Twelfth Night, Signed (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Inscribed by author; 2nd printing of 1st US edition. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine DJ. Blue boards backed with gray cloth, red titles on spine; Harper Suspense end papers. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; faint fingerprint on half title at fore edge; inscribed on title page 'To Kate | from Michael Gilbert. | 24/4/84'; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is clean and complete; slight general age darkening of white rear cover and fold-in flaps. Inscription was to Kate Mattes, owner of a prominent Boston area bookstore. 8vo, 230 pp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: As New. CHAU0401? A stunning theatre flyer?of Twelfth Night starring Vera Chok who is a Malaysian actress and writer based in the United Kingdom, who has featured in various stage, screen and radio roles. From 2021 to 2023, she played Honour Chen-Williams in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. This rare lead role from Regents Park's Open Air Theatre by Vera Chok is personally signed by the actress and in mint condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Hardcover edition, as pictured. ISBN #1575660822. Personal gift inscription message signed and dated by author. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A theatre programme for Twelfth Night produced by Ian Smythe and performed by The Taveners for the Festival of Britain 1951. Signed by members of the cast. Poetry & Plays in Pubs sponsored by A Committee for Verse & Prose Recitation. Slightly chipped at edges but pretty good condition. Signed by Author(s).

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Limited edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. *** Signed, Limited No. 212 of 600 copies. *** Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Good minus copy of the 1897 printing with a signed presentation from the author. Front cover and first few pages have a damp stain along outside edge. Text block is clean but has minor buckling of the paper. The rear cover and a small edge of the front cover have red ink staining. 148 pages Location W30.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 74. Good signed presentation copy to American composer Lou Harrison. Poetry. About fine. Signedes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No 8 of 25 signed copies printed on Brigadoon paper, from the edition of 135. Bookplate of poet Ann Ridler to inner flap. In VG order throughout. Plain card covers with VG decorative wrap around. This oversized and a little worn to top. Paper label to front. 8vo. 27pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good plus. First Printing. Octavo, 47 pages, red cloth; gold foil dj vertically creased at front flap, edgeworn Sr. Madeleva was a medievalist, mountaineer, poet, and president of St. Mary's College, Indiana. Signed by Sister on the title-page.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Marbled wrappers, printed paper label. Lower cover very mildly nicked at top edge. Edition limited to 135 numbered copies, of which this is one of 25 specially bound copies printed on Brigadoon paper signed by the author. "I was surprised to find later in life how severely the edition used at school was bowdlerised. Indeed, on re-perusal of the play the rudery still comes as a novelty. 'I would not so much make water but in a sink-a-pace' (I, iii, 127), for example, was a phrase entirely omitted. One sees that this would have initially aroused what Mr Frankie Howerd would call unseemly titters . . ." The author wrote to the printer, 8 November 1984, "George [Sims] has persuaded me that you might be interested to see this, though he himself has knowledge of it only through hearsay! As you can see by its dog-eared state, it has been to a few periodicals, but it never found a home. It does fall between a few stools, and I'm now so fed up with it I can no longer tell whether it is really interesting to the ordinary reader of the Bard, as intended. Perhaps its merit as far as you are concerned is that it poses some problems of setting. Be bloody, bold and resolute! I mean do not hesitate to return it.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Lynn Redgrave's copy. This uncommon Russian edition of 'Twelfth Night' is inscribed to noted English actress Lynn Redgrave (in English) on the occasion of her visit to Moscow in 1965, and her attendance at the production of the play on that occasion. Laid in loose is a copy of the program for that performance (single leaf folding to form 6 pages, with b/w photos), and an original 2.5 x 7 inch panoramic photo of the play, also inscribed on verso (in Russian) to Redgrave. The jacket is chipped with tears; the binding has some browning; boards a trifle warped. General notes (from the Folger Library catalog): Russian in Cyrillic script Price: '2 r. 25 k.'--Back cover Also known as Uniform title: Twelfth night. Russian Extended title: Dvenadtsataia noch', ili, Chto ugodno / V. Shekspir ; [perevod s angliiskogo E.L. Linetskoi ; illiustratsii i oformlenie D.A. Shmarinova] Alternate titles: Chto ugodno Related names author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 translator: Linetskaia, E. L. (El'ga L'vovna), 1909-1997 illustrator: Shmarinov, D. A. (Dementii Alekseevich), 1907-1999 publisher: Khudozhestvennaia literatura Color Illustrations.

