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Original Portrait Photograph of Actor Vincent Price and His Wife by NEWTON, HELMUT
by NEWTON, HELMUT
Original Portrait Photograph of Actor Vincent Price and His Wife
by NEWTON, HELMUT
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The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts
by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
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Porgy: A play in four acts
by HEYWARD, Dorothy and HEYWARD, Du Bose
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London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12…
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by DREISER, Theodore
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London: Constable, 1930. Hardback. Very Good. Uniform English Edition". 8vo, pp. [vi], [390], [2]. Fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bumped, bands of sunning to top and bottom edges. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, review clipping laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original muted brown paper dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned and creased, head of spine frayed, wear to extremities. Still, a pleasing copy. Very good/ very good. Unusual in the trade. Originally published in 1916 by John Lane in New York and London, Constable's new edition featured an additional four plays, 'Phantasmagoria,' 'The Court of Progress,' 'The Dream' and 'The Hand of the Potter'. The laid in review draws attention to the cinematic facets of the playwright's work: "Mr. Theodore Dreiser's collection of plays is a reminder of the films' continuous and increasing influence upon the theatre. This influence is neither wholly good nor wholly bad; its effect depends upon the innate quality of…
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[The Menagerie, The Circus, The Puppet Theater and Summer in the Park] Lebende Bilder
by [Bonn Franz (München, 1830 - Regensburg, 1894)]
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(cm 33x27,5). An elaborate - very rare - children's movable and pop-up book by the Munich lawyer and author of humourous verse, Franz Bonn (cfr. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Bonn). This complete with four splendid perspective scenes, each with five different levels. The scenes are "The Menagerie", "The Circus", "The Puppet Theater" (with a rotating disc), and "Summer in the Park". With verses by Mrs. Bonn. Klotz I, 592, 4. We could trace just one other copy (Munich, IJB).
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Death Of A Salesman
by Arthur Miller
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First Printing in second Issue dust jacket, with reviews on back panel of dust jacket. Not price clipped, with original price of $2.50. Hardcover shows all points for First Printing, and dust jacket as second issue.Book boards show slight fading along margins, otherwise no flaws.Dust jacket has some yellowing, scuffing, tiny ships and closed tears along edging and binding top and bottom. Minor soiling and wear. A very collectable First Edition, First Printing of Arthur Miller's iconicplay.
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The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts
by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
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Porgy: A play in four acts
by HEYWARD, Dorothy and HEYWARD, Du Bose
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London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12…
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by DREISER, Theodore
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London: Constable, 1930. Hardback. Very Good. Uniform English Edition". 8vo, pp. [vi], [390], [2]. Fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bumped, bands of sunning to top and bottom edges. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, review clipping laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original muted brown paper dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned and creased, head of spine frayed, wear to extremities. Still, a pleasing copy. Very good/ very good. Unusual in the trade. Originally published in 1916 by John Lane in New York and London, Constable's new edition featured an additional four plays, 'Phantasmagoria,' 'The Court of Progress,' 'The Dream' and 'The Hand of the Potter'. The laid in review draws attention to the cinematic facets of the playwright's work: "Mr. Theodore Dreiser's collection of plays is a reminder of the films' continuous and increasing influence upon the theatre. This influence is neither wholly good nor wholly bad; its effect depends upon the innate quality of…
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[The Menagerie, The Circus, The Puppet Theater and Summer in the Park] Lebende Bilder
by [Bonn Franz (München, 1830 - Regensburg, 1894)]
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Milan, Italy
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(cm 33x27,5). An elaborate - very rare - children's movable and pop-up book by the Munich lawyer and author of humourous verse, Franz Bonn (cfr. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Bonn). This complete with four splendid perspective scenes, each with five different levels. The scenes are "The Menagerie", "The Circus", "The Puppet Theater" (with a rotating disc), and "Summer in the Park". With verses by Mrs. Bonn. Klotz I, 592, 4. We could trace just one other copy (Munich, IJB).
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Death Of A Salesman
by Arthur Miller
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First Printing in second Issue dust jacket, with reviews on back panel of dust jacket. Not price clipped, with original price of $2.50. Hardcover shows all points for First Printing, and dust jacket as second issue.Book boards show slight fading along margins, otherwise no flaws.Dust jacket has some yellowing, scuffing, tiny ships and closed tears along edging and binding top and bottom. Minor soiling and wear. A very collectable First Edition, First Printing of Arthur Miller's iconicplay.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
by Nijinsky, Romola
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- 9780671411237 / 0671411233
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection)
by Christie, Agatha
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- 9780553350807 / 0553350803
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."
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Dr. Johnson: A Play
by Newton, A. (Alfred) Edward, 1864- 1940
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Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press 1923. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press [Updike, Merrymount] 1923. Hard Cover. Signed. xvii, 120 pages, plates; 23 cm. "Of the five hundred and eighty-five copies of this Hand-made Paper Edition, this is copy number 18", signed by the author. Bound in decorated paper with green linen spine & paper spine label. Updike, Merrymount Press Bibliography 586. Stock#OB145. VG.
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Another Part of the Forest
by Hellman, Lillian
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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[Order Form for Henry Vaughan's Sacred Poems]
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London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).
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The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Christie, Agatha
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- 9781611737127 / 1611737125
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Thais (Universal Library)
by Anatole France
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Anatole France. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library Edition. No date or statement on copyright page. Circa 1929. USED. VERY GOOD/GOOD ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Dust jacket has a bit of loss at top of spine. Glossy black boards with silver, green and black titling and ornamentation. Lime green endpapers. No frontispiece or any other photos appear in this edition. 5 7/8 X 8 ½. 154 pages. "Thais is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the 1890 novel "Thais" by Anatole France, a story of forbidden love. Cinema, Film History. Silent Film Era.
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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
by P.J. O'Brien
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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Old Theatre Days & Ways
by W.J. Lawrence
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- 9781131731827 / 1131731824
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W.J. Lawrence. Old Theatre Days & Ways. First published 1935 by George Harrap & Co. Ltd., London. ANGLOPHILIA. THEATRE HISTORY. PERFORMING ARTS. BRITISH HISTORY. ISBN 9781131731827. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 256 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8. This copy is located in United States.
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The Member of the Wedding; A Play
by McCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967)
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New York: New Directions, 1946. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. First Edition (no additional printings noted) of the drama, adapted by the author from her novel for the stage. 8vo; [10],118pp. Publisher's mauve cloth, spine titled in burgundy, fore-edge untrimmed, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, featuring a photo of a scene from the play. Fine, binding square and secure, pages bright and fresh, in Very Good or better jacket, spine panel lightly faded and rubbed at both ends with several small nicks and chips, front panel with one or two light creases and two barely discernible circular stains (pea-sized or less). Flora & Bain, p. 308. The Broadway production, directed by Harold Clurman, opened on January 5, 1950, at the Empire Theatre, running for 501 performances. The cast included Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and Brandon De Wilde. The production "solidified her [McCullers] popular sucess." (Flora & Bain) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in…
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