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Comedy in the Soviet Theater by: Yershov, Peter
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Comedy in the Soviet Theater
by: Yershov, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine and border of boards faded, otherwise very clean, tight.

Record # 57600

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater 1850-1970 by: Jacobs, Leonard
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Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theater 1850-1970
by: Jacobs, Leonard

Hardcover. US, Turner, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages includes index. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. From this valuable archive, author Leonard Jacobs spotlights the evolution of the world's most storied dramatic community. Reaching from the 1850s to the recent past, these images give insight into the passion and character of the theaters, the performers, and the performances that have made Broadway the iconic cultural capital of theater. With hundreds of images, many never before published, Historic Photos of Broadway provides an intriguing look behind the scenes at the Booths and the Barrymores and every subject from the Alvin Theatre to the Ziegfeld Follies, giving those passionate about theater an irreplaceable glimpse into its humble beginnings and rise to greatness over the last two centuries.

Record # 350870

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Happenings: New York 1958-1963 by: Glimcher, Mildred L.
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Happenings: New York 1958-1963
by: Glimcher, Mildred L.

Hardcover. New York, Monacelli Press , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive b&w and color photography throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Includes extensive bibliography and chronology. Clean, tight copy. In early October 1959, thirty-two-year-old Allan Kaprow presented a performance piece entitled "18 Happenings in 6 Parts." This unique conjunction of visual, aural, and physical events, performed for an intimate art world audience by his friends and colleagues, would change the course of art history. The genre of artwork that evolved from this debut would become known as Happenings. This new volume provides a comprehensive look at this revolutionary art form. Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York, it focuses on the years that saw the movement's birth in New York and Provincetown, Mass., and the artists who made the genre a legend: Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, Robert Whitman, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Simone Forti, Carolee Schneemann. Together, they created a new and outrageous art form with an "anything goes" attitude, one whose influence is still felt within the contemporary art world.

Record # 350969

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Broadway: The American Musical by: Kantor, Michael and Laurence Maslon
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Broadway: The American Musical
by: Kantor, Michael and Laurence Maslon

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 470 pages, illustrated with over 500 color and b&w images including posters, programs, maps and other archival material. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351111

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind by: Baldwin, Michelle
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Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind
by: Baldwin, Michelle

Softcover. Golden CO, Speck Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 144 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 353023

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for Three Comrades by: Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Remarque, Erich Maria
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for Three Comrades
by: Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Remarque, Erich Maria

Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinous University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear, spine fading and rubbing, internally cleann and tight copy.

Record # 353996

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Motion of History, The; and Other Plays by: Baraka, Amiri
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Motion of History, The; and Other Plays
by: Baraka, Amiri

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gutter cracked in three places. Dust jacket shows edgewear and small tears at corners. Fading to top cover boards.

Record # 353998

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Three Plays After: The Yalta Game, The Bear, Afterplay by: Friel, Brian
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Three Plays After: The Yalta Game, The Bear, Afterplay
by: Friel, Brian

Hardcover. Ireland, Gallery Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 100 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's signature on prelim page, else a clean, tight copy. This Irish edition precedes all others..

Record # 354085

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater of Indonesia by: Herbert, Mimi
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Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater of Indonesia
by: Herbert, Mimi

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages with 160 color and 20 black & white photographs of the elaborately carved and costumed puppets and portraits of the master puppeteers and carvers, list of Wayang characters, glossary, bibliography. Indonesia's wayang golek puppet theatre is among the world's oldest and richest puppetry traditions, contemporary with Japanese Noh drama and the mystery plays of Europe. In an unclipped dust jacket with some light fading to spine.

Record # 357582

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Lively Years 1920 1973, The: A Half Century of the Most Significant Plays on Broadway by: Atkinson, Brooks & Hirschfeld, Albert
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Lively Years 1920 1973, The: A Half Century of the Most Significant Plays on Broadway
by: Atkinson, Brooks & Hirschfeld, Albert

Hardcover. NY, Association Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, very good in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. 82 Broadway plays reviewed by Atkinson and all illustrated with Hirschfeld's caricatures.

