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590 p. + Portrait plates + Added chromolithographed title page. Thick 8vo. 22 cm. Original deeply embossed cloth binding, somewhat worn at extremities. Some foxing and age stain. Private library labels. Olive Logan was the daughter of a famous actor, dramatist, and theater manager who was most active in Ohio and the mid-West. She was a child actress who went on to a long stage career. She suppleme nted her income by working as a journalist, and later as a lecturer. Some of her accounts of the stage were sensational. As she unfolds her memoirs she gives a great many little details about the art of stage craft and the state of the American theater in the latter half of the 19th century. Much of this is accomplished by her portrayals of the great stage personalities of the age. She also tries to redeem the actors' profession from the still wide-held belief that it was immoral and dishonorable. "If (my work) strips off some of the 'gauze and vanity' from the 'show world' I hope it a l so e xhibits that world in a fairer and juster light to many who have hitherto looked on it with ungenerous and unenlightened eyes" -- From the Preface. LOC :W140-148
134p. Hardcover Very good condition, spine lightly faded
unpaged. 20th in a series of annual Shakespearean keepsakes for friends of the publisher Hardcover Very good condition in slipcase Design by Martin Solomon; Illus. by Isadore Seltzer
120p. Hardcover Very good condition, spine lightly faded
Minor Spotting to boards. Spine a bit sunned. Former owner's name to ffep. ; Students' Series of Latin Authors.v+213pp. Binding discolored, ownership inscription on flyleaf, else VG.; The Students' Series of Latin Classics; 213 pages
176 p. + Frontis and Full page color plates. Original cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket slightly rubbed at edges. First Edition. As New. John Durang stands out in early American theater and dance. Born in York, PA, in 1768, he was, "charming, practical" and "extremely versatile" (acting, as well as dancing hornpipes, harlequins, rough versions of classical ballets, and even circus clowning). He also had lots of children who lived "the theater life" just like their dad, establishing a long line of Durang performing artists - including the contemporary playwright Christopher Durang, who lives in Bucks County. Durang was "the first native-born American to win widespread recognition as a dancer." PA 17
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 240 pages.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original terracotta buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and rubbed at extremities. The original edition of this standard reference is scarce in this condition.
pp. xi, 96. Top edge gilt. Bookseller's label on rear paste down. Inked ownership of Emilie F. Latimer (from York, PA), Christmas 1916, on first fly leaf. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. CLASSICS BX 1
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Spine a bit browned. Rubbing to boards; Elementary Classics; 159 pages
Endpapers browned and a little chipped. Rubbing to spine ends. Minor shelfwear. Hinge starting to crack between pg 4 and 5 else VG. ; Handy Literal Translations; 38 pages
Boards are worn. Chipping/fraying to spine ends and joints. Former owner's name and blindstamp to ffep. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; English Introduction and Commentary with Greek Text. ; 300 pages
305 p. Modern Library No. 36. Introduction by H. L. Mencken. Hardcover Good condition; edges worn! in green limp cloth
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. First appearance in Rieu's renowned 'Penguin Classics' series, and first publication of Ellis-Fermor's new translation. Contains Rosmersholm, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf and John Gabriel Borkman. The cover roundel is by Sem Hartz. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Penguin Classics, L53.
21p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is free of marking of any kind. Very nice copy in mustard clothl boards with jacket, book shows very light use. Unpaginated -- about 50 pages -- with music, artwork, 7 page introductory note. From a reference library, very clean.
Publisher's remainder mark to bottom of textblock (small black dot). Small tear to cloth at base of spine (~1 cm). ; 1.06 x 9.33 x 6.26 Inches; 287 pages; This book provides a detailed analysis of the conventions and techniques of performance characteristic of the Greek theatre of Menander and the subsequent Roman theatre of Plautus and Terence. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, and on scientific treatises, David Wiles identifies the mask as crucial to the actor's art, and shows how sophisticated the art of the mask-maker became. He also examines the other main elements which the audience learned to decode: costume, voice, movement, etc. In order to identify features that were unique to Hellenistic theatre he contrasts Greek New Comedy with other traditions of masked comedy, and shows how different Roman conventions of performance rest upon different underlying assumptions about religion, marriage and class. David Wiles offers theatre historians and classicists a radical new approach to reading play texts. His book will also be useful to archaeologists seeking to understand what masks mean and how Greek and Roman theatres were used.
