Shakespeare Complete, Signed (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The authors inscribed this hard cover volume on the half-title page. The boards are covered with orange/pumpkin colored paper and the spine black cloth. The lettering on the spine matches the paper cover boards. There are 244 numbered pages followed by a brief biography of the authors and an advertisement. The book is clean internally except for a small spot of soiling on the verso side of the last free end paper. Externally, it is also clean except for a small spot of soiling on the fore edge. The dust jacket is clean and bright-it is done in yellows, pinks and oranges with white shadowing on the title and the authors names in white. There is one small tear to the dust jacket's rear panel and a bit of rolling to the edges. The dust jacket is currently protected by a clear removable cover. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G+ as some wear to bottom of spine, darkened vellum spine, signed by author as well as his name and address iN West Hempstead in pencil on pastedown, 406pps, TEG. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. vii, [3], 244, [2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by Austin, Reed, Patrick, and Dan on the fep. Reed Martin is a managing partner of The Reduced Shakespeare Company . He toured for two years as a clown/assistant ringmaster with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus. His voice was heard in the animated feature film Balto. His work has been nominated for an Olivier Award in London and a Helen Hayes Award in Washington, D.C. He is also the author of the illustrated book Pop-Up Shakespeare, and the irreverent reference book Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the Attention-Impaired (abridged) (Hyperion). Austin produces and hosts the weekly Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast, available on iTunes, and now lives in Chicago. The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a touring American acting troupe that performs fast-paced, seemingly improvisational condensations of huge topics. The company's style has been described as "New Vaudeville," combining both physical and verbal humor, as well as highbrow and lowbrow. Known as the "Bad Boys of Abridgment," the RSC has created ten stage shows: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) in 1987, The Complete History of America (abridged) in 1992, The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) in 1995, The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged) in 1998, All the Great Books (abridged) in 2002, Completely Hollywood (abridged) in 2005, "The Complete World of Sports (abridged)" in 2010, The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged) in 2011, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) in 2013 and William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged) in 2016. The company tours across the U.S. and Great Britain, and it has also performed in Belgium, Holland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Israel, and Ireland. The Reduced Shakespeare Company is heard frequently on both NPR and the BBC. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio's magnificent limited edition of The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare, features fabulous artwork by Neil Packer, a foreword by Dame Judi Dench and an introduction by Gregory Doran. Limited to 1,000 hand-numbered sets each signed by the illustrator. Brand new set, will be securely shipped in a strong box. Signed by Author(s).

