Theater from Carnegie Hill Books

Stamford, CT: Stamford Community Arts Council, 1984. Octavo. 20 pp. Stapled wraps. VG, a clean unmarked copy. cover toned along spine, light soil. A tribute to playwright Maxwell Anderson on the world premiere of his play "Masque of Queens" on October 1, 1984 by The Maxwell Anderson Playwrights series at Stamford's Ethel Kweskin Sterling Barn Theatre. Includes proclamation of Maxwell… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Pollock's Toy Theatres Ltd, 1972. Oblong quarto. [24] pp; four full-page color plates. Illustrated paper wraps. VG, an clean unmarked copy; small black smudge on back cover. Text in five languages - English, French, German, Italian and Dutch.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Warsaw: Arkady, 1983. Small folio. 31 pp text plus over 500 b/w & color illustrations; catalogue of illustrations; list of stage designers. Text in Polish & English. Black-lettered white cloth with dustjacket; errata slip laid in. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked interior; jacket has 0.75-in. loss at head & small loss at base of spine, moderate wear to extremities. An illustrated… Ler mais sobre este item

Jamaica, NY: Theatre Magazine Company, 1931. Small folio. 72 pp; numerous b/w photographs. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top & bottom corners wavy due to moisture, small loss near front cover bottom corner & first 4 pp where pages had been stuck together. The cover features Edith Barrett in Mrs. Moonlight by Franz Felix.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very… Ler mais sobre este item

Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press, 1931. First edition. Quarto. xvi, 95 pp; tipped-in color frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with small triangular tear on rear cover, spine ends lightly chipped, jacket lightly soiled.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Octavo. 583 pp. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/Good, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket spine toned with a few water stains, one side of spine taped on underside. This book contains a selection of Beerbohm's essays from his 12-year stint as dramatic critic of the Saturday Review, from 1898-1910. A lively decade of… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1962. Reprint of the 1956 Guilde Du Livre edition. Octavo. 165 pp; text in French. Paperback. VG, minor rubs and light soiling to covers, pages somewhat toned, some pages uncut. A very nice copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY & Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1940. Reprint. Octavo. 262 pp; frontispiece portrait photo of Eva at 33, numerous b/w photographs in text. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Lacks dustjacket. VG-. Signed by author. The first of two memoirs (published 19 years apart) written by the London-born American stage actress. First published in… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: New Directions, 1954. Sixth printing. Twelvemo. 107 pp. Paperback. VG, lightly soiled spine & back cover, light wear to spine ends, an unmarked copy. Completed just before his death at age 39, this is a moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coast town. Book design by Stefan Salter.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Octavo. 354 pp; b/w photos and illustrations; chart of Shakesperian plays performed; list of non-Shakesperian plays performed; notes; select bibliography; index. Cloth in priceclipped dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket. small closed tear to top edge and minor soiling evident on lighter portions of jacket, spine darkened.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: The Players, 1989. Octavo. 348 pp; color & b/w photographs. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt in illustrated slipcase. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Nicholson & Watson, 1947. First edition. Octavo. 76 pp; 8 color & 32 b/w photogravure plates & 6 charts. Original yellow cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, light chipping to top edge of jacket, with slightly bigger chips at top of spine & corners; wear to sides of backstrip and flap folds.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition. Octavo. xix, 407 pp; b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Letters written over the course of three decades shed light on Williams' works, his friends and colleagues, and his dependency on alcohol and drugs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945. First edition. Octavo. viii, 323 pp; color frontispiece [Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec], 32 pages of b/w plates from photographs and drawings; index. Original purple cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in dustjacket. VG/VG, top rear corner bumped; head of jacket spine chipped, small chips at corners, short tear at base of jacket spine, pp 303/304 has… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: The Fountain Press, 1931. Limited edition of 3000 copies. Octavo. xl, 370 pp. Green cloth with gilt decoration & border on cover and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt & deckle fore edges. Spine sunned, a few marks on covers, else a clean, tight copy. #1968/3000, printed by The Merrymount Press.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Berlin: Max Hesses, 1942. Quarto. 247 pp; profusely illustrated with color & b/w illustrations. Text in German. White cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering & drawing of the opera house on front cover. VG, minor wear to top corners, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Pictorial history of 200 years of the Berlin State Opera, with many hundreds of b/w… Ler mais sobre este item