Record # 358579

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Rattigan Version, The: Sir Terrence Rattigan and the Theatre of Character by: Young, B. A.
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Rattigan Version, The: Sir Terrence Rattigan and the Theatre of Character
by: Young, B. A.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. In a clean, unclipped dust jacket. Rattigan was a renowned English playwright, the author of 22 plays.

Record # 358584

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Magician and the Cardsharp The Search For America's Greatest Sleight-Of-Hand Artist, The by: Johnson, Karl
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Magician and the Cardsharp The Search For America's Greatest Sleight-Of-Hand Artist, The
by: Johnson, Karl

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 249 pages. Black and red striped dust jacket with light edgewear. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 358596

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningrad by: Krasovskaya, Vera
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Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningrad
by: Krasovskaya, Vera

Hardcover. Gainesville FL, University Press of Florida, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, b&w photos. Biography of the Russian ballet dancer and teacher Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951).

Record # 359505

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Folies-Bergere by: Durval, Paul
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Folies-Bergere
by: Durval, Paul

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 219 pages, b&w photos. The author was the owner/manager of famous girl revue for 40 years and gives us this history. Preface by Maurice Chevalier. Dust jacket shoes wear, chipping.

Record # 359768

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Vagrant Memories; Being Further Recollections of Other Days by: Winter, William
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Vagrant Memories; Being Further Recollections of Other Days
by: Winter, William

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1915, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt title, top edge gilt. 523 pages, b&w photos. The author wrote this book to depict and commemorate "leading representatives of the Stage". He writes about: William Warren, laura Keene, Matilda Heron, Lester Wallack, James W. Wallace, Mark Smith, Edward Adams, Henry J. Montague; Edwin Booth, Augustin Daly, Henry Irving, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Edward H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Index. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 359772

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Tent Show: Arthur Names and His 'Famous' Players by: Whisenhunt, Donald W.
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Tent Show: Arthur Names and His 'Famous' Players
by: Whisenhunt, Donald W.

Hardcover. College Station TX, Texas A & M University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages, b&w photos. The show traveled in West Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Eastern Colorado from 1920 to 1945. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 359773

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

The Playbill/Winter Garden -"Hooray for What!" by: N/A
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The Playbill/Winter Garden -"Hooray for What!"
by: N/A

Softcover. NY, New York Theatre Program Corp., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 page playbill program for the Shubert revue "Hooray for What!" starring Ed Wynn (featured on the cover) and Vivian Vance ( of The Lucy Show). Great ads feature night spots like Sardi's and The Cotton Club. Light wear, stapled, clean. 6 3/4 X 9 1/4".

Record # 359786

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Circus: 1870-1950 by: Granfield Linda; Jando Dominique; Dahlinger Fred; Daniel Noel Editor
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The Circus: 1870-1950
by: Granfield Linda; Jando Dominique; Dahlinger Fred; Daniel Noel Editor

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, larger slipcased edition of this title and measures 15.5 x 10.5" and weighs approx. 11.8 lbs. Slipcase, book and jacket in very good condition. With photographic gems of early circus performers, as well as original posters, lithographs, sideshow banners and engravings from the 16th to 19th centuries illustrating the worldwide roots of the circus, readers are transported to a world of thrill and skill, grit and glamor. Highlights include iconic circus photographs by Mathew Brady, Cornell Capa, Walker Evans, Weegee, and Lisette Model, and little-known circus images by Stanley Kubrick and Charles and Ray Eames. 670 pages. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 360561

Price: $170.00
Price: $170.00 

The Circus: 1870-1950 by: Granfield Linda; Jando Dominique; Dahlinger Fred; Daniel Noel Editor
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The Circus: 1870-1950
by: Granfield Linda; Jando Dominique; Dahlinger Fred; Daniel Noel Editor

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, folio trade edition. With photographic gems of early circus performers, as well as original posters, lithographs, sideshow banners and engravings from the 16th to 19th centuries illustrating the worldwide roots of the circus, readers are transported to a world of thrill and skill, grit and glamor. Highlights include iconic circus photographs by Mathew Brady, Cornell Capa, Walker Evans, Weegee, and Lisette Model, and little-known circus images by Stanley Kubrick and Charles and Ray Eames. 670 pages.

