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Oleanna: A Play


Mamet, David

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 80 pages, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455928


Price: $60.00 

 

London Merchant or The History of George Barnwell and Fatal Curiosity


Lillo, George

Hardcover. Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Part of the Belles-Lettres Series, this particular book part of the English Drama section. Edited by Adolphus William Ward. Library bookplate inside front cover and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 806950


Price: $30.00 

 

Lazarus Laughed (1925-26) - A Play for an Imaginative Theatre


O'Neill, Eugene

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good , Light wear. Soil to cover.

Record # 303644


Price: $40.00 

 

Ballet Guide


Terry, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead, 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos , 388 pgs. Backround, Listings, credits and descriptions of more than 500 of the World's Major Ballet.

Record # 108357


Price: $30.00 

 

Five Plays


Dunsany, Lord

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, The Lost Silk Hat.

Record # 63571


Price: $19.00 

 

Upstage


Brown, John Mason

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Chipping to cloth at top of spine. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Text clean and tight.

Record # 608260


Price: $12.00 

 

Master Harold and the Boys


Fugard, Athol

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, October 12, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 60 pages, b&w frontispiece. Ex-lib w/ usual markings. Red top edge. Small tape stains on front and rear fly leaves. Else clean and tight.

Record # 453909


Price: $15.00 

 

Sir Arthur Pinero - A Critical Biography with Letters


Dunkel, Wilbur Dwight

Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover. In library binding but NOT ex-lib.

Record # 602717


Price: $20.00 

 

New Music


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. NY, Theatre Communications Group, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A trilogy of plays: August Snow/Night Dance/Better Days

Record # 7673


Price: $15.00 

 

Last Theatres 1904-1910


Beerbohm, Max

Hardcover. New York, Taplinger, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510588


Price: $9.00 

 

Ben Jonson Selected Works


Levin, Harry (Ed.)

NY, Random House, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. 1010 pages.

Record # 75200


Price: $25.00 

 

Conversation Piece: A Romantic Comedy


Coward, Noel

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Sun-fading to spine and edges of front cover. Internally very good.

Record # 810103


Price: $12.00 

 

Andre Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties


Acocella, Joan and Lynn Garafola

Hardcover. Hanover NH, Wesleyan Univ., 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 163 pages, black & white photos.

Record # 52729


Price: $20.00 

 

Early Public Theatre in France, The


Wiley, W. L.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Pale green cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, dust jacket with illustration. Light rubbing to dust jacket edges, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808606


Price: $20.00 

 

Marco Millions - A Play


O'Neill, Eugene

Hardcover. NY, Boni & Liveright, 1st , 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front fly leaf & half title-page with tears otherwise VG internally, spine lettering faded.

Record # 60473


Price: $20.00 

 

Hairy Ape, The; Anna Christie; First Man, The


O'Neill, Eugene

Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 2nd, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages, three O'Neill plays in one volume. Minor edge wear, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, light sticker stain on front cover, overall, clean and tight.

Record # 854583


Price: $12.00 

 

Petrushka: Sources and Contexts


Wachtel, Andrew Baruch

Hardcover. US, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1998-05-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462756


Price: $63.00 

 

VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN THEATRES


GLASSTONE, VICTOR

Softcover. US, THAMES & HUDSON LTD, 1st, 1975-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. 210 b&w illustrations, 8 in color. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466204


Price: $15.00 

 

Theatre Outlook


Priestley, J.B.

Hardcover. London, Nicholson and Watson, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, yellow cloth, 84 pages. Black & white and color photos and charts. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping. "What is happening to our theatre now? What ought to happen to it in the future? We are in a curious position. We are worse off because the economic conditions of theatrical production are appalling, and, better off because we have created new audiences with a sharp appetite for good drama." A appraisal of Post-war theatre in Britain. Clean copy.

Record # 200592


Price: $10.00 

 

FOUR PLAYS. The Women Have Their Way. A Hundred Years Old. Fortunate. The Lady From Alfaqueque. English Versions by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker.


Quintero, Serafin and Joaquin A.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. 12mo. Black cloth. White title labels. Good, edge worn dj. Front free end page inscribed by previous owner.

Record # 220768


Price: $11.00 

 

S. Hurok Presents - A Memoir of the Dance World


Hurok, Sol

Hardcover. NY, Hermitage House, 2nd, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 336 pages. Slight musty odor but tight, clean. Dj with closed tears

Record # 55335


Price: $20.00 

 

Green Pastures, The


Conelly, Marc, Illust. by: Robert Edmund Jones

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rhinehart, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 141 pages. 12 plates. Heading of each scene is illustrated with Robert Edmond Jones art. This is a stage play first performed at Mansfield theater in NY. Previous owner's name inside and 4" pen mark on back of dust jacket.

