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100 Lessons in Classical Ballet


Kostrovitskaya, Vera s., Oleg Briansky (Translation)

Softcover. New York, Limelight Editions, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Softcover. Illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. pages clean, some foxing to edges, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. A working textbook for teachers in choreographic institutes, ballet schools, colleges, and universities.

Record # 31953


Price: $15.00 

 

3 Plays by Mart Crowley (The Boys in the Band, A Breeze From the Gulf and For Reasons That Remain Unclear)


Crowley, Mart

Los Angeles, Alyson, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages.

Record # 204609


Price: $15.00 

 

A Life In The Theatre - Behind the scenes and between the lines of the world's most celebrated dramas, as presented on the world's most famous stages


Guthrie, Tyrone

NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, price clipped.

Record # 201302


Price: $18.00 

 

Abbey, The - Ireland's National Theatre 1904-1978


Hunt, Hugh

NY, Columbia Univ. Press, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 306 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 62311


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Actors' Analects, The


Dunn, Charles J./Bunzo Torigoe

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608042


Price: $30.00 

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 

 

Agincourt


N/A

Hardcover. San Francisco, Bohemian Club, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, hardcover, decorated cloth covers. Annual play preformed in the Bohemian Grove. Music by True Tourtillott, directed by Jay M. Jacobus.

Record # 602822


Price: $23.00 

Ailey Spirit - The Journey of an American Dance CompanyTracy, Robert/Wynton Marsalis/Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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 Ballet Theatre


N/A

Softcover. New York, Columbia Artists Management Inc., 1st, 1957-58, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover program. Color paper cover. Minor edgewear. Contains black & white photographs (by Roy Round) of Nora Kaye, John Kriza, Erik Bruhn, Lupe Serrano, others. Program features: Billy the Kid, Fall River Legend, Designs with Strings, Jardin Aux Lilas, others. 566 pages.

Record # 503011


Price: $20.00 

 

American Daughter, An


Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 54045


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

An Actress in the Theater of PoliticsAlexander, Jane

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Andre Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties


Acocella, Joan and Lynn Garafola

Hardcover. Hanover NH, Wesleyan Univ., 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 163 pages, black & white photos.

Record # 52729


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Antigone of Sophocles, The


Fitts, Dudley and Robert Fitzgerald

hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Co, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light edgewear and soil to covers. Spine faded. Moderate marking in book.

Record # 201911


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Arcifanfaro, King of Fools; or It's Always too Late to Learn (Adapted by W.H. Auden)


Goldoni, Carlo

Softcover. New York, Unmuzzled Ox, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230247


Price: $25.00 

 

Around Theatres


Beerbohm, Max

N Y, Simon & Schuster, Rep., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, His classic collection of drama reviews in one volume. 583 pages. Dust jacket worn, sunned, chipped.

Record # 65565


Price: $31.00 

 

Art & Other Serious Matters


Rosenberg, Harold

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages, Navy blue cloth cover. Some light edge wear to jacket, otherwise a very clean and crisp copy, almost like new.

Record # 401871


Price: $30.00 

 

Art and the Stage in the 20th Century - Painters and Sculptors Work for the Theater


Rischbieter, Henning/ Wolfgang Storch

Greenwich, Ct, New York Graphic Society, 2nd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket shows wear and 3" tear on lower left corner (repaired), price clipped. Clear protective plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509589


Price: $36.00 

 

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

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 

 

Avalon, Tin Men, and Diner - Three Screenplays


Levinson, Barry

Paperback. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st wraps, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pgs

Record # 108522


Price: $12.00 

 

Backstage: Broadway Behind the Curtain


Katvan, Rivka Shifman (Photographer)

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 135 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs in color and b&w. Light scuffing, edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457036


Price: $30.00 

 

Ballet and Dance - The World's Major Companies


Doeser, Linda

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. 142 black & white photos. Light wear to covers, edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 63671


Price: $25.00 

 

Ballet and Theatre Material


N/A

Paperback. London, Sotheby's, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. Illust. in color, black & white. Costume drawings, stage designs, photos, etc. 264 cataloged items.

