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The Pilates Body

by Brooke Siler

Brooke Siler is the co-owner of re:AB, the renowned studio for Pilates® training in New York City, where her clients include Amber Valletta, Shalom Harlow, and Liv Tyler. Hailed as the "trainer to the stars," she trained under Joseph Pilates' protégé, Romana Kryzanowska, and has been recognized by Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and the New York Observer as one of the country's leading fitness gurus. She lives in New York City.

Awakening the Buddha Within

by Lama Surya Das

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced... Read more about this item

A Girl Named Zippy

by Haven Kimmel

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period--people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards. Laced with... Read more about this item

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$Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals Of the 1930\'s$

Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals Of the 1930's

by Green, Stanley

The Gershwins

by Kimball, Robert, and Alfred Simon

Broadway

by Atkinson, Brooks

After the Fall (Original screenplay for an unproduced film, circa 1970s)

by Arthur Miller (playwright); Abby Mann (screenwriter)

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974, but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. Abby Mann (1927-2008) wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961),... Read more about this item

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£612.30

Loot (Original script for the 1968 play)

by Joe Orton (playwright); Derek Goldby (director); Kenneth Cranham, James Hunter, Liam Redmond, Carole Shelley (starring)

New York: Resoloot Company, 1968. Vintage script for the 1968 American debut of the 1965 British play. Two gay lovers successfully rob a bank and stash the loot in a coffin in the funeral parlor next door. A decidedly queer spin on popular 1960s British satires such as "Beyond the Fringe" and "Private Eye." The play made its Broadway debut at the Biltmore Theatre on March 18, 1968. OCLC locates two holdings. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credit for playwright Joe Orton. Title... Read more about this item

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£449.02

My Fat Friend (Original script for the 1972 play)

by Eric Thompson (director); Charles Laurence (playwright); Jennie Linden, Kenneth Williams, John Inman (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1972 play, which premiered at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, UK on November 6. Copy No. 61 notated in manuscript pencil on the title page. An overweight young woman decides to drastically change her figure with the help of her quirky roommates after a one-night encounter with a potential suitor. Followed by a New York run in 1974, directed by Robert Moore and starring Lynn Redgrave and John Lithgow. Set in London. Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers... Read more about this item

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£77.56

The King and I

by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd

198 pp. Vocal score, quarto, 9 x 12 in., red covers with blue ink. Very good, with only the slightest wear at top of spine. A musical play: The King and I, music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. First performance at the St. James Theatre, New York March 29, 1951.

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£48.98

Bad Habits (Original script for the 1974 play)

by Terrence McNally (playwright); Robert Drivas (director); F. Murray Abraham, Emory Bass, Paul Benedict, Cynthia Harris (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5, 1974 for 177 performances, closing on October 5, 1974. Annotations in manuscript pencil on title page, and on cast page for "Ravenswood," the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits," listing names adjacent to the characters. Two one act comedies, the first is "Ravenswood," set in a sanitarium catering to rich "unglued" patients in which Dr. Pepper treats his patients by encouraging them to indulge in... Read more about this item

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£285.74

Paint Your Wagon (Original script for the 1951 musical play)

by Alan J. Lerner (book, lyrics); Frederick Loewe (music); Daniel Mann (director); James Barton, Olga San Juan, Gemze de Lappe, James Mitchell (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1951. Vintage script for the 1951 musical play. Copy belonging to cast member Steve Elmore, who was an uncredited understudy or replacement in the role of Sandy, with his name and character's name in manuscript ink and pencil to the title page, and several substantive manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Basis for the 1969 film, made 18 years later, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, and Jean Seberg. A gold mining camp is established in the California... Read more about this item

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£1,020.50

Only When I Laugh (Original photograph from the 1981 film)

by Glenn Jordan (director); Neil Simon (screenwriter); Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco (starring)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1981 film. Based on Neil Simon's 1971 play "The Gingerbread Lady." Playwright Neil Simon departed from his typical, light hearted comedic style when he wrote "The Gingerbread Lady." This drama, which netted three Academy Award nominations, follows the struggles of a alcoholic Broadway actress, whose attempt at sobriety is complicated by the realities of her daily life. Set in New York, shot on location in California... Read more about this item

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£12.25

Saturday Sunday Monday [Saturday, Sunday, Monday] (Original script for the 1974 Broadway play)

by Franco Zeffirelli (director); Eduardo De Filippo (playwright); Walter Abel, Amos Abrams, Francesca Bartoccini (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Vintage script for the 1974 Broadway play, which debuted at the Martin Beck Theatre on November 21, 1974. Two manuscript ink annotations on the first page of text, noting the title and noting a partial line deletion. A comedy about the mishaps and misunderstandings of a wealthy family in postwar Naples over the course of one weekend. The play ran for a brief twelve performances before closing on November 30, 1974. Self wrappers. Lacking title page. 157 leaves, with last page of... Read more about this item

