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BOOK CATEGORY: Drama/Theater Six Years of Drama at the Castle Square Theatre: With Portraits of the Members of the Company and Complete Programs of All Plays Produced Description: 406 pp. Includes photographs and thumbnail biographies of the principle actors and actresses, indicies of portraits and sketches, and of plays and programs. Each weekly listing includes the play presented and its author; the cast of charactors, a synopsis of scenery and the program of music. Several items found laid into the book are included: a 4 page Souvenir of Mr. Howell Hansel's Testimonial: Castle Square Theatre: Tuesday, April 23, 1907. Also a 3 1/2" by 6 1/4" card sent to the winner of a Green Trading Stamp promotion. She won 100 stamps for having come the closest in guessing the weekly attendance at the theatre (14,791!) The card has the theatre letterhead in green, but is not dated. A number of photographs cut from Boston papers and magazines are also included. Green cloth with sepia paper label pasted in ornamental white oval on front. Titles in black on front and on spine. Spine is faded. Balderston, John L. Berkeley Square. A Play in Three Acts Description: 124 pp. Frontispiece of original set designed by Edwin Lutyens. Top corners slightly bumped. Bost, James S Monarchs of the Mimic World or The American Theatre of the Eighteenth Century Through the Managers-The Men Who Made It Description: xvii, 194, vi pp, including index. Tan cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Dustjacket lightly rubbed, lightly sunned. Botto, Louis At This Theatre. An Informal History of New York's Legitimate Theatres Description: xi, 260 pp. Offwhite cloth; profusely illustrated with photos. INSCRIBED by the author. This copy comes with 25 of At This Theatre pages for various theaters from Playbill Magazine (loose). Carroll, Paul Vincent The White Steed and Coggerers Description: 190 pp. Turquoise cloth, winged horse on front panel and title on spine stamped in silver. Frontispiece photograph by Carl Van Vechten. The play was well received by New York critics on its initial run. Dustjacket has a little edge wear, soiling. Craig, Edward Gordon Craig. The Story of His Life Description: 398 pp. Red cloth, titles gilt on spine. Craign was one of the great innovators of stage design. With bibliography, index, photos, line drawings. Elliott, Eugene Clinton A History of Variety-Vaudeville in Seattle from the Beginning to 1914 Description: 83, [7]. Elliott's 1941 Master's thesis was published in 1944 as Number One in the University of Washington series Publications in Drama. Illustrated with 8 black and white plates, with appendices, bibliography and index. Appendix II is of particular interest , consisting of lists of entertainments offered between 1852 and 1882, giving the artists with descriptions of their acts. Previous owner's name stamped on front cover and written on front pastedown. Emory, William Closson Glory: A Play in One Brief Act Description: 24, [4] pp. Special limited edition of 75 copies printed on hand-made paper, numbered and signed by the author. Play with 3 unseen characters set in a field hospital near the front lines of an unspecified battle. The message is sadly appropriate for today; witness these lines from the character in cot 3: "Willy's arms are gone...How is Willy going to live. Someone will feed him. Someone will take care of him. I know because they told us so before we left. We'll take care of you boys when you come back. You boys. You heros." Attractively bound in quarter blue linen with decorative red, green, and gilt paper-covered boards. Gilt title on spine, paper label on front. Small tear in linen on front shoulder, and wear to edges of paper and corners. GVG Flexner, Eleanor. With a Preface by John Glassner American Playwrights: 1918 - 1938. The Theatre Retreats from Reality Description: xx, 332 pp. With index, author biography. Gray cloth, gilt decorations and spine title on red label. Newspaper clipping of book review laid in. SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page. Geddes, Virgil Four Comedies From the Life of George Emery Blum Description: 166 pp. Includes: In the Tradition, I Have Seen Myself Before, The Drink in the Body, By the Soul You May Bury. Green cloth; light sunning to spine and bottom edges of boards. Yellow dustjacket has lightly sunned spine and tattered edges but is complete and clean. Gergely, Emro Joseph Hungarian Drama in New York, American Adaptations 1908-1940 Description: 197 pp with index. Red cloth, gilt spine. Gift inscription on ffep, very lightly sunned spine. Creased dustjacket has light edge wear. Hellman, Lillian et al Candide: A Comic Operetta Based on Voltaire's Satire Description: 143, [1] pp. Book by Lillian Hellman. Score by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics by Richard Wilbur. Other lyrics by John Latouche and Dorothy Parker. Black & white pictorial half title and title pages with 2 production stills. Includes opening night cast list from Dec. 1, 1956 production. Photograph of Max Adrian