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0259168653.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1794373435Boston: Printed for John West 1794. 62pp. 12mo. Disbound. Foxing a few edge tears to title staining to final few leaves small hole with minor loss to final leaf. 62pp. 12mo. Theater had been banned in Boston since the times of Increase Mather at the end of the 17th century. But in 1792 a group of Bostonians petitioned the legislature to repeal the Puritanical laws prohibiting theatrical performances and illegally established a theater in Board Alley. When Governor John Hancock sent his sheriff to shut down a performance a riot ensued. The following year an even bigger theater designed by an American architect and supported by John Quincy Adams and other notables was built at the corner of Federal and Franklin Streets. Known as the Federal Street Theatre or Boston Theatre the building opened at the beginning of February 1794 with a performance of Henry Brooke's Gustavus Vasa.<br /> <br /> Widespread publication of the plays did occur until after the Revolution when a rising middle and upper class demanded the cultural improvement of the young nation. "The market in America for published plays was determined by the theatre. It was the playgoer who bought plays and he bought the text of the play he had just seen or the one he was about to see performed on the stage. The absence of sustained theatrical activity-in fact the failure of the theatre to establish itself-in the English colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century suggests why no editions of plays were published in America during that time" Stoddard.<br /> <br /> In December 1793 with the opening of the Federal Street Theatre imminent Boston publishers David and John West proposed the publication of a selection of plays. "West proposed 'to obtain from the manager of the new theatre such plays of merit as will be performed in Boston the ensuing winter and it will be his aim to have them ready for delivery as near the time of performance as possible . They shall be printed weekly . The price to subscribers stitched in blue paper will be twenty cents each play' . West's ambition exceeded his capabilities but between January 4 and April 30 1794 he published thirteen numbers i.e. plays'" Stoddard. This of course included the first play at the Boston Theatre: Gustavus Vasa.<br /> <br /> The work was issued separately although also published within West's nonce volume A Selection of the Most Esteemed Plays Performed at the Theatre in Boston. Scarce. Evans 26704; ESTC W12546. Alden John Eliot. "A Season in Federal Street". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society vol. 65 no. 1 1955. Stoddard Roger. "Notes on American Play Publishing 1765-1865." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society vol. 81 no. 1 1971 Printed for John West unknown
24584Material all dating from 1950. ‘Everybody’s’ magazine 114 Fleet Street London. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry and that of Brooke in the Oxford DNB. The five items are in good condition lightly aged and worn. ONE: Carbon of Typed Article titled ‘London Was Unlucky to Him / The Story of Gustavus Brooke The Tragic Tragedian’. 11pp 4to on eleven leaves. Begins: There is nothing so ephemeral as the art of the actor. Very very few of the names live on. Yet there are some who in their day were of the first magnitude and are now forgotten save for the delving historian. That is a pity for many of them deserve a niche in Fame and such a one was Gustavus Vaughan Brooke the Tragic Tragedian. His life was one long exciting adventure of triumph and disaster. . He was one of the great ones of the early nineteenth century. His life ad his career resembled that of Edmund Kean.’ TWO: Carbon of apparently earlier draft of article. 11pp 4to. No changes to text are apparent but the layout is different. THREE: Another carbon of Item Two. FOUR: Carbon of TL from MP to the editor of ‘Everybody’s’ Greville Poke also see his entry in the Oxford DNB. 13 July 1950. He is sending ‘the story of Gustavus Brooke. I know it is a little long but believe me it is a great story.’ He has ‘plenty of illustrations’. Elsewhere he writes that he is ‘rather sorry’ Poke did not like his ‘suggestion concerning the musical comedy situation because this turned out to be what I think is one of the best articles I have ever written. I sold it elsewhere at once’. FIVE: TNS written on behalf of the editor of ‘Everybody’s’ magazine Greville Poke also see his entry in the Oxford DNB on the magazine’s letterhead 14 July 1950. 1p 4to. Signed ‘for Greville / WS’. Reads: ‘My dear Popie / Thanks for sending along the manuscript of GUSTAVUS BROOKE. I shall be getting into this in the near future I hope.’ Material all dating from 1950. [‘Everybody’s’, magazine, 114 Fleet Street, London.] unknown
1923203932Stockholm : Gunnar Tisells tekniska forlag 1923. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy bound in contemporary floral boards. Gilt-blocked leather label on spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 87 pages; Description: 87p. plates ports. ; 24cm. Subjects: Gustaf III -- Opera -- Royal Theatre -- Sweden. Stockholm : Gunnar Tisells tekniska forlag hardcover
1919H10441Chocen: Cenek J. Mojzís 1919. First printing. Good. 8vo wraps 79 pp good plus copy with light wear to wraps some edge wear and loss to rear wrap. In Czech. Worldcat locates 2 copies: Harvard and the Czech National Library. Cenek J. Mojzís unknown
24557Gordon’s letter to Macqueen-Pope is dated 28 December 1950; on letterhead of ‘Everybody’s’ 114 Fleet Street London EC4. Macqueen-Pope’s article without date or place but contemporaneous. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The subject of MP’s article is the press agent and publicist Guido Orlando who came to the United States from Italy with his family in 1917. MP may have come into contact with Orlando in his own position as press agent for Drury Lane and other theatres. He was most active in Hollywood from the 1930s to 1960s. His papers are in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library. He also has an uncredited part in Godard’s 1960 ‘Nouvelle Vague’ classic ‘À bout de souffle’ ‘Breathless’. ONE: Sidney Gordon to MP. TLS 28 December 1950. 1p 8vo. In good condition lightly aged and creased with slight rust spotting from paperclip. As the editor Greville Poke is away from the office he has ‘read the article carefully and I really do not think that he would consider it is suitable for Everybody’s. As you may have noticed it alludes to various scandals incidentally the latest and obvious “tie-up†for the article is now dead as far as public interest is concerned and generally is not quite in line with what we want for this paper. My opinion is strengthened by the fact that we were submitted an article on Orlando some months ago and it was turned down because of a certain flashiness.’ He ends by conveying a message from Poke on another matter. TWO: Typed article titled ‘“Enfant Terrible†of Public Relations’. 17pp 4to each page on a separate page of cartridge paper. Double spaced with title on an eighteenth leaf. In good condition lightly aged apart from a hole in the final leaf resulting in loss of five or six words from the final paragraph. MP is not named as the author but since he is submitting the piece it is presumed that he is. Begins: ‘The grim summer of 1950 would have been even more of a nightmare for millions of newspaper readers if front pages burdened with battles and casualty reports had not been brightened by a royal romance between a king and a sixteen-year-old American schoolgirl. / The king Egypt’s fabulous Farouk apparently was spending a good deal of his time chasing Little Mimi Medart from St. Louis Missouri through Europe’s most plush-lined playgrounds. From Deauville and Biarritz the swankiest of France’s watering spots on the Atlantic Coast to San Sebastian in Spain the king trundled along in Mimi’s wake dragging the royal entourage behind him. / On both sides of the Atlantic the king and the commoner became front-page news. Only Farouk’s announcement of his engagement to Narriman Sadek ended the suspense. When it came Mimi’s mother breathed a sigh loud enough to be heard round the world and exclaimed to newsmen: / “Thank God! Now my daughter can go back and finish her studies in peace.