Fifty Years of a Showman's Life or The Life and Travels of Van Hare, by Himself. by Van Hare, G. (1815-?) - 1893

Rob Hower Film / Connoisseur Art Collection / Image Entertainment 1975 1989. Signed by Director Paul Verhoeven on the cover. First edition / First printing. Laserdisc in laminated pictorial sleeve. Very fine disc in very fine sleeve. The acclaimed Dutch director's third film.

Orion / Vestron / Image Entertainment 1985. Signed by Director Paul Verhoeven on the cover. First edition / First printing. Laserdisc in gatefold laminated pictorial sleeve. Very fine disc in very fine sleeve. The acclaimed Dutch director's first film in English.

Paris, France: Paris, Editions Emile - Paul Freres. Very Good. 1926. Limited/Numbered Edition: First Printing. Soft Cover. 126 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 0.8: KB#011165: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Book is undated but is it indicated that it was printed in 1926 by R. Coulouma. Text is written in French, and this is the First French Edition and is a Limited First Edition (#112 of 1550). Page edges are untrimmed. Covers are red paper with black lettering and picture/emblems on front, back and spine, and are complete with very light fading along edges. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Politian (1835) is the only play known to have been written by Edgar Allan Poe, composed in 1835 but never completed. The play is a fictionalized version of a true event in Kentucky: the murder of Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825. Poe, however, chose to set his version in 16th century… Read More

"The Book of Magic" presented by "Arresto the Great" by William Wiesner with dust jacket. 1944 1st edition; Grosset & Dunlap; New York. With color illustrations and moving parts (such as pull-tabs and rotating wheels). The books provides instructions for 26 tricks. Spiral bound."Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! There's lots of fun and mystery ahead. Learn the Professor's secrets, and become a real magician yourself. With his help you can amaze your friends and baffle your relatives! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"Condition:Clean covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight spiral binding with no loose pages. Nice condition pages with no writing and only a few random light stains. The pull-tab on the last page is no longer present; 2 of the pull-tabs are crinkled from use. The dust jacket has some light soiling and some tears at the spine and flap corners. Overall the book is in very good condition.

New York: Dutton, 1978. Signed facing the title page at the top of his portrait by Charlton Heston. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this title. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben Hur. From 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Five-term president of the National Rifle Association (1998-2003).

Toronto: James Campbell & Son 1875, 1st Canadian. (Hardcover) 201pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration. (Drama, First Editions).

NY: Theatre Publications, 1962. Bound Hardcover containing 6 issues of Theatre Arts Magazine. White Binding w/gold spine lettering, library stamps Inside Covers. Approximately 500 pgs in total w/many photographs, illustrations, Advertising, Articles and Complete Plays. Plays included in these volumes are: July- Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco, Aug- Pantagleise by Michel de Ghelderode, Sept- Big Fish, Little Fish by Hugh Wheeler, Nov- The Hostage by Brendan Behan & There's No Place on Earth Like the World! by Caroline Swann, Dec- A Far Country by Henry Denker. Binding is Firm, Covers have moderate general soil. Library stamp on cover of each magazine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Photos.

H.V. Yakotovycha 1956. (4to) 357pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Cream covers with front cover illustration and red and black decorated lettering to the spine. Woodcut illustrations, black and red text and decorations, white ribbon marker. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed, has a small spot on the top corner of the front panel, the top edge of the front free endpaper is slightly dampstained and there is a stamp on the half-title page. Text in Ukrainian Language. (Drama, Drama, Plays, Theater).

The Northwestern Press, 1939. Paperback. VG. A dramatization of Louisa M. Alcott's immortal novel in three acts." A clean copy in gray wraps with blue print. Reading crease on the cover, slight sun-browning at the spine. Pages are browning. 111 pages, four B&W photos from the RKO film production of Little Women (1933). Order form from T.S. Denison & Company, Publisher of Books and Plays, is tipped in.

Oakland, NJ: Sidney Kingsley, 1969. Very Good. 123 leaves; 28 cm. Typescript with alterations taped over the original. "Script #3" written at upper edge of title page. American playwright Sidney Kingsley (1906-1995) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his first produced play, Men in White, in 1934. He went on to have a successful career writing plays and for television and film. In 1969 he announced that he was working on a trilogy to be called The Art Scene. The first play was focused on changes in the current art world and would employ paintings and sculpture by Kingsley himself. The other two parts would focus on modern dance and theater. The same year he copyrighted The Art Scene, Part One: Man with a Corpse on His Back. This script, simply titled Art Scene: A Play, is undated but presumably was created before he arrived at the title Man with a Corpse on His Back. Of interest in particular because of the many changes showing the work in progress. In Very Good Condition: title page is lightly… Read More