copy, solid, square binding, very nice. Dust jacket has a few short edge tears, dj in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Knopf, New York, 1952. Hardcover, 385 pp. 2nd printing. One of the most popular sets of letters of the 20th century; between playwright Shaw and actress Mrs. Campbell (a.k.a. Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner). Very good condition with edge wear, some tanning and short tears to the dust jacket. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket is in a new mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small inscription on fep, otherwise very clean, bright and tight. Red boards, spine has been sunned, but doesn't detract. Excellent. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jean Cocteau frontis (illustrator). 1st Edition. 88 pp frontispiece, blue cloth gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers. SIGNED and dedicated by author to Robert Hargreaves 1957. Top and bottom margins of covers and spine sunned, corners a little softened, pages clean adn firmly held, dust wrapper tanned and much worn and torn with little loss. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth, Gilt Titles. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Letters between G. B. Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell between 1899 and 1940. 339pp. Book is clean with a sound binding. Dustjacket has edge wear, chips etc. [470g] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 339 pages. Dj ripped and worn. Text tanned. Ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket is shelf worn with closed tears and small chips, but it remains whole. Boards remain neat with little to no shelf rub. Binding is secure. Ink inscription from previous owner on the front end page. Rest of the pages are neat with no other inscriptions or annotations. Presents well in cellophane. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. 8vo., 385 pp. First American edition. xviii, 385, xiii pp. Fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate toning, and edgewear.

1st edition. 8vo. 339pp. Slight browning, original boards, d/w. slightly chipped to edges. US$10.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Here are the letters interchanged - between 1899 and 1939 - by an intellectual giant and a great and beautiful actress. 339 pages.

Hard Cover. First edition. Good; some cover wear. The Olivier film version. Includes complete text of play with cuts made for the film. Also production notes about the J. Arthur Rank movie. Many stills from the film. Designs by Roger Furse. (loc 1015).

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (21.5 x 13.5 cm). pp. 339. Original red cloth, spine lettered in blue. With the unclipped dust-jacket. Mylar wrapped. Dust-jacket a bit dulled, specially spine, contents clean and fresh. A very good copy overall. "These letters make the most vivid and exciting and outspoken record of a remarkable friendship. They are by turns passionate and witty, dramatic, cynical, fervent, serious, silly, earnest, mock-earnest, urgent, impetuous, and again-and yet again-passionate and witty. They cover a startingly long period-between 1899 and Mrs. Campbell's death in 1940-and they have a core of concentrated fervency which may roughly be dated as 1912-1913" (from the dust-jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is toned with wear along edges and corners, but now housed in a protective mylar cover. Book is bound in black cloth over boards with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. Minimal wear to cloth along the edges and corners. Corners are square. Front gutter is cracked, but the text block remains tight and secure with all pages present and attached. Pages are toned throughout, but are otherwise crisp and clean. Images are printed in B&W. Line drawings in red throughout. Unpaginated. World Film Publications. Title page is dated 1948. A good copy. Included also are a theatre program and ticket stubs from a 1948 showing of Hamlet at the Park Avenue Theatre in New York. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might to match this actual book.

First Edition. First edition. Edited by Dent, with a reluctant preface by Stella M. Beech, daughter of Mrs. Campbell. Near fine in dust jacket showing shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Not present. Band wat verkleurd / Discolouration English This book, published in 1952 and edited by Alan Dent, presents the intimate and extensive correspondence between the renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw and the famous actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The letters span many years and provide a confidential look into their personal and professional relationship. The foreword by Stella M. Beech, Mrs. Campbell's daughter, explains the decision to publish the correspondence in accordance with her mother's will and Shaw's eventual consent, highlighting the emotional and historical weight of these private exchanges.