Record # 219970


Price: $22.00 

 

Five Seasons of The Old Vic Theatre Company: A Scrap-Book Record of Production for 1944-49


Old Vic Theatre Company

Hardcover. London, Saturn Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 69 pages, illustrated with b&w illustrations and 2-color playbills. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering, light shelf wear. Dust jacket has soil, tape repair, two holes in front panel.

Record # 404941


Price: $19.00 

 

You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running: Four One-Act Plays


Anderson, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 91 pages, frontispiece. Light rubbing, edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 809007


Price: $18.00 

 

3 Plays by Mart Crowley (The Boys in the Band, A Breeze From the Gulf and For Reasons That Remain Unclear)


Crowley, Mart

Los Angeles, Alyson, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages.

Record # 204609


Price: $15.00 

 

Terrible Liar, A - A Memoir


Cronyn, Hume

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w photos, 43 pgs. previous owner's inscription on fr. fly leaf.

Record # 100778


Price: $23.00 

 

Early Middle Class Drama (1696-1774), The


Nolte, Fred O.

Hardcover. Lancaster, PA, New York Univ. Monographs, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Water stain to some pages. Some text underlining. 213 pages.

Record # 60905


Price: $19.00 

 

Theatre Scenecraft - For the Backstage Technician and Artist


Adix, Vern

Hardcover. n.p., Children's Theatre Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. with black & white drawings and photographs. Author was Assoc. Prof. of Speech & Art Director for the Theatre, Univ. of Utah. 307 pages. Front fly leaf clipped at corner otherwise VG

Record # 54535


Price: $40.00 

 

Derwent Story, The -My First Fifty Years in the Theatre in England and America


Derwent, Clarence

Hardcover. NY, Henry Schuman, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket worn, chipped, light fading to spine.

Record # 603058


Price: $10.00 

 

Italian Comedy, The - The Improvisation, Scenarios, Lives, Attributes, Portraits, and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of the Commedia dell' Arte


Duchartre, Pierre Louis

NY, John Day, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Assumed 1st U.S. - with no additional printings. Over 200 black & white illustrations, color frontis. 331 pages. Transl. from French by Randolph Weaver. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket chipped, worn, pieces missing from top & bottom of spine.

Record # 67099


Price: $41.00 

 

Ulanova and the Development of Soviet Ballet


Beresovsky, V. Bodganov

Hardcover. London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages, with photographs, translated by Stephen Garry and Joan Lawson, foreword by Cyril Beaumont. Dust jacket edge wear and foxing on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853310


Price: $15.00 

 

Sea Gull, The


Chekhov, Anton

Paperback. Newbury, VT, Smith and Kraus, 1st thus wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transl. by Nicholas Saunders and Frank Dyer. INSCRIBED BY SAUNDERS who starred in other Chekhov plays at Mark Tapor Theatre in Los Angeles.

Record # 61871


Price: $20.00 

 

Hitch - The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock


Taylor, John Russell

NY, Pantheon , rep, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 201304


Price: $12.00 

 

LIONS 'N' TIGERS 'N' EVERYTHING


Cooper, Courtney Ryley

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Gift inscription front flyleaf. 260 pages. Illustrated plates of circus performers and animals. 12mo. "E. Adams Circus Collection" stamped in red at foot of back pastedown. Green cloth. Pictorial front cover of wild animals surrounding the centered title. VG.

Record # 220640


Price: $13.00 

 

Ballet and Dance - The World's Major Companies


Doeser, Linda

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. 142 black & white photos. Light wear to covers, edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 63671


Price: $25.00 

 

Mirth of a Nation, The


Lyons, Jimmy

Hardcover. New York , Vantage Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 357 pages, a collection of old stage and vaudeville routines. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Remainder line bottom edge otherwise very good.

Record # 405935


Price: $11.00 

 

Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity! - The Eddie Cantor Five-Year Plan


Cantor, Eddie/David Freedman

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 3rd Printing, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 56 pages. Hardcover. Features black & white illustrations, some of African American stereotyping. Dust jacket missing large chunk of paper from bottom left corner of front cover, smaller chips missing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612539


Price: $23.00 

 

Tone-line, The: Principles of Voice Development (SIGNED & INSCRIBED)


Cheney, Albert Baker

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Albert Baker Cheney, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 60 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED. Cover boards covered in green cloth, gilt title on front cover. Brown paper dust jacket with title and author stamped on front cover with design. Some foxing within, doesn't affect text. Binding tight, Spine straight. In beautiful condition for its age.

