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1976051810Leningrad: Izd-Vo "Muzyka 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Photographs Throughout. 158 Pp. Illustrated Boards. First Printing One Of 35000 Copies But My Search In Worldcat Shows Only One Institutional Holding In New Zealand. Near Fine No Marks. <br/> <br/> Izd-Vo "Muzyka hardcover
19112289Moscow: A.A. Gorozhankin and K.A. Fisher 1911-12. <br /><br />Twenty-six postcards each 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches 138 x 84 mm featuring black-and-white photos of scenes from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and text descriptions in Russian. <br /><br />The Cherry Orchard opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on January 17 1904 in a production directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky just six months before the death of Chekhov. In the play a family is forced to sell their estate at auction to pay their debts. The buyer Lopakhin plans to cut down the family's beloved cherry orchard so he can build cottages on the estate. <br /><br />These postcards feature cast members from early productions: Olga Knipper as Madame Ranevskaya the estate owner Maria Lilina as Anya her daughter Margarita Savitskaya as Varya foster daughter Stanislavsky himself as Gaev Ranevskaya's brother Leonid Leonidov as Lopakhin Vladimir Gribunin as Simeonov-Pishchik a landowner Elena Muratova as Charoltta Ivanovna a governess Alexander Artyom as Firs an elderly valet Vasily Kachalov as Trofimov a student and Ivan Moskvin as Yephikhov a bookkeeper. <br /><br />Olga Knipper was the wife of Chekhov Maria Lilina was the wife of Stanislavsky and Ivan Moskvin became director of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1943. All three were among the 39 original members of the troupe when Stanislavsky founded it in 1898 with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. <br /><br />Chekhov conceived The Cherry Orchard as a comedy but Stanislavsky turned it into a tragedy angering Chekhov. "My play opened yesterday so my mood is none too good" Chekhov wrote in a letter to author and dramatist Ivan Leontyev known as Shcheglov quoted in Laurence Senelick Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays. New York: W.W. Norton 2005 page 456. And in late March 1904 writing from Yalta Chekhov declared in a letter to his wife Olga Knipper the star of the play: "One thing I can say: Stanislavsky has butchered the play for me." Senelick page 457. <br /><br />While Chekhov may not have liked the play the public certainly did. Indeed in a note on the verso of one card an anonymous writer says translating: "we have just got back from the Art Theatre where we saw The Cherry Orchard. There are no words to tell how wonderful it was." The note appears on a card showing Stanislavsky and his wife Maria Lilina. <br /><br />A.A. Gorozhankin published two of the cards in 1911. The famous Moscow photographer Karl Fisher issued all the others. Two of them not identified as the Moscow Art Theatre production are dated 1912. <br /><br />A fascinating set of postcards depicting scenes from one of the theatre world's most acclaimed plays. <br /><br />CONDITION: Inscription in ink to the verso of one card stains or soiling to many cards lower corner of one card of Olga Knipper damaged with slight loss of text; old bookseller's stamp to the verso of half a dozen cards; all a bit rubbed or edge-worn. About Good overall. <br /> A.A. Gorozhankin and K.A. Fisher
19303057<p>Cambridge England: The Festival Theatre 1930.</p><p><br />Rare program for a 1930 production of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" at the Festival Theatre in Cambridge England. <br /><br />Tyrone Guthrie directed the production which featured several young actors who went on to acclaimed careers including Robert Donat Frederick Piper Flora Robson Miriam Lewes Evan John Barbara Nixon Philip Thornley and Catharina Ferraz. Guthrie himself also went on to a great career. <br /><br />Robert Donat who played the landowner Semyonov-Pistchick later won the Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1939 film "Goodbye Mr. Chips." He beat out Clark Gable in "Gone With the Wind." Donat has contributed an article on the playing of Hamlet which of course has nothing to do with "The Cherry Orchard" but whatever. <br /><br />Also notable in this program dated May 10 1930 are the numerous advertisements for such things as luxury cars evening hats restaurants home furnishings and the like. Clearly the Depression hadn't yet left its mark on Cambridge. <br /><br />Alderson Burrell Horne who adopted the stage name of Anmer Hall managed the Festival Theatre in Cambridge and brought in Tyrone Guthrie as the resident director. Guthrie has contributed a "producer's note" to the program. <br /><br />This program is scarce. No institutional holdings listed in OCLC. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8.25 x 6 inches; 202 x 155 mm 26 pages including covers in stapled illustrated wrappers soft covers. <br /><br />CONDITION: Small area of paper loss to lower right corner of cover staples badly rusted 2 leaves detached from staples rubbing to spine some creasing to pages. About Good overall. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p> The Festival Theatre paperback
