Plays from Zephyr Books

Paris: Paris: Paris: Gand.: Vente: Giguet et Michaud: Giguet et Michaud: Goesin- Verhaeghe., 1810: 1808: 1805: 1810. Contemporary half brown leather over speckled boards.. Very good, moderate wear to covers.. 8vo., 20.5x13.5 cm.. French text. Third edition of “Cinderella” in French, first editions of the other two plays, and a scarce book of poetry containing “Belges” with notes.… Read more about this item

London.: J. Rivington., 1776. Full brown leather, re-backed with contemporary boards, gilt spine title.. Very good, moderate wear to corners, expertly re-backed, old ink name to endpapers.. . 12mo.17.5x10.5 cm.. Contains: The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger; The Provok’d Wife; Aesop, in two Parts; The False Friend; The Confederacy; The Mistake; The Country House; A Journey to London:… Read more about this item

New York.: Charles Scribner’s Sons., 1924. First American edition.. Blue-gray boards, black titles.. Very good, ink name to endpaper, light foxing to edges, in a good dust jacket with some chipping and closed tears, child’s ink sketch to back panel. . 18.8x12.8 cm.. weight: 0.6 lb.

Stuttgart. : No publisher. , 1821. Publisher’s stiff wraps. . Very good, lower spine split and worn. . 16mo., 11.5X8.7cm. . German text. 2 plays in one volume. Weight: 0.2 lb.

Paris. : Various publishers. , 1817, 1820. Plain vellum over pink mottled boards. . Very good. . 8vo., 19.5x12.5 cm. . French text. weight: 1.0 lb.

Paris.: Barba; Quoy: Ladvocat., 1817 - 1820. 19th century half vellum over brown boards, manuscript spine title. . Very good overall, a few pages of La Fille de L’Exile remargined at the top.. 8vo., 20x12.8 cm. . French text. 5 plays by various authors bound together. Preliminaries to Tibere bound out of order. weight: 0.9 lb.

Paris.: Barba., 1798. 1st Edition.. Disbound. . Good, no cover, otherwise very good. . 8vo., 19x12 cm. . French text. weight: 0.1 lb.

Paris.: Marchands de Nouveautes., 1804. 1st Edition.. Publisher’s waste paper wraps. . Good plus, wrapper lightly soiled, spine tattered. . . 8vo., 21x14 cm. . French text. weight: 0.1 lb.

Geneve.: Pellet et fils., [1767]. Publisher’s waste paper wraps. . Good, corners dog-eared, old ink name to title page. . 8vo., 21x13 cm. . French text. An uncommon edition of Rotrou’s best-known tragedy. weight: 0.3 lb.

Paris. : Huet., 1822. Plain blue stabbed wraps. . Very good, uncut. . 8vo., 21.5x14 cm. . French text. A reworked version of Favart’s popular play first published in 1765. weight: 0.1 lb.

Paris.: J.N. Barba., 1820. Nouvelle edition. . Plain blue stabbed wraps. . Very good, old ink name to covers. . 8vo., 21x14 cm.. French text. weight: 0.1 lb.

PAris.: Cailleau., 1770. Plain blue stabbed wraps. . Very good.. 8vo., 18x12 cm. . French text. First published in 1728, this play did not become popular until after the author’s death. Uncommon. weight: 0.1 lb.

Paris.: Quoy., 1823. 1st Edition.. Publisher’s stabbed waste paper wraps. . Good, wrapper split and wrinkled, old ink name to title page, otherwise very good. . 8vo., 21.5x14 cm. . French text. weight: 0.1 lb.

Amsterdam.: Mallard., 1781. Second Amsterdam edition.. Stab stitched, no covers.. Good, title page wrinkled, corners dog-eared. . 8vo., 21.5x14 cm.. French text. Early edition of this very popular play. weight: 0.2 lb.

New York.: Published for the Theatre Guild by Doubleday, Page & Company., 1927. 1st Edition.. Plain boards with printed orange wraps pasted to spine.. Very good, light soiled spot to front of jacket, light sunning and creasing to spine.. 18.5x12.5 cm.. Basis for the Gershwin musical “ Porgy and Bess”. Scarce. weight: 0.6 lb.

Paris.: Duchesne., 1764. 1st Edition.. Publisher’s plain wraps, stabbed binding. . Very good, untrimmed in the wraps, corners a little dog-eared.. 12mo., 18.5x11.5 cm. . French text. Uncommon. weight: 0.1 lb.

Paris.: Tiger., no date but 1818. Contemporary red boards, leather spine label with gilt title. . Very good, some foxing.. 16mo.,13x8 cm. . French text. Rare, Worldcat locates one copy. weight: 0.2 lb. Engraved frontis.

Paris.: Se Vende au Theatre., 1801. 1st Edition.. Publisher’s stabbed plain wraps. . Very good, unread and uncut, ink names to cover and title page. . 8vo., 21x13.5 cm. . French text. Scarce first edition of this comedy. weight: 0.2 lb.

Paris.: Moutard : Fages, 1780: 1785: 1809. Old plain mottled boards. . Good plus, old ink notes to endpapers, rear inner hinge split. . 8vo., 19x12.5 cm. . French text. weight: 0.4 lb.

Paris. : Delaunay: Ambroise Tardieu: Cellis: Germain-Matroit. , 1813: 1822: 1820: 1813. Half vellum over mottled boards, handwritten spine title. . Very good. . 8vo., 19.6x13 cm. . French text. Four tragedies from the early 19th century. weight: 0.9 lb. One engraved frontis (Les Machabees).