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£285.74

All the Way Home (Original script for the 1960 play)

by Arthur Penn (director); Lillian Gish, Arthur Hill, Clifton James, Colleen Dewhurst, Aline MacMahon (starring); James Agee (novel); Tad Mosel (playwright)

New York: William Morris Agency, 1960. Vintage script for the 1960 play, which premiered on November 30, 1960, at the Belasco Theater, running for 333 performances before closing on September 15, 1961. Based on James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1957 novel "A Death in the Family," about two families in Tennessee whose lives are affected by the sudden death of the patriarch in an automobile accident. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and nominated for five Tony Awards, winning one for Best... Read more about this item

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£612.30

A Cry of Players (Original script for the 1968 off-Broadway play)

by William Gibson (playwright); Gene Frankel (director); Frank Langella, Michael Egan, Lois Kibbee, Anne Bancroft, Robert Donley (starring)

New York: Lincoln Center, 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 play. Copy belonging to an unknown lighting technician, with their manuscript pencil annotations regarding lighting changes throughout. A dramatization of the early life and loves of William Shakespeare. The play made its Broadway debut at the Repertory Theatre at the Lincoln Center on November 14, running for 72 performances. Beige titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, dated August 1968, noted as Revision,... Read more about this item

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£265.33

Framed Inscribed Photograph

by SONDHEIM, Stephen (1930 - 2021)

framed. 10 x 8-color photo of the composer/lyricist, wearing his trademark sweater in his studio. Inscribed along the right side: "For Anne Kirkoff from Stephen Sondheim. nd, circa 1983. " Matted in white and set in a walnut frame measuring 14 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Fine condition.<br/> <br/>

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£449.02

Signed Playbill -- "Slapstick Tragedy

by WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911 - 1983)

New York, 1966. pamphlet. 52 pages, 9 x 6 inches, scarce signed Playbill for the opening-night performance of "Slapstick Tragedy" on February 22, 1966, at the Longacre Theatre, starring Margaret Leighton and Kate Reid. The critics were very harsh and Williams' easily-bruised ego kept him away from the theatre after opening night. "Slapstick Tragedy" closed four days later yielding just seven performances. Boldly signed on the credits page with the additional signature of actor... Read more about this item

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£244.92

BROADWAY

by Brooks Atkinson

New York: Macmillan and Co., 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 6 x 9 in. Red cloth boards. Numerous B&W illus. Condition is NEAR FINE ; covers like new but one corner is bumped. Binding tight and text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not price-clipped. very clean two small closed tears ar spine head. Drama. Stax.

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£12.25

Rebecca (Set of 3 original photographs from the 1945 Broadway play)

by Clarence Derwent (director); Daphne du Maurier (novel, playwright); Margaret Bannerman, Diana Barrymore, George Baxter, Bramwell Fletcher (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1945. Set of three vintage photographs from the short-lived Broadway production of Du Maurier's play, adapted from her novel, produced following the success of the 1940 film. The play ran at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from January 8 to February 3, 1945, for a total of 20 performances. Each of the photographs is rubber stamped with a unique number, and each is stamped at the verso: "Daphne Du Maurier's / REBECCA / ORIGINAL NEW YORK PRODUCTION," with Bramwell Fletcher's name in ribbon copy... Read more about this item

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£224.51

Finishing Touches (Original script for the 1973 Broadway play)

by Jean Kerr (playwright); Joseph Anthony (director); Robert Lansing, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pamela Bellwood (starring)

New York: Whitehead-Stevens-Matthaei Corporation, 1972. Vintage Final script for the 1973 Broadway play. Script with the manuscript marker annotation of copy number "3" on the title page. The play premiered at the Plymouth Theatre on February 8, 1973 and had a run of 164 performances, closing on June 30, 1973. Professor Jeff Cooper, happily married with three children and on tenure track, is concerned he may be in love with a student, and his eldest son, a senior at Harvard, comes home with a lovely... Read more about this item

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£265.33

Night Must Fall (Two original photographs from the 1964 film)

by Karel Reisz (director); Clive Exton (screenwriter); Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne, Susan Hampshire, Sheila Hancock (starring)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1964 UK film. A remake of Richard Thorpe's 1937 film noir antecedent, based on Emlyn Williams' Broadway play that opened in 1936 and ran for 64 performances. Mrs. Bramson (Washbourne) is a crotchety old lady who hires a handyman (Finney) to help around her isolated estate. The handyman is attractive and engaging, but Olivia (Hampshire), Mrs. Branson's daughter, is suspicious of his... Read more about this item

