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1971réf. 35717Moscow: Iskusstvo Publishing House 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong folio. Original publisher's linen boards. 182 pp. 1f. Profusely illustrated with 162 reproductions of Russian set and costume designs and several portraits relating primarily to Russian theatrical productions of the 20th century many in color from the collection of the State Central Museum of Theatre Art founded by Alexei Alexandrovich Bakhrushin 1865-1929. With introduction and full descriptive inventory of illustrations in Russian and English. On coated paper. Binding slightly worn. In worn dustjacket. Iskusstvo Publishing House hardcover books
réf. 24726No binding. Very Good. 1 Ca. 149 x 199 mm. For a performance of Willemetz Jacques-Charles and Saint-Granier's revue "On dit ça" at the Casino de Paris. Featuring Jane Marnac 1892-1976 Dorville 1883-1940 Saint-Granier 1890-1976 Mitty et Tillio The Real Jazz Kings and other noted artists. With a color illustration by C. Gesmar to verso. Ca. 1923 2 Ca. 132 x 212 mm. For a performance of Charles Méré's "La Danse de Minuit" at the Théatre de Paris. Featuring Véra Sergine 1884-1946 Victor Francen 1888-1977 Pierre Renoir 1885-1952 Henri Rollan 1888-1967 Marcelle Praince 1882-1969 and other noted actors. With 2 identical photographs by G.L. Manuel Frères of a painting presumably of Sergine to verso. Creased at folds; minor wear. unknown books
réf. 24729No binding. Very Good. 24 pp. illustrated wrappers. Ca. 196 x 134 mm. Dated New York March 13 1922. Featuring Edgar Stehli Ernest Cossart Frank Reicher Helen Westley Martha Bryan Allen Edwin R. Wolfe Richard Bennett and other prominent actors. Moderate foxing browning and wear especially to wrappers. unknown books
2004réf. 132996Los Angeles: Pandemonium Theatre Company 2004. An archive of 10 original posters for productions staged by Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company from 1988 to 2004. The plays were performed in Southern California predominantly at The Court Theatre Falcon Theatre Theatre West The Raven Playhouse and Melrose Theatre. The archive includes posters from 10 productions including "Fahrenheit 451" "The October Country" "Past Present & Future" "The Time of Going Away" and "Drunk and In Charge of a Bicycle." and his Irish play "Falling Upward!" "Falling Upward!" was one of Bradbury's favorite plays and especially as he advanced in age he was know to encourage its frequent production simply for the joy of being able to see it again. Bradbury was an avid playwright and a familiar and enthusiastic presence in the Southern California theatre circuit near his home. In 1963 he and director Charles Rome Smith founded Pandemonium Theatre Company. The two friends would go on to work with the company together for the next four decades until Rome's death in 2004. This archive is a solid representation of the company's latter half before Smith's passing and Bradbury's hearing loss which would necessitate that he stop attending performances. Posters approximately 11 x 17 inches. About Fine condition. Pandemonium Theatre Company unknown books
1968réf. 138257N.p.: N.p. 1968. Collection of three single weight and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now" performed on July 24 at a Carmelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon France. Three of the photographs with stamps of the Gamma photo agency or photographers on the verso two with holograph annotations regarding the production on the verso. The program published by Walter Swennen contains the text of "Let Us Talk about Counterrevolution" from the play in both French and English. After a dispute with the IRS led to the closing of their New York City theater in 1963 Julian Beck and Judith Malina moved The Living Theatre to Europe where they toured almost exclusively refining the group's vision of improvisational collaborative and participatory leftist theatre. In 1968 they debuted what would become their signature piece "Paradise Now" at the Avignon Festival where at the conclusion of the piece both performers and audience members took to the streets in a combination demonstration and parade that caused controversy among the residents of the town. Program: 4.25 x 10.5 inches 30 pages saddle stapled in wrappers. Near Fine. Photographs: Variously sized between 7.75 x 5.75 inches and 12 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 131291New York: Self published 1960. Archive of two pieces from one of the New York Underground's most creative and charismatic orators Spencer Holst. Includes Holst's self-published first book "25 Stories" 1960 and a flyer from a reading shortly after publication at The Living Theatre in New York on February 1 1961. Holst was already a well-known and gifted speaker by the time "25 Stories" was published with the help of his wife abstract expressionist painter Beate Wheeler. He frequently held audiences with his psychedelic and surrealistic tales and would give performances at Judith Malina and Julian Beck's The Living Theatre selling copies of "25 Stories" at the show. Holst's work continued to fascinate audiences and "25 Stories" was reprinted in 1993 by Station Hill Press as the better part of a career-spanning collection "The Zebra Storyteller." Book: tall handbound perfect bound wrappers 4.5 x 14 inches. Spine ends chipped cracked front hinge dampstains and soiling overall Good plus and still serviceable surviving copies of this fragile book are scarce in any condition. Flyer: 8 x 12.5 inches. Very Good plus with one vertical fold and minimal toning along the fold. Self published unknown books
