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1940réf. 021803New York City: Federal Theatre Project 1940. Original Manuscript . Wrappers / Metal. Very Good. Original manuscript typed carbon. Ownership note of R Robert H. Breen on cover label and title page. Post-its from Chicago and Hollywood actor Arthur H Peterson Jr. noting that it was sent to him by "him" in 1940. The play does not appear in the Prouty archives at George Mason University but apparently there is a copy at the NYPL and another at Kent State. Conkle wrote for the Federal Theatre Project. Peterson wrote and also directed The Little Theatre off Bughouse Square in Chicago as producer and director. [Federal Theatre Project] unknown
1941réf. 006841New York: Beetha Klausner 1941. First Edition . Artists' Agency Binder. Very Good. Carbon Of Original Typescript Of This Play About Italian-Americans In Chicago Which Ran For 29 Performances On Broadway In 1941. Folder And Stamp Of Ny Literary Agent Bertha Klausner / International Literary Agency Inc. . Beetha Klausner unknown
1927réf. 018916New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1927. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good. 178 Pp. Maroron Cloth Stamped In Gilt. Nicely Inscribed "To Richie Ling From His Grateful Friend R E Sherwood April 1927" On Front Endpaper. Richie Ling 1867-1937 Was A Broadway Actor 1899-1937 But Was Best Known For Playing The Role Of Fabius Maximus In This Play. Sherwood Would Have Been Grateful To The Actor For Contributing To Its Success Which Gave A Major Boost To Sherwood's Career.Some Wear A Few Points Beginning To Fray At Top Of Spine Hinges Tight Endpapers A Little Browned No Dust Jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1932réf. 021854Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1932. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 36 Pp. Grey Wrappers Printed In Black. A Fantasy Written As A Play Describing A Fantastic Future In 1981 Where Life Insurance Has Been Rationalized As A Nationalized Benefit And A Retirement System Costs Depending Upon Risks With Favoritism For Families To Correct A Declining Birth Rate. Very Scarce Just Two Copies In Oclc; This Example From The Comprehensive Sf Collection Of Forrest Ackerman. Cambridge University Press unknown
1927réf. 018151New York : Boni & Liveright Inc. 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine Dustjacket. 8 3/8 " High. Three Different Editions: A Fine Copy Of The Signed Limited First Edition Of The Book Signed By O'neill In A Near Fine Original Slipcase. Also Included Is The First Trade Edition Near Fine In A Near Fine Unfaded Dust Jacket Not Price-Clipped. Also Included Is A Unique Copy Of The Third Printing February 1928 The Printing Just Before The First Production Of The Play At The Pasadena Playhouse. Prepared By Or For Claude D. Seaman Of The Standard Lighting Company Los Angeles With His Name On Front Endpaper Carefully Blocked In Ink. Printed Heading By Hand On First Blank "World Premiere/ Of O'neill's/ "Lazarus Laughed"/ Pasadena Community Playhouse/ April 9 - 1928"; Repeated On Verso; Half Title With Line For Author's Signature But He Was Not Present And This Line Is Thus Blank; Verso With "World Premiere." Text Repeated With Lines For Director Musical Director Director Of Movement Art Director Production Manager Business Manager And The Chairman Of The Production Committee Each Line Signed By The Person Holding That Position; Title Page; Verso Is Copyright Page; Synopsis Page; Verso Are Lines Drawn And Extended To Each Of The "Characters" Listed On The Following Page Each Line Signed By The Person Who Played That Part Maurice Wells Thus Signing Twice 14 Signatures In All; "World Premiere" Text Repeated At Foot Of Characters Page And Again On Verso; "Act One" Title Page; Verso Repeats Then "World Premiere.' Text Followed By Lijnes For Each Of The Producing Staff / Setting Including The Designer James Hyde And 11 Others. With Laid In Loosely The Los Angeles Newspaper Review By The Spectator Of The Production Which Shortly Moved To The Hollywood Music Box Theatre With A Clipped Newspaper Ad For The Production Citing A Cast Of 250 And A Production Cost Of $100000. The Play Has Since Been Produced Only Four Times Due In Part To The Expense And Difficulty But Also To Its Philosophical Didactic Yet