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1974Best.-Nr. 016038Spain: Graficas Summa 1974. Book. Very good condition. Paper Covered Boards. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xxiv 239 pages of text including a bibliography. Original thick paperback binding with minor shelfwear; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Inscribed by the author to a fellow economist Robert W. Fogel who was the cowinner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993. The inscription reads "17/IV/96 To Dr. Fogel with kindest personal regards F G." Contains two double-sided fold out charts and illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. Text is in Spanish. First edition. Graficas Summa Hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 189556Berkeley: Berkeley Women's Liberation 1970. Newspaper. 20p. folded tabloid photos poetry features comics services adsvery good on newsprint. Part III of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's play "The Independent Female" begun in issues 15 and 16. Berkeley Women's Liberation unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 263079Berkeley: Berkeley Barb 1967. Newspaper. 16p. folded tabloid underground newspaper illustrated with b&w photos local ads articles news columns toning very good on newsprint. Cover collage by Metcalf of Peace and Love and naked girls of course. Inside: Were Cops Gunning for Huey illustrated with the infamous bamboo chair photo. Bad Blood in Haight. Fort Hood GI Riot. Pentagon protest report.SF Mime Troupe review. The issue numbering for volume 5 got out of whack so we have stated the issue and whole number as printed though these may be incorrect. Berkeley Barb unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 262759Berkeley: Berkeley Barb 1967. Newspaper. 16p. folded tabloid underground newspaper illustrated with b&w photos local ads articles news columns small stain on several of the last pages else very good on newsprint. Cover story onThe Watts Insurrection with R. Cobb cartoon of African American boy with a Molotov Cocktail stand captioned Free Enterprise. Camejo on the jailing and torture of 13 "conspirators". Same page a short report from Hurwitt on the infamous PL vs. SWP fraca in the Mission at a John Ross for Supervisor rally.The Left still eats itself. Full page report on the San Francisco Mime Troupe in its Sixth Season. Tuli column "The Hip & the Square. Berkeley Barb unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 202468Oakland: the Troupe 1987. 8.5x11 inch handbill very good design by Lincoln Cushing featuring a skull with outlines of Africa in its eyes. Announces a special fundraiser performance for the Bay Area Free South Africa Movement. [the Troupe] unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 162819San Francisco: The Trystero Company 1968. 20p. underground tabloid illustrations photos cartoons very lightly toned mailing label on front page else very good condition. The Express Times was S.F.'s main political underground paper. Big red headline "War Declared! Foes Strikes at Berkeley Boston" above photo of police in gas masks amidst billowing clouds of tear gas. Inside: Garson think piece on "virtues of the revolutionary gang" article on Sirhan Sirhan's defense interview with Jim Garrison over what RFK knew when assassinated report on June situation in Paris interview with Allen Ginsberg about solutions to drug problem war zone report on Berkeley review of 2001: a Space Odyssey by Sandy Darlington back cover is photo poster of cops protecting Bank of America. The Trystero Company unknown books
1870Best.-Nr. WRCLIT54265New York: Happy Hours Company 1870. 795pp. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. Pencil ownership signatures spine a bit chipped with old vestiges of tape mends but a good copy. An unspecified but later printing. OCLC reports this title appeared under the imprints of Dick & Fitzgerald Dick Samuel French and this imprint all of the entries with the copyright date entered as the literal imprint date. Curiously copyright is assigned to O. A. Roorbach the pioneering American bibliographer and publisher though in 1868 i.e. seven years after his death. The author's introduction is dated 1868 and like many theatrical works it was likely reprinted dozens of times under various imprints until the stereos were too worn to reuse. Happy Hours Company unknown books
2024Best.-Nr. x-1665762446Archway Publishing 2024. Hardcover. New. 302 pages. 6.00x0.87x9.00 inches. Archway Publishing hardcover
