Monay, Ywon (cover illus).
1956. Number 6. Number 6, 1946 issue of the magazine, color and black and white illustrations and ads throughout, 12 1/4 x 9 inches, color pictorial wrappers. Ends of spine very worn, top fore edge corner lightly bumped throughout, otherwise very good condition. Text in French.....
Tokyo. Wada, Harukichi. 1939-1940. Glossy Japanese fan magazines featuring photos of Hollywood film stars; front and back covers in full-color. The magazines, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, contain approximately 40 pp each. The photos are generally of the glamor variety; on other occasions the image is from a scene in a......
New York. American Theatre Press, Inc., 12- 1978. Magazine format program for the musical comedy "On the Twentieth Century" starring Imogene Coca, John Cullum, Kevin Kline under the direction of Harold Prince. Magazine is 9 x 5 ½ inches and 98 pp. in good condition. Besides copious advertising, the magazine.....
Chicago. Story-press Corp. 1909. Color photo 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; text states "Color supplement September 1909 The Blue Book Magazine." Advertisement on verso for Red Book Magazine. Left margin suggests supplement has been cut from the magazine. Small crease in upper right corner. Overall very good clean condition.....
Stumm, Maud (illus).
New York. The Gray Lith. Co., Copyright 1907. Set of four chromolithographic prints, sheet size 12 3/4 x 10 inches. Very good, bright and clean condition. Four gorgeous prints by Maud Stumm (ca. 1866 - 1935), each featuring a beautifully dressed show girl. Theatres include Daly's, Casino.....
Hokinson, Helen E. (cover illus).
New York. John Hanrahan. 11- 1933. Volume 11, No. 2. Oversize magazine, 14 x 10 inches, 48 pages, featuring articles and reviews pertaining to current theatre in New York City. Two items given extended focus, in text and photos, are the plays "Men in White,".....
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'.....
McCormick, Howard (illus).
New York. P. F. Collier and Son. 10-24- 1908. Illustrated magazine, 15 x 11 inches, 30 pp. Cover reads "Dramatic Number" and features dramatist Oscar Wilde at a writing desk where a cascade of ghost-like imagined countenances are assembled. Page 3 states "Drawn and Engraved on Wood.....
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.....
