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Harlequin on the Moon: Commedia dell'Arte and the Visual Arts


Lawner, Lynne

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408121


Price: $50.00 

 

History of English Costume, A


Brooke, Iris, Illust. by: Iris Brooke

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Company, Ltd., 2nd, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, History of English costume from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries. 224 pp. Contains 4 color plates and over 100 black/white drawings. Cloth bound book is in good condition, cover very faded and slightly loose. Dust jacket is in fair condition, has small tears near the edges and some moisture damage on the spine.

Record # 804826


Price: $19.00 

 

I Wanted To Be An Actress: The Autobiography of Katharine Cornell


Cornell, Katharine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Random House, First Edition, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 361 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 32 pages of photographs in black & white to center. Red boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Minor toning to pages throughout. Some tanning to endpaper gutters. Original dust jacket with heavy wear to edges, small tears, age toning and a few spots of tape. Grey dyed top edge. Clean inside, tight & unmarked copy.

Record # 751573


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 

 

Isadora - A Sensational Life (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Kurth, Peter

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, First Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 652 pages. Hardcover. Mock marble cloth boards with white titles to black cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750920


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Japan - September 1959 - Number Seven, This is


Asahi Shimbun Newspaper

Softcover. Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Large magazine/digest format - measures 10" X 13" X 1". Wood slipcase shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610397


Price: $38.00 

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Japanese Theatre


Bowers, Faudion

Softcover. Rutland, VT, Tuttle Pub, 3rd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Softcover with slight wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy with sun fading to spine. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 470921


Price: $25.00 

 

Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance


Jowitt, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon and Schuster, First Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 619 pages. Hardover with dust jacket & deckled side edge. Blue boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Crisp clean dust jacket with only minor wear to edges. Light marginal foxing top edge. Clean and unmarked pages & black & white illustrations throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 751595


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Le Recueil des Inscriptions 1558: A Literary and Iconographical Exegesis


Jodelle, Estienne, Victor Graham and W. McAllister Johnson

Hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear, minor soil.

Record # 405501


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Magic of Theater, The - Behind the Scenes With Today's Leading Actors


Black, David

Hardcover. New York, MacMillan Publishing Company, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with metallic titles to navy cloth spine. with gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations. Features interviews with acclaimed actors including, William Hurt, Liv Ullmann, Christopher Reeve, Alan Arkin, Christopher Walken among other contemporary artists. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751326


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Masterpieces of Japanese Puppetry: Sculpted Heads of the Bunraku Theater


Michener, James A.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 91 pages. Hardcover with stamps to rust & brown cloth covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. Musty smell. The volume is photo illustrated in black & white, followed by 32 tipped-in color plates. Wonderful illustrations of puppet masterpieces. Dust jacket has chipping & tears to top inch of spine & other small tears to edges, price-clipped. Clean pages throughout, protected with cardboard slipcase.

Record # 6670133


Price: $150.00 

 

Mediaeval Stage, The (2 Volumes)


Chambers, E.K.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tweo volumes complete, 419 and 480 pages, green cloth covers in bright, unclipped dust jackets. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 408116


Price: $50.00 

Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the MaterialistsBradshaw, Graham
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Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists


Bradshaw, Graham

Hardcover. Ithaca , Cornell University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue canvas with gilt lettering on black label spine. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.

Record # 2233596


Price: $15.00 

 

More Chapters of Opera, Being Historical and Critical Observations and Records Concerning the Lyric Drama in New York From 1908 to 1918


Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Hardcover. New York, NY, Henry Holt and Company, First Edition, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 474 pages. Hardcover. Brick publisher's cloth boards with gilt harp vignette to cover & gilt titles to cover & spine. Light scuffing to board corners. Light toning throughout. Wonderful illustrations in black & white of various opera performers on stage. Frontis illustration of the author. Clean & unmarked pages throughout, a couple unopened. Features wide array of authors, includes appendices on authors, notes on production of plays, index of characters among other topics.

Record # 6670089


Price: $188.00 

 

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 

 

National Grange Drill Manual: Drills, Tableaux and Special Features


N/A

Softcover. Columbus OH, National Grange , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and diagrams illustrating the ritual entertainments and marches that were part of their gatherings. INSCRIBED BY L.J. TABER who was National Master of the Grange.

Record # 403714


Price: $40.00 


  
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