Boston. Maturin Murray Ballou. 02-24- 1855. Weekly newspaper, 15 x 10 ¼ inches, p 113 to p 128. Featured on the first page is a wood block engraving of the stage at Niblo's Theatre, New York City, as seen from the back of the stalls (ground floor seating). The image.....
Metlicovitz, L. (illus).
Milano. G.Ricordi & C., No date. [ 1914]. Color lithographic poster, image 11 1/2 x 6 inches on sheet 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Light wear to edges, small paper label on lower corner of verso, very good condition. Dramatic image by Leopoldo Metlicovitz, originally published.....
Friston, David Henry (illus).
London. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 05-16- 1885. Wood engraving of scenes from the opéra comique "Manon" by Jules Massenet, first performed in Paris in 1884; it proved to be Massenet's most popular creation. The engraving, from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of May 16.....
Friston, David Henry (illus).
London. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 04-25- 1885. Wood engraving of scenes from the opera "Nadeshda" by Arthur Goring Thomas first produced at Drury Lane in April 1885; it proved to be Thomas' most critically praised creation. The engraving, from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.....
Frenzeny, Paul (illus).
New York. D. Appleton & Co., 03-04- 1871. Four wood engravings by Paul Frenzeny titled "At the Opera" published on the two center-fold pages which together measure 16 x 11 inches. Each illustration 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Light dampstains to first page and to top.....
Portland, OR. Marquam Theatre. 11-05- 1905. Theatre program, 9 x 5 inches, 24 pp including covers. Program, with light horizontal fold, features copious advertising and is in very good clean condition. A very busy week for touring theatrical productions coming through Portland, Oregon. November 5th and 6th featured August Thomas'.....
New York. Selwyn et al. 1911. Double-sided three-panel brochure, 8 x 3 inches unfolding to 9 x 8 inches, illustrated with photographs from the New York production of the Edgar Selwyn comedy-drama. There is a 6 inch diagonal crease to the brochure, and several short tears at folds. Brochure shows.....
London. The Stage Pictorial Publishing Company. 1915. Photo-illustrated magazine, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, 16 pp., providing the story-line and various details of the London production of "Peg o' My Heart" with Laurette Taylor. On Broadway the show (written by Taylor's husband) played for over 600 performances, closing in.....
E. D. Smith & H. H. Frazee. No date. Ca. 1925. Folded broadside (6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, unfolding to 14 x 11 1/2 inches) for the west coast production of "No, No, Nanette" starring Taylor Holmes and announcing the musical coming to the Heilig Theatre in Portland, Oregon.....
Chicago. The Dramatic Publishing Company. No date. Ca. 1899. Play script in paper covers 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 16 pp. Script was evidently part of a series titled "The Darkey & Comic Drama." A sewn binding (not original) holds the script together. Spotting to covers, childish scrawl in.....
London. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1912. Play script in stiff card covers, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches, 86 pp plus 2 pp of adverts. Floorplan for stage set p. 8. Very good (virtually "as new") condition. Text on rear cover advertises other playwrights of the era, including Laurence Housman and.....
New York. Samuel French. 1898. 1908. Two vintage Samuel French play scripts replete with the authors' stage directions intended to assure the producers of regional productions "get it right." "Saratoga" has a copyright date of 1870 with a renewal date of 1898, both in Howard’s name. "Hazel Kirke has a......
London. G. A. H. Dean. No date. Ca. 1850. THREE SHEETS of hand-colored lithographic prints, sheet size 15 x 11 inches, depicting The Polka, the dance craze that descended on London in the late 1840s. Text provides instruction for the progression of the dance, while paired colorful images depict the.....
Bastien-Lepage, Jules (after).
Philadelphia. Gebbie & Co., No date. Ca. 1883. Photogravure print of Sarah Bernhardt from a watercolor by Jules Bastien-Lepage, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches on sheet size 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Brief text sheet provides details of both the artist and his subject. Good.....
Cooper (engraved by).
London. No date. Ca. 1810. Image on plate size 9 3/4 x 6/1/2 inches with text "Cooper Sculpt." in right hand corner outside image. Likely based on a print made by John Faber the Younger after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (identified on the British Museum.....
Craig, Edward Gordon (illus).
Chicago. Herbert S. Stone. 1899. Reproductions of four studies by Edward Gordon Craig relating to roles portrayed by actress Ellen Terry and, in one instance, a study of her dressing room at the Lyceum Theatre. The quarto volume "Henry Irving. Ellen Terry" originally contained 19 studies.....
Smith, Lizzie Caswall (photo by).
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 09- 1913. Illustrated magazine, 13 x 9 inches, pp. 227-282 + viii. Spotting to front cover; spine abraded; contents in good condition. Magazine includes a Presentation Plate Portrait (photograph) of Shaw (same dimensions as magazine) by Lizzie Caswall Smith, plus a......
New York. Motion Picture Weekly Publishing Co., 01-26- 1935. Vol. 36, No.7. A Universal Pictures Corporation press booklet, 10 ¼ x 8 inches, 32 pp. The publication was released on a weekly basis to tout current Universal Pictures to theater owners while providing abundant promotional strategies to attract audiences. The.....
New York. Harry N. Abrams. 1988. Color and black and white photo illustrations throughout, 320pp, index, 12 x 10 inches, cloth covered boards (hardbound). Color pictorial dust jacket. Fine condition. Heavily illustrated history of Russian and Soviet theatre focusing on a quarter century of radical innovation. Topics include the Kamerny.....
New York. Dana T. Bennett Co., No date. Ca. 1912. Pamphlet 8 x 5 ½ inches advertising the touring New York sensation "Bought and Paid For," a scandalous drama involving a woman’s dilemma as she ponders leaving her alcoholic husband. The play, which opened in September 1911 starred Julia Dean.....
Lowry, Wilson (engraved by).
London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme. No date. Ca. 1825. Two engraved Rees Cyclopedia plates, 8 x 10 1/2 inches depicting "Dramatic Machinery." One plate features "tongue & groove" apparatus for changing scenery and the "pole & chariot" apparatus for the same purpose. The other plate.....
Chicago. Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau. 1893. Program, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 36 pp., illustrated with 6 color lithographic plates (including 3-panel fold-out at rear) for Hungarian-born impresario Imre Kiralfy's "Operatic Historical Spectacle" as presented at the Auditorium (theatre) in connection with the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Rear cover.....
Beechey, Sir William (after) . Thomas Ryder and Thomas Ryder Jr. (engraved by).
London. J. & J. Boydell. 12-01- 1804. Engraving (mixed technique), image 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (plate area 23 1/2 x 16 inches on sheet size 29 x 23 inches. Foxing and dampstaining in margins, just.....
Rigaud, Francis (after) . Thomas Ryder (engraved by).
London. J. & J. Boydell. 06-04- 1796. Engraving (mixed techniques including stipple and aquatint), image 20 x 15 inches (plate area 22 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches on sheet size 29 x 23 inches. Foxing in margins, dampstain to upper and right.....
New York. Huntington Hartford. 02- 1964. Magazine 13 x 10 ¼ inches, 116 pp. The Shakespeare "Special Report" issue features articles by well-known authors and scholars. A short list includes Aldous Huxley, Christopher Fry, Margaret Webster, Peter Shaffer, James Thurber, John Gielgud, Jack Kerouac, James Baldwin, Mary McCarthy, and many.....
