![Item #005785 The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield [provenance: the author and Thomas Ridgway]. Edward...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/005785.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1508535650)
London: William Heinemann, 1898. Hardcover. [8], 272 p., engraved frontispiece and 11 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stapled spine title. Top page edges green. No dust jacket. Small label on back fixed endpaper for The Times (Book Club), London. Pencilled notation on front fixed endpaper indicating..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Hardcover. xvi, 339, [3] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Includes list of films cited, and index. Contents: Made in America -- The Jolson Story -- "Democracy and Burnt Cork"..... More
New York: Warner Books, 1992. Hardcover. First Printing April 1992. x, [4], 352 p.; 24 cm. Green and blue cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. An insider's explanation of how Hollywood works by the Hollywood reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Book is in Very Good Condition: cover..... More
New York: Three Sirens Press, 1931. Hardcover. Copyright 1931 by Illustrated Editions Co. 184, [2] p.: full-page illustrations; 21 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Top page edges gilt. Salmon endpapers. Red ribbon bookmark. Printed by J.J. Little & Ives Co., New York. Publisher's catalog on final..... More
Paris: Librarie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1904. Hardcover. [8], 215 p.; 19 cm. Morocco-grain cloth over flexible boards with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. All page edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. "Deux cent quatre-vingt-cinquième mille." Advertisements for other works by Rostand published by Eugène Fasquelle on page facing title page. In..... More
Dublin: William Jones, 1971. Printed by Graisberry and Campbell." vi, [5], 14-84, [2] p.; 17 cm. Disbound. An adaptation of Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry. The male character who seduces and betrays one of the female characters is named Lothario, the name which has come to be used to..... More
![Item #001733 I Vespri Siciliani: Opera in Five Acts; Music by Giuseppe Verdi [Libretto]. Eugene...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/001733.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472082212)
New York: G. Schirmer, 1973. Paperback. Libretto by Eugene Scribe; English translation by William Weaver. v, 29, 29, [1] p.; 27 cm. Brown paper covers. At head of front cover: Metropolitan Opera. At head of title page: G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos. Includes synopsis. Contains Italian text on left-hand..... More
Philadelphia: Adelphi Theatre, 1928. [4] p.: illustrated with photographs; 21 cm. Printed in black and red with photographs from the production on each page. "A Stage Play Not A Picture" -- on front (p. [1]). Written by Zelda Sears and Reita Lambert; staged by A. Leslie Pearce. No year given..... More
New York: Stage Publishing Co., 1938. Paperback. 80 p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Victor Moore. Contents include: I Wanted To Be an Actress as told to Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick by Katharine Cornell [part 2 of 6] -- There's No Place Like Broadway by Walter Huston..... More
London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823. Hardcover. "A New Edition." Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Egerton et al, including Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; Wilson and Sons, York; and Stirling and Slade, A. Black, P. Brown, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh. Vol. 7 only: 385, [1] p.; 16 cm. Contemorary..... More
![Item #006663 Shakspere's Works [vol. 6: King Henry V -- King Henry VI]. William Shakespeare](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/006663.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1540585953)
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1899. Hardcover. Printed in London by William Clowes and Sons. Funk & Wagnalls reissued the edition published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. in 1896 with new title pages. [6], 105, [1], 93, [1], 105, [1] p.; 18 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped..... More
![Item #006664 Shakspere's Works [vol. 7: King Henry VI -- King Richard III -- King Henry VIII]....](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/006664.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1540585954)
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1899. Hardcover. Printed in London by William Clowes and Sons. Funk & Wagnalls reissued the edition published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. in 1896 with new title pages. [6], 102, 123, [1], 105, [1] p.; 18 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1898. Hardcover. "Revised Edition with Additional Notes." This is vol. 9 of a 12-volume set. 438 p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates; 19 cm. Half morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled author and titles in second and fourth compartments; gilt-tooled decoration..... More
Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1861. Hardcover. Volume 12 only. [2], 487 p.; 21 cm. Dark brown bead-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Pages are unopened. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Wm. Curtis Noyes. William Curtis Noyes (1805-1864) was an important jurist in New York State. This is..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1931. Hardcover. xlii, [2], 118 p.; 19 cm. Dark green cloth with paper spine label printed in green. No dust jacket. A satirical comedy about politics, written by Shaw shortly after finishing his nonfiction The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Former owner's inscription at lower..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1911. Hardcover. [6], xcii, 443, [1] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with printed paper spine label. No dust jacket (as issued). Publisher's advertisement for the author's works on half title verso. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Ellen Lewenhaupt. March 1911." A few pencilled marginal marks in..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1907. Hardcover. lxii, [2], 311 p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with paper spine label with title in black and red. Contents: Preface for Politicians -- John Bull's Other Island -- How He Lied to Her Husband -- Major Barbara. Front free endpaper inscribed: "Ellen Lewenhaupt ?odd..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1904. Hardcover. First printing: "Published May, 1904." xxxvii, [5], 244 p.; 20 cm. Very dark blue-green cloth with printed paper spine label. No dust jacket (as issued). Contents: Man and Superman -- The Revolutionist's Handbook -- Maxims for Revolutionists. Former owner's inscription at front free endpaper: "Pierce..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1914. Hardcover. xliicxxvi, 245 p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with paper spine label with title: Fanny's First Play and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. No dust jacket. Very small label on back fixed endpaper: Hochschild, Kohn & Co. Hochschild, Kohn & Co. was a department..... More
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1904. Hardcover. xxxi, [3], 244, [2] p.; 20 cm. Dark blue-green cloth; paper spine label with title in red and black. No dust jacket. Copyright 1898. Inscribed on front free endpaper by former owner: "Pierce Reynolds, Apr. 25, 1904." Possibly Pierce..... More
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1901. Hardcover. xxxviii, 315, [3] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth; paper spine with title in red and black. One page of publisher's advertisements for other works by Shaw follows text. Copyright 1900. Contents: The Devil's Disciple -- Caesar and Cleopatra..... More
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1904. Hardcover. [2], xxxviii, 315, [5] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth; paper spine with title in red and black. One page of publisher's advertisements for other works by Shaw follows text. Copyright 1900. Contents: The Devil's Disciple -- Caesar and..... More
London: Constable and Co., 1927. Hardcover. This is the Aug. 1927 reprinting of the Pocket Edition 1926. v, [1], 246 p.; 18 cm. Full brown calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled author and title on leather labels in first and third compartments. Top page edges gilt. Marbled..... More
Dublin: William Jones, 1793. "Printed by William Porter." [9], 126-190 p.; 18 cm. Disbound. Not in ESTC. Includes the Prologue by Richard Fitzpatrick. Scarce. In Good Condition: disbound; tear along gutter in title page, archivally repaired; faint dampstain along edges of final leaves; occasional soiling... More
Dublin: William Jones, 1793. "Printed by William Porter." [11], 202-317, [1] p.; 18 cm. Disbound. Not in ESTC. Includes two Prologues and one Epilogue by the author. Scarce. In Good Condition: disbound; first two leaves detached but present; occasional soiling. More