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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
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
1880List322Philadelphia: Studio of Joachim Gutekunst 1880. Mammoth albumen print on card mount with original gilt lettered mat 12 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches mat measuring 20 x 23 ½ inches. Very Good. Edwin Booth was a highly successful Shakespearean actor considered by some critics to be the greatest actor of his day. His career was complicated considerably by his relation to his brother John Wilkes Booth who Edwin would disown and refuse to mention following the assassination of President Lincoln Edwin rather poetically saved Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln from possible death on a Jersey City train platform several months prior to the assassination pulling him up from between the tracks after he had been knocked off the train by a crowd. Booth had connections to Philadelphia owning a theatre there in the 1860s and this photograph was probably taken sometime after he had resumed his touring career after his Booth Theater in New York City closed in 1974 and judging from his age our best guess is that this was taken in the 1880s. Joachim Gutekunst was a highly prolific and successful photographer who enjoyed a four-decade career in Philadelphia with studios in various locations. We find no other record of this mammoth albumen portrait. A generally bright and well preserved print that has survived admirably with one small closed tear to the photograph of about half an inch. Studio of Joachim Gutekunst unknown books
196227364New York: Living Theatre 1962. First edition. Loose Sheets. Near Fine. Single sheet of illustrated and printed 9 x 11" tall sheet of paper. An advertising announcement for the Living Theatre production of Brecht's Man Is Man play. With background illustration of an elephant and a list of enthusiastic reviews. Poster is not dated but likely is from circa 1962 when this play was re-released first written and performed in 1926. Short closed tear else a near fine example. A scarce piece of Living Theatre ephemera. 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
188911068NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1889. 1st edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. TEG. VG slt cock/lt soiling & wear. 226 pp illustrated with plates & facsimiles sm 8vo. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
193425772Moscow 1934. Children's Amateur Theatre. 8-1/2 x 11 11pp. Typescript copy. In the English Very fragile. unknown 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
185444955San Francisco: Herald Steam Presses 1854. 1st printing presumed ca 1854. Self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; creases where its been folded lower quarter has been excised imperfect copy. Single sheet folded once to make four pages verso blank Unfolded: 18-7/8" x 11-3/4" <br/><br/>A scarce only other known copy at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library playbill from the early days of theatre in San Francisco with numerous reviews of the play from other newspapers. The theatre was at this time leased by Catherine Sinclair the former wife of the famous actor Edwin Forrest. This performance included a young Edwin Booth a favorite friend of Sinclair in the role of "Luis a soldier of fortune". Sinclair had to give up the theatre around 1855 due to financial difficulties but continued to support Booth despite his drinking and gambling problems. The theatre had a short run but played an integral part in the careers of both Booth and Sinclair. Montgomery Street was cut through by Columbus Ave. in 1873 and the theatre closed though a small slice of it remained until the 1906 earthquake. [Herald Steam Presses] unknown books
179621336Paris 1796. 390 x 290 mm. <br/><br/>Some foxing and minor wear. Hall III p. 385 2. <br/><br/>Raucourt a popular and controversial French actress made her debut at the Comédie Française in 1772 as Dido going on to play all the classical tragédienne roles. "Her beauty and talent had made her famous but her not so secret love affairs with other women made her notorious . Raucourt led the Sect of Anadrynes a society of lesbians in Paris . At the outbreak of the Revolution she was imprisoned for six months with other royalist members of the Comédie Française and she did not reappear upon that stage until the close of 1793 and then only for a short time. She deserted with a dozen of the best actors in the company to found a rival colony but a summons from the Directory brought her back in 1797 . Her funeral was the occasion of a riot. The clergy of her parish having refused to receive the body the crowd broke in the church doors and were only restrained from further violence by the arrival of an almoner sent posthaste by Louis XVIII." Wikipedia. unknown books
192626291New York NY: New York Theatre Program Corporation 1926. 32 pages; color cover & endpaper illustrations; black and white illustrated within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps detached; some darkening wear to covers tips chipped a little; contents clean and in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. New York Theatre Program Corporation paperback books
188227636Boston: James R. Osgood & Company 1882. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt & black stamped lettering on front cover & spine. VG slt lean/spine minutely darkened/faint foxing to eps. 10 188 4 pp. Index. Publisher catalogue last 4 pp dated Spring 1882. Illustrated with frontis & 5 inserted plates. 12mo. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood & Company hardcover books
