Fifty Years of a Showman's Life or The Life and Travels of Van Hare, by Himself. by Van Hare, G. (1815-?) - 1893

Toronto: James Campbell & Son 1875, 1st Canadian. (Hardcover) 201pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration. (Drama, First Editions).

Harvard University, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Theatre & Plays; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 9013. .

Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1990, hardcover, 400 pp, Edition not stated, No previous English-language editions or printings noted, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket, Signed and dated by the Author in the year of publication on the front endpaper, three tiny spots to front endpaper as well, small ink stamp and light dampstain to rear pastedown. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge bumps, dampstain to rear panel and flap, in new Brodart sleeve. Five plays by the Russian dramatist focused on Lenin's role in organizing the Communist Party network, leading the Russian Revolution, and the formation of the Soviet Union. Shatrov's plays about Lenin became the most frequently staged plays in all of the USSR during the reign of Leonid Brezhnev. Contents include five plays: Bolsheviks, The Brest Peace, Blue Horses on Red Grass, Thus Shall We Conquer!, and Onwards...Onwards...Onwards!, as well as an interview with the author 'History is a Factual Drama' and an afterword by Dr. Yuri Sharapov:… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. X, 209 Pp. Green Boards Stamped In Silver. First Printing Indicated. As New In As New Dj. Inscribed By Ray Romano To His Co-Star Doris Roberts, "Doris- Don't Think This Isn't Gonna Be One Of The Gifts I Bring To The Christmas Party. (Kidding) Love Ray (Thanks For Making Our Show Funny)". Also, With A Long Letter Thanking Roberts For Subsidizing The Training Of A Guide Dog Named "Raymond".

The Northwestern Press, 1939. Paperback. VG. A dramatization of Louisa M. Alcott's immortal novel in three acts." A clean copy in gray wraps with blue print. Reading crease on the cover, slight sun-browning at the spine. Pages are browning. 111 pages, four B&W photos from the RKO film production of Little Women (1933). Order form from T.S. Denison & Company, Publisher of Books and Plays, is tipped in.

Dallas, Texas, 1949. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust jacket. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Janye Mansfield's High School Yearbook (as a Junior). She appears in one image in a Girls' String Trio captioned as "Jayne Pierce" (Jayne Peers in the Orchestra list and on the Juniors group photo--where she's noted as "not in picture"). Mansfield's birth name was Vera Jayne Palmer but she used her stepfather's name "Peers" for a period. Book is off-white with padded embossed case. Some tanning to edges and a light busty smell (typo but I'm keeping it!). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Film & Media::Film Studies; Inventory No: 016000. BZDB373 Film & Media::Film Studies; Yearbook Staff; Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield Junior Yearbook (The Highlander: 1949 Highland Park High School, Dallas, Texas)

Works Projects Administration, 1939. Softcover. Good. The hard-to-find Volume 13, Minstrelsy, of the notable ca. 1939 WPA San Francisco Theater Research series. This volume presents an extensive history of regional San Francisco minstrelsy from its earliest days. Illustrated with 19 historical photos of performers, some in blackface. Contents include discussions of blackface. Numerous appendices. Scarce. 301 pp. 10 3/4" x 8 3/8". Tight, unmarked copy with light shelf wear and minor loss to bottom right corner of front panel. Light staining along margins of front panel spine and bottom. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Chunghwa Post, 2004. Hardcover. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. All stamps and postcards are included in the book. The plastic holders for the postcards on pg. 17-23 are coming slightly unglued. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press 1912, 1913, numbered copy from a limited edition of 760. (Hardcover set) 265, 261pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Two volumes. Frontispiece, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. There is a previous owner's bookplate and name on the front endpaper of both volumes. "Within the span of Shakespeare's birth and death there took place a vital melioration of the conditions of English acting and playgoing, together with some slight improvement in the status of the player. It is true that, subject to certain reservations, the stage still remained, as it had been constituted by Act of Parliament, a banned vocation". Book about Elizabethan Playhouse. Locale: London--England. (Drama, Acting, Shakespeare, Theater).

New York: Dutton, 1978. Signed facing the title page at the top of his portrait by Charlton Heston. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this title. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben Hur. From 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Five-term president of the National Rifle Association (1998-2003).