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Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Record # 806814
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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
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Chicago, American Library Assoc., 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages. Record # 65753
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 301 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 32 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear to dust jacket. Dust Jacket price clipped. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. . Record # 467656 Record # 467656
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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
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Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, revised, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 564 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Light edgewear, small tears to dust jacket. Else clean and tight. Record # 453910
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Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1956, Pictorial half titles and title page. 250 pages. 8vo. Light green cloth. Hinge starting. Record # 220637
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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
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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
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Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Features: J. L. Anderson: Japanese Swordfighters, American Gunfighters, Richard Meran Barsam: "This Is America" - Documentaries for Theaters. Clean, unmarked text. Record # 611321
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, An illustrated history, mostly black & white, some color. 240 pages. Record # 59669
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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
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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
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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
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Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st US, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 black & white plates. 272 pages. The 1890s in London theater circles. Light wear to covers, nice reading copy Record # 57838
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Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463542
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Hardcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. Hardcover. Color, b&w illustrations. Includes extensive bibliography. Blind stamp on front cover. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 602265
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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
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Hardcover. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 750823
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Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton, Revised Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New enlarged edition with added years: 1860-1900, 1956-1960. Over 5,000 photographs. A terrific book with one major fault - it smells musty Record # 61534
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Softcover. Privately Printed, 2nd Printing, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Scarce. Wrapper has some tanning from age, otherwise no rips or tears, intact. Pages clean, edges have some light tanning. Binding (staple) tight. In very good condition. A historical look at toy theatre with many illustrations. Record # 32364
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Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Light to moderate foxing to covers and edges. Faint damp odor. Overall good condition. Record # 610889
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Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 320 pages. Four pages of black-and-white illustrations. Some edge wear on dust jacket. A little shelf-wear evident on rear cover. Dust jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy. Record # 856426
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Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Record # 57716
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Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear to dust jacket. Slight curling to inside front dust jacket flap. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy. Record # 470852
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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 264 pages. Hardcover. Color and black & white photography. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Cover has light edgewear. Dust jacket has a few closed tears. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 207418
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Hardcover. London, 1st, October 11, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 99 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light edge wear, creases to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a nice, tight copy. Record # 452922
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Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 406249
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Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photography and paintings. Complete with chronology and index to actors, plays, and productions. Large format. Record # 803556
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Hardcover. New York, 1st, February 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 451848
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Hardcover. New York, New York Review Book, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 423 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Extremely clean and bright inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good condition. Record # 30660
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Hardcover. London, Nicholson and Watson, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, yellow cloth, 84 pages. Black & white and color photos and charts. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping. "What is happening to our theatre now? What ought to happen to it in the future? We are in a curious position. We are worse off because the economic conditions of theatrical production are appalling, and, better off because we have created new audiences with a sharp appetite for good drama." A appraisal of Post-war theatre in Britain. Clean copy. Record # 200592
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Hardcover. London , Continuum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469521
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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
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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
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Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1973, b&w photos, 266 pgs. Very slight chipping at top of dust jacket on spine. previous owner's stamp on inside front cover with previous owner's signature. Record # 108572
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Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Chipping to cloth at top of spine. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Text clean and tight. Record # 608260
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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
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Novato, CA , Presidio, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. 100+ B&W photos. A pictorial history of the European Theater during the 1940's by the photographers of the Associated Press. Record # 301668
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Softcover. Lebanon PA, Applied Arts, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color wrappers, 40 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy. Record # 411942
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HARDCOVER. New York, W.W. Norton, 4th, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, W.W. Norton, 4th, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and light foxing to inside dust jacket.. 430 pages. Record # 467300 Record # 467300
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Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , Unknown, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A history of the musical stage by it's foremost composers and lyricists. Black & white photos, 397 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, spine fading Record # 200375
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