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1971rif. 1262London: The Aldwych Theatre 1971. First Edition. Octavo 9 x 5 1/4 inches / 230 x 132 mm 20 pages in the stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Harold Pinter at his biography page "To Milton from Harold" and SIGNED by the stars Vivien Merchant Dorothy Tutin and Colin Blakely and director Peter Hall at their biographies. The program for the first production of Old Times staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre beginning June 1 1971. This was Pinter's first full-length play since The Homecoming and the fifth of his plays to be given its stage premiere by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Book editions of this play are readily available in the market but playbills signed by cast members of the London production are not often seen. Our copy is signed by three actors the director and Pinter himself. RARE SIGNED. CONDITION: Covers lightly rubbed and soiled corners a little creased contents lightly toned. A Very Good copy. The Aldwych Theatre
1933rif. 2559New York: Coward-McCann Inc. 1933. First Edition First Printing. An angry Depression-era play that chronicles the impoverishment of a factory worker's family and shines a spotlight on the corruption of the American financial and political systems. Brooks Atkinson The New York Times theatre critic called the play "a bristling indictment of the American political system." The New York Times January 23 1933 page 9. "We the People" premiered at the Empire Theatre in New York on January 21 1933. Rice himself directed the play which consisted of 20 scenes and featured more than 40 actors. While some critics dismissed the play as left-wing agitprop "We the People" was an important contribution to realism in the American theatre showing how working-class and middle-class people were brutalized and degraded in the Depression years. Rice wrote a number of dramas with left-wing themes and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for Street Scene about New York tenement life. PHYSICAL DETAILS: 12mo 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 191 x 130 mm 253 1 pages orange cloth titles in black to upper board and spine in an unclipped dust jacket. CONDITION: Foxing to page edges light soiling to end papers and a small nick to the top of the upper board. Very Good or better in an unclipped dust jacket that is lightly sunned with a few nicks and closed tears. Coward-McCann, Inc. hardcover
1913rif. 1590London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1913. First Edition Thus. 12mo 7 1/8 x 5 inches; 180 x 125 mm xix 210 2 pages in yellow-green cloth. George Bernard Shaw's 1891 essay on the plays of Henrik Ibsen presented here with a new preface for this edition as well an analysis of plays that Ibsen wrote after 1891. The book is an important expression of Shaw's theories about theatre in which he contrasts Ibsen's vibrant social realism with a more formal and stagnant Victorian theatre. A lovely collectible copy in the scarce dust jacket. CONDITION: Modest rubbing to boards page edges lightly toned small "First Edition" stamp on front paste down some dusting to top edge numerous pages unopened small closed tear to page xix. The dust jacket is darkened along the spine and has a few small chips. Overall a Very Good or better copy. Constable and Company Ltd. hardcover
1949rif. 1230New York: Theatre Arts Books: Robert M. MacGregor 1949. First Edition First Printing. Stanislavski's important sequel to "An Actor Prepares" covering the physical aspects of acting such as movement voice tempo and rhythm. It's written in the form of a diary by an acting student with frequent appearances by the teacher and director Tortsov obviously a stand-in for Stanislavski himself. This volume published by Theatre Arts Books in New York is the first edition in English; a U.K. edition appeared a year later. The Russian edition was issued in 1948. Translated with a Foreword by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood who collaborated closely with Stanislavski. There's also an entertaining Introduction by actor and director Jonathan Logan who visited Stanislavski in Moscow in 1931. This is an essential reference on Stanislavski's system of acting which is in wide use today. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 1/2 inches / 22 cm xx 292 pages. CONDITION: Some fraying to the boards with a bump in the lower right corner of the front board. A bit of soiling to the top edge and toning to the end papers. Otherwise Very Good. The dust jacket has a few closed tears and shows some sunning to the spine and top of the front panel. First-edition copies in the dust jacket are uncommon to the market. SCARCE in dust jacket. Theatre Arts Books: Robert M. MacGregor hardcover
