New York: Playbill, 1964. Softcover. Original wrappers featuring photo of Carol Channing in the title role. 56 pp. Very good, small "1964" date written top corner front cover. The original Broadway adaptation of the Thornton Wilder play "The Matchmaker", book by Michael Stewart, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Carol.....
New York: Playbill, 1976. Softcover. Printed wrappers. Unpaginated (aprox. 48 pp.). Original Palybill magazine from a 1976 Broadway performance of "My Fair Lady" at bthe St. James Theater in New York. Very good or somewhat better, faint foxing to the front cover lower right. Interior clean. Cover drawing by Herschfeld.....
Yale University Press, 2001. first printing. Hardcover. As new in as new dust jacket. Hardcover. First printing. 380 pages, with index. Illustrated with photographs. From the Parisian operettas of the 1850s to the modern blockbuster musicals such as Les Miserables, Rent , a lively illustrated history of popular musical theater.....
New York: Samuel French, 1931. Later printing. Hardcover. Slim hardcover in black and white patterned paper covered boards over buff colored paper covered spine lettered in gilt. ix+ 43 pp. New introduction by Barrett H. Clark. Very good, some narrow peeling to the paper along the gutters; small owership initials.....
1889 London: W.H. Allen. Two volumes, first editions. Octavo in half japon vellum lettered in gilt, over gray cloth. 296 and 323 pps. with index. Errata notices on verso of contents page of Vol. I. A detailed history of the London stage from the time of "The Theatre", "The Curtain".....
London: Richard Bentley, 1891. Hardcover. Red cloth with spine lettering gilt. "New Edition, Being The Eighth". 410 pps. plus illustrated ads and publisher's ads. Reminisciences of life on the stage by the famed late Victorian theatre actors who married and continued their careers together. The tales here related provide valuable.....
Book Club. Hardcover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 94 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. In 1946, 20-year old Rose White awaits the arrival of Luisa, the older sister of a person who is a stranger to her. Lusia, a holocaust survivor, will fill.....
Chicago: Regnery, 1974. First. Hard Cover. First American edition. Cloth, 173 pps. with chronolgy, bibliography, index. Illustrated with 179 black and white and 23 color photos. Illustrated biographical work which examines the brilliant carrer of theatrical designer and ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev. When frustrated in his efforts to revamp Russia's.....
NY: Privately Printed, 1925. First. Decorated Boards. INSCRIBED BOLDLY ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER "TO ________/ WITH GOOD WISHES/ DAVID BELASCO/ JUNE, 1925". Decorated paper covered boards, 47 pps. illustrated with 12 crayon sketches by William F. Kurze. Celebratory piece on the career of early 20th century theatre impresario David.....
Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1924. presumed first edition. Hardcover. Presumed First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Hardcover in navy blue cloth with labeled title and spine. 92 pp. Very good, spine label damaged.
New York: Rinehart & Co., (1953). Hardcover. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 336 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. Present is the very scarce wrap-around band featuring photographs of the actors (Anderson, Powers and Massey as well as director Laughton) This edition (the 38th printing of Benet's Pulitzer Prize winning narrative.....
1968: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. First ediiton. Cloth, 244 pages including index. A perceptive approach to the influences of the Elizabethan criminal underworld in the works of Shakespeare, Dekker and Jonson. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small chip at the hear of spine.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. Hardcover. Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. x+365 pp. with index. Frontis illustration. Fine, offsetting to the endpapers. Overview of 18th century English drama and dramatists from Nicholas Rowe to Richard Brinsley Sheridan. No dust jacket.
NY: Random House, 1939. Hard Cover. Cloth, 249 pps. Broadway comedy, a hit of 1938, inspired by the much-publicized search for the right actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With The Wind". In Boothe's stageplay, the plot revolves around the discovery of "Velvet O'Toole", who will represent the epitome.....
New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1995. Second edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 749 pp. with index of songs, index of people, index of shows and sources. Definitive refernce work on the American musical. arranged season-by-season and show-by-show beginning in 1866. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. (EXTRA SHIPPING REQUIRED ON.....
NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. First. Hard Cover. First printing. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET with light toning but no flaws. Cloth, 451 pps.
London: Methuen & Co LTD, 1970. Reissue. Paperback. Reissue. Paperback. Very good condition. 87 pages.
NY: Haskell House, 1965. Reissue. Hard Cover. Cloth, 93 pps. Facsimile reprint of the original 1923 edition. Illustrated and with appendix of music and lyrics of six important pieces. Fine. Issued without dust jacket.
Providence, R.I. The Booke Shop, 1938. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Red cloth lettered in black. 105 pps. plus references list. Collection of essays treating state controlled Soviet theatre in the years between the end of the Russian Revolution to the onset of WWII. Fine. No dust jacket.
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. 571 pp. with index of actors birth dates and places, necrology, index of authors, index of plays and casts. Illustrated with photographic plates. The annual year book of the American drama. In this edition are, in addition to reviews of.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. 588 pp. with index of actors birth dates and places, necrology, index of authors, index of plays and casts. Illustrated with photographic plates. The annual year book of the American drama. In this edition are, in addition to reviews.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. 524 pp. with index of actors birth dates and places, necrology, index of authors, index of plays and casts. Illustrated with photographic plates. The annual year book of the American drama. In this edition are, in addition to reviews.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. 508 pp. with index of actors birth dates and places, necrology, index of authors, index of plays and casts, index of producres, directors and designers. Illustrated with photographic plates. The annual year book of the American drama. In this.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. 527 pp. with index of actors birth dates and places, necrology, index of authors, index of plays and casts, index of producers, directors and designers. Illustrated with photographic plates. The annual year book of the American drama. In this.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. 501 pp. with index of actors birth dates and places, necrology, index of authors, index of plays and casts, index of producers, directors and designers. Illustrated with photographic plates. The annual year book of the American drama. In this.....