13149New York: Manhattan Theatre No date. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Original show bill for the Halsted Welles production of Murder In The Cathedral by T. S. Eliot. No date indicated but from 1936 according to other sources. A very good copy in thin stapled illustrated wrappers. Nice piece of Eliot and W.P.A. ephemera. <br/><br/> Manhattan Theatre paperback 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
190945604New York: The De Vinne Press 1909. Softcover. Very good/No dust jacket. The De Vinne Press paperback books
198767286Ibadan: Designed and Printed by Wolfuns Nig. Co 1987. Paperback. Good. 62p. Wrapper. 30cm. Corner curled. Minor wrinkling. The periodical also seems to be referred to as Theatre Forum No. 1. <br/><br/> Designed and Printed by Wolfuns (Nig. Co paperback books
187144951Boston 1871. 1st printing presumed ca 1870. Self wrappers. Slight age-toning to paper; a few small tears at edges and one central pin hole that runs through all four pages; overall very good. Single sheet folded once to form four pages. Engraved borderds and illustrations in text. Folded: 10-1/4" x 6-9/16" <br/><br/>A playbill for a production of "No Thoroughfare" at the Boston Theatre with Charles Fechter playing the role of Jules Obenreizer and Carlotta Leclercq in the role of Marquerite. The playbill has many local advertisements and some information about the theatre company in the years 1870 and 1871. Charles Fechter travelled from London to the United States in 1870 and enjoyed a very succesful career in Boston. Critics disaproved of his "Hamlet" also advertised on this playbill but were captivated by his refined style and Continental training Hornblow vol. 2 p. 214. 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
21321Le Kain is depicted in the role of Orosmane in Voltaire's "Zaire." 420 x 282 mm. No place no date but Paris ca. 1775. <br/><br/>Slightly browned and foxed. Proof before text. Hall III p. 32. <br/><br/>Le Kain was a noted French actor who performed with the Comédie Française. unknown books
1925146480N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage double weight photograph of New Haven's Olympia Theatre circa 1925 with the marquee advertising F. Harmon Weight's 1925 film "Drusilla with a Million." <br/><br/>The Olympia Theatre located at 140-144 Temple Street in New Haven Connecticut opened on September 13 1915 seated 2373 and was equipped with a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. It changed its name when purchased by Paramount Studios to the Paramount Theatre circa 1930. The theatre was razed as many of the grand silent area theaters have been following decades of declining ticket sales circa 1970. The current retail/office building on the location is now known as the Olympia Building.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. 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
194522839Various ca. 1945-1960. Oblong string-bound folio album. 13 black paper leaves with 241 black and white snapshot photographs densely mounted both recto and verso. With an additional 130 black and white and 11 color photographs loose. 382 in all. Album leave have some waviness from adhesive. A few prints perished. Loose prints mildly curled worn. Entire contents housed in new archival box. Overall very good. <br/><br/>Large archive centered around an album of resettlement family life and theatre performances within Latvian Displaced Persons Camps in Germany following WWII — majority of views likely of the camp at Augsburg judging from signage and countryside terrains. The unnamed compiler appears to have been active in the Latvian National Theatre before the war and had a vital role in the performances staged within various DP Camps between 1945 and 1950 with at least Esslingen and Augsburg as named locations in notations to performance images. In his 2014 book DPs: EUROPE'S DISPLACED PERSONS: 1945–51 Mark Wyman writes of the desire to maintain national pride and customs in the camps: "Professor Alfreds Straumanis a former actor and director in Latvian DP theatre said that this desire was especially prominent in the extensive network of theatrical companies that spread through the Latvian camps. These had an immediate base to grow on since most the former Latvian National Theatre actors . were in the Meerbeck DP camp; in fact some fifteen of that organization's best professionals where joined by some twenty others who also had professional theater experience in Latvia." 163 Notable images include a series of the family living in a boxcar; many views of camp processing procedure; a ca. 1950 trip aboard the USS General R. L. Howze transport from Europe to The United States; dozens of theatre production photos; ancestral CDV's and pre-war family photos; several sketches depicting life in the camps; as well as theatre images of Latvia. The family appears to have settled in the U.S. Washington state following their 1950 passage and continued to perform in traditional Latvian theater even traveling to Bolivia for performances. Approximately 65 post-war family images are also among the more than 300 scarce primary views of Latvian DP Camp life and traditional Latvian theatre before and after World War II. 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
192541636NY: NY Theatre Program Corp 1925. 8vo pp. 32. Paper wraps. Playbill for production with Chrystal Herne. Staple holding booklet together missing o/w VG. NY Theatre Program Corp unknown books
197320174Detroit: Black & Red 1973. Second edition. Wraps. Near fine. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial card wraps. Near fine. A bit of wear along spine. Shallow creasing to several pages. Printed in several different ink colors throughout. Overall clean bright. 84pp. <br/><br/>A play by Perlman originally printed 1962 by Perlman on the "General Strike for Peace Offset Press" at the Living Theatre New York where the play was performed. Perlman was a noted anarchist author and publisher; this edition from his own Black & Red press. (Black & Red) paperback books
