Search Results: Performing Arts from Carnegie Hill Books

Berlin: Max Hesses, 1942. Quarto. 247 pp; profusely illustrated with color & b/w illustrations. Text in German. White cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering & drawing of the opera house on front cover. VG, minor wear to top corners, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Pictorial history of 200 years of the Berlin State Opera, with many hundreds of b/w illustrations of actors, programs, theatricals, autographs, notes, stage pictures, and 24 color plates on cardboard with stage images, costumes, etc.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY & Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1940. Reprint. Octavo. 262 pp; frontispiece portrait photo of Eva at 33, numerous b/w photographs in text. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Lacks dustjacket. VG-. Signed by author. The first of two memoirs (published 19 years apart) written by the London-born American stage actress. First published in 1934.. Inscribed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Sol Hurok, 1961. Quarto. unpaginated, approx. 50 pp. Paperback. Gold embossed image of Moliere on the front cover. This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Very clean inside and lightly soiled covers. Text in English and French. Essays about the Comedie Francaise which Hurok had been bringing to the U.S. since the 1950's. This catalog was prepared for the 1961 season. Illustrated in color and black & white with costume and set designs, photographs of French actors, etc.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Alexandria, VA: Art Services International, 1993. Quarto. 94 pp; illustrated in b/w. Paperback. VG. Splendid collection of ink drawings of buildings, theaters, facades and scenic backdrops, many of the backdrops and scenic plans utilize the full impact of perspective in scenic art.. Paperback. Very Good.

NY: Thomas Nelson & Son, 1956. Quarto. 127 pp; color frontispiece, [7] color and 177 b/w illustrations. Black cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly chipped at spine ends & corners, spine & top inch of jacket age toned, one short edge tear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Macdonald & Co., 1946. First British edition. Octavo. 114 pp. Illustrated with 32 color photos & 32 photogravure stills, along with some of Oliver Messel's costume sketches reproduced in the margins of the text. Red gilt-lettered cloth with tipped-on illustration of Michelangelo's head of Cleopatra* on cover with dustjacket. VG+/VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, gilt lettering bright; jacket price clipped with light wear at spine ends, small loss at bottom corner of front cover; light rubbing at edges; tiny puncture in fold of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945. First edition. Octavo. viii, 323 pp; color frontispiece [Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec], 32 pages of b/w plates from photographs and drawings; index. Original purple cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in dustjacket. VG/VG, top rear corner bumped; head of jacket spine chipped, small chips at corners, short tear at base of jacket spine, pp 303/304 has short tear. Inscribed by author on the title page: "To Collin Brooks, With the friendliest regards of Charles B. Cochran, Nov. 22 '45". This is Cochran's second book of reminiscences, full of tales of his fifty years in the theatrical world.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.