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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 

 

Barbi or The Charcoal Burner's Daughter: Comic Opera in Two Acts, Libretto and Piano Score (Transcribed from the Original Notebooks and Translated into English)


Ludwig, Otto, Ida Washington (Transcription into English)

Softcover. Weybridge, VT, Cherry Tree Books, 1st Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover, plastic spiral-bound. Green covers, excellent. Pages clean and white, binding excellent. Clean, beautiful copy.

Record # 32904


Price: $50.00 

 

My Life


Duncan, Isadora

Hardcover. NY, Boni and Liveright, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front hinge loose (not cracked), slight shakey. Spine gilt faded. Black & white photos by Edward Steichen, Genthe, Otto, others

Record # 54518


Price: $50.00 

 

Performing Arts - A Guide to Practice and Appreciation


Billington (Ed.), Michael

Hardcover. NY, Facts On File, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Foreward by Sir John Gielgud. Illust. throughout in color. 217 pages + index.

Record # 59238


Price: $35.00 

 

Abbey, The - Ireland's National Theatre 1904-1978


Hunt, Hugh

NY, Columbia Univ. Press, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 306 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 62311


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

L'Aiglon - A Play in Six Acts


Rostand, Edmond

MY, R.H. Russell, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Adapted into English by Louis N. Parker. Small photo-illust. tipped-in opposite half-title, possibly Maud Adams in the lead of the play. Gilt decorated blue cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 66228


Price: $23.00 

 

House of Rimmon, The - A Drama in Four Acts


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis, gilt decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt.

Record # 101671


Price: $15.00 

 

Benefactors


Frayn, Michael

Hardcover. London, Methuen, Book Club, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's signature front end paper. Dust jacket shows some wear but otherwise and internally clean. Hardbound.

Record # 109291


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

Tourists Accommodated, A PlayFisher, Dorothy Canfield
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Tourists Accommodated, A Play


Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Paperback. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co, Vermont edition reprint, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Green Mountain Pamphlets No. 2 Faded green paper wrappers, abrasion to front cover, edge wear and fraying on spine.Binding cracked on title page.

Record # 408526


Price: $63.00 

 

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 

Audiences of Empire: Lope de Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me (A SIGNED COPY)Bunn, Elaine McDermott
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Audiences of Empire: Lope de Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me (A SIGNED COPY)


Bunn, Elaine McDermott

Hardcover. Bloomington, iUniverse, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468482


Price: $25.00 

 

Life in a Wooden O. A - Memoirs of the Theatre


Payne, Ben Iden

New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages, hardcover with b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with short closed tear.

Record # 602635


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Cry of Players, A


Gibson, William

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801009


Price: $6.00 

 

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 

 

Search For Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe, The


Wagner, Jane

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, photos of Lily Tomlin from the Broadway Play

Record # 5029


Price: $15.00 

 

Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA: The Making of the Broadway Musical


Lassell, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Disney Enterprises, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards decorated, glossy. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated endpapers. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape.

Record # 31741


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Twice Over Lightly - New York Then and Now


Hayes, Helen and Anita Loos

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. Spine with slight slant, dj price clipped, flap crease

Record # 56577


Price: $15.00 

 

Three Stooges Book of Scripts, The


Maurer, Joan Howard

Hardcover. NY, Citadel Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 256 pages. Light discoloration to covers otherwise VG with nice dj.

Record # 61533


Price: $45.00 

 

Theatre World - 1946-47 Season


Blum, Daniel

Hardcover. NY, Daniel Blum, 1st , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Vol. 3 of the annual edition. Many black & white photos. 224 pages Dust jacket chipped, worn.

Record # 64055


Price: $38.00 

 

Master Builder


Ibsen, Henrik

NY, NY University, 1st US, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New transl. by Eva Le Gailienne.

Record # 65504


Price: $25.00 

 

Essential Lenny Bruce, The


Brown, Lenny and John Cohen (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Bell Pub., rep, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Front end paper clipped. Dj with edgewear, soil.

Record # 100330


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

An Autobiography


Galwau, James

Hard Back . NY, St. Martins , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 201001


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Michael and Mary: A Play


Milne, A. A.