Confrontational Tone Which Has Not Set Well With General Audiences Since The Original Use Of This Dramatic Form Several Thousand Years Past. Irving Pichel 1891-1954 Played The Title Role. He Also Played The Servant Sandor In Dracula's Daughter Fagin In The 1933 Film Oliver Twist And About 57 Other Films 1930-1939 With Minor Roles In Films He Later Directed. He Directed Films 1932-1954 Including The Most Dangerous Game She Earthbound Hudson's Bay The Moon Is Down They Won't Believe Me The Miracle Of The Bells Destination Moon And Santa Fe. In 1947 Hje Was One Of The Hollywood 19 Subpoened By The House Un-America Activities Committee; He Was Not Called To Testify But Was Blacklisted Requiring Him To Work Outside The Us. Victor Jory 1902-1982 Was Canadian Attended School In Pasadena Appeared In Theatre All Over The Us And Made His Motion Picture Debut In 1930 Later Appearing In Over 150 Pictures And Dozens Of Tv Episodes. Note That This Book Is Not Signed By O'neill. Gilmor Brown Producer Of The Play Was Director Of Public Speaking And Dramatics At Caltech Later Director Of The Pasadena Playhouse And Responsible For Making It Into One Of The Premier Small Theatres In The U.S. From The 1920'S Into The 1950'S Routinely Featuring Prominent Starring Actoirs And Furnishing An Entree For Many Actors Who Later Became Successful In Motion Pictures And Tv. Boni & Liveright, Inc. hardcover
1934réf. 001550Madrid: Espasa-calpe S. A. 1934. Segunda Edicion En Sus Notas . Tan Wrappers. Good. 7 1/2" High. 274 Pp. Softcover. Segunda Edicion De J. Moreno Villa Corrigida Y Augmentada En Sus Notas. First Printing Thus With 1934 Date On Title Page And Front Cover. Wear At Edges Including Short Tears A Few Pencil Notes And Underlinings Including Summary Of Contents On Front Endpaper. Espasa-calpe, S. A. unknown
1737réf. 026427London: J Watts 1737. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 7 7/8" Tall. Frontispiece. Title; Dedication; Preface; Prologue; 61 Pp; Epilogue; 4 Pp Advertisements At End. Newly Rebacked To Style In Full Red Morocco With Original Morocco Boards Ornately Gilt With Gilt Crowns And Gilt Tooling At Center And Elaborate Gilt Borders On Both Boards. Original Marbled Endpapers With Old Heraldic Bookplate Of Joseph S Shepard. J Watts hardcover
1980réf. 011509Firenze: Centro Di 1980. This is a very good 2 volume complete softcover set with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. A comprehensive survey of the fine and decorative arts of 18th century Naples. Essays by various scholars including Anthony Blunt Mario Praz Francis Haskell Domenico de Marco Raffaele Ajello Giancarlo Alisio Mario de Cunzo Valentina Maderna Flavia Petrelli Oreste Ferrari Nicola Spinosa Raffaello Causa Marina Causa Picone Cesare de Seta Teodoro Fittipaldi Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios Margherita Siniscalco Vega de Martini Guido Donatone Salvatore Abita Renata Ruotolo Elio e Corrado Catello Giuseppe Mauri Mori Luigi Buccino Grimaldi Rubina Cariello Alberto Guarino Franco Mancini Franco Carmelo Greco Renato Bossa and Steffi Rottgen. Hundreds of illustrations in black & white also some color. Biographical sketches of artists architects designers etc. Bibliography. Indices of names places. 9" high X 8" wide 445 & 493 pages. Overseas shipping extra postage for this heavy 2 volume set. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Centro Di Paperback
1924réf. 010171Wien Austria: Wiener Drucke/Amalthea Verlag 1924. This is a very good 2 volume set with light wear. Volume 1: Die Theaterdekoration bound in the original light brown stiff paper wrappers decorated in gilt now faded. Chipped corner restored. Binding tight and firm. Completely clean inside but neat previous owner signature inside front cover. Volume 2: Das Buhnenkostum bound in cloth with an about very good dust jacket with a few chips around the edges. Spine of jacket soiled. Completely clean inside both text and illustrations. Text in German. Volume 1: 60 black & white plates 8 figures in the text. Several fold-outs. Index of designers. 13" high X 8" wide 147 pages. Volume 2: 25 color plates 234 black & white illustrations. 12" high X 8" wide 146 text pages plates and illustrations. Volume 1 published in 1924 volume 2 in 1925. Large heavy books foreign postage will be extra. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Very Good/Very Good. Wiener Drucke/Amalthea Verlag hardcover
