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194262473Philadelphia and New York:: Aberle Inc.; Willard B. Golovin Co. 1942-1943. First edition; No. 187 and 44 of 750 and 500 copies respectively. publisher's spiral-bound stiff wrappers illustrated in color. Both volumes near fine. Folio. Ballet-themed color Illustrations throughout incorporating elaborately presented samples of Aberle Ballet rayon stockings fabric samples of complimentary colors with which to wear them fashion color wheels and sales pitches including the patriotic merit of rayon stockings silk and nylon being unavailable during the war years "so that your charm would continue to inspire and maintain the morale.". Aberle Inc.; Willard B. Golovin Co., unknown
194257754Philadelphia:: Aberle Inc. Fall-Winter 1942 and Spring-Summer 1943. First edition limited to 750 and 500 copies respectively. publisher's coil-bound wrappers illustrated in color as issued. Very slight sue to wrappers at corners; extremely attractive. Folio. Ballet-themed illustrations throughout in color by Willard Golovin. Aberle were stocking manufacturers. Each catalogue presents samples of rayon stockings "drawn from new war-born materials". "When Pearl Harbor became a symbol of perfidy you gave up silk." Aberle Inc., unknown
B261337-1N.p. S.n. 1999. 150pp. the last 36 blank. 41 original tipped-in color photographs. Sm. sq. 4to. Boards. Printed on heavy hand-made paper this unique album presents designs for a commemmorative quilt represented by the photographs and with text by the participants. N.p. (S.n.), [1999]. hardcover
68-8833Philadelphia PA: Juvenile Opera Company 1875. Fabric Broadside. 23.5 x 15 cm. Very Good. Scarce. Philadelphia, PA: Juvenile Opera Company, 1875. unknown
1944039413New York: E. Weyhe 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 404 Pp. Black Cloth First Printing One Of 1675 Copies This One Inscribed To Architect Edmund R. Purvis Aia With A Unique Typewritten Sheet Tipped On To P. 401 Updating Armitage's Autobio In Brief To 1958 Also Signed By Armitage. Near Fine Bump To Lower Front Tip; Dj Clean And Unfaded Small Edge Tears A Few Minute Losses. Edmund R. Purves 1897-1964 Was Born In Philadelphia And Graduated From The Germantown Friends School In 1914. His Career At The Univeristy Of Pennsylvania Which He Entered In 1914 Was Interrupted By World War I; But He Received Is B.S. In Architecture In 1920. After Graduation Purves Returned To France Where He Attended The Atelier Gromort From 1920 To 1921. Upon His Return To Philadelphia Purves Joined The Firm Of Zantzinger Borie & Medary Where He Remained Through 1927 Only Spending 1925 With Willing Sims & Talbutt. In 1927 Purves And Another University Of Pennsylvania Graduate Kenneth M. Day Set Up Their Own Firm Of Purves & Day. Edmund R. Purves Joined The Aia In 1930 And Became A Fellow In 1944. In 1932 Purves Began To Work Independently. In 1937 Purves Thomas Pym Cope And Harry Stewart Established Purves Cope & Stewart Which Endured Until 1941. Again A War Intervened And Purves Moved To Washington Dc Where He Served As The Aia's Representative. He Volunteered For War Action Again However And By 1942 Was With The U.S. Air Force In The Pacific Theatre. In 1945 He Returned To Washington Dc And Resumed Work With The Aia As Director Of Public And Professional Relations And In 1949 He Was Promoted To Executive Director For The Institute A Position In Which He Remained Until 1960. For The Last Four Years Of His Life Purves Acted As Consulting Architect For The Dc Firm Of Chatelain Gauger & Nolan Architects And Engineers. <br/> <br/> E. Weyhe hardcover
113823Turnhout Brepols 1969. 1088 columns. H.cl. 28 cm Rebound unknown
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1957208291957. Press photograph archive of African American women opera singers 1957-1977 documents the emergence and international recognition of Black performers within mid twentieth century classical music and operatic institutions. The images center on four prominent singers whose careers developed during and after the era of segregation when access to major stages and audiences expanded unevenly for Black artists. Figures such as Marian Anderson who broke barriers at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 established a precedent for subsequent generations; the performers represented here advanced that presence through sustained international careers providing visual evidence of African American participation in elite cultural institutions during a period of social and cultural change.<br /> <br /> Six black and white silver gelatin press photographs each approximately 8 x 10 inches with captions and markings on recto and verso. Subjects include Adele Addison in two studio portraits from the 1950s later known as the singing voice for Bess in Porgy and Bess 1959; Shirley Verrett in two images including an early news photograph prior to a performance at Ambassador College Auditorium and a later 1976 stage portrait in formal concert dress; Martina Arroyo in a 1977 portrait during the height of her international career; and Grace Bumbry depicted in costume as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera in 1965. The photographs capture both staged publicity portraits and performance contexts documenting professional presentation and artistic identity.<br /> <br /> Produced during decades of expanding civil rights advocacy and gradual institutional integration the archive situates African American women within a field historically shaped by exclusion and limited access. Their visibility in major opera houses and concert venues reflects broader shifts in cultural recognition and professional opportunity while also underscoring the continued significance of performance as a site of racial and gendered representation. Minor edge wear; captions remain legible; overall very good condition. unknown
19944Place and date not stated. Written one above the other on one side of a pink 12mo leaf of paper removed from an album. In fair condition aged and worn with small square of tape staining at head and some light offsetting of ink over Nicholls' signature. Reads: 'Yours sincerely Ben Davies.' and 'In remembrance of Agnes Nicholls'. Place and date not stated. unknown
