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17436On letterhead of the Secretary's Office Garrick Club London . 15 May 1888. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged and creased. Lowe's request has been laid before the Club's committee and there is no possibility of acceding to it: 'You say in your letter that you are aware that the privilege engraving the pictures in the Club Collection is "rarely" granted but in this matter I fear you must have been misinformed as it is against the Rules to grant it at all'. On letterhead of the Secretary's Office, Garrick Club [ London ]. 15 May 1888. unknown
1903107297Montreal: The Renaissance Press 1903. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. Larger 4to. Signed by Artist. pp 5 Phamplet and 17 illustrations. This is number 6 of 100 from the edition De luxe signed by R G Mathews on limitation page. The list of plates are as follows Mrs Patrick Campbell Marie Celeste Marie Celeste Clara Lipman Jan Kubelik Mrs James Brown-Potter Jean Gerardy George Grossmith Lillian Nordica Mrs Patrick Campbell… The Renaissance Press hardcover
1950002927New York Circa 1950 1950. Original Candid Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. 13 1/2" x 10. Fine Black And White Photograph Image 13 1/4" X 9 7/8" Of Theatrical Director Jose Quintero Seated In Front Of A Stage With An Open Script On His Lap Looking Up Towards The Right. Inscribed "To Actors' 'Studio 29' And To Mr. R. Paul Willets Wishing Them And Him The Greatest Success With 'Iceman Cometh' Jose Quintero". A Fine Photograph Of Quintero Working With Personal Inscription Referring To His Own Most Famous Success As A Director. Stamped Twice On Verso With Schatt's Studio Rubber Stamp And Possibly Signed By Schatt Underneath The White Tape Which Was Placed On The Mounting Board So That Jose Quintero To Finish His Own Inscription And Signature. Schatt Was One Of The Most Prominent Photographers Of 1950'S Theatre. <br/> <br/> unknown
17920007882London: John Stockdale 1792. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to; xvi 564 Index inked name on title-page quarter calf marbled boards red morocco spine label original spine repaired. Scarce. <br/><br/>Pye became England's Poet Laureate in 1790 in the same year he became Police Magistrate for Westminister. "The chief intent of my Commentary . is an illustration of the rules and the examples confirming those rules which are found in Aristotle's remarks on dramatic and epic poetry from similar passages in the modern and more especially in the English poets - Preface." John Stockdale hardcover
1800002712London: John Stockdale 1800. Very Good. Printed by Thomas Gillet Salisbury Sqaure London. xi 2 10-78 p.; 20 cm. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Includes Prologue by William Sotheby and Epilogue by J. Taylor. First edition. Lists the cast from the 1800 production at the Drury Lane Theater including Messers Aickin Kemble Barrymore C. Kemble and Mrs. Siddons. Scarce. Disbound; in Very Good Condition: occasional light foxing and browning; otherwise clean and tight. John Stockdale unknown
34735LEAMINGTON SPA SIXTH CHAMBER PRESS 1985. FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 8. TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY D M THOMAS. SIGNED BY THOMAS. PRINTED ON ABBEY MILLS ANTIQUE PAPER QUARTER CLOTH WITH PATTERNED BOARDS. FINE COPY LEAMINGTON SPA, SIXTH CHAMBER PRESS, 1985 hardcover
1979100217Dallas: New London Press 1979. First edition. 150 copies were specially bound numbered and signed. This copy is one of the unsigned issue that has been specially signed by Purdy on the half-title page to which he has added "all good wishes." Purdy has also written his first name on the the first page of "A Day at the Fair." Presumably he began to sign the book there and then leafed over to the half-title page where there was more room. Issued without a dustjacket. Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. <br />The image is of the book described and not a stock photo. New London Press hardcover
48108860-nnew. unknown
1950016050Roma: Carlo Bestetti - Edizioni d'Arte 1950. This is a very good softcover copy with a very good dust wrapper with just light wear. Completely clean. Text pages a bit toned. Text in ITALIAN. Illustrated in black & white with 55 plates. 15 page catalogue checklist for the exhibition with 135 items laid in. Text in French and English. 10" high X 7" wide 16 text pages plates. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Carlo Bestetti - Edizioni d'Arte Paperback
1921033908Franklin Ohio: James Knapp Reeve 1921. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 200 Pp. Dark Red Cloth Gilt. First English Language Ediitojn. A Classic Of Dramatic Criticism And Basic Instructional Text For Writers. Wear With Light Fraying At Spine Ends Tips And Point At Top Of Front Board. Ownership Information Of Charles Doane Jr. Of Chicago With His Note That He Inscribed It While Reviewing "The Strangers' Banquet" At The Balaban And Katz Chicago Theatre. <br/> <br/> James Knapp Reeve hardcover
