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George E Dunn, author and editor [Walter James Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), theatre historian]:
George E. Dunn author and editor. Autograph Letter Signed to theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope discussing the perils of the proof-reading process with reminiscences.
5 July year. Three Corners Watledge Gloucestershire. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp foolscap 8vo. In fair condition lightly-aged with creasing at head which is annotated by MP ‘author’. After thanking him for his letter he writes: ‘It is fatal to have a book published without seeing a proof. In my “Gilbert & Sullivan Dictionary†I had occasion to mention “The Yeomen of the Guard†14 times. The compositor aided by the reader deliberately channged them to “Yeomanâ€. They actually said they did so because “Yeoman†was correct!†Turning to Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man’ he says he knows ‘the original Yorke Stephens & his wife Helen Hays for their son Frank was a schoolfellow of mine at Merchant Taylors!’ He gives a list of the ‘fine theatrical people’ that school produced. ‘I met a lot of the profession at the house of my uncle by marriage W. Lestrange including Edna May Hubert Carter and Hilda Trevelyan.’ If his ‘slightly longer experiences’ might be of use to MP in writing his books they are at his disposal. He once found ‘200 slips’ in a book by ‘old John Parker’ ‘for which he seemed grateful’. Postscript: ‘Northcliffe when plain Alfred Harmsworth suggested my nom de plume of Factus when I was a schoolboy. FACTUS = done!’ 5 July [year?]. Three Corners, Watledge, Gloucestershire. unknown
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The Refectory Club, Mayfair, London; David Mallett, Secretary [Walter James Macqueen-Pope, theatre historian; Anna Zinkeisen (19
The Refectory Club Mayfair London. Three items of club ephemera: publicity booklet application form and notice. With Typed Letter Signd from club secretary David Mallett regarding theatre historian Maqueen-Pope’s desire to become a member.
Mallett’s letter dated 4 October 1955; on letterhead of The Refectory Club 10 Tilney Street Park Lane W1 London. The other three items undated but slighty earlier in date. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Interesting London ephemera: the plans for the Refectory Club were clearly ambitious but there is little to be gleaned about it and it is unclear whether it even opened. Zinkeisen and her sister Dora are the subject of a 2022 monograph by Philip Kelleway Emma Roodhouse and Nicola Evans. The four items in good condition lightly aged but with rust staining from a paperclip. Folded for postage. ONE: Typed Letter to MP signed ‘D Mallett’ but with ‘For Secretary’ typed beneath this. 1p 4to. Begins ‘We have been informed by Mr. Nathan that you would like to become a member of our Club. We shall of course be honoured to accept you but regret that we must ask you to apply formally for membership on the enclosed application form. After you have completed this we should be grateful if you would forward it to Mr. Nathan for proposal.’ Information regarding fees follows. TWO: Illustrated Printed stapled publicity booklet. 7pp 16mo. With three photographs of interiors Dining Hall Lounge and Common Room together with reproduction of drawing of the Dining Hall on the cover. ‘The mediaeval Dining Hall is architecturally unique with its finely vaulted ceiling supported by columns and pilasters of the utmost delicacy. / Curved wall panels provide the perfect setting for exquisite murals by Miss Anna Zinkeisen. The distinguished artist has captured the atmosphere of the period and portrayed it ith touches of subtle humour and gaiety. . The Lounge pannelled in oak with rich period furnishings is a pleasing combination of things old and new. The old has been made to serve again in an unusual recessed long bar. / The pine-pannelled Common Room dominated by a fine old refectory table is reserved for private dinner parties. .’ The architect is named as H. Hubbard Ford the ‘Decor’ is by Dickeson & French Ltd and the murals are by ‘Miss Anna Zinkeisen’. THREE: Notice printed in red. 1p 12mo. Headed ‘The Refectory Club. / The Club will be open to Members on and after 3rd May 1955.’ Gives details of opening hours bar hours and restaurant hours and of membership fees. Typed in red at foot: ‘This applies to the first 500 members. For those joining later the rate will be / FIVE GUINEAS PER ANNUM’. FOUR: Printed ‘Application for Membership’. On one side of a slip of paper 1p landscape 12mo. Not filled in. Mallett’s letter dated 4 October 1955; on letterhead of The Refectory Club, 10 Tilney Street, Park Lane, W1 [London]. The othe unknown
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Naomi Jacob (1884-1964), English author and actress [ Walter James Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), authority on theatre; Teddy Knox o
Naomi Jacob author and actress. Two Typed Letters Signed both 'Mickie' to W. Macqueen-Pope on subjects including Ellen Terry Bernard Shaw and Teddy Knox of the Crazy Gang's 'Nervo and Knox'.
