Hardcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages, b&w photos by Arnold. Offers unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes world of Mikhail Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre, chronicling the daily lives of the dancers & their director. Text by John Fraser. Clean, very good in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. 231 pages with b/w illustrations, 28 photographs and twelve diagrams. Written to assist the producers of amateur plays. First published in London the same year. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Batsford Limited, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. 120 pages. Contains drawings and instructions on: The characters of the drama; inside the glove puppet; making the head; making hands; making the body; clothes; trick puppets; theatres and more. NOTE: This book has a musty odor, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, nd (1913), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth covers with elaborate gilt design featuring 3 ladies drinking tea, 197 pages. 17 color illustrations plus frontispiece by Hugh Thomson, all tipped in and with tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Corners lightly rubbed, spine wear, light stain to rear cover. No date but assumed 1920s and first illustrated thus.

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Prometheus Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages, b&w photos. "At night she was a loving wife and mother. During the day, she'd put her children on the school bus, pack her sequined G-strings and feather boas, and leave for New York City - to take her place in the world of Times Square as the 'Queen of Burlesque. '...Paris refused to compete on an X-rated level, presenting her audiences with old-fashioned burlesque: the gowns, the gloves, the feather fans. Much to her surprise, she beceme the favorite stripper on the New York circuit." Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1330 pages. Hardcover. Small red remainder mark on bottom edge. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 84 pages with index. B&w photos. Ex-lib with minimal signs, light reside to rear endpapers. Beryl Grey was the first Western ballerina to dance in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and she tells of her experiences on tour. Clean internally.

Hardcover. NY, Hermitage House, 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 336 pages, illustrated in black and white. The story of a great impresario's adventures in the dance world. Mr. Hurok remembers Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, et al. Clean copy.

Softcover. Louisville KY, Cole Brothers Circus, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, softcover, 20 page circus promotional brochure. 16 pages with 60 b&w photographs featuring behind the scenes circus activity- setting up the big top, loading the train, daily life of performers, etc. Light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This book is a collection of reviews, essays, and personal opinions that Mr. Brustein wrote during 1959-1965. It is an excellent resource for directors wanting to tackle shows that premiered during this time period. It also demonstrates his uncanny ability to "critique" a dramatic work in the way that it should be, rather than merely stating a "review". Mr. Brusteins specificity for the English language and his committment to excellence in theatre, starting with the drama itself, is an intellectual oasis for those of us wanting to read scholarly criticism from a educated source. 322 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 42 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1732 pamphlet with introduction by Robert Hume. Published anonymously but thought to have been written by Aaron Hill (1685-1750). The pamphlet turns out to be a fascinatingly particular review of the cultural affairs in London during the winter and spring of 1732. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice color illustrations by Hodges. Dust jacket shows minor wear, mostly clean. Hardbound.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 25 tipped-in full color plates and black & white images by Hugh Thomson. Hinges intact but tender. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Charming book written and illustrated by the late, great Hirschfield on all aspects of the Broadway theatre. Includes chapters on agents, theatres, playwrights and more all of which have been illustrated by Hirschfield with many b&w drawings with color overlays done especially for this book. In addition there is a section of 40 show business drawings that were done for The New York Times and other publications along with nice illustrated pastedowns and endsheets. Previous owner's inscription on a card tipped onto half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, A sociological look at the influence of Shakespeare's Shylock on world mythology describes the character's creation and his evolution on the stage, and presents writing about him by Proust, James, T. S. Eliot, and others. Amazingly, Shylock is in only five scenes in the Merchant of Venice. Yet, as pointed out by Gross, the theater critic for the London Sunday Telegraph , his impact and significance transcend his physical presence, so much so that his name and "pound of flesh" idea are almost universally known. In the first part of this character/cultural study, Gross examines the antecedents of Shylock and the play, and his development within the play. The second part considers "interpretations" both theatrical and literary in England and America until World War II; the third part considers Shylock more broadly as a touchstone (e.g., how his "type" is used by the Victorians--Trollope's Lopez, Dickens's Riah, Ruskin's use of him in Munera Pulveris ). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovrt in a lightly worn dust jacket, 141 pages. Frontis photo of Pinero. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 - 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. He became a prolific and successful playwright, authoring fifty-nine plays. These include serious social dramas, some dealing with social hypocrisy surrounding attitudes to women in second marriages. 'Pinero's talent was stagecraft. He knew how to organize material for effective presentation on the stage. He understood the mass psychology, the emotional reaction of the group in the theater, and thought little of the individual reader. As a result, the dialogue in his plays is right for the actor and the audience, but disconcerting to the readers. But in particular, Pinero was the master of suspense, motivating the turns in his plot sequence with unerring skill. For he understood stage business, the timinng of motion and sound, and, above all, the reactions of an audience to the physical properties on the stage itself. ' Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Miramax/ Hyperion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Preface by Wayne Wang. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Fascinating collection of photographs in color and b&w by Lord Snowdon presenting a period of change in theatre - from 1954 to the present- in addition to the many changes Snowdon himself initiated in the style of photography.

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.

Hardcover. 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. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Bard Graduate Center, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transformation of actresses into marketable commodities whose celebrity status depended on the consumption of their images. This celebrity, in turn, was used to market an array of beauty and fashion goods to women striving to emulate them. The three women featured in Staging Fashion exemplify the factors that ensured success for 20th-century actresses. Each of these women was dressed by a leading couturier (or several couturiers), both onstage and offstage. In major cities such as New York, Paris, and London, actresses depended on exquisite, custom-made gowns both to secure principal roles and to maintain popularity. Their physical beauty, which was consistent with elite notions of class and race, was depicted on postcards and in popular fashion and theatre magazines and newspapers. Finally, these actresses developed distinct "personalities," which were conveyed by their stage roles and in numerous photos and articles.