Hardcover. London, England, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Chatto & Windus. London. 1930. First Edition. Pages i to xxi; 1 to 96. 12mo. Brown speckled cloth. Paper title label top spine. Chip top spine, repaired tear to brown dust jacket

Record # 220755


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 

 

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 

MAGNIFICENCE ONSTAGE AT THE MET: Twenty Great Opera ProductionsJacobson, Robert
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MAGNIFICENCE ONSTAGE AT THE MET: Twenty Great Opera Productions


Jacobson, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Extensive b&w and color photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Includes appendix of production notes. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466596


Price: $25.00 

 

World's Great Ballets, The - La Fille Mal Gardee to Davidsbundlertanze


Gruen, John

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510497


Price: $15.00 

 

Actors' Analects, The


Dunn, Charles J./Bunzo Torigoe

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608042


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Futurist Performance


Kirby, Michael

Softcover. New York, PAJ Publications, reprint, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, paperback. Documents the first modern style oriented around society as spectacle in 13 manifestos and 48 performance texts. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light soiling to wraps, mild rubbing and edgewear as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951611


Price: $19.00 

Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)Gay, John, Illust. by: Mariette Lydis
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Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)


Gay, John, Illust. by: Mariette Lydis

Hardcover. Paris, Limited Editions Club, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator on back page. #388 of limited editions (1500). Gilt top edge, title on spine (slightly faded), front and back cover boards. Cover boards bound in navy blue, embossed pattern. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Former owners book plates (2) on endpapers.

Record # 30694


Price: $50.00 

 

Sisters Rosensweig, The


Wasserstein, Wendy

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

Record # 51974


Price: $20.00 

 

Early Memoirs


Nijinsky, Bronislava

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Transl. & ed. by Irini Nijinska & Jean Rawlinson. 546 pages

Record # 55330


Price: $28.00 

 

Noel


Castle, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white illust. 272 pages.

Record # 59675


Price: $25.00 

 

Eight Plays


Williams, Tennessee

Hardcover. NY, Nelson Doubleday, Book Club, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by Harold Clurman. 843 pages. Spine cocked, otherwise very good.

Record # 63570


Price: $23.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 40 1983-1984 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 black & white photos. 255 pages.

Record # 64081


Price: $31.00 

 

Noel Coward - The Complete Lyrics


Day (Ed.), Barry

Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white Illustrations. Decorative end papers. 367 pages.

Record # 69760


Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

Making of a Choreographer, The


Genne, Beth

Madison, Wisconsin, Society of Dance History, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages, including index. In very good condition, no dust jacket. (shubui)

Record # 178064


Price: $15.00 

 

The Aspern Papers


Redgrave, Michael

Paperback. London, Samuel French, 1st wraps, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Paperback.

Record # 203772


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 

 

King Turd


Jarry, Alfred

Hardcover. New York, Boar's Head Books, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages, translated by G. Legman with his 6 page note in rear. Orange cloth covers with half inch tear to cloth at bottom of spine. Otherwise very good.

Record # 401141


Price: $20.00 

Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and LifeHoagland
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Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life


Hoagland

Hardcover. New York, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages, unclipped dust jacket, note from the publisher tipped in. Very clean and tight.

Record # 451093


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

Repertory: An Outline of the Modern Theatre Movement by: Chisholm, Cecil
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Repertory: An Outline of the Modern Theatre Movement by: 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: $12.00 

Theatre of Tom Stoppard,The by: Jenkins, Anthony
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Theatre of Tom Stoppard,The by: Jenkins, Anthony

Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. Illustrated with a b&w photograph. Light soiling to covers. Very light edgewear to covers, spine faded. Previous owner's signature. Record # 603179
Price: $12.00 

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929Pritchard (Editor), Jane
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Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929


Pritchard (Editor), Jane

Hardcover. London, V & A Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 612304


Price: $75.00 

 

Jean-Luc Godard


Kreidl, John and Warren French (editor)

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages w/ index. Beige cloth. Cloth rubbed in a couple spots. Gilt and black title on binding. Some yellow highlighting throughout. Photograph of Jean-Luc Godard on frontispiece. Black and White photographs throughout.

Record # 803534


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Terrible Liar, A/ A Memoir


Cronyn, Hume

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 12540


Price: $9.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Waltz Invention, The - A Play in Three Acts


Nabakov, Vladimir

Hardcover. NY, Phaedra, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 59594


Price: $35.00 

 

Green Crow, The


O'Casey, Sean

NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages.

Record # 62317


Price: $23.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 28 1971-72 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64074


Price: $31.00 

 

Portrait of Mr. B - Photographs of George Balanchine


Balanchine)(George

Paperback. NY, Viking/Ballet Society, 1st wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos by Lynes, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, others. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. 154 pages. Paperback.