1945rif. 15716New York: Random House 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. First printing stated on copyright page. Classic play. Small book in blue boards with gold title on black spine panel. Bright dust jacket with $2.00 price intact has shallow chipping top and bottom of spine two one-inch tears and light corner wear. Random House hardcover
1804Two Volumes. With 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates "Drawn by H. Repton. Engraved by Stadler.", title vignettes signed "H. Repton inv. & delin. H. R.Cook sculpsit." Offsetting. Plates age stained especially on verso. Decorated title pages. 185mm. Disbound. Early inked ownership of E.W. Spangler in both volumes and scratched out ownership on title pages. Edward Webster Spangler. (1846-1907) was from York, PA. During the Civil War he was a member of Company K, 130th Regiment PA Volunteers, Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. After the War he was a lawyer in York for more than 40 years, president of the Spangler Manufacturing Company, and for a time publisher of the York Daily (Record). .Humphry Repton (1752-1818) was a great English landscape designer, and illustrator. These 'Odd Whims' were dedicated to his neighbour William Windham of Felbrigg Hall. Repton served as Windham's confidential secretary during Windham's very brief stint as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 5
1887Seven Volumes in Fourteen. Illustrated with mounted proofs on India paper with original tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black. Text printed on Japanese Vellum. Uncut and unopened. LIMITED EDITION. Number 29 of only 100 copies. Printed and inked ownership of Dr. Wm. M. Findley. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth bindings. Original paper spine labels. Head and tail of some volumes lightly chipped. Hardbound. Very good set of an extremely scarce edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HAKESPEARE BOX 3
1798rif. 3116FBZürich, Orell, Geßner, Füßli und Compagnie, 1798-1805. 8°. 19,5 x 12 cm. XIV, 565; 584; 548; 584; 534; 542; 579; 666; 630; 681; 610 Seiten. Halblederbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägten Titeln auf Lederrückenschildern und Rundum-Gelbschnitt.
rif. 26289LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 1913. DE LUXE EDITION ROYAL QUARTO FULL VELUM ELABORATE GILT DESIGN TO THE FRONT BOARD AND SPINE. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 489 AND SIGNED BY HUGH THOMSON. WITH 22 TIPPED-IN COLOUR PLATES BY THOMSON. LACKS THE TIES. A VERY NICE COPY. LONDON, HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 1913 unknown
1924rif. 5908S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1924. 212(1) Seiten, OPappband. Deutsch von Siegfried Trebitsch. 6.-10. Tausend. Das vorliegende Exemplar mit einer mehrzeiligen Widmung von Shaw: "To Mr. Robert with my kindest regards G. Bernard Shaw 1. September 1924". Rücken verblichen. Ansonsten ein gutes Exemplar. Selten. Shaw erhielt 1925 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Hand signed by the author. Good copy. Rare. Shaw got the nobelprize for literature in 1925.
192612 vols., sm. 8vo., Mixed Editions; original dark blue limp calf, upper boards with author's signature in gilt, backs gilt extra, gilt tops, navy blue silk markers, a very good, clean set housed in publisher's drop-front card box, top flap with author's signature in gilt top, interior fully lined in navy blue cloth, a near fine set. The twelve volumes are those of the Pocket Edition. The set comprises: I: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion (second impression, 1927); Vol. II: Back to Methuselah ((first edition thus, 1926); Vol. III: Saint Joan, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (second impression, 1927); Vol. IV: Translations and Tomfooleries (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. V: Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VI: Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny's First Play (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VII: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VIII: John Bull's Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband, Major Barbara (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. IX: Man and Superman (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. X: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, Mrs. Warren's Profession (first edition, 1926); Vol. XI: Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playlets of the War (second impression, 1927); Vol. XII: The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married (second impression, 1927). Very scarce in this condition.
