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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Enter Joseph Papp: In Search of a New American Theater


Little, Stuart W.

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, review copy, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Light fraying to top spine dust jacket.

Record # 2233494


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

Light Fantastic Lahr, 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 

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

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

 

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 

Damon Runyon: A Life Breslin, 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 

 

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 

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929 Pritchard (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 

 

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 

Far From Denmark Martins, 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 

 

Somewhere For Me - A Biography of Richard Rodgers


Secrest, Meryle

Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750010


Price: $19.00 

 

Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950 Volume III


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 544 pages. Hardcover. Volume III. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue textured cover boards, navy blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. In this, the final volume of Halroyd's mammoth Shaw biography, the story opens with G.B.S. campaigning in the general election of 1918 and gradually unveils him in his various roles as conjurer, fabulist, and seer.

Record # 32456


Price: $25.00 

Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell by: Mosel, Tad Macy, Gertrude
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Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell by: Mosel, Tad Macy, GertrudeLeading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell by: Mosel, Tad Macy, Gertrude

Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell by: Mosel, Tad Macy, Gertrude

Hardcover. Canada, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 534 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been price clipped, but is otherwise in good condition. Blue paper covers with a red cloth spine are clean and bright. Light foxing is present on all page edges. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is an illuminating biography of Katherine Cornell. Clean copy. Record # 34439
Price: $15.00 

 

Noel Coward Diaries, The


Payn, Graham and Sheridan Morley

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53018


Price: $18.00 

 

George Cukor: A Double Life : A Biography of the Gentleman Director


McGilligan, Patrick

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 3rd Printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 404 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456953


Price: $18.00 

Duse, a biography Weaver, William
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Duse, a biography


Weaver, William

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469378


Price: $15.00 

 

Henry Irving


Craig, Edward Gordon

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Edward Gordon Craig's biography of his mentor, the actor Henry Irving. 252 pp. Colior frontis otherwise illustrated in b&w.

Record # 512670


Price: $22.00 

 

Eva Le Gallienne - A Biography


Sheehy, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 529 pages. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750848


Price: $31.00 

An Actress in the Theater of Politics Alexander, Jane
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An Actress in the Theater of Politics


Alexander, Jane

Hardcover. New York, PublicAffairs Perseus Book Group, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Gilt titles on spine, b/w photographs throughout. Clean inside. Witty retelling of actress Alexander's years at the NEA.

Record # 30096


Price: $31.00 

 

Ghost Light: A Memoir


Rich, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and bright, binding tight, spine straight. Dark brown cover boards, gilt title stamped on spine and author's initials blind embossed on front cover. In beautiful condition, looks barely read.

Record # 31689


Price: $13.00