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[Original Press Kit from the Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]
Washington, DC: [Kennedy Center], (1964). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Two-pocket card folder, gilt title to front. Containing approximately 25 sheets of typed press information, two original site programs, an illustrated informational booklet, and four 8” x 10” black-and-white photographs. Light adhesive staining to photograph versos, overall near fine. An apparently.....
CALLAS: The Art and the Life: The Great Years
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's blue boards. In photographic dust jacket. A very good copy in like jacket. Top of front panel curling. Small tear to front panel top corner. Moderate toning to top of jacket. Interior mildly toned. Two large corner creases.....
The Frogs / The Birds
New York: The Heritage Press, 1959. First Thus. Hard Cover. 4to. Rubbing to spine, faint foxing to edges. Else clean and bright. In very good slipcase with rubbing, shelfwear. Sandglass newsletter laid in. Printed and bound dos-a-dos, one play to each side. An unusual heritage presentation. The Birds has an.....
JELLO
Chicago: Third World Press, 1970. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled color wraps. Very good plus with minor edgewear and faint toning. 38pp. Drama, with Baraka's introduction.
AT THIS THEATRE: 100 Years of Brodway Shows, Stories and Stars
New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books / Playbill Inc., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's black boards; pictorial dust jacket. Some very mild soiling to spine; light appearance of discoloration on upper and lower edges of jacket. Interior bright, clean, crisp, and tight; a near fine copy in like.....
THE BLACK RIDER: The Casting of the Magic Bullets
[Hamburg]: (Thalia Theater), 1990. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 4to. Saddle-stapled white wraps. Light edgewear and corner scuffing; minor touches of soil. Pages faintly toned. Very good plus. Original program from the premiere of THE BLACK RIDER at Hamburg's Thalia Theater on March 31, 1990. The collaborative avant-garde theater project married.....
ALBERT CAMUS: His Works And His Voice
n.p. Les Disques de France / Period Music Co., [ca. 1950s]. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM 12-inch LP album, no. FRL 1534. Vinyl near fine. Cardboard sleeve heavily scuffed along edges, cover moderately rubbed. Lower joint split, with tears starting at spine and upper edge. Four selections by Camus.....
CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS: The Most Tragical Tragedy That Ever Was Tragediz'd By Any Company of Tragedians
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1971. First edition thus. Wraps. 4to. White side-stapled wraps, heavily toned along edges. Light edgewear. Edition of 250 copies. Very good plus. Henry Carey's satirical tragedy, presented and introduced by Ron Padgett and Johnny Stanton. Based on the text of the 1743 first edition of.....
"WE CAN ALWAYS CALL THEM BULGARIANS": The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage
Boston: Alyson Publications, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth boards in original pictorial dust jacket. Very light soiling to jacket and trivial wear to top and bottom of jacket at spine. Minor sunning to jacket flaps. Touches of soiling/toning to top and fore edge of pages. Interior clean.....
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[Original Poster for the Harkness Ballet]
[1966]. Poster measuring 14" x 18.25" approx. mounted on stiff card, likely contemporaneous with original printing, likely for lobby or similar display. Possibly trimmed at lower edge; we've seen versions with venue info below. Printed offset in black and blue. Vertical creases from folding. Corners bumped. Very minor toning. Toning.....
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DRAK [Promotional Newspaper For the Play "Circus Unikum"]
Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia: East Bohemian Puppet Theatre Drak, [ca. 1979]. First Edition. Folio. Thick newsprint printed offset. About very good overall. Folded into eighths, with some small holes near folds at center. Moderately toned. Complete. [4] pp. Interesting newspaper promoting a play by this this puppet theatre company in the.....
CITY JUNKET
New York: Adventures in Poetry / Boke Press, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Grey side-stapled wraps. Light edgewear; touches of staple rust and soil to front cover. Clean, unmarked interior. Edition of 350 copies. Very good plus. Play inspired by Henri Rousseau's Une Visite a L'Exposition de 1899. Cover by.....
