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In-8°; pp. 143, un fregio xilografico al frontespizio; legatura in piena pergamena con titolo manoscritto al dorso. Commedia del letterato e storico senese Girolamo Gigli, 1660-1722, noto anche per la traduzione del Tartuffe di Moliere, che intitolò Don Pilone; con questa commedia Gigli si inserisce quindi nel filone della tradizione del teatro francese, adattandolo però sia nel linguaggio parodistico che nella definizione e caricatura dei personaggi più da commedia dell’arte, al pubblico italiano. siena accademie commedia theatre teatro drama comedy settecento donne women
1914264105Dieterich`sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Theodor Weicher Leipzig 1914. Hardcover Leinen Zustand: keine Beschädigungen eine Namenseintragung. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Dieterich`sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Theodor Weicher, Leipzig, hardcover
192212841S. Fischer, Berlin 1922. Mit einem Porträt von Max Liebermann. Halbpergament mit Rückenvergoldung. Bezugspapier der Einbanddeckel teils etwas berieben, 2 mit kleiner Fehlstelle. 1 Band etwas gebräunt. 1 Band oberes Kapital etwas bestoßen. Teils gering stockfleckig.
in-8°. pp.88. legatura in piena pergamena coeva. Alcune pagine brunite, le prime caarte con gore di umifdità..
192846201Gilde freiheitlicher Bücherfreunde, Bln. (1928). Mit 1 Tafel. 110 S. Schwarze Orig.-Leinwand mit rotem Titelaufdruck und Kopfrotschnitt. Leicht fleckig. Nr.u.St.a.Vors. St.a.Tit. Gutes Exemplar.
192151808Berlin, Erich Reiss, [1921]. [81] unpag. unbeschnittene Büttenbll. Mit 10 handsignierten Original-Lithographien und einem lithogr. Titelbl. von Otto Baumberger. Folio. OPp. im Schuber, beide mit grünem Kleisterpapier bezogen.
12 vols., sm. 8vo., Mixed Editions; original dark blue limp calf, upper boards with author's signature in gilt, backs gilt extra, gilt tops, navy blue silk markers, a very good, clean set housed in publisher's drop-front card box, top flap with author's signature in gilt top, interior fully lined in navy blue cloth, a near fine set. The twelve volumes are those of the Pocket Edition. The set comprises: I: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion (second impression, 1927); Vol. II: Back to Methuselah ((first edition thus, 1926); Vol. III: Saint Joan, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (second impression, 1927); Vol. IV: Translations and Tomfooleries (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. V: Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VI: Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny's First Play (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VII: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VIII: John Bull's Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband, Major Barbara (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. IX: Man and Superman (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. X: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, Mrs. Warren's Profession (first edition, 1926); Vol. XI: Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playlets of the War (second impression, 1927); Vol. XII: The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married (second impression, 1927). Very scarce in this condition.
19245908S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1924. 212(1) Seiten, OPappband. Deutsch von Siegfried Trebitsch. 6.-10. Tausend. Das vorliegende Exemplar mit einer mehrzeiligen Widmung von Shaw: "To Mr. Robert with my kindest regards G. Bernard Shaw 1. September 1924". Rücken verblichen. Ansonsten ein gutes Exemplar. Selten. Shaw erhielt 1925 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Hand signed by the author. Good copy. Rare. Shaw got the nobelprize for literature in 1925.
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
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
1812002514 BeaumontJames Ballantyne 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos law buckram with leather labels. <br/><br/> James Ballantyne hardcover
1952844<p>New York: Greenberg 1952. First Edition. SIGNED on the front free end paper by 15 important stars of Broadway including Fritzi Scheff Eli Wallach Uta Hagen Maureen Stapleton Blanche Ring Francine Larrimore Leonore Ulric Margaret Phillips Bert Lahr Contance Collier Judith Evelyn Frances Starr Douglas Watson Charles Nolte and Dorothy Gish.</p><p>4to 12 1/4 inches / 31 cm. tall v 150 2 pages. Tipped in is a "Publisher's Weekly" article describing the signing party at Brentano's in 1952. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has a half-inch chip at the bottom of the front panel where it meets the spine a few small chips on the rear panel some edge wear and soiling. Copies signed by so many of the stars are not often found in the market. Presumably a previous owner obtained the signatures during the book party at Brentano's in 1952. SCARCE signed. <br /><br />The signers are among the 150 stars featured with two-page photo spreads in this loving theatre tribute that reaches back to Lillian Russell and Sarah Bernhardt but also includes a few newcomers such as Carol Channing.</p><p>Daniel Blum the author was an authoritative journalist/historian of theatre who published an annual review of the theatre season called Theatre World. Needless to say he knew many of the actors profiled in the book.</p><p>Especially interesting are the author's comments about the actors. Marlon Brando: "He is a nonconformist and likes to shock people.He dislikes cats interviews shoes and large parties." Maureen Stapleton: "She dislikes spooky movies and books." Beatrice Pearson: "When she is depressed she spends money like a drunken sailor." Charlton Heston: "He is frank genial and outspoken but thinks actors should keep quiet on any other subject but their work." That was the Charlton Heston of 1952. He dabbled in politics later in life.</p> Greenberg books