Record # 59666


Price: $15.00 

 

Ballet Guide


Terry, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead, 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos , 388 pgs. Backround, Listings, credits and descriptions of more than 500 of the World's Major Ballet.

Record # 108357


Price: $30.00 

 

Ballet in Action


Severn, Merlyn

London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Introductory essay and critical notes by Arnold. L. Haskell. 128 pages. Black & white photography. Cover has light wear to spine edge and corners.

Record # 205159


Price: $18.00 

 

Ballet Theatre, The (theater)


N/A

Softcover. New York, The Ballet Theatre Foundation, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Fifteenth season. Cover color illustration by Chagall. Black and white photographs (by Marcus Blechman) & bios on members of the company: Lillian Lanese, Eric Braun, Melissa Hayden, John Kriza, Igor Youskevitch, Directors Lucia Chase and Lovier Smith, others. Minor edgewear, soiling.

Record # 503012


Price: $20.00 

 

Barbi or The Charcoal Burner's Daughter: Comic Opera in Two Acts, Libretto and Piano Score (Transcribed from the Original Notebooks and Translated into English)


Ludwig, Otto, Ida Washington (Transcription into English)

Softcover. Weybridge, VT, Cherry Tree Books, 1st Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover, plastic spiral-bound. Green covers, excellent. Pages clean and white, binding excellent. Clean, beautiful copy.

Record # 32904


Price: $50.00 

Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)Gay, John, Illust. by: Mariette Lydis

Beggar's Opera, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, LIMITED EDITION)


Gay, John, Illust. by: Mariette Lydis

Hardcover. Paris, Limited Editions Club, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator on back page. #388 of limited editions (1500). Gilt top edge, title on spine (slightly faded), front and back cover boards. Cover boards bound in navy blue, embossed pattern. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Former owners book plates (2) on endpapers.

Record # 30694


Price: $50.00 

 

Ben Jonson Selected Works


Levin, Harry (Ed.)

NY, Random House, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. 1010 pages.

Record # 75200


Price: $25.00 

 

Benefactors


Frayn, Michael

Hardcover. London, Methuen, Book Club, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's signature front end paper. Dust jacket shows some wear but otherwise and internally clean. Hardbound.

Record # 109291


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Best, Worst, and Most Unusual: Horror Films, The


Moore, Darrell

Hardcover. Skokie, IL, Publications International, Ltd./Beekman House, First Edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with silver titles to spine. Light toning to endpapers & a few pages. Illustrated in full page, full color film photographs throughout. Dust jacket with light toning & light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670002


Price: $23.00 

 

big broadcast, 1920-1950, The


Buxton, Frank

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


Price: $10.00 

 

Births, Deaths and Marriages (Vol 1 only)


Hook)(Theodore Edward

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1st US, 1839, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A satirical novel by Theodore Hook (1788-1841) an English writer of theater sketches and comic opera. 205 pages plus publisher's ads. Scarce. Vol. 1 only of 2 volume set. Brown boards with terra-cotta cloth spine, spine label soiled, chipped. Internally very good with light foxing.

Record # 501024


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Bright Star of Exile -Jacob Adler and the Yiddish Theatre


Rosenfeld, Lulla

New York, Crowell, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Black & white photography. Cover has light edgewear. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Record # 205290


Price: $15.00 

Brighton Beach MemoirsSimon, Neil

Brighton Beach Memoirs


Simon, Neil

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages, bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408172


Price: $13.00 

 

Broadway: The American Musical


Maslon, Michael Kantor and Laurence

Hardcover. US, Bulfinch, 1st, 2004-10-13, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 469 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Slight wave to pages. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and creasing to dust jacket.

Record # 465825


Price: $44.00 

 

Broadway


Atkinson, Brooks

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


Price: $10.00 

 

Burlesque: Legendary Stars of the Stage


Briggeman, Jane

Hardcover. Portland, Or., Collectors Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 457012


Price: $28.00 

 

Cabaret - The Illustrated Book and Lyrics


Masteroff, Joe

Hardcover. NY, Newmarket, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pgs. Many color photos from the 1998 Broadway revival.

