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1863ref. 100728Boston F.A. Searle Printer 1863 1863. Very good. - A 10-1/8 inch high by 5-3/8 inch wide broadsheet playbill for the Boston performance of the "French Spy or - The Fall of Algiers" starring Isabella Cubas. The credits with her name are boldly printed on the top third of the sheet followed by an overlay boldly titled with the name of the play "The French Spy" printed on 2-3/8 inch high by 5-3/8 inch wide sheet followed by a list of the cast and concluding with the opening play "To commence with the Laughable Farce entitled Somebody Else!" This overlay is tipped over the title of another performance by Isabella Cubas "Queen of Pantomimists and Unrivaled Danseuse" in her "Third Appearance in the Unparalleled Representation of Protean Character supported by the company and auxiliaries. New Scenery and Appointments! New Dances Marches &c." Another overlay listing the prices of admission printed on 1-1/2 inch high by 5-3/8 inch wide paper is tipped over the title of the farce. The playbill is mounted onto heavier 10-5/8 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide cream stock. There is some minor darkening and soiling. Very good. The Spanish ballerina danseuse and pantomimist Isabella Cubas 1831-1864 performed as a soloist in Madrid when she was 13 years old. Having appeared in prominent Spanish theaters and performed in Turin and Milan before she was 20 she was honored by Emperor Francis Joseph and his court at the Gello and Teatro San Benedetto. She then toured Venice Bucharest Odessa Alexandria Cairo Brussels Paris and London. She joined Ambrogio Martinez's Spanish Dance Company at the Royal Theater of Madrid and was the prima ballerina assoluta at the Naum Theatre in Istanbul. Following appearances at most of Europes' top opera houses she made her debut in Canada and performed in New York and Philadelphia before touring America with a full corps de ballet. She first decided to attempt pantomime acting performing in The French Spy at Nixon's Cremorne Garden on October 6 1862. She subsequently worked under Wyzeman Marshall at the Boston Theatre in 1863. Boston, F.A. Searle, Printer, 1863,
ref. 1665762446.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 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
1799ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 2458217 January 1952; The Wimbledon Theatre Wimbledon London SW19 on letterhead of ‘Clarkson Rose Productions Ltd. / Twinkle’. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 4to. In good condition lightly aged and folded for postage. Addressed to ‘My dear Popie’ and signed ‘Yours / Clarke’ sic. In the previous year CR had published his autobiography ‘With a Twinkle in my Eye’ and he is now looking for an ‘opinion’ from MP that he can use for publicity purposes. ‘I was so pleased with your letter that on reflection I am writing to ask if you would be good enough to write me another with your opinion of my book.’ He explains that he wouldn’t have bothered MP had he not said that he enjoyed the book ‘and a line from you he most famous of all biographers would be most valuable to me’. He doesn’t want to come across as a ‘bloody nuisance’ but knows that his publishers ‘would appreciate it’. He signs off with reference to a notable theatre impressario: ‘Yours till Tom Arnold takes over Malaya’. 17 January 1952; The Wimbledon Theatre, Wimbledon, London SW19, on letterhead of ‘Clarkson Rose Productions Ltd. / Twinkle’. unknown
2007ref. 2091502133515023Nakanishiya Publishing 2007. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Nakanishiya Publishing paperback
1990ref. 2091202133001870Hayakawashobo 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hayakawashobo paperback
1995ref. 2090202120809110Not Available 1995. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
2010ref. 2080502106913769Not Available 2010. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
ca. 25 x 18,5 cm. 8 Blatt, mit 9 schwarzweißen Fotos. Original Broschur, geklammert, mit illustriertem Deckeltitel. Umschlag berieben, Seiten papierbedingt leicht gegilbt. Insgesamt noch guter Zustand. Beigefügt ein Zettel mit einer Berichtigung zum ersten Teil des Programms, sowie ein weiterer Zettel mit einer Ankündigung zum Sondergastspiel eines sowjetischen A-Capella-Chores.
1984Mm 190x270 Volume rilegato di pp. 299, sovraccoperta editoriale, con illustrazioni in bianco e nero su tavole fuori testo, testo in lingua originale, italiano, inglese, francese. Libro in buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
1867Mm 105x150 Collana "Teatro comico-napolitano" - Brossura originale con copertina figurata, 76 pagine. Copia in ottime condizioni; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
1980Mm 140x210 Brossura editoriale con alette, pp. 102. A cura di Giuseppe Liotta. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
1954Mm 145x215 Collana "Orientamenti", 3 - Volume cartonato di xiii-219 pagine, prefazione di Umberto Barbaro. Allegati tre fogli dattiloscritti spillati, con scheda tecnica e sinossi del film "El cochecito" (1960) di Marco Ferreri, con l'intestazione del Centro Internazionale Artistico Cinematografico di Roma. Qualche sottolineatura e postilla a penna blu nel testo, fisiologica brunitura ai margini delle carte per il tipo di materiale utilizzato, peraltro buona copia. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
1964In 4 piccolo, pp. (4) con foto in b/n n.t. Br. ed. con ill. al p. ant. raff. tre espressioni mimiche di Samy Molcho. Brochure promozionale in occasione della tourne'e italiana del mimo israeliano Samy Molcho al Piccolo Teatro di Milano con foto in b/n raff. l'artista in scena e un testo dello stesso Molcho sull'arte pantomimica.
1986Dielsdorf, Impr. Konrad Kyburz, (1986), in-8, br., pp. (22). Bella copertina formata da 12 pagine in colori diversi con intagli geometrici, che compongono per sovrapposizione una figura geometrica finale. Con ill. in b.n. e note biografiche sui componenti del famoso gruppo teatrale nato nel 1969. Testo bilingue: fracese/inglese.
1938Firenze, G.C. Sansoni, 1938, in-8, tela editoriale, titolo oro al dorso, pp. 299, (1). Con illustrazioni su 35 tavole f.t.
Paris, Choudens fils, 1893, in-8, br. editoriale, pp. (4), 195, (1). Copertina anteriore figurata. Timbro dello “Stabilimento Musicale Romano”, Via Nazionale 203, Roma. Fascetta di rinforzo al dorso; qualche traccia d'uso alle copp. Elencati gli interpreti. Pasquale Cataldo Maria Costa (Taranto 1858-1933)fece studi a Napoli (San Piero a Maiella), e fu compositore, tenore, pianista, autore di operette e canzoni sui versi di Di Giacomo, F. Russo, R. Bracco, ecc., ma la sua fama è legata proprio a questa pantomima, sorta di balletto senza schemi coreografici fissi.
Firenze, Ente autonomo del Teatro Comunale, 1949, in-8, br. editoriale, pp. (14). Programma di sala (con note illustrative di Augusto Hermet) in cui Kreutzberg, uno dei maggiori interpreti maschili della danza espressionista moderna nonchè attore e mimo, danza ben 5 pezzi dell'amico compositore Wilckens.
1968168pp., 21cm., Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlanguing des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Philosophischen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin), softcover, stamp at title page, text is clean and bright, T111738
Buenos Aires, edición del autor, sin fecha, 17 x 11,5 cm., cartulina editorial, 15 págs. en papel de hilo.
