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195133954New York: The Living Theatre 1951. Near Fine. New York: The Living Theatre 1951. First Edition. Octavo. 16pp. Printed wraps. Mild rubbing to edges; Near Fine. Program guide for the opening of this Rexroth play put on at the Cherry Theater in New York in December 1951. Scarce and a nice example of early Living Theatre material. The Living Theatre unknown
195940873New York: The Living Theatre 1959. Near fine. Two original 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. 11'' x 8.5'' and 13.25'' x 6.75''. Offset printed recto only in black and red. Minor toning to both. The Living Theatre unknown
19634938Winnipeg Manitoba: The Ukrainian Theatre of Winnipeg 1963. First Edition First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 20. 4to. Illustrated stapled card covers. Black and white featurettes of the performers many advertisements by local merchants. No detectable flaws contents clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; very good to near fine. Scarce. <br/><br/>Program book for the inaugural performance by The Ukrainian Theatre of Winnipeg. The Ukrainian Theatre of Winnipeg paperback
19634945Winnipeg Manitoba: The Ukrainian Theatre of Winnipeg N.D. Circa 1963. First Edition First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 20. 4to. measuring 8.5" x 11". Brightly illustrated twice-stapled card covers. Black and white featurettes of the performers many advertisements by local merchants. No detectable flaws contents clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; very good to near fine. Scarce. <br/><br/>Program book for a dramatic performance by The Ukrainian Theatre of Winnipeg. The Ukrainian Theatre of Winnipeg paperback
181962578Los Angeles CA: Richard H. Sloan The Literary Theater ca. 1918-1923. Oblong 4to. 11.25 x 7.25 in. 62 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 94 original silver gelatin mounted photographs sized from 3 x 4.5 in up to 7 x 9.5 in. 1 photo laid-in 2 blue colour-tinted nearly all w/ neat white ink cursive manuscript lettering and 1 small newspaper clipping tipped-in. Flexible black ribbed cloth post-binder punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ black braid manufacturer’s label for “Hanson†out of Chicago IL on rear pastedown minor bumping to couple corners edgewear couple scuff marks still VG exemplar. A nicely self-curated photo album visually tracing the acting and design aspirations of a young California actor and bookstore salesman from just after World War I into the Roaring 20’s. The album opens with a striking series of photographs depicting the many different costumes worn and designed by young Sloan for Literary Theater productions in Los Angeles CA including “The Wandering Jew;†as a Chinese artist & potter in “Busted Blossoms†captioned “with apologies to D.W. Griffith†-- adapted from the Griffith’s 1919 extravagant melodrama starring Lilian Gish & Richard Barthelmess as Cheng Huan the Chinese potter; The Melon Thief as a Greek immigrant jst landed on Ellis Island; his poster and costumes for “Her Husband’s Wife†Lars in Ibsen’s “When we dead awaken†as well as roles of Wilhelm II Hamlet a pirate and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. He worked as the stage manager for the Literary Theater and also was set designer and prop builder including backdrops and dioramas. The second half of the album is almost entirely devoted to his window displays and bookstore book release displays many featuring dioramas and miniature stage dioramas for various themes. These include stained glass window backdrops for the elaborate Book Window and Stationery Window for Easter 1921 the 1920 book release of Angela Ashford’s stories “Daisy Ashford†including stories dictated by the young precocious 8-year-old; an architectural window in April 1921 featuring iconic Southern California Arts & Crafts architectural titles such as “California Gardens†and Wilson’s “California Bungalows.†Also included are the elaborate diorama featuring thatched palm-tree hut and display additions for Fredrich O’Brien’s “Mystic Isles of the South Seas;†Elk’s Lodge stationery & books in purple & white Humpty Dumpty & House that Jack Built in celebration of the 1921 Children’s book Week E. Philip Oppenheim’s Great Prince Shan filled with Asian iconography; as well as elaborate display for multiple illustrated editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam including photo of actors in costume for theatrical production and stacks of copies of Zane Grey’s Wanderer of the Wasteland released January 1923. Fowler Brothers bookstore was at one time the oldest family-owned bookstore in Los Angeles operating from 1888 to 1994 and finally closed due to pressures from large chain stores and subway construction in the 1990’s. Originally founded as a religious and Sunday School supply house it eventually survived six different downtown locations and was originally founded by brothers J.W. Fowler and Robert A. Fowler of South Pasadena. Siegfried Lindstrom grandson of J.W. Fowler was still running the shop when it closed. Sloan 1899-1993 would leave Los Angeles before 1930 and moved to San Francisco where he became longtime window dresser and display artist for the iconic Nathan Dohrmann Department Store noted for their stock of china glassware lamps and art goods. Richard H. Sloan, The Literary Theater, hardcover