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1897WA6771New York: G. Schirmer 1897. Hardcover. Fair. 4to quarter morocco lacks spine floral cloth very edgeworn. Used as a scrapbook or souvenir book. Unique. <br/><br/>Ex libris Emílie Pavlína Venceslava Kittlová aka Emmy Destinn aka Ema Destinnova. As you know she was famed for her portrayal of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1908. This book bears a two-line inked inscription with her signature dated 11 November 1908 on the blank page. Tipped into the book are 5 official portrait photographs of her in costume. At least two of them are by H. Mishkin New York City. Also tipped-in or laid in are clippings and images of other Aida and operatic performers. Also glued in are reviews of her performances in English and in Czech from a Chicago magazine. Also included are all or parts of printed programs. G. Schirmer hardcover
2377911 July 1906; on letterhead of the Hotel Cecil Strand WC London. 1p 12mo. On bifolium. In fair condition with two pencil notes at head one in orange. Folded twice. He hopes he is not abusing the kindness of 'Monsieur Menager' i.e. the house manager by asking for two seats for his wife and her friend as they would like to go to the opera that night. After terminating the letter in the customary Gallic fashion he adds a postscript asking for the reply to be left with the porter. 11 July 1906; on letterhead of the Hotel Cecil, Strand, WC [London]. unknown
2377818 June 1900; no place London. 2pp 12mo. On bifolium. Folded once. The first page is scored through in ink with pencil annotations at head. The final page with Saléza’s signature is unmarked. He asks him for as many seats as possible for that evening. He would like ‘une bonne loge deux Stalls et plusieurs petites places’. He will pass by the office to collection and asks for them to be left in his name. 18 June 1900; no place [London?]. unknown
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1943045923New York: Hamish Hamilton 1943. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 504 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Black. First Printing. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $3.50. Small Area Of Slight Browning At Gutter Edges Of Front Endpapers And Binding Slightly And Partly Cracked After Front Free Endpaper <br/> <br/> Hamish Hamilton hardcover
39380Ottawa. Free Press Print. 1881. 25x 16cm one sheet folded 4 pages decorated titles in frame borders with 4 local advertisments on the margins & a full last page ad for J.L. Orme & Son on fine light weight tinted grey paper in fine condition rare. On Plays with actors listed include: "A Husband in Clover" and "Old Gooseberry". "During the evening the Band of the Governor General's Foot Guards will perform. Ottawa. Free Press Print. 1881 unknown
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AQ25079vs.: vs. c. 1820s-1930s 12mo 8vo and quarto. The majority preserved within original publisher's wrappers. An extensive archive of theatrical publications and ephemera emanating from the recently dispersed library of Howth Castle County Dublin seat of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family comprised of theatre programmes and libretti representing productions spanning from the late 1820s up to the 1930s both domestic and Continental in origin. The 94 individual publications comprehend: Eight playscripts and libretti printed in Paris between including an 1828 edition of Théaulon and Choquart's comic vaudeville Monsieur Jovial ou l'huissier-chansonnier 1827 and an 1882 issue of Charles Gounod's five-act opera Faust set to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite. 15 Italian productions variously printed at Rome Milan Florence and Naples in the latter half of the nineteenth century including an 1848 Neapolitan edition of Verdi's four-act opera Nabucodonosor composed to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera first performed at La Scala in Milan 9th March 1842; and a programme to accompany the first performance of Verdi's Attila at La Fenice in Venice 17th March 1846. An Italian language edition printed at Barcelona in 1845 of Jacopo Ferretti's libretto Eran due or son tre 1834. 70 theatre programmes operas and Italian-language libretti printed in London spanning the century between the 1830s and 1930s including: 15 issued in the 1870s as a part of 'Davidson's Musical Opera-Books' series published in conjunction with performances at 'London's Italian Opera Houses' of productions of inter alia Rossini's The Barber of Seville Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute each with a parallel English translation and 'the music of the principal airs'. The first appearance in print of the libretti for five Gilbert and Sullivan productions: Patience 1881 Princess Ida 1884 The Mikado 1885 The Yeomen of the Guard 1888 and Utopia 1893. A magazine-programme for a run of performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1926 of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up 1904 - a production with which Barrie was directly involved - with Dorothy Dickson in the lead role. A run of 12 programmes for the 1925/26 1926/27 seasons at the The Old Vic including 11 productions of Shakespeare's plays all notably featuring leading Shakespearean actor Baliol Holloway d. 1967. Notable members of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family included Thomas Gaisford 1789-1855 English classical scholar sometime curator of the Bodliean Library Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. Gaisford’s eldest son Thomas Gaisford of Offington Sussex 1816-1898 British Army officer married in 1859 as his second of three wives Lady Emily St Lawrence d. 1868 eldest daughter of the third Earl of Howth. Their eldest surviving son Royal Navy officer Julian Charles Gaisford-St Lawrence 1862-1932 succeeded in 1909 his uncle the fourth and last Earl of Howth and came to reside at Howth Castle in Co. Dublin. A rare opportunity to acquire an ephemeral archive which not only exemplifies the theatrical passions of a single family across least three generations but documents the evolution of nineteenth century stage production charts the popular progress of Italian-language libretti in both Britain and on the Continent and exhibits the situation of English theatre prior to the post-war dominance of television and film. . [vs.], [c. 1820s-1930s] unknown