1957rif. OS3057CPeople's Fine Arts Publishing House 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. WE SHIP DAILY. EX-Library. There are 73 color illustrations in a decorative outer box. Text is in Chinese without the added title page and commentary in English. Outer box spine has been reinforced with leather like tape. Minimal library markings. Elsewhere minor corner wear. PROMPT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE! People's Fine Arts Publishing House hardcover
1955rif. 2089Tempo Playhouse Playbill Stein Gertrude and Jean Genet. Julie Bovasso and Cletus L. Gundy Present a Tempo Playhouse Production: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March": Selections From the First Reader and Jean Genet's "The Maids." New York: Tempo Playhouse 1955. A rare playbill for the first plays presented by Julie Bovasso's Tempo Playhouse in New York: Gertrude Stein's "The 13th of March: Selections From the First Reader" and Jean Genet's "The Maids." In fact this was the first production of "The Maids" in the United States. Both plays were directed by Strowan Robertson with sets and costumes by Lester Hackett. The 24-year-old Bovasso founded the theatre with $250 from the sale of a painting by her husband George Ortman. She rented an apartment at 4 St. Mark's Place in the East Village and built a small stage and a box office. See Stephen J. Bottoms "Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement" pages 37-38. The playbill doesn't give the opening date but a small item in The New York Times of March 10 1955 states the opening would take place on Saturday March 12. The Times also placed the location of the opening at Speyer Hall Playhouse 184 Eldridge Street which must have been a temporary venue. Bovasso played the role of Claire in "The Maids" which ran until mid-July 1955. The following year the Village Voice initiated the Obie Awards for Off-Broadway. Bovasso won the first Obie for Best Actress and Tempo Playhouse received a special citation that year. Bovasso's co-stars in "The Maids" were Joyce Henry as Solange and Fran Malis as Madame. Being the versatile actress that she was Bovasso also apparently played Solange at times. For the Stein production -- which was actually two plays: "In a Garden" and "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters" -- the actors were Herbert King Philip Stanley Pitts Kit Raccoon Nancy Ponder Lucy Willow Anne Edwards Helen and Marcia Pavia Ellen. Just like playbills for the Living Theatre the Tempo playbill lists paintings and sculptures for sale at the theatre. Painters include Joan Mitchell Perle Fine Lois Dodd Angelo Ippolito Michael Goldberg Margaret Barlett George Ortman and Miles Forst and the sculptors Marisol Escobar and William King. This playbill is rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings although a separate search turns up a copy at the University of Florida. RARE. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers. CONDITION: Some creases and folds but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Tempo Playhouse paperback
1952rif. 2088New York: The Living Theatre 1952. First Edition First Printing. Small Quarto 9 1/8 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm 16 pages in stapled red wrappers printed on Japanese paper. Program for Paul Goodman's "Faustina" which opened at the Living Theatre on May 251952 starring Julie Bovasso as Faustina. Judith Malina directed and Julian Beck designed sets and costumes. This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes a "portrait sketch" of playwright Paul Goodman by Laura Perls; "Notes on a Ritual Tragedy" by Judith Malina; and a full-page drawing by Larry Rivers for "A City Winter and Other Poems" by Frank O'Hara. There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes; a list of paintings for sale by Julian Beck; and a list of sponsors which included John Cage Jean Cocteau Merce Cunningham Betty Parsons and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds. "Faustina" was an important milestone in Living Theatre history. The play's title refers to the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At the end of the play Faustina is supposed to step forward and chastise the audience for not leaping on stage and stopping a murder. However Julie Bovasso as Faustina felt this moment was pretentious and told the audience on opening night about her irritation. She quit the production after just a few performances. Stephen J. Bottoms Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement pages 25-26. Despite the controversy the speech "was the beginning of direct audience confrontation by the Living Theatre a technique used extensively in later productions." Theodore Shank American Alternative Theater pages 8-9. This program is notable for the use of stunning Japanese paper for the wrappers. OCLC shows only three institutional holdings at SUNY/Buffalo Syracuse and Michigan. RARE. CONDITION: Slight toning to the pages and bit of edge wear to the Japanese paper wrappers. A beautiful production. Near Fine. The Living Theatre paperback
