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Act and the Actor


Rosenberg, Harold

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 806814


Price: $18.00 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Andalusian Dances


Bonald, Jose M. Caballero

Softcover. Barcelona, Editorial Noguer, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Softcover with full color photograph to wraps. Light wear to edges, some tanning & small chips to spine. 62 pages of text followed by 60 pages of photographs in black & white. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670126


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Chief Contemporary Dramatists: Twenty Plays From the Recent Drama of England, Ireland, America, Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, and Russia


Dickinson (Editor), Thomas H.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 676 pages. Hardcover. Navy publisher's cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light fray to crown of spine, scuffing to corners. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked pages throughout. Features wide array of authors, includes appendices on authors, notes on production of plays, index of characters among other topics.

Record # 6670088


Price: $25.00 

 

Chinese Acrobatics - Lacrobatie chinoise - Akrobati ya Kichina


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Softcover. China, Peking Foreign Languages Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Softcover. French flaps. Full color illustrations throughout. Slight tanning to pages and edges. Wrapper has tanning, but in very good condition. Binding excellent. Amazing images of Chinese acrobat performance.

Record # 33437


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Dada Almanac - (Atlas Arkhive One)


Huelsenbeck, Richard/Malcolm Green & Alistaire Brotchie (Editors)

Softcover. London, Atlas Press, Reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Softcover. Spotting to endpapers. Light toning throughout. Copious illustrations in b/w throughout. Bright covers with only light shelfwear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750375


Price: $31.00 

 

Drama Was a Weapon: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York, 1929-1941


Himelstein, Morgan Y.

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Gray cloth, no dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges, spine slightly cocked. Internally very good.

Record # 810155


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

First Night of Twelfth Night, The


Hotson, Leslie

Hardcover. London, England, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 19541st, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear, covered in clear plastic brodart. Top edge dyed brown. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Some light tanning from age to edges and pages, otherwise clean. Binding tight, spine straight. A look at the first night performance of Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night".

Record # 32222


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge


Cormack, W. J. Mc

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471124


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945, The


Ziemke, Earl F.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Department of the Army, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages, b&w illustrations and fold-out maps. Black covers w/ faded gilt lettering, light rubbing to front cover. Foxing to edges. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401795


Price: $20.00 

 

Guns on the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War


Gosnell, H. Allen

Softcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages, paperback. A full and accurate treatment of the important gunboat operations in the western theater of the Civil War. Previous owner's name label on front endpaper. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Otherwise unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951708


Price: $15.00 


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