Category: Performing Arts

Image for London Stage. A Collection of the Most Reputed Tragedies, Comedies, Melo-Dramas, Farces and Interludes. Accurately Printed From Acting Copies, As Performed at the Theatres Royal, and Carefully Collated and Revised. Four volume set.

London Stage. A Collection of the Most Reputed Tragedies, Comedies, Melo-Dramas, Farces and Interludes. Accurately Printed From Acting Copies, As Performed at the Theatres Royal, and Carefully Collated and Revised. Four volume set.

Price: $667.00

Publisher: london, Sherwood : 1825

Seller ID: 3340

Condition: Very Good

Four volumes handsomely bound in matching half red morocco over marbled boards.; Octavo; Additional images and further information provided upon request. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice

By: A. Berriedale Keith

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Oxford, The Clarendon Press : 1924

Seller ID: 3510

Condition: Very Good

Maroon cloth with gilt particulars to spine. Personal copy of University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Sanskrit Professor Royal W. Weiler whose name is neatly inscribed to the front fly. Second previous owner's name also inked to front fly. Half title beginning at head, otherwise, a very nice, clean copy without further markings. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Thirteen Trivandrum Plays Attributed to Bhasa. Translated into English. Volume I only.

By: Bhasa translated by A. C. Woolner and Lakshman Sarup

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1930

Seller ID: 3838

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth with gilt particulars to spine. The personal copy of Columbia and U. Penn Sanskrit professor Royal W. Weiler whose signature is neatly penned to front fly. With playbills for the production of "The Vision of Vasavadatta" by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theater Arts at the Library of Congress in 1963 loose to book. A very nice, clean copy.; Panjab University Oriental Publications; Vol. 13; Large 8vo ; [ix], [i], 200 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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One More Time: A Memoir [SIGNED by 36 CELEBRITIES, including Carol Burnett & Janet Leigh]

By: Carol Burnett

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1986

Seller ID: 7858

ISBN-13: 9780394552545

Condition: Fine

Signed by Carol Burnett, Jackie Joseph, Barbara Luna, Albert Haque, Jane Kean, Anne Jeffreys, Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Gisele MacKenzie, Margaret O'Brien*, Ruta Lee, Joni Berry, Shirley Mitchell, Jane Withers, Barbara Billingsley, Rap Taylor, Jack Carter, Onna White, Ken Berry, Don Crichton, Randy Donay, Fayard Nicholas, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Carrie and Jody (Carol Burnett's daughters, to whom the book is dedicated), Janis Paige, Grover Dale, Earl Holliman, Dom DeLuise, Janet Leigh, Frances Taylor David (wife of Miles Davis), Mr. Richard Blackwell, Nancy Olson, Donald O'Connor, John Byn...
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How I Broke into the Movies. By sixty famous screen stars. First edition.

By: Compiled and edited by Hal C. Herman

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hollywood, Hal C. Herman : 1929

Seller ID: 3117

Condition: Very Good

Scarce first edition. Blue cloth with bright gilt pictorial cover. A very nice, clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. 9" - 11" tall; 127 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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The Spotlight, No. 97 (Part 1 only) Casting Directory for Stage, Screen, Radio and Television

By: E. M. Mann et al.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, The Spotlight Ltd. : January 1956

Seller ID: 5168

Condition: Very Good

Red paper wraps with text to wraps and spine. Delineating tabs throughout to easily skip to certain sections. Sections include Artists' Managers & Agents, Theatre and Film, Acting (Men), and Commercial. Black and white photography throughout. xxvii, 862 pp. 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. First Edition.
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Image for Natyasastra [Natya Shastra] of Bharatamuni. With the commentary Abhinavabharati by Abhinavaguptacarya. Chapters 1-7. Illustrated. Volume I. Revised and critically edited with preface and appendices.

Natyasastra [Natya Shastra] of Bharatamuni. With the commentary Abhinavabharati by Abhinavaguptacarya. Chapters 1-7. Illustrated. Volume I. Revised and critically edited with preface and appendices.

By: Edited by M. Ramakrishna Kavi; revised and edited by K. S. Ramaswami Sastri

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Baroda, Oriental Institute : 1956

Seller ID: 3851

Condition: Very Good

Brown faux morocco; gilt particulars to spine. Some foxing along top edge. The personal copy of Columbia and U. Penn Sanskrit professor Royal W. Weiler whose signature is neatly penned to front fly. Foxing to half title and title paged. Otherwise, a very nice clean copy. ; Gaekwad's Oriental Series; Vol. 36; Large 8vo ; [ii], 64, 487 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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The Hairy Ape.