Record # 66352


Price: $25.00 

 

Soldiers - A Play


Hochhuth, Rolf

Hardcover. NY, Grove, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105807


Price: $15.00 

 

Theatre in Revolution - Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design 1913-1935


Baer, Nancy Van Norman

Paperback. NY, Thames and Hudson, 1st wraps, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 Illustrations, 60 in color.

Record # 125413


Price: $20.00 

 

Antigone of Sophocles, The


Fitts, Dudley and Robert Fitzgerald

hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Co, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light edgewear and soil to covers. Spine faded. Moderate marking in book.

Record # 201911


Price: $20.00 

 

Francois Truffaut


Insdorf, Annette

Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Black & white photography. Gift inscription on front end paper.

Record # 205295


Price: $20.00 

 

Naked Masks - Five Plays


Pirandello, Luigi

Paperback. New York , Dutton, Rep. wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages. Liola, It Is So! (If You Think So), Henry IV, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Each In His Own Way, Edited by Eric Bentley. Paperback.

Record # 302686


Price: $12.00 

Golden Cave, TheMagee, David, Illust. by: Lawrence J. Rehag
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Golden Cave, The


Magee, David, Illust. by: Lawrence J. Rehag

Hardcover. Bohemian Club, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Previous owner

Price: $38.00 

 

Coming up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s


Mordden, Ethan

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, rep., September 24, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457910


Price: $15.00 

Russian Soviet Theater 1905-1932Rudnitskii, Konstantin
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Russian Soviet Theater 1905-1932


Rudnitskii, Konstantin

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear to dust jacket. Slight curling to inside front dust jacket flap. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470852


Price: $38.00 

 

Eminent Tragedian, The - William Charles Macready


Downer, Alan S.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped. B&w illustrations. Library copy with only one stamp.

Record # 602716


Price: $18.00 

 

Duenna - A Comic Opera in Three Acts


Sheridan, Richard Brinsley/George Sheringham/Nigel Playfair

Hardcover. London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations by George Sheringham. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610847


Price: $38.00 

Shuberts of Broadway, The: a History Drawn from the Collections of the Shubert Archive by: McNamara, Brooks
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Shuberts of Broadway, The: a History Drawn from the Collections of the Shubert Archive by: McNamara, Brooks

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations, dust jacket covered with Mylar, very clean, tight copy. Record # 801221
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

journey's End.: A Play in Three Acts


Sherriff, R.C.

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, Reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Hardcover. Deckled edges. Cover boards bound in black cloth, yellow title on spine. Edges and pages have some tanning from age, otherwise pages unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. Antiwar play based on WW1.

Record # 31917


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Pictorial History of the American Theatre 100 years 1860-1960


Blum, Daniel

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton, Revised Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New enlarged edition with added years: 1860-1900, 1956-1960. Over 5,000 photographs. A terrific book with one major fault - it smells musty

Record # 61534


Price: $40.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 22 1965-66 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol. 22 in the Series. 750 black & white photos, 272 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips, fading to spine.

Record # 64069


Price: $38.00 

 

Around Theatres


Beerbohm, Max

N Y, Simon & Schuster, Rep., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, His classic collection of drama reviews in one volume. 583 pages. Dust jacket worn, sunned, chipped.

Record # 65565


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

Avalon, Tin Men, and Diner - Three Screenplays


Levinson, Barry

Paperback. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st wraps, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pgs

Record # 108522


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Major Barbara - With an Essay as First Aid to Critics


Shaw, Bernard

Softcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st U.S., 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Scarce 1st US edition in green wrappers with a Boston booksellers sticker on front wrap (Baker's Plays). Paper covers with chipping at corners, rear (green paper) cover detached. Interior clean, unmarked.

Record # 300258


Price: $51.00 

Mirth of a Nation, The by: Lyons, Jimmy
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Mirth of a Nation, The by: 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: $12.00 

Broadway by: Atkinson, Brooks
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Broadway by: 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: $12.00 

Damon Runyon: A LifeBreslin, Jimmy
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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 

Last Theatres 1904-1910 by: Beerbohm, Max
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Last Theatres 1904-1910 by: 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: $12.00 

 

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 

Ailey Spirit - The Journey of an American Dance CompanyTracy, Robert/Wynton Marsalis/Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Ailey Spirit - The Journey of an American Dance Company


Tracy, Robert/Wynton Marsalis/Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612740


