Performing Arts

Toronto: Miroslawa Lassovsky-Kruk [0-919502-17-2] 1988, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 1000. (4to) 95pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the translator. Map endpapers, illustrations, notes. Book about Vladimir I--Grand Prince of Kiev. Illustrations by Bohdan Holowacki. Translated by Anna Stepaniuk Trojan. Text in Ukrainian and English. (Drama, Drama).

IRS Media, 1993 Signed by Paul Auster. First edition / First printing. Laserdisc in illustrated sleeve. Very fine in very fine sleeve.

London: for Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 onwards. Published 1815 to 1818. Twenty-six volumes bound as thirteen. With all half-titles and general titles (these with vignette illustration) and individual titles to all 104-plays within, these also with vignette illustrations; other vignette illustrations within the text. Thirteen volumes 12 mo (5 x 3 inches), contemporary grained burgundy calf, double gilt rules to sides with floral corner ornaments, all edges gilt. Spines gilt lettered direct with the title of each play within. Headbands, joints, and corners rubbed but overall a very pleasing set; good, strong and attractive. Rare as a complete set and even more so in an attractive contemporary binding.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1959. HBDJ, 415 titles on DJ Inverse, ML #329, NF/VG, AS-IS, 1st edition. 1959, First Edition is NOT STATED but According to Henry Toledano's The Modern Library Price Guide, this title does NOT state Modern Library First Edition. First Edition is determined by the number of titles on the verso dust jacket, which is 415. BLACK TOPSTAIN Light Fade, Red cloth has Title on Front in Gold Gilt Inside Black Box, Small tiny Stains to DJ front btm & Tiny end Chips wear, Back DJ shows 10 Titles starting with 6 Plays of Lillian Hellman ending with 30 Famous 1 Act plays, DJ Protected Clear mylar, 444 pgs + Ads end with Wisdom of Israel, 5 X 7 1/2 IN, Tinychipped edges DJ,. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

First edition. Publisher's review slip laid-in. New York University Press, Washington Square, NY, 1955. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Dust Jacket in very good condition. 222 pages of text. Hardcover cloth binding with a hint of fading on edges. Unclipped dust jacket slightly faded at spine, tiny tears and slight toning, minor toning to endpapers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Plays: Hedda Gabler & Master Builder.

New York, Doubleday, 1979 hardcover, 369 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper, Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light wear and light bumps to head and heel of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, chips to head and heel of spine, larger at the heel, age toning to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The noted novelist and author of The World of Henry Orient, You Can Go Home Again, The Two of Us and Tender Offer presents a memoir of her father the well-known playwright, producer, director and screenwriter of such Hollywood classics as The Desert Fox, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Three Faces of Eve, The Dirty Dozen and many others. Illustrated with 24 pages of black-&white plates from both personal and public photographs. Appended: Nunnally Johnson Pictures, Index. ISBN 9780385134064

"The Book of Magic" presented by "Arresto the Great" by William Wiesner with dust jacket. 1944 1st edition; Grosset & Dunlap; New York. With color illustrations and moving parts (such as pull-tabs and rotating wheels). The books provides instructions for 26 tricks. Spiral bound."Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! There's lots of fun and mystery ahead. Learn the Professor's secrets, and become a real magician yourself. With his help you can amaze your friends and baffle your relatives! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"Condition:Clean covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight spiral binding with no loose pages. Nice condition pages with no writing and only a few random light stains. The pull-tab on the last page is no longer present; 2 of the pull-tabs are crinkled from use. The dust jacket has some light soiling and some tears at the spine and flap corners. Overall the book is in very good condition.

Copy of the the original playbill of the first performance of "Seven Keys to Baldpate." The play premiered on Broadway on September 22, 1913 at the Astor Theatre and ran for 320 performances. This 1913-14 play by George Cohan is based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival. Cohan adapted it as a film in 1917, and it was adapted for film six more times, and later for TV and radio. Bound in full leather. NF condition. Rare.

