Nigel Playfair - Alibris

Simi Valley, CA, USA

$6.32

2. Riverside Nights

by Herbert, A. P. And Playfair, Nigel

Seller Description: Armstrong, John. Good plus or better, light general wear, soiled. Pages browned, foxed in varying degrees throughout. See More Details

T. Fisher Unwin

Cloth, Good

Prairie Archives

AVERAGE

Springfield, IL, USA

$9.00

Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA

3. Riverside Nights: an Entertainment

by Herbert, A. P. And Playfair, Nigel

Seller Description: Foreword by John Galsworthy. Cloth slightly dust-soiled; tight and sound. 125 pp. Illustrated by John Armstrong. 8vo, See More Details

1926, T. Fisher Unwin

publisher's cloth with printed paper labels.

Rochester, NY, USA

$10.00

4. Riverside Nights

by Herbert, A. P.; Playfair, Nigel

Seller Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Book Second printing. No dust jacket. Cloth boards have edge wear, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine, slightly soiled. Foxing to pages. No writing. See More Details

1926, T. Fisher Unwin

Cloth, Very Good

Defunct Books

Nashville, TN, USA

$10.00

5. Riverside Nights

by Herbert A.P. & Playfair Nigel

Seller Description: Good. No Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); Previous owner's ink inscription. Illustrated by John Armstrong Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. See More Details

1926, Fisher Unwin

hardcover, Good

M Godding Books Ltd

Devizes, WILTS, UNITED KINGDOM

$18.24

6. Riverside Nights

by Herbert, A. P.; Playfair, Nigel; Galsworthy, John (Foreword)

Seller Description: Armonstrong, John. Very Good. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. London: Unwin, 1926. First edition. Textured orange cloth binding with illustrated pastedown showing Elsa Lancaster as a chorus girl. Illustrated endpapers showing the two authors and the characters as puppets on a stage. Illustrated half-title and title. Foreword by Galsworthy. 8 additional black and white plates plus additional in-text illustrations. 125 pp. Light wear, light soiling, previous owner name to front endpaper. Very good ... See More Details

1926, T. Fisher Unwin

Pastedown Over Cloth, Very Good

Rose's Books

Harwich Port, MA, USA

$25.00

7. The Duenna: a Comic Opera in Three Acts; With an Introduction By Nigel Playfair and Illustrated With Designs for the Costumes and Scenery Used in the Production at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and Other Drawings By George Sheringham

by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley; Nigel Playfair, Intro.; George Sheringham, Ill

The Duenna: a Comic Opera in Three Acts; With an Introduction By Nigel Playfair and Illustrated With Designs for the Costumes and Scenery Used in the Production at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and Other Drawings By George Sheringham

Seller Description: Very Good. First edition, 1925. Cloth hardcover, 105 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling and a bit of age-toning to the pages and page-edges, soiling and light wear to the book's covers, no dust jacket. See More Details

1925, Houghton Mifflin

Hardcover, Very Good

Common Crow Books

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

$32.00

8. The Story of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

by Playfair, Nigel

Seller Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN: See More Details

1969, Benjamin Blom Inc

Hardcover, Good

Anybook

Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM

$52.31

9. Hammersmith Hoy a Book of Minor Revelations

by Nigel Playfair

Seller Description: Not Stated. Good Only. The scarce first edition of Nigel Playfair's autobiography with illustrations. First edition of Hammersmith Hoy a Book of Minor Revelations by Nigel Playfair in the original publisher's cloth binding. Â A scarce edition of this autobiography and memoir. Â Nigel Playfair was an English actor and director, best known as the actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in the 1920s. Â Illustrated with sixteen monochrome plates. Collated, complete, with many of the tissue ... See More Details

1930, Faber & Faber Limited

Cloth, Good

Rooke Books

BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM

$58.21

10. The Duke of Milan. Merton College. June 1923

by Doris Zinkeisen. Philip Massinger ( Nigel Playfair

Seller Description: Poor. First Edition. Warps Bound With Purple Cotton At The Spine. Small 4to. 6 pages. A programme for the performance of the Duke of Milan at Merton College. The cover was designed by Doris Zinkeisen. It shows a masked pierrot like figure and a marquee. It is his noted in the program that she also painted the curtains. The whole production was designed and directed by Nigel Playfair. Very good indeed. See More Details

1923, Hall Printer

Paperback, Poor

Burwood Books

Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM

$63.56

11. When Crummles Played--

by [Theatre Program]. Playfair, Nigel [Reputedly The Pseudonym Of Harvey, F. J. ]

Seller Description: Age-toning & soiling to covers, with rusted staples. Dampstain along lower edge. An Abt VG survivor. The Lyric Theatre. Hammersmith, W.6. Unpaginated, though 6 pages. Front cover with 2 images, one from NN, one from George Barnwell's Contrition. 12mo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8" A short-lived performance of this adaptation, with Bolton noting this as the only London run, with the initial performance of 2 June 1927 [a date in this program of 14 June]. In this performance, Wilfred Shine was Vincent ... See More Details

Wightman Mountain & Andrews Ltd Printers 31 & 33, Victoria Street, S. W

Glossy white paper covers printed in black & white, stapled., Good

Tavistock Books, ABAA

Reno, NV, USA

$82.50

12. Riverside Nights

by A. P. Herbert; Nigel Playfair; John Galsworthy

Seller Description: John Armstrong. Very Good in Good Only jacket. A first edition of this humorous drama from A. P. Herbert and Nigel Playfair. First edition. Illustrated with three plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A humorous drama written as "an entertainment" for the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith by Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, an English humorist, novelist, playwright, and law reformist, and Sir Nigel Ross Playfair, an English actor and director, known particularly as actor-manager of the ... See More Details

1926, T. Fisher Unwin

Cloth, Very Good

Rooke Books

BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM

$89.52

Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA

13. Riverside Nights: an Entertainment

by Herbert, A. P. And Playfair, Nigel. [Pape, Frank C. ]

Seller Description: Foreword by John Galsworthy. Wheatley's bookplate, designed by Frank C. Pape, on verso of front free endpaper; fore-edge foxed; slight soiling at the top edge; in a jacket with some chipping to the top of the spine, just affecting the first word of the title; dime-sized chip to... 125 pp. Illustrated by John Armstrong. 8vo, Inscribed by A. P. Herbert to Dennis Wheatley on the half-title. See More Details

1926, T. Fisher Unwin

publisher's cloth with paper labels in dust jacket.

Rochester, NY, USA

$250.00

14. R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): a Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue

by Capek, Karel; P. Selver [Translator]; Nigel Playfair [Stage Adapter]

Seller Description: First British edition. 102, [1, ad], [1, blank] pp. Bound in publisher's black wraps lettered in red. Small chip in top of front wrap near head, else Near Fine with typical slip pasted over cast on copyright page and associated wrinkling. This sci-fi play is the origin of the word "robot, " borrowed from the Czech word "robota, " for forced labor. See More Details

1923, Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press

Paperback, Very Good

Burnside Rare Books

Portland, OR, USA

$1,000.00