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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 

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

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 

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

HB Playwrights Short Play Festival 1997: The Motel Plays by: Editor: Carden, William
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HB Playwrights Short Play Festival 1997: The Motel Plays by: Editor: Carden, William

Softcover. Hanover, NH, Smith and Kraus, Inc., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 106 pages, soft cover. Covers and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is an anthology collection featuring short plays united by a common setting: a rundown suburban motel. It is a part of the Contemporary Playwrights Series. Clean copy. Record # 34406
Price: $18.00 

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 

Brighton Beach MemoirsSimon, Neil
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Brighton Beach Memoirs


Simon, Neil

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages, bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408172


Price: $13.00 

Pavlowa (Ballet Program)Sol Hurok
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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 

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 

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 

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 

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1955, The Brown (Intro.), Ivor
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Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1955, The


Brown (Intro.), Ivor

Softcover. Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial wrappers, 44 pages, many photographs by Angus McBean. Perfomers include Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, directors include John Gielgud and Peter Brook. Illustrated throughout. Includes seperate sheet of Olivier and Leigh in Macbeth. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 412235


Price: $39.00 

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 

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 

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 

Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales by: Gogol, Nikolai
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Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales by: Gogol, Nikolai

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.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: $12.00 

Broadway by: Atkinson, Brooks
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Broadway by: Atkinson, Brooks

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.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 

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 

Nothing to Hide: A Dancer's Life by: Fosse, Robert La
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Nothing to Hide: A Dancer's Life by: Fosse, Robert La

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Dutton Adult, 1st, 1987-11-24, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 461593
Price: $12.00 

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

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

 

Television Plays


Chayefsky, Paddy

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Bachelor Party, Printer's Measure, Holiday Song, Big Deal, The Mother, Marty

Record # 1008


Price: $25.00 

 

Sisters Rosensweig, The


Wasserstein, Wendy

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

Record # 1679


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Everything In the Garden


Albee, Edward

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

Record # 11098


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Terrible Liar, A/ A Memoir


Cronyn, Hume

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

Record # 12540


Price: $9.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Winter's Tale, The


Shakespeare, William

Hardcover. NY, Royal Composing Room, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, b&w Illustrations by Isadore Seltzer, slipcased

Record # 20613


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning. Browning to book edges and edges of pages, doesn't affect text. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, still very bright, gilt title stamped on spine. Boards very good. Brings together McCarthy's lively controversial essays on the theatre from the 1930's to the mid 20th century.

Record # 31678


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Playing with the Toy Theatre: An Essay on the Toy and the Theatre it Illustrates


Viscomi, Joseph

Softcover. Privately Printed, 2nd Printing, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Scarce. Wrapper has some tanning from age, otherwise no rips or tears, intact. Pages clean, edges have some light tanning. Binding (staple) tight. In very good condition. A historical look at toy theatre with many illustrations.

Record # 32364


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Chez Nous/ A Domestic Comedy in Two Acts


Nichols, Peter

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 50383


Price: $18.00 

 

Sisters Rosensweig, The


Wasserstein, Wendy

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

Record # 51974


Price: $20.00 

 

Decline of Pleasure, The


Kerr, Walter

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

Record # 52659


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Martha Graham - Portrait of the Lady as an Artist


Leatherman, Leroy

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos by Martha Swope. dj with chipping, closed tears

Record # 52674


Price: $30.00 

 

You Gotta Have Heart


Adler, Richard and Zee Davis

Hardcover. NY, Donald Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 52721


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

American Daughter, An


Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 54045


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Not Prince Hamlet - Literary and Theatrical Memoirs


Mayer, Michael

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos - 292 pages. Dj price clipped

Record # 56245


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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Le Duel - Piece en Tirois Actes


Lavedan, Henri

Hardcover. NY, Holt, rep., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. notes by Stephen H. Bush. Previous owner's signature front end paper,

Record # 58271


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Musical Theatre, The - A Celebration


Lerner, Alan Jay

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, An illustrated history, mostly black & white, some color. 240 pages.

Record # 59669


Price: $30.00 

 

Stars of the Broadway Stage 1940-1967


Fehl, Fred

Paperback. NY, Dover, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of 241 plerformance photographs. Many landmark Broadway hits & stars. 128 pages.

Record # 59670


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Little Hut


Roussin, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Dust jacket spine sunfaded with minor chipping along edges. Adapted by Nancy Mitford. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 61048


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Private Contentment - A Play


Price, Reynolds

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 61875


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Racine Phaedra & Beaumarchais Figaro's Marriage


Lowell, Robert and Jacques Barzun

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Barzun translates Figaro & Lowell does Phaedra. Drawings by Frank Parker. Light chipping to dj, price clipped.,

Record # 63338


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Ixion In Heaven - The Infernal Marriage - Popanilla-Count Alarcos


Disraeli, B.

