Everyman Morality, First Edition (16 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. gold printed wraps; 48 clean, unmarked pages.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 48pp; Card d/w soiled and has small mark where price label removed else fine; Size: 8vo. Book.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. B/W Engraving (illustrator). 1st. full page w/review of the polay "Everyman", based on the medieval morality play of the same name, and presented in New York at the Garden theatre. Size: 9" x 13".

Card Wrappers. Condition: Good. First Ed. No date - early 20th century. Musical score. Composed for the Leeds festival, 1904. Lacks covers but binding is still solid. Contents very good. 123pp, complete.

Paperback. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Poor condition Softcover, 1902, 1st edition. Book has extensive wear and only the front cover of the wraps is present, but detached. This is a playbook. 47 pages (first 5 unpaginated.) Book has dappled page edges with wear, and pages have some foxing in areas. Book seems to be complete, except for the rear wraps, and internal binding staples hold pages together. Unusual. Poor condition altogether, considering. NOT A REPRINT! Printed in 1902. RARE Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 69. 12 illustrations. Boards, sunned, with light wear. An examination of the origins and meaning of the morality and religious plays of the Middle Ages, plus the play itself.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J. F. Taylor & Co, New York, 1903. Hardcover, 1903. 1st edition (printed October 1903). Classic 15th century morality play (author unknown), here extensively introduced by editor Montrose J. Moses. With black & white photo illustrations. Very good condition with some peeling and tanning of paper-covered boards at spine and edges. Lower corners of boards rubbed (see both photos). Interior has some light condensation stains, confined to the endpapers. Blindstamp of a previous owner on corner of front free endpaper. Despite defects mentioned, the binding is solid, interior is clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gowans International Library. First edition and third printing. Miniature size. This copy has water damage to front cover and text pages. The paper self covers feature colour image of kneeling man holding a cross and two reclining ladies by Jessie M. King; black titles to front and spine. The covers are quite firm; the bottom half of front is stained a tan colour and slightly warped. The page block is a little loose from the covers; fairly clean; the bottom half of pages is warped. Overall good condition. No dedications etc. Rare.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 45 pages. Limited to 325 copies. Typography by J. van Krimpen. First edition thus. A very good copy in green cloth covers. Cloth is partially split at spine edges. Portion of cloth is missing from spine. Spine gilt lettering is worn and faded. Pages mostly uncut.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Take example, all ye that this do hear or see."The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this edition were among the first ten. Mankind is a plain, honest farming man who struggles against worldly and spiritual temptation. The bawdy humour and violent action in the play serve to make the moral point and instruct by example.Everyman portrays a man's struggles in the face of death to raise himself to a state of grace so that he may experience everlasting life. It is exceptional among the Moralities for this narrow focus on the last phase of life, and conveys its message with awe-inspiring seriousness.Mundus et Infans is more typical of the Morality genre. It shows an arrogant, bullying protagonist led astray by a single evildoer into a life of debauchery, before the inevitable conversion to virtue. In showing the whole of man's life it is the antithesis of Everyman, the action of which seems to take place in a single day. In the three plays offered here an honest farmer at first resists then gives way to, and finally is redeemed from, the guileful temptations of the devil. The bleaker Everyman" focuses on the struggle to die a holy death, while "Mundus et Infans" tells the life story of an arrogant bully." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hard Cover. 1st Ed. 28 x 19.5cm. 129 pp. English words. The score is in a library binding of maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. CONDITION. VG-. The pages are clean and tight. The corners and ends of the spine are rubbed. Library class mark on spine, stamps and label on front end papers, and stamps on title page and verso. Ex-Library.

First Edition. [Morality play] FIRST EDITION, third impression. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.53 [3]. With numerous in-text and plate illustrations by Dudley including the title-page. Publisher's brown cloth, with titles and pictorial decoration in black and red to boards and spine. Top edge red, the others deckled. Light, infrequent spotting throughout - mostly to endpapers. Faint ownership inscription in pencil to front flyleaf. Boards gently toned and soiled. Heavier toning to spine. Some mild wear/rubbing to joints and extremities. Very good. 'The Somonyng of Everyman,' or just 'Everyman' was an anonymously-authored 15th century morality play where Death summons different virtues such as Good-Deeds, Knowledge, Beauty, and Strength to speak about their place in the world. Like other morality plays, it uses allegorical didacticism to argue how Christians are supposed to live.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Maastricht, Halcyon Press for A.A.M. Stols, 1929. Square octavo, xlvi pages printed in black and red blackletter types on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Full morocco lettered in gilt on the spine; sides, spine and turn-ins tooled in blind; endpapers browned from the leather turn-ins; a few tiny indentations to the covers; a few trifle spots of foxing to the edges; essentially a fine copy. One of a small number of copies in a deluxe binding of russet morocco; 25 hors-de-commerce copies were produced (this may be one of them), and the standard edition of 300 copies was bound in green cloth. 'Printed for the Halcyon Press, at Maastricht, with the type cut by Henric Lettersnider (XVth Century), in the office of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland. The text follows the better of the two editions printed at London in Paul's Churchyard by John Shot (about Mdxxxvij) edited some years ago by Mr C.F. Tucker Brooke . Typography by J. van Krimpen' (colophon).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. A hardback book in near good condition. Fading to the green boards in places else in good condition. Book has an introduction by A. T. Quiller-Couch.

Full Vellum. Slipcase. Condition: Near Fine. First Limited Edition. No. 231 of 500 copied printedon Riccardi Paper, of a total limitation of 512 copies. 4to. 27 by 20.5 cm. xiii, [1], 36, [3] pp. With ten mounted color plates. The tissue guards for the plates have red printed captioning, one line from the play itself. The vellum has faint spotting, a vertical crease on the spine, perhaps slight fading to the gilt lettering on the spine. Ribbon ties intact. Ribbon book mark loose but present. Clean inside, and overall a fresh, bright copy. The original slipcase, made of card, is neatly torn along its horizontal edges. All original pieces, though, are present. Staining from unprofessional tape repairs, those repairs no longer holding but the vestiges of them probably permanent. A prior owner's book plate, the well-known theater scholar and critic, Christopher Rawson, is oddly pasted onto a slipcase board. His book plate also contains the armorial emblem of his alma mater, Harvard. Discounting the slipcase, we regard the book as Near Fine.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Take example, all ye that this do hear or see."The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this edition were among the first ten. Mankind is a plain, honest farming man who struggles against worldly and spiritual temptation. The bawdy humour and violent action in the play serve to make the moral point and instruct by example.Everyman portrays a man's struggles in the face of death to raise himself to a state of grace so that he may experience everlasting life. It is exceptional among the Moralities for this narrow focus on the last phase of life, and conveys its message with awe-inspiring seriousness.Mundus et Infans is more typical of the Morality genre. It shows an arrogant, bullying protagonist led astray by a single evildoer into a life of debauchery, before the inevitable conversion to virtue. In showing the whole of man's life it is the antithesis of Everyman, the action of which seems to take place in a single day. In the three plays offered here an honest farmer at first resists then gives way to, and finally is redeemed from, the guileful temptations of the devil. The bleaker Everyman" focuses on the struggle to die a holy death, while "Mundus et Infans" tells the life story of an arrogant bully." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.