Na arene i vokrug nee by Bugromova Irina - 1986

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 2000 copies signed by Leonard Baskin, illustrator, with introduction by Irma Jaffe. A lovely copy bound in gray paper covered boards, paper labels to upper board and spine, with LEC letter laid in. in slipcase. Fine.

Works Projects Administration, 1939. Softcover. Good. The hard-to-find Volume 13, Minstrelsy, of the notable ca. 1939 WPA San Francisco Theater Research series. This volume presents an extensive history of regional San Francisco minstrelsy from its earliest days. Illustrated with 19 historical photos of performers, some in blackface. Contents include discussions of blackface. Numerous appendices. Scarce. 301 pp. 10 3/4" x 8 3/8". Tight, unmarked copy with light shelf wear and minor loss to bottom right corner of front panel. Light staining along margins of front panel spine and bottom. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

New York: Vintage Books, 1985. Softcover, mass market paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Tucked in front is a publisher's compliments card signed by Hoffman in black marker. First thus, 97 pages, b/w performance stills. Early work about HIV/AIDS, a medical documentary account of an AIDS victim's suffering, explores the effects of AIDS on a gay male couple in a detached world of insensitive families and doctors. The play deals with the epidemic's impact on the national consciousness and conscience and asks the larger existential questions. Winner of the 1985 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and recipient of 3 Tony Award Nominations. Top corner and base of spine lightly bumped. Hoffman, 1939-2017, was a lifelong New Yorker who was widely known throughout the theatrical community and enjoyed a long career as a playwright.

New York, 1879. No binding. Good/No Jacket. Henry J. Johnson. Steel engravings by Henry J. Johnson salvaged from a partial destroyed copy of The Collected Works of William Shakespeare published in 1879. Included are brothers Henry & Thomas Placide as The Two Dromios; Mr. Warren as Lance from Two Gentlemen of Verona; James E. Murdoch as Petruchio from Taming of the Shrew; Mr. & Mrs. Burton as Sir Toby Belch and Maria from Twelfth Night; Mr. & Mrs. Charles Kean as King John & Lady Constance; Edwin Forrest as Richard III and Coriolanus; sisters Charlotte & Susan Cushman as Romeo & Juliet; Mr. Jamieson as Brutus from Julius Caesar; and E. L. Davenport as Hamlet. Some of the prints still have the original tissue attached. They are in good condition generally, with some worn and darkened edges. Scarce in any condition, these could use a gentle hand and a little TLC. Each print measures 7"" x 10"" and depicts a famous 19th century actor or pair portraying characters from Shakespeare's plays. There is an… Read More

Near Very Good condition with a brief note in pen to the corner of the front cover "Visited with EGB Saturday, 17 November 1923". No other inscriptions. Includes cast list and period advertisements.The play introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. It premiered in Prague in 1921 and was translated from Czech into English by Paul Selver in 1922. The American première was at the Garrick Theatre in New York City on October 9th, 1922, where it ran for 184 performances, a production in which Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien played robots in their Broadway debuts. London first saw the play at St. Martin's Theatre on April 24th, 1923, a production that included Basil Rathbone as "Harry Domain". Capek first utilised the word 'robot' (from the Czech robota) to refer to a mechanical humanoid machine, displacing older words such as "automaton" or "android" in languages around the world. Karel Čapek named his brother Josef as the true inventor of the word. Isaac Asimov,… Read More

London: Robinson, and Longman and Rees, 1803. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Leather Hardcover/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Rebacked; Full calf, with four spine bands and leather title labels, edges speckled red. The bindings are very firm and square. Minor shelf handling. Text clean. Even toning to text. Occasional soiling/staining throughout. 8vo; xv, 393 pp. 21 by 13 cm (8.25 by 5 inches) First Edition, First Printing.. Edmund John Eyre was an English dramatist who left university to join a theater troupe. He became first a comedian, then an actor who appeared at Drury Lane. Full Title: Observations Made At Paris During The Peace; And Remarks In A Tour From London To Paris Through Picardy, And To England By The Route Of Normandy; Containing A Full Description Of Every Object Of Curiosity In The French Metropolis And Its Environs; A Critical Review Of The Theatres, Actors, &c. And Every Interesting Particular That May Serve As Useful Companion To The Stranger, And… Read More

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

New York: Atheneum, 1974. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Atheneum. Association copy, signed and inscribed on the first leaf by Keith McDermott to Andrea/Andrew. McDermott, born in 1953, made his Broadway debut (1974-1977) as Alan Strang in Equus opposite Richard Burton as the doctor. This plum role for a young man proved to be McDermott's acting break. The play is a psychological thriller set in a hospital, where a psychiatrist examines a young man who maims horses. Book club edition/BCE. 99 pages. Loss to jacket spine, other darkening and chips.

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

London: Constable, 1930. Hardback. Very Good. Uniform English Edition". 8vo, pp. [vi], [390], [2]. Fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bumped, bands of sunning to top and bottom edges. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, review clipping laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original muted brown paper dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned and creased, head of spine frayed, wear to extremities. Still, a pleasing copy. Very good/ very good. Unusual in the trade. Originally published in 1916 by John Lane in New York and London, Constable's new edition featured an additional four plays, 'Phantasmagoria,' 'The Court of Progress,' 'The Dream' and 'The Hand of the Potter'. The laid in review draws attention to the cinematic facets of the playwright's work: "Mr. Theodore Dreiser's collection of plays is a reminder of the films' continuous and increasing influence upon the theatre. This influence is neither wholly good nor wholly bad; its effect depends upon the innate quality of… Read More