Softcover. NY, Automatic Photograph Co., 1995, Book: Very Good, Unique item: 13 rounded cards, 4 X 6 1/2", hole-punched at the top with a string binding. The top card is the title, listing the women shown in the following cards for the 12 months of the year. Each has a pasted down actual photograph of the female celebrity: Katherine Grey, Lillian Russell, Maud Adams, Lulu Tabor, etc. All in excellent condition in the original white box which is worn at the corners.
Hardcover. London/NY, William Heinemann, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 134 pages. Full color and b/w illustrated tipped-in plates with captioned tissue guards. Tan, decorated cover boards, green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, title and design embossed in gilt on front cover board. Some spotting on boards and spine, with chipping to corners (see image). Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Light tanning to edges and pages (see image), doesn't affect plates or text. Binding tight, spine straight. All pages and plates present. A beautifully illustrated, well-kept edition. Shakespeare's most famous fantasy play vividly illustrated by one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration.
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.
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.
Hardcover. North Hollywood CA, National Association of Theatre Owners, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Lavish and marvelous pictorial on movie theatres and how movies were presented including the publicity and all the hoopla that surrounded the movie going experience from the first nickelodeons to the majestic movie palaces and all the wonderful small neighborhood theatres. Loaded with 100's of b&w photos publicity material and more with many color photos.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations by Al Hirschfeld. Introduction by Brooks Atkinson. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Dust jacket with creases, and light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Dent / Everyman's Library, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn blue dust jacket with fading to spine. 302 pages. The author was an actor, dramatist and theatrical manager and gives an account of the British stage in the first half of the Eighteenth century. First published in 1740. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. "During its first two centuries, opera was dominated by sopranos. There were male sopranos, or castrati, whose supercharged voices (female vocal cords powered by male lungs) were capable of feats of vocalism that are hard to imagine today. And there were female sopranos, or prime donne, whose long battle for social acceptance and top billing was crowned in the early nineteenth century when the castrati disappeared from the opera stage and left them supreme.", "Whether they were male or female, these singers wre amazing vertuosi, perhaps the greatest singers there have ever been - "angels." Unfortunately, some of them (and often the most famous) were also capable of behaving extremely badly, both on and off stage - "monsters." This book tells their colorful stories." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth stamped in gilt. Oblong folio, 306 pages, 13" x 12". 256 illustrations, thirty color plates. Comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of the contributions made to the theater by major painters and sculptors of the twentieth century, such as Chagall; Schlemmer; Toulouse-Lautrec; the German Impressionists; Picasso; Calder; Kandinsky; Dada; and Dali, etc. Bibliography. List of Exhibitions. Index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dustjacket, mild wear to covers. DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Playbill/ Applause Thetre& Cinama Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Minor rubbing to top spine. Light soil on rear. This is the ultimate backstage tour of Broadway! AT THIS THEATRE tells the complete history of Broadway in the 20th century, theatre by theatre. This gorgeous book is now updated, revised and with a larger format, covering 1900 to 2001. PLAYBILL's columnist, Louis Botto, along with Robert Viagas, opens the doors and lets readers explore the 40 active Broadway theatres in New York. From the conception and design of the buildings, to their original creators, and on to the theatres' transformation, often under duress, from legitimate houses to vaudeville and Burlesque, to movie houses and then back to their original purpose, this book captures the magical world of Broadway. It is a complete and authoritative history that only Botto, the curator of PLAYBILL's incomparable 116-year-old archives, can tell.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 501 pages. Hardcover. AUTHORS SIGNED INSCRIPTION PASTED ON TITLE PAGE. 3/4 Leather marbled sections, raised bands on spine. Gilt titles and highlights. Marbled endpapers. Gilt top edge. Light rubbing to cover edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 115 pages. Foreword by Carl Sandburg, The story of the original Ellie May of Tobacco Road for 2,013 performances. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 180 pages with index. An account of the infamous showman and his adventures after descending on Victorian London in the 1840s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This monumental survey is the first to do justice to Cecil Beaton's astonishing photographic career spanning six decades, from the 1920s to the 1970s. To create it, Mark Holborn thoroughly explored Beaton's vast studio archive, revealing an artist of extraordinary energy and ambition who made definitive portraits of the leading figures of his time, including Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and Mick Jagger. Beaton immerses the reader in memorable social and cultural scenes, including the ceremony of the British royal family, the society of the 1920s, the glamour of Hollywood, the drama of World War II, the high artistic bohemia of Paris and London, and the pop royalty of the 1960s. Holborn contributes an introductory essay, and Annie Leibovitz offers an appreciation of Beaton as a portrait photographer.
