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197643758Los Angeles: American National Theatre 1976. First Edition. Quarto 28cm.; publisher's silver photo-illustrated card wrappers; unpaginated approx. 250pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear else Very Good or better. Quite a substantial souvenir album devoted to the career of stage and film actor Helen Hayes. American National Theatre unknown books
198526269NY: Theatre Communications Group 1985. First Edition. 8vo pp. 372. Introduction by James Reston Jr. Near fine in price clipped dj. Six plays including Streamers by David Rabe and Bottecelli by Terrence McNally. Theatre Communications Group 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
193826792New York: Theatre School of Dramatic Arts 1938. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; original pink staplebound double self-wrappers printed in brown; unpaged; textblock printed on pink stock interleaved with photographic plates. Fine. Order blank laid in. New York Historical Society only in OCLC as of June 2015. Theatre School of Dramatic Arts unknown books
188222648New York: Sarony 1882. Cabinet card image of French opera tenor Ernesto Nicolini 1834 - 1898 with the photographer's name of Sarony 37 Union Sqr. N.Y. on the mount below the image; about 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" overall size; light wear; in very good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Sarony Paperback books
188222661New York: Mason 1882. Cabinet card image of theatre actress Julia Wilson in her role as "Tot"; with the photographer's name of Mason New York on the mount below the image; about 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" overall size; light wear; in very good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Mason Paperback books
188222653New York: Sarony 1882. Cabinet card image of actor Osmond Tearle 1852 - 1901 with the photographer's name of Sarony 37 Union Sqr. N.Y. on the mount below the image; about 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" overall size; light wear; in very good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Sarony Paperback books
192826306New York NY: The New York Magazine Program 1928. 22 pages; black and white illustrated covers and within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps some darkening wear to covers; contents in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The New York Magazine Program paperback books
18761063Lincoln Ne 1876. About very good. Broadside 24.5 x 10 inches. Old fold lines. Some wear and soiling small loss near top left and lower right edges. Announcing the fourth appearance of the Lincoln Thespians on the evening of June 29 1876 performing Enoch Arden and a vaudeville play entitled The Loan of a Lover. The performance will benefit the library and reading room and feature a much improved acting troupe: "owing to their increased facilities and some valuable additions in the way of excellent amateur talent they will present to the citizens of Lincoln a better entertainment than ever before." Admission is fifty cents reservable at J.H. Harley's Drug Store. The bottom third of the sheet lists the actors for each play with their character roles. A striking broadside and unrecorded in OCLC. A rare and interesting piece of Western Americana. unknown books
195949878New York: Celia Adler Fondeyshon un bukh-komitet Celia Adler Foundation 1959. First Edition. Two octavo volumes 24cm. Blue cloth boards; dustjackets; viii688pp; illus. Old damp-marks to board edges of both volumes causing discoloration to cloth but no structural damage. Text clean tight and unmarked; jackets lightly worn and sun-faded; complete sound and Good. Text entirely in Yiddish save verso of title page which provides both a transcription and an English-language translation of the title and publisher. Exceedingly uncommon autobiography of Celia Adler 1899-1979 daughter of Jacob Adler and half-sister to Stella Adler known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre." Adler was associated with the Yiddish Art Theater movement of the 1920s and gave one of the first theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor in her brother Luther's 1946 Broadway production A Flag is Born. Unaccountably scarce even for an American work written entirely in Yiddish: OCLC notes a single location only in the U.S. Northwestern; five more copies are in European and Israeli institutions. Celia Adler Fondeyshon un bukh-komitet [Celia Adler Foundation] unknown books
196325962New York: Living Theatre 1963. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Single sheet of 8 1/2 x 11" paper. A cast flyer for The Brig by Kenneth H. Brown. A play directed by Judith Malina designed by Julian Beck lit by Nikola Cernovich and assisted by Saul Gottlieb. Simple typed sheet with no adornments. The play's American premiere was presented at the Living Theatre on May 15 1963. A fine copy. Living Theatre 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
181423191London: Printed by E. Macleish 1814. 1 vols. ca.7 x 12 1/2 inches. Some light offsetting and discoloration line of forthcoming productions cropped else a very good copy. 1 vols. ca.7 x 12 1/2 inches. "Cinderella". The cast of the first including Charles Kemble Charles Macready Mr. Abbott Daniel Egerton and Maria Foote later Countess of Harrington. The "Cinderella" case included Mr. Ellar Mr. Barnes Miss Green and Miss J. Scott. "Virginius" had opened for the first time the 17th of May and became an instant success. Forthcoming productions are noted below. Charles Macready is also noted for his friendships with Forster Dickens and Maclise. Printed by E. Macleish unknown books
1828D17374London: Sold at Paris by Baudry 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. 19th century 3/4 leather and boards spine in 6 compartments with leather label lettered in gilt. 908 pp. Engraved frontis. Some light soiling throughout but a decent copy. <br/><br/> Sold at Paris by Baudry hardcover books
195062698Buenos Aires 1950. Paperback. Good. Original wrappers. 29cm. Some cover soiling. Lower right corners curling. Contents of almost all issues browned. Spanish text. <br/><br/> 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
192626294New York NY: New York Theatre Advertising Medium 1926. 24 pages; color cover & endpaper illustrations; black and white illustrated within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps some darkening wear to covers rubbed; previous owner note on page 1 regarding seeing the play; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. New York Theatre Advertising Medium paperback books