Record # 361226

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Ludmila Tcherina: Trag
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Ludmila Tcherina: Trag

Hardcover. Paris, France, Vilo, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Hardcover. FRENCH TEXT. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated glossy cover boards, some chipping of lamination at spine and corners, a couple scratch marks. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Back cover boards slightly warped so it curls just a touch at top and bottom. Pages clean. Binding tight. A beautifully photo-illustrated volume featuring performance photos and portraits of the world-famous prima ballerina.

Record # 369295

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

The Magic of Dance by: Margot Fonteyn
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The Magic of Dance
by: Margot Fonteyn

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 326 pages. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white. Clean copy. Margot Fonteyn shares her personal vision of the history of dance.

Record # 372193

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Selected Plays by: Tennessee Williams/Jerry Pinkney
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Selected Plays
by: Tennessee Williams/Jerry Pinkney

Hardcover. Franklin Center,PA, The Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full leather binding, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon marker, hubbed spine, gilt decorations on spine and covers. Two=color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney.

Record # 372337

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Mexican Folk Plays by: Josephina Niggli Frederick H. Koch edited with an Introduction by
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Mexican Folk Plays
by: Josephina Niggli Frederick H. Koch edited with an Introduction by

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated yellow cloth covers with light soil, 227 pages. Illustrated with 7 b&w photos. These five one-act plays, originally produced by the Carolina Playmakers at Chapel Hill and on various tours, offer an unusual combination of brilliant local color and truth about human nature everywhere. Well written, with skillful stage directions and notes on Mexican costume and Spanish pronunciation, they are highly practical for production. Internally clean, no dust jacket.

Record # 373656

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by: Leslie Zemeckis, Blaze Starr (foreword)
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Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America
by: Leslie Zemeckis, Blaze Starr (foreword)

Softcover. NY, Skyhorse, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 361 pages, b&w illustrations. Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy, bawdy, and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of paying customers every night of the week. And yet the legacy of burlesque is often vilified and misunderstood, left out of the history books. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it, Behind the Burly Q reveals the true story of burlesque, even as it experiences a new renaissance. Lovingly interviewed by burlesque enthusiast Leslie Zemeckis who produced the hit documentary of the same name, are former musicians, strippers, novelty acts, club owners, authors, and historians--assembled here for the first time ever to tell you just what really happened in a burlesque show. From Jack Ruby and Robert Kennedy to Abbott and Costello--burlesque touched every corner of American life. The sexy shows often poked fun at the upper classes, at sex, and at what people were willing to do in the pursuit of sex. Sadly, many of the performers have since passed away, making this their last, and often only interview. Behind the Burly Q is the definitive history of burlesque during its heyday and an invaluable oral history of an American art form. Funny, shocking, unbelievable, and heartbreaking, their stories will touch your hearts. We invite you to peek behind the curtain at the burly show.

Record # 374440

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine by: Teachout, Terry
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All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine
by: Teachout, Terry

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w photos, 185 pages. Twenty years after his death, George Balanchine still dominates the world of ballet. Not only have his works been danced by the New York City Ballet continuously since 1948, but they also have been performed by more than two dozen other companies throughout the world. In clear and elegant writing, Terry Teachout brings to life the dramatic story of George Balanchine, a Russian emigre who fell in love with American culture, married four times and kept a mistress on the side, and transformed the art of ballet forever. Clean copy.

Record # 375176

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Actors on Guard: A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen by: Girard, Dale Anthony
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Actors on Guard: A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen
by: Girard, Dale Anthony

Softcover. NY, Routledge, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 511 pages. Illustrations by Zina Lee. 'Actors on Guard is the most comprehensive and detailed book on the art of theatrical swordplay available today. It provides the reader with the historical, theoretical and practical basis for learning, practicing and presenting theatrical sword fights.' Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378044

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act (SIGNED COPY) by: Wilder, Thornton
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The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act (SIGNED COPY)
by: Wilder, Thornton

Hardcover. NY/New Haven, Coward-McCann / Yale University, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, #38/525 copies, Numbered and SIGNED by Wilder on a leaf tipped onto the copyright page, bound in faux-vellum spine, flowered paper covered boards. Mild foxing to a few pages, otherwise clean. A one act play whose action spans 90 years in the home of one family, specifically in the dining room during Christmas dinners. laid in is a page of The Yale Alumni Weekly from 1931 with a review of the play.

