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193641513NY: Random House 1936. First Edition. Large 8vo pp. 961. Bright green cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A Vg tight copy. Fourteen plays among them Milne's Mr. Pim passes by Molnar's Liliom Shaw's Saint Joan O'Neill's Strange interlude Barry's Hotel Universe. Random House unknown books
1998219699San Francisco: The New Conservatory Theatre Center 1998. 16p 7x8.5 inches program ads cast bios and photos season very good playbill in stapled white wraps. The New Conservatory Theatre Center unknown books
1989165244San Francisco: The Magic Theatre 1989. 8.5x11 inch blue publicity folder containing one 8x10 inch b&w production still and one 5x7 inch still several publicity release sheets a six-page 8.5x11 inch program for the Festival with play description playwright bios photos Magic chronology etc. a two sheet stapled release for the 1989-90 season a copy of Re:Write; the Playwrights Foundation Newsletter for 1989. The Magic Theatre 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
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
197416792New York: The Living Theatre 1974. First Edition. Near fine. 8.5" x 11" approx. printed offset recto only in black and white with photo illustration. Slight toning. Very near fine. <br/><br/>Flyer advertising one of The Living Theatre's most important productions created in response to the imprisonment of some members of the collective by the Medici regime during a tour in Brazil. Originally performed in November of 1973 this flyer dates from a one-day engagement in New Haven the following year part of a nationwide tour of the play. Judith Malina recalled the creation of SEVEN MEDITATIONS: "When we left the jail we asked the prisoners who were left behind 'What can we do for you We are a poor theater group; we cannot send you money what can we do' All of them said 'Tell people how it is.'" The Living Theatre unknown 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
1968138257N.p.: N.p. 1968. Collection of three single weight and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now" performed on July 24 at a Carmelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon France. <br/><br/>Three of the photographs with stamps of the Gamma photo agency or photographers on the verso two with holograph annotations regarding the production on the verso. <br/><br/>The program published by Walter Swennen contains the text of "Let Us Talk about Counterrevolution" from the play in both French and English. <br/><br/>After a dispute with the IRS led to the closing of their New York City theater in 1963 Julian Beck and Judith Malina moved The Living Theatre to Europe where they toured almost exclusively refining the group's vision of improvisational collaborative and participatory leftist theatre. In 1968 they debuted what would become their signature piece "Paradise Now" at the Avignon Festival where at the conclusion of the piece both performers and audience members took to the streets in a combination demonstration and parade that caused controversy among the residents of the town. <br/><br/>Program: 4.25 x 10.5 inches 30 pages saddle stapled in wrappers. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Photographs: Variously sized between 7.75 x 5.75 inches and 12 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown 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
1970201045San Francisco: The Company & The New Committee Theatre 1970. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides thumbnail photos of production reviews on rear very good black print on goldenrod stock. Handbill for the final performances of the Los Angeles Company Theatre touring production which won awards in 1969 and moved to New York after the San Francisco shows. The Company was founded by Gar Campbell and was a highly respected experimental company that shook up LA showcase theatre in the 1960s-1981. The Company & The New Committee Theatre unknown books
1998262132San Francisco: Teatro Shalom 1998. Four-panel program 8.5x11 inches cast and crew about the play bios theatre ads very good on light yellow stock. Teatro Shalom was a multi-ethnic group which included Jewish and Latino members as well as Asian Americans in this production. Teatro Shalom unknown books
62558Buenos Aires n.d. Paperback. Very Good/Good. illustrations some color text unnumbered 82 pages. Original wrapper. 21cm. Chipped yellow glassine jacket present glued down on backstrip. Spanish text. <br/><br/> paperback books
1955130944Milano: G. Ricordi 1955. Softcover. VG. Cream pictorial wraps. pages 359 to 376. 11 black and white portraits 3 reproductions of sketches by Renato Guttuso. In Italian. G. Ricordi unknown books
1939196399Hollywood: The Playgoer/Hollywood Playhouse 1939. Magazine. 32p. includes covers5.75x8.5 inches program for the show ads very good playbill in stapled green printed wraps. This musical comedy review/history of vaudeville was one of the final productions for the Federal Theatre and ran from 10/29/1938 - 5/14/1939 in Hollywood on Las Palms. Halle Flanagan gives the production a long paragraph review on page 291 of her book "Arena The Playgoer/Hollywood Playhouse unknown books
1994214908Berlin: S.N.A.F.U. 1994. 16p. includes covers 5.75x8.5 inches interview with the playwright cast bios ads insert very good playbill/program in stapled b&w pictorial wraps. Program for the world premier of Rebellato's play about Stalin at the English-language theatre established in Berlin by Tina Strobel and Nigel Luhman in 1990. S.N.A.F.U. unknown books
1989195321San Francisco: The Studio at Theatre Rhinoceros 1989. Magazine. 20p. includes covers 5.5x8.5 inches cast crew biographies photos ads insert for understudy very good playbill/program in stapled pictorial wraps. Drag performance of the All-Female version of "The Odd Couple" starring Richard Wellner as "Lilly Street" playing Olive Madison & Steve Miller as "Stephanie" playing Florence Unger. Photos of the actors as themselves and in drag. The Studio at Theatre Rhinoceros unknown books
194751754New Haven CT: Shubert Theatre 1947. 8vo pp. 35. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly soiled and faintly creased o/w a VG tight copy. Shubert Theatre unknown books
