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2066Prague. Evzen J. Rosendorf. 1926. First and only edition. Paper Wraps. 8vo. Adolf Hoffmeister illustrator. Music by Jaroslav Jezek. 112pp. Pages loose condition is good. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000385No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 14 x 11"" 35 x 28 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. Fred Astaire Adele Astaire Victor Moore Betty Compton. William Kent Gertrude McDonald produced by: Alex A. Aarons Vinton Freedley: Alvin Theatre. A very popular George and Ira Gershwin musical for which many of their top songs were written. Hit songs included ""S'Wonderful"""" Funny Face"" and ""My One and Only."" The show opened the Alvin Theatre and was the first in which Fred Astaire danced in tails at this time with sister Adele. Future movie names included Alfred Newman as musical director and Bobby Connolly on dances. In this image we have the smart looking supporting players Betty Compton William Kent and Gertrude McDonald. Their names are in pencil on the back as are three ink stamps from Culver Pictures. Top right bottom right and left corners are trimmed for publication. Some border wear. Fun image from old Broadway VERY GOOD. unknown books
199218471Germany: Thalia Theatre 1992. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong paperbound quarto. 63 pp. With illustrations by Robert Wilson. A new "take" on the Alice In Wonderland story by Wilson Waits and Schmidt. Clear tape reinforcement to spine else a very good copy in bound wrappers. Laid into this copy are several related promotional pieces of paper plus a small flyer from the Paula Cooper Gallery. Inserts all in fine condition. With an Origal ink drawing on the inside front cover. Drawing is not signed but appears to be an original Robert Wilson sketch. Thalia Theatre paperback books
1950285American Ballet Theatre <i>Metropolitan Opera House October 8 to November 5 S. Hurok Presents Fall Victory Season of Russian Ballet by the Ballet Theatre with Massine Gollner Kaye Laing Chase Hightower Petroff Karnilova Romanoff J. Reed Tudor Kriza Alonso Orloff Robbins Lang R. Reed. Guest Artists: Anton Dolin Riabouchinska Youskevitch Lichine Eglevsky Argentinita Pilar Lopez & Co. and by Special Arrangement Tamara Toumanova. Antal Dorati Musical Director Mois Zlatin Associate Director. </i>A snake-broadside 79 cm x 7 cm announcing the repertory for performances at the Metropolitan Opera from October 8 to November 5 1950. While there is no year published on this broadside George Balanchine's <i>Waltz Academy </i>had its world and New York premieres on October 5 and 11 1944 respectively and <i>Pas de Deux </i>had its premiere on April 9 1946 featuring Alicia Alonzo and Andre Eglevsky. Sunday fell on October 8 and 22 only in 1950 and 1944. This surviving snake-broadside is folded and in pristine condition. Blue ink on cream paper. A rare surviving ephemeral document listing the repertory and legendary dancers of Ballet Theatre in the years immediately following World War II. S. Hurok books
WALTER-FILM000408No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 13 x 10 "" 32 x 26 cm. black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. Joseph Downing Charles L. Duncan Elspeth Eric Huntz Hall Billy Halop Leo Gorcey David Gorcey Bobby Jordan Marjorie Main dir: Sidney Kingsley; Belasco Theatre. So popular was this cautionary tale of misguided youth in New York City's East Side written and directed by Sidney Kingsley produced by Norman Bel Geddes and running for 687 performances between Oct. 1935 and Jun. 1937 that Warner Brothers had the film in production and released within two months of the show's closing. So popular were the kids who played in the show that the studio brought them back to recreate their roles becoming known as ""The Dead End Kids"" in a series of low-budget films. Marjorie Main was brought to Hollywood to recreate her role as the downtrodden mother of gangster ""Babyface"" Martin. Humphrey Bogart would play the film characterization but here is Joseph Downing in the role in a scene with Marjorie Main. The photo is by White Studio NY. Some reinforcement tape informational writing and Culver Pictures stamps on the verso. Light wear at all four corners VERY GOOD. unknown books