Record # 378485

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

One Day More: A Play In One Act by: Joseph Conrad
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One Day More: A Play In One Act
by: Joseph Conrad

Hardcover. London, Beaumont Press, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Cloth-backed patterned paper boards designed by Michel Sevier. The sixth book published by the Press. Paper label on spine is chipped and tanned. Cover edges and corners worn, there is a small splash of red color to middle of sine cloth on front. Interior is bright and clean. #192 of 250 copies. One Day More' is a reworking of Conrad's short story 'Tomorrow'. It centers on a family which have structured their lives around the hope and promise of their son returning from a long stint at sea. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to ever write in the English language.

Record # 378488

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by: John Lahr
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by: John Lahr

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 765 pages, b&w illustrations. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life-his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin-Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams's plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams's tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.

Record # 378675

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Operatic Afterlives by: Michal Grover-Friedlander
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Operatic Afterlives
by: Michal Grover-Friedlander

Hardcover. NY, Zone Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An examination of the ultimate power opera grants to singing: the reversal of death. In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grover-Friedlander examines the implications of opera's founding myth-the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus's attempt to revive the dead Eurydice with the power of singing. Grover-Friedlander examines instances in which opera portrays an existence beyond death, a revival of the dead, or a simultaneous presence of life and death. These portrayals-in operas by Puccini and other composers and performances by Maria Callas-are made possible, she argues, by the unique treatment of voice in the operas in question: the occurrence of a breach in which singing itself takes on an afterlife in the face of the singer's death. Clean copy, 252 pages.

Record # 378833

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by: Rose Eichenbaum and Aron Hirt-Manheimer
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The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers
by: Rose Eichenbaum and Aron Hirt-Manheimer

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. Well-known on the concert stage, on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on television, the personalities featured in this book speak with extraordinary candor about all stages of the dancer's life-from their first dance class to their signature performances and their days of reflection on the artist's life. The Dancer Within reveals how these artists triumphed, but also how they overcame adversity, including self-doubt, injuries, and aging. Most of all, this book is about the courage, commitment, love, and passion of these performers in their quest for artistic excellence. The reader will quickly realize that "the dancer within" is a metaphor of the human spirit.

Record # 379565

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Fruits of Enlightenment by: Tolstoi, Lyof
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The Fruits of Enlightenment
by: Tolstoi, Lyof

Hardcover. Boston, John W. Luce and Company, 1st US, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth over tan cloth boards, no dustwrapper; 149 pages. No date but appears to be circa 1900. A uncommon edition of a Tolstoy play. Title page states "Authorized Edition". Owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 379587

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

She Stoops to Conquer by: Goldsmith, Oliver/F.C Gordon (Illustrations)
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She Stoops to Conquer
by: Goldsmith, Oliver/F.C Gordon (Illustrations)

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st thus, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 204 pages. b/w illustrations throughout by F.C. Gordon. All edges gilt. Beautiful binding, cover boards bound in blue cloth, extensive gilt decoration on spine and front cover board. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Spine has a little fraying at bottom. Binding tight. Pages clean. Page 112 hinge split at gutter. Comedy in five acts.

Record # 379845

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 
 

Masques and Entertainments by: Jonson, Ben, and Morley, Henry (Editor)
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Masques and Entertainments
by: Jonson, Ben, and Morley, Henry (Editor)

Hardcover. London, George Routledge and Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in maroon cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. 439 pages + 8 pages of publisher's ads in rear.

Record # 379880

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Shakespeare After All by: Marjorie Garber
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Shakespeare After All
by: Marjorie Garber

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "In 'Shakespeare After All,' Marjorie Garber - professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University gives us a magisterial work of criticism, authoritative and engaging, based on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years. Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half of the twentieth century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays in chronological sequence". 989 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 379995

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Buffo: The Genius of Vulgar Comedy by: Caputi, Anthony
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Buffo: The Genius of Vulgar Comedy
by: Caputi, Anthony

Hardcover. Detroit MI, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 263 pages, b&w illustrations. The author traces the origins of humor to primitive drama, folk ritual, and carnival play. from antiquity to the era of Laurel and Hardy. Light making to about 16 pages.