Both from 'Casa Mickie the second spelled 'Casa Micki' Gardone Riviera Lago di Garda Italy. 16 July 1953 and 5 August 1953. Two chatty and characteristic letters. ONE: 15 July 1953. 2pp. 4to. On aged paper with wear to edges and vertical closed tear at foot. She begins by praising his books 'Ladies First' 1952 and 'Shirtfronts and Sables' 1953 adding in an autograph note 'Yes I bought them when in London.' The first contains 'that wonderfully beautiful tribute to Ellen Terry. I don't know when I have read anything which moved me so deeply you rose to great heights when you wrote that. You are beginning to run James Agate very close on my shelves'. She next turns to her books on Henry Irving and Ellen Terry: 'Did you read the Shaw-Terrty letters - autograph note: 'Of course you did!' they sent my blood pressure mounting sky high - his at least. What a stupid wind bag of a man and how charming her letters were to him. It was the same with Mrs Patrick Campbell's letter to him and from him.' The rest of the letter contains references to 'dear Seymour Hicks' 'adorable Ella' and a trip on her birthday 'to Asolo where Duse lived': 'Oh what a sad town and the saddest of all the room in the little museum filled with her belongings - some photographs one signed one of Ibsen looking furious with the world in general some books a few bits of rather paltry jewellry and some dresses and shoes. There was the inevitable intense letter written by that cad d'Annunczio sic in his sprawling self satisfied writing'. She ends with an apology for 'this over long and - no doubt - badly spelt - letter' and with remembrances to 'Mrs "Mac.Pope"'. TWO: 5 August 1953. 1p. 4to. On aged paper creased and with fraying along one edge. She is using the abbreviation to him that she also sends 'to Yvonne Arnaud and Julia Neilson': '"T.R.N.A." - in other words this requires no answer'. She thanks him for information on 'the mirror act' which she saw 'years and years ago at the Middlesbrough Empire and the name on the bill was "The Wylie Brothers"'. She is pleased that 'Teddy Knox' remembers her: 'The last time I saw him was in Rome when I think he was bored stiff with St. Peters but full of admiration for the "Wedding Cake"'. She prefers Knox's wife Clarice Mayne to him and discusses the film that was to be made about her life. Both from 'Casa Mickie [ the second spelled 'Casa Micki' ], Gardone Riviera, Lago di Garda, Italy. 16 July [ 1953 ] and 5 August unknown
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H F Maltby [Henry Francis Maltby] (1880-1963), playwright and actor on stage and screen [Walter James Macqueen-Pope, theatre his
H. F. Maltby Henry Francis Maltby playwright and actor on stage and screen. Typed Letter Signed to theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope giving reminiscences of his visit to the tomb of ‘Maggoty’ Johnson and visits to London theatre productions.
8 December 1948; on his letterhead 62 Langdale Gardens Hove Sussex. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 4to. Sixty lines of text. Aged and worn but entirely legible. Signed ‘H. F. Maltby’ and addressed to ‘My dear Pope’. Most of the letter concerns the tomb of ‘Maggoty’ Johnson: ‘I first met that interesting old gentleman over forty years ago when I was playing at the Theatre Royal Macclesfield with the late Mrs Bandman-Palmer. It was my landlady who advised me to visit the tomb as one of the objects of interest in the place. The tomb was then covered by a large stone on which was engraved all particulars of his death . It then burst out into a very lengthy epitaph in doggerel’. He gives a facetious couplet from this with the carved response of ‘the local vicar’. ‘I visited the grave again some twenty years later: but alas! the iconoclasts the vandals had been there with their cursed pocket knives and had carved their damned initials all over it - God rot hem! - and both stones were well night illegible.’ He mentions a production of ‘Madame Butterfly’ at the Duke of York’s ‘where it was put on as an afterpiece to Jeromes flop “Miss Hobbs†and kept that running for months and months after its alloted span Jerome drawing his fees all the time though the audiences were careful not to get to the theatre till “Miss Hobbs†had finished. The cast of “Butterfly†was the same as “Hobbs†- Evelyn Millward Allen Aynesworth Herbert Wareing Cosmo Stuart Gordon Lennox it was there Pucchini can’t spell his name saw it and decided to “operize†it. Also didn’t “Charley’s Aunt†enjoy most of it’s very long run at The Globe Theatre It was where I saw it. I think it moved there from the Royalty.’ 8 December 1948; on his letterhead, 62 Langdale Gardens, Hove, Sussex. unknown
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Frank Pettingell [Frank Edmund George Pettingell] (1891-1966), actor who amassed a notable collection of theatre material and Vi
‘You’ll note how catholic my wants are’: Frank Pettingell actor and collector of theatre material. Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Andy the bookseller Andrew Block’ listing some of his ‘great wants’.
23 February 1961. On letterhead of Highfield Lodge Wise Lane London NW7. The obituary of the recipient Andrew Block 1892-1987 in ‘The Private Library’ was subtitled ‘the doyen of booksellers’; his business was established in 1911. 2pp 12mo. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Signed ‘Frank’. He is sending his list: ‘you’ll note how catholic my wants are’. He has been sent ‘5 guineas worth of book tokens. Do you accept these They were issued by Collets Hampstead.’ His ‘great wants’ are ‘the Comic Home Journals - the novel with ghost on the cover - the certain Ludgate and Boys Own Xmas Number’. He asks for the list to be returned once perused and ends by stating that he will ‘be in to see’ the recipient ‘If I finish midday one day’. 23 February 1961. On letterhead of Highfield Lodge, Wise Lane, London, NW7. unknown
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Sir Emile Littler [born Emile Richeux] (1903-1985), theatrical impresario based at the Palace Theatre, London, producer of over
Sir Emile Littler theatrical impressario. Two Typed Letters Signed asking theatre historian W. J. Macqueen-Pope whether he did more London pantomimes than Julian Wylie. With carbon of reply.
