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New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First Edition, Fifth Impression. 186 p., frontispiece photograph of Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews; 21 cm. Black cloth with lavender spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by David Lyons. "Fifth printing" and price "$3.50" on front flap. Book is in Near Fine Condition: spine ends lightly rubbed; clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: spine ends rubbed and chipped; lightly soiled.
The Court Theatre 1904-1907 by Desmond McCarthy - 1907: Presentation copy, signed by multiple Edwardian Actors
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The Court Theatre 1904-1907: Presentation copy, signed by multiple Edwardian Actors
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Desmond McCarthy was a London critic, and associate of the Bloomsbury Group. The Royal Court Theatre, during the time described in the book, was a groundbreaking force in British drama. Under the management of John Verdenne and Harley Granville Barker, the theater mounted a long string of experimental productions. In addition, the Theatre functioned as a George Bernard Shaw Repertory Company. From 1904-07, six GBS plays premiered at the Court, including Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Don Juan in Hell.
The unusual thing about the book are the signatures from 12 Edwardian Actors on two blank pages. I can decipher 8 sure signatures; Ellen O'Malley, Norman Page, Wilfred Shine, James Hearn, Agnes Thomas, Stanley LeSage, Katherine Stuart, and F. Cremlin. None of them are now household names, but back in the day, who knows?
There is a longer inscription on the front free endpaper. The book has been presented to Ellen O'Malley (a member of the Actors' troupe) "with Messrs Verdenne's and Barker's compliments". Signed copies of these books may have been distributed to several of the Actors.
Condition of the book is Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete, with occasional light foxing. The boards show some surface wear, and the spine fabric is sun lightened. The endpapers show discoloration from previously laid in items (newsprint, perhaps).
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Desmond McCarthy was a London critic, and associate of the Bloomsbury Group. The Royal Court Theatre, during the time described in the book, was a groundbreaking force in British drama. Under the management of John Verdenne and Harley Granville Barker, the theater mounted a long string of experimental productions. In addition, the Theatre functioned as a George Bernard Shaw Repertory Company. From 1904-07, six GBS plays premiered at the Court, including Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Don Juan in Hell.
The unusual thing about the book are the signatures from 12 Edwardian Actors on two blank pages. I can decipher 8 sure signatures; Ellen O'Malley, Norman Page, Wilfred Shine, James Hearn, Agnes Thomas, Stanley LeSage, Katherine Stuart, and F. Cremlin. None of them are now household names, but back in the day, who knows?
There is a longer inscription on the front free endpaper. The book has been presented to Ellen O'Malley (a member of the Actors' troupe) "with Messrs Verdenne's and Barker's compliments". Signed copies of these books may have been distributed to several of the Actors.
Condition of the book is Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete, with occasional light foxing. The boards show some surface wear, and the spine fabric is sun lightened. The endpapers show discoloration from previously laid in items (newsprint, perhaps).
Please message me with any questions.
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Theatre Quarterly 1971 and 1972
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London: Theatre Quarterly, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Two Volumes. 8vo - 8" x 10.2". Finally bounded by The Cordex Modern Bookbinders Ltd. Blackburn. Red leather with gilt titling to the spine. Each volume include four periodicals: Volume I: Jan-Mar 1971, Apr-Jun 1971, Jul-Sep 1971, Oct-Dec 1971; Volume II: Jan-Mar 1972, Apr-Jun 1972, Jul-Sep 1972, Oct-Dec 1972. Text-block edges show slightly browning. Contents clean and firm. Very solid binding. .
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London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12…
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My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts; based on Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw; Adaptation and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loeve
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New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First Edition, Fifth Impression. 186 p., frontispiece photograph of Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews; 21 cm. Black cloth with lavender spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by David Lyons. "Fifth printing" and price "$3.50" on front flap. Book is in Near Fine Condition: spine ends lightly rubbed; clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: spine ends rubbed and chipped; lightly soiled.
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Porgy: A play in four acts
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London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12…
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Court Theatre 1904 1907
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."
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Dr. Johnson: A Play
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Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press 1923. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press [Updike, Merrymount] 1923. Hard Cover. Signed. xvii, 120 pages, plates; 23 cm. "Of the five hundred and eighty-five copies of this Hand-made Paper Edition, this is copy number 18", signed by the author. Bound in decorated paper with green linen spine & paper spine label. Updike, Merrymount Press Bibliography 586. Stock#OB145. VG.
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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Thais (Universal Library)
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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Marilyn: A Biography
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This Book is by Pulitzer-Prize winning American Author, Norman Mailer. In this work, Mailer provides the written words while the photographs are provided by a list of noted photographers, whose names are in the frontispiece credits. Mailer carefully describes the life and personality of Marilyn Monroe, an American idol and actress, with all its complexities. It is a great read for both men and women. This is a First Printing from 1972.
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