Pourin’ It All Out
Secaucus: Citadel Press (1980). Stated 1st editon, small 8vo. stiff pictorial paper wraps, xix, 220 pages; b&w photographic illustrations; an insider’s view of the Rock scene; very good. More
Entertainment
“You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The American Talking Film, History and Memory, 1927-1949
NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 1st edition, 1st printing; sm 4to; cloth backed boards, hardcover, 573 pages; former owner’s initials and gift inscription else a good, clean, tight copy in a good dustjacket. More
The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 MGM Classic
NY: Gramercy Books, 1999. 1st edition with 1 in the numberline; 4to: cloth covered boards, hardcover; 224 pages plus index; color and b&w photographic illustrations on almost every page; a very good, clean, tight copy in a lightly edgerubbed dust jacket. More
The Letters of Robert Schumann
NY: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1907. 1st edition; green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration; frontis portrait of Schumann; 299 pages; former owner’s name on front free endpaper with chipped spine and scratched cover, internally a very good clean tight, unmarked copy. More
BESFI Dance Of The Hours Seiskaya 1982
St. James: Seiskaya Ballet School & Academy, 1982. small 4to stiff pictorial wraps; program for Ballet Education and Scholarship Fund, inc May, 1982 performances; black and white photographic illustrations of performers and students; light edgewear else a clean tight copy. More
Metropolitan Opera Annals First Supplement: 1947-1957 A Chronicle of Artists and Performances
NY: THe H.W. Wilson Company in Association with The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc., 1957. First edition; Small 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 115 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; Inscribed by author, “To XXX XXX with my very best wishes Wm H Seltsam 15 November..... More
Greta Garbo Portraits 1920-1951
NY: Rizzoli, 1986. First American Edition; 4to.; glossy illustrated wraps, softcover; 15 pages of text; 144 leaves of black and white photographic plates; foxed page edges else very good. More
Agamemnon: Little Blue Book No. 889
Girard, KA: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1925. 32mo.; stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 64 pages; wraps are chipped, sunned and soiled else very good. More
British on Broadway: Backstage and Beyond - The Early Years
Watchet, Somerset, England : Barbican Press (1999). 1st edition; wide 8vo, black paper covered boards, hardcover; 106 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; “Follow the Footsteps of the Legendary Knights, Irving, Olivier and Cowaard. A Guide to the British Invasion of Broadway Including Walks through New York’s Theatreland;” signed: “Elizabeth..... More
Let's Dance. Popular Music in the 1930s
NY: Oxford Univ. Press 1998. 1st edition; 8vo., hardcover cloth; 241pages, ‘colorful year-by-year chronicle of music in the '30s, blended with chapters on broader topics - the jazz clubs on Swing Street, the Big Band boom - and spiced with interviews with major figures (such as Burton Lane and Lionel..... More
Yale Melodies A Collection of the Latest Songs Used by the Yale University Glee Club
New Haven: Thomas G. Shepard, 1903. First edition; small 4to. stiff wraps, softcover, 104 pages; a collection of 39 songs; from the index page: “The upper score, in which are written the First and Second Tenor parts, should always be played on an octive lower than it is written. In..... More
Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies 26th Edition
Los Angeles, CA: Ice Follies, 1962. 4to.; illustrated wraps, softcover; 23 pages; black and white and color illustrations; lightly edgeworn and creased else very good. More
Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies of 1953 Now Present Their 17th Annual Edition
Los Angeles, CA: Ice Follies, 1953. 4to.; illustrated wraps, softcover; black and white illustrations; soiled and lightly edgeworn else very good. More
Ballets de Paris. De Roland 1950-1951
NY: Ballets De Paris / Program Publishing Co., 1950. 4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; (14) pages; b&w illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Kentucky Traveler : My Life in Music
NY: HarperCollins, 2013. First Edition; 8vo; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 335 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dustjacket. More
The Pied Pipers Of Rock 'n' Roll. Radio Deejays Of The 50s And 60s
Marietta, Ga.: Longstreet Press (1989). Stated First Edition; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 300 pages; black and white illustrations; a very clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a similar dustjacket. More
Norman Treigle...A Man Remembered
NY: New York City Opera Guild, 1975. Small 4to.; illustrated wraps with stapled binding, softcover; black and white photographic illustrations; A Memorial Tribute to Norman Treigle program laid in; small creases at spine end else very good. More
The Metropolitan Opera A Guide
NY: The Metropolitan Opera Guild (1982). First edition; red velour covered flexible boards with gilt lettering, softcover; 128 pages; color photographic illustrations; very good. More
The Civil War In Motion Pictures
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1961. Small 4to.; stiff wraps, softcover; 109 pages; a bibliography of motion pictures portraying the Civil War; sunned else a very good clean, tight copy. More
Prima Donnas and Soubrettes of Light Opera and Musical Comedy in America
Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1900. 12mo; green and gilt decorative cloth covered boards; small hardcover; 270 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; boards are edge rubbed with spine ends and corners beginning to fray and white rub marks on back cover else a fine, clean, unmarked, tight copy..... More
Petrouchka
NY: Random House (1940). small 4to. pictorial boards. Illustrated by Alexandre Serebriakoff. very good in very good dust jacket. More
Broadway Sheet Music: A comprehensive listing of published music from Broadway and other stage shows, 1918-1993.
Jefferson NC/London: McFarland & Co, 1996. 8vo; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 449 pages; former owner’s initials on front free endpaper and tape on endpapers else a good, clean, tight copy. More
Marionettes Onstage!
NY: Harper & Row (1975). Stated 1st ed. 4to. 243 pp. brown pictorial boards, hardcover; a very good clean tight copy in rubbed dust jacket. More
Coming Next Week. A Pictorial History of Film Advertising.
NY: Castle Books in assoc with A. S. Barnes and Co. sm. 4to; paper covered boards, hardcover; 303 pages; b&w photographic illustrations;a good, clean, tight copy in a sunned and edgechipped dustjacket. More
The Way to Tin Pan Alley American Popular Song, 1866-1910
NY: Schirmer Books/A Division of Macmillan, Inc. (1990). First printing with a 1 present in the number line; Small 4to; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 296 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. More