15 and 19 November 1957. Both on his letterhead. Carbon of Macqueen-Pope’s reply 18 November 1957 from Coventry House 5/6 Coventry Street W.1. For information on Littler see the entry in the Oxford DNB of his brother Prince Frank Littler 1901-1973 who did not share Emile’s ‘affection for plays or players individually’. Also see Macqueen-Pope’s entry in the same work. The three items in fair condition lightly aged and creased. Both signed ‘Emile’. ONE: TLS of 15 November 1957. 1p 4to. Reads: ‘My dear Popie / You know about everything in the Theatre and I am wondering if you could tell me how many London pantomimes Julian Wylie did either by himself or as the Wylie-Tate organisation. / I would be very interested to know if by any chance you have this information available.’ In autograph: ‘Many THANKS -’ and minor correction. With pencil note by recipient. TWO: TLS of 19 November 1957. 1p 4to. He thanks him for his letter ‘which I greatly appreciate. / I had been asked whether Julian Wylie had done more pantomimes in London than I had or vice versa. I had an idea that I was quite a number ahead and you have kindly confirmed it. Actually I have done fourteen in the West End and nobody living to-day has done as many as that.’ He thanks him for his trouble and evidently sending a bottle of wine ends: ‘Would you toast Julian with the attached.’ THREE: Unsigned carbon of Macqueen-Pope’s reply to Item One 18 November 1957. Speaking form memory since his ‘references’ are ‘at home’ he gives details of ‘nine major pantomimes’ that ‘Julian did’ in London. 15 and 19 November 1957. Both on his letterhead. Carbon of Macqueen-Pope’s reply, 18 November 1957, from Coventry House, 5/6 C unknown
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Evelyn Lake, playwright and children's author [W J Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), theatre historian]:
Evelyn Lake playwright and children’s author. Typed Letter Signed to theatre historian W. J. Macqueen-Pope regarding a play she has written and is offering to ‘Mr Tom Arnold’. With accompanying printed poem by her.
24 August 1953; 5 Valley Road Bude N. Cornwall. See the recipient’s entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. Signed ‘Evelyn Lake’. In good condition lightly aged with minor traces of paperclip. Folded once. She enjoyed his ‘article in yesterday’s Reynolds News’ and thinks it is ‘Lovely to be able to make people laugh spontaneously. Hence the little verses enclosed.’ Accompanying the letter printed on a small square of paper is a sixteen-line poem in four stanzas with first line ‘Sweet laughter is beloved of kings -’ signed in type ‘EVELYN LAKE.’ She thanks him for replying to her letter despite being ‘so busy’: ‘I am taking your advice and writing Mr Tom Arnold to ask if he will look at my play.’ She is ‘still in touch with children’ and tries ‘to avoid boring them. I believe I can still interest them though the moderns are tough lots of them.’ She will be in London shortly ‘and will entrust my play to Mr Arnold if he will consent to read it but I want to try every source I can get my rejection quickly if it has to be that!’ 24 August 1953; 5 Valley Road, Bude, N. Cornwall. unknown
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[Will Fyffe (1885-1947), Scottish comedian and music hall entertainer] W Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), theatre historian:
Will Fyffe Scottish comedian and music hall entertainer. Two drafts of Typed Obituary of Fyffe by theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope.
No date or place. 1947. London. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. MP is not named as the author but there is no doubt that he is. Item one has corrections in his hand. Both versions are simply titled ‘Will Fyffe’. The two versions exhibit a number of differences from one another. It is not clear where the obituary was published but it was probably the London magazine ‘Everybody’s’ for which MP contributed a weekly column. ONE: 4pp 4to double-spaced on four leaves. Autograph corrections to first sentence and an altogether more untidy effect including an additional passage on the last page which is correctly positioned in the second draft below suggest that this is an earlier draft. Begins: ‘It was a freak of fortune that made Will Fyffe into a music hall star instead of remaining on the legitimate stage where he had made his beginning as a small boy.’ Contains information not present in the second version including several astute assessments. For example: ‘Unlike Sir Harry Lauder the other great Scot of the Halls Will Fyffe was a realist. He could create a character and be it. It was not Will Fyffe at whom you gazed it was a gamekeeper a centenarian a Scots engineer on a steamship a guard on the Highland Railway - finding a report of the Battle of Waterloo in the lining of his ill fitting cap a country doctor a real country bumpkin the blacksmith at Gretna Green or the inebriated gentleman to whom Glasgow belonged on a Saturday night. He studied his types and he reproduced them magnificently. They were real people.’ Other topics include his mastery of make-up international popularity and ‘magnificent service’ in the First World War. TWO: 3pp 4to single-spaced on three leaves. More polished than One and with emendations deletions and recasting. Ends: ‘Our stage has lost one of its greatest artists and finest men. How fine an actor he was few knew although one celebrated critic glimpsed it when he wrote “Mr Fyffe has a sob here of which Garrick had bee proud.’ No date or place. [1947. London.] unknown
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[Victorian Penny Toys] W J Macqueen-Pope [Walter James Macqueen-Pope] (1888-1960), theatre historian and press officer and archi
‘Re the toys which made Xmas long ago’: ‘Popie’ on Victorian penny toys. Copy of Typed Letter from theatre historian W. J. Macqueen-Pope containing a long list with some comments including toys which have ‘almost if not quite vanished’.
