Winne The Pooh: A Musical Comedy In Two Acts (from the stories of A.A, Milne)
New York: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1964. Softcover. Softcovers. 137 pp. Very good, interior clean and unmarked.
Theatre
Playbill "My Fair Lady" with Ian Richardson and Christine Andrews; Hirschfeld cover
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.....
The Gazebo: A Play in Two Acts
New York: Dramatists Play Sewrvice, 1959. First edition. Softcover. First printing. 63 pp. in stiff wrappers. About very good, some soiling and creasing to the covers and a few character names underlined toward the conclusion. Stageplay adapted from a story by Myra and Alec Coppel written in 1957 and revised.....
Thirteen O'Clock : A Play in Three Acts (Inscribed by the author and with autograph note signed on the verso of a publisher's card and inoriginal dust jacket)
London: Ernest Benn, 1929. first printing. Hardcover. Slim hardcover in navy blue cloth with paper title labels front cover and spine. INSCRIBED IN THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER to actor Geoffrey Steele, "My very best wished to Geoffrey Steele--Anthony Thorne 22-8-29". Laid in are two additional pieces--one is a 3" x......
How's Your Second Act? Notes on the Art of Production
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.....
The London Stage: Its History and Traditions from 1576 to 1888
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".....
The Real Sarah Bernhardt whom her Audiences Never Knew: from Material Supplies by Mme. Pierre Berton
New York: Tudor, 1937. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth. 361 pp. Illustrated with full page photographs. Very good or somewhat better, tiny tear to the head edge of the spine strip; no dust jacket. Anecdotal biography of world the women know in her time as the most famous actress.....
The World of Serge Diaghilev
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.....
Plays Produced Under The Stage Direction of David Belasco
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.....
His Blue Serge Suit and Other Plays (Signed first edition)
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.
John Brown's Body (with theatre production wrap-around band)
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.....
An Introduction To Eighteenth Century Drama
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.
Kiss The Boys Good-Bye
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.....
American Musical Theatre; A Chronicle
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.....
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Theatre
NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. First. Hard Cover. First printing. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET with light toning but no flaws. Cloth, 451 pps.
The Quare Fellow; A Comedy-Drama
London: Methuen & Co LTD, 1970. Reissue. Paperback. Reissue. Paperback. Very good condition. 87 pages.
Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas
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.
Theatre at the Left
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.
The Best Plays Of 1923-1924 and The Year Book Of The Drama In America
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.....
The Best Plays of 1927-1928 and the Year Book of the Drama In America
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.....
The Best Plays of 1939-1940 and Year Book of The Drama In Ameirca
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.....
The Best Plays of 1941-1942 and Year Book of The Drama in America
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.....
The Best Plays 1944-1945 (in original dust jacket)
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.....
And a Nightingale Sang
methuen inc, 1983. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine (some foxing to the edge of the textblock) in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 112 pages.
A Soldier's Play: a play
Noonday Press, 1982. Paperback. Softcovers. Generally fine, top outer corner a bit bumped, ownership stamp front free endpaper. 100 pp. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, Louisiana, when the military was still racially segregated, the plot revolves around the mysterious shooting of a black sergeant and the subsequent investgation of.....