Record # 31637


Price: $38.00 

 

Chinese Acrobatics - Lacrobatie chinoise - Akrobati ya Kichina


N/A

Softcover. China, Peking Foreign Languages Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Softcover. French flaps. Full color illustrations throughout. Slight tanning to pages and edges. Wrapper has tanning, but in very good condition. Binding excellent. Amazing images of Chinese acrobat performance.

Record # 33437


Price: $19.00 

 

Enrique Gaspar and the Social Drama in Spain


Kirschenbaum, Leo

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, frontispiece portrait of Gaspar. Gray paper wrappers.

Record # 402639


Price: $12.00 

 

Second Steps in Ballet - Basic Center Exercises for Home Practice


Mara, Thalia

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by George Bobrizky. 64 pages

Record # 54771


Price: $18.00 

 

Lulu On the Bridge - A Film by Paul Auster


Auster, Paul

Paperback. NY, Holt, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A screenplay of black & white photos from the movie.

Record # 64380


Price: $25.00 

 

Richard Wagner - The Man, His Mind, and His Music


Gutman, Robert W.

New York, Time Inc., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 537 pages. Color and black & white photography and paintings. Clean ex-library with sticker on back on front fly leaf.

Record # 204991


Price: $30.00 

 

Theater in America: 200 Years of Plays, Players, and Productions


Henderson, Mary C.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, February 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451848


Price: $20.00 

 

Love for Three Oranges, The: The Glyndebourne Version


Corsaro, Frank, Illust. by: Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Maurice Sendak. Gray illustrated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket. Minor bump to upper front corner, else a very sharp, neat copy.

Record # 809369


Price: $20.00 

 

Country Wife, The


Wycherley, William

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages. Spine cloth faded. Foxing to top edge of pages. Text clean and unmarked.

Record # 608367


Price: $12.00 

 

100 Lessons in Classical Ballet


Kostrovitskaya, Vera s., Oleg Briansky (Translation)

Softcover. New York, Limelight Editions, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Softcover. Illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. pages clean, some foxing to edges, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. A working textbook for teachers in choreographic institutes, ballet schools, colleges, and universities.

Record # 31953


Price: $15.00 

 

Memories of Fifty Years


Wallack, Lester

Hardcover. NY, Scribners , 1st, 1889, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages, blue cloth with bright gilt lettering, top edge gilt. B&W illustrations throughout. His memoir of a lifetime in the American theater in the mid-nineteenth century. A near fine copy, clean.

Record # 602378


Price: $25.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 23 1966-67 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol. 23 in the Series. 750 black & white photos, 272 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips,

Record # 64070


Price: $38.00 

 

Living Theatre, The - Art, Exile, and Outrage


Tytell, John

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The history of the experimental theatre group of the 50s and 60s

Record # 175345


Price: $25.00 

 

Nude With Violin - A Light Comedy in Three Acts


Coward, Noel

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, previous owner's signature front end paper. Bump to bottom edge, spottine to cloth cover.

Record # 100416


Price: $23.00 

 

General Tom Thumb and his Lady


Romaine, Mertie E.

Hardcover. Taunton, William S. Sullwold, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 94 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604416


Price: $13.00 

 

Great Jews on Stage and Screen


Lyman, Darryl

Middle Village, NY, Jonathan David, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos. 279 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, light soil to edges.

Record # 66354


Price: $15.00 

Small Wonder: EssaysKingsolver, Barbara

Small Wonder: Essays


Kingsolver, Barbara

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket, crease to inside flap. Rough-cut pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450846


Price: $10.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 27 1970-71 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 64073


Price: $31.00 

 

Producing In Little Theaters


Stratton, Clarence

Hardcover. NY, H. Holts, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w photos. Fraying to top of spine, otherwise VG.