Record # 106959


Price: $25.00 

 

Carl Theodor Dreyer: Four Screen Plays


Dreyer, Carl Theodor/Oliver Stallybrass (Translator) & Ole Storm (Introduction)

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, First Thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations throughout. Brick boards with gilt titles to spine. Original dust jacket with toning, small tears to edges and small price sticker to flap. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. Otherwise clean and unmarked.

Record # 751602


Price: $31.00 

 

Carmen


Merimee, Prosper, Illust. by: Albert Sterner

Hardcover. New York, William Farquhar Payson, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 129 pages. Translation and black & white illustrations by Albert Sterner. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Yellowing to edges of pages. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Clear plastic protective cover.

Record # 502214


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Chez Nous/ A Domestic Comedy in Two Acts


Nichols, Peter

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 50383


Price: $18.00 

 

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


N/A

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 

 

Choreography by George Balanchine - A Catalogue of Works


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Eakins Press Foundation, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Cloth boards. Title on spine in gilt on blue paper. A bright copy.

Record # 509821


Price: $32.00 

 

Cinema Journal - Spring 1973 - Volume XII - No. 2


Cinema Journal

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


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

Cirque Knie: Une Dynastie du Cirque


no author

Hardcover. Geneva, Librairie Marguerat Lausanne, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 157 pages, b&w and color photographs. French text. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401939


Price: $25.00 

 

Coast of Utopia, The


Stoppard, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 hardcovers ( Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage) in slipcase - Still in original shrinkwrap.

Record # 611777


Price: $75.00 

 

Comedy in the Soviet Theater


Yershov, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, otherwise

Record # 56323


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Commedia dell'Arte at the Court of Louis XIV


Bucknell, Peter Arthur

Hardcover. London, Stainer & Bell Ltd, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Sun fading to dust jacket spine. Foxing to edges of text block and slight yellowing to inside pages around edges. Otherwise tight copy. Color and black & white images throughout.

Record # 471115


Price: $23.00 

 

Complete Oxford Shakespeare, The


Wells, Stanley and Gary Taylor (editors)

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Three Volumes: Volume I - Histories, Volume II - Comedies, Volume III - Tragedies. 452 pages, 1020 pages, 1423 pages, respectively. Includes list of illustrations and general introduction, indexes, sonnets, glossary. In near fine condition. Blue leather-bound with gilt lettering.

Record # 808053


Price: $50.00 

 

Conversation Piece: A Romantic Comedy


Coward, Noel

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Sun-fading to spine and edges of front cover. Internally very good.

Record # 810103


Price: $12.00 

 

Corneille et la Dialectique du Heros


Doubrovsky, Serge

Softcover. Paris, Gallimard, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages, softcover, tight and clean. French text.

Record # 405520


Price: $15.00 

 

Country Wife, The


Wycherley, William

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages. Spine cloth faded. Foxing to top edge of pages. Text clean and unmarked.

Record # 608367


Price: $12.00 

 

Course in Magic


Wilson, Mark

Hardcover. Hollywood, CA, Mark Wilson, 1st, 1975, Dust Jacket: None, 472 pages. Spiral bound text with B/W illustrations and photographs. Padded blue binder with course forms and documentation in sleeve.

Record # 802797


Price: $51.00 

 

Crossfire


Azama, Michel/Nigel Gearing (Translator)

Softcover. London, Oberon Books, First Thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light, marginal wear and toning. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean unmarked copy.