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Decline of Pleasure, The


Kerr, Walter

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

Record # 52659


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Lion in Live, The - A Play


Delaney, Shelagh

Paperback. NY, Grove/Evergreen, 1st US wraps, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Photos from the stage production directed by Clive Barker

Record # 60249


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Watch on the Rhine - A Play in Three Acts


Hellman, Lillian

Hardcover. NY, Reader's League, 2nd, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, paper browning

Record # 70152


Price: $12.00 

 

Shades of Greene


Greene, Graham

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head & Heinemann, 1st Thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 106671


Price: $20.00 

 

No Intermissions - The Life of Agnes De Mille


Easton, Carol

Boston , Little Brown , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos, 548 pages. Remainder line bottom edge. Dust jacket with light wear, sticker residue

Record # 200278


Price: $15.00 

 

Hanging on in Paradise


Lawrence Guiles, Fred

New York, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 412 pages. Black & white photographs.Dust jacket worn at edges.

Record # 204426


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Art & Other Serious Matters


Rosenberg, Harold

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages, Navy blue cloth cover. Some light edge wear to jacket, otherwise a very clean and crisp copy, almost like new.

Record # 401871


Price: $30.00 

Valparaiso: A PlayDeLillo, Don
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Valparaiso: A Play


DeLillo, Don

Hardcover. New York, NY, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, unclipped dust jacket. Pre-production copy. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 451163


Price: $12.00 

 

Opera on Screen


Citron, Marcia J.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463542


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

L'Apres-midi d'un Faune - Vaslav Nijinsky - 1912


de Meyer, Baron Adolf/Jennifer Dunning/Richard Buckle/Ann Hutchinson Guest

Softcover. London, Dance Books Ltd., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612305


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Take Her, She's Mine


Ephron, Phoebe & Henry

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, stills from the 1961 production staring Art Carney & Elizabeth Ashley, dj w/ soil otherwise

Record # 15114


Price: $15.00 

Horse Dung Trail: Saga of the American Circus by: McKennon, Joe
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Horse Dung Trail: Saga of the American Circus by: McKennon, Joe

Hardcover. Sarasota, FL, Carnival Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 528 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some chips and wear. Covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. An excellent history of the Circus in America, presented around a central fictional character, and written by a well known historian of the circus. "Every person, except Dick Dale and his families, was an actual living person. Every show actually existed and played the towns mentioned on the dates recorded. Every event actually happened at the time and place documented. Whether Dick Dale was there, or not, you may decide for yourself." Clean copy. Record # 33704
Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Murderous Angels - A Political Tragedy & Comedy in Black and White


O'Brien, Conor Cruise

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st , 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light wear to dj.

Record # 59595


Price: $35.00 

 

Liaison - The Gripping Real Story of the Diplomat Spy and the Chinese Opera Star Whose Affair Inspired M. Butterfly


Wadler, Joyce

NY, Bantam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 321 pages. Review copy with press release & author's photo laid-n.

Record # 62630


Price: $20.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 30 1973-74 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 64075


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Tiny Alice - A Play


Albee, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and soil. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Marker on front fly leaf.

Record # 202126


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Third Theatre, The


Brustein, Robert

New York , Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. A collection of his articles on the theatre written betwen 1957 and 1968.

Record # 302889


Price: $15.00 

 

Play's the Thing for Children, The


Riley, Alice C.D.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co,, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 131 pages. Dust jacket with tears and pieces missing from top edge. Illustration on cloth covers with color illustrations inside.

Record # 408739


Price: $25.00 

Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook, The James, Thurston
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Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook, The


James, Thurston

Softcover. White Hall, Va., Betterway Books, rep, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460150


Price: $19.00 

 

Giant Stunt Book, The


Hetrick, Lenore , Illust. by: Arthur Leroy Kaser, Genevieve and Elwyn Swarthout, Karin Sundelof Asbrand, Paul S. McCoy, Others

Softcover. Dayton, OH, Paine Publishing , 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 287 pages. Small book. Other authors listed on title page: Arthur Leroy Kaser, Genevieve and Elwyn Swarthout, Karin Sundelof Asbrand, Paul S. McCoy, and Others. Contains little plays supposed to be funny and used for jokes, "stunts." Tear along back of spine at bottom. Small hole in front cover. Corners a bit rubbed.

Record # 500799


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 

 

Coast of Utopia, The


Stoppard, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 hardcovers ( Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage) in slipcase - Still in original shrinkwrap.