1930réf. 009223London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd. 1930. This is an about very good hardcover copy in the original yellow cloth boards with black cloth spine. The title in yellow on the spine has faded. Boards sunned at top edge. Very clean internally. Front black endpaper wrinkled. This is a limited edition of 425 numbered copies. Foreword by St. John Ervine. Essays on George W. Harris by Basil Dean and Lascelles Abercrombie. Essay by Harris 'The Function of the Scenic Designer'. Illustrated in color and black & white and photogravure with many of Harris' designs for the theater reproduced on 44 plates. 13" high X 10" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Hard Cover. Very Good. Nisbet & Co. Ltd. Hardcover
1956réf. 009271Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art 1956. Original serigraph cover art both front and back and many color illustrations by these French artists. Text in French. Mainly post-war work in the theater both set design and costume sketches. A very good softcover copy in stiff red paper covers with titles in blue red and yellow inks on the front and a dramatic mask in the same inks on the back. With light wear to the corners and top & bottom of spine. Spine faded as well as left edge of front cover. Inside very clean. Bibliography. Tall 4to 11" high X 8" wide 152 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Original Wraps. Very Good. Editions Cercle d'Art Paperback
2007réf. 008767Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona 2007. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Spine uncreased binding firm. Text in Catalan and Portuguese. This catalog was prepared to accompany the large scale survey of modernist theater and performance art mounted at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the Museu Coleccio Berardo in 2007. It contains hundreds of vintage photographs of the important avant garde theater artists and groups. Lots of illustrations of programs graphic ephemera relating to events or productions. Illustrated profusely in color and black & white with photos on almost every page. Chronology 1896-1989. 11" high X 9" wide 355 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Soft Cover. Fine. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Paperback
2015réf. x-113746898XPalgrave Macmillan 2015. Hardcover. New. 205 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
1913réf. 49941Dent 1913. 2 vols. 8vo. original series binding of green ribbed cloth upper boards blocked in blind gilt backs dark tops pictorial endpapers a near fine set. Collects Gorboduc; Arden of Feversham; David and Bethsabe; The Spanish Tragedy; Ralph Roister Doister; Endimion; The Old Wives' Tale; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay; James the Fourth. Includes a Glossary. First published in EL in 1910. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. EL 491 492; Seymour 711.0 712.0. Dent, hardcover
1900réf. 329667Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company 1900. First American edition thus by Penn Publishing Company. Lacking original wrappers printed text begins with title page uneven tanning and soiling on title page and final printed page pages are creased with short nicked tear at lower corner; a good copy only. First American edition thus by Penn Publishing Company. OCLC lists a single holding of this Penn Publishing first edition University of Pennsylvania; association copy playwright Austin Strong's copy. English dramatist Sydney Grundy 1848-1914 was born in Manchester; he became a lawyer 1869-1876 and a playwright. His first play A Little Change was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1872; he was a librettist of comic operas many of his plays were adaptions and a number of his plays were performed on Broadway. The Penn Publishing Company unknown
1937réf. 55143New York: Covici & Friede 1937. First Edition. Octavo 19cm. Yellow cloth boards lettered in red and black; dustjacket; red top-stain; 183pp. Near Fine unworn copy in original unclipped jacket a bit darkened on spine and with small nicks and losses to extremities; Very Good. A two-act comedy set in the midst of a political uprising in Ecuador. The play was produced by The Theatre Guild and opened at the Guild Theater in October 1937 with Leslie Banks in the lead role. The show lasted only 46 performances closing before Christmas. Covici & Friede unknown