195663782Hollywood & London: Max Factor Make-Up Studio 1956. Nine vols. Tall 8vo. 104 pp each booklet paginated separately. Text illustrations & photos throughout diagrams tables. Colour-illustrated softcovers slight shelfwear very slight creasing to couple corners rust to staples at gutter margin still a VG set. 21st edition of this scarce and complete make-up course designed by the visionary make-up artist wig maker and inventor. Factor 1872-1938 was the former official cosmetics expert for the Russian Royal Family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera who emigrated in 1904 eventually settling in Los Angeles where he created the signature looks of Ava Gardner Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. He went onto found a cosmetics empire on the philosophy that any woman could be glamorous given the right tools and make-up artistry skills developing such products for women as the tru-colour lipstick lip gloss and the concept of colour harmony for make-up. These booklets were intended for use with the wide range of screen and stage make-ups the Max Factor Co. offered for sale out of their Los Angeles-based warehouses including grease paint foundations pan-cake make-ups face powders rouges lipsticks eyebrow pencils tooth enamel hair dyes and much more with an emphasis on Shakespearean plays comprising the final 3 volumes. Max Factor Make-Up Studio, paperback
198860231Portland OR: Storefront Theatre 1988. 4to. 4 pp unpaginated. colour-illustrated brochure. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers artistic die-cut diagonal across front cover revealing leaf below mailing fold crease as issued minor shelfwear NF copy w/ original mailing label on verso. Very scarce original promotional ticket-holder brochure for the counterculture theatre group considered to be one of the most original challenging and visually stunning live theatre productions in Portland from 1970 to their close in 1990. In 1990 Oregonian theater critic Bob Hicks wrote “Alternative. For 20 bumpy years that’s what Storefront’s tried to be. The road less traveled. The company most likely to astound infuriate enchant you. The take-off-your-clothes thumb-your-nose company teetering on the edge of self indulgence. . . the child of a tribal love-rock fling.†Storefront Theatre, paperback
189655632San Francisco CA: Girls’ High School 1896. 8vo. 2 15 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations illust. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art showing a devil dancing with girl in white and rear cover featuring beautifully rendered Victorian woman in red & black dress polk-a-dot umbrella reminiscent of Denslow signed E. Pitchford slight shelfwear NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce theatre program for a satirical production about a California girl’s struggle to learn French featuring the delightful illustrations of fellow Girls’ High School students Emily H. Pitchford Hussey 1878-1956 whose artwork is reminiscent of W.W. Denslow and Ethel Frances Hanks 1878-1952. This wonderful 19th-century program also features ads vor City of Paris Dry Goods at G. Verdier & Co. Moss Gloves on Market and Newman & Levinson bathing suits for women on 209 Sutter St. Girls High School was founded in 1864 and by 1896 was located in a four-story red brick building at Geary O’Farrel & Scott nearly leveled in 1906 Fire & Earthquake. No copies located in Worldcat. Girls’ High School, paperback
192344523New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1923. 8vo. xix 1 167 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Quarter red over green cloth printed paper labels on frnt cvr & spine slght shlfwr w/ d.j. cover art photos of Lillian Nordica mnr chppng hd & ft of spine edgewear still a VG/VG- copy from the library of the opera singer Marion Talley. First edition of this posthumously published book of advice on how to develop a career as an opera singer and the numerous letters reflecting Madame Nordica’s career. Nordica 1857-1914 was one of the foremost sopranos at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. She died on her final tour of pneumonia in Jakarta Indonesia. Marion Talley 1906-1983 was discovered in Kansas City Missouri and at age 19 became the youngest principal female performer in the Met’s history to that point she also starred in some films but was not photogenic and her career declined after the 1920s. E.P. Dutton & Co., hardcover