Octavo. 339 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner (9 February 1865 9 April 1940), better known by her stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell or Mrs Pat, was an English stage actress, best known for appearing in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Barrie. She also toured the United States and appeared briefly in films. Campbell was born Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner in Kensington, London, to John Tanner (18291895), son and heir of a wealthy British Army contractor to the British East India Company, and Maria Luigia Giovanna ("Louisa Joanna") née Romanini (18361908), daughter of Italian Count Angelo Romanini. Her father John Tanner (18291895), a descendant of Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St Asaph, was a Consul and merchant who "managed to get through two large fortunes", in part through losses in the Indian Mutiny. Her mother, Louisa Joanna Romanini, was one of the eight daughters of Angelo Romanini of Brescia and Rosa née Polinelli of Milan. Angelo had joined the Carbonari and, as a result, had to leave Italy. He and his family travelled over Eastern Europe aided by a firman from the Sultan of Turkey. Six of his eight daughters, all under eighteen, married Englishmen. She studied for a short time at the Guildhall School of Music. Campbell made her professional stage debut in 1888 at the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool, four years after her marriage to Patrick Campbell. In March 1890, she appeared in London at the Adelphi, where she afterward played again in 189193. She became successful after starring in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, in 1893, at St. James's Theatre where she also appeared in 1894 in The Masqueraders. As Kate Cloud in John-a-Dreams, produced by Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket in 1894, she had another success, and again as Agnes in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith at the Garrick (1895). Among her other performances were those in Fédora (1895), Little Eyolf (1896), and her notable performances with Forbes-Robertson at the Lyceum in London's West End in the rôles of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Lady Macbeth (189598) in Macbeth. Once established as a major star, Campbell assisted in the early careers of some noted actors, such as Gerald Du Maurier and George Arliss. In 1900, "Mrs Pat", having become her own manager/director, made her debut performance on Broadway in New York City in Heimat by Hermann Sudermann, a marked success. Subsequent appearances in New York and on tour in the U.S. established her as a major theatrical presence there. Campbell would regularly perform on the New York stage until 1933. Other performances included roles in The Joy of Living (1902), Pelléas et Mélisande (1904; as Melisande to the Pelleas of her friend Sarah Bernhardt), Hedda Gabler (1907), Electra (1908), The Thunderbolt (1908), and Bella Donna (1911). In 1914, she played Eliza Doolittle in the original West End production of Pygmalion, which George Bernard Shaw had expressly written for her. Although forty-nine years old when she originated the role opposite the Henry Higgins of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she triumphed and took the play to New York and on tour in 1915 with the much younger Philip Merivale playing Higgins. She successfully played Eliza again in a 1920 London revival of the play. A couple of "Mrs Pat"'s later significant performances were as the title role in the 1922 West End production of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler and Mrs. Alving in the "Ibsen Centennial" (1928) staging of Ghosts (with John Gielgud as her son Oswald). Her last major stage role was in the Broadway production of Ivor Novello's play A Party, where she portrayed the cigar-smoking, Pekingese-wielding actress "Mrs. MacDonald" a clear takeoff on her own well-known persona and made off with the best reviews. In her later years, Campbell made notable appearances in films, including One More River (1934), Riptide (1934), and Crime and Punishment (1935). Her tendency, however, to reject roles that could have vitally helped her career in later years caused Alexander Woollcott to declare ".she was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers". In the late 1890s Campbell first became aware of George Bernard Shaw the famous and feared dramatic critic for The Saturday Reviewwho lavishly praised her better performances and thoroughly criticised her lesser efforts. Shaw had already used her as inspiration for some of his plays before their first meeting in 1897 when he unsuccessfully tried to persuade "Mrs Pat" to play the role of Judith Anderson in the first production of his play The Devil's Disciple. Not until 1912, when they began negotiations for the London production of Pygmalion, did Shaw develop an infatuation for "Mrs Pat" that resulted in a passionate, yet unconsummated, love affair of mutual fascination and a legendary exchange of letters. It was Campbell who broke off the relationship although Shaw was about to direct her in Pygmalion. They remained friends in spite of the break-up and her subsequent marriage to George Cornwallis-West, but Shaw never again allowed her to originate any of the roles he had written with her in mind (e.g. Hesione Hushabye (Heartbreak House), the Serpent (Back to Methuselah), etc.). When Anthony Asquith was preparing to produce the 1938 film of Pygmalion, Shaw suggested Campbell for the role of Mrs Higgins, but she declined. In later years, Shaw refused to allow the impoverished Campbell to publish or sell any of their letters except in heavily edited form, for fear of upsetting his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend and the possible harm that the letters might cause to his public image. Most of the letters were not published until 1952, two years after Shaw's death. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.