170762995Bologna: Per Constantino Pisarri 1707. 12mo 14cm. Later stiff card binding all edges marbled; 1-2 3-96pp; decorative relief initials. Sound short tear to B10 else Very Good. <br /> <br /> Dedicated to Lodovico Rangoni. Vivaldi would write an opera based on this story in 1719. 5 copies recorded in OCLC none of which are in the US through 2 are recorded at Toronto. 62995. Per Constantino Pisarri unknown
1900329667Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company 1900. First American edition thus by Penn Publishing Company. Lacking original wrappers printed text begins with title page uneven tanning and soiling on title page and final printed page pages are creased with short nicked tear at lower corner; a good copy only. First American edition thus by Penn Publishing Company. OCLC lists a single holding of this Penn Publishing first edition University of Pennsylvania; association copy playwright Austin Strong's copy. English dramatist Sydney Grundy 1848-1914 was born in Manchester; he became a lawyer 1869-1876 and a playwright. His first play A Little Change was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1872; he was a librettist of comic operas many of his plays were adaptions and a number of his plays were performed on Broadway. <br/><br/> The Penn Publishing Company unknown
1915000012090Chicago: Amusement Company of Illinois 1915. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 40 cm x 31 cm. 1 2-24 pp. Staple-bound pamphlet with the wrappers printed in pink gold red blue grey white green and black. Illustrated with several full-page color and black and white illustrations. The program for the play The Silent Voice with advertisements for Swift's Premium bacon the Pathfinder the two door touring car Hotel La Salle the Victrola Asia cafe a Chinese-American restaurant on Wabash Ave. the Mandarin Inn another Chinese-American restaurant on Wabash legal advice on ticket scalping an advertisement for a musical A.C. McClurg's stationary ads for beer and a color ad for Libby's canned pineapple. A colorful and vivid depiction of Chicago's theatre scene and several of its local companies as they were in the early twentieth century. A tiny chip to the rear wrapper. Amusement Company of Illinois hardcover
19362036<p>New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League 1936. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts.</p><p>Articles include the full text of Irwin Shaw's antiwar play "Bury the Dead" its first published appearance. There's also a profile of John Ford; the first installment of a three-part essay on film by Sergei Eisenstein; and theatre dance and film reviews. Cover illustration by George Grosz for Irwin Shaw's play. Additional illustrations by Otto Dix William Gropper and Gus Peck. The editor Herbert Kline 1909-1999 was a documentary film maker. <br /><br />Issues of New Theatre are increasingly scarce in the market. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 310 x 235 mm 47 1 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slightly rolled at bound edge some staining to page 15 creasing to some page corners occasional soiling. Very Good or better. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p> The New Theatre League and New Dance League paperback
19362033<p>New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League 1936. First Edition First Printing.</p><p><br />An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts.</p><p>Articles include "Air Raid Over Harlem: Scenario for a Little Black Movie" by Langston Hughes; "I Can't Sleep" a monologue by Clifford Odets; "Trudi on the Road" by Muriel Rukeyser; "Eddie Cantor Likes Peace" by Emanuel Eisenberg; "New Theatre in Philadelphia" by Molly Day Thacher; and "The Films of Rene Clair" by Lewis Jacobs. Cover art by Abe Birnbaum. The editor Herbert Kline 1909-1999 was a documentary film maker. <br /><br />Issues of New Theatre are increasingly scarce in the market. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 310 x 235 mm 39 1 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: A well-preserved copy showing only slight edge wear a bit of rubbing some soiling and a tiny tear in the rear wrapper. Easily Very Good or better. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p> The New Theatre League and New Dance League paperback
1914056889Pasadena: Clune's Pasadena Theatre 1914. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 12 Pp Covers 6" X 4 5/8". Promotional Booklet For Pavlowa's American Tour Here With The Rear Page Showing Ad For Her Jan. 26 Concert At Clune's Pasadena Theatre The Booklet Was Published At Many Venues Each With A Distinctive Last Page. <br/> <br/> Clune's Pasadena Theatre paperback