Record # 751482


Price: $15.00 

 

Cry of Players, A


Gibson, William

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801009


Price: $6.00 

 

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 Calls


Gaver, Jack

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st , 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Profiles of Broadway in the late 40's. 310 pages

Record # 56579


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

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 

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 of Court and Theater: The French Noble Style, 1690-1725Hilton, Wendy

Dance of Court and Theater: The French Noble Style, 1690-1725


Hilton, Wendy

Hardcover. US, Pendragon Pr, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 356 pages. Hardcover with worn dust jacket. Dust jacket soiled and foxed and lightly frayed near top spine. Boards are lightly soiled and foxing throughout text block. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 470436


Price: $50.00 

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 

 

Danseur - The Male in Ballet


Philip, Ribhard and Mary Whitney

Paperback. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st wraps, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Foreward by Robert Joffrey. Many black & white photos. 192 pages. Pub. simult. in hardcover & wraps

Record # 55278


Price: $15.00 

 

Dark Is Light Enough, The


Fry, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 3rd, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 5363


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Days With Ulanova - A Unique Pictorial Portrait of the Great Russian Ballerina


Kahn, Albert E.

New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. B&W photos by Kahn. Introduction by Arnold L. Haskell. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown

Record # 302927


Price: $25.00 

 

Decline of Pleasure, The


Kerr, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 52659


Price: $12.00 

 

Derwent Story, The -My First Fifty Years in the Theatre in England and America


Derwent, Clarence

Hardcover. NY, Henry Schuman, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket worn, chipped, light fading to spine.

Record # 603058


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

Design in the Theatre - Special Winter Number of "The Studio" 1927-8


Holme, Geoffrey

Hardcover. London, The Studio, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 120 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in color and black & white. Dust jacket missing chunks at top and bottom of spine. Chipping along edges.

Record # 509745


Price: $34.00 

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 

 

Discourse on Hamlet and Hamlet: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry


Eissler, K. R.

Hardcover. New York, International Universities Press, Inc., 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 656 pages. Light foxing to dust jacket and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Small pen mark on front of dust jacket. Tiny closed tear on rear of dust jacket. Minor edge wear. Dust jacket price-clipped. Rear cover bumped along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856420


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Drama's Patrons, The: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience


Hughes, Leo

Hardcover. Austin & London, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An illustration of the decline in taste from the sophisticated comedy of the Restoration Period to the sentimentalism and empty show of later decades. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top and bottom board edges. Price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952117


Price: $15.00 

 

Duenna - A Comic Opera in Three Acts


Sheridan, Richard Brinsley/George Sheringham/Nigel Playfair

Hardcover. London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations by George Sheringham. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610847


Price: $38.00 

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 Memoirs


Nijinsky, Bronislava

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Transl. & ed. by Irini Nijinska & Jean Rawlinson. 546 pages

Record # 55330


Price: $28.00 

 

Early Middle Class Drama (1696-1774), The


Nolte, Fred O.

Hardcover. Lancaster, PA, New York Univ. Monographs, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Water stain to some pages. Some text underlining. 213 pages.

Record # 60905


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Eight Plays


Williams, Tennessee

Hardcover. NY, Nelson Doubleday, Book Club, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by Harold Clurman. 843 pages. Spine cocked, otherwise very good.

Record # 63570


Price: $23.00 

 

Elder Statesman, The


Eliot, T. S.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 109 pages. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear with sunfading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609516


Price: $12.00 

 

Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA: The Making of the Broadway Musical


Lassell, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Disney Enterprises, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards decorated, glossy. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated endpapers. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape.

Record # 31741


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Encyclopedia of World Theater, The


Esslin, Martin

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2,000 entries, 5,000 play titles. 420 black & white illust. 319 pages.

Record # 63645


Price: $19.00 

 

ENGENDERING CULTURE


Melosh, Barbara

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges and end papers. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460148


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Erzahlungen 1926-1944


Seghers, Anna

Hardcover. Berlin, Aufbau Verlag, 1st ?, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 366 pages. Text in German. White cloth, gray dust jacket. Jacket with wear to edges and spine, shelf-rubbed, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 606909


Price: $10.00 

 

Essential Lenny Bruce, The


Brown, Lenny and John Cohen (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Bell Pub., rep, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Front end paper clipped. Dj with edgewear, soil.