196316868New York: The Living Theatre 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8.5" x 11" approx. printed recto only in black. Ink mildly faded with slight toning. Very near fine. <br/><br/>Flyer for a benefit event for Amiri Baraka then Leroi Jones hosted by the experimental theater company The Living Theatre. Consisting of readings concert lectures and other entertainments performers included Frank O'Hara Larry Rivers and Joel Oppenhieimer. Proceeds for the event went to Baraka and his then-wife Hettie Jones who were both ill and unable to work. The Living Theatre hardcover books
24931New York: Living Theatre No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good . Single sheet 11 x 8 1/2". A flyer produced by the Living Theatre to announce a series of events in conjunction with the People Puppet Theater. Not dated. In very good to near fine condition. One of the scarcer flyers from this organization. Living Theatre unknown books
195929257New York: Living Theatre 1959. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Stapled decorated wrappers. 16 unnumbered pp. Program for the 1959 performance at The Living Theatre of Williams' Many Loves. It opened on January 13 1959. Brief essay by Martin Buber. A sparkling fine copy - as nice as we have ever handled. Living Theatre paperback books
186441942Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. Some age toning light crease here & there with the occasional spot or two. Horizontal fold-line. Still a VG example of this fragile item. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/8" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Margaret Julia Mitchell popularly known as Maggie Mitchell was an American actress born in New York. She made her first regular appearance as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she was best liked were Jane Eyre Mignon Little Barefoot and Fanchon the Cricket. Wiki In January 1861 At at De Bar’s St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans Mitchell first appeared in Fanchon the Cricket a new secondhand adaptation by August Waldauer from George Sand’s story “La Petite Fadette.” Her characterization of the sprite of a heroine which included a graceful and entrancing shadow dance was an immediate sensation. Her Southern tour was cut short by the Civil War and Mitchell took Fanchon to Boston and New York where it was equally successful. Fanchon remained her mainstay for 30 years. Audiences never tired of it—her admirers included the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson—and even in her 50s Mitchell retained the winsome elfin appeal that made her so successful. She also early obtained the rights to Fanchon which enabled her to amass a considerable estate. EB. We find one institutional holding of this playbill at the MHS. A rare survivor of this play's northern run. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books
196543948New York: East End Theatre 1965. First edition 4to 2 mimeographed leaves; original printed yellow staplebound upper cover wrapper a few soil spots; about fine. Program for a rock concert featuring Al Fowler Tuli Kupferberg Ed Sanders Peter Stampfel Kenneth Weaver Steve Weber and Jane Holzer. Program accompanied by Sanders's poem "Coca-Cola Douche" and Kupferberg's "Jack Off Blues" <br/><br/> East End Theatre unknown books
D7513primarily England 19th century. Ephemera. Very Good. Letters and images all relating to theater or music in the 19th century. It includes: 23 autograph letters signed from George Smart 1776-1867 English musician Richard Flexmore 1824-1860 English clown Frank Burty Haviland 1886-1971 French Cubist painter Henry James Montague stage name of Henry Mann 1844-1878 American actor born in England Arthur Roberts 1852-1933 English comedian music hall performer Charles Lickford Water 1846-1909 English actor Harry Paulton a playwright 2 letters one on "Savage Club" stationery Michael William Balfe 1808-1870 Irish composer neatly trimmed signature only Sims Reed 10 Pelham Crescent stationery Alfred Morgan and others. Some signatures are rather difficult to read but the Royal Theater stationery Music Progress London stationery and Royal College of Music stationery offer some solace. The Adelphi is amongst the theaters mentioned. All in excellent condition a little wrinkling or flattened creases from folding some very light dust-soiling. SOLD WITH 16 engraved portraits extracted from publications and 2 cabinet cards both of William Terriss. Engravings include: Robert "Romeo" Coates 1772-1848 a famously bad actor Horace Smith 1779-1849 an English poet remembered for competing against Percy Bysshe Shelley in a sonnet contest Richard Farley of the Theatre Royal Garden George Anne Bellamy 1727-1788 an Irish actress and others. Again in excellent condition just a little light chipping along the edges and some faint foxing. <br/><br/> unknown books