1812rif. 002514 BeaumontJames Ballantyne 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos law buckram with leather labels. James Ballantyne hardcover
1952rif. 844Quarto 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 310 x 230 mm in black cloth titles in gilt to spine in an illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED on the front free end paper by 15 stars of Broadway including Fritzi Scheff Eli Wallach Uta Hagen Maureen Stapleton Blanche Ring Francine Larrimore Leonore Ulric Margaret Phillips Bert Lahr Constance Collier Judith Evelyn Frances Starr Douglas Watson Charles Nolte and Dorothy Gish. The signers are among the 150 stars featured in this heavily illustrated tribute that reaches back to Lillian Russell and Sarah Bernhardt but also includes more recent stars such as Maureen Stapleton Eli Wallach Marlon Brando and Carol Channing. Daniel Blum the author was an authoritative journalist and historian of theatre who published an annual review of the season called Theatre World. Needless to say he knew many of the actors profiled in the book. Especially interesting are the author's comments about the actors. Marlon Brando: "He is a nonconformist and likes to shock people.He dislikes cats interviews shoes and large parties." Maureen Stapleton: "She dislikes spooky movies and books." Beatrice Pearson: "When she is depressed she spends money like a drunken sailor." Charlton Heston: "He is frank genial and outspoken but thinks actors should keep quiet on any other subject but their work." That was the Charlton Heston of 1952. He dabbled in politics later in life. Copies signed by so many of the stars are not often found in the market. Presumably a previous owner obtained the signatures during a book party at Brentano's in 1952. A Publisher's Weekly article about the party is pasted into the book. SCARCE SIGNED. CONDITION: Cloth lightly rubbed article pasted onto verso of front end paper and to title page light toning to end papers. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has a half-inch chip at the bottom of the front panel where it meets the spine a few small chips on the rear panel some edge wear and soiling. Greenberg hardcover
1916rif. DEMO016733IParis: Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1916. First French edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo 2811pp. rebound in Art Deco style by L. Roger-Maxime in full morocco; in in a slipcase. This is an unnumbered copy of the thousand copies done for French speakers. Since its first appearance in England in 1911 it had been translated into Japanese and Russian. This was a seminal set of essays in which Craig re-imagines and re-images the theater and demonstrates it with his 16 color plates included here. The Art Deco banded binding has reds black and cream inlays by L. Roger-Maxime all in a compatible slipcase with splashes of color. Translated from the English by Genevieve Seligmann-Lui; Introduction by Jacques Rouche Nouvelle Revue Francaise hardcover
1810rif. 285195London: Miller 1810. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes Copperplate vignettes on title pages. 595pp. 614pp. 598pp. double column tall 8vo polished calf ornately gilt spines black leather spine labels boards crackled and quite darkened at edges hinges strengthened corners worn. London: William Miller 1810. Very good. Miller unknown
1810rif. 285195London: Miller 1810. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes Copperplate vignettes on title pages. 595pp. 614pp. 598pp. double column tall 8vo polished calf ornately gilt spines black leather spine labels boards crackled and quite darkened at edges hinges strengthened corners worn. London: William Miller 1810. Very good. Miller unknown books
