(Camden) London, England. John Cumberland. No date. Ca. 1830s - 1840s. Collection of five 18th and 19th century British dramas ("printed from the acting copy, etc.) to which is added Colman’s "The Iron Chest" dated 1796. Frontispieces to the first five dramas by either Wageman or Cruikshank. The five are.....
London. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. Hardback volume, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, xii+194 pp., spine very slightly cocked. Text initially "delivered in the form of lectures at the Royal Institution, the Society of Arts, and the Royal Institute, Hull." Frontispiece portrait of the famous 19th century French actor.....
Clay, John Cecil (illus).
Indianapolis, Indiana. Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1904. Heavy cardboard portfolio 18 ¾ x 14 ½ inches with slightly smaller illustrated paste-down sheet featuring color image of Mrs. Leslie Carter and text identifying publisher and the subjects of the 6 color portraits within. Portfolio is battered, string clasp torn.....
Mullock, Dorothy (illus).
London. Cecil Palmer. No date. Ca. 1928. Play script in paper wraps 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 22 pp. plus one page of advertising. Four silkscreen prints by Welsh-born artist Dorothy Mullock. Light foxing to a number of pages, heaviest on title page and the page.....
Mullock, Dorothy (illus).
London. Cecil Palmer. No date. Ca. 1928. Play script in paper wraps 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 22 pp. plus one page of advertising. Four silkscreen color plates by Welsh-born artist Dorothy Mullock. Light foxing to a number of pages, heaviest on two pages at the.....
Chicago. Field Museum of Natural History. 1923. Booklet, black and white photo illustrations (several fold-out), 59pp, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, paper wraps (softbound). Covers worn with some small chips to edges; small bookshop label on verso of frontispiece, some short edge tears, small dampstain to upper right corner.....
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New York. Random House. 1938. Some edges uncut, 150pp, 8 1/4 x 6 inches, red cloth covered boards (hardbound). With dust jacket. Soiling to dust jacket which has small tears and chipping to edges, one inch split to front dustjacket at spine. Book in very good clean condition. Right edge.....
New Orleans. TDR. 1966. A focus issue of the quarterly devoted to British Theatre. Journal 10 x 6 ½ inches, 216 pages. Articles include interviews with John Arden and Robert Bolt, essays on Brecht and John Whiting, Interviews with Lawrence Olivier, "Notes" on the Theatre of Cruelty, Littlewood in Rehearsal.....
New York. China Institute in America. No date. Ca. 1930. Booklet, 12 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches, 38 unnumbered pages plus decorative grey paper wrappers. Free-edge corners lightly bumped; former owners name in pencil on first page. Contents in good clean condition overall. Program with a collection of essays introducing.....
New York. G. W. Dillingham Company. 1911. Hardcover volume, 7 ¾ x 5 inches, 347 pp. The "novelization" of Walter's scandalous 1909 New York theatre sensation directed by David Belasco and starring Frances Starr. The story concerns an aspiring actress who, succumbing to the blandishments of an older man, destroys.....
London. J. S. Virtue and Company. No date. Ca. 1887- 1888. Souvenir booklet with pictorial paper-covered boards and cloth spine, 6 ½ x 9 ¼ inches, 32 pp. Numerous illustrations drawn together in the booklet from a variety of sources. The cover of the booklet denotes Irving's US tour with.....
New York. MJF Books. 1991. First Edition. Hard cover book in fine dust jacket; 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 502 pp. "As new" condition; multiple copies available. A collection of 43 "modern masterpieces" (according to the dust jacket). Playwrights featured include Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, Maria Irene Fornes, Edward Gorey, Richard.....
Salzburg, Austria. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 1982. Two volume set titled "Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory," edited by Dr. James Hogg, featuring the two-part essay "Domestic Tragedy in English - Brief Survey" by Ada Lou Carson and Herbert L. Carson. Each volume 8 ¼ x 6 inches, Volume 1.....
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......
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.....
Toledo, Ohio. Rad-Mar Press. No date. Ca. 1942. Spiral-bound rectangular book, 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. 76 pp. Illustrations of 38 theaters, from the Greeks to 1940s America, with a peek into the future on the last two pages. Toning in free edge of title page, evidently leeching from.....