Record # 11971


Price: $20.00 

 

Images of the Dance - Historical Treasures of the Dance Collection 1581-1861


Moore, Lillian

Hardcover. New York, New York Public Library/Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 86 pages. Hardcover. Full color frontis plate, black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612317


Price: $13.00 

Damon Runyon: A LifeBreslin, Jimmy

Damon Runyon: A Life


Breslin, Jimmy

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991-09-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466746


Price: $13.00 

 

Drama's Patrons, The: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience


Hughes, Leo

Hardcover. Austin & London, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An illustration of the decline in taste from the sophisticated comedy of the Restoration Period to the sentimentalism and empty show of later decades. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top and bottom board edges. Price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952117


Price: $15.00 

 

Decline of Pleasure, The


Kerr, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 52659


Price: $12.00 

 

World of Musical Comedy, The


Green, Stanley

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , Unknown, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A history of the musical stage by it's foremost composers and lyricists. Black & white photos, 397 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, spine fading

Record # 200375


Price: $11.00 

 

In Search of Theater - A Vivid and Critical Account of a Highly Personal Search for Theater in All its Aspects Old and New


Bentley, Eric

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. Dust jacket shows much wear, chipping and some small tears. Internally completely clean. hardbound, 411 pgs.

Record # 109289


Price: $18.00 

 

Fred Astaire - His Friends Talk


Giles, Sarah

New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 210 pages. A pictorial history of the movie star's personal life, B&W photos. Like new condition.

Record # 301592


Price: $50.00 

 

Mrs. Dally Has a Lover and Other Plays


Hanley, William

NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, 3 plays in one volume: Mrs. Dally Has a Lover, Whisper Into My Good Ear, and Today is Independence Day. Dust jacket with light soil, mild edgewear.

Record # 602879


Price: $19.00 

 

Tiny Alice - A Play


Albee, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, No usual Atheneum first printing but IS nevertheless. Dust jacket with edgewear. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf, also check mark on front fly leaf

Record # 63081


Price: $30.00 

 

Crossfire


Azama, Michel/Nigel Gearing (Translator)

Softcover. London, Oberon Books, First Thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light, marginal wear and toning. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean unmarked copy.

Record # 751482


Price: $15.00 

 

Broadway


Atkinson, Brooks

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, revised, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 564 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Light edgewear, small tears to dust jacket. Else clean and tight.

Record # 453910


Price: $10.00 

 

Lulu on the Bridge


Auster, Paul

Paperback. NY, Henry Holt , 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pgs. with b&w stills from the film.

Record # 105990


Price: $20.00 

 

Dark Is Light Enough, The


Fry, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 3rd, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 5363


Price: $12.00 

 

Curtain Calls


Gaver, Jack

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st , 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Profiles of Broadway in the late 40's. 310 pages

Record # 56579


Price: $18.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 25 1968-69 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Vol. 25 in the Series. 750 black & white photos, 272 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips,

Record # 64071


Price: $31.00 

 

Love Possessed Juana


Enters, Angna

Hardcover. New York, Twice a Year Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 198 pages. Illustrated with black & white stage set designs. Dust jacket worn along edges with darkening to spine.

Record # 604474


Price: $13.00 

 

Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The


Lawrence, D. H.

New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages, part of The Modern Drama Series edited by Edwin Bjorkman. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and fray, corner bumps, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853844


Price: $20.00 

 

In the Clap Shack


Styron, William

New York, Random House, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 204999


Price: $18.00 

 

Bread and Puppet Theater: This Is


Schumann, Peter

Softcover. Newark, The Janus Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. B&w illustrations throughout. Very light edgewear. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851677


Price: $18.00 

 

Portrait Gallery/ Artists, Impresarios, Intimates


De Mille, Agnes

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, memoir

Record # 10882


Price: $8.00 

 

Merchant of Venice, The


Shakespeare, William

Hardcover. Toronto, Musson Book Company, Ltd., 1st Thus, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover. This Edition is limited to Five hundred copies, numbered* (*note: this copy is not numbered), and SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR SIR JAMES D. LINTON. Brown cloth with raised band leather spine and corners - light/moderate rubbing to corners. Covers/spine with gilt highlights and decoration. Gilt top edge. Missing the 2 spine title labels. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 36 tipped-in plates. Clean, tight and unmarked copy.

Record # 612157


Price: $500.00 

Pavlowa (Ballet Program)Sol Hurok

Pavlowa (Ballet Program)


Sol Hurok

Softcover. New York , Arthur Klar, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages, heavy gray paper wraps, string-bound at center fold.Program for her farewell tour for the United States. Many black-and-white photographic illustrations of Pavlova in various ballets. This brochure and Hurok's publicity uses the inconsistently transliterated Pavlowa rather than the usual Pavlova or German Pawlowa. Light soil to covers.