Record # 611777


Price: $75.00 

 

Marionette, The


Merten, George

Toronto, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, b&w photos and illustrations, previous owner's inscription, slight edgewear to front cover, slight foxing to edges, small piece missing from front of dust jacket which is covered with acetate, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 801431


Price: $64.00 

 

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The


Shakespeare, William, Illust. by: isadore Seltzer

Hardcover. Finch, Pruyn & Co., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, b&w illustrations. Yellow cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. In matching yellow cloth slipcase w/ small smudge. A very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 850897


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 

 

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 

 

Light Fantastic - Adventures in the Theatre


Lahr, John

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

Record # 53934


Price: $18.00 

 

Old Days in Bohemian London - Recollections of Clement Scott


Scott, Mrs. Clement

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st US, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 black & white plates. 272 pages. The 1890s in London theater circles. Light wear to covers, nice reading copy

Record # 57838


Price: $12.00 

 

Wood Demon, The


Chekhov, Anton

Paperback. Newbury, VT, Smith and Kraus, 1st wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transl. by Nicholas Saunders and Frank Dyer. INSCRIBED BY SAUNDERS who acted in the Mark Taper Production of the play in Los Angeles - with reviews of book & play laid-in.

Record # 61870


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Introduction to Tudor Drama, An


Boas, Frederick S.

London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages. Previous owner's signature (2) on front fly leaf. Dust jacket badly chipped, chunk gone from top of spine.

Record # 65572


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Trouping - How the Show Came to Town


Lewis, Philip C.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1973, b&w photos, 266 pgs. Very slight chipping at top of dust jacket on spine. previous owner's stamp on inside front cover with previous owner's signature.

Record # 108572


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 

 

The Lost Weekend


Wilder, Billy

Paperback. Berkeley, CA, California University Press, 1st wraps, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Paperback. Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.

Record # 205102


Price: $15.00 

 

Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, The


Wagner, Jane

Paperback. New York, Harper & Row, Rep. wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. The Paperback Edition of the Broadway play, with many B&W photos of the production.

Record # 301390


Price: $23.00 

Sociology of Popular Drama, AGoodlad, J.S.R.
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Sociology of Popular Drama, A


Goodlad, J.S.R.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 406249


Price: $15.00 

 

Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo


Hare, Thomas

Softcover. Stanford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454186


Price: $18.00 

Essential Shakespeare HandbookDunton-Downer, Leslie
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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Some of These Days - The Autobiography of Sophie Tucker


Tucker, Sophie

Hardcover. US, Sophie Tucker, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Fading to spine cloth. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613635


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

Arcifanfaro, King of Fools; or It's Always too Late to Learn (Adapted by W.H. Auden)


Goldoni, Carlo

Softcover. New York, Unmuzzled Ox, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230247


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Jazz Cleopatra - Josephine Baker in Her Time


Rose, Phyllis

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 2nd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illus.

Record # 52666


Price: $18.00 

 

Man About Paris - The Confessions of Arsene Houssaye


Knepler (Ed.), Henry

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light wear to dj otherwise

Record # 56209


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 

 

Encyclopedia of World Theater, The


Esslin, Martin

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2,000 entries, 5,000 play titles. 420 black & white illust. 319 pages.

Record # 63645


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Lenya the Legend - A Pictorial Autobiography


Farneth, David

Woodstock, Overlook Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, b&w Illustrations, 254 pages.

Record # 75090


Price: $40.00 

 

Cabaret - The Illustrated Book and Lyrics


Masteroff, Joe

Hardcover. NY, Newmarket, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pgs. Many color photos from the 1998 Broadway revival.

Record # 106959


Price: $25.00 

World of Musical Comedy, The by: Green, Stanley
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World of Musical Comedy, The by: 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: $12.00 

 

Speed of Darkness, The


Tesich, Steve

New York, Fireside Theatre, Book Club, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages.black & white photographs. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.

Record # 204581


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 

 

Cirque Knie: Une Dynastie du Cirque


no author

Hardcover. Geneva, Librairie Marguerat Lausanne, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 157 pages, b&w and color photographs. French text. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401939


Price: $25.00 

Light FantasticLahr, John
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Light Fantastic


Lahr, John

Hardcover. New York, 1st, February 1, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 381 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Smudges on top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451496


Price: $15.00 

Sisters Rosensweig, The  by: Wasserstein, Wendy
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Sisters Rosensweig, The by: 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: $12.00 

 

Design in the Theatre - Special Winter Number of "The Studio" 1927-8


Holme, Geoffrey

Hardcover. London, The Studio, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 120 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in color and black & white. Dust jacket missing chunks at top and bottom of spine. Chipping along edges.