rif. 16796Philadelphia: George Barrie. Good No dust jacket as issued. Reprint. Hard Cover. Publisher's three-quarter red morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers t.e.g. fore-edge deckle. Profusely illustrated with etchings by G. Jeanniot many full page and each with an intact tissue guard. These volumes were eye-witnesses of a fire. Vols. II IV and V are blackened on the spine from heat Vol. III is missing a 1" piece of leather at the heel of the spine and has a small gouge in the leather near the head of the spine other volumes have smaller chips at the head and heels Vols. IV and V are damp-stained at the top edge not affecting the text or the etchings light fading to some of the marbled covers. Interiors are unmarked tight and clean. A large heavy set 15 pounds - additional shipping charges may apply. GOOD. National Edition. Etchings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 273 257 235 311 265 pages . 1893. 0882293214 . George Barrie hardcover
1957rif. 191474Peking: People's Art Publishing House 1957. Hardcover. Good shelfwear and handwritten name in marker on front of cardboard box light foxing spots to title page and some borders plates are all present and otherwise very clean. Silk over boards portfolio with red Chinese lettering and yellow illustrations with bone clasp closures; 5 pp text with bw illustrations 73 color plates some with two or three per page. Issued in cardboard box with black Chinese lettering. Edited by the Research Studio of the Northeast Drama Institute. Designs reproduced by Lu Hua and Ma Chiang. Eng & Chinese. 16x15x1.5" People's Art Publishing House hardcover
1957rif. 191474Peking: People's Art Publishing House 1957. Hardcover. Good shelfwear and handwritten name in marker on front of cardboard box light foxing spots to title page and some borders plates are all present and otherwise very clean. Silk over boards portfolio with red Chinese lettering and yellow illustrations with bone clasp closures; 5 pp text with bw illustrations 73 color plates some with two or three per page. Issued in cardboard box with black Chinese lettering. Edited by the Research Studio of the Northeast Drama Institute. Designs reproduced by Lu Hua and Ma Chiang. Eng & Chinese. 16x15x1.5" People's Art Publishing House hardcover books
1760rif. DEMO016408ILondres Geneva: Cramer Brothers 1760. First. 16mo. 16mo 204 xii pages contemporary calf morocco label scuffed; ex Lee Merton Watson inked ownership name dated 1760 on half-title; upper right corner dampstained pp. 7-24 145-169. Very Scarce. Voltaire concealed the origin of this play and his authorship of it altho he did claim to translate it into French. It was quite successful and attracted much commentary. It was inspired by the author's study of the Jacobite rebellion. It is a complicated comedy involving masks identities and aliases in Scotland and revolving around a Scots woman. [ Cramer Brothers ] unknown
1821rif. LIT7524MLadvocat | Paris 1821 | 13 x 21 cm | 6 Volumes reliés | Edition originale collective dans la traduction française du baron Prosper Brugière de Barante. Un portrait lithographié au frontispice. Longue notice sur la vie et les écrits de l'écrivain. Cette entreprise de traduction est la première qui se veut exhaustive du théâtre de Schiller. Elle fut déterminante pour la connaissance de l'écrivain en France, qui ne connut une nouvelle traduction complète de son théâtre qu'en 2005. Reliure en demi-chagrin doré. Livres en très bon état général, de très légères rousseurs en intérieur, quasi anodines. Les reliures présentent pour certaines quelques légers défauts comme des émoussements et des pliures peu dérangeantes. Contient : Les brigands, La conjuration de Fiesque, L'intrigue et l'amour, La pucelle d'Orléans, Marie Stuart, Le camp de wallenstein, Les Piccolomini, La mort de Wallenstein, La fiancée de Messine, Guillaume Tell, L'hommage des arts, Le misanthrope, Don Carlos, Demetrius.
1721In-8°; pp. 143, un fregio xilografico al frontespizio; legatura in piena pergamena con titolo manoscritto al dorso. Commedia del letterato e storico senese Girolamo Gigli, 1660-1722, noto anche per la traduzione del Tartuffe di Moliere, che intitolò Don Pilone; con questa commedia Gigli si inserisce quindi nel filone della tradizione del teatro francese, adattandolo però sia nel linguaggio parodistico che nella definizione e caricatura dei personaggi più da commedia dell’arte, al pubblico italiano. siena accademie commedia theatre teatro drama comedy settecento donne women