Record # 408245


Price: $31.00 

 

Pointe Book, The: Shoes, Training, Technique: Second Edition


Barringer, Janice, Sarah Schlesinger

Softcover. Hightstown, NJ, Princeton Book Company, 2nd Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper like new. Pages clean with exception of a few pages with some highlighting. Binding tight. Looks nearly new and barely read. This expanded Second edition provides a thorough examination of pointe shoes and pointe technique.

Record # 31952


Price: $31.00 

 

Lizzie Borden - A Dance of Death


de Mille, Agnes

Boston, Atlantic Little Brown , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, De Mille describes the creation of her ballet Fall River Legend based upon the grisly hatchet murders of Borden. B&W photos, 302 pages. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Bright dust jacket with minimal edgewear.

Record # 600289


Price: $20.00 

Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg TalesGogol, Nikolai

Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales


Gogol, Nikolai

Softcover. Oxford University Press, USA, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Slight wear to covers. otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 452564


Price: $8.00 

 

Ned Wayburn And The Dance Routine - From Vaudeville To The Ziegfeld Follies


Stratyner, Barbara

Paperback. Madison, Wisconsin, Society of Dance History Scholars, 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new. Black & white photos and illustrations. 125 pages.

Record # 202465


Price: $15.00 

 

Play with Lithographs, A


Ionesco, Eugene

Softcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, Ltd. Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Heavy stock covers. Slipcased. Limited to 1,000 copies SIGNED BY IONESCO. Color lithographs.

Record # 402227


Price: $240.00 

 

Old Glory, The


Lowell, Robert

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Light edge wear, smudging to dust jacket. Red top edge. Previous owner's signature on front end paper; else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 809008


Price: $20.00 

 

Comedy in the Soviet Theater


Yershov, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, otherwise

Record # 56323


Price: $25.00 

 

Danseur - The Male in Ballet


Philip, Ribhard and Mary Whitney

Paperback. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st wraps, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Foreward by Robert Joffrey. Many black & white photos. 192 pages. Pub. simult. in hardcover & wraps

Record # 55278


Price: $15.00 

 

Notebooks 1960-1977


Fugard, Athol

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 106571


Price: $9.00 

 

Wonderful World of Dance, The


Haskell, Arnold L.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1st pub. in 1960. A basic book aimed at the novice. 96 pages. Color, black & white illust. throughout

Record # 54541


Price: $18.00 

 

As Told on a Sunday Run


Bowman (compiler), Harry P.

Softcover. Jeannette PA, privately printed, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, heavy orange stock wrappers. This is a notable book of circus history that lists most, if not all, the important circus companies and related entertainment shows that performed across the United States from 1800 through 1942. The compiler was an agent for many traveling shows which are listed here.

Record # 850031


Price: $50.00 

 

Everything In the Garden


Albee, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1968, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 11098


Price: $30.00 

 

More Stories from the Operas


Davidson, Gladys

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company , 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Red cloth, black titles. Frontis illustration. Illustrated plates. Previous owner's signature, Previous owner's inscription.

Record # 803431


Price: $8.00 

 

Masks and Other One Act Plays


Middleton, George

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. One act plays included are Masks, Jim's Beast, Tides, Among the Lions, The Reason, The House. Bumped corners but otherwise nice copy.

Record # 220802


Price: $8.00 

 

A Life In The Theatre - Behind the scenes and between the lines of the world's most celebrated dramas, as presented on the world's most famous stages


Guthrie, Tyrone

NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, price clipped.

Record # 201302


Price: $18.00 

 

CENTER RING. THE PEOPLE OF THE CIRCUS


Taylor, Robert Lewis

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1956, Pictorial half titles and title page. 250 pages. 8vo. Light green cloth. Hinge starting.

Record # 220637


Price: $13.00 

 

Sisters Rosensweig, The


Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 1679


Price: $25.00 

 

Tony Award Book, The : Four Decades of American Theater


Morrow, Lee Alan

Hardcover. US, Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., 1987-12-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461069


Price: $38.00 

 

Sisters Rosensweig, The


Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover. US, Harcourt, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463762


Price: $10.00 

 

Farm Festivals


Carleton , Will

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers , reprint , 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Illustrated frontispiece. B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover. Related articles laid in. Binding slightly lose between front end paper and flyleaf. One page missing after front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857437


Price: $15.00 

 

Theater in Spite of Itself, The


Kerr, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate fraying and chipping to dust jacket. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233484


Price: $19.00 

 

Reminiscenes Of DeWolf Hopper


Hopper, DeWolf and Wesley Winans Stout

hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. Light edgewear to covers. Spine a bit faded.

