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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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Gilliam on Gilliam


Christie (Ed.), Ian

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

Record # 65115


Price: $16.00 

 

Missionary, The


Palin, Michael

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

Record # 75348


Price: $15.00 

 

Valparaiso - A Play


DeLillo, Don

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

Record # 108180


Price: $20.00 

 

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


Shapiro, Doris

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

Record # 200599


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Crowley, Mart

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

Record # 204609


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Peters, Margot

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

Record # 220697


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

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

Softcover. Oxford University Press, USA, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Slight wear to covers. otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 452564
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Goddess, The - A Screenplay


Chayefsky, Paddy

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dj w/ light chipping, edgewear

Record # 20841


Price: $40.00 

 

Chez Nous/ A Domestic Comedy in Two Acts


Nichols, Peter

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

Record # 50383


Price: $18.00 

 

Danseur - The Male in Ballet


Philip, Ribhard and Mary Whitney

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

Record # 55278


Price: $15.00 

 

Stars of the Broadway Stage 1940-1967


Fehl, Fred

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

Record # 59670


Price: $25.00 

 

Racine Phaedra & Beaumarchais Figaro's Marriage


Lowell, Robert and Jacques Barzun

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

Record # 63338


Price: $20.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 37 1980-1981Season


Willis, John

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

Record # 64079


Price: $31.00 

 

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


Duchartre, Pierre Louis

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

Record # 67099


Price: $41.00 

 

Masque of Mercy ,A


Frost, Robert

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

Record # 106567


Price: $45.00 

 

Testimonies - Four Plays


Mann, Emily

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

Record # 176219


Price: $12.00 

 

Stalag 17


Wilder, Billy

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

Record # 202483


Price: $15.00 

 

The Great Instrumentalists in Historic Photographs


Camner (ed), James

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

Record # 206970


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-FrancaiseBrownstein, Rachel
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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Golden Talisman - A Grove Play


Dobie, Charles Caldwell

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

Record # 610838


Price: $38.00 

 

Cry of Players, A


Gibson, William

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

Record # 801009


Price: $6.00 

 

Conversation Piece: A Romantic Comedy


Coward, Noel

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

Record # 810103


Price: $12.00 

 

Producing In Little Theaters


Stratton, Clarence

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

Record # 11971


Price: $20.00 

 

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


Ludwig, Otto, Ida Washington (Transcription into English)

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

Record # 32904


Price: $50.00 

 

My Life


Duncan, Isadora

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

Record # 54518


Price: $50.00 

 

Performing Arts - A Guide to Practice and Appreciation


Billington (Ed.), Michael

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

Record # 59238


Price: $35.00 

 

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


Hunt, Hugh

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

Record # 62311


Price: $18.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 27 1970-71 Season


Willis, John

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

Record # 64073


Price: $31.00 

 

L'Aiglon - A Play in Six Acts


Rostand, Edmond

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

Record # 66228


Price: $23.00 

 

House of Rimmon, The - A Drama in Four Acts


Van Dyke, Henry

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

Record # 101671


Price: $15.00 

 

Benefactors


Frayn, Michael

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

Record # 109291


Price: $15.00 

 

Reminiscenes Of DeWolf Hopper


Hopper, DeWolf and Wesley Winans Stout

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

Record # 201833


Price: $15.00 

 

Bright Star of Exile -Jacob Adler and the Yiddish Theatre


Rosenfeld, Lulla

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

Record # 205290


Price: $15.00 

 

German Drama Between the Wars - An Anthology of Plays


Wellwarth, George E. (Ed.)

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

Record # 302552


Price: $20.00 

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


Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Record # 408526


Price: $63.00 

 

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


Harris, Anthony J.

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

Record # 457712


Price: $23.00 

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


Bunn, Elaine McDermott

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

Record # 468482


Price: $25.00 

 

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


Payne, Ben Iden

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

Record # 602635


Price: $20.00 

 

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


Cantor, Eddie/David Freedman

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

Record # 612539


Price: $23.00 

 

Early Public Theatre in France, The


Wiley, W. L.

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

Record # 808606


Price: $20.00 

 

Futurist Performance


Kirby, Michael

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

Record # 951611


Price: $19.00 

 

Search For Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe, The


Wagner, Jane

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

Record # 5029


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Lassell, Michael

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

Record # 31741


Price: $25.00 

 

Andre Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties


Acocella, Joan and Lynn Garafola

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

Record # 52729


Price: $20.00 

 

Twice Over Lightly - New York Then and Now


Hayes, Helen and Anita Loos

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

Record # 56577


Price: $15.00 

 

Three Stooges Book of Scripts, The


Maurer, Joan Howard

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

Record # 61533


Price: $45.00 

 

Theatre World - 1946-47 Season


Blum, Daniel

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

Record # 64055


Price: $38.00 

 

Master Builder


Ibsen, Henrik

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

Record # 65504


Price: $25.00 

 

Essential Lenny Bruce, The


Brown, Lenny and John Cohen (Ed.)

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

Record # 100330


Price: $30.00 

 

Ballet Guide


Terry, Walter

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

Record # 108357


Price: $30.00 

 

An Autobiography


Galwau, James

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

Record # 201001


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Gutman, Robert W.

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

Record # 204991


Price: $30.00 

 

Michael and Mary: A Play


Milne, A. A.

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

Record # 220755


Price: $22.00 

 

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


Old Vic Theatre Company

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

Record # 404941


Price: $19.00 

 

Master Harold and the Boys


Fugard, Athol

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

Record # 453909


Price: $15.00 

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


Jacobson, Robert

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

Record # 466596


Price: $25.00 

 

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


Gruen, John

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

Record # 510497


Price: $15.00 

 

Actors' Analects, The


Dunn, Charles J./Bunzo Torigoe

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

Record # 608042


Price: $30.00 

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


Pritchard (Editor), Jane

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

Record # 612304


Price: $75.00 

 

Jean-Luc Godard


Kreidl, John and Warren French (editor)

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

Record # 803534


Price: $19.00 

 

Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The


Lawrence, D. H.

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

Record # 853844


Price: $20.00 

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


Gay, John, Illust. by: Mariette Lydis

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

Record # 30694


Price: $50.00 

 

Sisters Rosensweig, The


Wasserstein, Wendy

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

Record # 51974


Price: $20.00 

 

Early Memoirs


Nijinsky, Bronislava

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

Record # 55330


Price: $28.00 

 

Noel


Castle, Charles

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

Record # 59675


Price: $25.00 

 

Eight Plays


Williams, Tennessee

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

Record # 63570


Price: $23.00 

 

Theatre World - Vol. 40 1983-1984 Season


Willis, John

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

Record # 64081


Price: $31.00 

 

Noel Coward - The Complete Lyrics


Day (Ed.), Barry

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

Record # 69760


Price: $40.00 

 

Notebooks 1960-1977


Fugard, Athol

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

Record # 106571


Price: $9.00 

 

Making of a Choreographer, The


Genne, Beth

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

Record # 178064


Price: $15.00 

 

The Aspern Papers


Redgrave, Michael

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

Record # 203772


Price: $20.00 

 

Green Pastures, The


Conelly, Marc, Illust. by: Robert Edmund Jones

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

Record # 219970


Price: $22.00 

 

King Turd


Jarry, Alfred

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

Record # 401141


Price: $20.00 

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


Hoagland

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

Record # 451093


Price: $12.00 

 

MARGOT FONTEYN


Daneman, Meredith

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

Record # 462859


Price: $15.00 

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

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

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

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


  
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