19643067<p>New York: The American Theatre for Poets n.d. 1964.</p><p><br />A rare playbill from the New York Poets Theatre announcing plays by LeRoi Jones "The Eighth Ditch" Diane di Prima "Murder Cake" and Frank O'Hara "Loves Labor an eclogue. <br /><br />Jones later Amiri Baraka and di Prima were two of the founders of the New York Poets Theatre which operated in locations on the Lower East Side. <br /><br />"The Eighth Ditch" was Jones's first play and was originally presented at the New York Poets Theatre in 1961. The play derived from his larger work "The System of Dante's Hell" which ignited enormous controversy because of its explicit sexual content. <br /><br />In fact Jones and di Prima were arrested in 1961 on charges of sending obscenity through the mail after they had published "The Eighth Ditch" in their literary magazine "The Floating Bear." They also had published Williams S. Burroughs's "Routine: Roosevelt after Inauguration" in the same issue of June 1961. In any case the charges against Jones and di Prima were eventually dropped. See Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips A Secret Location on the Lower East Side page 75. <br /><br />The playbill presents biographies of the writers and listings of casts. There are also brief commentaries on each of the plays by directors Alan Marlowe on Jones and James Waring on di Prima. The playbill includes O'Hara's comments on his own play. <br /><br />Playbills of the New York Poets Theatre are extremely uncommon in the market. Many were cheaply printed and probably thrown away. In addition OCLC shows no institutional holdings of this playbill. None in commerce. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Printed wrappers measuring 8.5 x 7 inches 217 x 177 mm 8 mimeographed pages unbound. <br /><br />CONDITION: Sunning to extremities vertical crease. About Very Good. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p> The American Theatre for Poets
193510848New York: Random House 1935. First Edition. Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel couple of small dust-smudges else Fine. The jacket spine which is very prone to darkening on this title is bright and unfaded. Random House unknown
197080787New York: Liberation 1970. First Edition. First printing; issued as "Liberation" v.15 no. 3. Signed by Bentley on front cover. Mild smudge to autograph else fine. <br /> <br /> First printing of this experimental political theater piece described as "a stage show for a rock group of 4 musicians and about 10 singing actors." Written by the renowned critic and translator of Brecht; the show ran briefly in 1970 and 1971 to mixed reviews. Scarce signed. Liberation unknown
1862213321Calcutta.: Bangala Press. 1862. Title pages in English and Sanskrit iv 277 pages occasional spotting and toning; original saddle-stitched stiff plain yellow card wrappers dusty and spine chipped with an added stiff dark grey wrapper-- title and author attractively hand-lettered in black ink label of the London and Edinburgh booksllers Williams and Norgate fl. 1842-1928 previous owner's neat inscription to the front free endpaper in good condition.<P> Scarce printing of a Sanskrit drama based on the Ramayana by the 8th Century scholar and poet BhavabhÅ«ti telling the story of Rama's later life his coronation the abandonment of Sita and their reunion. Edited by Premachandra TarkabaÌgiÌsaÌ then Professor of Rhetoric at the Sanskrit College of Bengal under the direction of the Principal Edward Byles Cowell 1826 –1903 a noted translator of Persian poetry who was to become the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University. Whilst he was at the Sanskrit College he famously discovered a manuscript of Omar Khayyám's quatrains in the Asiatic Society's library and sent a copy to London for his friend and student Edward Fitzgerald. <br> <br>We can trace only handul of copies held worldwide.<P> <b>When referring to this item please quote stockid 213321</b> . Bangala Press. unknown
192788278New York: Longmans Green and Co 1927. First Edition. Octavo 20cm; brown cloth spine over terracotta paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and titling and decorations stamped in brown on front cover; black topstain; fore- and lower-edges untrimmed; dustjacket; vi23-1664pp. Some pages of text unopened. Light shelf-wear with rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped tanned with modest shelf-wear and -soil and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Dustwrapper includes no priority markings and includes the same price and reviews as other jacket variant. <br /> <br /> Anderson's third play concerning the marital difficulties of a young New York couple. Twice adapted for film first in 1929 by Gregory La Cava and again in 1940 by Vincent Sherman in a film starring John Garfield Anne Shirley and Claude Rains. 88278. Longmans, Green and Co unknown