Record # 201833


Price: $15.00 

 

DESIGN FOR LIVING. ALFRED LUNT AND LYNN FONTANNE. A Biography


Peters, Margot

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. 62 Illustrations with captioned photographs. Light blue boards. Silver titled spine. Notes and Bibliography. Color pictorial dust jacket of Lunt and Fontaine. Nice copy.

Record # 220697


Price: $10.00 

 

Speed the Plow


Mamet, David

hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Mild odor indicates previous owner was smoker otherwise VG. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 64381


Price: $163.00 

 

German Drama Between the Wars - An Anthology of Plays


Wellwarth, George E. (Ed.)

New York, Dutton, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Plays by Toller, Kraus, Broch, Kokoschka, 2 others. Dust jacket with short closed tear.

Record # 302552


Price: $20.00 

 

Repertory: An Outline of the Modern Theatre Movement


Chisholm, Cecil

Hardcover. London, Peter Davies Ltd, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 259 pages. Contains some black & white photos. Red top edge somewhat faded. Darkened spine. Soiling to covers. Some foxing to endpapers.

Record # 503692


Price: $8.00 

 

Bright Star of Exile -Jacob Adler and the Yiddish Theatre


Rosenfeld, Lulla

New York, Crowell, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Black & white photography. Cover has light edgewear. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Record # 205290


Price: $15.00 

 

Light Fantastic - Adventures in the Theatre


Lahr, John

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53933


Price: $18.00 

 

Art and the Stage in the 20th Century - Painters and Sculptors Work for the Theater


Rischbieter, Henning/ Wolfgang Storch

Greenwich, Ct, New York Graphic Society, 2nd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket shows wear and 3" tear on lower left corner (repaired), price clipped. Clear protective plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509589


Price: $36.00 

 

Waltz Invention, The - A Play in Three Acts


Nabokov, Vladimir

Hardcover. NY, Phaedra, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Light rubbing, edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 58103


Price: $60.00 

 

THEATER IN AMERICA. 200 years of plays, players, and productions.


Henderson, Mary C.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photography and paintings. Complete with chronology and index to actors, plays, and productions. Large format.

Record # 803556


Price: $13.00 

 

Little Moon of Alban and A Wind From the South


Costington, James

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has a few closed tears.

Record # 205344


Price: $15.00 

 

Old Wive's Tale, The - Edited by Frank W. Cady


Peel, George

Hardcover. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY CADY, the editor. The script of play presented at Middlebury College in 1911 Black & white photography frontis. Bookplate front end paper

Record # 109059


Price: $29.00 

 

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Midado


Lawrence, Robert

Softcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white drawings by Sheilah Beckett. 48 pages. Blue cloth spine, illust. cardboard covers.

Record # 65763


Price: $18.00 

 

At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars


Botto, Louis, Robert Viagas (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Playbill Magazine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title stamped on spine and front cover. Cover boards excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of fading to the spine (shelf wear) and rubbing to front of dj, otherwise DJ very good. Edges and pages clean. In great shape. Looks at 100 years of individual Broadway theaters. Takes a fun look at the shows and the stars who "walked the boards", through pictures and stories. Perfect for the theater enthusiast.

Record # 31736


Price: $25.00 

 

Ballet in Action


Severn, Merlyn

London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Introductory essay and critical notes by Arnold. L. Haskell. 128 pages. Black & white photography. Cover has light wear to spine edge and corners.

Record # 205159


Price: $18.00 

 

Night's Black Agents: Witchcraft and Magic in Seventeenth-Century Drama


Harris, Anthony J.

Hardcover. Manchester [Eng.], 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 210 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457712


Price: $23.00 

 

Golden Talisman - A Grove Play


Dobie, Charles Caldwell

Hardcover. San Francisco, Bohemian Club, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Four-color illustrations. Music by Alec Templeton. Light chipping to corners of spine label. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610838


Price: $38.00 

 

MARGOT FONTEYN


Daneman, Meredith

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 2004-10-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 654 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462859


Price: $15.00 

Essential Shakespeare HandbookDunton-Downer, Leslie

Essential Shakespeare Handbook


Dunton-Downer, Leslie

Softcover. US, DK, 1st us, 2004, Book: Very Good, 480 pages. Color illustrations and photos throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466912


Price: $19.00 

 

The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries)


Bertolini, John A.

Softcover. Cham, Switzerland, Palagrave Mcmillan, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent, binding tight. Bright and clean inside. In great shape, like new. This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan's dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement.

Record # 31530


Price: $50.00 


  

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