New York: MacMillan, 1927. Hardcover. xv, [1], 392, [4] p., 1 leaf with a portrait of the author; 19 cm. Dark green leather spine with dark green linen boards. Gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. List of titles in The Modern Readers' Series on final, unpaginated page..... More
Dublin: William Jones, 1791. Printed by Graisberry and Campbell." 96 p.; 17 cm. Disbound. This tragedy begins with the often misquoted line: "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast." Scarce. In Good+ Condition: disbound; occasional soiling; otherwise, clean and tight. More
Paris: Pierre Didot l'Ainé, et de Firmin Didot, 1813. Hardcover. Édition Stéréotype. 3 volumes: 256 p.; 317, [1] p.; 314, [2] p.; 13 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with six spine compartments. Each volume has red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title and black label in fourth with..... More
Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1927. Paperback. [6], 46, [6] p., frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates: line drawings; 22 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Pages are unopened. Frontispiece is a photograph of Edward Gordon Craig in the garden of his villa at Genova, Italy. Edward Gordon Craig, son of..... More
Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1924. Paperback. [6], [95]-138, [8] p., 11 leaves of plates: in-text illustrations, maps, plans; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title: The Mask: An Illustrated Journal of the Art of the Theatre. Six unpaginated pages of advertisements precede text. Embossed circular stamp of..... More
Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1924. Paperback. [6], [47]-94, [6] p., frontispiece and 4 leaves of plates: in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black, with small strip of matching orange paper on front wrapper below address, bearing price (10 shilling or $2.50). Wrapper title: The Mask: An Illustrated..... More
Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1925. Paperback. [6], 52, [8] p., frontispiece and 2 leaves of plates: illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title: The Mask: An Illustrated Quarterly of the Art of the Theatre. Six unpaginated pages of advertisements precede text. Stamp of the North..... More
Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1925. Paperback. [6], [97]-150, [8] p., frontispiece: illustrations, including 31 pages of maps; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Six unpaginated pages of advertisements precede text. Pages are unopened. Stamp of the North Carolina College for Women on front wrapper. Edward Gordon Craig, son..... More
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....](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/007514.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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....](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/007524.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
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...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/008441.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/005717.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975. Hardcover. xix, [3], 170 p.: black-and-white illustrations; 21 x 27 cm. Black cloth with silver spine title; blind-stamped Anchor Press emblem on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes index. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good-..... 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