†/ All of this it should be explained is one man’s idea of how to sell hamburgers in St. Louis. It sounded like a fairly far-fetched method until you realize that the man is Guido Orlando the gift of the American public relations profession to Europe.’ The article finishes with the Farouk business after the first five pages. There follows a description of Orlando’s appearance and background before an account of his other activities with reference to ‘Don Jaime the Duke of Segovia’ ‘Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York’ and ‘the Maharajah of Kapurthala’. Gordon’s letter to Macqueen-Pope is dated 28 December 1950; on letterhead of ‘Everybody’s’, 114 Fleet Street, London, EC unknown
0435185918.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
194472872Pearl Harbor Oahu Hawaii: CinCPac--CinCPOA Bulletin no. 126-44 August 1944. 8vo pp. 124; 10 delightful maps in the text 1 double-page and tables in the text; very good in original pictorial blue wrappers printed in red and black. At the head of the title page: "Restricted. CinCPac--CinCPOA Bulletin no. 126-44, August unknown
1448Minor creasing; light scattered foxing and toning. Very good. <p>British Theatre Group of Six Original Playbills: New Theatre Bridgnorth 1829 - 1834 </p> <br /> <p>Six Original Playbills from the New Theatre Bridgnorth Shopshire UK 1829 - 1834. Titles include: John Bull: or An Englishman's Fireside; Invincibles; Mary Queen of Scotland; Hunchback; George Barnwell The London Apprentice; and Wedding Gown.</p> <br /> <p>Shropshire UK: Gitton printer 1829 -1834. Each measuring approx. 10 x 7.5 inches. Blank to versos.</p> . unknown
1369Minor creasing; light scattered foxing and toning. Very good. <p>British Theatre Group of Four Original Playbills: New Theatre Bridgnorth 1834 </p> <br /> <p>Four Original Playbills from the New Theatre Bridgnorth Shopshire UK 1834. Titles include: Hofer! The Tell of the Tyrol February 4th; Invincibles February 6th; Mary Queen of Scotland March 4th; and Hunchback March 18th. </p> <br /> <p>Shropshire UK: Gitton printer 1834. Each measuring approx. 10 x 7.5 inches. Blank to versos.</p> . unknown
19-4890Tokyo: 1950s. 4to. 6 pp. Soft cover. Very good with writing on front cover and toning from newspaper clipping on first and last page. Includes Katsuragawa Renrino Shigarami Hakone Reiken Izari no Adauchi Sagi Musume Keian Taiheiki Ibaragi Tsuta-Momiji Utsunoya-Toge. Includes a newspaper clipping of a “Renjishi†review from Jan. 2 1952. Text in English. Tokyo: [1950s]. paperback
1999BN253253Köln : Taschen 1999. 1999. Gran Teatro La Fenice. Fotogr. Graziano Arici. Text Giandomenico Romanelli . Übers.: Birgit Lamerz-Beckschäfer Evergreen <br/><br/>Gran Teatro La Fenice. Fotogr. Graziano Arici. Text Giandomenico Romanelli . Übers.: Birgit Lamerz-Beckschäfer Evergreen Gran Teatro La Fenice / Venedig - Arici Graziano Giandomenico Romanelli und Birgit Lamerz-Beckschäfer Köln : Taschen unknown
40538Barcelona: Empresa Juan A. Pamias 1971.- unas 270 p. sin numerar: Profusión de ilustraciones fotográficas; Folio 303 cm.; Excelente impresión sobre papel couche; Cubiertas en Cartulina Ed. ilustrada. TEATRO LÃRICO ÓPERA ZARZUELA Libro en español Empresa Juan A. Pamias paperback
24743Condizioni buone come da immagini unknown
63-1892Paris: Festival D'Automne 1974. 3 Black & White Photographs 9.5" x 7" also one duplicate with small tear oblong. Very Good. Notes on verso in French. From the Alma Law Collection. Paris: Festival D'Automne, 1974. unknown
28310London : s.n. 1865. Programme small octavo 178 x 120 mm 4 pp; embossed decorative borders front with lithographed view of the Royal Princess's Theatre centre pages with full cast list and detailed 'Programme of Scenery'; Act III which is titled 'Life in Australia' and is set on the goldfields includes the scenes 'Log Hut in Australia' and 'A Ravine' where the plot centres around 'The Great Nugget'; rear side with advertisement for Rimmel's Perfumes; in superb condition. The English dramatist and novelist Charles Reade 1814-1884 wrote several successful plays in the 1850s. It is never too late to mend : a matter of fact romance 1856 was his first novel and it too was quickly adapted for the stage. Largely