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; 1.06 x 9.33 x 6.26 Inches; 287 pages; This book provides a detailed analysis of the conventions and techniques of performance characteristic of the Greek theatre of Menander and the subsequent Roman theatre of Plautus and Terence. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, and on scientific treatises, David Wiles identifies the mask as crucial to the actor's art, and shows how sophisticated the art of the mask-maker became. He also examines the other main elements which the audience learned to decode: costume, voice, movement, etc. In order to identify features that were unique to Hellenistic theatre he contrasts Greek New Comedy with other traditions of masked comedy, and shows how different Roman conventions of performance rest upon different underlying assumptions about religion, marriage and class. David Wiles offers theatre historians and classicists a radical new approach to reading play texts. His book will also be useful to archaeologists seeking to understand what masks mean and how Greek and Roman theatres were used.
pp. xviii, 44 + color frontis and full page color plates printed from the artist's, M. R. H. Farrar, linoleum-cuts at the Curwen Press. Printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Text and music printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. Color drawing on title page. Uncut.Autograph ownership (1931) of Waynesboro, PA financier, industrialist, and press book collector, Jefford F. Oller (1896-1974). . Insert of Nonesuch News, Number One, September 1938. Folio. Original full vellum like paper binding, embossed and decorated in blind. Yapp edges. Gilt lettered spine. Binding by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company. Original slip case, worn and broken. Hardbound. Limited Edition. Number 416 of only 950 copies. Very handsome copy. PRESS/W38
pp. (13), 147. Thin 8vo. Handsome original full cloth binding, lettered in gold and decorated in blind, executed by Westleys & Clark, London - with their small ticket on the rear paste down. Mildly XLib. James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889) was a biographer of Shakespeare, book collector, antiquarian, and prodigal scholar. In spite of his intelligence and industry, Halliwell's life was dogged with controversy on both personal and professional fronts. His marriage to the daughter of Sir Thomas Phillips did not meet with Phillips' approval, and the young couple was disinherited and placed in financial st aits. He was later investigated for book theft from the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, regarding several volumes later sold to the British Museum, but no charges were ever filed and Halliwell was able to clear his name. Later disputes arose over Halliwell's views concerning the authenticity of various Shakespeareian works. His quarrel with the authorities at Stratford-on-Avon led to his decision not to bequeath his important personal Shakespeare collection to their library; instead, it was sold to a buyer in the United States upon Halliwell's death. See the DNB JUN2B / NW23
pp. (12), (1)-219. Deckle edges. Quite foxed. Early manuscript ownership of J. Blacksan (Blackson?) 17th June, 1821 on title page. 12mo. 195 mm. Disbound. Fair. Contains also, in prose: Observations On American Literature; Observations Upon Poetry And Drama. The author was born in South Carolina, and educated at Harvard. He was under 20 years old when he wrote 'The Maniac's Confession.' He was co-editor, with William Gilmore Simms, of the Souther Literary Gazette. He was a government official in the Republic of Texas. His brother died at the Alamo. S&S/AI 6800. PAIMP 10
Texts of radio plays first broadcast on BBC Dec. 1941-Oct. 1942. Producer Val Gielgud. First published 1943, reprinted 1966.Delicatory: The Makers, foreword by J W. Welch, Director of Religious Broadcasting, B.B.C, author's introduction, production note by Val Gielgud. Book
102 pages. Wear to cover edges. Boots library label on front cover.
96p. Paperback Fine condition
Former owner's name on inner cover. Former owner has written the year of birth of the author on title page else Fine. ; This book is an attempt to understand in what senses the tragic odes are lyrical and in what ways their lyricism contributes to tragic drama as a whole. ; 241 pages