1980209325San Francisco: The Magic Theatre 1980. 4-panel playbill 7x8.5 inches cast and crew bios playwright's statement previous owner's abusive criticism in ink otherwise good playbill/program with illustrated cover. The previous owner was not amused! The Magic Theatre 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
D16962Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Red cloth scrapbook binding. An avid consumer of the performing arts account of notable productions through well-preserved and artfully assembled programs and clippings. In the creators own words this scrapbook is a collection of programs of concerts operas plays musical shows but no movies of more than passing interest. These approximately 132 productions concentrated around 1926-1932 are only their favorites. Most of the productions included in this scrapbook were in the Los Angeles metropolitan area with some in New York and many across Europe in Rome Paris Glasgow Vienna London and Brussels. For every production the owner notes who they attended with. Dozens of LA Philharmonic programs under the direction L.E. Behymer were dates with mother as was a one week only Maurice Chevalier concert at the Biltmore. This collection is both a personal account and a history of the performing arts and its most iconic spaces from the Hollywood Bowl to La Scalla. A number of pieces come from Pasadena along with an advertisement for a USC vs. Notre Dame football game. <br/><br/>New York: New Moon Imperial Theatre; Caprice Fords Theatre; Bird in Hand; Sir Harry Lauder; Casino Theatres Ziegfield Production of Show Boat and Hot-Cha! Pasadena: Sympony Under the Stars at the Hollywood Bowl Pasadena Community Playhouse production of A Plain Man and His Wife Los Angeles: Philharmonic L.E. Behymer with mother Rigoletto Il Trovatore Madame Butterfly Faust Aids Samson and Delilah Der Rosenkavalier Tosca; Maurice Chevalier in a program of his french and english songs courtesy of Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky; Private Lives at the Hollywood Playhouse; Graumans Chinese Theatre Biltmore Theatre Chicago: Civic Opera Company Paris: Folies Bergeres Barber of Seville at the Theatre National de lOpera Comique Rome: Teatro alla Scalla Vienna: Operentheater Wien: Margarethe Faust ; The Merry Widow. Statsoper Theater: The Flying Dutchman. Johann Strauss Theater. Brussels: Siegfriend and Lakme at Theatre Royal de la Monnaie London: Wake up and Dream at the London Pavillion By Candle Light at the Criterion Theatre Exiled at Wyndhams theatre Theatre Royal Haymarket Journeys End Prince of Wales Theatre Glasgow: Kings Theatre hardcover books
6387Hardcover. Good. Unusual 1920s -30s SCRAPBOOK devoted to Thelma Carlton an actor and dancer who amongst other things executed one helluva hula. Fourteen black leaves 20 cm x 14 cm tied with ribbon -- a bit chipped along the edges covers absent last page coming loose. Each page is covered recto and verso with newspaper clippings images and ads devoted to Thelma Carlton. Many items are underlined to emphasize the parts specific to Carlton and there is a small photograph of her name in lights over the Club Orlando which leads one to wonder if the scrapbook belonged to a loved one of Carlton's Carlton herself or a really devoted fan. Carlton got her start with a traveling Shakespeare company and within a decade became a star of burlesque and a featured dancer at the Palais Royal in New York as well as other hits both on an off Broadway -- including "Frivolities" 44th Street Theater 1920 Nora Bayes' "Her Family Tree" Schubert Theater 1921 and "Artists and Models" Winter Garden Theater 1925. The reviews collected here invariably remark on her skill versatility and loveliness -- and few can refrain from commenting on her "ravishing" hula and other exotic numbers. While the scrapbook was not created by the tidiest of hands as the crooked cuts and occasional splotches of glue will attest it's a compelling tribute with wonderful images of costumes of the era. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1955WRCLIT69810Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs Inc. 1955. 33 leaves plus lettered insert. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of blue and white stock. Bradbound in mimeographed wrappers. Extensive relevant annotations see below ink name and pencil notes on upper wrapper a few smudges to wrappers; very good. A "final master" of this original television script utilized in the course of the production including textual revisions in manuscript as well as inserted in original typescript. This copy bears the designation for an editor and bears ink annotations characteristic of that function. This segment aired 17 December 1955 and starred DeForest Kelly of STAR TREK fame in his first science fiction appearance. The pioneering SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE ran two seasons from 1955-7 and is notable for its emphasis on scripts based on hard science. George and Gertrude Fass enjoyed extended careers as television writers including contributions to such notable shows as FOREIGN INTRIGUE and SHERLOCK HOLMES. ZIV Television Programs, Inc. unknown books
195310451Cambridge 1953. Paper. Very good. Sanders Theatre. Included Berlioz Bach Kodaly Gilbert & Sullivan and Russian Italian Welsh and Philippine Folk Songs. Closing Number united singing Handel Words by Milton with Old Nassau and Fair Harvard. unknown books
192540135n. p.: San Francisco Entertainment Inc 1925. 1st printing presumed. Brown ink printed on light yellow paper. Faintly worn and creased. Otherwise a VG example. Single sheet folded once. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Published in 1925 the California Theatre's idea of "Pop" Concerts contains pieces like a French waltz "Fiancailles" "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6" by Liszt & "Le Carnaval Romain" by Berlioz. Rear of program contains an advertisement for Sherman Clay & Co. on Kearny & Sutter Streets for Steinway pianos. San Francisco Entertainment, Inc unknown books
1874517Salt Lake City 1874. Printed check 9 cm x 21.5 cm printed in black with blanks to be filled in by hand. Near fine. Check is dated September 21 1874 and payable to the Super Napper. The amount is for $2.00 and is signed by Susan Napper. unknown books
