THEATER from Monroe Bridge Books

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988 xv, [1], 630pp, hard cover with gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, NO INSCRIPTIONS, NOR LABELS. Remainder mark.

1) With a double page colour illustration from David Gentleman. 2) With double page colour photograph of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, Stratford-On-Avon, Warwickshire. Photograpgh courtesy of the British Travel and Holidays Association.

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1988 246pp, [1], printed on fine glossy paper, bound in illustrated glossy stiff paper covers, with the binding and hinges tight, color and b/w illustrations throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

Lehman Engel (1910-1982) was an American Composer, and Conductor of Broadway Musicals, TV Shows and Film. The card Reads " Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year, Lehman Engel. With the card depicting The Nativity, an engraving by Albrecht Durer. Card exterior is age darkened, with two staples on the back portion, no envelope present.

New York City, 1934 Chamberlain Brown was an actor, producer of Broadway plays, an actor's agent, publisher of theatrical publications, as well as hosting radio shows. He represented many prominent clients including Rudolph Valentino, Helen Hayes, Alfred Lunt, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, along with others. This is an 8-1/2" by 11" letter typed on Brown's letterhead, dated Nov.… Read more about this item

London: Pollock's Toy Theatres and Toy Museum Oblong format, unpaginated. Two thin leaves provide Instructions, Flowers that one can paint, Title Page and Advertising. Two hard stock leaves provide the scene's characters. The front and back covers are also on hard stock, with the front and back covers providing four flowers which can be cut out and… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1854 With the armorial bookplate of Alexander Stewart Hincks, Lieutenant in the 3rd West India Regiment, who then went on to become Captain of the 76th Hindoostan Regiment, retiring in 1868. [4], Frontispiece, 663pp, [1], bound in three quarter leather and marbled paper, with raised bands on the spine. Covers are rubbed,… Read more about this item

New York: The Japan Society, 1933 Limited to 1000 Copies. NOH THEATRE. 35pp, [5], bound in paper over boards, with a mounted label on the front cover [no chips], binding and hinges are tight. With four colour and one black/white plates. Reprinted from The Perfume of the Rainbow by L. Adams Beck (1923). Extensive foxing on… Read more about this item

Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co., 1881 Oblong format, frontispiece, 154pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in illustrated stiff paper covers, with the binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. Covers are in Good Condition, showing upper/lower spine wear. Interior in Very Good Condition. Now housed in a protective mylar sleeve.

London: Griffith Farran Okeden and Welsh, 1891 Translated From the Norwegian by Henrietta Frances Lord, New Edition, Revised. xii, 108pp, bound in green cloth, with the binding and hinges tight. Penciled notation inside the front cover "Purchased in Rye, Sussex at the Landgate Bookshop while attending a Ghost Club weekend at the Mermaid Inn, 20th April 1990". … Read more about this item

1951 This is the program for "A New Musical Comedy Based on Booth Tarkington's Seventeen". Presented by Milton Berle, Sammy Lambert and Bernie Foyer. Staged by Hassard Short, starring the original cast of Sally Benson, Walter Kent and others. It opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway in New York City on June 21, 1951 for 182… Read more about this item

NY: Autonomedia, 2000 Oblong format, 96pp, bound in stiff paper covers, binding and hinges tight, with photographic illustrations throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Covers curled.

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1869 [5], 180pp, [17], bound in half cloth and paper over boards, binding and hinges tight, illustrated. Covers show paper peel, interior shows a few pencil markings, occasional light foxing.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1979 120pp, bound in purple cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. The dust jacket is price-clipped, and housed in a protective mylar cover. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

NY: Brentano's, 1905 Previously owned by Sydney Shields (1888-1960) American stage actress, with her signature on the front free endpaper. xxxvii, [3], 244pp, printed on laid paper, bound in green cloth, paper spine label shows flaking, front hinge starting, binding tight. The covers are age darkened and soiled, with edge wear/tear.

NY: A Mentor Book from New American Library, 1970 158pp, [2], bound in original stiff paper covers, with the binding and hinges tight, illustrated with photographic plates. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Cover rubbed, with creases.

Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1970 xvi, 120pp, bound in creme cloth, with the gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. A book on Javanese Shadow Play / Puppets. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper "Harrison Parker", a Western Massachusetts historian. The Dust Jacket is NOT price-clipped, shows edge chips, and is now… Read more about this item

London: Pollock's Toy Theatre, 1963 Also includes "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Aladdin is adapted from an old Toy Theatre play, published over a hundred years ago. The Characters and scenery show what the "Grand Romantic Spectacle" of Aladdin looked like when it was performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1826.… Read more about this item

Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd., 1978 Text is in English. 28pp, bound in stiff paper covers, with photographic illustrations throughout. Includes: *The Chushingura Theme *Yanone *Sado Chushingura *Cho No Michiyuki from "Keisei Yamato Zoshi" *Satsuki-Yami Utsunoya Toge *Yasaku No Kamabara *Kyo Kanoko Musume Dojoji and *Sonezaki Shinju. Light foxing to covers… Read more about this item

New York: Selznick / Greenstone, 1944 Starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Walker, Hattie McDaniel, Nazimova, Keenan Wynn, Gordon Oliver, Agnes Moorhead, Albery Basserman, Guy Madison, and Craig Stevens. Unpaginated stapled booklet, printed on fine glossy paper, printed to be sold at the theaters. Showing full page photos of the… Read more about this item