john gielgud hamlet record performance de gilder rosamond (7 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Faded titles on black cloth, 234 pages. There are margin notes and underlinings in the first 36 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Previous owner's name inked on blank page before the half-title page. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Etat : very good(+). Etat de la jaquette : very good. Frontispiece, several black & white illustrations. 234 pages. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering at spine, pictorial d.w. (price-clipped, scuffed, edgeworn, dust-soiled). New York: Oxford University Press, 1937. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, beige cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 171pp, photos, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate staining & soiling to boards & spine, moderate tanning to page edges, sl cracking to some gutters- frontis sl loose).

Hardcover. Etat : good. A detailed account of John Gielgud's performance of Hamlet, exploring costumes and stage business.

Original Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Two items, both warmly inscribed by John Gielgud to Rosamond Gilder. The first contains Gielgud's own account: "The Hamlet Tradition, Some Notes on Costume Scenery, and Stage Business" (pp. 111-171) and is the first British Edition, VG, the dust jacket chipped and repaired and lacking more than half of the spine paper. Images of the actor are on the upper cover. The second item is the first edition (1938, 8vo) of "John Gielgud, Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony" also inscribed to Gilder, dated but not signed and including a quote from Hamlet. This copy is G+, with the jacket repaired, slightly chipped and soiled at the edges. There could be no better association copies. Sheridan Morley, in his biography of Gielgud, writes of Gilder's book: "It is, perhaps, the most remarkably detailed account of any one actor in any one role that has ever been published [and] remains the most minutely detailed and descriptive account ever written of John at work" (p. 158). Association Copy.

Hardcover. Octavo, 234 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Slight age toning to the rear, lightly sunned spine, small stain to spine head edge and minor chip to front tail edge. Boards have extremely mild wear. Text block shows moderate age toning to the edges with previous owner's bookplate to verso to the front end paper, former owner's name to verso the the front end paper and slight offsetting to the end papers. Pictorial end papers. Frontispiece Faint offsetting from end paper to the title page. Illustrated. 1371730. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Buff cloth. Boards a little soiled, very good lacking the dust jacket. Signed by Gielgud: "John Gielgud, Hamlet: London 1934-1935, New York 1936-37.".