196017073New York: The Living Theatre 1960. First edition. Loose Sheets. Near Fine. Single sheet of decorated paper a poster / flyer announcing performance of works by Hansen Higgins Johnson et al performed by The Audio Visual Group at the Living Theatre on Monday August 1 1960. Slight edge wear but a very nice example. Poster measures 8 1/2 x 11" tall. Scarce Living Theatre and avant garde music ephemera. The Living Theatre unknown books
195130481New York: Living Theatre 1951. First edition. Paperback. Good. Stapled pamphlet. 16 pp. Text by Paul Goodman Alfred Kleymborg and Carl Van Vechten. A rare piece of early Living Theatre ephemera. Original program for three plays by Stein Rexroth and Goodman respectively. Illustrated by Robert Galster. Staining to covers a good example. The plays opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre on December 2 1951. Living Theatre paperback books
195123264New York: Living Theatre 1951. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Original program guide for the opening of this play by RExroth put on at The Cherry Theater in New York in December 1951. With essay by Harold Norse a poem by Oscar Williams and an essay by Paul Goodman. 16 pp. A fine example of this very early piece of Living Theatre ephemera. Living Theatre paperback books
1959131276New York: The Living Theatre 1959. Original poster for a night of avant-garde films hosted by the Gryphon Film Group at the Living Theatre on April 27 1959. Filmmakers were present to introduce their works including Stan Brakhage with his landmark short "Desistfilm" 1954. <br/><br/>The Gryphon Film Group was founded by Marie Menken and her husband Willard Maas in the mid-1950s with the help of Charles Boultenhouse and Gregory Markopoulos. It was one of the earliest attempts with Amos and Marcia Vogel's Cinema 16 at setting up a experimental film society in the United States. The group's primary interest was furthering the poetic and lyrical qualities of film often focusing on the perception of corporeality which is reflected in the film's presented both of the human form in "Geography of the Body" Maas 1943 and sculpted object "Visual Variations on Noguchi" Menken 1945. <br/><br/>Poster 8.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. The Living Theatre unknown books
1881290Programme at Aberle's Theatre for the Week Commencing Oct. 17 1881. 13 3/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. Printed by Cameron & Co. New York. Aberle's Theatre stood on East 8th Street between Broadway and Fourth Avenue Astor Place in New York City and was opened on September 8 1879 in a building remodeled from St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church. Jacob Aberle whose name appears at the top of this playbill was the proprietor and manager until 1884 when the theatre reopened as The John Thompson. Known variously as Aberle's Theatre The Grand Central The John Thompson The Monte Cristo Comedy Theatre Kennedy's Comedy Theatre and from December 1890 it became a vaudeville theatre being renamed the Germania Theatre in December 1890 this theatre closed in 1902 and was torn down in 1904 to build the Wanamaker Building. The dramatic feature of this variety program was "The Idiot of the Mountains" featuring Claude Marcel as the idiot. The most famous performer on this program was the aerialist Harry Leslie who made headlines world-wide when he walked a tightrope across the Whirlpool Rapids at Niagara Falls in 1865. In this performance at Aberle's Theatre he walked from the rear of the stage up to the gallery over the heads of those in the audience. Billed here as "the only rival to the great Blondin." The other performers were Aberle's stock-in-trade minstrels. Condition good with slight chipping across the top. Cameron & Co. books