Chromolithogr. title with a proscenium with view of a theatre building, 23 interior views of theatres, opera houses, muscial halls, of one arena and one circus all in chromolithography and with seatnumbering. Front and rear paste-downs with printed tables with price lists. Publisher's blue cloth, richly gilt front cover. Oblong-folio (355 x 275 mm). Covers slightly soiled, exremeties rubbed. Not in SMPK, Ornamentale Vorlagenwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. A rare and highly interesting work regarding interior designs and various entrance fees of Paris theatres, opera houses and muscial halls, which of course is a mark for their prestige. The following theatres are shown on the plates: 1. Opéra. 2. Italiens. 3. Opéra-comique. 4. Lyrique. 5. Francais. 6. Odéon. 7. Gymnase. 8. Ambigue-Comiques. 9. Porte-Saint-Martin. 10. Variétés. 11. Vaudeville. 12. Châtelet. 13. Gaîté. 14. Palais-Royal. 15. Folies-Dramatiques. 16. Cluny. 17. Bouffes-Parisiens. 18. Menus-Plaisirs. 19. Athénée. 20. Folies-Marigny.… Read More

New York: Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University, 1950 Original printed tri-fold playbill, with a typed slip for a replacement cast member laid-in; playbill is displayed in a two-sided black glass frame; sale also includes an original ticket stub tipped-in. Presentation copy from Langston Hughes, along with inscriptions from other cast and production members (Muriel Rahn who played Cora Lewis and Jan Meyerowitz who wrote the music). In 1949, Hughes reworked his pet thesis of the "tragic mulatto" from his 1928 play "Mulatto" into an opera, "The Barrier," the music written by modern composer, Jan Meyerowitz. The opera was first produced in the Brander Matthews Hall at Columbia University in 1950 and directed by Milton Smith. The playbill reproduces Hughes? thoughts on his libretto, "It concerns the bitter wall of color between the inhabitants of Albamar Plantation in contemporary Georgia, Colonel Thomas Norwood, his brown housekeeper, Cora Lewis, and their… Read More

New York, Grove Press, 1978, hardcover, 95 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing stated, Association Copy, Signed, stamped and inscribed to actor Ed Asner by the Author with his unique "Chicago" chop and Mr. Asner's name and address stamp to the front endpaper, "To Ed Asner with love from a fellow Chicagoan", Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no other markings, slight lean, light spine-end bumps, slight fading to board edges. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, slight rubs, touch of dampstain to upper edge, in new Brodart sleeve. In this early work the prolific American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and author presents a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges between two actors: John, young and rising into the first flush of his success; and Robert, older, anxious, and beginning to wane. The original small print run of this work makes the book difficult to find in first edition and signed copies are very scarce. ISBN… Read More

New York: Dial, 1968 I can't remember when I first became aware of Joan Baez, but it must have been one of those wonderful 60's or 70's times shared with good friends, good music and peace movement involvement. This is a first printing of her first memoir, written in 1968 and dedicated to young war resistors in prison. The pages are a bit toned and the front board is not pristine, but it is signed and in very good condition in an even better unclipped dust jacket with $3.95 cover price. See attached scans.

May Allison was a Hollywood film star who achieved notoriety during the Golden Age of the Silent Film.
This rare black & white photo depicts the actress holding a slender vase of flowers, is matted in a pastel photo mat, framed, and is autographed,
"Sincerely -
May Allison".

Charles Bronson was, and still is, one of the most iconic movie action heroes ever to emerge from Hollywood.
This 8 inch by 10 inch black & white photo is a promotional movie still from Tri Star Pictures for the movie, "The Evil That Men Do', made in 1984, and portrays Bronson leveling a revolver at an unseen opponent. Tho photo is matted and framed and is autographed "Charles Bronson" along the bottom edge.
This autographed photo is accompanied by a publicity letter from Tri Star Pictures giving a brief summary of the movie plot.
Together these items will make a unique addition to to your collection of classic Hollywood movie memorabilia.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Signed by Lauren Bacall on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of an Honorary Academy Award, 2 Tony Awards, 2 Golden Globes, and a Critic's Choice Lifetime Achievement Award.