189952060New York: David Belasco; Harlem Opera House 1899; 1901. Two pieces. 1st. Oblong folio. 16 pp unpaginated photo illustrations throughout red illustrated softcovers Arts & Crafts cover art and lettering in dark red yapp edges minor dustsoiling minor edgewear; 2nd -- 4to. 4 pp unpaginated. Illustrated ads printed on light pink-coloured paper minor dustsoiling couple minor closed tears edgewear still VG set. First editions thus of these scarce theatre programmes detailing the life and successful rising career of the actress often called “The American Sarah Bernhardt†who appeared in wildly successful The Heart of Maryland in 1898 the long running Zaza beginning in 1898 and later Madame du Barry afterwards. She was the Progressive Era’s great dramatic actress and would later star in silent films and vaudeville as well. Her film biography appeared in 1940 as the Warner Bros. film Lady with the Red Hair starring Miriam Hopkins Claude Rains Richard Ainley and others. David Belasco; Harlem Opera House], paperback
193457186Philadelphia PA: Amelia Grain 819 Spring Garden St. Graf & Breuninger Print 1631-33 Germantown Ave. 1934. Three pieces. 1st -- 8vo. 72 pp. w/ 100s of photo text illustrations. Printe & illustrated softcovers in red minor shelfwear former School Library ownership markings lightly stamped at upper fore-edge; 2nd -- 8vo. 4 pp unpaginated. self-printed colour-illustrated softcover w/ cover art of Oriental motif stage in colour; 3rd -- 1 printed leaf w/ center fold. First editions of both the catalogue and brochure touting the tremendous inventory that this scenery rental firm maintained over decades. Scenery could only be rented a week at a time producers needed to deposit the value of the scenery with their local bank and this “Trunk Scenery†was used by religious fraternal educational dramatic and business productions. The well-illustrated Opera setting catalogue encompasses settings and scenery for Grand Opera Mozart Rossini Wagner Puccini Tchaikovsky Verdi etc. Victor Herbert’s Operas De Koven Operas Shakespearean Plays Gilbert & Sullivan and others. Grain 1846-1937 Irish-American owned and operated the Spring Garden Entertainment Bureau in Philadelphia PA for decades often advertising that they were America’s Scenery Rental Service with over 4000 stage settings. They continued to operate as Amelia Grain Scenic Studios until after World War II. Howard Bibliography of Theatre Technology Scenery 5241. Amelia Grain, 819 Spring Garden St., Graf & Breuninger Print, 1631-33, Germantown Ave., paperback
171962577Erie PA: Erie Litho & Printing Co. March 17 1923. Large double atlas folio dual-sided broadside printed on newsprint sized 9.25 x 42 in. photo & woodcut engraving illustrations recto & verso toning to paper some chipping & edgewear paper repairs to closed tears still a G- copy. First edition thus of this advertising broadside for Erickson’s “J.W. Johnson’s Old Reliable Virginia Minstrels World’s best colored show. . . “ which touts their supposed 15 year history and appear to have either been reformed from the “Alabama Minstrels†show which played throughout the West and Midwest from 1905-1914 or simply taken over some of their acts. The contortionist fire king Hi Henry Hunt who appears in this broadside regularly performed with the “Alabama Minstrels†from 1905-1913. The silver voiced tenor A.J. McFarland and Grace Arniot Royal Entertainer depicted on the broadside also appear to have been African-American rather than black face performers. The name appears to have been drawn from the 19th-Century original “Virginia Minstrels†or the “Melodious Ethiopian Band†which featured Billy Whitlokc Dick Pelham Frank Brower and Dan Emmett performing in New York’s Bowery Amphitheater in 1843 and launched the minstrelsy form of entertainment. Emmett is perhaps best remembered as the author of “Dixie†which ironically would become the Confederate States unofficial anthem. Assorted versions dating 1920-1924 with different content & sizing appear in 6 libraries Harvard DLC 3 versions Middle Tenn. State Lib. of VA; See: Dr. Karl Koenig The History & Music of the Minstrels Rue Basin Source for Historical Jazz 2024. Erie Litho & Printing Co., unknown