19276914New York: Longmans Green and Co 1927. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards hardcover; dustjacket. Mild signs of use still Near Fine in a bright unclipped example of the scarce jacket lightly worn at edges and with shallow losses to spine ends not approaching text. Anderson's third play concerning the marital difficulties of a young New York couple. Twice adapted for film first in 1929 by Gregory La Cava and again in 1940 by Vincent Sherman in a film starring John Garfield Anne Shirley and Claude Rains. Longmans, Green and Co unknown
193755143New York: Covici & Friede 1937. First Edition. Octavo 19cm. Yellow cloth boards lettered in red and black; dustjacket; red top-stain; 183pp. Near Fine unworn copy in original unclipped jacket a bit darkened on spine and with small nicks and losses to extremities; Very Good. A two-act comedy set in the midst of a political uprising in Ecuador. The play was produced by The Theatre Guild and opened at the Guild Theater in October 1937 with Leslie Banks in the lead role. The show lasted only 46 performances closing before Christmas. Covici & Friede unknown
19552089<p>Tempo Playhouse Playbill Stein Gertrude and Jean Genet. <strong>Julie Bovasso and Cletus L. Gundy Present a Tempo Playhouse Production: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March": Selections From the First Reader and Jean Genet's "The Maids." </strong>New York: Tempo Playhouse 1955. <br /><br />A rare playbill for the first plays presented by Julie Bovasso's Tempo Playhouse in New York: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March: Selections From the First Reader" and Jean Genet's "The Maids." In fact this was the first production of "The Maids" in the United States. Both plays were directed by Strowan Robertson with sets and costumes by Lester Hackett. <br /><br />The 24-year-old Bovasso founded the theatre with $250 from the sale of a painting by her husband George Ortman. She rented an apartment at 4 St. Mark's Place in the East Village and built a small stage and a box office. See Stephen J. Bottoms "<em>Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement"</em> pages 37-38. <br /><br />The playbill doesn't give the opening date but a small item in The New York Times of March 10 1955 states the opening would take place on Saturday March 12. The Times also placed the location of the opening at Speyer Hall Playhouse 184 Eldridge Street which must have been a temporary venue.<br /><br />Bovasso played the role of Claire in "The Maids" which ran until mid-July 1955. The following year the Village Voice initiated the Obie Awards for Off-Broadway. Bovasso won the first Obie for Best Actress and Tempo Playhouse received a special citation that year.<br /><br />Bovasso's co-stars in "The Maids" were Joyce Henry as Solange and Fran Malis as Madame. Being the versatile actress that she was Bovasso also apparently played Solange at times.<br /><br />For the Stein production -- which was actually two plays: "In a Garden" and "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters" -- the actors were Herbert King Philip Stanley Pitts Kit Raccoon Nancy Ponder Lucy Willow Anne Edwards Helen and Marcia Pavia Ellen.<br /><br />Just like playbills for the Living Theatre the Tempo playbill lists paintings and sculptures for sale at the theatre. Painters include Joan Mitchell Perle Fine Lois Dodd Angelo Ippolito Michael Goldberg Margaret Barlett George Ortman and Miles Forst and the sculptors Marisol Escobar and William King. <br /><br />This playbill is rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings although a separate search turns up a copy at the University of Florida. <strong>RARE</strong>. <br /><br /></p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers.</p><p>CONDITION: Some creases and folds but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.</p> Tempo Playhouse paperback
19852079Living Theatre. <b>A Tribute to Julian Beck</b>. New York: Publisher Not Stated 1985. First Edition First Printing.<br /><br />Single sheet folded to create 4 pages measuring 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches 212 x 140 mm when folded. Printed on heavy paper stock with ragged edges to the cover and second page. <br /><br />Program for a memorial tribute to Julian Beck cofounder of the Living Theatre one of America's premier experimental theatre groups. The event took place on November 25 1985 at the Joyce Theater in New York. It featured film segments photographic slides and tributes by numerous artists and writers including John Cage Jackson Mac Low Larry Rivers John Ashbery Amiri Baraka Kenneth Koch and Abbie Hoffman. Beck's wife Judith Malina also spoke; she cofounded the Living Theatre with Beck in 1947. <br /><br />Beck 1925-1985 won numerous awards for his theatre work. Late in life he acted in films including Francis Ford Coppola's "Cotton Club" and left behind a body of nonfiction and poetry. His 1972 book "The Life of the Theater" featured essays on theatre and politics. See The New York Times obituary of September 17 1985 section B page 6. <br /><br />OCLC shows no institutional holdings of this program although a separate search locates one at New York University. Yale holds an invitation to the event. <br /><br />A scarce piece of Living Theatre ephemera honoring cofounder Julian Beck. Wonderful cover depicting Orphée drawn for the Living Theatre by Jean Cocteau. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slight soiling to final page. Near Fine. Publisher Not Stated
