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Tales of Many Lands by [Tytler, Margaret Fraser] - 1845
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Writing in Restaurants
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Saint Joan. A Chronicle Play, in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
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Theatre Quarterly 1971 and 1972
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Cinemas of Australia Via USA
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Proserpine & Midas. Two Unpublished Mythological Dramas. Edited with a lengthy introduction by A.Koszul.
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Humphrey Milford, 'Oxford Library of Prose & Poetry' series, London, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 89pp. Gilt- and blind decorated green cloth. Some modest internal spotting. Spine a little damp-stained. A bright copy in the scarce dust wrapper, which is marked and fox-spotted and has been much repaired. Name of former owner neatly inked to the front pastedown..
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Lakeboat: A Play
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Dulcy; A Comedy in Three Acts
by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly ( with a Bow to Franklin P. Adams )
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Very Good, no jacket, tidy prior owner name top edge front end page, boards rubbed at the tips and lightly soiled. Introduction by Booth Tarkington, Lynn Fontanne frontispiece illustration by Neysa McMein. 4 B & W photographs within text. Text clean and unmarked, uncommon thus. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Porgy: A play in four acts
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London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the trade, though fairly well represented in British and Irish research libraries. 'With an Introduction on the American Negro in Art' by Du Bose Heyward. Publication of the British edition of the Heywards' play (plus other international editions) coincided with an eleven-week European tour of Porgy in spring 1929. It opened without previews on 10 April at His Majesty's Theatre, London and closed on 1 June 1929. While British theatre-goers welcomed the Porgy cast, with the opening night apparently receiving 12…
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The British Drama: A Collection Of The Most Esteemed Dramatic Productions, Volume 4...
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."
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Dr. Johnson: A Play
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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Thais (Universal Library)
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Anatole France. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library Edition. No date or statement on copyright page. Circa 1929. USED. VERY GOOD/GOOD ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Dust jacket has a bit of loss at top of spine. Glossy black boards with silver, green and black titling and ornamentation. Lime green endpapers. No frontispiece or any other photos appear in this edition. 5 7/8 X 8 ½. 154 pages. "Thais is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the 1890 novel "Thais" by Anatole France, a story of forbidden love. Cinema, Film History. Silent Film Era.
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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Old Theatre Days & Ways
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W.J. Lawrence. Old Theatre Days & Ways. First published 1935 by George Harrap & Co. Ltd., London. ANGLOPHILIA. THEATRE HISTORY. PERFORMING ARTS. BRITISH HISTORY. ISBN 9781131731827. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 256 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8. This copy is located in United States.
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Marilyn: A Biography
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This Book is by Pulitzer-Prize winning American Author, Norman Mailer. In this work, Mailer provides the written words while the photographs are provided by a list of noted photographers, whose names are in the frontispiece credits. Mailer carefully describes the life and personality of Marilyn Monroe, an American idol and actress, with all its complexities. It is a great read for both men and women. This is a First Printing from 1972.
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