1975Best.-Nr. C104365Nottingham: Theatre Royal 1975. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Original signature of comedian Harry Worth on a Theatre Royal Nottingham Programme for the pantomime Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp January-February 1975. Additional signatures of cast members: Jane Harrod Miles Twins Cox Twins Wyn Calvin 'Widow Twinkey' Programme:slim 8vo.pp.16. Original publisher's wraps in bright pink lettered white with a bold Eastern-style illustration on the front cover. Period advertisements add graphic interest. Certificate of authenticity included. Very good. Slight creasing. Sound. Theatre Royal paperback
2022Best.-Nr. 132974Snap Collective Publishing 2022-07-22. hardcover. Like New. 8x0x11. Looks unread with just a touch of shelf wear no jacket pictorial boards as issued. Please email for photos. Snap Collective Publishing hardcover
1958Best.-Nr. 052728USA: The Hanna Theatre 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. Original theater program signed 'Marcel Marceau' to a person named Julien. Demy 8vo. 22 x 15 cm. In English. 30 p. fully advertisements. Marceau's program: "Week of Sunday May 4 1958. Matinee Saturday May 10. Ronald A. Wilford Associates presents Marcel Marceau and hiss partners Gilles Segal and Pierre Verry. The program will consist of pantomimes selected from the following repertoire.". Notes on the last pages. Marceau was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence" and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years. As a youth he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II giving his first major performance to 3000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris. The Hanna Theatre paperback
1880Best.-Nr. 21531New York: McLoughlin Bros 1880. Hardcover. Very good. Large thin 4to. Upper board in full color chromolithography; rear board in single color and listing the five books in the Pantomime Series. 10pp of text with the two remaining blanks serving as front and rear pastedowns. With a full color chromolithographed harlequinade inside with pages of varying sizes which tell the story of Aladdin as described in the text and as a stage production. Light wear to the corners; fingering soil; hinges neatly mended though there is some partial separation of the inner sections; still a very good copy. Rare. . McLoughlin Bros hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 80252New York:: McLoughlin Brothers no date ca. 1880s. publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. 19th c. pencil ownership signature at top of pastedown; inner hinges cracked and sewing a little loose; chipping and splitting at spine. Large 8vo. Illustrated in color including plates of varying sizes to be flipped in sequence to visually tell the story. Pantomime Toy Books. McLoughlin Brothers, hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 80251New York:: McLoughlin Brothers no date ca. 1880s. publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. There are a few <1/4" damage to the bottom edge of one of the color openings; inner hinges cracked; some chipping and damage to the spine; colors bright. . Large 8vo. Illustrated in color including plates of varying sizes to be flipped in sequence to visually tell the story. Pantomime Toy Books. McLoughlin Brothers, hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 80253New York:: McLoughlin Brothers no date ca. 1880s. publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. Cracked at the inner hinges and a short split at the bottom of the central color plate; a few light stains to the text; tiny areas of damage to the top edge of some of the moving color flaps; chipped at the spine. . Large 8vo. Illustrated in color including plates of varying sizes to be flipped in sequence to visually tell the story. Pantomime Toy Books. McLoughlin Brothers, hardcover
1882Best.-Nr. 70784New York:: McLoughlin Brothers no date ca. 1882. publisher's boards illustrated in color. Very slight discoloration to the first and last leaves of text; spine chipped; edges of boards rubbed. Large 8vo. Illustrated in color including plates of varying sizes to be flipped in sequence visually tell the story. McLoughlin Brothers, hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 24007New York: McLoughlin Bros 1880. Hardcover. Very good. Large thin 4to. Upper board in full color chromolithography; rear board in single color and listing the five books in the Pantomime Series. 10pp of text with the two remaining blanks serving as front and rear pastedowns. With a full color chromolithographed harlequinade inside with pages of varying sizes which tell the story of Aladdin as described in the text and as a stage production. Light wear to the corners; fingering soil; hinges neatly mended though there is some partial separation of the inner sections; still a very good copy. Rare. . McLoughlin Bros hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 24001New York: McLoughlin Bros 1880. Hardcover. Very good. Large thin 4to. Upper board in full color chromolithography; rear board in single color and listing the five books in the Pantomime Series. 