1934WALTER-FILM002156Vintage original 8 x 7" 20 x 18 cm. borderless black-and-white photo France. <br /><br />Josephine Baker rose in a decade in Paris from doing provocative dances to lead roles in the theater as here: a portrait of her in a 1934 revival of the Jacques Offenbach operetta <i>La créole</i> being done at the Theatre Marigny. <br /><br />Photo has a fair amount of rippling VERY GOOD-. Theatre Marigny books
187445063London: E. Rimmel 1874. 1st printing presumed. Bolton BL no. 25. Printed self wrappers. A VG copy some age toning and chips at fore-edge some scattered stains no text is obscured. Single leaf folded vertically to form 4 pp. Elaborate pictorial title-page. Folded: 9-3/8" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>The Gaiety Theatre The Strand London was where Dickens saw his last play in 1869. This production of The Battle of Life was edited for the stage by Charles Dickens Jr. and starred prominent actors John Lawrence Toole 1830-1906 as Ben Britain and Ellen Farren 1848-1904 as Clemency Newcombe. No library holdings found on OCLC: scarce. The play opened on December 26 1873. E. Rimmel unknown books
1937WRCLIT72889New York 1937. Volume one numbers 4 & 5; volume 2 numbers 1-4. Six issues. Quarto. Stapled stiff wrappers. Photographs and illustrations a few in color. Wrappers occasionally dust-tanned or smudged library blind-stamp in lower fore- corner of first wrapper; chiefly very good. Edited by Pierre de Rohan. Originally subtitled the "Monthly News Bulletin Issued for All Workers on Federal Theatre Projects Throughout America by the Bureau of Research and Publication" then finally abbreviated to the "Bulletin of the Federal Theatre Project." An essential record of the Theatre Project under the direction of Hallie Flanagan. Its aspiration to appear monthly was short-lived and a final third volume appeared evidently terminating in May 1938. The last three issues here indicate efforts to achieve distribution to the public through newsstands and bookshops rather than just to individuals associated with the Project. Those issues were distributed according to a note in pictorial covers rather than in the typographic wrappers evidenced here. Don Freeman contributed several frontispieces including color and there are color plates of marionettes and costume designs. The text ranges from summary reports and projections by Flanagan and others to accounts of specific productions and theatre groups in the North East as well as elsewhere. Uncommon essential. unknown books
198043524Omaha & San Francisco: Lovensko 1980-1987. Complete run of 22 issues all very near fine or better. Founded in Omaha Nebraska moved to San Francisco in mid-life. After initially concentrating on the small but active Omaha arts scene the focus of the tabloid rapidly expanded to include articles on overseas arts injustices in South America alternative living and American politics in addition to art record and film reviews. Specific appearances within the covers: interviews with The Waitresses 9 Philip Glass 10 21 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 13 Meredith Monk 13 Jean Tinguely 14 Shonen Knife 16 Survival Research Labs 17 Nina Hagen 18 H.R. Giger 18 Exene Cervenka & Wanda Coleman 18 Yoko Ono 19 Nam Jun Paik 21 Fakir Musafar 22; articles on mail art 3 14 computer hacking 12 ; poems John M. Bennett 3 opal nations 4 a short piece on an Allen Ginsberg performance in Denver with photographs 9 Mike Basinski 12; art by Gary Panter 4; an insert: “Cow Town Art: Bovine Issue #4†by Patrick Beilman 5; and Calypso Machine Gun/Bump Fuzz 7†single on red vinyl laid into issue #9. BEEF TABLOID was distributed free; complete runs are difficult to assemble. For the set: Omaha & San Francisco: Lovensko unknown books
P5666Prague: Otto Girgal 1929-1930. Small quartos 24.5 à 17.5 cm. Original printed wrappers; consecutive pagination 135 6 pp. Occasional illustrations. Small loss to lower right corner of first issue not affecting text; the other issues in fine condition in protective mylar. Complete run of this Czech avant-garde theatre journal which arose as a polemical forum for a less conservative more visually inventive and experimental theatre and was edited by the poetist writer Jaroslav Seifert. As the surrealist poet VÃtÄzslav Nezval writes in his manifesto "The avant-garde stage" from the first issue: "Forget all theatres that don't implement the most furtive