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Jeanne Darc Sarah Bernhardt, Les Maitres de l'Affiche Pl. 174
by Grasset, Eugene
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- Used - Fine
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- First edition
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- 1899
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$250.00
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Paris: L'Imprimerie Chaix, 1899. First edition. Print. Fine. Joan of Arc holding a banner in a hail of arrows. Grasset worked as a book illustrator and poster designer in Paris towards the end of the 19th century. His work brought him into contact with the Montmartre circle of artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Image size varies on paper… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
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[Bill-Poster's Dream] with advertisements for "Quick Passage to Australia!!" and "To California via the Overland Route"
by [Australia; California; New York City] Derby, C. H.
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- Used
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- 1866
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$2,750.00
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New York: Lith. of Chas. Hart, 99 Fulton Street, 1866. A rare print illustrating a New York City street scene. A bill poster sleeping in the lower right leaning against a street lamp; and young woman adjusting her shoes on the left. On a wall stating "Post No Bills" there is a panoply of handbills. The handbills are a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The London Review: A Moral Pantomime ... with a Coloured Representation of the Characters and Two Scenes ... with Directions for Setting Up a Theatre. Complete with the folding illustration sheet and pamphlet
by [Theater; Childrens] Darton, Harvey & Albert Rutherston
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- First printing
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- 1923
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- Pamphlet
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$225.00
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London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. Ltd, 1923. First printing. Pamphlet. Otherwise very good condition. A two act play intended for juvenile players published by Darton with practical theater instruction by Rutherston, printed by the Chaucer Press. OCLC: 317346085 complete w pamphlet and large color poster of sets and characters. The pamphlet includes additional plays entitled, "A List… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
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An Ideal Husband
by Wilde, Oscar, the author of Lady Windermere's Fan
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- Used - Good + overall
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- First edition
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- 1899
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$750.00
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London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. A limited printing of the first edition (1000).
In 1996, critic Bindon Russell wrote in "The Wildean" that "An Ideal Husband" is "the most autobiographical of Wilde's plays, mirroring, as it does, his own situation of a double life and an incipient scandal with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Costumes Francais depuis Clovis Jusqu'a Nos Jours, Extraits des Monuments les Plus Authentiques de Sculpture et de Peinture, Aven un texte historique et descriptif..
by Mifliez, David
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- 1846
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$1,500.00
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Paris: Mifliez, Passage Vendome, 1846. A four volume set of French costumes with 640 impressive color plates, 'with notes on the origin of French fashion, design and uses at various periods of the monarchy."
Dates of the volumes: v1 1846; v2 1845; v3 1838; v4 1846.
4 vols., 8vo, red leather spines with marbled boards, marbled endpapers.… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
An Evening with Sigmund Romberg and his concert Orchestra. Season 1950 concert
by [Music; Romberg, Sigmund]
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1950
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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New York: Program Publishing Company, 1950. Very good condition. Signed by Romberg. Sigmund Romberg [1887-1951] was a Hungarian-born American composer, most known for his musicals and operettas.
This is a 16 page Program for a concert with soloist singers: Gene Marvey, Kirsten Kenyon, Gail Manners and Christina Carroll, under the baton of Sigmund Romberg, signed in blue… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Singin' in the Rain movie still of Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly, signed
by Kelly, Gene & Debbie Reynolds; Cinema
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- Used - Very good condition
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- Photogaph
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$95.00
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Photogaph. Very good condition. A color movie still of Reynolds and Kelly with umbrella and rain gear, with Gene Kelly's signature. 8 x 10". With a receipt from Paul Hartunian Autographs, 1996. Item Price
$95.00
Echo, The Magazine you Play on Your Phonograph, Vol. 1, #3
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- Used - Very good condition overall
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- 1960
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- Pamphlet
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$100.00
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New York: Echo Magazines, 1960. Pamphlet. Very good condition overall. 6 high fidelity records featuring Mary Martin, Kingston Trio, Brigitte Bardot, France Nuyen, Eva Gabor, Siobhan McKenna, Brendan Behan, Shelley Berman, Trapp Family Singers, Fiorello La Guardia.
Oblong 8vo, black and orange paper cover with plastic tabs as binding. A mark on cover. Item Price
$100.00
Rosie Rifle & Co., The Girlie with the Iron Nerve's, photograph
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- nd
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$275.00
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Bert K.S., nd. Promotional still photograph of Rosie Rifle, with her signature curls and pearls. The manuscript caption on verso, "Rosie Rifle & Co. The Girlie with the Iron Nerve's".
Rosie Rifle was a professional Australian sharpshooter who worked throughout New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia as a vaudeville performer for Harry Rickards' Tivoli Theatres and Fullers'… Read more about this item Item Price
$275.00
The Shepard Family Band. Albumen photo cabinet card with a blank verso
by [Music; Photograph]
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1890
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$65.00
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1890. Very good condition. A cabinet card for the Shepard Family Band. The family toured and performed throughout the Northeast in the 1880s and 1890s, with each family member performing with brass instruments as well as string and vocal compositions. Originally they hailed from New York, and eventually settled in Vermont.