10pp of text with the two remaining blanks serving as front and rear pastedowns. With a full color chromolithographed harlequinade inside with pages of varying sizes which tell the story of Cinderella as described in the text and as a stage production. Light wear to the corners; fingering soil; still a very good copy. Rare. . McLoughlin Bros hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1665762446.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26300The Lindsay Kemp Company. The Round House London 1974. See his entry in the Oxford DNB and his Guardian obituary by Kemp’s collaborator Michael Coveney 26 August 2018. Sprawling autograph inscription in green ink ‘with love for Paul from lindsay X’ across top of centre pages of an attractive programme for Kemp’s celebrated treatment of the works by Jean Genet and Oscar Wilde with numerous photographs and illustrations: 16pp 8vo in black and white on glossy paper stapled into glossy red covers. Full page introductory piece on the Lindsay Kemp Company by David Haughton. See Image of autograph. The Lindsay Kemp Company. The Round House [London, 1974]. unknown
1799Best.-Nr. AQ25369s.i.: s.n. 1799. Single leaf handbill printed on one side only. A trifle browned manuscript price '£88-8-6' to verso presumably the evening's box office take An apparently unrecorded Regency playbill advertising a performance of Thomas Morton's 1764-1838 popular comedy The Way to Get Married to which was added an original pantomime entitled Harlequin Sailor: Or The flight from Africa which boasted the intriguing prospect of 'The Clown's Invitation or the Grand Cock Fight' as well as the perilous spectacle of 'Harlequin's surprising leap from the gallery to the stage and through a Hoghead of Fire'. According to a statement at the foot of the playbill tickets were available from Messrs. Merritt and Wright among others suggesting - via comparison with contemporary extant advertisements - that the entertainments were staged at the Theatre Royal Liverpool. This is further attested to by the presence of Mr. Bradbury in the lead role of the Harlequin likely cabinet maker turned clown Robert Bradbury d. 1831 who made his debût at the theatre. Not in ESTC. Dimensions 160 x 230 mm. [s.n.] unknown
Best.-Nr. 2391519 April 1951. On the green letterhead ‘The Mark of a Good Production’ of ‘ALWYN D. FOX PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT’ 38 Sutherland Street London SW1. See Michael Caine’s affectionate account of Fox in ‘The Elephant to Hollywood’ 2010 from which the anecdote at the end of this entry is taken. 1p 4to. Addressed to ‘Dear Mr. Hindin’ signed ‘Alwyn Fox’ and headed ‘Pantomime - “Dame”.’ While the twenty lines of text are clear and complete the item is not in the best of condition on aged and creased on discoloured paper with closed tears to edges. The letter begins: ‘I am at present free for Dame for coming season pants. and would be glad to negotiate with you. You contacted me last season but I had just fixed if you recall.’ He explains that the previous year he ‘did “Riding Hood” for Barrie Baldrick at New Cross Empire’ and gives details of four similar engagements in recent years including ‘ “Cinders Emp. Middlebro’ - Jimmie James’. He has a ‘very complete and elaborate wardrobe for any subject and all own props’ and ‘Can produce/manage if required. Terms £25.’ He is enclosing ‘last years folder and some photos’ not present. After becoming a movie star Caine lost touch with Fox ‘although years later when I was in Beverly Hills I got a letter from a social worker in Hammersmith London. He said he had an old man called Alwyn D. Fox lying destitute in one of his wards. Mr Fox he said was claiming he had discovered Michael Caine. In all likelihood it was fantasy but if there was any truth in it would I mind writing Mr Fox a letter and perhaps sending a small amount of money to make his last few weeks a bit easier I wrote at once to confirm Alwyn’s story and enclosed a cheque for five thousand dollars. Two weeks later I had another letter from the social worker returning the cheque. Alwyn had been delighted to get my letter he wrote and had spent the day he received it showing it to everyone on the ward. He had died later that night.’ 19 April 1951. On the green letterhead (‘The Mark of a Good Production’) of ‘ALWYN D. FOX | PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT’, unknown
