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1985052987Los Angeles: California State University 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Two Versions Of The Exhibition Catalog 27 Pp Each Folding Card Covers. One Version Is Unbound Front Cover Printed In Black On White Without The Cover Photograph Mentioned On The Inside Rear Cover; The Second Version Has Front Cover With Photograph Printed In Gray And Black On White And Is Staplebound. Included Also Is A Loose Flyer For A Special Dance Exhibit At The Hollywood Bowl Museum And Also A 1985 Program For Dance L. A. Dance. <br/> <br/> California State University paperback
1931031787New York: General Directory Ltd. 1931. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 343 Pp. First Edition Soft Cover. Top Of Page 97 Cut Away; Loose Page With Photo Of Neil Hamilton By Hurrell With Note Printed At Top That It Was Inadvertently Omitted And Should Be Included. Covers Worn Much Of Backstrip Missing And Front Covers Detached But Present. Gilt Name Of Estelle Richter Printed On Front Cover. <br/> <br/> General Directory, Ltd. paperback
1963009520Italy: Citta Di Torino 1963. This is a very good complete 3 volume set of this massive exhibition on Piemontese baroque architecture set design painting sculpture and furniture and decorative arts held in Torino Italy from June through November of 1963. All volumes in original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Corners of volumes 1 & 3 bumped. Very clean inside and out one short neat name inside vol.1 on front endpaper. Text in Italian. Volume 1: Architettura e Scenografia first section: Architettura xix 87 text pages 201 plates second section: Scenografia 56 text pages 66 plates. Volume 2: Pittura Scultura Arazzi first section: Pittura 128 text pages 227 plates second section: Scultura 59 text pages 86 plates third section: Arazzi 28 text pages 30 plates. Volume 3: Mobili e Intagli Tessuti e Recami Maioliche Porcellane Argenti Libri e Rilegature Monete e Medaglie. First section: Mobili e Intagli 27 text pages 412 plates second section: Tessuti e Ricami 16 text pages 27 plates third section: Maioliche 7 text pages 47 plates fourth section: Porcellane 8 text pages 56 plates fifth section: Argenti 32 text pages 71 plates sixth section: Libri e Rilegature 28 text pages 17 plates seventh section: Monete e Medaglie 44 text pages 20 plates. Most plates in black & white but generally at least one or two color plates per section sometimes more. Appendices on Casa di Caccia and Palazzo Reale. Massive documentation of the Piemontese Baroque. 9" high X 7" wide. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Original Wraps. Very Good. Citta Di Torino Paperback
1934058209Arlinjgton Heights IL: Arlington Seating Company 1934. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine. Color & B/W Illustrations Throughout. 16 pp. Catalogue of theatrical seating including deluxe versions used in 1930's movie houses. <br/> <br/> Arlington Seating Company unknown
1934018135Grand Rapids MI: The Irwin Seating Company / Steel Furniture Co. 1934. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine. Color & B/W Illustrations Throughout. 32 pp. Catalogue of theatrical seating including deluxe versions used in 1930's movie houses. <br/> <br/> The Irwin Seating Company / Steel Furniture Co. unknown
192915363Camden NJ: RCA Victor Co. Inc. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1929. Eighth Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over dark blue boards. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs. . Rear cover has two holes and one gouge in the fabric exposing the board underneath rubbing to head and heel of faded spine rubbing to tips front hinge is starting former owner's embossed name and address on title page unmarked square and clean. VERY GOOD-. . B&W photogrphs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 432 pp . RCA Victor Co., Inc. hardcover
1930006875Circa 1930 1930. First Edition . Sheets. Very Good. Original Typescript Some Pages In Purple Carbon Of A Very Old Circa 1920'S Or 1930'S Play Which Takes Place In Marathon. Original Pencil Notes Changes And Scene Sketches. Authorship And Date Unknown From The Old Library Of Ny And Hollywood Director Louis Brandt <br/> <br/> unknown
195839641Los Angeles: Gilbert Rich and Associates 1958. Paperback. 4to. Stiff orange pictorial wrappers. 21pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. First and probably sole edition of this souvenir program for this stage production adapted and directed by Norman Corwin and starring Bette Davis and then-husband Gary Merrill. Features full-page portraits with facing biographies of Davis Merrill Corwin and Sandburg together with commentary about Sandburg by Corwin and Davis and other photographs. This compilation of poetry excerpts letters and other Sandburg writings was edited by Corwin and published in clothbound form by Harcourt Brace & World in 1961. The stage production ran for a time in Los Angeles then only briefly in New York with Leif Ericson replacing Merrill never making it to Broadway. This handsome tight copy has a tipped-in blank leaf bearing a tipped-in Typed Note Signed from Corwin 1p 5" X 8" Los Angeles CA 11 March 1973. Addressed to "Carl" not the poet dead six years by 1973 but rather noted Broadcast Music Inc. executive and noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar Carl Haverlin 1899-1985. Very good. Couple of stray paper clip marks. Sends "copies of two pieces I had written earlier for WESTWAYS. I trust that you saw the last one which was on Phrase-makers. My love to Virgie and Carol and I don't exactly feel hostile to you either." Signed simply "Norman" in blue fineline. Original envelope also tipped in as are the copies mentioned photocopies of 2-page "Corwin on Media" and 4-page Confessions of a Map Addict." Corwin 1910-2011 was a prolific writer screenwriter radio dramatist producer and essayist. Laid in loose is the uncommon Brooklyn Academy of Music 4-page small 4to program or the 24 October 1959 performance of this stage production showing Merrill not Ericson as Davis's co-star. Gilbert Rich and Associates paperback
19712110502150413668Kodansha 1971. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kodansha paperback
19802110502150415153chance comic company 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 chance comic company paperback
19812110502150413878Rapoto 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Rapoto paperback
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
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
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