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Nigel Playfair

(Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934)

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• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934, contrib.: R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue (S. French edition; c1923), by Karel Čapek, trans. by Paul Selver
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  • another printing: multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934, contrib.: R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue (English stage adaptation; London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University press, 1928), by Karel Čapek, trans. by Paul Selver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934: "And so ad infinitum" (The life of the insects) an entomological review in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924), also by Karel Čapek, Clifford Bax, Paul Selver, and Josef Čapek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934, ed.: 'And So Ad Infinitum' (The Life of the Insects): An Entomological Review, in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue, by Karel Čapek and Josef Čapek, also ed. by Clifford Bax, trans. by Paul Selver (Gutenberg ebook)
• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934: The duenna : a comic opera in three acts (Constable, 1925), also by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and George Sheringham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934: Life of the insects (London : Oxford University Press, 1923., 1923), also by Bratří Čapkové, Paul Selver, and Clifford Bax (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934: Riverside nights : an entertainment (T. F. Unwin, 1926), also by A. P. Herbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934: Riverside nights : an entertainment, written and arranged by A.P. Herbert and Nigel Playfair, as produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Foreword by John Galsworthy. (T.F. Unwin, 1926), also by Alan Patrick Herbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Playfair, Nigel, 1874-1934: The story of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith (Chatto & Windus, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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