1988réf. 32828Thames & Hudson 1988. Roy. 4to. First Edition with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; red cloth upper board blocked in gilt gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Thames & Hudson, hardcover
1961réf. 31613Editions du Rocher Monaco 1961. 8vo. First Edition text in French with 62 pages of full-page photographs from the film; grey tweed boards upper board with mounted photograph of Maria Casares lettered in red backstrip lettered in black a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO LOUIS PAUWELS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. With two copies of Rocher's flier printed in pink and black and listing Cocteau' available works loosely inserted. 'Le Testament d'Orphee' 1959 is the third film in Cocteau's Orphic trilogy following 'Blood of a Poet' 1930 and 'Orphee' 1950. In addition to the author himself the cast includes many leading theatrical and literary figures of the period including Jean-Pierre Leaud Maria Casares Francoise Arnoul Yul Brynner Claudine Augier Pablo Picasso Charles Aznavour and Jean Marais. The screenplay with stills was published two years later; this copy is inscribed by Cocteau 'Jean' to Louis Pauwels the eminent French journalist and author of 'The Morning of the Magicians' 1960. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Editions du Rocher, Monaco, hardcover
1963réf. 27565Andre Deutsch 1963. 8vo. First Edition; black tweed cloth gilt back a near fine copy unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly browned and with one small loss at upper edge of front panel. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM RALEIGH TREVELYAN TO GEORGE RITCHIE WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Widely regarded as a modern classic James Saunders' pioneering drama was first performed at the Questors Theatre Ealing i Andre Deutsch, hardcover
1951réf. 26090La Parade Paris 1951. 8vo. First Edition text in French with 16 plates free endpapers very lightly browned some light and inoffensive age-staining; original printed wrappers a very good bright clean copy. The script of Cocteau's famous surrealist feature film 1950 starring Jean Marais and Maria Casares. With stills from the film shot by Corbeau. La Parade, Paris, unknown
2006réf. DADAX0413727300Methuen Publishing 2006-12-01. 2nd ed. paperback. New. 6.14x0.77x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Methuen Publishing paperback
2004réf. 26630Bloomsbury 2004. 8vo. First Edition with illustrations in the text; black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY LOACH ON TITLE Bloomsbury, hardcover
2000réf. DADAX041371330XBloomsbury 2000-01-01. First Edition. paperback. New. 5.00x0.57x8.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Bloomsbury paperback
1966réf. 143621966. Single sheet pre-printed in red 'Anna Neagle CBE' and addressed from the Adelphi Theatre signed in black ink; near fine condition. The letter is addressed to a 'Miss Sage' whom Anna Neagle thanks for a letter. She goes on to remark that 'as you saw we are having lovely and most appreciative audiences and I am very happy to be dancing in a musical again'. The letter is addressed from the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End where Anna Neagle was appearing in Wallace Douglas's hugely successful production of Heneker and Taylor's musical 'Charlie Girl'. It ran for a staggering six years and over 2000 performances earning the actress an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for her enduring popularity. Anna Neagle CBE 1904-1986 the highly popular English stage and film actress and singer was awarded the CBE in 1952 and created a Dame in 1969. Her most memorable film appearances include Nurse Edith Cavell 1939 No No Nanette 1940 The Yellow Canary 1943 and Odette 1950 unknown
1805réf. 28473London: John Cawthorn 1805. Group of 30 Portraits of Actors and Actresses. All mezzotint by several hands. 1 vols. 12mo. 1/2 red morrocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Group of 30 Portraits of Actors and Actresses. All mezzotint by several hands. 1 vols. 12mo. Unusual. WH/2/20/3 John Cawthorn unknown