12 June 1956. No place London. For information on Macqueen-Pope see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is from his papers. Unsigned carbon copy of typed letter with ‘W. Macqueen-Pope’ typed below space for signature. 2pp 4to. Sixty-one lines of text. Text clear and complete on lightly aged and creased paper with slight water stain to one edge and damage to top left-hand corner from paperclip. The letter begins: ‘My Dear John / Re the toys which made Xmas long ago. One would want a picture of the men standing shoulder to shoulder down Ludgate Hill in the gutter selling the penny toys. These they carried on trays with a support round their necks. The toys were of all sorts - a list -’. A list of thirty-two lines follows beginning: ‘Little men taking off their tall hats when a string was pulled. / Little tortoises in boxes with glass tops which waggled their legs when moved.’ Ends with: ‘Little bits of metal like aeroplane propellors sic which rose in the air when pushed up a screwed rod. / Watchmen’s rattles - yellow and red. / Bulls eye lanterns.’ The recipient has followed each entry on the list with a tiny tick in ink. Macqueen-Pope continues with twenty-three lines listing ‘toys which have almost if not quite vanished - but which cost more than a penny - some as much as sixpence’. These include: ‘Tin palm tress sic bearing cocoanuts and a nigger smwarmed sic up it caught a cocoa nut in a try on his head and came down.’ and ‘The Wheel of Life - a circular tin affair looking like a round saucepan with no handle. It had slots in the side. Into the bottom went a spike. You put rolls of paper - with illustrations inside facing inwards you twirled it round looked through the slots and the pictures moved. This was the origin of the cinema.’ Also ‘Slap bangs which went off with a satisfying bang when dropped. Scared old men and made cyclists think they had a puncture.’ Postscript: ‘White mice and pigs made of sugar. Tiger nuts - locusts. Everlasting stick’. 12 June 1956. No place [London]. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 24045
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Gustavus Brooke [Gustavus Vaughan Brooke] (1818-1866), celebrated Irish actor [W Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), theatre historian; '
Gustavus Brooke celebrated Irish actor. Two drafts of Typed Article on ‘The Tragic Tragedian’ by theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope with carbon of letter to the editor of ‘Everybody’s’ magazine Greville Poke and reply.
Material all dating from 1950. ‘Everybody’s’ magazine 114 Fleet Street London. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry and that of Brooke in the Oxford DNB. The five items are in good condition lightly aged and worn. ONE: Carbon of Typed Article titled ‘London Was Unlucky to Him / The Story of Gustavus Brooke The Tragic Tragedian’. 11pp 4to on eleven leaves. Begins: There is nothing so ephemeral as the art of the actor. Very very few of the names live on. Yet there are some who in their day were of the first magnitude and are now forgotten save for the delving historian. That is a pity for many of them deserve a niche in Fame and such a one was Gustavus Vaughan Brooke the Tragic Tragedian. His life was one long exciting adventure of triumph and disaster. . He was one of the great ones of the early nineteenth century. His life ad his career resembled that of Edmund Kean.’ TWO: Carbon of apparently earlier draft of article. 11pp 4to. No changes to text are apparent but the layout is different. THREE: Another carbon of Item Two. FOUR: Carbon of TL from MP to the editor of ‘Everybody’s’ Greville Poke also see his entry in the Oxford DNB. 13 July 1950. He is sending ‘the story of Gustavus Brooke. I know it is a little long but believe me it is a great story.’ He has ‘plenty of illustrations’. Elsewhere he writes that he is ‘rather sorry’ Poke did not like his ‘suggestion concerning the musical comedy situation because this turned out to be what I think is one of the best articles I have ever written. I sold it elsewhere at once’. FIVE: TNS written on behalf of the editor of ‘Everybody’s’ magazine Greville Poke also see his entry in the Oxford DNB on the magazine’s letterhead 14 July 1950. 1p 4to. Signed ‘for Greville / WS’. Reads: ‘My dear Popie / Thanks for sending along the manuscript of GUSTAVUS BROOKE. I shall be getting into this in the near future I hope.’ Material all dating from 1950. [‘Everybody’s’, magazine, 114 Fleet Street, London.] unknown
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George Colman the younger (1762-1836), playwright and manager of the Haymarket Theatre, London [James Winston (1773?-1843), acti
Autograph Letter Signed 'G. Colman' from the playwright George Colman the Younger defending his imposition of a financial penalty on the recipient apparently an actress for non-attendance at a performance at the Haymarket Theatre.
Melina Place London; 21 July 1814. 1p. 4to. On aged and grubby paper. The letter provides an interesting insight into the niceties of Regency theatrical practice. Colman peremptorily addresses it to 'Madam' before expressing his displeasure and defending his imposition of a penalty as a result of the non-attendance of the recipient apparently an actress at a performance at the Haymarket. It begins 'It is always very unpleasant to me when I am obliged to recur to my rule of penalty establish'd in the Theatre; but in a case like your's sic it was unavoidable on the score of precedent; - for if such neglect of business were unnoticed any others would absent themselves on similar occasions. -' In the second part of the letter Colman instructs the recipient in consequence of her 'explanatory Letter' to 'tell Mr. Winston James Winston one of Colman's partners at the Haymarket that I beg he will send to the Treasury on Saturday to remit the whole of the forfeit'. It will be sufficient for her to show Winston the letter. Melina Place, London; 21 July 1814. unknown
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Bell's British Theatre; Jonson, Ben; Johnson, Charles; Vanbrugh, Sir John; Shirley, James; Cibber, Colley
Bell's British Theatre consisting of the most esteemed English Plays Volume the Nineteenth being the tenth volume of Comedies containing Volpone altered from Ben Jonson Country Lasses by Mr. C. Johnson Mistake by Sir John Vanbrugh The Lady's Last Stake by Colley Cibber 1778/1780