Hardcover. NY, Wynwood Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. Biography of the comedian from Toronto who married a Title in England, went on to become an international star as a comedienne on the stage and screen. She experienced the death of her only son in WWII. The author was a friend and confidant until Lillie's death at the age of 90. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. As both star and director of the acclaimed film Henry V, young Branagh has had his career compared to that of Lawrence Olivier. Full of charm, humor, and insight into an actor's craft, Branagh's intriguing autobiography tells of his childhood in Belfast, his training at the Royal Academy of Drama, and his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.INSCRIBED BY BRANAGH on front fly leaf.
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.
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.
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.
Softcover. Syracuse, NY, Willis N Bugbee Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet. Green paper wrappers with softened edges. Light soil to paper wrappers. tight copy. Lightly faded on rear.
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.
Hardcover. Portland, Or., Collectors Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout with portraits of vintage burlesque dancers in color and b&w. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chunks gone from spine. A witty drama critic from the New York Herald-Tribune offers opinions and gossip on the celebrities of the day. 186 pages. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of plays performed in Louisville. Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky. Including plays by: Wendell Berry, Roy Blount, Jr., Harry Crews, and Marsha Norman. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on the front fly leaf to poet friend Ed Hyland: "For Ed - Best wishes for resilience in your work. Keep your ass in the chair - Harry Crews". The Crews play "Blood Issue" is included. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages, b&w illustrations. The personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary interracial New York City night clubs Cafe Society Downtown and Cafe Society Uptown and their successor, The Cookery. Famously known as 'the wrong place for the Right people', Cafe Society featured the cream of jazz and blues performers--among whom were Billie Holiday, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Big Sid Catlett, and Mary Lou Williams--as well as comedy stars Imogene Coca, Zero Mostel, and Jack Gilford, the boogie-woogie pianists, and legendary gospel and folk artists. Spanning half a century from the 1930s to the 1980s, Josephson's narrative depicts both the business and the artistic sides of Cafe Society while exposing the tensions between the club's own progressive interracial openness and the more restrictive social and political climate in which it evolved. Publisher's stamp on bottom edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.
Softcover. Milano, Longanesi & Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. Text in Italian. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to edges and end papers.
softcover. New York, Theatre Communications Group, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Small abrasion on rear end paper. Covering performance art since is nasence at the East Village's Pyramid Club, the WOW Cafe, 8BC, and other clubs in the early eighties McAdams became the in-house photo archivist at the infamous performance space, P.S. 122, the home of cutting-edge theater that eschews convention as it draws energy and inspiration from all media. At P.S. 122 and other alternative performance spaces such as The Kitchen and Dance Theater Workshop, McAdams developed her long-term relationships with many performers.
Softcover. London, Academy Editions, revised, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages with over 190 illustrations in b&w and full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
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.
Hardcover. Lausanne, Librairie Marguerat , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages, b&w and tipped-in color plates. French text. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. The dean of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus' Clown College tells the story of the school and of his life as a clown. 400 pages, b&w drawings by Ballantine. Fading to dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with a couple closed tears, mild soil.
Hardcover. New York, Schirmer Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Introduction by Paul Padgette. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In this large format book, Paul Padgette presents more than 200 of Van Vechten's finest works, selected from more than 5,000 photographs left by Van Vechten to the Dance Collection at Lincoln Center.
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'.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 480 pages, b&w photos. The first full-length biography of the 'Prince of Broadway' highlights the wit and sophistication of playwright and director Moss Hart as it describes his rise from poverty to success in the New York theatrical world, his remarkable contributions to the American theater, and his sometimes turbulent private life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Fading to spine of laminated boards. Foxing to text block, otherwise clean and bright internally. Color pictures throughout.
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.
Softcover. NY, Theatre Communications Group, 2nd printing, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages. SIGNED BY ACTRESS CHERRY JONES on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. US, VH1 Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.
London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth with gilt title on spine minus the dust jacket. 44 pages. This volume includes the texts of Eh Joe, which was produced by BBC Television in July 1966, plus Act Without Words II and Film. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st, 1900, Hardcover, red cloth with bright gilt stamping, 150 pages. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker, photographic frontispiece portrait of actress Terry, as well as numerous photographs of her in various dramatic productions. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York , HarperPerennial, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 125 pages. Coverage in words and pictures of the title performance piece (in 27 parts, including "Strange Angels") and tour (with a table of the itinerary, June 1989 - December 1990); plus Anderson's concluding essay ("About 'Empty Places'").
Softcover. New York , HarperPerennial, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 125 pages. Coverage in words and pictures of the title performance piece (in 27 parts, including "Strange Angels") and tour (with a table of the itinerary, June 1989 - December 1990); plus Anderson's concluding essay ("About 'Empty Places'").
Hardcover. US, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Text and color and black and white photographs by Corona. A collection of images about a little known subset of bullfighers - dwarfs and their families.
Hardcover. US, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Text and color and black and white photographs by Corona. A collection of images about a little known subset of bullfighers - dwarfs and their families.
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