Through Wooden Eyes
London: Faber and Faber, (1956). First edition; 8vo., red cloth covered boards, hardcover; Bussell describes the puppets puppet masters and puppet theatres of many countries; a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dustjacket. More
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The Ohlone Tribe Hair Confederacy, Michael Butler, in Association with Marshall Naify, Presents Hair The American Tribal Love Rock Musical at the Orpheum Theater, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA: Orpheum Theatre, no date [ca 1972]. Small 4to.; illustrated wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 6 unnumbered pages; black and white photographic illustrations; very good. More
Jumbo The Greatest Elephant in the World
Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press (2008). Stated 1st US edition; small 8vo. green cloth covered boards with gilt spine lettering, small hardcover; 244 pages; black & white illustrations; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
The Golden Age of Movie Musicals and Me
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press 1994. First Edition, first printing with full number line; 8vo; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 262 pages; b&w photographic illustrations; a very good, clean tight copy in a very good dustjacket. More
A Photographic History of Marilyn Monroe
Bath: Parragon (2010). First edition; small 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; 255 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; a fine clean, tight copy. More
Benny Goodman and the Swing Era:
NY: Oxford University Press, 1989. 1st edition; 8vo.; cloth backed boards; xix, 220 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dustjacket. More
Robert Louis Stevenson Songs
Springfield, MA. Milton Bradley Company. 1920. Later printing of a 1910 title; small oblong 4to. cloth backed decorative boards; 20 verses from R. L. Stevenson, put to music by Ethel Crowninshield; former owner’s writing on title page and edgeworn boards else very good. More
First Theater in America
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, Inc. (1968). 12mo; green cloth covered boards; hardcover; 115 pages; black and white illustration of the author; lightly edgeworn and soiled covers else a very good clean tight copy. More
Keaton The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down.
NY: Scribner’s, 1979. 1st edition, 1st Printing; 8vo; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 340 pages; b&w photographic illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good, dustjacket. More
Street Gang The Complete History of Sesame Street
NY: Viking (2008). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; paper covered boards, hardcover; 379 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; very good in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Folies-Bergere Behind the Scenes of the Famous Parisian Music Hall
NY: Popular Library (1956). 16mo; glossy pictorial wraps; softcover; 173 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; Translated from the French by Lucienne Hill; Preface by Maurice Chevalier; sunned and edgeworn covers with chipped spine ends with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More
The Actor-Managers
Chicago: Henry Regnery Co. (1970). 1st American Edition; black cloth covered board, hardcover; 195 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; portraits of six actor-managers; Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft, Sir Henry Irving, Sir George Alexander, Sir Johnston Forbers-Robertson, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Sir Gerald du Maurier a very good..... More
The Cigar Lover’s Compendium Everything You Need To Light Up and Leave Me Alone
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press (2010). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 12mo.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; xviii, 204 pages; black and white illustrations; very good. More
Lyric Theatre Program Dennis King in The Three Musketeers
NY: Lyric Theatre, 1928. 4to.; illustrated wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 20 pages; brown and white illustrations and sepia photographic illustrations; light edgewear else very good. More
L’Opera de Paris, No. XXIV, 1966
Paris: L’Edition Artistique, 1966. 4to.; pictorial glossy stiff wraps, softcover; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; very good. More
100 Houdini Tricks You Can Do
NY: Arco Publishing Company, Inc. (1954). Small 4to; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 144 pages; sepia illustrations; Arco Handi-Books for Better Living; sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a chipped pictorial dust jacket. More
Circus Men, Beasts, and Joys of the Road
NY: The Viking Press, 1931. First American Edition; small 4to.; orange cloth covered boards, hardcover; 213 pages; 47 black and white photographic illustrated plates and 2 photographic illustrated views; non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper; boards are sunned and edgeworn else very good in an edgeworn, sunned and rubbed..... More
Glamour Magazine Party Book
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1965. Stated First edition; small 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; x, 302 deckled edged pages; former owners name on front endpaper else very good in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Red Riding Hood’s Rescue, Or The Danger of Disobedience A Juvenile Operetta
Boston: White, Smith & Co., no date [ca 1876]. Oblong 16mo.; paper wraps with sewn binding, softcover; 95 pages; from the cover “Adapted to the Voices of the Little Folks, Easily Prepared, and Effective, with Full Directions for Its Performance; includes music and lyrics; wraps are worn, sunned and torn..... More
Mississippi Minstrel
Rutherford, NJ: E.M.B.C. of Rutherford, 1944. Small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; black illustrations on yellow paper; program for two shows; a very good clean tight copy. More
Vocal Music Its Story Told Through the Lives and Works of its Foremost Composers
NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1975. First Edition; small 4to; red decorative cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 260 pages; Mainstreams of Music Volume Four; black and white illustrations; lightly edgeworn else a very good clean tight copy in a rubbed and lightly edgechipped dust jacket. More
Stars of the Ballet and Dance in Performance Photographs
NY: Dover Publications (1984). small 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 139 pages, black & white photographic illustrations, a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Three Screenplays: I Vitelloni, Il Bidone, The Temptations of Doctor Antonio
The Orion Press (1970). Translated by Judith Green; First Edition; small 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover; 288 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a sunned dustjacket with a price of $7.95 on the front flap. More
Festival Italiano New London, Connecticut August 8-16, 1987
New London, CT: Festival Italiano (1987). 8vo; stiff pictorial wraps; soft cover; 73 pages; black and white illustrations; 10th Anniversary commemorative program--includes schedule of events, patrons, beauty pageant contestants, and advertising; a very good clean tight copy. More
Modified Rapture Comedy in W.S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas
Charlottesville & London, Univ. of Virginia, (1991). 1st edition. 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 144 pages, a very good clean tight copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket. More