New York: Dell, 1959. First edition thus. Softcover. First paperback ediiton, first printing stated. Illustrated softcovers. 319 pp. Very good. Memoirs of striptaese artist Gypsy Rose Lee who said of herself that she was "the greatest no-talent act in the business" but parlayed her assets into fame and wealth. Her.....
Upland, CA: Euclid Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Glossy hardcovers. INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: "_____!/ Hope you enjoy reading about your 'surrogate family'/ All our love to all of you/ Van Harris". 425 pp. Illustrated. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. Memoirs of Borscht Belt comedian Van Harris, a......
Chicago: T.S. Denison & Company, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover in blue cloth, decorated in navy blue lettered in black. 148 pp. Illustrated with a small sketch at the beginning of each chapter. Witty monologues inspired by traditional stories of minstrels dating back to to the 16th century.....
London: Saxon House, 1973. Book. Hardcover. 214 pp. with index. Recording inserted in pocket at rear. Illustrated. 215 pp. Illustrated history of vaudeville in England, better known there a s music hall entertainment. Near fine, previous owner signature covered by jacket flap. In very good dust jacket.
New York: George Sully, 1926. Hardcover. Quite scarce, especially in dust jacket. Presumed first edition (no statements). Hardcover in red cloth lettered and lined in black. xix+ 201 pp. Illustrated with drawings. A tight, fine example in near fine dust jacket, minor wear at the spine extremities, some fade to.....
New York: Warner Books, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. x+ 302 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Foreword by George Burns. Written with the assitance of his daughter Joan, the story of one of the top entertainers of the 20th century, Jack Benny (1894-1974). The.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Hardcover. 360 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Very good, bookplate front pastedown and ownership signature top edge of front flyleaf. In very good dust jacket, some modest soiling to the spine and toning about the edges. Autobiograhical accounts and anecdotes from.....
New York: Atria Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in ifne dust jacket. First ediiton, first printing. Hardvcover. 598 pp. eith bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Long-awaited first definitve biography of entertainment legend Lena Horne (1917-2010). The star of stage, music and film blazed a trial for African Americans in.....
New York: Grand Central, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. First printing (stated). Signed by Jamie Foxx on the second front blank. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 221 pp. Foxx, Best Actor winner of the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG offers this hilarious and.....
Mansfield, O. Mansfield Union Publishing Co., 1883. Revised. Leather_bound. Thick octavo in publisher's dark brown three-quarter leather over brown cloth; spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. marbled endpapers. 608 pp. Illustrated with engravings and vignettes throughout and with seven of eight color plates (lacking the.....
Crown Publishers, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing (no statement as is correct). Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 186 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Joey Adams provides an anecdotal, personality-oriented history of the Friar's Club, a private club founded in New York in 1904 whose members.....
New York: Harmont Books/ Crown, 1994. Hardcover. Fine (rem. dot top egde)in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 262 pages with index. Illustrated with photographs. Autobiography of singer/ songwriter John Denver.
New York: Grand Central, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. A fine, fresh apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xiv+ 269 pp. In September, 1969, ABC premiered a new sitcom about a widow with three children and a widower, also with three children, who marry and set.....
East Point, Ga. Will Delavoye, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover, ornately decorated in red, white and blue with circus scene. 318 pp. Illustarted with drawings and vintage photographs. Scarce book of American circus history, filled with stories and anecdotes of shows, performers, travel, etc. A tight, fine example.....
Whitman, 1971. Charles Hamrick. Hardcover. Very good, illustrated hard cover. 212 pages. Steve McGarrett, Dan-O, Chin Ho Kelly and the rest of the 5-0 gang chase down a cop killer. Published during the 12 year run of the original CBS TV series (1968-1980) that starred Jack Lord.
New York: Willima T. Henderson, 1904. Limited ed. Hardcover. Autograph edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (of which this is No. 261, signed by the author on the limitation bookplate on the front pastedown. Red cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in white with tipped on photograph of actor Ralph.....
Self Published, 1981. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N SHIPPING) . Oversized hardcover. 472 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings and diagrams. 1981 edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Roger/ Happy Magic/ Mark Wilson/ 9-2-84" and with an additional inscribed color 8x10 promotional photo laid.....
New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine (tiny red dot top edge) in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xiii+ 804 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Full scale biography of Paul Robeson (1898-1976), a major American figure, the great black singer and actor who was perhaps the most.....
New York: Donald Flamm, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Slim hardcover in black blue cloth spine over patterned black paper covered boards (rear) and a tipped on paper orange, black and white illustration on the front cover. 63 pp. Illustrated with caracatures Alex Gard and others. Collection of humorous.....
Middlebury, VT: P. S. Eriksson, 1978. Hardcover. Hardcover. Fine (bit of light foxing about the edges of the text block) in fine, price clipped dust jacket. Hardcover. 210 pp. with index. illustrated with photos. Uncommon. Unathorized biography of of entertainer Eddie Fisher (1928-2010). A native of South Philadelphia, Fisher's boyhood.....
Hill & Wang Pub, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xi+ 237 pp. with index. Newton Minow, JFK's FCC Chairman and co-author Craig LaMay postulate that commercial interests dominating television have abandoned our children to a wadteland of vacuous, often violent, and openly comsumerist.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed on the front free nedpaper , "To ______/ with gratitude for an honor I shall always treasure---/ Norman Corwin". Hardcover. 338 pp. with glossary. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Collection of plays that Corwin wrote between 1938 and n1942.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. Third printing. 1955. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to the spine folds. Previous owner's handwritten name and small ownership stamp top corner of the frotn free endpaper. xiv+268 pp. Third printing stated. Collection of plays from the playwright.....
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 303 pp. with 17 striking monochrome photographs. About very good, spine strip faded and rubbed and with shallow loss to the spine extremities. No jacket. Contemporary biography of one of the first ladies of 20th century American performing arts, Lillian.....
Cornell Univ Pr, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 291 pp. with index, bibliography, filmography. Illustrated. A tight, generally fine example, some light foxing about the edges of the text block. In very good dust jacket. Through close readings of Bergman's famous and lesser known films, as well as.....
