New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1904. Hardcover. 186 p.: music; 28 cm. Half morocco with gilt, blue, and green marbled boards. Gilt-stamped spine title and ornamentation. All page edges red speckled. Grey endpapers. Last leaf (pp. 185-86) is repeated. Front free endpaper bears name: Sargent. Gustav Luders and Frank..... More
New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1900. Hardcover. xxvi, [2], 564 p., frontispiece portrait of the author and 21 leaves of portraits: in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and front cover decoration. Top page edges gilt. Bookplate of the Academy of the New Church..... More
![Item #001740 Manon Lescaut: Opera in Four Acts [Libretto]. Giacomo Puccini](/pictures/thumb/001740.jpg?v=1472082212)
New York: Franco Colombo, 1965. Soft Cover. English version by Walter Ducloux. vi, 61 p.; 26 cm. Brown paper covers. At head of front cover: Metropolitan Opera. At head of title page: Franco Colombo, Inc. Collection of Opera Libretti. Contains Italian text on left-hand pages and English on right-hand. In..... More
London: John Stockdale, 1800. Printed by Thomas Gillet, Salisbury Sqaure, London. xi, [2], 10-78 p.; 20 cm. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Includes Prologue by William Sotheby and Epilogue by J. Taylor. First edition. Lists the cast from the 1800 production at the Drury Lane Theater, including Messers Aickin, Kemble..... More
Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1898. Hardcover. "Édition Nouvelle a L'Usage des Classes par N.-M. Bernardin." [4], 140, [2] p.; 18 cm. Black cloth spine with printed paper spine label; beige paper over boards printed in black. Back cover and page facing title page contain publisher's advertisements. Stamp in purple ink..... More
Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883. Hardcover. Vol. 3 only. [4], 286, [2] p.; 14 cm. Contemporary calf spine with six spine compartments between raised bands; marbled paper over boards. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled author and black leather label in third compartment with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled..... More
New York: Wardle Corbyn, 1857. Paperback. "First produced at Niblo's Garden." 11, [1] p.; 23 cm. Pink wrappers; front wrapper printed in black within decorative border; back wrapper blank. "Corbyn's American Edition of Ballet and Pantomime Books" -- at head of front wrapper. Translated from Jerome Ravel's original French manuscript..... More
Hamilton, Canada: Cromlech Press, 1979. Hardcover. [2], 83 p.; 22 cm. White cloth with black spine title; illustrated pastedown on front cover printed in green and black. Signed by the author in red on front free endpaper. William Bernard Ready (1914-1981) was University Librarian at McMaster University, which holds the..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. Hardcover. Fourth printing, June 1965. [4], 316 p., 8 pages of unpaginated illustrations; 21 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Spine title on dust jacket: Where's the Rest of Me?: The Ronald Reagan Story. The title is a line from..... More
New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1874. Paperback. 15, [25] p.: plan; 20 cm. Off-white wrapper. Publisher's advertisements on wrappers. No date of publication. The series listing goes up to no. 172, which was published around 1874. The unpaginated pages following the text contain a pubisher's catalog of De Witt's..... More
![Item #005785 The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield [provenance: the author and Thomas Ridgway]. Edward...](/pictures/thumb/005785.JPG?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: Broadway Books, 2000. xviii, 374 p.: 1 photograph at the beginning of each chapter; 23 cm. Paperback, with color illustrated front cover. Includes acknowledgments. First Broadway Books trade paperback edition. ISBN 0-385-49678-8. The author "separates fact from fiction for more than three hundred important historical films, in the..... 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
Paris: Charpentier Et Fasquelle, 1924. Hardcover. [12], 262, [2] p.; 20 cm. Half red calf with red-and-gilt marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. Matching red-and-gilt marbled endpapers. Undated inscription on first blank leaf following front endpapers. Former..... 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...](/pictures/thumb/001733.jpg?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](/pictures/thumb/006663.JPG?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]....](/pictures/thumb/006664.JPG?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