First edition. Marbled paper over stiff paper covers with paper label; 8vo. 25 pp. One of 135 copies of which the first 25 were printed on Brigadoon papers and signed by the author. This is number 25, signed at the colophon. An essay on Shakespeare's play, elegantly printed. Edges lightly worn otherwise fine. Signed.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 49 pp. Hard Cover. Signed in ink by the author on the dedication page. Very Good, minor shelf wear.Provenance: Member of the Bohemian Club, San Francisco.

First edition. Octavo. 25 pages. Plain card wrappers with marbled dustwrapper, title label to front. Halliwell A108a.Out of a total edition of 135 this is number 10 of 25 copies on Brigadoon paper signed by the author.Front panel of dustwrapper a bit crinkled, possibly from the title-label. Near fine.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, limited to 135 copies, of which 25 copies signed by the author: this is signed copy no.9. Paperback: cream card wrappers, with marbled paper outer wrappers with title label to front. 25pp, printed on Brigadoon paper. Fuller's beautifully written commentary on various aspects of the text of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket; light bumping and rubbing to edges of book and jacket.

First edition, limited to 100 copies. Uncommon issue of this nicely printed poetry chapbook from Ruth Mantz at her Half Moon Press of Stanford, CA. Contains works from an anonymous "M.B.," Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, Bunichi Kagawa, Noel Stearn, Kathleen Lydon, and Mantz. Also has an early signed print from Thor Putnam, who would later become a layout artist for Disney. This is the first issue of this magazine under the title of "Roon," previously having been published as Carillon, changed to avoid confusion with the Washington D.C. publication of the same name. The Christmas issue of Poetry magazine from 1930 has a quick blurb on the publication: "Lately Miss Ruth Mantz's Half Moon Press of Stanford, California, has published a semi-annual sheaf of poems entitled Roon, the midsummer number of which presented in fine typographical form new poems by." OCLC locates a single holding for an issue of Carillon from 1929, and no holdings for Roon. 8vo, 23x15cm, [1], 15, [1]pp. plus signed woodcut from Thorington Putnam bound in after table of contents. Green, gilt stamped card wrappers, yapped edges, staple bound. Printed orange paper jacket. Very good with foxing to wraps and outer margins. Jacket chipped along upper edge and spine.

Vellum. Heath Robinson (illustrator). Limited edition. pp. xxiv, 143. 4to. Gilt-decorated vellum binding, with tipped-in plates on card stock and with captioned tissue guards: all present as called-for. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Ties torn off but present. Small spot to limitation page. Remarkably clean and crisp. Slipcase quite worn, with loss to edges, and discolouration/soiling. Signed, limited deluxe edition: numbered 174/350 and signed by Heath Robinson.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Softcover in black spine on blue wraps with gilt paste down plate - Mercury Theatre, clean, general shelf wear. First edition. SIGNED and inscribed by Orson Welles (in ink, on copyright page) , "For Sid, With all good wishes. " Sid is Sidney Solow, a fellow moviemaker (1910-1984) who won an Academy Award in 1965 for the design and development of the versatile Automatic 35mm Composite Color Printer via Consolidated Film Industries, and a Medal of Commendation in 1978 for his outstanding service to the film industry. Book is clean and crisp; slight separation at very top of hinge. Illustrated throughout with small drawings. From the estate of Sidney Solow. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 61 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1908. Very good condition with no wrapper. Signed limited edition of 350 copies. Printed on handmade paper and bound in white vellum, gilt. 40 superb tipped-in colour plates on dark green mounts with captioned tissue-guards. 143 pages. Large, heavy format. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 53. A few small, light marks to covers. Silk ties are missing. Foxing to textblock and to some page margins. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.

Four page setting of Feste's song 'Come Away, Death' from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Written over four oblong octavo pages (a bifolium extracted from a book of printed manuscript paper) with prettily embossed borders. Neukomm sets the music for a low voice over two verses and with a keyboard accompaniment that introduces and ends his setting. At the conclusion he has inscribed the manuscript 'for Miss Giles. Ardwick Green 21/11 [18]32 Neukomm'. Sigismund von Keukomm (1778-1858) was a disciple and amanuensis to Joseph Haydn who came to England in 1829. The recipient of the MS seems likely to be Elizabeth or Mary Giles, daughters of William Giles who had a school at Ardwick Green in Manchester around this time. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