The family consisted of: Mr. J.… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
Punch and Judy show, die-cut scrap
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1840
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$175.00
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London?, 1840. Ephemera. Very good condition. A hand colored copper engraved scrap of a Punch and Judy show, with an audience of 11 children and adults. Cut out precisely to the outlines of people and stage. 9 x 7" at its largest, glue evidence on verso. Item Price
$175.00
John Woodall: Tools of Performance
by Woodall, John
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1989
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$75.00
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Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1989. Very good condition. Unusual catalog for exhibition that took place December 1988 - February 1989 at the Temporary Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA.
7 x 4", accordion fold with metal covers, 10 panels with b&w photographs, includes 7 x 4" accordion Exhibition checklist, lacking wrap around band.… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Molly Picon, signed photograph
by Picon, Molly; Rappaport Studios
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1937
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$100.00
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New York: Rappaport Studios, 1937. Very good condition. An 8 x 10" b&w glossy still of the actress Molly Picon, dressed in costume for the play "Bublichki". Picon [1898-1992] was a star of Yiddish theater, stage and film, vaudeville and later Hollywood. Her comedic and memorable performances helped to bring Yiddish culture into the mainstream. She is well… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday on Saturday Night
by [Jolson, Al; Blackface] Lewis, Sam., & Joe Young. Music Geo. W. Meyer
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1916
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$50.00
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New York: Waterson Berlin and Snyder, 1916. Ephemera. Very good condition. As sung by Al Jolson. The cover illustration is of a black man with a goat, with a bottle of liquor attached to its collar. Piano Score & Lyrics. Folio, 6pp, cover illustration by Barbelle, orange and black. Slt edgewear, otherwise vg. LOC Classification 53/3595. Item Price
$50.00
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Robespierre program from the Royal Lyceum Theatre
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1899
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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London, 1899. Ephemera. Very good condition. A program from the opening night of Robespierre, a play by Victorien Sardou. Starring Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. An enthusiastic audience member has hand written, "In memory of the first night of Robespierre April 15, 1899." on front cover, and additional comments inside, pllus a newspaper clipping review of the play.… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Noted American Actress, Miss Anderson with noted English Actress, Mrs. Stirling, photograph
by Anderson, Mary
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$75.00
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London: W & D Downey. Ephemera. Very good condition. A photograph of Miss Anderson, borrn 1859 in Louisville, KY, who performed with famed British actress Mrs. Stirling.
3.5 x 5.5" tipped onto stiff paper, with caption. Photo b&w, vgc on slt. dusty card. Item Price
$75.00
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The Downfall and Death of King Oedipus. A Drama in Two Parts. Chiefly Taken from the Oedipus Tyrannus and Colonaeus of Sophocles. The Inter Act Choruses are from Potter
by Sophocles; Fitzgerald, Edward; Robert Anning Bell (bookplate)
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1881
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$375.00
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Guilford: Billing and Sons, 1881. Hardcover. Very good overall. A scarce volume with a handsome Robert Anning Bell designed bookplate for Emily Stevens Ladenburg [1865 - 1937]. Emily was the wife of banker Adolph Ladenburg, co-founder in 1876 of the American merchant bank Ladenburg Thalmann. Bound by Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge.
Slim 8vo, 46pp, (1) viii (&)… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
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Carolina Folk Plays: Second Series. (The Return of Buck Gavin, the Tragedy of a Mountain Outlaw.)
by Koch, Frederick,( Edited ) with: Wolfe, Thomas
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- Used - Good + overall
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- First edition
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- 1924
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$145.00
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. The first known appearance in a book by Thomas Clayton Wolfe in the form of his play "The Return of Buck Gavin, the Tragedy of a Mountain Outlaw." Wolfe also played the lead in the 1919 first stage production and this book includes a photo… Read more about this item Item Price
$145.00
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Three ALS letters, to Ernest Boyd, New York critic
by Dreiser, Theodore
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1924
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$450.00
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New York, 1924. Very good condition. Letters from Theodore Dreiser to his friend in New York, the critic Ernest Augustus Boyd (1887-1946), all signed.
The first letter is a full page hand written letter on printed letterhead, dated March 12, 1924, apologizing for missing an engagement because Dreiser was "down with a fierce cold", and signed… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
The Biography of Mdlle. Rachel, with Contemporary Criticisms by the Most Eminent Writers, and Analytical Notices of the Characters in her Repertoire
by [Theater] Darcie, John ed
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- Used - Good condition
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- 1855
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- Wraps
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$75.00
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New York: John Darcie & Wardle Corbyn, 1855. Wraps. Good condition. Pamphlet promoting Rachel Felix (1821 - 1858) popular French tragedienne and mistress of Napoleon III, to a New York audience. With frontispiece heliograph b&w portrait of the actress titled "Rachel dans Phedre".
Tall 8vo, frontispiece, 22pp. In the original blue printed wrappers. Wrappers dusty, chipped… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
