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Actress: postcards from the roadAshley, Elizabeth

Actress: postcards from the road


Ashley, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, M. Evans, reprint, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Reminder mark to top edge. Sticker residue to dust jacket cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469377


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

Anna Pavlova: Her Life and Art


Money, Keith

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 425 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Dust jacket with soil, big chip to rear panel.

Record # 405517


Price: $44.00 

 

Anton Tchekhov - Literary and Theatrical Reminiscences


Koteliansky (Editor), S. S.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st UK, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Foxing to edges and some pages throughout. Covers show standard wear. Unmarked text.

Record # 609515


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Body Merchant, The - The Story of Earl Carrol


Murray, Ken

Hardcover. Pasadena, Ward Ritanie, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos, 243 pgs.

Record # 100899


Price: $15.00 

 

Curse of the Misbegotten, The: A Tale of the House of O'Neill


Bowen, Croswell

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Written with Shane O'Neill, the playwright's son. Black & white photos. 384 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. A few pages with pencil lines in margins otherwise very good.

Record # 59056


Price: $12.00 

 

Curtain Falls, The


Reed, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Related articles laid in.

Record # 857383


Price: $25.00 

Damon Runyon: A LifeBreslin, Jimmy

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 

Dance With Demons - The Life of Jerome RobbinsLawrence, Greg

Dance With Demons - The Life of Jerome Robbins


Lawrence, Greg

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 622 pages. Hardcover with black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750124


Price: $19.00 

 

Darling of Misfortune: Edwin Booth 1833-1893


Lockridge, Richard

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, Blind stamped title on front clover with design, faded gilt title on spine. Some moisture damage to front covers, not to pages, or edges. Tanning from age throughout and further agewear. Pages unmarked. In very good shape for its age. The life story of the brother of John Wilkes Booth.

Record # 31940


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

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

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 

Duse, a biographyWeaver, William

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 

 

Early Stages


Gielgud, John

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages, Illustrated in b&w. Top edge lightly soiled. Foxing to inside covers. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 603103


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 

 

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 

 

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 

Far From DenmarkMartins, Peter

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

George Meredith - His Life and Art in Anecdote and Criticism


Hammerton, J. A.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Grant, 2nd Revised, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge weak. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Ex-library copy.

Record # 607748


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Hitch - The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock


Taylor, John Russell

NY, Pantheon , rep, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 201304


Price: $12.00 

 

Houdini's Fabulous Magic


Gibson, Walter B. and Morris N. Young

New York, Bell Publishing Co., unknown , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages, some black and white illustrations. Dust jacket slightly worn, internally in good condition.

Record # 176080


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Jazz Cleopatra - Josephine Baker in Her Time


Rose, Phyllis

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 2nd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illus.

Record # 52666


Price: $18.00 

 

Jimmy O'Dea: The pride of the Coombe


Ryan, Philip B

Hardcover. Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland, Poolbeg, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Photographs in b&w. Light wear, scratches and a small closed tear to dust jacket, else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 457237


Price: $20.00 

 

Josephine Baker


Hammond, Bryan

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape LTD, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color/black and white photographs. Light foxing to front end paper. Tape repaired dust jacket shows signs of edge wear as well as fading. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 468066


Price: $31.00 

 

Kid of Coney Island, The: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements


Register, Woody

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, October 18, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Price-clipped. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452675


Price: $20.00 

 

Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok


Robinson, Harlow

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 521 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 457326


Price: $15.00 

Let Me Entertain YouBrown, David

Let Me Entertain You


Brown, David

Hardcover. New York, 1st, March 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, b&w photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451499


Price: $10.00 

Light FantasticLahr, John

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Martha Graham - Portrait of the Lady as an Artist


Leatherman, Leroy

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos by Martha Swope. dj with chipping, closed tears

Record # 52674


Price: $30.00 

 

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962


McCarthy's , Mary

Softcover. Lincoln, NE, iuniverse.com, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233493


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Merry Partners, The: The Age and Stage of Harrigan & Hart


Kahn, Jr., E.J.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lightly soiled dust jacket, with light wear to edges. Two sections of black and white pictures in center. Tight copy.

Record # 2233486


Price: $25.00 

My life in three actsHayes, Helen

My life in three acts


Hayes, Helen

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 266 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469385


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Ned Wayburn And The Dance Routine - From Vaudeville To The Ziegfeld Follies


Stratyner, Barbara

Paperback. Madison, Wisconsin, Society of Dance History Scholars, 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new. Black & white photos and illustrations. 125 pages.

Record # 202465


Price: $15.00 

 

New Orpheus - Essays on Kurt Weill, A


Kowalke, Kim H.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604306


Price: $13.00 

 

No Intermissions - The Life of Agnes De Mille


Easton, Carol

Boston , Little Brown , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos, 548 pages. Remainder line bottom edge. Dust jacket with light wear, sticker residue

Record # 200278


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 

Nothing to Hide: A Dancer's LifeFosse, Robert La

Nothing to Hide: A Dancer's Life


Fosse, Robert La

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: $10.00 

 

Private Domain - An Autobiography


Taylor, Paul

New York, Knopf, 2nd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 371 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 206012


Price: $12.00 

 

Prodigal Son: Dancing for Balanchine in a World of Pain and Magic


Villella, Edward and Larry Kaplan

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages, b&w photos. Review slip laid in.

Record # 803392


Price: $10.00 

 

Sean: An Intimate Memoir of Sean O'Casey


O'Casey, Eileen

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann Goghegan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, brown cloth covers with a lightly worn dust jacket. His wife's recollections edited by J.C. Trewin.

Record # 406377


Price: $13.00 

 

Shattered Applause: The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne


Ph.D., Robert A Schanke B.A. M.A.

Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, b&w photos. Minor wear top dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453872


Price: $15.00 

 

Shaw: An Autobiography, 1856-1898


Shaw, Bermard

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 2nd printing, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. B&W photos. Pictorial dust jacket with small tear on top front and worn and slightly soil on front and back. Black boards with gilt title to spine. Marked on front and back and sun-faded around top edges. Previous owner signature and date on front flyleaf.

Record # 850128


Price: $9.00 

 

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 

 

Sketches From My Life


Sats, Natalia

Hardcover. Moscow, Raduga Publishers, 1st English, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 435 pages, with photographs, translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854137


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Sun and Shadow


Aumont , Jean-Pierre

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857499


Price: $15.00 

 

Things That Have Interested Me (Second Series)


Bennett, Arnold

Hardcover. New York, NY, George H. Doran Company, First Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Hardcover. Red boards with faded gilt titles to spine. Light soiling to boards. Light toning throughout. Deckled side edge. Clean, tight & unmarked copy.

Record # 751571


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams -- Volume I of the Tennessee Williams BiographyLeverich, Lyle

Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams -- Volume I of the Tennessee Williams Biography


Leverich, Lyle

Hardcover. New York, 1st, October 17, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 644 pages, b&w photographs. Small mark on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451639


Price: $15.00 

Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-FrancaiseBrownstein, Rachel

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 

 

Voices Offstage: A Book Of Memoirs


Connelly, Marc

Hardcover. Chicago, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc , 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 613629


Price: $19.00 

 

Vollendete Vergangenheit - Tagebucher 1951-1952


Cocteau, Jean

Hardcover. Munchen/Zurich, Piper, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 507 pages plus publishers ads. German text. B&W photos.

Record # 601923


Price: $10.00 

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