as Dr. Pangloss tipped onto front board. Kennedy, Adrienne Deadly Triplets. A Theatre Mystery and Journal Description: xi, 125 pp. Purple cloth, initials on half-title. Pictorial dustjacket has light edge wear. Koch, Frederick H. Carolina Folk-Plays Description: xxix, 160, [8] pp. Includes 6 black and white photographs from the original productions, and appendix. The introduction by Koch, founder of the Dakota Playmakers [Grand Forks, North Dakota] and the Carolina Playmakers, details his efforts to develop a new native theater in America. Five one-act plays by various authors with illustations from their productions. The first book from a series of three collections of folk-plays edited by Koch. Kuhns, Richard The House, the City, and the Judge: The Growth of Moral Awareness in the Oresteia Description: xi, 164 pp. Includes frontispiece, appendex, bibliography and index. Dustjacket frayed and torn at edges, color scraped in spots on both front and back. NF/GVG Lewis, Hilda Here Comes Harry Description: 262 pp. NOT ex-library! Rose cloth with pictorial cover. Dustjacket is not price-clipped, has a little edge wear. Maeterlinck, Maurice The Betrothal or The Bluebird Chooses - A Fairy Play in Five Acts Being a Sequel to The Blue Bird Description: [xx], 222 pp. Embossed green cloth, title gilt. Dustjacket sunned, with 1"x1" chip at lower front corner, not affecting lovely illustration by Herbert Paus. McCarron, Captain William E. A Bicentennial Edition of Thomas Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia, A Tragedy (1765) Description: iv, 140 pp. Contains a critical introduction to Godfrey and his work, and the full text of the play using the 1918 Moses edition as the copy text. Includes appendices, bibliography, and footnotes to the critical introduction. Thomas Godfrey was born in Philadelphia in 1736 and orphaned at the age of 13. Benjamin Franklin was a close associate of his father, and became a mentor as did the painter Benjamin West. After a well-rounded education, Godfrey went on to write poetry and his tragedy, The Prince of Parthia, the first tragic play written by a native-born American, the first published in America, and the first play by an American to be performed professionally. Stapled wrappers yellowing along the edges. Smith, Sidney Goodsir The Wallace: A Triumph in Five Acts Description: x, 180 pp. Includes appendix and postscript. The play was presented on a BBC Scottish Service broadcast in November 1959. From the Library of Edward "Sandy" Ives, writer, singer, anthropologist, and authority on the folksongs and folklore of Maine and Maritime Canada, with his name on the ffep. See our Catalog "Ives, Edward" for more books from his collection. Very slight slant to spine, else near fine. Dustjacket price intact, with minimal fading on spine and 2 closed tears, else VG. Stevens, Ashton; Markey, Gene The Colonel's Lady : A Sketch in One Act Description: unpaginated. Colophon: "Hand-set in Kennerly old style type; printed on Cortlea ivory paper; hand-bound. This edition limited to 300 copies, of which 200 are for sale." Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Olive green floral figured paper over boards. Ivory paper label with titles printed in red pasted on front panel. Glue stain on front pastedown. Storms, A.D The Players Blue Book Description: 304 pp. Each entry consists of a brief biography and b&w portrait of the actor or actress. Includes index. Many of the players, like Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Marie Dressler and Mabel Howard went on to careers in film. Corners worn, and hinges starting. Vivid blue cloth slightly darkened on spine; an attractive copy despite these flaws. Thomas, Dylan. Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices. Description: Rolph #B22. Frontispiece dampstained along top edge, slight yellowing from age. Dustjacket worn along edges. Thomas, Dylan. The Beach of Falesa. Description: Attractive red cloth backed yellow paper-covered boards with Thomas' signature stamped in gilt. Screen play based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Thomas, Dylan. Me and My Bike. Description: 1st edition, limited. One of 500. Illustrated by Leonora Box. Fragment of a screenplay written in autumn of 1948. Fine, in Fine dust jacket . With original slipcase in fair condition, lightly soiled, a 1-1/2" closed tear at spine, a tear through center of spine flap with piece detached but present, chip at thumb notch. Wesker, Arnold The Wesker Trilogy; Chicken Soup with Barley - Roots - I'm Talking About Jerusalem Description: 224 pp. The plays were first presented as a trilogy at the Royal Court Theatre in London in the summer of 1960. Winter, Keith The Shining Hour: A Play in Three Acts Description: 156 pp. In 1934 Gladys Cooper made her Broadway debut with Raymond Massey and Adrianne Allen in the play. Joan Crawford saw the play and asked L.B. Mayer to buy it for her. The MGM film of the same name came out in 1938. Dust jacket has overall soiling, faded spine and small tears to edges. NF/G |
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