Record # 509745


Price: $34.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Good-Natured Man, The


Goldsmith, Oliver, Illust. by: Frederick Simpson Coburn

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Very good pictorial tan cloth boards with heavy gilt design in mylar protector. Top edge gilt. Color illustrated plates by Frederick Simpson Coburn.

Record # 804112


Price: $38.00 

Far From DenmarkMartins, Peter
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Far From Denmark


Martins, Peter

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855266


Price: $19.00 

 

Plays, Players & Playwrights - An Illustrated History of the Theatre


Geisinger, Marion

Hardcover. NY, Hart Pub, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, b&w illustrations, dj spine faded, edgewear

Record # 20600


Price: $35.00 

The Master Builder by: Ibsen, HenrikTransl. Gallienne, Eva Le

The Master Builder by: Ibsen, Henrik Transl. Gallienne, Eva Le

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition despite a little edge wear at the top of the spine. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. First performed in 1892, this psychological drama is one of the great Norwegian playwright's most symbolic and lyrical works. The drama explores the insecurities of an aging architect, Halvard Solness, who suspects that his creative powers have diminished with age. Clean copy. Record # 33865
Price: $18.00 

 

St. James's Theatre, The - It's Strange & Complete History 1835-1957


Duncan, Barry

Hardcover. London, Barrie and Rockliff, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. Blue cover with light spotting. Dj with light edgewear, soil

Record # 54548


Price: $20.00 

 

Ballet and Theatre Material


N/A

Paperback. London, Sotheby's, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. Illust. in color, black & white. Costume drawings, stage designs, photos, etc. 264 cataloged items.

Record # 59666


Price: $15.00 

 

Roots In a Parched Ground - Convicts - Lily Dale - The Widow Claire


Foote, Horton

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, Book Club, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 4 plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle. 271 pages.

Record # 63077


Price: $12.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 32 1975-76 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 950 black & white photos, 287 pages.

Record # 64076


Price: $31.00 

 

Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act, The


Wilder, Thorton

NY/New Haven, Coward McCann/Yale, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Covers with soil, slight warp, internally VG.

Record # 66399


Price: $23.00 

 

Nothing to Hide - A Dancer's Life


LaFosse, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Donald Fine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 106140


Price: $18.00 

 

Making of a Choreographer, The


Genne, Beth

Madison, Wisconsin, Society of Dance History, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages, including index. In very good condition, no dust jacket.

Record # 176054


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Private Domain - An Autobiography


Taylor, Paul

New York, Knopf, 2nd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 371 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 206012


Price: $12.00 

 

Days With Ulanova - A Unique Pictorial Portrait of the Great Russian Ballerina


Kahn, Albert E.

New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. B&W photos by Kahn. Introduction by Arnold L. Haskell. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown

Record # 302927


Price: $25.00 

Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the PeaceGilliatt, Penelope
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Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace


Gilliatt, Penelope

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 373 pages, a rich collection of her film and theatre writing. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on title page otherwise clean.

Record # 411427


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Carmen


Merimee, Prosper, Illust. by: Albert Sterner

Hardcover. New York, William Farquhar Payson, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 129 pages. Translation and black & white illustrations by Albert Sterner. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Yellowing to edges of pages. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Clear plastic protective cover.

Record # 502214


Price: $25.00 

 

Agincourt


N/A

Hardcover. San Francisco, Bohemian Club, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, hardcover, decorated cloth covers. Annual play preformed in the Bohemian Grove. Music by True Tourtillott, directed by Jay M. Jacobus.

Record # 602822


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse: A Modern Reconstruction by: Smith, Irwin
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Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse: A Modern Reconstruction by: Smith, Irwin

Softcover. New York, Charles Scriber's Sons, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Scale drawings by Irwin Smith. Introduction by James G. Mcmanaway. Yellow spots on book ends, stamp "SF" on top edge. Record # 802342
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

King Richard II


Ure (Ed.), Peter and William Shakespeare

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, rep., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Annotations & commentary by Ure

Record # 54041


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

American Theatrical Arts - A Guide to Manuscripts and Special Collections in the United States and Canada


Young, William C.

Chicago, American Library Assoc., 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages.

Record # 65753


Price: $18.00 


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