needs of your bodies and souls forget them all" p. 9. With theoretical essays and manifestos by F. X. Å alda Jan BartoÅ¡ E. F. Burian ArnoÅ¡t DvoÅák Karel Teige JiÅà Karásek ze Lvovic VÃtÄzslav Nezval; poetry by Halas and Hora; excerpts of plays by Nezval BartoÅ¡ Alfred Jarry and others. Also contains shorter glosses about cultural events related to theatre. With drawings by Toyen Jaroslav Král FrantiÅ¡ek Muzika and Arch. Heythum and appealing understated typographic design throughout to both front and rear wrappers. KVK OCLC show copies at the British Library Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cambridge Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Getty Harvard Herder-Institut and Oxford. unknown books
1960131291New York: Self published 1960. Archive of two pieces from one of the New York Underground's most creative and charismatic orators Spencer Holst. Includes Holst's self-published first book "25 Stories" 1960 and a flyer from a reading shortly after publication at The Living Theatre in New York on February 1 1961. <br/><br/>Holst was already a well-known and gifted speaker by the time "25 Stories" was published with the help of his wife abstract expressionist painter Beate Wheeler. He frequently held audiences with his psychedelic and surrealistic tales and would give performances at Judith Malina and Julian Beck's The Living Theatre selling copies of "25 Stories" at the show. Holst's work continued to fascinate audiences and "25 Stories" was reprinted in 1993 by Station Hill Press as the better part of a career-spanning collection "The Zebra Storyteller."<br/><br/>Book: tall handbound perfect bound wrappers 4.5 x 14 inches. Spine ends chipped cracked front hinge dampstains and soiling overall Good plus and still serviceable surviving copies of this fragile book are scarce in any condition. <br/><br/>Flyer: 8 x 12.5 inches. Very Good plus with one vertical fold and minimal toning along the fold. Self published unknown books
195916795New York: The Living Theatre 1959. Near fine. 8.5" x 11" approx. offset printed recto only in black and red. 6.75" x 13.25" approx. Minor toning to both. Very near fine. <br/><br/>Flyers for Jack Gelber's THE CONNECTION directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck. A hit production of The Living Theatre and one that helped cement its reputation as the premier company for avant-garde theater. The play centered on Jazz musicians and junkies waiting on their dealer was an early realistic portrayal of heroin addiction at the end of a decade beset by drug hysteria. The Living Theatre unknown books
187621656Hoxton London: B. Pollock 1876. Wraps. Very good. <p><br/>Uncut sheets approximately 7 by 8½ inches all hand colored: 8 plates of characters 14 plates of scenes and 4 plates of wings. The plates are complete but the text booklet is not present.<br/><p><br/>The sheets of this toy theater are in near fine condition with only a couple of edges a bit rough. <br/><p><br/>The estimated date of publication varies. 'The Forty Thieves' was issued by many both before and after Pollock's edition. But Benjamin Pollock established his firm in Hoxton in 1876 after marrying the daughter of another publisher John Redington.<br/><p>. B. Pollock paperback books
18891212San Francisco: Theatrical Publishing Co 1889. Very good. Broadside 17 x 6 inches. Previously folded. Small closed tear at top edge. Even tanning. An attractive broadside advertisement for entertainments at a downtown San Francisco theater in 1889. The Wigwam Theater was built in 1884 on the corner of Stockton and Geary Streets as a headquarters and event space for the presidential campaign of the Blaine and Logan Republican ticket. After Blaine lost the election to Grover Cleveland the Republican party leased the brick and sheet iron building to an Austrian immigrant named Gustav Walter who operated it first as a beer hall and then turned it into a venue for variety and vaudeville acts in the late 1880s. The present broadside promotes a slate of acts to be performed on March 11 1889 that range from vaudevillians and sketch comedians to acrobats and prestidigitators. With three lively woodcuts of actors and printed in a variety of types. We locate a portfolio of promotional material for the Wigwam at the Bancroft Library but no other records. Theatrical Publishing Co unknown books