ARTIST'S LIFE
New York: Coward-McCann, (1958). Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in very good jacket. DJ lightly rubbed, small chip to bottom of spine. Price-clipped. Book has just trace shelfwear. Else clean and sound throughout. SIGNED by author Enters to first page after front free endpaper. 447pp.
MADAME IMPRESARIO: A Personal Account of an Epoch
Yucca Valley, CA: Manzanita Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Very good plus in like jacket. Minor edge / shelfwear. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Esser to title page. Memoir of her time in music, dance, theater, and art. Uncommon in jacket. 230pp. with numerous B&W photos throughout...
FIVE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES: Alcestis, Medea, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Taurus, Electra Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
New York: Oxford University Press, 1934. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth. Very good. Some fading to spine. Mild shelfwear. Previous owner's penned name to front pastedown. Else clean and sound.
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THEATRICAL BIOGRAPHIES [Spine Title; Fan Scrapbook of Late 19th Century Actors and Athletes]
[New York]: 1890. Hardcover. Oblong 24mo. black cloth scrapbook with compiler's intials printed in gilt on cover. Contains [~171] leaves with pasted cut-outs of photos and illustrated portraits of stars, about 65 in total, with orginal typewritten (in blue ribbon, but top copy) biographical information for each. About near fine.....
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[Photo Album/Scrapbook of a Mr. T Impersonator]
[Pasadena & Los Angeles]: [mid 1980s]. Hardcover. 4to. Commercial spiralbound leatherette album containing 20 stiff tan leaves with transparent plastic coverings, in which are enclosed 25 B&W photographic film prints, 24 in color, 13 polaroids, three signed headshots from fellow actors (plus one of the compiler), two newspaper clippings, and.....
ON BROADWAY
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Publisher's tan cloth in photographic dust jacket. A very good copy in like jacket. Moderate toning to jacket. 1/2" chip to front panel upper corner. Light edgewear. Pages slightly toned, but overall clean; binding tight. 419pp. A series of.....
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
New York: Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth in photographic dust jacket. Very good plus or better in a very good DJ. Mild toning, rubbing to jacket and trvial edgewear. Interior bright and clean throughout; binding tight. 266pp. Extensive and abundantly illustrated biography of the noted English.....
SELECTED ONE-ACT PLAYS OF HORTON FOOTE
(Dallas): Southern Methodist University Press, (1989). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. Very good plus, with light bump to one corner and mild edgewear. Interior bright, clean; binding tight; appears largely unread. 507pp. Collects seventeen plays by the American author and screenwriter.
THE PLAYS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY
London: Duckworth, 1929. First edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. Rebound in full green leather and marbled endpapers. Three bands and gilt titles to spine. Very good plus to near fine, Minor edgewear. Faint foxing to edges. Quite handsome. 1150pp. Collects 27 of Galsworthy's plays.
LES NEGRES: Clownerie
(Paris): L'Arbalete, [1960]. First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Photographic wraps. Moderate scuffing and wear to wraps, with some chipping to edges and corners. Pages toned; light foxing to inside covers and scattered throughout; scuffing to inside back cover. Ownership signature to ffep. Most pages still unopened. Very good. Genet's play.....
MYSELF AMONG OTHERS
New York: Atheneum, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Publisher's white speckled cloth in original printed dust jacket. About near fine in like DJ. SIGNED by Gordon to FFEP. Some light sunning to edges of jacket. Red top stain. Bright, clean, and tight throughout. 389pp. The second of three memoirs.....
BROADWAY SONG & STORY: Playwights / Lyricists / Composers Discuss Their Hits
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter cloth over red boards in printed dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Minimal curling to corners of jacket, trace edgewear. Several tiny corner creases; else bright, clean, and tight throughout. 447pp. Extensive collection of conversations with.....
THE DRESSER
New York: Grove Press, (1980). First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Near fine. Trace edgewear. Interior very bright and clean; tightly bound. 95pp. A story of a theater actor's personal assistant. Harwood himself served as dresser to the actor Sir Donald Wolfit.