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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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: 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.....
Standard Brands, 1939. First edition. Softcover. 24 pp. in illustrated softcovers featuring a black and white rendering of a top-hatted Charlie. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs. Humorous pieces "written by" Charlie McCarthy, the famous wooden sidekick of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Includes such items as Charlie's love letters to Dorothy.....
Free Pr, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 322 pp. Illustrated. Fine (evidence of price sticker removal corner of front flyleaf) in bright, crisp dust jacket. A work that explors the one-time enormous appeal of the "Amos 'n Andy" characters, first as a nightly radio program in the 1930s.....
New York: Mitchell Kennerely, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth lettered in white. 167 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates of scenes from the stageplay. Adapted from the Hungarian original for the American stage by Oliver Herford. Very good, some loss to the white title and author lettering on.....
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: 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.....
William Morrow & Co, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated and with correct number line "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10". Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket except for a miniscule short closed tear top edge front panel. 186 pp. Illustrated with photographs. The heartbreaking.....
London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Third edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo in forest green gloth ornately lettered and decorated in gilt and black. xv+ 511 pp. Illustrated with 318 engravings in the text. The Third Edition, so stated on the title page. A fine, tight, bright example.....
New York: Bantam, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. with index, appendix of stage and screen appearances. Illustrated. Famed actor Rex Harrison presents a warm, humorous memoir, completed shortly before his death, that reveals how his self-depreciating wit, impeccable timing.....
New York: Crown, 1968. Hardcover. Fine (bookplate front free endpaper) in pictorial dust jacket with wear at the top edge and a closed crinkled tear top of front panel. The second in this highly popular series that tells the stories of famous personalities after their heyday. 100 people from entertainment.....
Edge Books/ Gauntlet Press, 2001. Paperback. First trade paperback edition. Signed by Matheson on the title page, no personalization or inscription. 391 pp. Very good or a bit better, light bump to the rear top corner. Collection of eight Twilight Zone scripts written by Matheson that aired between 1959 and.....
Stackpole Books, 1975. Hardcover. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To ___/ In friendship/ Rudy Vallee/ 11/24/75" . 320 pp. with index. Illustrated. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with a few very short closed tears. mAutobiography of one of the first superstar entertainers of the 20th century, Rudy.....
Paris: Grund, 1947. First edition. Softcover. First edition. Text in French. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. 243 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographic plates and reproductions and with black and white drawings in the text.. A history of the circus from medieval times to the 20th century. Includes a chapter.....
New York: A.A. Wyn, 1956. television, humor, TV, jack parr, jack benny, berle, danny thomas. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 318 pp. Exerpts and skits from famous comedy shows of the mid-1950s. Included: Jack Benny, Steve Allen from the Tonight Show, Life of Riley, Garry Moore, The Goldbergs.....