By: Eugene O'Neill

Price: $220.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright : 1929

Seller ID: 4175

Condition: Very Good

Numbered 677 of only 775 copies, 25 of which are hors commerce. Quarter black cloth over decorated paper. Gilt particulars to spine. Edges deckled. Black endpapers. Authors signature to limitations page. With nine illustrations by Alexander King; ghosting to pages opposite plates. An otherwise very nice, clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Large 8vo ; 114 pages.
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FINA Costumes Catalog 2003

By: FINA Costumes

Price: $160.00

Publisher: Patchogue, NY, FINA Costumes : 2003

Seller ID: 6879

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial glossy paper wraps with text. Full color photographs of costumes throughout. Genres are: KidZone; Tap/Jazz; Ballet; Thumbelina; Broadway; Glamour; Americana; Around the World; Character; Basics; and, Accessories. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. Wear to wraps and closed tear to bottom right corner of front wrap (see image). 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches.
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Memoirs of Goldoni Written by Himself. Forming a Complete History of his Life and Writings. In Two Volumes.

By: Goldoni as translated by John Black

Price: $215.00

Publisher: London, Hunt and Clarke : 1828

Seller ID: 3774

Condition: Very Good

London: Hunt and Clarke. Very Good. 1828. Attractively bound in half blind tooled calf over marbled paper. Gilt particulars to morocco spine labels. Five raised bands and elaborate gilt decorations to spines. All edges painted yellow. Some foxing to fore-edges extending to page edges, not affecting text. Bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. Otherwise, a nice clean set without further markings. ; 24mo ; xii, 284; 239, [i] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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A Bravura Air, Mandane, [with Bill for the opera Artaxerxes]

By: James Gillray

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, Hannah (H.) Humphrey : 1801/1803

Seller ID: 6530

Condition: Fine

Vibrantly hand-colored caricature of Elizabeth Billington during her performance in the role of Mandane for the opera Artaxerxes by Thomas Augustine Arne. Gillray here is satirizing Billington for the use of placing her hand on her bossom during moments that require more effort than others. (The British Museum, Curator M. Dorothy George's comments in object description, 1851,0901.1073.) This print is framed together with an advertisement bill for Arne's Artaxerxes to be performed Wednesday, 7th September, 1803. This performance was followed by a "new grand national pantomime" entitled Magic of...
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The Laird and Ither Kent Fouk and Gear (SIGNED by author)

By: Jeffrey Inglis

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Dundee, Scotland, A. B. Duncan & Co. : 1918

Seller ID: 7186

Condition: Very Good-

Signed by author to title page in June 15, 1922. Brown paper wraps with text and sewn binding. Written in Scottish Gaelic throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. 1/2 inch closed tear to top edge and crease to front wrap; light soiling to wraps (see image). 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition.
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John Waters: Change of Life [Signed by John Waters and Don Knotts]

By: John Waters

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc; New Museum of Contemporary Art : 2004

Seller ID: 7877

ISBN-13: 9780810943063

Condition: Fine

Signed by Waters to title page and actor Don Knotts to table of contents (on which several photos of him appear). Photographic cover. In publisher's original dust jacket, which has been encased in protective mylar. Contains 210 illustrations, 180 of which are in full color. Also includes letter from Book Soup advertising the book signing. Sticker to dust jacket which reads "Signed at Book Soup." Book is in Fine condition, with no previous owners' names or other markings. 0.5 x 12 inches. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Sylvan Press : 1945

Seller ID: 6518

Condition: Fine

Full midnight blue grained morocco with gilt emblem to front board and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; deckled edges. Marbled endpapers. Catalogue No. 24 of Editions de Luxe Limited, The Collector's Book Club. Introductory essays by George Rylands and Charles Williams. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. Full page black and white illustrations throughout. Pages bright and clean. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Book plate of Irving Belt to front pastedown, otherwise no previous owners' names or other markings. Light wear to exterior (see image). xxii, 88 pp. 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches.
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Image for Sakoontala; Or, the Lost Ring; an Indian Drama, Translated Into English Prose and Verse from the Sanskrit of Kalidasa. With letter from Williams to Edwin Arnold.