2014réf. 133502Baltimore MD: Royal Books 2014. First Edition. First Edition. An exhibition catalog accompanying the photography exhibition at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Culture Center from March 7 to May 26 2014. A deluxe catalog featuring 50 vintage photographs of directors and actors from around the world at work behind the camera including Alfred Hitchcock Nicholas Ray Federico Fellini Michelangelo Antonioni Audrey Hepburn Fred Astaire Orson Welles Robert Wise Jerome Robbins Ben Hecht Peter O'Toole Stanley Kubrick Roman Polanski Arthur Penn Monte Hellman and many others. 9 x 8 inches. Fine in perfect bound wrappers. Royal Books unknown books
1959réf. 49878New York: Celia Adler Fondeyshon un bukh-komitet Celia Adler Foundation 1959. First Edition. Two octavo volumes 24cm. Blue cloth boards; dustjackets; viii688pp; illus. Old damp-marks to board edges of both volumes causing discoloration to cloth but no structural damage. Text clean tight and unmarked; jackets lightly worn and sun-faded; complete sound and Good. Text entirely in Yiddish save verso of title page which provides both a transcription and an English-language translation of the title and publisher. Exceedingly uncommon autobiography of Celia Adler 1899-1979 daughter of Jacob Adler and half-sister to Stella Adler known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre." Adler was associated with the Yiddish Art Theater movement of the 1920s and gave one of the first theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor in her brother Luther's 1946 Broadway production A Flag is Born. Unaccountably scarce even for an American work written entirely in Yiddish: OCLC notes a single location only in the U.S. Northwestern; five more copies are in European and Israeli institutions. Celia Adler Fondeyshon un bukh-komitet [Celia Adler Foundation] unknown books
1933réf. 45243Prague 1933. First Edition. 12mo 14.5cm.; publisher's orange cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in darker orange and black; 115pp.; 24 leaves of photomontaged plates illustrated ads throughout. Light shelf wear faint dampstaining along fore-edge of rear cover else Very Good and sound internally fine. Tenth annual yearbook issued by the Prague City Theatre featuring twenty-four photomontaged portraits of cast members the portraits often incorporating elements from the short poems about each member. unknown books
1976réf. 43758Los Angeles: American National Theatre 1976. First Edition. Quarto 28cm.; publisher's silver photo-illustrated card wrappers; unpaginated approx. 250pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear else Very Good or better. Quite a substantial souvenir album devoted to the career of stage and film actor Helen Hayes. American National Theatre unknown books
2001réf. 42702N.p.: Cape Cod Poets Theatre 2001. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Just a hint of wear and soil else Near Fine. Poetry anthology including contributions by Marge Piercy and Martin Espada. This title unlocated in OCLC as of October 2018. Cape Cod Poets Theatre unknown books
1938réf. 26792New York: Theatre School of Dramatic Arts 1938. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; original pink staplebound double self-wrappers printed in brown; unpaged; textblock printed on pink stock interleaved with photographic plates. Fine. Order blank laid in. New York Historical Society only in OCLC as of June 2015. Theatre School of Dramatic Arts unknown books
1882réf. 22648New York: Sarony 1882. Cabinet card image of French opera tenor Ernesto Nicolini 1834 - 1898 with the photographer's name of Sarony 37 Union Sqr. N.Y. on the mount below the image; about 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" overall size; light wear; in very good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Sarony Paperback books
réf. 108140Boston: 1854. Broadsides 7 1/2 x 19” wood and lead letterpress printing in protective sleeve; very good. § Two playbills from 1854 featuring “Mr. Forrest” in “Damon and Pythias or The Test of Friendship” and “Gladiator!” Edwin Forrest 1806-1872 was the first American-born star of the U.S. stage. His feud with British actor William Charles Macready was said to have played a major role in the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849. 1854. Broadsides unknown books
1929réf. 26298New York NY: The New York Magazine Program 1929. 16 pages; color cover & endpaper illustrations; black and white illustrated within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps some darkening wear to covers covers creaed; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The New York Magazine Program paperback books
1951réf. 42288N.p.: Playbill. Very Good. 1951. Pamphlet. Playbill for the National Theatre 1951. 40 pages. The interior is clean and bright with all ads intact. The paper wrappers are crisp. Overall a very good copy. . Playbill unknown books
