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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

German Drama Between the Wars - An Anthology of Plays


Wellwarth, George E. (Ed.)

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

Record # 302552


Price: $20.00 

 

Naked Masks - Five Plays


Pirandello, Luigi

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

Record # 302686


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Tom Stoppard - A Life


Nadel, Ira

New York , Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 621 pages, B&W photos.

Record # 305606


Price: $20.00 

 

King Turd


Jarry, Alfred

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

Record # 401141


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Enrique Gaspar and the Social Drama in Spain


Kirschenbaum, Leo

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

Record # 402639


Price: $12.00 

 

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


Old Vic Theatre Company

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

Record # 404941


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise


Brownstein, Rachel

New York, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. Lovely copy. Light wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450511


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Master Harold and the Boys


Fugard, Athol

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

Record # 453909


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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


Harris, Anthony J.

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

Record # 457712


Price: $23.00 

 

Coming up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s


Mordden, Ethan

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

Record # 457910


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Petrushka: Sources and Contexts


Wachtel, Andrew Baruch

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

Record # 462756


Price: $63.00 

 

MARGOT FONTEYN


Daneman, Meredith

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

Record # 462859


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN THEATRES


GLASSTONE, VICTOR

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

Record # 466204


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Ballet Theatre, The (theater)


N/A

Softcover. New York, The Ballet Theatre Foundation, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Fifteenth season. Cover color illustration by Chagall. Black and white photographs (by Marcus Blechman) & bios on members of the company: Lillian Lanese, Eric Braun, Melissa Hayden, John Kriza, Igor Youskevitch, Directors Lucia Chase and Lovier Smith, others. Minor edgewear, soiling.

Record # 503012


Price: $20.00 

 

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

Hardcover. London, Peter Davies Ltd, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 259 pages. Contains some black & white photos. Red top edge somewhat faded. Darkened spine. Soiling to covers. Some foxing to endpapers. Record # 503692
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Fall of the City, The


MacLeish, Archibald

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 33 pages, hardcover. Inside covers soiled, inside back cover lightly foxed. Top edge soiled.

Record # 509963


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Gruen, John

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

Record # 510497


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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


Payne, Ben Iden

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

Record # 602635


Price: $20.00 

 

Eminent Tragedian, The - William Charles Macready


Downer, Alan S.

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

Record # 602716


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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


Derwent, Clarence

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

Record # 603058


Price: $10.00 

 

Theatre of Tom Stoppard,The by: Jenkins, Anthony

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

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes


Shaw, Brnard

Hardcover. London Uk, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Green pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. Light wear to coves, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 607960


Price: $12.00 

 

Actors' Analects, The


Dunn, Charles J./Bunzo Torigoe

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

Record # 608042


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Golden Talisman - A Grove Play


Dobie, Charles Caldwell

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

Record # 610838


Price: $38.00 

 

Duenna - A Comic Opera in Three Acts


Sheridan, Richard Brinsley/George Sheringham/Nigel Playfair

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

Record # 610847


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

German Puppet Theatre Today - Illustrated Documentation Published for the Fiftieth Anniversary of UNIMA on the Creative Work of its Members in the Federal Republic of Germany, The


Purschke, Hans R.

Softcover. Cologne, Inter Nationes, 1st, 1979, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Covers with creases, abrasion, wear. Pages unmarked. Faint damp odor.

Record # 612269


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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night


Goldsmith, Oliver/Hugh Thomson

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 25 tipped-in full color plates and black & white images by Hugh Thomson. Hinges intact but tender. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612399


Price: $125.00 

 

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


Cantor, Eddie/David Freedman

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

Record # 612539


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Cry of Players, A


Gibson, William

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

Record # 801009


Price: $6.00 

 

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

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

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Rallying Cries


Bentley, Eric

Softcover. Washington, DC, The New Republic Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Red cover. Slight fading to spine. Underlining on last page. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 803344


Price: $19.00 

 

Jean-Luc Godard


Kreidl, John and Warren French (editor)

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

Record # 803534


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Complete Oxford Shakespeare, The


Wells, Stanley and Gary Taylor (editors)

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Three Volumes: Volume I - Histories, Volume II - Comedies, Volume III - Tragedies. 452 pages, 1020 pages, 1423 pages, respectively. Includes list of illustrations and general introduction, indexes, sonnets, glossary. In near fine condition. Blue leather-bound with gilt lettering.

Record # 808053


Price: $50.00 

 

Early Public Theatre in France, The


Wiley, W. L.

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

Record # 808606


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Conversation Piece: A Romantic Comedy


Coward, Noel

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

Record # 810103


Price: $12.00 

 

As Told on a Sunday Run


Bowman (compiler), Harry P.

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

Record # 850031


Price: $50.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

American Entertainment: A Unique History of Popular Show Business


Csida, Joseph and June Bundy

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 448 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853693


Price: $20.00 

 

Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The


Lawrence, D. H.

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

Record # 853844


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Sussex Village Plays And Others


Sawyer, Amy

Hardcover. Hove, Combrides, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Blind stamp on cover. Gilt titles on spine. Front hinge cracked. Spine cocked. Some stains to fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857491


Price: $50.00 

 

Futurist Performance


Kirby, Michael

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

Record # 951611


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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