London: , 1916. “I Can Think of No One Who Would Play Mrs Dearth as Well” An Important J. M. Barrie Letter to His Original Wendy, Hilda Trevelyan, Apparently Concerning Her Performance of Mrs Dearth in Dear Brutus - Written Five Days After the Play's 1917 London Première BARRIE, J...... More
Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826. A Day in the Life of a Parisian Actress An Exceptionally Rare Complete Copy with the Four Pages of Text and the Original Wrappers Bound in WATTIER, Édouard. La Journée d'une Actrice, ou Douze Scènes de Jour et de Nuit, Lithographiées par Ed. Wattier. Paris..... More
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Paris: Chez Bauger, 1834. Midnight in Paris - Gavarni and the Secret Theater of Carnival A Superb Hand-Colored Copy of Le Carnaval à Paris in the Original Publisher’s Binding Together with the Very Rare and Complete Suite of Les Bals Masqués GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Le Carnaval..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. The Deluxe Signed Twelfth Night With Forty Mounted Color Plates by W. Heath Robinson [ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. SHAKESPEARE, [William]. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Twelfth Night, or What You Will. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. A Striking Arts and Crafts Interpretation of Hamlet One of 250 Signed Copies with Thirty Mounted Color Plates [SIMMONDS, W[illiam] G[eorge], illustrator]. SHAKESPEARE, [William]. Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Hamlet. Illustrated by W. G. Simmonds. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by..... More
New York: Random House, 1936. The Deluxe Signed Issue of Porter’s Broadway Hit Including “It’s De-Lovely” and “Red, Hot and Blue” PORTER, Cole. Red, Hot and Blue. A Musical Comedy. New York: Random House, 1936. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, of which 250 were offered for sale, signed..... More
London: Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1825. A Library of the English Stage in Four Volumes - A Regency Theater in Miniature The London Stage - From Garrick to Sheridan, Printed from Acting Copies LONDON STAGE. The London Stage; A collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces and..... More
London: Printed for C.S. Arnold, 1825. “The Life of an Actor” - Theatrical Life in the Age of Kean Pierce Egan’s Celebrated Portrait of the Stage, Richly Illustrated EGAN, Pierce. The Life of an Actor… Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Twenty-Seven Characteristic..... More
London: Published by the Author, at His Music-Warehouse…, 1803. Sixty Aquatint Plates Illustrating Charles Dibdin’s Songs Delicately Designed, Etched and Hand-Colored by Dibdin’s daughter DIBDIN, [Charles]. The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin, Written by Himself. Together with the Words of Six Hundred Songs Selected from His Works, and Sixty Small..... More
London: Printed for J. Taylor, 1826, 1826. London’s Principal Theatres during the Georgian Era as shown in Fourteen Fine Hand Colored Aquatint Plates BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake. HAVELL, Daniel (illustrator). Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London: Illustrated with a view of each theatre, elegantly coloured, drawn and engraved..... More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1811. One of the Rarest of all the Thomas Rowlandson Items "These Delicate Engravings show Various Fictional Characters taken from Various Ranks of Society" ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator. [Twelfth Night Characters, in Twenty-Four Figures]. London: [Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, 1811]. Twelvemo (3 7/16 x 2 1/4 inches; 88 x...... More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1811. One of the Rarest of all the Thomas Rowlandson Items "These Delicate Engravings show Various Fictional Characters taken from Various Ranks of Society" ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator. [Twelfth Night Characters, in Twenty-Four Figures]. London: [Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, 1811]. Twelvemo (5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches; 131 x...... More
London: E. and C. McLean, 1824. “All The World's a Stage” Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man as Depicted by Henry Alken ALKEN, Henry, illustrator. Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man, Illustrated by Henry Alken. London: Published by E. and C. McLean, 1824. First edition. Oblong folio (11 1/8 x 16 1/2..... More
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc. , 1937. First American Edition of Noël Coward's Autobiography Inscribed by Him on the Front Free Endpaper COWARD, Noël. Present Indicative. New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., [1937]. First American edition. Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 200 x 140 mm.)..... More
New York: Random House, 1943. Warmly Inscribed by Rouben Mamoulian Director of the Original Broadway Production of Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Landmark Musical [MAMOULIAN, Rouben, director]. RODGERS, Richard. HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar II. Oklahoma! A Musical Play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Based on Lynn Riggs’ Green Grow..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. Inscribed by Helen Hayes, Who Created the Title Role on Broadway Mary Chase’s Mrs. McThing - From the Author of Harvey CHASE, Mary. Mrs. McThing. A Play. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. First edition. Small octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x...... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986. “White. A Blank Page or Canvas. The Challenge: Bring Order to the Whole.” Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece One of 250 Copies Signed by Both Authors - With a Sondheim TLS and Signed Photograph SONDHEIM, Stephen. LAPINE, James. Sunday in..... More
New York: Quadrangle, 1974. “Dancing in the Dark” Howard Dietz’s Autobiography, with an Inscribed Photograph of the Legendary Broadway Lyricist DIETZ, Howard. Dancing in the Dark. Words by Howard Dietz. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., [1974]. First edition. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 152..... More
New York: Random House, 1934. O’Neill’s “Modern Miracle Play” O’NEILL, Eugene. Days Without End. New York: Random House, [1934]. First edition. Limited to 325 numbered copies printed on all-rag paper and signed by the author (this being copy No. 208). Large octavo (9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 243 x...... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1829. Politics As Theater - Political Actors Lampooned By Britain's "Leading Caricaturist, Prolific Alike in Social and Political Satire" HEATH, William. Theatrical Characters. London: Thomas M'Lean, Dec. 1, 1829. First edition, first impression with plates dated Oct. 26 to Nov. 9. Large folio (16 1/8 x 11..... More
Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826. The Day of an Actress, or Twelve Scenes of Day and Night Twelve Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates WATTIER, Édouard. [La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit, Lithographiées par Ed. Wattier. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826]. First edition. Large folio (14 1/4..... More
London: Pubd. by Thos McLean, 1826. Excessively Rare Series of Caricatures of the London Theater LANE, T[heodore]. Theatrical Pleasures. London: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, [n.d., ca. 1826]. First edition, complete. Large quarto (12 5/8 x inches; 321 x mm.). Six numbered hand-colored engraved plates each tipped-onto hinged stiff card mounts..... More
Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie…et chez E. Ardit, 1828. Monnier’s “Theatrical Gallery” A Very Unusual Example with the Plates in Two States - Colored and Plain [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. Galerie Théâtrale. Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie.…et chez E. Ardit, [n.d., 1828]. Oblong folio. (10 3/8 x 14 inches;..... More
London: Printed for C.S. Arnold, 1825. "Acting is the Perfect Idiot's Profession" (Katherine Hepburn). "The Art of Acting Consists in Keeping People from Coughing" (Benjamin Franklin). EGAN, Pierce. LANE, Theodore, illustrator. The Life of an Actor… Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Twenty-Seven..... More
Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, [1854]. A Superb Copy Of One of the Master's Earliest Successes DORÉ, Gustave. Les Différents Publics de Paris. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, [1854]. First edition. Oblong quarto (10 x 13 1/4 in; 254 x 335 mm.). Lithograph title and twenty original lithograph..... More
