Tales of Many Lands by [Tytler, Margaret Fraser] - 1845

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.

London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).

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. .

New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1964 [1903]. Yellow cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jackets.. 1964 reissue of this highly detailed and wide-ranging account of theaters, opera houses, lyceums, concert halls, pleasure gardens, amphitheatres, circuses, saloons, etc. in old New York City. Includes index of plays and actors, a list of riots and benefits, theater fires, and extensive accounts of casts and performances. The author is also known for compiling A History of the American Stage in the 1850s. Ex-library, spine labels, stamps, card pockets. Wear to covers, especially ends and corners. Volume 1, 523 pages; volume 2 652 pages, Fair, unhinged at front; volume 3 671 pages, front hinge cracking at top.

No markings or inscriptions, cover has minor dings to corners, no markings, lightly scuffed.Text block is tight and clean.Scarce, near fine copy.Comprehensive anthology of previously published documents of Australian cinemas building a history of more than 90 motion picture theatres, with an introductory text detailing the development in the USA of cinema design which influenced the architecture of their Australian counterparts, more than 350 illustrations.Limited pressing of 1000 copies300 hard bound, 700 soft bound

Humphrey Milford, 'Oxford Library of Prose & Poetry' series, London, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 89pp. Gilt- and blind decorated green cloth. Some modest internal spotting. Spine a little damp-stained. A bright copy in the scarce dust wrapper, which is marked and fox-spotted and has been much repaired. Name of former owner neatly inked to the front pastedown..

London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).

New York, Grove Press Inc, 1981, hardcover, 111 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing stated, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge and corner nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The prolific playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and author takes us to a merchant marine ship sailing the Great Lakes where eight crew members talk about sex, gambling, drinking, and fighting to relieve the boredom. ISBN 9780394519524

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Very Good, no jacket, tidy prior owner name top edge front end page, boards rubbed at the tips and lightly soiled. Introduction by Booth Tarkington, Lynn Fontanne frontispiece illustration by Neysa McMein. 4 B & W photographs within text. Text clean and unmarked, uncommon thus. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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… Read More