<p>London: John Bell 1780. leather. Good /no dustwrapper. 16mo . frontispiece engravings Collection of five plays being volume 19 in the Bell's British Theatre and vol 10 of the comedies; the plays are please note full title given for Volpone the remainder containing equivalent sub-titling: Volpone or The Fox a Comedy as altered from Ben Jonson and performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden regulated from the Prompt-Book by permission of the Managers by Mr. Wild Prompter; The Country Lasses Charles Johnson The Mistake Sir John Vanbrugh The Gamesters as altered from Shirley and The Lady's Last Stake Colley Cibber; each play with its own title page and facsimile engraving facing frontispiece engraving for Bell's British Theatre total of 6 engravings; all plays dated 1778 with frontispiece engraving dated 1780; period calf boards with new leather spine with black and maroon title labels and gilt titling new endpapers; scattered foxing throughout offset from engravings title pages and text block tanned o.w. Good; boards rubbed/scuffed worn at corners new leather with very mild scuff marks.</p> John Bell hardcover
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W Macqueen-Pope, theatre historian [Marie Lloyd]:
W. Macqueen-Pope theatre historian; Marie Lloyd Typescript of "Marie Lloyd - as I knew her"
BBC Broadcast 1951; Printed Version in "London Calling" Issues 615-640 p.48. Typescript carbon Seven pages 4to good condition. the text as Macqueen-Pope typed it had a good crop of typos for example "we justvcllaed" for "we just called" some elision but just two annotations the correction of the spelling of "weasels" and change of a pub name from the Kings Head to the Cromwell Arms. A comprehensive and enthusiastic biography. With two Typed Letters Signed "Kay Fuller Talks Producer General Overseas Service" 29 March 1951 acknowledging receipt of he script "which I greatly look forward to reading" She has given up the "idea of inserting a song into your talk. The discs are so old and of such poor quality that we cannot risk them for short-wave transmission. It is most disappointing." She'll be in touch with a recording date. 6 April 1951 confirming the date of Macqueen-Pope's recording of the broadcast talk. BBC, Broadcast 1951; Printed Version in "London Calling", Issues, 615-640, p.48. unknown
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[Salt Lake Theatre Corporation]
Salt Lake Theatre Pay Check
Salt Lake City 1874. Printed check 9 cm x 21.5 cm printed in black with blanks to be filled in by hand. Near fine. Check is dated September 21 1874 and payable to the Super Napper. The amount is for $2.00 and is signed by Susan Napper. unknown
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[THEATRE PRINT]
Hand-coloured lithograph by Destouches of Mlle. Périgat in the role of Mélusine in the play Le Ciel et L'Enfer
Paris: Martinet 1855. 192 x 128 mm. Printed on wove paper. Signed in the plate with the initials "A.L."<br /> <br /> Slightly foxed. Published as plate no. 651 in the series entitled "Galerie Dramatique." <br /> <br /> Performed at the Théatre de L'Ambigu Comique. Martinet unknown
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Iroquois Theatre Chicago Thomas J Noonan Charles E Nixon
Iroquois Theatre
Chicago: Iroquois Theatre Thomas J. Noonan 1903 . First edition. Hardcover. Good minus. 8vo 93 pages variant red cloth all edges gilt covers lightly stained lower corner of rear cover a bit "chewed". Scarce <br/><br/>Less than six weeks after Chicago's grandest new theater opened it burned to the ground due to flagrant safety violations and corruption. More than 600 died in America's worst theater disaster. It resulted in new codes requiring outward-opening safety doors. This hardcover book appeared before the opening performance. It relates a history of the theatres in Chicago by Charles E. Nixon; tells why this magnificent venue was built and how with illustrations of the theatre plans and interiors and furnishings. "The Iroquois . will impress even the most superficial observer by its beauty and grandeur . The style architecturally is French renaissance which has a strong suggestion of the classic. designed by architect Benjamin H. Marshall ." Illustrated and with plates of posters and of the builders and equipment suppliers to the theatre. Iroquois Theatre, Thomas J. Noonan hardcover
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[No author given] [Columbia Theatre]
KENTUCKIANA ADVERTISING DRAMA Program Columbia Theatre Wednesday and Thursday Dec. 15th & 16th
Ashland KY: Columbia Theatre 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 12mo 6pp. A fine copy in the publisher's salmon-pink glued wraps. Ephemeral program for the short-lived Columbia Theatre in Ashland Kentucky. Loaded with advertisements for contemporary businesses there are about two baseball cards' worth of information about the actual films being shown at the theatre! An excellent and well-preserved snapshot of local history. The Columbia was built in 1910 and closed in 1928 so while this pamphlet is undated we can place it within that time frame. [Columbia Theatre] unknown
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Colonial Theatre Magazine
THEATRE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC CARS Colonial Theatre Magazine theatre playbill
Cleveland: Colonial Theatre 1912. Staplebound. Very good. Octavo 16pp. illustrated. A very good copy in the publisher's printed stapled wraps. Playbill for a Cleveland production of Little Miss Brown a play by Philip Bartholomae. Most interesting to us is the prevalence of local advertisements. In the early years of automobile manufacturing Cleveland rivaled Detroit. There are no fewer than three advertisements for Cleveland-built electric cars including the Hupp-Yates the Baker and the Rauch and Lang. These last two firms merged in 1914 dating this playbill to slightly earlier. We don't locate any copies of this or any Colonial Theatre Magazine in OCLC. Scarce. [Colonial Theatre] unknown
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Tremont Theatre
First night of a new moral and satirical Comedy illustrative of the Times entitled DOCTORS' COMMONS! Or - Quackery and Example! Written by a citizen of Massachusetts expressly for the Tremont Theatre. This Evening . . . Tuesday . . . March 20th 1838
Tremont Theatre Boston Massachusetts 1838. Broadside. Used - Very Good. Eastburn's Press. Broadside 16 x 7.5" Creased tiny hole trifle soiled VG. Tremont Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts unknown
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TEATRO MUNICIPALE VALLI (A CURA DEL)
La danza moderna di Martha Graham. Mostra documentaria. Reggio Emilia 22 marzo - 15 aprile 1987
Reggio Emilia Tecnostampa 1987. In 4° cart. con sovr. pp. 81 3 n.n. numerose e belle immagini fotografiche di Luigi Ghirri in colore ed altre in nero. Testo in italiano ed in inglese Reggio Emilia, Tecnostampa unknown
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TEATRO UNIVERSALE
Raccolta enciclopedica e scenografica pubb. da una Soc. di Librai Italiani