2014133502Baltimore MD: Royal Books 2014. First Edition. First Edition. An exhibition catalog accompanying the photography exhibition at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Culture Center from March 7 to May 26 2014. <br/><br/>A deluxe catalog featuring 50 vintage photographs of directors and actors from around the world at work behind the camera including Alfred Hitchcock Nicholas Ray Federico Fellini Michelangelo Antonioni Audrey Hepburn Fred Astaire Orson Welles Robert Wise Jerome Robbins Ben Hecht Peter O'Toole Stanley Kubrick Roman Polanski Arthur Penn Monte Hellman and many others. <br/><br/>9 x 8 inches. Fine in perfect bound wrappers. Royal Books 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
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
179819505Mauritius August 3 1798. Some slight loss from the seals; a little browned and soiled; in very good condition. 3 pages on a folded sheet plus integral address 12.5 x 8 inches approx. 480 words. Scandal and affairs of the heart from the remote outposts of American commerce. The American consul to the French colony in the Indian Ocean here writes back to New York "I have to inform you of having dispatched your Ship Huron Capt. Brown for Newport R. Island she left this Colony on 26 May for Bourbon to complete her chargement & sailed from thence about 15 days after for America ñ I must add the malconduct of your Capt. here has been very injurious to the Voyage by forming a connection with a bad woman who came passenger with him from Bordeaut sic ñ with the greatest difficulty he was made to sail without taking this person with him however the whole Island interfered against it & prevented her leaving the Colony because she was a favourite Actress & much wanted on the Stage however she is placed here at the expence of Capt. Brown who has placed funds in the hands of Mr. Roussell Manssell to be appropriated for her benefit and althoà Mr. Roussell is not ignorant that he has a family near Boston in the town of Marblehead he has become the confident & friend in this vile business. Capt. Brown on his arrival addressed himself to me & after finishing a part of his business because I declined the propositions made me respecting the Woman I explained to him with candour his Faults he after placed his property with Mr. Roussell who has engaged to pay her expences until Capt. B. returns to marry her. . . . This favourite woman in question was bound jointly with the other players in the sum of Ten Thousand dollars that she would tarry three years in the Colony in that Company of course these persons opposed her departure. Capt. Brown in order to effect it in my presence offered to destroy a bill of exchange of Ten Thousand dollars which was the amount of the passage money for the same persons. Since that transaction I have been kept in the dark for having found fault with Capt. BÃs conduct & threatening to put him in prison therefor - he did not choose to consult me thereafter." Lewis a Boston merchant had been appointed consul to Å’le de France by Adams and arrived in February 1798--but owing to the Quasi-War and the interruption of commerce betwen the United States and France arrived back in Boston with his family in June 1799. See the National Archives annotation to the summary memorial of Lewis to Thomas Jefferson March 20 1801. Captain Brown of the Huron is certainly Elias Brown; a notice in the Halifax N.C. Journal of October 15 1798 dated Newport September 15 reports the arrival of Brown and the Huron and news that he had prior to his adventures in love been boarded somewhere east of the Cape by the British frigate Garland on June 28--seven of his seamen were impressed and Brown was detained before escaping under cover of a squall. Brown further reports "that the national soldiers were all sent from the Isle de France but that the reports of it being declared independent are false." The first theatre troupe had been established in Port Louis in 1790 by a M. Laglaine though there was a hiatus after the smallpox epidemic of 1792 and one presumes the colonists were not likely to take kindly to seeing a keystone of their local entertainment whisked away by a Yankee merchant captain. For a glance at theatre in Mauritius and some sense of the upheavals on the island in 1798--though this affair does not seem to merit mention--see the 1840 memoir by Andre Maure Souvenirs d'un vieux colon de Maurice. Samuel Ward 1756-1832 the owner of the merchant brig Huron was a Revolutionary War veteran from a prominent Rhode Island family. Neat contemporary arithmetic problems in contemporary ink on the cover page. August 3, unknown books
195824605Melbourne Australia: F. W. Cheshire 1958. Large 8vo pp. 73 plus advertisements. Illustrated with photographs. paper-covered boards with color illustration. Corners and edges slightly worn o/w a nice copy. Articles on the 1957 theater season with discussions about the future of theater in Australia. Covers dance as well as plays. F. W. Cheshire unknown books
1995181132San Francisco: Artfull Circle Theatre 1995. 11x17 inch handbill/program folded to 8.5x11 inches illustration of Mae West W.C. Fields etc. by M. Grove cast and crew bios song titles history of the theatre upcoming season two fold creases and some wear. The cast list includes Ann Drogynous as Mae West Mark Sargent as W.C. Fields Michael G. Page as Mrs. Mortimer/Margaret Hamilton and Richard Sanchez as Princess Flower Petal/Yma Sumac. Artfull Circle Theatre unknown books
185841641Boston: Hooton Printing Establishment 1858. 1st printing. Buff printed paper. Modest wear to paper some age-toning rubbing/light chipping to edges horizontal crease. Very Good. Single broadsheet printed recto only. 12-1/16" x 5-9/16" <br/><br/> Hooton Printing Establishment unknown books
1963142321London: National Film Theatre 1963. Collection of 29 monthly film programs from the London National Film Theatre dating between 1957 and 1963. <br/><br/>A large collection of programs from the early days of Britain's leading repertory cinema including critical essays synopses and film schedules for varying seasons at the theatre each program generally comprising a period of between one and three months. Also included in the collection are early programs for the London Film Festival which began in 1953. Amongst many others those featured include Luchino Visconti Alfred Hitchcock Michelangelo Antonioni Vincente Minelli Fritz Lang Jacques Tati Jean Renoir Samuel Fuller Federico Fellini Charlie Chaplin and Alexander Dovzhenko. <br/><br/>Still in operation today the National Film Theatre was established in 1951 and was renamed the BFI Southbank when it was absorbed by the British Film Institute in 2007. It is best known for its focus on British and international filmmakers. <br/><br/>Variously sized no greater than 5.75 x 10 inches. All programs in Very Good or better condition. National Film Theatre unknown books