Record # 380421

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Laughing Matter: An Essay on the Comic by: Marcel Gutwirth
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Laughing Matter: An Essay on the Comic
by: Marcel Gutwirth

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 209 pages with index. Why do we laugh? Do we really want to know why? We are torn between desire to understand the joyous human response of laughter and reluctance to expose the secret of our spontaneity to the rigors of intellectualizing, the labors of analysis. Marcel Gutwirth here offers a fresh approach to laughter and the full range of funny occasions-- from the artistry of Molire's Misanthrope to the unique nature of Beckett's comic wisdom. Clean copy.

Record # 380429

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England by: Mullaney, Steven
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The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England
by: Mullaney, Steven

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages. The drama is the most social of the arts, depending upon physical space, audience, and social factors for its existence. It is no surprise, therefore, that the most successful criticism approaches theater the way Barber and Mullaney do: as historical artifact. Barber is the better known, having authored the classic Shakespeare's Festive Comedy (1959); the present volume is based on his papers and examines three early Elizabethan tragedies"Tamburlaine" and "Dr. Faustus" by Marlowe and "The Spanish Tragedy" by Kyd. Particularly interested in locating these plays in the unstable religious atmosphere of the late 16th century, Barber ably demonstrates his understanding of the social, historical, and economic factors that defined the era. Mullaney takes the novel approach of examining the theater in light of London topography; the title thus refers to the physical location of the playhouses as well as the social importance of the theater. Mullaney points out that the prejudice that forced the great theaters of the age to operate outside the city walls encouraged a drama that was radical and iconoclastichence its greatness. Mullaney's argument is fascinating and thought-provoking, convincingly presented. Clean copy.

Record # 380430

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Field God and In Abraham's Bosom by: Green, Paul
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The Field God and In Abraham's Bosom
by: Green, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 2nd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated boards, black cloth spine, paper title labels, lacking dust jacket. American playwright, Green won the Pulitzer in 1927 for In Abraham's Bosom. 317 pages, top edge stained red. A clean, bright copy.

Record # 380904

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Famous American Actors of Today by: Charles E. L. Wingate and F.E. McKay (Ed.)
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Famous American Actors of Today
by: Charles E. L. Wingate and F.E. McKay (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and black, 399 pages. Forty-one chapters, each on a different actor, with a portrait of each. Each of the mini-biographies was written by a different writer or critic. The editors include such actors as John Drew, Edwin Booth, Rose Coughlan, James O'Neill, Edward Harrigan, Joseph Jefferson. Very good copy of the first edition. The book has brighttop edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate, inscription on front endpapers.

Record # 380909

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

DANGEROUS CORNER: A Play in Three Acts by: Priestley, J. B.
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DANGEROUS CORNER: A Play in Three Acts
by: Priestley, J. B.

Hardcover. NY, Samuel French, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with paper label on spine. 131 pages. covers slightly splayed, clean copy. Robert Caplan and his wife are entertaining her brother and sister-in-law. Because Robert insists on uncovering the truth about his brother Martin's 'suicide', many unpalatable revelations ensue which cause Robert to shoot himself. At this point, the opening scene is repeated, but this time they bypass the dangerous corner at which the truth is demanded, thus averting the disaster.Written in 1932 this forms one of the three 'time plays'.

Record # 380932

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Street: A Play by: Aiken, Joan, Illustrated by Arvis Stewart
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Street: A Play
by: Aiken, Joan, Illustrated by Arvis Stewart

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 79 pages. Illustrated by Arvis Stewart. Music by John Sebastian Brown. Small bookplate on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 380983

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Song and Dance: The Musicals of Broadway by: Ted Sennett
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Song and Dance: The Musicals of Broadway
by: Ted Sennett

NY, Metro Books , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,178 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A pictorial history of the Broadway musical. Clean copy.