The Deluxe Signed Twelfth Night With Forty Mounted Color Plates by W. Heath Robinson [ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. SHAKESPEARE, [William]. Shakespeare?s Comedy of Twelfth Night, or What You Will. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the artist (this copy No. 44). Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 226 mm.). [2, limitation leaf], xxiv, 143, [1] pp. Forty mounted color plates (including frontispiece), each on dark green stock and with descriptive tissue guards. Pictorial title, five vignette half-titles, and vignette tail-piece. Original vellum over boards, pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, dark green endpapers. Original yellow silk ties intact. Boards slightly bowed, as usual with vellum, but an exceptionally bright and well-preserved copy. Engraved bookplate of book collector Gwendolen Jefferson on the front paste-down. We have found records of several other books with her bookplate. A particularly handsome example of one of the most appealing illustrated Shakespeares of the Edwardian period. In this sumptuous de luxe issue, W. Heath Robinson departs from strict narrative illustration in favor of a more atmospheric and interpretive approach. Rather than depicting the principal dramatic episodes, he focuses on the lyrical and musical elements of the play - especially the songs - capturing the mood, wit, and underlying melancholy of Twelfth Night with a lightness and imaginative freedom that distinguishes his work from that of his contemporaries. By this stage in his career, Robinson was experimenting with subtler effects of light and tone, producing illustrations that are at once decorative and evocative, with a distinctly impressionistic quality. The result is a visual interpretation that complements Shakespeare?s text not by literal translation, but by suggestion and atmosphere. The mounted plates, printed on dark green stock, heighten the decorative richness of the volume, while the vellum binding underscores its status as a luxury production of the Hodder & Stoughton Shakespeare series. A scarce signed limitation - particularly desirable in such bright condition, with the fragile silk ties preserved. Signed.

One of 350 copies signed by the artist. W. Heath Robinson. One of 350 copies signed by the artist. 39 color plates by W. Heath Robinson tipped onto grey mounts. 144 pp. 4to. A beautiful copy of this elegant edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Though later in his career Robinson would become known for humorous illustrations and cartoons of whimsical machines, he began by illustrating collector's editions of fairy tales and other classic stories including this richly illustrated edition of "Twelfth Night." From the private collection of Robin Williams, who played buffonish antagonist Malvolio in a college production in 1971. Original full vellum, spine and upper board titled in gilt with vignette, t.e.g. Near fine, lacking one silk tie, slight bowing to boards. In open-faced cloth slipcase 39 color plates by W. Heath Robinson tipped onto grey mounts. 144 pp. 4to.

Signed limited edition, number 159 of 350 copies signed by the artist. Robinson's atmospheric watercolours for this work were exhibited at the Brook Street Gallery in 1908 to great acclaim. A contemporary review in the Graphic noted that this illustrated edition "has the advantage of the poetic insight and decorative skill which mark Mr W. Heath Robinson's serious work" and that the drawings were "instinct with the decorative spirit of the play". Robinson (1872-1944) has been described as "the most versatile" major book illustrator of his age in Britain (Peppin & Micklethwait, p. 259) and "the only British illustrator to become a 'household name'" (Houfe, p. 437). Graphic, 24 October 1908, p. 492; Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 1800-1914; Brigid Peppin & Lucy Micklethwait, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: The Twentieth Century, 1983. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, tipped to heavy green paper as issued. Illustrated title and chapter pages. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, green endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, silk ties detached and loosely inserted. Christmas 1917 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Vellum a little soiled as usual, gentle bowing of covers, two spots of abrasion, contents clean. A very good copy.

(BLUNDEN, EDMUND). The Masquers, University of Hong Kong. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare at the Lee Theatre, February 25th and 26th, 1957. Orig. cream printed wrappers. Holograph facsimile by Blunden. Hong Kong: [Hong Kong University], 1957. First edition. Kirkpatrick B197. A presentation copy from the author inscribed, "In lieu of a letter to Kenneth Hopkins, Edmund Shakespeare, 25 ii 57." Contains Hopkins' signature on the front cover. A very good copy.

Condition: Very good condition. Signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right. A bold b&w woodcut depicting the character Feste, the fool, in Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'. He is depicted with a star topped staff over one shoulder, and with a clownish face. Feste converses with Count Orsino at the right, while a female character waits in the shadows at the left. Feste is the clown in Olivia's household, and moves between Olivia's and Count Orsino's homes. He earns his keep by cracking jokes, being bright and witty, and offering advice hidden behind a guise of foolishness. Feste often is portrayed as the wisest character in the play. Forain (1852 - 1931) was a French Impressionist painter and print maker, one of the most noted on the first few decades of the 1900s. He was the most famous caricaturist of the Belle Epoque, and was influenced by the work of Daumier and Degas, a life long friend and colleague. 11 1/2 x 13" on paper 14 3/4 x 21". Paper lightly toned. The print wonderfully bold, with graphic b&w decorative elements.