Hardcover. London, Routledge, Rep., 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A New Edition. 268 pages. 3/4 leather, boards & corners worn, spine label gone, Very Good internally. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 63937


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 26 1969-70 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64072


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 38 1981-82 Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 black & white photos, 255 pages.

Record # 64077


Price: $31.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 37 1980-1981Season


Willis, John

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 850 black & white photos, 288 pages.

Record # 64079


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Fantasio and Other Plays


Musset, Alfred De

Paperback. n.p., TCG Translations, 1st wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Various translators. Previous owner's signature on title-page.

Record # 64770


Price: $12.00 

 

Gilliam on Gilliam


Christie (Ed.), Ian

London/NY, Faber and Faber, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 294 pages.

Record # 65115


Price: $16.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Trilogy - A Christmas Memory, Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden


Capote, Truman with Eleanor and Frank Perry

NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The personal story of the making of a film with the original Capote stories and the script. Black & white photos. 276 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 66848


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Missionary, The


Palin, Michael

Paperback. London, Methuen, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The screenplay of the 1981 film with color photos from the movie. Paperback Ed.

Record # 75348


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Body Merchant, The - The Story of Earl Carrol


Murray, Ken

Hardcover. Pasadena, Ward Ritanie, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos, 243 pgs.

Record # 100899


Price: $15.00 

 

On Golden Pond


Thompson, Ernest

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st indicated, $7.95 on dust jacket flap. Light fade to dust jacket spine, otherwise very good.

Record # 101548


Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

Soldiers - A Play


Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Record # 105807


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 

 

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 

 

Scuba Duba - A Tense Comedy


Friedman, Bruce Jay

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with light soil, spotting.

Record # 106557


Price: $10.00 

 

Masque of Mercy ,A


Frost, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, faded.

Record # 106567


Price: $45.00 

 

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 

 

Shades of Greene


Greene, Graham

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

Record # 106671


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Trojan Horse, The - A Play


MacLeish, Archibald

Paperback. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st wraps, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Plain heavy paper wraps with a dj. Nice condition.

Record # 107503


Price: $15.00 

 

Valparaiso - A Play


DeLillo, Don

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 108180


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Houdini's Fabulous Magic


Gibson, Walter B. and Morris N. Young

New York, Bell Publishing Co., unknown , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages, some black and white illustrations. Dust jacket slightly worn, internally in good condition.

Record # 176080


Price: $18.00 

 

Testimonies - Four Plays


Mann, Emily

NY, Theatre Communications Group, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Some pages are creases, with small markings on front edge and cover. Otherwise very good. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 176219


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Theatre Outlook by: 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: $12.00 

 

We Danced All Night - My Life Behind the Scenes With Alan Jay Lerner


Shapiro, Doris

NY, Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's inscription on Half-title page. Also a sticker on the same page. Black & white photos.

Record # 200599


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Revue - A Nostalgic Reprise of the Great Broadway Period


Baral, Robert

hardcover. NY, Fleet, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations and photos. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Illustrated end papers.

Record # 201821


Price: $15.00 

 

Houdini's Fabulous Magic


Gibson, Walter B. and Morris N. Young

hardcover. NY, Bell, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 201830


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

With An Air Debonair - Musical Theatre In America 1785-1815


Porter, Susan L.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like New. 631 pages.

Record # 202467


Price: $35.00 

 

Stalag 17


Wilder, Billy

Paperback. Berkeley, CA, California University Press , 1st wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new. 137 pages.

Record # 202483


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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Smoke & Blue in the Face - Two Films


Auster, Paul

Paperback. New York, Hyperion, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Paperback. Black & white photographs. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.

Record # 204593


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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 # 205103


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

The Men Who Invented Broadway - Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell & Their World


Mosedale, John

New York, Marek, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206325


Price: $18.00 

 

The Great Instrumentalists in Historic Photographs


Camner (ed), James

Paperback. New York, Dover, 1st wraps, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 145 pages. Paperback. 274 black & white photographs.

Record # 206970


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

CIRCUS: CINDERS TO SAWDUST


O'Brien, Esse Forrester

Hardcover. San Antonio, TX, Naylor Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, A History of the Circus in America. Pictorial end papers. Color frontis. Red and black printed title page. 269 pages. Illustrated color and black and white plates. 8vo. Red pictorial cloth. Very colorful pictorial dust jacket, edge chipped, splits taped.

Record # 220642


Price: $16.00 

 

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 

 

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