Search Results: the autobiography of joseph jefferson by jefferson joseph

Century Co, 1890. hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Spine,cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Front joitn hows minor tearing. Front cover shows minor staining. Few pages shows minor staining. Pages shows minor tanning.

Century Co.. Trade Paperback. Good/None. white boards soiled and shelfworn

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964. Hardcover. Used - Good. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Copyright 1964. xxvi,363 pages. 40 illustrations. 9.5 x 6", cloth, dj. Dj edge tear, wear, VG/G.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1964. New Edition. Hardcover. DJ is worn, has darkened areas. .

Reinhardt & Evans, January 1949. Hardcover. Very Good - Cash/No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

New York: Century Co., 1890. Cloth Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Interior vg. (16)501pp. Index. Many full-page illustrations. Original vellum cloth binding with new cloth spine & original spine label. New endpapers. Ex-university library with blind stamps but no external marks. Promoting global literacy for over 30 years.

Appleton-Century-Crofts Book. Very Good. Hardcover. No date. Rubbing to cloth..

Appleton-Century-Crofts Book. Very Good. Hardcover. No date. Rubbing to cloth. Bookplate, name in ink..

Reinhardt & Evans, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1949. No Edition Stated. 375 pages. Blue dust jacket with purple lettering over maroon cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, large tears and loss to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine, with foxing and soiling to DJ.

New York: The Century Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1890. Hardcover. General wear to cover with some rubbing and some loss to back, previous owner's signature on front free end page, discoloration throughout, pages 489-492 and 493-496 unopened .

NY: The Century Company, 1889. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 23pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 11 drawings and portraits, including a full-page portrait with facsimile signature, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 1, November, 1889. This is the opening segment of the popular actor's autobiography and includes the sections My First Playhouse, Further Recollections of Childhood, Westward Ho, Chicago in 1839 - An Adventure in Springfield, Hard Times, James Wallack, Sr., the Elder Booth, Macready, and Our Voyage on a Flatboat. Illustrations include a view of the Old Jewish Burying-Ground at Pearl Street, near Chatham, New York City, and portraits of Tyrone Power as Corporal O'Conor, another of Power, Joseph Jefferson, Sr., Cornelia Jefferson as Jessica, Joseph Jefferson the grandfather, as Solus in Every One Has His Faults, James Wallack, Macready, Junius Brutus Booth as Richard the Third, and Booth again with facsimile signature. Scarce.… Read More

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 9pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, #1, May, 1890. Includes Australia, Melbourne, the Skeleton Dance, the Shepherd, an Australian Tragedy, a Terrible Audience. Housed in a mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 9pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 4 portraits of the subject as Rip Van Winkle, and one of Harry A Perry, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 6, April, 1890. Sections include Some Remarks on Guying, The Comedian's Disadvantage, The First Successful Star Comedian, How I Came to Play Rip Van Winkle, Failure in San Francisco, and Harry Perry. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, No. 6, October, 1890. The twelfth and final installment of the pre-publication serial appearance of the author's autobiography. Includes Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, John Drew, Charlotte Cushman, Mrs. Drake, Reflections on the Art of Acting, Preparation and Inspiration, Rehearsals, A Story of Burton, Should an Actor Feel his Part, Dramatic Writing, A Fault of French Acting, The Actors of Today, Imitation and Acting, Freshness in Playing a Part - A Story of Mrs. Warner and Macready, Learning to Act, Conversations Concerning Rip Van Winkle, Realism on the State, Playing Rip in the Catskills, and In Louisiana. Illustrations include a portrait of Barney Williams after a photograph by Bogardus, Mrs. Barney Williams after a photo by Mora, John Drew, John Drew in character as the Irish Emigrant, John… Read More

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 6 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, No. 4, August, 1890. Includes John Brougham, Tom Robertson, Artemus Ward, Edwin Adams, the Combination System, George D. Prentice, Tom Glessing, George Holland, Charles Fechter, once more in Paris, French acting, French and English painters, and English acquaintances. Portraits include Brougham as the O'Grady in Arrah Na Pogue, Robertson, Ward, Adams, Holland, and Fechter. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 6pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 2 full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, No. 2, June, 1890. Includes The Keans In Australia, and A Chinese Theater. Illustrations include Charles Kean as King Lear, and Mrs. Kean as Hermione. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 2 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, No. 3, July, 1890. Includes Callao, Lima, A Midnight Funeral, A Begger on Horseback, The Theater in Callao, A Religious Tableau, A Tropical City, Leaving South America, An Incident in Panama, The New Rip Van Winkle in London, and English Relatives. Illustrations include Paul Bedford, and Benjamin Webster. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 8 drawings including several full-page plates of actors including Jefferson in character, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, No. 5, September, 1890. Includes The Reverend Joseph Jefferson, Gainsborough, In Scotland, In Ireland, At Home Again, Talks with Charles Mathews, John B. Rice, The Rivals, and William Warren. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1889. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 7 portraits, and a portrait collage, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 2, December, 1889. Sections include Barn-Storming in Mississippi, Pudding Stanley, In Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Wallack, Jr., John E. Owens, Crossing the Alleghanies, My Friend the Scene Painter, William E. Burton, An Effort in Greek Tragedy, and Charles Burke. Portraits include Wallack and Mrs. Wallack, Owens, Owens in character as Solon Shingle, Burton as Doctor Ollapod, Burton as Captain Cuttle, Burke, and a collage of Burke as 7 different characters. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 4 portraits, pencil scribbles at a couple pages, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 4, February, 1890. Sections include Edwin Forrest, From London to Paris, An Early Comedy, and In The Second-Hand Shops. Portraits include Forrest about 1835, Forrest again from a bit later, with a facsimile signature, and full-page views of Forrest as Metamora, and King Lear. Housed in protective mylar report cover..