New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1901. Paperback. 60 p.; 19 cm. Stapled. American author Eleanor Maud Crane was a very active playright from 1897 into the 1920s. This comedy has roles for 5 women and 5 men (one playing a cat?). This part was used by Camille Stark Miller playing..... More
![Item #007514 Milky White: A Domestic Drama in Two Acts [De Witt's Acting Plays, no. 15]. H. T....](/pictures/thumb/007514.jpg?v=1581714987)
New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1876. Paperback. 27, [1] p.: plans, music; 20 cm. Off-white wrapper. Publisher's advertisements on wrappers. No date of publication. The series listing goes up to no. 200, which was published in 1876. Final unpaginated page contains listing of De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama..... More
![Item #007524 Philomel: A Romantic Drama, in Three Acts [De Witt's Acting Plays, no. 293]. H. T....](/pictures/thumb/007524.jpg?v=1581714991)
New York: De Witt, 1881. Paperback. 41, [3] p.: plans; 20 cm. Off-white wrapper. Publisher's advertisements on wrappers and on 3 unpaginated pages following text. Title page gives Robert M. De Witt as the publisher. No date of publication. Robert M. De Witt died in 1877. This number in the..... More
Syracuse, N.Y. Willis N. Bugbee Co., 1936. Paperback. 19, [1] p.; 19 cm. Red paper covers printed in black. Verso of front cover, last page, and both sides of back cover contain publisher's advertisements. An amusing one-act play about a twenty-year-old whose family does not appreciate her and who decides..... More
New York: Brisban & Brannan, 1806. Hardcover. "Printed by D. and G. Bruce." 355 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary full calf; red leather spine label with gilt-tooled title "Memoirs of Cumberland." Former owner's name at head of title: Danl. B. Brinsmade. Pencilled location below that name. "F" stamped occasionally in the..... More
Berlin: Ullstein & Co., 1918. Paperback. 16 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with some lyrics. "Alfred Gessler 1922" in pencil at upper edge of first page. Volume and number of issue have been trimmed off along the top edge..... More
New York: Stage Publishing Co., 1935. Thurber, James. Paperback. 100 p.: illustrations; 36 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Leslie Howard as Hamlet. Contents include: Social Tide-Rip by Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick with performance photographsy by Gray-O'Reilly [about the play Dead End by Sidney Kingsley] -- Wrong from the Beginning..... More
![Item #008441 Casino Theatre Burlesque Review [Harry K. Morton and Zella Russell program]. Franz...](/pictures/thumb/008441.jpg?v=1621024094)
Philadelphia: Casino Theatre, 1917. [8] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Cover illustration is by American artist Franz de Merlier (1878-1974). This is the program for the week beginning Aug. 27, 1917, for the Burlesque Review Model 1917 with Harry K. Morton and Zella Russell. The show included an Uncle Tom's Cabin..... More
Buffalo, NY: Hecker-H-O Co., 1936. Paperback. 72, [24] p.: full-page black-and-white illustrations, color comic strips; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. The final 24 pages contain 12 2-page comic strips, each with 12 panels. The book is based on Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders, a radio program broadcast from..... More
![Item #005717 L'Elisir d'Amore: Opera in Due Atti [bound with:] Guglielmo Tell: Opera in Quattro...](/pictures/thumb/005717.jpg?v=1506108183)
Milan: R. Stabilimento Ricordi, 1874. Hardcover. [4] p., 1 vocal score (111 p.); [4] p., 1 vocal score (181 p.); [4] p., 1 vocal score (125 p.): portrait, music; 28 cm. Contemporary leather spine with five spine compartments between triple gilt rules; maroon pebble-grain cloth over boards. Gilt-tooled titles in..... More
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1734. Hardcover. xxiv, 501, [1] p.; 17 cm. Signatures: *12 A-X12 (12mo). Half polished calf (18th- or early 19th-century) with brown speckled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather labels in second and third compartments reading: Oeuvres du P. Du..... More
New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970. Paperback. First American Editon. A Delta Book. 280 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. A "perceptive combination of nostalgia, social history and film criticism." -- back cover. In Good+ Condition: cover is rubbed; spine slightly creased; publication information written on first (blank)..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, July 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Aida Jenoure (12 x 9 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Aida Jenoure (1863-1958?), was active..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Nov. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Arthur Playfair (12 x 9 cm.) attached [Laurence Irving]. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Arthur Playfair (1869-1918)..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Dec. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Clara Jecks (12 x 9 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Clara Jecks (1854-1951), was an..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Oct. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Evelyn Millard (12 x 9 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Evelyn Millard (1869-1941), was an..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Sept. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Frank Gillmore (12 x 9 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Frank Gillmore (1867-1943), was an..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Sept. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Georgie Esmond (12 x 9 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Georgie Esmond (1871-1942), was an..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, August 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Irene Vanbrugh (12 x 9 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Irene Vanbrugh (1872-1949), was an..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Dec. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of J. Nutcombe Gould (12 x 9 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, J. Nutcombe Gould (1849-1999)..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, August 1892, with a carbon print photograph of a group of actors from La Statue du Commandeur (9 x 12 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, July 1892, with a carbon print photograph of a group of actors from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan (9 x 12 cm.) attached. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Oct. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Lawrence Irving (12 x 9 cm.) attached [Laurence Irving]. The photographer was Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), a British photographer who specialized in theatrical photography. The subject, Laurence Irving (1871-1914)..... More
![Item #008333 The U.S.S. General J. C. Breckinridge Presents 1946 New Year's Varieties [program]....](/pictures/thumb/008333.jpg?v=1616869984)
1946. [4] p.: illustration; 20 cm. The New Year's program was produced and directed by Chaplain James E. Emerson and included musical numbers and skits. The U.S.S. Breckinridge (AP-176) was a troopship named for United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General James Carson Breckinridge (1877-1942). It was commissioned with a U...... More
![Item #007525 One Year: A Comedy-Drama, in Four Acts [De Witt's Acting Plays, no. 319]. H. B....](/pictures/thumb/007525.jpg?v=1581714991)
New York: De Witt, 1884. Paperback. 20, [4] p.: plans; 20 cm. Off-white wrapper. Publisher's advertisements on wrappers and on 4 unpaginated pages following text, including a pantomime play, Humpty Dumpty. Very scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight... More