Don't miss out on this incredibly rare piece of history. This Limited Editions Club 37 volume complete set is in nearly mint condition, with near immaculate bindings, and crisp, clean unmarked pages and covers. There are virtually zero blemishes in this entire set, other than some slight, varied darkening to the cloth spines due to age, with some very minor spotting as pictured. Each volume is copy #750 of 1950 copies issued. Included are the Commentaries for each play as well. Edited by Herbert Farjeon from the text of the first folio and quarto editions. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Eric Gill, Valenti Angelo, Frank Brangwyn, Frans Masereel, etc. The Limited Editions Club was founded in 1929 by George Macy with the intent of publishing beautifully illustrated and designed classic literature for a relatively small number of subscribers. Much of the Clubs fame stems from its use of some of the best illustrators and artists available. Each title was uniquely designed with individualized paper and cover materials. The Limited Editions Club was created to publish finely illustrated and designed books. The plays included in this amazing set are as follows: 1. Henry the Eighth. 2. King Lear. 3. As you like it. 4. A midsummer's night dream. 5. The merchant of Venice. 6. The merry wives of Windsor. 7. Hamlet. 8. The comedy of errors. 9. Troilus and Cressida. 10. Coriolanus. 11. Othello. 12. Measure for measure. 13. Henry the Fourth, pt. 1. 14. Henry the Fourth, pt. 2. 15. Macbeth. 16. Antony and Cleopatra. 17. Julius Caesar. 18. Love's labour's lost. 19. The two gentlemen of Verona. 20. Cymbeline. 21. Much ado about nothing. 22. Twelth night. 23. The winter's tale. 24. King John. 25. Henry the Sixth, pt. 1. 26. Henry the Sixth, pt. 2. 27. Henry the Sixth, pt. 3. 28. Titus Andronicus. 29. Henry the Fifth. 30. Richard the Second. 31. Pericles. 32. Timon of Athens. 33. The tempest. 34. Romeo and Juliet. 35. Richard the Third. 36. The taming of the shrew. 37. All's well that ends well. This is a must have collection for anyone that considers themselves a fan of Shakespeare or just an avid collector in general. Every volume was noticeably well taken care of and cherished, and I guarantee it that you will not find a cleaner set at this price. We are a new store, with years and years spent collecting old, beloved pieces of historical literature. We have 100's of various Limited Editions Club books, and complete sets, all in nearly mint condition. If there is a specific Limited Editions Club title that you are looking for, feel free to reach out, and we most likely have it. We also have 100's of other various early 1900's Book Club collection books as well. This is an oversized or heavy book set, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Condition: Used-Very Good. 2 volumes, slipcased. Dark blue cloth with red leather spine labels (gilt-stamped). v. 1: xviii, 779 pages, 20 plates; v. 2: viii, 781-1527 pages, 20 plates. # 743 of 750 copies printed, signed by Kent on the limitation page. Some spotting in margins; very slight wera to cloth. Some edgewear and chipping at cormers of slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of the New and Revised Edition. Large octavo. 860pp. Top gilt. Tipped onto the front flyleaf is a signed 1881 note from Clarke's Villa Novello estate in Genoa, Italy, in which she expresses her "kind greetings and good wishes," as well a torn portion of the note's original envelope. Rebound in full leather by Stikeman & Co. (stamp at top corner of front endpaper), with five raised bands, gilt spine titles, and marbled endpapers; the original board cloth has been tipped onto flyleaves at rear. Additionally, tipped in between the title and dedication pages are three printed sheets, the first two containing an explanation of Clarke's spelling of "Shakespere" and a list of her other published works, the third a "Preface to New and Revised Edition." Both of these addendums bear 1881 dates, and were presumably sent to the original owner along with the note from Clarke. Moderate rubbing and wear to the board corners, bands, and hinges, with some small tears and loss at crown of spine. Binding sound. A major work by one of Victorian England's most pre-eminent Shakespearean scholars. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: near fine. 1st British Edition. xv, 517pp. Octavo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Light wear to ends of spine. Clean, tight text block. There are a few small notes on the rear paste-down presumably from the previous owner refering to the text. In dust jacket, not price clipped, with only light wear to edges and some very mild chipping to ends of spine with one small closed tear. Placed loosely inside are two clean clipped articles relating to Hughes. A fantastic association copy. near fine Double Signed and Inscribed by the author. Signed by the author in black ink on half title and inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page. The inscription reads "For Patricia Kathleen, with my very best wishes from Ted, 12th August 1993". Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 ?28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. This critical magnus opus looks at Shakespeare's use of the two most significant poems in the archaic world and argues that they later provided the template for the construction of every one of Shakespeare's plays. The inscription is written to Patricia Kathleen Page, commonly known as P. K. Page, who was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography. She was also known as a visual artist, who exhibited her work as P.K. Irwin at a number of venues in and out of Canada. Her works are in permanent collections of National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. limited edition. 10 x 13 in. Limited edition of 750 copies, this is no. 246, signed on the limitation page by Rockwell Kent. Blue cloth boards with ivory paper spine labels. Bevelled edges, gilt upper text edge. Frontis plates in both volumes, full-pg plates throughout. Condition is VERY GOOD ; lacks the original and usually damaged slipcase. Covers have wear and rubbing, corners but not spine ends bumped, minimal shelf wear. Vol. 2 has some pale water discoloration to the front board, also to the front endpapers and half title pg, next pg, and then mildly to the margins only of the frontis. The discoloration to the board is a paler blue, rather than dark areas. The spines of both volumes are the darker, original blue. Spine labels have some edge wear and fading. Both bindings tight. Vol. 2 has a mild central ripple to the pages, and some mild foxing to the margins of the plates, also a water spot on the lower corner on about half the pgs (see photo). Text clean and unmarked in both. Extra shipping may apply. Shakespeare/Kent. RGR.