Record # 100330


Price: $30.00 

Essential Shakespeare HandbookDunton-Downer, Leslie

Essential Shakespeare Handbook


Dunton-Downer, Leslie

Softcover. US, DK, 1st us, 2004, Book: Very Good, 480 pages. Color illustrations and photos throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466912


Price: $19.00 

 

Eugene O'Neill - A Critical Study


Winther, Sophus Keith

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 55788


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Everything In the Garden


Albee, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1968, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 11098


Price: $30.00 

 

Evita: The Legend of Evita Peron (1919-1952)


Webber, Andrew Lloyd

Softcover. New York , Avon, 1st, 1979, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Official edition with life story, lyrics and B/W photographs. Covers lightly soiled, pages fading from age.

Record # 802834


Price: $8.00 

 

Fall of the City, The


MacLeish, Archibald

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 33 pages, hardcover. Inside covers soiled, inside back cover lightly foxed. Top edge soiled.

Record # 509963


Price: $15.00 

 

Fantasio and Other Plays


Musset, Alfred De

Paperback. n.p., TCG Translations, 1st wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Various translators. Previous owner's signature on title-page.

Record # 64770


Price: $12.00 

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 

 

Farm Festivals


Carleton , Will

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers , reprint , 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Illustrated frontispiece. B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover. Related articles laid in. Binding slightly lose between front end paper and flyleaf. One page missing after front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857437


Price: $15.00 

 

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 Plays


Dunsany, Lord

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, The Lost Silk Hat.

Record # 63571


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 

 

Foreign Bodies - Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology


Napier, A. David

Hardcover. Berkeley, California University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AT TOP RIGHT CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610703


Price: $19.00 

 

FOUR PLAYS. The Women Have Their Way. A Hundred Years Old. Fortunate. The Lady From Alfaqueque. English Versions by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker.


Quintero, Serafin and Joaquin A.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. 12mo. Black cloth. White title labels. Good, edge worn dj. Front free end page inscribed by previous owner.

Record # 220768


Price: $11.00 

 

Francois Truffaut


Insdorf, Annette

Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Black & white photography. Gift inscription on front end paper.

Record # 205295


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

From Desire To Godot - Pocket Theater Of Postwar Paris


Cohn, Ruby

Berkeley, CA, California University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Rubbing and light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201547


Price: $20.00 

 

Futurist Performance


Kirby, Michael

Softcover. New York, PAJ Publications, reprint, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, paperback. Documents the first modern style oriented around society as spectacle in 13 manifestos and 48 performance texts. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light soiling to wraps, mild rubbing and edgewear as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951611


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 

 

German Drama Between the Wars - An Anthology of Plays


Wellwarth, George E. (Ed.)

New York, Dutton, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Plays by Toller, Kraus, Broch, Kokoschka, 2 others. Dust jacket with short closed tear.

Record # 302552


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

German Puppet Theatre Today - Illustrated Documentation Published for the Fiftieth Anniversary of UNIMA on the Creative Work of its Members in the Federal Republic of Germany, The


Purschke, Hans R.

Softcover. Cologne, Inter Nationes, 1st, 1979, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Covers with creases, abrasion, wear. Pages unmarked. Faint damp odor.

Record # 612269


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Giant Stunt Book, The


Hetrick, Lenore , Illust. by: Arthur Leroy Kaser, Genevieve and Elwyn Swarthout, Karin Sundelof Asbrand, Paul S. McCoy, Others

Softcover. Dayton, OH, Paine Publishing , 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 287 pages. Small book. Other authors listed on title page: Arthur Leroy Kaser, Genevieve and Elwyn Swarthout, Karin Sundelof Asbrand, Paul S. McCoy, and Others. Contains little plays supposed to be funny and used for jokes, "stunts." Tear along back of spine at bottom. Small hole in front cover. Corners a bit rubbed.

Record # 500799


Price: $15.00 

 

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Midado


Lawrence, Robert

Softcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white drawings by Sheilah Beckett. 48 pages. Blue cloth spine, illust. cardboard covers.