Torino Balbino/Pomba/Fontana.e altri editori date. In 4° cartonati muti non recenti numerose illustrazioni nel testo anche a piena pagina. Disponiamo delle seguenti annate: 1834 anno primo e 1835 rilegati insieme -1836 - 1837 - 1838 alcuni "disegni" a matita - 1839. TUTTI Torino, Balbino/Pomba/Fontana...e altri editori unknown
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TEATRO UNIVERSALE2
Raccolta enciclopedica e scenografica pubb. da una Soc. di Librai Italiani
Torino Balbino/Pomba/Fontana.e altri editori Date. In 4° leg. in mezza pelle coeva con titoli in oro al dorso. Disponiamo delle seguenti annate: 1838 1839 1841 mancano i fascicoli nn 351 e 352 1843 piccole tracce di inchiostro in alcune pagine. Buono lo stato di conservazione tranne qualche giallitura. ALL'ANNATA Torino, Balbino/Pomba/Fontana...e altri editori unknown
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TEATRO DE LA OPERA
Empresa Amelia Pasi De Ferrari. Temporada 1898
Buenos Aires Litografia Blanchi. Granzini y Volante 1898. In 8° massimo brossura in cromolitografia con belle immagini ai due piatti. Pp. 12 con al centro la composizione nominativa per palchi degli abbonati e la composizione nominativa dell'orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera. Le pagine sono una grande miniera di notizie sulla vita commerciale di Buenos Aires sono infatti tutte pubblicità di vario formato alcune con figure di negozi e aziente della città Buenos Aires, Litografia Blanchi. Granzini y Volante unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 120815
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TEATRO UNIVERSALE
Raccolta enciclopedica e scenografica pubb. da una Soc. di Librai Italiani
Torino Balbino/Pomba/Fontana.e altri editori data. In 4° cartonato rustico coevo con dorso rifatto. Disponiamo delle seguenti annate: 1837 molte pagine ingiallite - 1838 - 1842 alcuni frontespizi portano tracce di coloritura recente. CADAUNA Torino, Balbino/Pomba/Fontana...e altri editori unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26715
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Symbiotic Theatre
Mentioning the Gorilla: An Anthology of Creative Writing
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : B9781910162378 ISBN : 191016237x 9781910162378
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Dixey, Henry E (1859-1943). American actor & theatre producer
PLAYFUL AUTOGRAPH QUOTE "I NEVER WAS BORN / I WAS QUARRIED" SIGNED by the American Actor HENRY E. DIXEY.
September 18th 1886. 1886. Very good. - A quote alluding to his role as the statue of Adonis which comes to life in the burlesque musical of the same name "I never was born / I was quarried" signed by the American stage and screen actor Henry E. Dixey. The quote penned on 3-3/8 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide paper is dated "Sept 18th / 86". The paper is mounted in glue from the verso onto heavier stock which was once mounted into an album. The top right corner is diagonally clipped though not affecting the text. Very good. <p>Born in Boston the American actor and theatre producer Henry E. Dixey 1859-1943 joined the cast at the Howard Athenaeum when only 9 years old playing the child character Peanuts in Augustin Daly's "Under the Gaslight". He went on to perform in many plays and musicals and was best known for his role in the burlesque musical "Adonis" from 1883 to 1885. Dixie played the title role of a handsome male statue that comes to life and finding the ways of man unpleasant chooses to turn back into stone. Dixie went on to perform other roles on stage and in silent movies. He was one of the group of "gentlemen" invited by Robert Emmet Odlum to witness his fatal jump from the Brooklyn Bridge and was the one who timed the jump with his gold stopwatch. September 18th, 1886. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 96337
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Stevens, Roger L (1910-1998). American theatre producer and arts administrator Founding chairman of the Kennedy Center for the P
An apologetic TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the American Theater Producer ROGER L. STEVENS as Chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts apologizing to Jean Dalrymple who was apparently upset about being left out of the loop in the production of a Revival.
New York February 19 1983. 1983. Fine. - Over 220 words typed on 11 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide creamy white "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" stationery with the center's logo and title printed in teal & green at the top. Responding to his friend City Center producer and ANTA's executive director Jean Dalrymple who was upset at being left out of the loop in decisions made in staging a revival of "On Your Toes". Stevens begins by saying that "I am distressed by your letter. I had no intention of upsetting you." He goes on to describe how the project had "started off on a very small scale and somehow ballooned into a monster." Though most of the money was put up by the Kennedy Center ANTA the American National Theater and Academy still had substantial funding involved. He explains that "From the beginning we ran into a beehive of problems not the least of which was Makarova's shocking injury; and with it all we never really sat down and thought very clearly about the relation of ANTA and the Kennedy Canter." To appease her Stevens hopes to have her attend the first preview with him and offer her opinion. ".the first preview is on Tuesday March 1 and I very much hope that you will attend that with me and Delly and give us your opinion." Signed "Roger". Folded for mailing else fine. <p>The ballerina Natalia Makarova was injured by falling scenery during a performance of "On Your Toes" and was replaced in the role by Valentina Kozlova. The Virginia Theater opening was delayed and re-scheduled for March 6. Delly to whom Stevens refers is Alfred de Liagre the executive producer for ANTA.<p>Roger L. Stevens 1910-1998 was an American theatrical producer arts administrator and real estate executive. He was the founding chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1961 and the National Endowment for the Arts 1965. He produced more than a hundred plays and musicals over his career including "West Side Story" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Bus Stop". He became known for introducing plays by such adventurous writers as Harold Pinter Arthur Kopit and Tom Stoppard.<p>Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Cary Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jose Iturbi Andre Kostelanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world. New York, February 19, 1983. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 96514
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Cornell, Katharine (1893-1974). American stage actress called "The First Lady of the Theatre".
