Search Results: Performing Arts from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Bonn: J. F. Carthaus, 1963. First Edition. Broadside, approximately 61 x 43 cm. Artist's monogram in print in top-left corner (artist unkown). Original three folds for mailing. Mild wear and toning along folds, soft crease in lower-right corner, else near fine. A striking poster advertising Karl Magersuppe's Die Holzköppe puppet troupe's performance of Marcel Achard's MARLBOROUGH S'EN VA-T-EN GUERRE ("Marlborough Goes to War") in the 1953 Bonn International Puppet Festival. Karl Magersuppe (1900-1981) was a popular German puppeteer, whose troupe (translated as "The Woodenheads") has performed since 1949, initially as a traveling ensemble and, since 1955, at its own theater in Steinau an der Strasse, birthplace of the Brothers Grimm. We have located one institutional copy, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Scarce, and in remarkably fine condition for the fragile, thin paper on which it is printed.

[New York: The Lambs, 1927]. Quarto. [8] pp. Pictorial self-wrappers. 78 unique contemporary ink autograph signatures on front and rear wrappers. Early soft vertical fold (affecting all leaves), minor soiling to wrappers, with two-inch stain in rear wrapper. Very good. Program for the Lambs Club's 1927 Public Gambol, held May 15 at the Knickerbocker Theatre, benefiting the victims of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The cover art, by W. Spencer Wright, features a nude satyress with a shepherd's crook and a lamb at her feet peering through a crack in a fence. The program is signed by Wright and 77 fellow Lambs, including such stage luminaries as Walter Catlett, Bill Desmond, Leon Errol, Lew Fields, Eddie Foy, David Warfield, and "Shepherd" Tom Wise.

London: Continuum, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. xii,212 pp. Publisher's cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Near fine.

[London]: Lowndes, Printer, [1808]. Broadside, approximately 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, untrimmed. Portion of bottom line of text unprinted. Small remnants of paper tape on verso, else fine. Broadside advertising the twelfth performance of the opera, KAIS, OR, LOVE IN THE DESERTS, at Drury Lane, starring and produced by the renowned English tenor, John Braham. John Braham (ca. 1774-1856) rose from poverty and orphanhood in London to the heights of European opera, where he celebrated as one of the great voices of his age. As a British Jew, he also represented a major shift in Jewish status and social potential in the late Georgian era, becoming not only an artist of acclaim but also eventually the father-in-law of several English aristocrats. KAIS was based on the ancient Arabian love story of Layla and Majnun, which had been adapted into a famous work by Persian Poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, which in turn became the source for numerous later poets and mystics throughout the Middle East and… Read More