Reginald Allen Gilbert (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Book: 11-3/8" tall; 465pp including index; 2-column format; b/w ils; green cover with maroon backstrip has a bit of rubbing. Freestanding gold-paper covered box contains facsimile programs. Hardcover.

cloth. Gilbert, W.S. (illustrator). 8vo. cloth. (viii), 82 pages. First edition. Some soiling to spine and top edge, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. The complete librettos of 14 comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan are presented, with contemporary drawings and a foreword by Bridget D'Oyly Carte. Edited by Reginald Allen. Included is a separate box with facsimiles of opening-night programs. Both hardcover book and programs housed in shared gold paper-covered slipcase. Sandglass leaflet is not present, but a guide to the programs is included. --- Book is in full green & red cloth-covered hardcovers with titling in gilt on green oval spine block and decorations in blind to covers. --- A clean, tightly-bound, unmarked copy but with a hint of sunning to spine and mild soiling to covers. Slipcase with a few scuffs and scratches, else structurally sound. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Quarto - 11 to 13 in. tall; xxi, 465 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Quarto in red cloth binding in publisher-issued slipcase with box containing all first night performance programs in facsimile. B&W illustrations. All in fine condition in fine slipcase. Pages: xxi, 465 plus 27 facsimiles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited ed. 9 x 12 inches.xxi, 465 pages. Limited edition #323/1500. Plus box containing 14 original programmes. Condition is Very Good; a few light spots on the rear cover of the book, endpapers lightly foxed, text very clean, binding tight. 14 programmes are very clean. Slipcase is Very Good; light wear to edges. STK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 1st ed. Hardback. 82 pages, 35 illustrations. Signed presentation from Reginald Allen to Ifan Kyrle Fletcher with long inscription thanking him for 'years of expert help.for permission to get this little volume in orbit.' A signed typed letter to Ifan Kyrle Fletcher is also tipped in and a press cutting about a W.S Gilbert melodrama 'Uncle Baby.' Very good indeed. Possibly issued without a dust jacket. Signedes.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light khaki cloth covers, brown lettering to spine. 8vo 11½" x 8½" xxviii, 215 [pp]. ISBN 0879231459. Monochrome photographic illustrations. Fine in Nr. Fine dust wrapper with light fading to spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. GILBERT W. S. & A. SULLIVAN.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: NO Dustwrapper. Containing Complete Librettos of the Fourteen Operas, Exactly As Presented At Their Premiere Performances. Edited, with Prologue and Copious Descriptive Particulars by Reginald Allen; and a Foreword by Bridget O'Doyly Carte. Illustrated With Contemporary Drawings. Centennial Edition. Chappell & Co Ltd, London 1975. illus xxii + 466pp hb No Dust-wrapper, gilt black cloth, covers slightly rubbed otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. xxi, 465, [1] pp., illustrated, tall 4to, quarter red velvet, green cloth sides, oval title label on the spine, gold paper-covered clamshell case portfolio and slipcase. The volume contains the text of the libretto the 14 operettas. The separate clamshell case holds the facsimiles of 27 opening night programs and a few indulgence announcements (e.g., last-minute cast substitutions), complete as called for. One of the programs is printed on burgundy silk. Also included is a four-page leaflet with background comments on the programs in general and also a short description for each of the 27 items. No. 1013 of 1500 copies. A near fine copy of the book, with a few small dark marks on the velvet; contents fine. Clamshell case is near fine, with a few stray marks; program facsimiles are pristine. Slipcase is very good, with some marks and a couple of creases and short light crack to one bottom panel edge, but holding firmly. Limited Editions Club Bibliography 291.