194958513Kansas City MO: Empire Producing Co. 1949. Two parts. 1st - 4to. 18 leaves unnumbered. printed in red & black. With photo and text illustrations throughout. Simulated wood softcovers red lettering & illustration on front cover red plastic comb binding as issued minor wear rubbing some scuffing to fore-edges still VG- copy; 2nd - 4to. 8 leaves typescript 5 on onion-skin paper - 3 on ruled paper typed in red & black rust marks to upper corner minor creasing still VG. First edition of this very scarce sales promotional catalogue for the Empire Producing Co. which partnered with Rotary Clubs Fire Departments Public Schools and many other non-profit organizations from California to Texas up to Chicago for fundraising theatre productions. Pitched as a way to motivate organization membership advertise to the community and helping solve the “juvenile delinquency problems in every town by giving the youngsters something to do†Empire organized community entertainment such as Uncle Ezry’s Hayloft Jamboree. They fielded reps in every territory provided sets scripts entertainers directors seed money and advertising and would use the local talent to augment post-World War II America’s enthusiasm for country music. They typically targeted smaller towns and supposedly were generating from $ 500.00-$ 1400.00 per production in 1949. The typescript sheets by Mr. Cole show that although his quotas for the July 1945-1946 year were $ 500000 he only succeeded in contracting 61 shows in Texas Southern and Midwest towns which actually generated about $ 175000 of which Empire would have received half. No copies in Worldcat. Empire Producing Co., paperback
68-4303Paris France: Theatre du Palais Royal. ca. 1946. 9 x 14 cm. B&W glossy photograph. Very Good.Provenance Paul Paulet French actor from the 1930s-1970s [Paris, France: Theatre du Palais Royal., ca. 1946?] unknown
185524813Paris: Martinet 1855. 192 x 128 mm. Printed on wove paper. Signed in the plate with the initials "A.L."<br /> <br /> Slightly foxed. Published as plate no. 651 in the series entitled "Galerie Dramatique." <br /> <br /> Performed at the Théatre de L'Ambigu Comique. Martinet unknown
112696London I. K. Green 34 Lambeth Square sold by Moss Hyams 1830. Hand coloured engraved plate. 249x200 mm. Mounted in passepartout. Probably a part of a serie of theatre plates this is numbered 40. Full length portrait of the actor E. F. Saville as Jack Sheppard in the adaptation of Harrison Ainsworth's novel by J. T. Haines; striking a stance with legs apart facing 3/4 to the left and firing a pistol. Jack Sheppard 1702-24 was an 18th-century English thief who managed four spectacular escapes from London prisons before he was hanged in 1824. He became a favourite figure in verse popular plays romances and burlesques.John Kilby Green was a publisher of theatrical prints sold through agents not from his own address often with imprint 'I K Green and he spent the most of this time in the Toy theatre “Juvenile Drama†industry. unknown
1825AQ33560London: s.n. 1825. Single leaf broadside. Two small marginal holes to left hand edge. An early playbill marking the ninth performance of Irish dramatist James Sheridan Knowles' 1784-1862 adaptation of Schiller's famous revolutionary Swiss drama William Tell. First staged at Drury Lane on the 11th May Knowles' translation was criticised by Thomas Rea for its excessive melodrama making the hero 'so loquacious as to seem almost a braggart.' Despite this the performance of William Macready in the title role was much applauded and Thomas Archer was suitably despicable as the villainous character of Gesler. The first adaptation of William Tell performed in England was staged at the Royal Amphitheatre on 7th June 1802 with Knowles' version being the second produced in 1825; the first - and a more critically acclaimed - full English translation had been produced by Samuel Robinson only months prior. The subsequent evening entertainment is advertised as the sixtieth showing of Der Freischütz the Romantic opera by Carl Maria von Weber 1786-1826. . Dimensions 204 x 350 mm. [s.n.] unknown
AQ14946London: J. Tabby Printer s.d. c.1830 Single leaf broadside. Central vertical fold. Creased some slight chipping to edges. A rare survival of a double playbill for the Theatre Royal Drury Lane advertising the Christmas pantomime performances of Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice and most notably a diorama representing Windsor and surroundings featuring a 'Hydraulic Apparatus.capable of discharging thirty-nine tons of water!' to simulate the falls at Virginia Water. OCLC records a single copy Alberta; COPAC adds no further. . Dimensions 430 x 340 mm. J. Tabby, Printer, [s.d., c.1830] unknown
1858AQ25652London: Printed by J. W. Peel 1858. Single leaf broadside. numerous old horizontal and vertical folds. A trifle creased and browned. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane of William Leman Rede's 1803-1847 two-act farce His First Champagne and Edward L. Blanchard's 1820-1889 comic pantomime Little Jack Horner or Harlequin A. B. C. and the Enchanted Regions of Nursery Rhymes! The bill rather verbosely described the pantomime as 'Allegorical Beautiful Comical Diverting Educational Fanciful Gorgeous Hyperbolical Intellectual Jovial Keen Laughable Merry Novel Original Peculiar Quizzical Romantic Splendid Transcendent Unobjectionable Volatile Waggish Extravagant Youthful and Zigzaggy'. In the pantomime an entreaty to literacy and knowledge Intelligence sends Proverb to help Jack Horner with his studies Jack fends off Ignorance with the Sword of Perseverance and sent to a 