AN ORIGINAL SEPIA-TONED MATTE-FINISH PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED by "The First Lady of the Theater" American Stage Actress KATHARINE CORNELL.
Good. - An original 9-1/2 inch high by 7-3/8 inch wide sepia-toned matte-finish photograph of the American stage actress and producer Katharine Cornell. The image portrays the lovely Katharine Cornell seated on the floor in three-quarter profile. Attired in a shoulderless patterned dress the actress looks up to the side. Inscribed "Best Wishes" and signed "Katharine Cornell" at center right. Apparently once framed the photograph is mounted on cardboard and the very edges are slightly rubbed. Remnants of paper backing adhere to verso of the heavily rubbed cardboard mount. The photograph itself is near fine. <p>Born in Berlin to American parents the American stage actress Katharine Cornell 1893-1974 was dubbed "The First Lady of the Theater" by the critic Alexander Woolcott. Beyond the stage she was also a writer theater owner and producer. Raised in Buffalo New York she married the stage and film director Guthrie McClintic who often directed those serious Broadway dramas in which she starred. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 1931 production of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award for her 1935 portrayal of Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" and a Tony Award for her portrayal of Cleopatra in the 1947 production of "Antony and Cleopatra". unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 37060
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Le theatre d'autrefois - Chefs d'oeuvre de la litterature dramatique 1842 / 1844
Le théâtre d'autrefois - Chefs d'oeuvre de la littérature dramatique 1842 / 1844 - Opera completa in tre volumi rilegati insieme. - Pag. 352; 376; 380 - Dimensioni: 17 x 26 x 5 cm ca. - Legatura in mezza pelle - Lingua francese. - Buone condizioni generali. Piccoli segni del tempo. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 126646
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Theatre Guild
The Theatre Guild Anthology V2
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1494111942.G ISBN : 1494111942 9781494111946
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Theatre Guild
The Theatre Guild Anthology V1
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1494117215.G ISBN : 1494117215 9781494117214
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[LEEDS THEATRE]
For the Benefit of Mr. kemble. By Their majesties Servants At the theatre in leeds On tuesday Evening June 5 1781 will be reviv'd a tragedy call'd The earl of essex: or the unhappy favourite.
Leeds: s.n. 1781. Single leaf broadside. Browned and creased some marginal chipping/tearing. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising a benefit night of John Philip Kemble 1757-1823 at the provincial Theatre in Leeds in 1781. This appearance pre-dates Kemble's London debut by two years. At this time he was touring as a member of Tate Wilkinson's Company on the Yorkshire circuit; indeed it was Wilkinson who had constructed the Leeds theatre in 1771. Kemble son of actor-manager of a strolling theatrical troupe Roger Kemble and younger brother of actress Sarah Siddons took to acting in 1776 joining Wilkinson in 1778. Later in 1781 he moved to the Smock Alley theatre in Dublin before joining his sister at Drury Lane in September 1783. At Leeds he played the titular role in the tragedy of The Earl of Essex after which 'Shakespeare's Ode' was performed in which the majority of the players took vocal parts but with Kemble himself taking the speaking role. The evening concluded with the 'New Pantomime Entertainment' of Necromancer: of Harlequin Doctor Faustus an imaginative retelling of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus by pantomimist and theatre manager John Rich 1692-1761 first performed in 1723. . Dimensions 190 x 300 mm. [s.n.] unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : AQ31604
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NYTE at the Fortune Theatre N Y T E
Harvey Fierstein's FREAKY PUSSY A T-ROOM MUSICAL 1973 Theatre poster
<p><em>N.Y.T.E. at the Fortune Theatre. No binding. Very Good. New York: N.Y.T.E. at the Fortune Theatre 1973. Vintage original 14 x 9" 35 x 22 cm. poster folded with a marginal note at top left in an unknown hand light stain in top left very good. </em></p><p>An exceedingly scarce mini-poster documenting a very early moment in Harvey Fierstein's career. He made his stage debut in Andy Warhol's <em>Pork</em> and appeared in two additional plays done at the La MaMa Theatre. He was all of nineteen years-old when this play made its debut.</p><p>Not in World Cat.</p> N.Y.T.E. at the Fortune Theatre
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WALTER-FILM006850
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Societe Internationale Pour L'Etude Du Theatre Med
Festive Drama: Papers from the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre Lancaster 13-19 July 1989
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0859914968.G ISBN : 0859914968 9780859914963
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Cinema - M. Okuda e D. Okuda - Enciclopedia Ufficiale di Star Trek - ed. 2001
Cinema - M. Okuda e D. Okuda - Enciclopedia Ufficiale di Star Trek - ed. 2001 - Testo in lingua italiana. Pagine 942 con illustrazioni. - Copertina rigida. - Condizioni molto buone. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 125909
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The Colonial Radio Theatre
Gettysburg: The Complete Radio Drama
cassette. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1929244088.G ISBN : 1929244088 9781929244089
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Theatre Guild Board of Directors
The Theatre Guild Anthology Classic Reprint
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0666423288.G ISBN : 0666423288 9780666423283
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Cinema - Cineguida - Anno 1951 - ed. D. Lazzaro - RARO
Cinema - Cineguida - Anno 1951 - Roma D. Lazzaro 7 edizione 1951 - Pag. 189 con numerose illustrazioni informazioni elecono attori e attrici stabilimenti di produzione ditte di noleggio films distributrici nazionali società produttrici registi etc. - Copertina rigida - Testo in italiano. - Condizioni molto buone. Dorso e sguardie rifatte. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 56011
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LA PETITE ILLUSTRATION : THEATRE 1930
La Petite illustration théâtrale. Année 1930 complète reliée en un volume. 22 numéros du numéro 248 au numéro 269. Janvier à décembre 1930.