1925017648New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1925. First American Edition Second Printing . Blue Cloth. Near Fine. Vii 147 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine And Cover Lettered In Gilt. American Edition With English Sheets Stated Second Printing In October 1925 Same Month As First. Very Clean Tight No Marks Or Damage Endpapers Quite Aged But Contents Very Nice. Touch Of Wear At Top And Bottom Of Spine No Fraying Tips Sharp. Previous Owner's Name M. Evelyn Kent Bombay 1927 On Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1934050645San Franbcisco: Bohemian Club 1934. Hardcover. Good. 46 Pp. Green Card Covers. Second Edition For The Revival Of The Play At The Bohemian Grove In 1934. Inscribed By "Good Luck To My Friend Bill Todt Wallace A. Sabin" And Additionally Signed By 22 Cast Members Opposite The Players' List. Damp Staining To Covers And Bottom Edges Of Pp 21 To End. The Original Play Is Quite Scarce This 1934 Revival Edition Even More So It Is Not Known To Wikipedia Or The Sources Upon Which It Is Based. H. Morse Stephens 1857 -1919 Was An Historian And Professor Of History At The University Of California Berkeley Who Helped To Purchase The Bancroft Library And Who Worked To Build Archives Of California History The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake And World War I. He Was Educated At Haileybury College And Attended Balliol College Oxford University Where He Was Granted A B.A. In 1880 And An M.A. In 1892. He Was A Staff Lecturer On The Oxford University Extension System From 1892-1894 And Lecturer On Indian History At Cambridge Writing Also For The Academy The Daily Chronicle The Speaker And 'Acting As London Correspondent For The Statesman And The Calcutta Friend Of India. Stephens Immigrated To The United States In 1894 And Took The Position Of Professor At Cornell University In The Department Of History Where He Taught European History. In 1902 Stephens Went To The University Of California As Professor Of History And Director Of University Extension A Position He Held From 1902-1909. He Served As Dean Of The University Of California College Of Arts And Sciences From The Fall Of 1918 Until His Death. During His Time At Berkeley He Worked To Build The Bancroft Library's Collection Of Historical Materials With Special Success In The Area Of Spanish And Mexican History Now Known As The Bolton Collection. Stephens Was Involved With The Bohemian Club And Wrote The Script For St. Patrick At Tara The Main Grove Play Performed In 1909 At The Bohemian Grove. The Play Depicted Saint Patrick And His Interaction With Druids Chieftains And Kings Of Ireland. Stephens Was An Active Member Of The American Historical Association Serving As Its President In 1915. His Most Notable Contribution In The Aha However Was As A Member Of The Committee Of Seven Which In 1899 Produced The Report The Study Of History In Schools For The Aha And Which Influenced The Teaching Of History In American Schools For The Next 40 Years. Wallace Arthur Sabin 1869 -1937 Was A Composer And Organist Born In Culworth Northamptonshire England. In 1894 Or '95 Sabin Moved To San Francisco To Serve As Organist For The Congregations Of Temple Emanu-El And St. Luke's Episcopal Church. He Became A Fellow Of The American Guild Of Organists Ago In 1899. He Was President Of The San Francisco Chapter Of Ago From 1911 To 1913 Then Again From 1923 To 1926. In 1915 Sabin Was The Official Organist Of The Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In One Concert He Directed The 400-Voice Exposition Chorus While Playing Organ Accompaniment As Camille Saint-Saëns Conducted The 80-Member Orchestra. Sabin Set Various Parts Of The Jewish Service To Music And Is Published In Stark's Service Book. In 1920 With Edwin H. Lemare And Uda Waldrop He Helped Inaugurate The Bohemian Club's Outdoor Organ Austin Opus 913 Set Into The Main Stage At The Bohemian Grove. <br/> <br/> Bohemian Club hardcover
1566082048.Gdvd. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
1566082056.Gdvd. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
19671977<p>New York: Grove Press Inc. 1967. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />A collection of two early television plays and five revue sketches. Pinter himself appeared in "A Night Out" the story of a young man who feels bullied by his mother and other people.</p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm 106 pages in orange cloth black titles to spine in an unclipped dust jacket hard cover.<br /><br />CONDITION: Slightly cocked light foxing to the top edge and fore edge internally clean bright and unmarked. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with some soiling and creasing to the rear panel. A Very Good or better copy.</p> Grove Press, Inc. hardcover
19612348<p>London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1961. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 3/8 x 5 inches; 188 x 125 mm 134 pages in original black cloth titles in gilt to spine in a photo illustrated unclipped dust jacket hard cover. <br /><br /><strong>INSCRIBED</strong> by Harold Pinter on the title page to Jacques Brunius: "To Jaques Brunius from Harold." Yes Pinter misspelled Jacques. Brunius 1906-1967 was a French actor and director. He also translated some of Pinter's plays into French including one of the plays in this book A Night Out. Thus a nice literary association. <br /><br />The book contains A Slight Ache A Night Out The Dwarfs as well as five revue sketches: Trouble in the Works The Black and White Request Stop Last to Go and Applicant. <br /><br />The title play here A Slight Ache is a dark comedy about an English couple Flora and Edward who interrogate a poor and silent match seller who stands outside their gate every day. The play was first performed on the BBC's Third Programme on July 29 1959 and starred Maurice Denham and Vivien Merchant Pinter's wife. The stage version opened on January 18 1961 at the Arts Theatre in London and starred Emlyn Williams Alison Leggat and Richard Briers. <br /><br />We find no other signed presentation copies of this book in the market. It's especially noteworthy because of Pinter's collaboration with the recipient Jacques Brunius. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light toning to page edges but otherwise clean and unmarked. Near Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that has rubbing to panels toning to upper edges of the flaps and to verso of the jacket and a few small nicks to the extremities.</p> Methuen & Co. Ltd. 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>Book editions of this play are readily available in the market but playbills signed by cast members of the London production are not often seen. Our copy is signed by three actors the director and Pinter himself. <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
1971005084London: H. Karnac Ltd. 1971. A Limited Edition of 150 copies: this is copy 88 SIGNED by Pinter. A sharp very near fine copy in black and red cloth covers stamped in gilt on spine top edges stained red in clear acetate dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Hard Cover. H. Karnac, Ltd. Hardcover
200041Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2000. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 x 6 1/8 inches; 228 x 155 mm 92 pages bound in grayish-green leather with gold-stamped boards all edges gilt and ribbon page marker. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED</b> by Harold Pinter on the front end paper. Pinter's tragicomedy about a professor who brings his wife home to meet his working-class family. The play opened at the Aldwych Theatre in London on June 3 1965 and was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Hall director. It opened on Broadway in 1967 and won four Tony Awards and the New York Drama Critics Award. An Easton Press "Collector's Edition." Laid in is an Easton Press "certificate of authenticity" as well as a note about the play and author. <br /><br />CONDITION: A Fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover
200015474<p>Easton CT: Easton Press 2000. <i><b>Signed by Harold Pinter on the colophon.</b></i> Certificate signed by Harold Pinter Angela Cheyne and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First <b>Limited edition</b> / First printing. Gray leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About the Homecoming laid in.</p> Easton Press, hardcover
1931006896New York: The Macaulay Company 1931. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good. 361 Pp. Red Cloth Lettered In Black. First Edition With 1931 Date On Title Page. Nicely Inscribed "To Motel In Remembrance David Pinski." From The Library Of Author/Director/Producer Lou Brandt And His Wife Both Of Whom Were Active In Yiddish And American Theatre Hollywood Tv And Hollywood Movies And Left Wing Causes. During The Blacklisting Era They Left Hollywood For Spain For Five Years But Returned. Small Light Brown Stain On Front Endpaper Small Water Spot On Top Edge Of Pages A Little Flecking To Red Color Of Cloth. Per Wikipedia David Pinski 1872 -1959 Was A Yiddish Language Writer Probably Best Known As A Playwright. At A Time When Eastern Europe Was Only Beginning To Experience The Industrial Revolution Pinski Was The First To Introduce To Its Stage A Drama About Urban Jewish Workers; A Dramatist Of Ideas He Was Notable Also For Writing About Human Sexuality With A Frankness Previously Unknown To Yiddish Literature. He Was Also Notable Among Early Yiddish Playwrights In Having Stronger Connections To German Language Literary Traditions Than Russian. <br/> <br/> The Macaulay Company hardcover
n0119<p>CASA MUSICALE SONZOGNO DIPIERO OSTALI 1917. 224 pages. AsNew Hardcover Green cloth Gilt lettering. 12.75"x9.25". be7</p> CASA MUSICALE SONZOGNO DIPIERO OSTALI hardcover
17795021London: T. Davis T. Paine L. Davis J. Nichols T. Evans W. Davis and H. Payne 1779. Hardcover. Good. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. Vol 1 - xlvi 344 pgs. Vol 2 - 453 pgs. Vol 3 - 340 pgs. Vol 4 - 380 pgs. Full brown calf with 5 raised bands and gilt decoration on spine with leather label with gilt lettering. Gilt decoration to edges of binding. Vol 1 has engraved frontis. Condition of the books is GOOD ; Vol 1 2 and 4 have weak and cracked front hinges vol 3 cover is detached. Edges are worn and chipped spines are dry and crackled with some wear. All have contemporary handwritten notations on the front pastedown in a spidery hand. Calf is nice extremely smooth. Text is good with no foxing and all bindings are internally sound. Drama. RGR. T. Davis, T. Paine, L. Davis, J. Nichols, T. Evans, W. Davis and H. Payne hardcover
0243984987.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
195040260New York: The Bond Wheelwright Co. 1950. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good . 9 x 13 in. Blue cloth boards. Memorial limited edition signed by MacKaye on the dedication pg. #97/357. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers like near new spine mildly sunned. Binding tight and text unmarked. Slipcase is very good a bit sunned at top mild edge wear. Drama. tax. The Bond Wheelwright Co. hardcover