'Fairy Aquarium' with a coral palace to see what can be achieved by Imagination. The spectacular visual scenery provided by William Beverley in particular the 'Fairy Aquarium' was universally praised; indeed even the The Times who dismissed Blanchard's efforts stating that 'People do not expect to be edified and instructed at a pantomime' were effusive in their praise: 'As its wonders gradually revealed themselves and the circumambient air no less than terra firma became peopled with floating nymphs and soaring fairies the applause was vociferous and continuous and a summons first for Mr E. T. Smith the manager and next for Mr Beverley the artist presented the climax of excitement'. . Dimensions 500 x 510 mm. Printed by J. W. Peel unknown
1802AQ29612London: P. Boyle 1802. Single card ticket printed on one side only and signed and numbered in manuscript. A ticket granting admission to the gallery of the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a performance of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Apparently unrecorded unsurprisingly given the ephemeral and eminently disposable nature of the item. . Dimensions 90 x 60 mm. [P. Boyle] unknown
1826AQ33563London: s.n. 1826. Single leaf broadside. Slight chipping to edges small loss to lower left-hand edge. An early playbill for the 1826 run of Isaac Pocock's 1782-1835 operatic drama Rob Roy MacGregor first performed in Covent Garden on the 12th March 1818. Based on the Scottish folk hero of the same name and adapted from Sir Walter Scott's 1818 Waverley Novel Rob Roy the title role would be played by acclaimed English stage actor William Charles Macready 1793-1873. Pocock would go on to adapt further Waverley novels for the stage although less successfully including Montrose or the Children of the Mist 1822 and Woodstock 1826. . Dimensions 210 x 328 mm. [s.n.] unknown
1828AQ33562London: s.n. 1828. Single leaf broadside. Some loss to left-hand edge and small tear to upper right-hand corner. A playbill advertising the night's performance of Exchange no Robbery or The Diamond Ring a Comedy by known practical joker Theodore Hook 1788-1841. Most famous for the Berners Street Hoax of 1809 during which he invited countless men and women of note to a single house in Tottenham to win a bet with a friend Hook is considered to be the first recipient of a postcard - likely mailed to himself. The evening's additional entertainment consists of a new Operetta titled 'Love in Wrinkles or the Russian Strategem' and the ninth performance of Charles the XII or The Siege of Stralsund a two-act historical drama by James Robinson Planché 1796-1880 based on the life of said King of Sweden. . Dimensions 199 x 335 mm. [s.n.] unknown
1848AQ21387Leeds: T. W. Green & Co. 1848. Single leaf broadside. Vertical central fold damp-stained to head creased two short tears touching text at head - without loss. A double playbill advertising a staging at the Theatre Royal Leeds of Edward Stirling's 1807-1894 three-act drama Raby Rattler purportedly adapted from a story by poet and journalist Eliza Cook 1812-1889 though we can find no such publication attributed to her; indeed the only candidate title that we have been able to locate is Thomas Hall's fl. 1845-1864 'Effects' and adventures of Raby Rattler 1845. . Dimensions 380 x 320 mm. T. W. Green & Co. unknown
1829AQ22323London: Printed by W. Reynolds 1829. Single leaf broadside edges uncut. A trifle creased and browned. An apparently unrecorded late Georgian playbill advertising an evening's entertainment at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden on 2nd February 1829 including a performance of the juvenile comic pantomime 'Harlequin and Little Red Riding Hood; or the Wizard and the Wolf' starring Joseph Grimaldi 1778-1837 as Granny Rose; but perhaps more remarkably featuring a moving Panorama depicting the progress of Russian forces enroute to the Turkish capital presumably during the then ongoing Russo-Turkish War 1828- 1829. Though apparently unrelated to any of the performances staged on 2nd February this elaborate panorama was produced by the Scottish artist and noted scene painter David Roberts 1796-1864 and clearly a significant enough draw to London audiences to be noted in the billing. . Dimensions 220 x 350 mm. Printed by W. Reynolds unknown
1833AQ25373London: Printed by W. Reynolds 1833. Single leaf broadside two edges uncut. A trifle creased and browned early manuscript note 'turn over' / 'postponed' to head. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising the debut performance at the Olympic Theatre London of The Bridal Promise an adaptation by John Oxenford 1812-1877 of French composer Ferdinand Herold's 1791-1833 opera comique Zampa ou La fiancée de marbre 1831. As the manuscript note attests the performance was postponed an extant contemporary broadside suggests until June 10th. . Dimensions 200 x 350 mm. Printed by W. Reynolds unknown