19512157New York: The Living Theatre 1951. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 160 mm 16 pages in stapled printed wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Program for Kenneth Rexroth's four short plays in verse on classical Greek themes. "Beyond the Mountains" opened at the Living Theatre on December 30 1951 with Living Theatre co-director Judith Malina playing several roles. Julian Beck directed with music by Richard Stryker sets and costumes by Garrick Maxwell choreography by Tei Ko and lighting designed by Marjorie Spitz. <br /><br />This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes an essay on "The Poetic Theatre" by Harold Norse a poem "The Last Supper" by Oscar Williams and an article on "Vanguard and Theatre" by Paul Goodman who wrote "Faustina" which was performed at the Living Theatre following "Beyond the Mountains."<br /><br />There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes as well as an advert for drawings by Kenneth Rexroth each priced at $35. A list of Living Theatre sponsors includes John Cage Merce Cunningham Anaïs Nin Betty Parsons William Carlos Williams and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />This program should not be confused with a New Directions hardback issued in 1951.<br /><br />CONDITION: Edge wear and a couple of tiny nicks to wrappers light toning to pages. Near Fine. The Living Theatre paperback
19522088New York: The Living Theatre 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 1/8 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm 16 pages in stapled red wrappers printed on Japanese paper.<br /><br />Program for Paul Goodman's "Faustina" which opened at the Living Theatre on May 251952 starring Julie Bovasso as Faustina. Judith Malina directed and Julian Beck designed sets and costumes.<br /><br />This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes a "portrait sketch" of playwright Paul Goodman by Laura Perls; "Notes on a Ritual Tragedy" by Judith Malina; and a full-page drawing by Larry Rivers for "A City Winter and Other Poems" by Frank O'Hara. <br /><br />There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes; a list of paintings for sale by Julian Beck; and a list of sponsors which included John Cage Jean Cocteau Merce Cunningham Betty Parsons and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds.<br /><br />"Faustina" was an important milestone in Living Theatre history. The play's title refers to the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At the end of the play Faustina is supposed to step forward and chastise the audience for not leaping on stage and stopping a murder. However Julie Bovasso as Faustina felt this moment was pretentious and told the audience on opening night about her irritation. She quit the production after just a few performances. Stephen J. Bottoms <i>Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement</i> pages 25-26. <br /><br />Despite the controversy the speech "was the beginning of direct audience confrontation by the Living Theatre a technique used extensively in later productions." Theodore Shank <i>American Alternative Theater</i> pages 8-9. <br /><br />This program is notable for the use of stunning Japanese paper for the wrappers. OCLC shows only three institutional holdings at SUNY/Buffalo Syracuse and Michigan. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slight toning to the pages and bit of edge wear to the Japanese paper wrappers. A beautiful production. Near Fine. The Living Theatre paperback
19452153London: Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. n.d. 1945. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm 11 1 pages in pictorial stapled wrappers soft cover.<br /><br />A short history of the Unity Theatre a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red."<br /><br />In 1938 Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play "Plant in the Sun." Moreover Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K. <br /><br />OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan Wisconsin Waterloo Auckland Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the National Library of Scotland. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Mild external wear some soiling to lower wrapper staple rusted but internally clean and unmarked. First page stamped "Made in England." A Very Good copy. Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd. paperback
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