Record # 65763


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Goddess, The - A Screenplay


Chayefsky, Paddy

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dj w/ light chipping, edgewear

Record # 20841


Price: $40.00 

 

Golden Talisman - A Grove Play


Dobie, Charles Caldwell

Hardcover. San Francisco, Bohemian Club, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Four-color illustrations. Music by Alec Templeton. Light chipping to corners of spine label. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610838


Price: $38.00 

 

Good-Natured Man, The


Goldsmith, Oliver, Illust. by: Frederick Simpson Coburn

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Very good pictorial tan cloth boards with heavy gilt design in mylar protector. Top edge gilt. Color illustrated plates by Frederick Simpson Coburn.

Record # 804112


Price: $38.00 

 

Grass Harp, The


Capote , Truman

Paperback. New York , The New American Library, 1st , 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages paperback. Decorative stain on all three edges. Front hinge cracked. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857213


Price: $13.00 

 

Great Jews on Stage and Screen


Lyman, Darryl

Middle Village, NY, Jonathan David, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos. 279 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, light soil to edges.

Record # 66354


Price: $15.00 

 

Green Crow, The


O'Casey, Sean

NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages.

Record # 62317


Price: $23.00 

 

Green Pastures, The


Conelly, Marc, Illust. by: Robert Edmund Jones

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rhinehart, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 141 pages. 12 plates. Heading of each scene is illustrated with Robert Edmond Jones art. This is a stage play first performed at Mansfield theater in NY. Previous owner's name inside and 4" pen mark on back of dust jacket.

Record # 219970


Price: $22.00 

 

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 

 

Hairy Ape, The; Anna Christie; First Man, The


O'Neill, Eugene

Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 2nd, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages, three O'Neill plays in one volume. Minor edge wear, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, light sticker stain on front cover, overall, clean and tight.

Record # 854583


Price: $12.00 

 

Hanging on in Paradise


Lawrence Guiles, Fred

New York, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 412 pages. Black & white photographs.Dust jacket worn at edges.

Record # 204426


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes


Shaw, Brnard

Hardcover. London Uk, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Green pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. Light wear to coves, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 607960


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Hidden King, The


Griffin, Jonathan

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 296 pages. INSCRIBED TO ROGER SHATTUCK BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Upper right corner of cover and pages lightly bumped. Dust jacket paper darkened along spine and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608499


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

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

hardcover. NY, Bell, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 201830


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

House of Rimmon, The - A Drama in Four Acts


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis, gilt decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt.

Record # 101671


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Immanence and Transcendence - The Theater of Jean Rotrou (1609-1650)


Nelson, Robert J.

Hardcover. Columbus, OH, Ohio State Univ., 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY NELSON on front fly leaf .245 pages. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear

Record # 64282


Price: $38.00 

 

In Search of Theater - A Vivid and Critical Account of a Highly Personal Search for Theater in All its Aspects Old and New


Bentley, Eric

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. Dust jacket shows much wear, chipping and some small tears. Internally completely clean. hardbound, 411 pgs.

Record # 109289


Price: $18.00 

 

In the Clap Shack


Styron, William

New York, Random House, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 204999


Price: $18.00 

 

Introduction to Tudor Drama, An


Boas, Frederick S.

London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages. Previous owner's signature (2) on front fly leaf. Dust jacket badly chipped, chunk gone from top of spine.

Record # 65572


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Ixion In Heaven - The Infernal Marriage - Popanilla-Count Alarcos


Disraeli, B.

Hardcover. London, Routledge, Rep., 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A New Edition. 268 pages. 3/4 leather, boards & corners worn, spine label gone, Very Good internally. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 63937


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

Japanese TheatreBowers, Faudion

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 

 

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 

 

Jean-Luc Godard


Kreidl, John and Warren French (editor)

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages w/ index. Beige cloth. Cloth rubbed in a couple spots. Gilt and black title on binding. Some yellow highlighting throughout. Photograph of Jean-Luc Godard on frontispiece. Black and White photographs throughout.