réf. P5666Prague: Otto Girgal 1929-1930. Small quartos 24.5 × 17.5 cm. Original printed wrappers; consecutive pagination 135 6 pp. Occasional illustrations. Small loss to lower right corner of first issue not affecting text; the other issues in fine condition in protective mylar. Complete run of this Czech avant-garde theatre journal which arose as a polemical forum for a less conservative more visually inventive and experimental theatre and was edited by the poetist writer Jaroslav Seifert. As the surrealist poet Vítězslav Nezval writes in his manifesto "The avant-garde stage" from the first issue: "Forget all theatres that don't implement the most furtive needs of your bodies and souls forget them all" p. 9. With theoretical essays and manifestos by F. X. Šalda Jan Bartoš E. F. Burian Arnošt Dvořák Karel Teige Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic Vítězslav Nezval; poetry by Halas and Hora; excerpts of plays by Nezval Bartoš Alfred Jarry and others. Also contains shorter glosses about cultural events related to theatre. With drawings by Toyen Jaroslav Král František Muzika and Arch. Heythum and appealing understated typographic design throughout to both front and rear wrappers. KVK OCLC show copies at the British Library Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cambridge Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Getty Harvard Herder-Institut and Oxford. unknown books
1928réf. 26293New York NY: The New York Magazine Program 1928. 24 pages; color cover & endpaper illustrations; black and white illustrated within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps some darkening wear to covers corners with tiny chips; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The New York Magazine Program paperback books
1796réf. 21336Paris 1796. 390 x 290 mm. Some foxing and minor wear. Hall III p. 385 2. Raucourt a popular and controversial French actress made her debut at the Comédie Française in 1772 as Dido going on to play all the classical tragédienne roles. "Her beauty and talent had made her famous but her not so secret love affairs with other women made her notorious . Raucourt led the Sect of Anadrynes a society of lesbians in Paris . At the outbreak of the Revolution she was imprisoned for six months with other royalist members of the Comédie Française and she did not reappear upon that stage until the close of 1793 and then only for a short time. She deserted with a dozen of the best actors in the company to found a rival colony but a summons from the Directory brought her back in 1797 . Her funeral was the occasion of a riot. The clergy of her parish having refused to receive the body the crowd broke in the church doors and were only restrained from further violence by the arrival of an almoner sent posthaste by Louis XVIII." Wikipedia. unknown books
réf. 21321Le Kain is depicted in the role of Orosmane in Voltaire's "Zaire." 420 x 282 mm. No place no date but Paris ca. 1775. Slightly browned and foxed. Proof before text. Hall III p. 32. Le Kain was a noted French actor who performed with the Comédie Française. unknown books
1800réf. WRCAM32859London: Hughes 1800. Broadside 10 x 7 1/4 inches. Mounted onto a later sheet. Minor soiling. Very good. An engaging broadside for a theatre performance centered around a drama called "The Africans." The scenery for the play is taken from the work of the intrepid British explorer Mungo Park and features views of the African coast and interior "Omai's Cave" and warrior huts. The characters include Omai an African Chief evidently confusing him with the famed Omai from the South Seas warriors named Wahedooa Tongataboo Tiaiarboo and Kiahiargo and a Princess named Terapo. The bill promises an evening in which "the retributive hand of Providence will manifest its abhorrence of Vice; and Virtue and Constancy eventually triumphant." A pantomime called "Harlequin Traveller; or a Trip Round the World" would also be performed the whole evening culminating with a grand panoramic view of the Rock of Gibraltar. Hughes unknown books
1874réf. WRCAM48099Oakland 1874. Handbill 8 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches printed on yellow paper. Old light folds else fine. Scarce handbill advertising a night's entertainment at the Dietz Opera House the first theatre in Oakland located at the corner of Webster and 12th Streets. Shows began there around 1874 and continued until 1905 and the theatre hosted stars such as Buffalo Bill and Sarah Bernhardt. Along with McDonough & Earnshaw's Royal Marionettes and the Christy Minstrels part three of the night's entertainment is a performance called "Sports of the Fantoccini" composed of Chinese bell ringers and "Brigham Young and Family." In an 1896 SAN FRANCISCO CALL article about theatrical manager Mark Thall he claims to have been present for McDonough and Earnshaw shows at the theatre "with the first company that opened the old Dietz Opera- house" a date he places at 1870. But since shows did not begin at the Dietz until around 1874 we place the printing of this broadside at that date. unknown books
1953réf. 10451Cambridge 1953. Paper. Very good. Sanders Theatre. Included Berlioz Bach Kodaly Gilbert & Sullivan and Russian Italian Welsh and Philippine Folk Songs. Closing Number united singing Handel Words by Milton with Old Nassau and Fair Harvard. unknown books
1858réf. 41641Boston: Hooton Printing Establishment 1858. 1st printing. Buff printed paper. Modest wear to paper some age-toning rubbing/light chipping to edges horizontal crease. Very Good. Single broadsheet printed recto only. 12-1/16" x 5-9/16" Hooton Printing Establishment unknown books
1960réf. 30310New York: Living Theatre 1960. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Plastic ring bound slender volume which collects newspaper and magazine reviews of the Living Theatre performances of The Connection by Jack Gelber which was performed for the first time on July 15 1959 directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck. 36 pp. Not dated but realistically circulated sometime around 1960. Very good condition with a few of the fragile plastic rings having partially snaped off. Living Theatre paperback books