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£12.25

Guys and Dolls (Original script for the 1965 play)

by George S. Kaufman (director); Damon Runyon (story); Frank Loesser (music and lyrics); Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows (book); Robert Alda, Isabel Bigley, Sam Levene, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, Pat Rooney, B.S. Pully, Tom Pedi, Johnny Silver (starring)

New York: Music Theatre, Inc, 1960. Draft script for the 1965 production of the play, a revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure," two short stories by Damon Runyon. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Won five Tony Awards in 1951,... Read more about this item

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£306.15

The Poison Tree (Original script for the 1976 play)

by Ronald Ribman (playwright); Charles Blackwell (director); Danny Meehan, Daniel Barton, Gene O'Neill, Peter Masterson (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1976 Broadway play, which premiered at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on January 8, 1976. With a single manuscript pencil annotation (phone number for a cast or crew member) on the title page. A group of black inmates try to survive amidst dehumanizing treatment and discrimination by their captors and other inmates at a men's maximum security prison. Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, with credits for playwright Ronald... Read more about this item

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£449.02

Walk in Darkness (Original screenplay for the 1963 play)

by William Hairston (playwright); Hans Habe (author); Sidney Walters (director); Clarence Williams III, Glenn Kezer, Barbara Schneider, Richard Ward (starring)

New York: Stella Holt-Roscius Productions, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 play. Laid in is a playbill for the show. With a single notation in manuscript pencil to the title page. Based on the 1948 novel of the same title by Hans Habe. To escape the injustices of Harlem, a black man enlists in the United States Army and is sent to occupied West Germany, where he impregnates and falls in love with a local girl. Without army consent, he marries her and deserts the army when he is to be sent back to... Read more about this item

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£142.87

Original portrait of actor Otto Kruger by photography team Florence and Tommy Vandamm, circa 1930

by Otto Kruger (subject); Florence and Tommy Vandamm [Vandamm Studio] (photographers)

New York: Vandamm Studio, 1930. Vintage portrait photograph of actor Otto Kruger by the photography team of Florence and Tommy Vandamm [Vandamm Studio], circa 1930. Photograph with a blind "Vandamm / New York" stamp on the bottom left of the recto, and a "Vandamm Studio" stamp on the verso, and a label on the verso announcing Kruger in the leading role of the Broadway play "The Boundary Line," by playwright Dana Burnet, which premiered at the 48th Street Theatre on February 5, 1930 and ran for 37... Read more about this item

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£61.23

The Shrike (Original screenplay for the 1952 play, Van Heflin's copy)

by Joseph Kramm (playwright)

New York: N.p., 1952. Draft script for the 1952 play production. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who starred in the Broadway production. Set in the ward of a mental hospital, the play follows one of its patients, a theatrical director driven to attempted suicide by his domineering wife, Anne. Outwardly, Anne is sweet and caring, but beneath her docile facade is a vindictive manipulative side known only to her husband. Adapted into a 1955 film starring Jose Ferrer and June Allyson. The play opened... Read more about this item

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£306.15

Original publicity portrait photograph of Jack Palance, circa 1951

by Jack Palance (subject); Gene Kornman (photographer)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Vintage oversize borderless publicity portrait photograph of actor Jack Palance, circa 1951. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Twentieth Century-Fox crediting photographer Gene Kornman. Palance made his first big break on Broadway, as Marlon Brando's understudy in "A Streetcar Named Desire," directed by Elia Kazan. Kazan later cast the actor in "Panic in the Streets" (1950), a thuggish role that garnered him praise and... Read more about this item

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£306.15

Allegro (Original script for the 1947 Broadway musical)

by Richard Rodgers (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics, book); Agnes de Mille (choreographer); John Battles, Annamary Dickey, William Ching, Roberta Jonay (starring)

New York: Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1947. Vintage script for the 1947 Broadway play. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast member, with their annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout, noting stage directions and amending dialogue for several male characters. Many annotations partially (and unsuccessfully) erased, possibly in service of the script being used by several different cast or crew members. A small-town man hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father, a successful doctor, but is... Read more about this item

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£1,347.06

Two for the Seesaw (Original promotional photograph from the 1958 play)

by William Gibson (playwright); Howell Conant (photographer); Arthur Penn (director); Henry Fonda, Anne Bancroft (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1958. Vintage double weight narrow margin matte finish promotional press photograph of Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft from the 1958 play, by photographer Howell Conant. Three "Two for the Seesaw," and one "Photo by Howell Conant" stamps on verso. "Two for the Seesaw" opened on January 16, 1958 at the Booth Theatre for a highly successful run of 750 performances, closing on October 31, 1959. The play was an unexpected hit, marking the debut of three exceptional talents, playwright William... Read more about this item