La Petite Illustration 1930. periodical. <b>Périodique en français</b>. Couverture souple. Théâtre. Volume relié demi-basane rouge environ 600 pages couvertures conservées. <i>ref. 99878</i> La Petite Illustration unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99878
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LA PETITE ILLUSTRATION : THEATRE 1936
La Petite illustration théâtrale. Année 1936 complète reliée en un volume. 23 numéros du numéro 381 au numéro 403. Janvier à décembre 1936.
La Petite Illustration 1936. periodical. <b>Périodique en français</b>. Couverture souple. Théâtre. Volume relié demi-basane rouge environ 600 pages couvertures conservées. <i>ref. 99877</i> La Petite Illustration unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99877
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Scuola e teatro Dimitri - 1 ed. 1988
Scuola e teatro Dimitri - 1 ed. 1988 pp. 167 con molte illustrazioni. - Lingua italiana - Copertina semirigida - Condizioni molto buone. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 124637
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Welles, Orson, and Roger Hill (Mercury Theatre)
Everybody's Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Edited for Reading and Arranged for Staging Signed by Orson Welles
Signed: The Todd Press. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Softcover in black spine on blue wraps with gilt paste down plate - Mercury Theatre clean general shelf wear. First edition. SIGNED and inscribed by Orson Welles in ink on copyright page "For Sid With all good wishes. " Sid is Sidney Solow a fellow moviemaker 1910-1984 who won an Academy Award in 1965 for the design and development of the versatile Automatic 35mm Composite Color Printer via Consolidated Film Industries and a Medal of Commendation in 1978 for his outstanding service to the film industry. Book is clean and crisp; slight separation at very top of hinge. Illustrated throughout with small drawings. From the estate of Sidney Solow. Free of any markings not ex-library. ; 61 pages; Signed by Author . The Todd Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 50026
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Chierchi Usai - Lo schermo incantato - G. Melies Giornate del cinema muto - 1991
Chierchi Usai - Lo schermo incantato - G. Melies Giornate del cinema muto - 1991 pp. 185 con illustrazioni - Lingua italiana - Copertina rigida - Condizioni molto buone unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 123518
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Apollo Theatre
The Apollo Theatre Story
NY: Apollo Operations Inc 1966. Second edition; 4to.; stiff wraps with stapled binding softcover; 48 unnumbered pages; black and white photographic illustrations; wraps are edgeworn with a hole in top spine end corner and remnants of 2 pieces of tape on front cover else very good unmarked copy. <br/><br/> NY: Apollo Operations, Inc (1966) paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42637
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FIRENZE ENTE AUTONOMO TEATRO COMUNALE DI FIRENZECOMITATO MANIFESTAZIONI ESPOSITIVE FIRENZE PRATO E C
Visualita` Del `Maggio` bozzetti figurini e spettacoli 1933-1979 Firenze Forte di Belvedere 2 maggio-7 ottobre 1979
Rome: De Luca Editore 1979. 1979. 4to. pp. 377. profusely illus. some colour. wrs. bit rubbed short tear to front long inscription on title. Exhib. Cat. Signed by Authors. [Rome]: De Luca Editore, [1979]. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : TREsuFIR20
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Libro Fotografico - Nos Jolies Actrices - Anni '20
Libro Fotografico - Nos Jolies Actrices - Anni '20 - Testo in lingua francese. Pagine 84 illustrate. - Copertina rigida. - Condizioni buone con piccoli segni del tempo come da foto sguardie rifatte. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 104485
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Teatro Scene Aloi - Esempi Architetture per lo spettacolo - 1 ed. 1958 Hoepli
Aloi - Esempi Architetture per lo spettacolo - 1 ed. 1958 Hoepli pp. 504 con molte illustrazioni nel testo. - Lingua italiano - Coeprtina rigida - Condizioni molto buone piccoli segni del tempo alla sovraccoperta come da foto unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 43909
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata Dramma lirico di Solera - Musica G. Verdi - 1845
Teatro - Dramma lirico di C. Solera - Musica di G. Verdi - I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata - 1 ed. 1845 - Testo in lingua italiana Pag. 31 - Copertina morbida - Condizioni buone come da foto - unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 68870
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Il Teatro della Scala dagli inizii al 1794 - Omaggio Nozze Borromeo Arese - 1929
Il Teatro della Scala dagli inizii al 1794 nei documenti ufficiali inediti dell'Archivio Borromeo Arese - Milano presso la Biblioteca Ambrosiana 1 ed. 1929 - Titolo della copertina: Nozze Borromeo Arese Taverna XII giugno MDCCCCXXIX A. VII - Pag. VIII 292 con tavole f.t. - Copertina rigida - Testo in italiano - Condizioni molto buone. Dorso restaurato - Copertina come da foto. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63020
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Cinema teatro spettacolo
Rivista Cinema - Anno III completo - 1938
Rivista Cinema - Quindicinale di divulgazione cinematografica - Anno III - 1938 - Raccolta fascicoli completa rilegata in due volumi - Copertine in brossura conservate. - Pag. 430; 418 con illustrazioni. - Copertina rigida - Testo in italiano. - Condizioni molto buone. - - unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99019
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