Best.-Nr. 11275The two letters: 'Weston Green 10th: July 1812' and 'Johnsons Coffee House Monday Evg: July 1812'. Cheque: 'London September 19th: 1817'. All three items are on stubs within a card wallet. All good on aged paper. Letter One: 'Weston Green 10th: July'. 1 p 4to. On bifolium with verso of second leaf addressed to 'Mr: Whitaker St: Pauls Church Yard London' with two postmarks one 'KINGSTON - T 12' and docketed 'Mr; T. Dibdin July 1812.' Whitaker will have 'two or perhaps all three' of the songs by Monday's post and 'with respect to the remuneration I am still from the failure of my last Opera in want of the Sum I once before mentioned to you - if you woud sic procure me the Loan of a hundred or a hundred and fifty Pounds for a few Months you shall be welcome by way of Interest to any thing my Efforts in the scribbling way can furnish'. He will send 'the Song of Mr: Spriggs' on the Monday and asks for an answer to be sent to 'Johnsons Coffee house Surrey Theater'. Letter Two: 'Johnsons Coffee House Monday Evg:'. 1 p 4to. On bifolium with recto of second leaf addressed to 'Mr: Whitaker W: Smithfield' and verso of second leaf docketed 'Mr. T. Dibdin July 1812.' He is sending 'Mr: Spriggs & nine Songs for Choice or to keep all if of any use and if there is any other Style you can point out I will gladly adopt it . there are 8 Lady's & one Sailors Song - but the latter might be sung by a Lady'. He has a farce 'accepted by Mr. Harris in which I shall introduce the Song Fawcett refused for Matthews which you I hope will publish - & if you woud sic take a Ballad in it I'll write one for you - there are no other Songs in the Piece'. Cheque: Addressed 'To Messrs. Button & Whitaker St. Pauls Church Yard' and dated 'London September 19th: 1817'. Entirely in manuscript on rectangular slip of paper 23.5 x 9.5 cm. With embossed tax stamp. 'Two Months after date please to pay me or my Order the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds Value received Signed Thos Dibdin'. Crossed endorsed and accepted by Sir John Lubbock & Co. With typed transcript of the three items. The two letters: 'Weston Green 10th: July [1812]' and 'Johnsons Coffee House | Monday Evg: [July 1812]'. Cheque: 'London Septemb unknown
Best.-Nr. 113336 Adelphi Terrace Strand WC London; 26 July 1878. 3pp. 12mo. Good on lightly-aged paper. Blanchard and his wife 'very seldom go out of a Sunday but should the weather be at all favourable' they will 'make a vigorous effort to avail ourselves of the strong temptation you have so kindly thrown in our way'. They will be 'quite content with an afternoon ramble in your beautiful garden and a chat with dear Mrs. Keeley'. He is sending 'impromptu lines written by my father nearly a Century ago' not present that he believes ought to be in Burgess's possession 'as a double ancestral inheritance'. 6 Adelphi Terrace, Strand, WC [London]; 26 July 1878. unknown
Best.-Nr. 22936Signed and dated to 1957. Envelope with London postmark dated 18 January 1957 and her embossed address: 35 West 57th Street New York. Enters exhibited her artistic work - including many sketches of her own costume designs - widely in the United States and Europe and her work is held by several museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The present item is an attractive impressionistic sketch in grey and black pencil with watercolour wash in pink light red and grey showing a dancer with arms outstretched and heavy costume with full sleeves and train. Captioned by Enters at bottom left: 'Fleur du Mal Proust Sequence'. Signed at bottom left: 'Angna Enters '56'. On 23 x 15.5 cm laid paper. In fair condition despite light creasing dogeared corners and one short closed nick at edge. Inserted with tissue guard in envelope with stamps and postmarks addressed by her to 'W. Macqueen Pope Esq. Reuter News Service 85 Fleet Street London E.C. England' and marked 'Personal'. The letter has been redirected in pencil to 5 Coventry Street. The flap has Enters' embossed address. MacQueen-Pope would have had a number opportunities to become acquainted with her work. In her article 1980 article 'Agna Enters: American Dance-Mime' Ginnine Cocuzza notes that Enters made her London debut in 1928 and her television debut on the BBC in 1952. Cocuzza also notes that in 1959 on CBS's 'Camera Three' Enters performed 'three of her dance-mime compositions: 'Pierrot- Figures in Moonlight' 'Queen of Heaven' and 'Fleur du Mal - Tango Dancer''. The present costume design is from the last of these. See also 'Uncommon Eloquence: A Biography of Angna Enters Writer Dance-Mime Artist' by Dorothy Mandel 1986. The Angna Enters and Louis Kalonyme Papers are held by the Beinecke Library Yale University. Signed and dated to 1957. Envelope with London postmark dated 18 January 1957 and her embossed address: 35 West 57th Street, New unknown