based on his earlier play Gold 1853 which was set on the Australian goldfields Never too late to mend is a melodrama that also makes a damning attack on the harsh and abusive English penal system. It was first performed in 1858 and its popularity with English audiences gave it some longevity with productions still being staged in the 1880s. The first performance of Never too late to mend at the Royal Princess's Theatre in London's Soho was on 4 October 1865. This undated programme records ""last night but ten"" suggesting it was likely to have been printed during November 1865. The production starred Mr. Gaston Murray Mr. George Melville and Mr. A. B. Tapping. Numerous examples of broadside playbills and advertisements for Never too late to mend for various productions staged between 1858 and 1883 are held in Australian libraries. However Trove locates no programme for any production of the play making this extremely well preserved example - printed by the theatre and purchased by a patron who witnessed the play - a rare and significant survivor.  unknown
2023x-1350383317Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2023. Hardcover. New. 257 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama hardcover
1390359492.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
128859Giacomo Armò - Teatro breve: Trasteverina. Gonna o toga. La prima gioia. Il dono. Arriva strapaese. Cupido al radio. Tempo di jazz di minuetto e di ballata - 1931 ca. - Con dedica auografa dell'autore. - Pag. 113 - Copertina morbida - Testo in italiano. - Buone condizioni generali. unknown
1929244088.Gcassette. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
245655 July year. Three Corners Watledge Gloucestershire. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp foolscap 8vo. In fair condition lightly-aged with creasing at head which is annotated by MP ‘author’. After thanking him for his letter he writes: ‘It is fatal to have a book published without seeing a proof. In my “Gilbert & Sullivan Dictionary†I had occasion to mention “The Yeomen of the Guard†14 times. The compositor aided by the reader deliberately channged them to “Yeomanâ€. They actually said they did so because “Yeoman†was correct!†Turning to Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man’ he says he knows ‘the original Yorke Stephens & his wife Helen Hays for their son Frank was a schoolfellow of mine at Merchant Taylors!’ He gives a list of the ‘fine theatrical people’ that school produced. ‘I met a lot of the profession at the house of my uncle by marriage W. Lestrange including Edna May Hubert Carter and Hilda Trevelyan.’ If his ‘slightly longer experiences’ might be of use to MP in writing his books they are at his disposal. He once found ‘200 slips’ in a book by ‘old John Parker’ ‘for which he seemed grateful’. Postscript: ‘Northcliffe when plain Alfred Harmsworth suggested my nom de plume of Factus when I was a schoolboy. FACTUS = done!’ 5 July [year?]. Three Corners, Watledge, Gloucestershire. unknown
68-8881Cardiff UK: Prince Of Wales Theatre 1951. Theatre Poster Broadside. 38.3 x 26 cm. Very Good with minor creasing.Scarce. Cardiff, UK: Prince Of Wales Theatre, 1951. unknown
26921Victoria and Albert Museum E.I. D. Dept. South Kensington SW7 31 October 1932. One page 4to fold mark good condition. Text: Thank you so very much for the really adorable little book 'Theatrical Ashes' bound with the wood from the burnt Covent Garden Stage which you have presented to my collection. It is a most valuable little memento and I shall show it in the Covent Garden exhibition which is going to take place here in December. It is so kind of you to think of my collection." See Image. Victoria and Albert Museum, E.I. D. Dept. South Kensington, SW7, 31 October 1932. unknown
67872G. Bucceri - Teatro Piccino - Buon Seme - Parte Prima - ed. 1935 disegni di P. Annigoni - Testo in lingua italiana - Pagine - 336 - Copertina morbida - Condizioni molto buone unknown
132471Opere Drammatiche del cav. avv. G. B. Bertazzi - 2 ed. 1861 - Pag. 239 - Copertina morbida - Testo in italiano. - - Buone condizioni generali. Piccoli segni del tempo. Copertina come da foto con restauro all'angolo inferiore esterno. unknown