1952844<p>Quarto 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 310 x 230 mm in black cloth titles in gilt to spine in an illustrated dust jacket.</p><p><b>SIGNED</b> on the front free end paper by 15 stars of Broadway including Fritzi Scheff Eli Wallach Uta Hagen Maureen Stapleton Blanche Ring Francine Larrimore Leonore Ulric Margaret Phillips Bert Lahr Constance Collier Judith Evelyn Frances Starr Douglas Watson Charles Nolte and Dorothy Gish. <br /></p><p>The signers are among the 150 stars featured in this heavily illustrated tribute that reaches back to Lillian Russell and Sarah Bernhardt but also includes more recent stars such as Maureen Stapleton Eli Wallach Marlon Brando and Carol Channing. Daniel Blum the author was an authoritative journalist and historian of theatre who published an annual review of the season called Theatre World. Needless to say he knew many of the actors profiled in the book.<br /></p><p>Especially interesting are the author's comments about the actors. Marlon Brando: "He is a nonconformist and likes to shock people.He dislikes cats interviews shoes and large parties." Maureen Stapleton: "She dislikes spooky movies and books." Beatrice Pearson: "When she is depressed she spends money like a drunken sailor." Charlton Heston: "He is frank genial and outspoken but thinks actors should keep quiet on any other subject but their work." That was the Charlton Heston of 1952. He dabbled in politics later in life.<br /></p><p>Copies signed by so many of the stars are not often found in the market. Presumably a previous owner obtained the signatures during a book party at Brentano's in 1952. A Publisher's Weekly article about the party is pasted into the book. SCARCE SIGNED.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Cloth lightly rubbed article pasted onto verso of front end paper and to title page light toning to end papers. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has a half-inch chip at the bottom of the front panel where it meets the spine a few small chips on the rear panel some edge wear and soiling. <br /></p><p><br /></p> Greenberg hardcover
1916DEMO016733IParis: Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1916. First French edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo 2811pp. rebound in Art Deco style by L. Roger-Maxime in full morocco; in in a slipcase. <br/><br/>This is an unnumbered copy of the thousand copies done for French speakers. Since its first appearance in England in 1911 it had been translated into Japanese and Russian. This was a seminal set of essays in which Craig re-imagines and re-images the theater and demonstrates it with his 16 color plates included here. The Art Deco banded binding has reds black and cream inlays by L. Roger-Maxime all in a compatible slipcase with splashes of color. Translated from the English by Genevieve Seligmann-Lui; Introduction by Jacques Rouche Nouvelle Revue Francaise hardcover
1810285195London: Miller 1810. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes Copperplate vignettes on title pages. 595pp. 614pp. 598pp. double column tall 8vo polished calf ornately gilt spines black leather spine labels boards crackled and quite darkened at edges hinges strengthened corners worn. London: William Miller 1810. Very good.<br/><br/> Miller unknown books
1810285195London: Miller 1810. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes Copperplate vignettes on title pages. 595pp. 614pp. 598pp. double column tall 8vo polished calf ornately gilt spines black leather spine labels boards crackled and quite darkened at edges hinges strengthened corners worn. London: William Miller 1810. Very good.<br/> <br/> Miller unknown
16796Philadelphia: George Barrie. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1893. Reprint. Hard Cover. 0882293214 . Publisher's three-quarter red morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers t.e.g. fore-edge deckle. Profusely illustrated with etchings by G. Jeanniot many full page and each with an intact tissue guard. . These volumes were eye-witnesses of a fire. Vols. II IV and V are blackened on the spine from heat Vol. III is missing a 1" piece of leather at the heel of the spine and has a small gouge in the leather near the head of the spine other volumes have smaller chips at the head and heels Vols. IV and V are damp-stained at the top edge not affecting the text or the etchings light fading to some of the marbled covers. Interiors are unmarked tight and clean. A large heavy set 15 pounds - additional shipping charges may apply. GOOD. . National Edition Series. Etchings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 273 257 235 311 265 pp . George Barrie hardcover
1957191474Peking: People's Art Publishing House 1957. Hardcover. Good shelfwear and handwritten name in marker on front of cardboard box light foxing spots to title page and some borders plates are all present and otherwise very clean. Silk over boards portfolio with red Chinese lettering and yellow illustrations with bone clasp closures; 5 pp text with bw illustrations 73 color plates some with two or three per page. Issued in cardboard box with black Chinese lettering. Edited by the Research Studio of the Northeast Drama Institute. Designs reproduced by Lu Hua and Ma Chiang. Eng & Chinese. 16x15x1.5" People's Art Publishing House hardcover