Record # 803534


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

King Richard II


Ure (Ed.), Peter and William Shakespeare

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, rep., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Annotations & commentary by Ure

Record # 54041


Price: $18.00 

 

King Turd


Jarry, Alfred

Hardcover. New York, Boar's Head Books, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages, translated by G. Legman with his 6 page note in rear. Orange cloth covers with half inch tear to cloth at bottom of spine. Otherwise very good.

Record # 401141


Price: $20.00 

 

King's Henchman, The: A Play In Three Acts


Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Bros, 1st trade, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 132 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Paper label on spine. Light edgewear.

Record # 511110


Price: $8.00 

 

L'Aiglon - A Play in Six Acts


Rostand, Edmond

MY, R.H. Russell, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Adapted into English by Louis N. Parker. Small photo-illust. tipped-in opposite half-title, possibly Maud Adams in the lead of the play. Gilt decorated blue cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 66228


Price: $23.00 

 

L'Apres-midi d'un Faune - Vaslav Nijinsky - 1912


de Meyer, Baron Adolf/Jennifer Dunning/Richard Buckle/Ann Hutchinson Guest

Softcover. London, Dance Books Ltd., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612305


Price: $38.00 

 

Ladies' Day: An English Version


Aristophanes and Dudley Fitts

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Fitts, clean copy.

Record # 407161


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Last Theatres 1904-1910


Beerbohm, Max

Hardcover. New York, Taplinger, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510588


Price: $9.00 

 

Lazarus Laughed (1925-26) - A Play for an Imaginative Theatre


O'Neill, Eugene

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good , Light wear. Soil to cover.

Record # 303644


Price: $40.00 

 

Le Duel - Piece en Tirois Actes


Lavedan, Henri

Hardcover. NY, Holt, rep., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. notes by Stephen H. Bush. Previous owner's signature front end paper,

Record # 58271


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Lenya the Legend - A Pictorial Autobiography


Farneth, David

Woodstock, Overlook Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, b&w Illustrations, 254 pages.

Record # 75090


Price: $40.00 

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 

 

Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940, The


Fehsenfeld, Martha Dow/Lois More Overbeck

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, Fourth Printing, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 782 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614195


Price: $31.00 

 

Liaison - The Gripping Real Story of the Diplomat Spy and the Chinese Opera Star Whose Affair Inspired M. Butterfly


Wadler, Joyce

NY, Bantam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 321 pages. Review copy with press release & author's photo laid-n.

Record # 62630


Price: $20.00 

 

Life in a Wooden O. A - Memoirs of the Theatre


Payne, Ben Iden

New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages, hardcover with b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with short closed tear.

Record # 602635


Price: $20.00 

 

Light Fantastic - Adventures in the Theatre


Lahr, John

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53934


Price: $18.00 

 

Light Fantastic - Adventures in the Theatre


Lahr, John

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53933


Price: $18.00 

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 

 

Lion in Live, The - A Play


Delaney, Shelagh

Paperback. NY, Grove/Evergreen, 1st US wraps, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Photos from the stage production directed by Clive Barker

Record # 60249


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Little Hut


Roussin, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Dust jacket spine sunfaded with minor chipping along edges. Adapted by Nancy Mitford. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 61048


Price: $12.00 

 

Little Moon of Alban and A Wind From the South


Costington, James

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has a few closed tears.

Record # 205344


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Lizzie Borden - A Dance of Death


de Mille, Agnes

Boston, Atlantic Little Brown , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, De Mille describes the creation of her ballet Fall River Legend based upon the grisly hatchet murders of Borden. B&W photos, 302 pages. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Bright dust jacket with minimal edgewear.

Record # 600289


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act, The


Wilder, Thorton

NY/New Haven, Coward McCann/Yale, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Covers with soil, slight warp, internally VG.

Record # 66399


Price: $23.00 

 

Love for Three Oranges, The: The Glyndebourne Version


Corsaro, Frank, Illust. by: Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Maurice Sendak. Gray illustrated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket. Minor bump to upper front corner, else a very sharp, neat copy.

Record # 809369


Price: $20.00 


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