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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
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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Fred Astaire - His Friends Talk


Giles, Sarah

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

Record # 301592


Price: $50.00 

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 

 

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


Bowlt, John E.

Softcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st U.S., October 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Oversized. Cover has light wear to edges. Previous owner's stamp on front flyleaf. With 160 illustrations, 60 in color. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 455400


Price: $20.00 

 

Swan Prince, The


Anastos, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468007


Price: $23.00 

Other Theatre, The by: Marshall, Norman
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Other Theatre, The by: Marshall, Norman

Hardcover. London , Theatre Book Club, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w photos. Pink cloth covers, spine faded. Record # 601186
Price: $12.00 

 

Elder Statesman, The


Eliot, T. S.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 109 pages. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear with sunfading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609516


Price: $12.00 

 

Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940, The


Fehsenfeld, Martha Dow/Lois More Overbeck

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, Fourth Printing, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 782 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614195


Price: $31.00 

 

MARIONETTES' MASKS AND SHADOWS


Mills, Winifred H., and Louise M. Dunn, Illust. by: Corydon Bell

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co. , reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. B/W pictorial end papers. Color frontispiece. Illustrated black & white plates by Corydon Bell. Bibliography. 8vo. Blue cloth. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front flyleaf, half title page. Minor wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 809156


Price: $25.00 

 

Price, The: A Play


Miller, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 116 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small tears to top right. Light fraying to dust jacket. Tight copy.

Record # 2233660


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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

Theatre Outlook by: Priestley, J.B.
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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Play with Lithographs, A


Ionesco, Eugene

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

Record # 402227


Price: $240.00 

 

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


Henderson, Mary C.

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

Record # 451848


Price: $20.00 

 

Broadway: The American Musical


Maslon, Michael Kantor and Laurence

Hardcover. US, Bulfinch, 1st, 2004-10-13, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 469 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Slight wave to pages. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and creasing to dust jacket.

Record # 465825


Price: $44.00 

 

Choreography by George Balanchine - A Catalogue of Works


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Eakins Press Foundation, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Cloth boards. Title on spine in gilt on blue paper. A bright copy.

Record # 509821


Price: $32.00 

 

Moliere and the Commonwealth of Letters: Patrimony and Posterity


Johnson (Editor), Roger/Guy T. Trail/Editha Neumann

Hardcover. Jackson, Mississippi University Press, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 873 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606810


Price: $15.00 

 

Quality Street - A Comedy in Four Acts


Barrie, J. M./Hugh Thomson

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Lilac cloth covers with gilt titles and decorations. Tipped-in full color plates by Hugh Thomson. Fading to spine cloth. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612359


Price: $188.00 

 

London Merchant or The History of George Barnwell and Fatal Curiosity


Lillo, George

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

Record # 806950


Price: $30.00 

 

Farm Festivals


Carleton , Will

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

Record # 857437


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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


O'Neill, Eugene

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

Record # 303644


Price: $40.00 

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 

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

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 

 

American Ballet Theatre


N/A

Softcover. New York, Columbia Artists Management Inc., 1st, 1957-58, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover program. Color paper cover. Minor edgewear. Contains black & white photographs (by Roy Round) of Nora Kaye, John Kriza, Erik Bruhn, Lupe Serrano, others. Program features: Billy the Kid, Fall River Legend, Designs with Strings, Jardin Aux Lilas, others. 566 pages.

Record # 503011


Price: $20.00 

 

Mrs. Dally Has a Lover and Other Plays


Hanley, William

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

Record # 602879


Price: $19.00 

 

Stage Designs and the Russian Avant-Garde 1911-1929 - A Loan Exhibition of Stage and Costume Designs From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky


Bowlt, John E.

Softcover. Washington, D. C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black & white illustrations. Darkening to spine and cover edges. Not ex-library copy. Pages clean, unmarked.

Record # 612257


Price: $19.00 

 

Course in Magic


Wilson, Mark

Hardcover. Hollywood, CA, Mark Wilson, 1st, 1975, Dust Jacket: None, 472 pages. Spiral bound text with B/W illustrations and photographs. Padded blue binder with course forms and documentation in sleeve.

Record # 802797


Price: $51.00 

 

Ulanova and the Development of Soviet Ballet


Beresovsky, V. Bodganov

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

Record # 853310


Price: $15.00 

 

Everything In the Garden


Albee, Edward

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

Record # 11098


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

American Daughter, An


Wasserstein, Wendy

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

Record # 54045


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Private Contentment - A Play


Price, Reynolds

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

Record # 61875


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Venus Observed


Fry, Christopher

London , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper.

Record # 301605


Price: $25.00 

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 

 

Oleanna: A Play


Mamet, David

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

Record # 455928


Price: $60.00 

 

Swan Prince, The


Anastos, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468008


Price: $23.00 

 

Memories of Fifty Years


Wallack, Lester

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

Record # 602378


Price: $25.00 

 

She Stoops to Conquer


Goldsmith, Oliver

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st Thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED ON LAST PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR T. M. CLELAND. HAND NUMBERED #794 OF 1500. Black slipcase with light wear. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 609653


Price: $40.00 

 

Crossfire


Azama, Michel/Nigel Gearing (Translator)

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

Record # 751482


Price: $15.00 

 

Love for Three Oranges, The: The Glyndebourne Version


Corsaro, Frank, Illust. by: Maurice Sendak.

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

Record # 809369


Price: $20.00 

 

Sisters Rosensweig, The


Wasserstein, Wendy

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

Record # 1679


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 


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