Record # 381538

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Commedia Dell'Arte by: Winifred Smith
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The Commedia Dell'Arte
by: Winifred Smith

Hardcover. NY, Benjamin Blom, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light orange cloth with brown titles on spine. Traces the history of the time-honored farce, featuring Pulcinella, Harlequin, Pierrot, Pantaleone, and other traditionsl characters, from Roman comedy to Cruikshank's Punch & Judy. Originally published in 1912, this new edition adds 46 pages of illustrations and a folding color frontispiece. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 381627

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by: Brenda D. Gottschild
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Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts
by: Brenda D. Gottschild

Softcover. NY, Praeger, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages, b&w illustrations. This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power. Clean copy.

Record # 381745

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

George S. Kaufman: His Life, His Theater by: Malcolm Goldstein
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George S. Kaufman: His Life, His Theater
by: Malcolm Goldstein

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A critical biography of the comic genius who, as both a writer and a director, dominated the Broadway comedy theater during the twenties, thirties, and forties. Detailed accounts of GSK plays and how they came together -- or did not. Kaufman is captured as a man of the theatre who compulsively was involved in a show a year for decades, as writer or director. 503 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 382228

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Ciao Venezia: The 78th Grove Play by: James L Benington & Bradford W Young
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Ciao Venezia: The 78th Grove Play
by: James L Benington & Bradford W Young

Hardcover. San Francisco, The Bohemian Club, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and green decorated white boards, no dj issued. 69 pages, Carl Eberhard, composer. J. Robert Minser, director. Color illustrated stage design spread by Herbert P. Buel. Clean copy.

Record # 382433

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

Winks, Donald L. and Charles M. Denton. John V. Rogers (music) by: Winks, Donald L. and Charles M. Denton. John V. Rogers (music)
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Winks, Donald L. and Charles M. Denton. John V. Rogers (music)
by: Winks, Donald L. and Charles M. Denton. John V. Rogers (music)

Hardcover. San Francisco, The Bohemian Club, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 74 pages, illustrated orange paper over boards with title on front cover and spine. Illustrated with woodcuts by Vincent Perez. Issued without dust jacket. Bohemian Club Library Notes brochure laid in.

Record # 382443

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

Falling Into Theatre. . .and Finding Myself: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY) by: Robert Cohen
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Falling Into Theatre. . .and Finding Myself: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Robert Cohen

Softcover. McKinleyville CA, Fithian Press/, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY COHEN on the front fly leaf. Robert Cohen is the founding Chair of Drama a the University of California, Irvine, and has written 20 book on theatre. In this memoir, he recounts the "lucky breaks" that took him from being a college student preparing for law school to a long career as a man of the theatre. The first lucky break took place in his junior year of high school when Judy Berkenbilt asked him to be in "Belles On Their Toes," a play she was directing. She wanted to cast him as a policeman but after reading the script, Cohen asked for the role as the family handyman, which she agreed to. He identifies Lucky Break #2, in the same year, as ending up in a Vocational Typing class when he transferred out of the Mechanical Drawing class to escape a creepy instructor. He became a fabulous typist and was able to earn lunch money in college by typing papers for other students. Lucky Break #3 was getting into the 12th grade Advanced English class taught by Miss Casey, which advanced his intellectual development and reading "like crazy." Lucky Break #6 was being asked to take over as coach of the swimming program at the camp where he was a counselor. When Cohen did not have the $20 needed to to get a Water Safety Instructor certification, the camp owner asked him take over the drama program instead. And so on.

Record # 382730

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 
 

Minority Report: An Autobiography by: Rice, Elmer
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Minority Report: An Autobiography
by: Rice, Elmer

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in orange, yellow and white, 474 pages. The memoirs of a major American playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner for Street Scene. Clean copy.

Record # 382732

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 


Used, Rare & Antiquarian Theater Books

Theater books in used, rare, and out-of-print editions cover stage history, drama, musicals, and world puppet traditions. The shelf gathers play collections, critical studies, and illustrated volumes from private libraries. Titles reach from the Soviet stage and Broadway to burlesque, the avant-garde, and Indonesian wayang golek.

Recent titles include Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon's Broadway: The American Musical, Amiri Baraka's The Motion of History and Other Plays, Brian Friel's Three Plays After, and Mimi Herbert's Voices of the Puppet Masters, alongside F. Scott Fitzgerald's screenplay for Three Comrades.

Condition and availability vary with used and rare stock, and out-of-print play collections and illustrated volumes are often single copies that do not last long. If one catches your eye, order it online.