Cloth over boards. Condition: Good. Limited first edition. Set of two volumes. Hardcover cloth (original blue) over boards. Folio. Pagination: volume I -- xviii, 779 pp; volume II -- viii, 781 - 1527, [1] pp. Illustrations: volume I -- 1 two-colour engraved frontispiece, 22 b/w engraved full-page plates, and various b/w in text ornaments; volume II -- 1 two-colour engraved frontispiece, 16 b/w engraved full-page plates, and various b/w in text ornaments. Number 562 out of a limited print run of 750 copies. Signed and numbered by the illustrator on the edition page. Uniform binding. Vellum label with gilt title, illustrator, and publisher pasted on the spines. Gilt volume number stamped on the tail. Beveled boards. Blind tooled ornament on the front board. Gilt heads. Deckled fore edge and foot. Both volumes in similar condition: slight age toning, mostly clean and unmarked, illustrations bright, binding strong and square. Boards have been rubbed, with some of the gilt on the label of volume I having been rubbed off, and worn along the edges. Volume I has a small 1 cm circular discoloured mark on the back board. Overall a lovely, if heavy, set of Shakespeare's plays in good condition.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Rockwell Kent (illustrator). Limited. The Cambridge Edition Text, as Edited by William Aldis Wright. Preface by Christopher Morley. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. 2 volumes. Large thick 4to, blue cloth with vellum labels; publisher's board slipcase with pictorial label (worn but sound). Garden City: Doubleday, 1936. Near Fine in very good(-) box. Limited edition -- number 331 of 750 copies, signed by Kent.

Hardback. Condition: As New. Neil Packer (illustrator). Hard Cover. The Folio Society 2023. Beautiful Special Edition of 1000 Numbered Sets, signed by Neil Packer Signed. 1st Edition. Limited Edition. Slipcase. Book condition: As New. Part Colour illustrations. Stunning three-volume set strictly limited to 1,000 hand-numbered sets. This is number 740/1000, each signed by the illustrator. Folio's magnificent limited edition of The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare celebrates the 400th anniversary of the First Folio and features fabulous artwork by Neil Packer, a foreword by Dame Judi Dench and an introduction by Gregory Doran. ~ Bound in bespoke silk and linen jacquard cloth ~ Hot metal letterpress-printed limitation tip signed by Neil Packer ~ 1,464 pages in total set in Caslon with a version by Neil Packer as display ~ Printed in two colours throughout on Munken Pure paper ~ 40 illustrations in total ~ Gilded on all 3 edges in gunmetal ~ Cloth-covered presentation box lined with printed Woodstock Betulla paper. Books measure 8" × 11½" and the Slipcase Box measures 7" x 8½" x 12" Echoing the divisions in the First Folio, the plays are divided between three volumes The Comedies, The Tragedies and The Histories. Uncluttered by notes, and with a generous setting, the 38 plays are beautifully readable and follow The Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works the most up-to-date and authoritative versions. Although the First Folio comprised 36 plays, both Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen are included for completeness. On 8 November 1623, the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was registered, bringing together the great playwright's work as a single printed collection for the first time and saving it for centuries to come. 400 years on, Folio is delighted to commemorate the anniversary with a sensational limited edition: a triumph of the bookmakers' art and a legacy for future generations, which includes a foreword by Dame Judi Dench and an introduction by Gregory Doran, the RSC's Artistic Director Emeritus. Neil Packer's designs for the elegant, bespoke bindings are inspired by Elizabethan blackwork embroidery his artwork perfectly replicated in sumptuous silk and linen jacquard cloth woven by Stephen Walters & Sons, the oldest silk-weaving company in Britain. Packer has also contributed 40 illustrations and designs for the presentation box. The text, set in black and red throughout, was printed by Northend in Sheffield. Smith Settle, also in Yorkshire, renowned for exemplary craftsmanship, have bound the books employing traditional techniques, and, finally, Stan Lane, the last of the famous Monotype artisan printers, has printed the limitation tip on his original Heidelberg press at his studio in Gloucestershire. Signed and numbered by Neil Packer, the tip is in the front of The Comedies. About William Shakespeare Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire in April 1564, Shakespeare is widely considered to be the world's greatest dramatist and the most influential writer in English. Along with at least 38 plays, he wrote over 150 sonnets and three longer narrative poems. In the late 1500s Shakespeare is noted as being in London, a member of a leading theatrical company, The Lord Chamberlain's Men who performed at the original Globe Theatre. They became The King's Men following the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603. Shakespeare retired to Stratford-upon-Avon where he died on 23 April 1616. About Neil Packer Neil Packer was born in Birmingham in 1961. He trained at the Colchester School of Art before becoming a full-time illustrator in 1984 with the publication of his first children's book. He has had a long career working in design, publishing and advertising, mostly in the United States. He has illustrated a number of titles for The Folio Society, including I, Claudius (1994), The Name of the Rose (2001), Catch-22 (2004), One Hundred Years of Solitude (2006), Foucault's Pendulum (2016), Mythical Beasts (2021), The Divine Comedy (2022) and The Complete Plays by William Shakespeare (2023). Packer's work has been exhibited in London, Singapore and the United States. About Dame Judi Dench Since playing Ophelia in Hamlet at The Old Vic Theatre over 60 years ago, Judi Dench has garnered wide popular and critical admiration for a career marked by outstanding performances in classical and contemporary roles on both stage and screen. She has won numerous major awards including an Academy Award, ten BAFTA Awards and a record eight Laurence Olivier Awards, and in recognition of her many achievements she received an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1970, became a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) in 1988, and in 2005 was awarded a Companion of Honour. About Gregory Doran Gregory Doran is Artistic Director Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been described as one of the supreme Shakespeare directors of our era (The Financial Times), and one of the finest present day directors of Shakespeare (The Sunday Telegraph). He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as an actor in 1987, and became its Artistic Director in 2012, programming his first season from September 2013. Doran was awarded the Sam Wanamaker Prize for pioneering work in Shakespearean Theatre in 2012, in 2023 was the recipient of the prestigious Pragnell Shakespeare Prize, is an honorary associate of the British Shakespeare Association, an honorary senior research fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, and a trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. 1464 pages. Size: 8" x 12" (203mm x 305mm). (5 SHAKESPEAREFOLIO).

