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12929Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed photograph of the American actress singer and sex symbol who is shown with a large flower and has signed in black ink "To Bill best wishes Mae West." Â Slight scratches and creases; otherwise in fine condition. Â 20.3 x 25 cm. unknown books
34772London: Sadler's Wells Theater n. d. Black paper with b/w photographic image and red and white title lettering printed to top portion of poster. Minor wear horizantal crease from folding. Withal a VG copy. Broadside. 20" x 12-1/2" <br/><br/> Sadler's Wells Theater unknown 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
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
1943130877New York: Program Publications 1943. Softcover. VG- edges slightly darkened and 1.5 inch tear along lower spine. Pink and blue stapled wraps with color illustrations. Approx 56 pp. Profuse black and white photos four full-colour half-page reproductions two by Marc Chagall one by Roberto Montenegro one by Julio Castellano. From the "Commuique from S. Hurok": "Ballet in time of war is not merely a form of amusement. In a world threatened with a forced return to the dark ages the ballet spotlights the future and the reward of vistory." Program Publications paperback books
192926305New York NY: The New York Magazine Program 1929. 16 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 back cover bottom corners chipped; contents in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The New York Magazine Program paperback books
193345243Prague 1933. First Edition. 12mo 14.5cm.; publisher's orange cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in darker orange and black; 115pp.; 24 leaves of photomontaged plates illustrated ads throughout. Light shelf wear faint dampstaining along fore-edge of rear cover else Very Good and sound internally fine. Tenth annual yearbook issued by the Prague City Theatre featuring twenty-four photomontaged portraits of cast members the portraits often incorporating elements from the short poems about each member. unknown books
1800WRCAM32859London: Hughes 1800. Broadside 10 x 7 1/4 inches. Mounted onto a later sheet. Minor soiling. Very good. An engaging broadside for a theatre performance centered around a drama called "The Africans." The scenery for the play is taken from the work of the intrepid British explorer Mungo Park and features views of the African coast and interior "Omai's Cave" and warrior huts. The characters include Omai an African Chief evidently confusing him with the famed Omai from the South Seas warriors named Wahedooa Tongataboo Tiaiarboo and Kiahiargo and a Princess named Terapo. The bill promises an evening in which "the retributive hand of Providence will manifest its abhorrence of Vice; and Virtue and Constancy eventually triumphant." A pantomime called "Harlequin Traveller; or a Trip Round the World" would also be performed the whole evening culminating with a grand panoramic view of the Rock of Gibraltar. Hughes unknown books
24709New York: Privately Printed No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Single sheet poster / flyer announcing Living Theatre founders Julian Beck and Judith Malina in an open discussion entitled Revolution as an Alternative Sunday March 10 at The Center 106 Forsythe St. No year provided. Flyer measures just under 8 1/2 x 11" tall. A clean near fine example. Flyer is illustrated in photo-collage artist not stated. Privately Printed unknown books
19717962Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1971. 1st edition. NF/VG pc. 811 pp including index 8vo. <br/><br/> Southern Illinois University Press 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
196325739New York: Living Theatre 1963. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Folded sheets. 8 pp. Program for the 1963 Living Thetre production of Kenneth H. Brown's The Brig directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck with lighting by Nokola Cernovich. Folded sheets laid into a folded illustrated cover. Fine condition. Living Theatre unknown books
196125085New York: Judson Poet's Theatre 1961. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Single yellow sheet pf paper folded once to four a four-panel booklet. A program for these two one-act plays put on by The Judson Poets' Theater on November 18 19 and 20 1961. Some of the actors in these plays included well-known poets such as Paul Blackburn and Jackson Mac Low as well as Howard Hart Al Carmines Florence Tarlow and Gil Henderson among others. Mild handling wear. A very good example. Uncommon Judson Memorial Church ephemera. Judson Poet's Theatre unknown books
24729No binding. Very Good. 24 pp. illustrated wrappers. Ca. 196 x 134 mm. Dated New York March 13 1922.<br/><br/>Featuring Edgar Stehli Ernest Cossart Frank Reicher Helen Westley Martha Bryan Allen Edwin R. Wolfe Richard Bennett and other prominent actors. <br/><br/>Moderate foxing browning and wear especially to wrappers. unknown books
1920List330New York: Arnold Genthe 1920. Silver gelatin print 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches on larger mount. Signed by Genthe on the mount inscribed by Marlowe as Marlowe Sothern on the mount as follows: "To Jean: our little comrade on our walks in Beautiful Stockbridge. In remembrance also of 'Sun Yat Sen' and Choo-Chio Chow. September. 1940. Julia Marlowe Sothern. Very Good. An uncommon image of the actress feminist and suffrage advocate Julia Marlowe who adopted the name - though never legally - Julia Marlowe Sothern after working with the Shakespearean actor E.H. Sothern. Ill health led Marlowe to retire from the stage in 1924 and she was seldom seen in public. This photograph inscribed later in her life is an uncommon relic from her reclusive later years. We can find no record of a Jean or the names mentioned. <br /> <br /> Arnold Genthe who famously photographed the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 from the site of his destroyed studio moved to New York in 1911 where he became a portrait photographer. He most likely took this picture in his stint on the east coast. We find no other record of this specific portrait of Marlowe. Some silvering at margins otherwise excellent with some light normal tanning to mount. Arnold Genthe unknown books
187621657Hoxton London: B. Pollock 1876. Wraps. Very good. <p><br/>Uncut sheets boiund with string approximately 7 by 8½ inches all hand colored: 6 plates of characters 7 scenes and 3 plates of wings. One character removed from Plate 6. Accompanied by another copy incomplete: Character plates 1-4 scene plates 1-5. Lacking the text book.<br/><p><br/>The sheets of this toy theater are in remarkably fresh condition with only a couple of edges a bit rough and with remnants of the binding string. <br/><p><br/>The estimated date of publication varies. But Benjamin Pollock established his firm in Hoxton in 1876 after marrying the daughter of another publisher John Redington.<br/><p><br/>Speaight Toy Theatre 1969 p. 213.<br/><p>. B. Pollock paperback 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