Sakoontala; Or, the Lost Ring; an Indian Drama, Translated Into English Prose and Verse from the Sanskrit of Kalidasa. With letter from Williams to Edwin Arnold.

By: Monier Williams

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Hertford, Stephen Austin : 1855

Seller ID: 3787

Condition: Very Good

Full mottled olive morocco. Front and back boards decorated with gilt roundel and corner floral designs. Author's autographed letter to Edwin Arnold inviting him to laying of cornerstone for the Indian Institute tipped in to front fly. Marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles & page edges. Occasional light foxing. Seventeen color plates. Red morocco label. ; Color Illustrations; Small 4to; xxviiii, 227,[1],24,[i] pages; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; Signed by Author; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Image for Album Lefevre-Utile, Premiere Serie. Les Contemporains celebres. Portraits, Autographes. Notices biographiques illustrees. Portraits humoristiques des celebrites contemporaines. With fourteen Leonetto Cappiello chromolithographed caricatures.

Album Lefevre-Utile, Premiere Serie. Les Contemporains celebres. Portraits, Autographes. Notices biographiques illustrees. Portraits humoristiques des celebrites contemporaines. With fourteen Leonetto Cappiello chromolithographed caricatures.

By: Paul Acker, Hermann Vogel, J-A Habert-Dys, Manuel Orazi, Alexis Fraikin, Leonetto Cappiello, & Alphonse Mucha,

Price: $580.00

Publisher: Paris, Octave Beauchamp. : 1904

Seller ID: 3555

Condition: Very Good

Cellulose inset cover medallion of Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine (after Mucha) enveloped by poppies on wood-veneered boards. Twenty-eight fin-de-siecle celebrities, each in photograph (by Nadar, Boyer, et al.) surrounded by colored art nouveau motifs (by Habert-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin) and facsimiles of autographed script. Included are Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, François Coppée, Mme Edmond Adam, Anatole France, Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès, Jules Lemaître, Mme Réjane, Jules Claretie, Mme Segond-Weber, Jean Richepin, Marthe Brandès, Coquelin aîné, Jeanne Granier, Jules Massenet...
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The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

By: Richard M. Isackes and Karen L. Maness

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, Regan Arts : 2016

Seller ID: 7990

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial cloth boards with accompanying slipcase. A very nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Colored and black/white photographs throughout. Case with book measures 11.5 x 14.75 in. First Edition.
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Kalidasa's Sakuntala; an ancient Hindu drama; critically edited, in the original Sanskrit and Prakrit of the Bengali recension

By: Richard Pischel

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press : 1922

Seller ID: 3532

Condition: Very Good

Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Very Good. 1922. Second Edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt particulars to spine. Copy of University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Sanskrit Professor Royal W. Weiler, whose name is neatly penned to front fly. Neat annotations in pencil and possible corrections in red ink occasionally throughout the book, primarily the first half. Penciled notations to rear pastedown. With epilogue by C. R. Lanman dated 1924 loose to book. With 16 pages of advertisements for the Harvard Oriental Series to rear of book. A nice copy without further markings. ; Harvard O...
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Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences [SIGNED]

By: Richard Pryor, Todd Gold

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books : 1995

Seller ID: 7856

ISBN-13: 9780679432500

Condition: Fine

Autographed by Richard Pryor through the use of a customized stamp, as well as hand-initialed on the title page. Due to his multiple sclerosis, Pryor used a stamp to autograph books; the stamp on the front fly is custom-made for the specific occasion of the signing and reads "Live on the Sunset Strip 6-10-95" in Pryor's handwriting. Stamped a second time to title page with Pryor's name. Additionally, his initials appear to be hand-written on the title page. Also signed by co-author Todd Gold to title page. In publisher's original dustjacket, which has been encased in protective mylar. Photogra...
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25ieme Anniversaire du Ballet National de Marseille

By: Roland Petit

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Marseille, Ballet National : 1997

Seller ID: 7117

Stiff white wraps with debossed emblem to cover. Full-page black-and-white photographs alongside French text captions chronicling the highlights of the Ballet National de Marseille from 1972 to 1997 in celebration of the Ballet's 25th anniversary. Pages bright and clean. No previous owners' names or other markings. 8 1/2 by 12 inches. Shipped through USPS Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Category: Performing Arts