hardcover. Condition: fine. The Cambridge Edition Text, as Edited by William Aldis Wright. Illustrated. by Rockwell Kent. Preface by Christopher Morley. 2 vols., large, thick 4to, blue cloth, brown leather spine labels. Garden City, 1936. Limited Edition. Fine. One of 750 copies, signed by Kent.

The Folio Society. 1988. First edition thus, specially and finely bound, to request, in full red morocco gilt. Raised bands and gilt fleur de lis pattern to spine, boards ruled and patterned in gilt with buyer's name "PAMELA" to foot of the upper board of each volume. Cockerell endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine set presented in a handmade dovetail wooden box. VERY SCARCE. The Folio Society produced three series of limited delux editions. This Shakespeare set is from number 2. The limitation is unknown as sets were only bound to order. Please see below for the complete series.1. The ultra-rare series of 5 regular titles from 1960 offered in a special binding, numbered and signed.2. A series of 12 regular box sets between 1968 and 1989 offered in full morocco leather bindings, limited but unnumbered. *3. A series of 9 regular titles between 1990 and 1995, in quarter morocco leather with Ann Muir marbled paper boards and signed by the artists, each limited to 100 numbered copies.* Life of Johnson Boswell (1968, limited to 200 copies) Decameron Boccaccio (1969, limitation unknown) The Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature (1970, limitation 2500?) War And Peace Tolstoy (1971, limited to 2000 copies) The Book of The Thousand Nights And One Night (1974, limited to 500 copies) Chronicles of King Arthur Malory (1982, limitation unknown, signed by the illustrator) A Tour Through The Whole Island Of Great Britain Defoe (1983, limitation unknown) The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy (1984, limitation unknown) Jane Austen's Works (1984, limitation unknown, and again in 1996, limited to 1000 copies) Complete Novels Radcliffe (1987, limitation unknown) Complete Plays Shakespeare (1988, limitation unknown bound to order) The French Revolution Carlyle (1989, limited to 1000 copies).

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Two oversize three-quarter blue leather hardcovers with gilt lettering and decorations to spine; five raised bands; blue cloth over boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; limiited edition 303/750; signed by Rockwell Kent at the beginning of volume one. Very good minus condition: spines toned to tan; the fading effects the leather on the boards too; a little dark staining to spine tails; edge wear, including some mouse nibbling; straight; the paper over the hinges is cracked but the hinges are holding well; pages excellent. Will require extra for priority shipping. Not available for international shipping. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The Cambridge Edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty numbered copies, signed by the illustrator Rockwell Kent. Bound in publisher's original full blue cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, fore edge uncut. This set was originally issued in a single slipcase for both volumes and was extremely heavy. We had two new blue cloth slipcases lined with paper made to make it more manageable. The original vellum labels stamped in gilt were difficult to read from any distance so we had substituted two new red leather labels stamped in gilt which matched some of the coloring on the title page. Signed.

First Edition. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, first edition thus, 2 volumes, fine in original glassine dust-wrappers and vg+ slip-case. 1/750 copies SIGNED by the artist.