Caesar Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw: Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. LIMITED EDITION. (1966). 8vo. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION one of 1500 copies SIGNED by Him. Ex libris affixed to 1st blank. Slight discoloration to textblock top edges with faint dampstains along top edges of last leaf and r.f.e.p. Slight discoloration and soiling to spine of otherwise good, clean boards. Cracking, wear, and exposure to edges of rubbed, scraped, and soiled sipcase with uneven darkening to panels. VG in G slipcase. Illustrator.…

Full red linen with an emblem of two eagles stamped in gilt on front cover. Decorative titling on spine in black and gilt. Mustard yellow endpapers. Book retains the original glassine jacket, which is often missing. Housed in a brown paper-covered slipcase with the author's initials and eagle emblem in black and gilt. Light staining on slipcase. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Limited to 1500 numbered copies, this being No. 1104, printed at the Sign of the Stone Book in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Beautifully illustrated with drawings by George Him, hand-colored at the studio of Walter Fischer in New York. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon. (LEC 381).…

hardcover. Condition: fine. Drawings by George Him. 215pp. Tall 4to, red cloth with decorative spine, red board slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1966. A fine copy in very good(+) box. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Him, George (illustrator).

Original Playbill from the 1952 runof the Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra repertory at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and signed by both on the front cover. Leigh and Olivier met in 1935 when both were married to other people. They began an affair when shooting Fire Over England in 1937 and married in 1940 after finalizing their respective divorces. They worked together frequently during the course of their 20-year marriage costarring in three movies and over a dozen plays. Leigh starred in the film production of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra in 1945. In 1951 Leigh and Olivier performed Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in London to good reviews and then moved the show to New York the following year. 9" x 6.5". 32pp. Stapled pictorial wraps separated with chipping and closed tears, signed by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier on front cover, illustrated throughout with black and white photos and advertisements. Very good.…

SHAW, George Bernard. CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA. Illustrated With Photographs From The Sir Cedric Hardwicke Production. NY: Dodd, Mead, [1941]. 8vo., green cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. An uncommmon book, probably because of war-time restrictions. This is a unique signed copy- it is signed by Hardwicke and 13 members of the stage production cast- from the estate of Hardwicke's second wife. The signatures include Hardwicke (inscribed to Mary as "Julius Caesar"); Lilli Palmer, who played Cleopatra, and Ralph Forbes, who played Rufio. Basis for the 1945 movie of the same name, starring Claude Raines and Vivien Leigh. A unique copy of a scarce book! Very good (little wear spine tips); little soiling (few tiny tears, creases & small chips) d/j. $750.00.…