19711262London: The Aldwych Theatre 1971. First Edition. <br /><br />Octavo 9 x 5 1/4 inches / 230 x 132 mm 20 pages in the stapled wrappers. <p><b>INSCRIBED</b> by Harold Pinter at his biography page "To Milton from Harold" and SIGNED by the stars Vivien Merchant Dorothy Tutin and Colin Blakely and director Peter Hall at their biographies. The program for the first production of Old Times staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre beginning June 1 1971. This was Pinter's first full-length play since The Homecoming and the fifth of his plays to be given its stage premiere by the Royal Shakespeare Company. </p><p>Although book editions of this play are readily available we find no copies of the program for the London stage production in commerce as of January 2021. Copies such as this signed by the three actors the director and Pinter himself would be even more elusive. <b>RARE SIGNED</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Covers lightly rubbed and soiled corners a little creased contents lightly toned. A Very Good copy.</p> The Aldwych Theatre books
19342617<p>New York: Samuel French 1934. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm vi 2 120 pages in gray cloth titles in black to spine in the rare unclipped illustrated dust jacket. <br /><br />Longshoremen go on strike refusing to load munitions on ships bound for Europe. Why If there's going to be a war they're the ones who will have to fight it. The strike engulfs the local college community and a psychology professor is sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit. <br /><br />The influential theatre critic Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times referred to "Peace on Earth" as a "propaganda play" a description that the authors George Sklar and Albert Maltz would probably not disagree with. "During the course of a lively and disorderly evening 'Peace on Earth' manages to denounce scab labor capital endowed universities the detachment of college teachers the jingoism of the alumni of the class of 1917 and the indifference of the police to free speech" Atkinson wrote. The New York Times November 30 1933 page 39. <br /><br />The play was first produced by the Theatre Union Inc. on November 29 1933 at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York. Robert Keith played the hapless professor in a performance that Atkinson praised in an otherwise hostile review. ".Robert Keith plays with a grave serenity and a decent sincerity that command respect and sympathy" Atkinson wrote. <br /><br />Copies of "Peace on Earth" are scarce in the antiquarian book market and those with dust jackets are even more elusive especially with jackets as nice as this one. Unfortunately the artist of this beautiful jacket is uncredited. This copy was previously owned by John K. Martin founder of Black Sparrow Press with his discreet book label to the rear pastedown. <br /><br />CONDITION: Near Fine with marginalia on one page a bit of foxing to the fore edge and a small book label of John K. Martin to the rear pastedown. The unclipped dust jacket is also Near Fine with only light edge wear. A beautiful copy. <br /><br /></p> Samuel French hardcover
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 rare and is notable for the use of stunning Japanese paper for the wrappers. OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at SUNY/Buffalo 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.<br /><br /> The Living Theatre books
1760DEMO016408ILondres Geneva: Cramer Brothers 1760. First. 16mo. 16mo 204 xii pages contemporary calf morocco label scuffed; ex Lee Merton Watson inked ownership name dated 1760 on half-title; upper right corner dampstained pp. 7-24 145-169. Very Scarce. <br/><br/>Voltaire concealed the origin of this play and his authorship of it altho he did claim to translate it into French. It was quite successful and attracted much commentary. It was inspired by the author's study of the Jacobite rebellion. It is a complicated comedy involving masks identities and aliases in Scotland and revolving around a Scots woman. [ Cramer Brothers ] unknown
19321480New York: United Workers Theatres of New York 1932. First Edition. 4to 11 inches / 280 mm tall 2 41 1 mimeographed pages in side-stapled pink and black wrappers. Contents clean and unmarked wrappers edge worn with several diagonal creases to the corners wrappers splitting along spine fold loose but holding and a bit of soiling. A Very Good copy of a scarce fragile publication.Monthly publication promoting left-wing theatre in the U.S. during the Depression; it appeared from 1931 to 1933 and was closely associated with the Communist Party. The United Workers Theatres of New York the publisher worked in conjunction with the Workers Laboratory Theatre and the German agitprop troupe Prolet-Buehne. Contents here include an announcement for a First National Workers Theatre Conference and Spartakiade to be staged April 16-17 1932 in New York. The Spartakiade required contestants to act "with proletarian responsibility with great energy with full speed" to make the conference and Spartakiade "a great event in the history of the workingclass in this country!"Also included is an article on scene design by Mordecai Gorelik; three plays two of them by the Prolet-Buehne and the other by Tom Lewis; an article on Soviet movies by Harry Alan Potamkin; an article on children's theatre by Kay Rankin as well as reviews and a listing of forthcoming events.A fascinating look at the state of "workers' theatre" in New York during the Depression. SCARCE. <br /><br /> United Workers Theatres of New York books
1801272741Verlag bey Joh. Baptist Wallishausser Wien 1801. Hardcover ohne Schutzumschlag 2 Bücher Spiele in einem Band Zustand: mit einem Ex Libris im Vorsatz. Rücken Ecken Kanten stark bestoßen und berieben. Einband mit Abschabungen. Der Druckbogen S. 55-58 ist lose. In allem original. Verlag bey Joh. Baptist Wallishausser, Wien, hardcover
17983116FBZürich, Orell, Geßner, Füßli und Compagnie, 1798-1805. 8°. 19,5 x 12 cm. XIV, 565; 584; 548; 584; 534; 542; 579; 666; 630; 681; 610 Seiten. Halblederbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägten Titeln auf Lederrückenschildern und Rundum-Gelbschnitt.
