Theater from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Los Angeles, CA: Balcony Press, 1997. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). color illustrations. ISBN 0964311968 136pp.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. PB. good++, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0918333113 352pp.

Beverly, MA: White Horse Productions, Inc, 1987. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. Great illustrations including some show poster examples. 28pp.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0226044785 Explores productions of Shakespeare both in the playwright's own time and in the succeeding centuries. 242pp.

Riverview Entertainment, 2009. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 9781935534921 "Drama and Comedies dealing with American history written to be performed on the Bridge Theater in Whitehall, New York." 289pp.

Putney, VT: Sandglass Theater, 2006. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Some Sandglass Theater ephemera laid-in. 92pp.

Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1909. HC. good++, decorated tan cloth (hardcover) lacks FFEP. James Montgomery Flagg ill.. Nice clean and tight copy. 282pp.

Gainesville, FL: Univ. Press of Florida, 2009. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 9780813033761 339pp.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1927. HC. very good+, blue cloth, teg (hardcover) no dustjacket. B&W illustrations. 206pp.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). NOTE -- THIS IS THE SALEMAN'S SAMPLE BOOK with a second dustjacket affixed to the front paste down to fold-out; contents lists chapters and page numbers are simply 000, and this is followed by the first four pages of Chapter I. UNIQUE ! 4pp.

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1976. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0813005620 In April 1767 the American Company of Comedians announced the forthcoming production of a new comic opera by Andrew Barton in its new theater near Philadelphia. Two days before it opened, the Pennsylvania Gazette annouced its cancellation, describing the play as "unfit for the… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1972. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0226791467 This collection of essays takes the first crucial steps toward dealing with the varieties of medieval ritual and drama in their own terms. 351pp.

Chapel Hill, NC, 1921. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). A history of the ballad. The author has printed in full most of the documents he cites. ORIGINAL EDITION not a reprint. 67pp.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1977. HC. good+ w/very lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0517520206 In pictures and text, this unique book covers the history of the Russian theatre from its early beginnings in the Middle Ages, when there were traveling clowns and buffoons, to today's censure-defying dramas. 208pp.

London: London Transport, 1959. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). 121pp.

New York: Samuel French, Inc, 1968. HC. good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). Chapters on: Henrik Isben; August Strindberg; Anton Chekhov; Bernard Shaw; John Galsworth; Luigi Pirandello; Eugene O'Neill; and, Tennessee Williams as revealed in personal letters, interviews, speeches, note-books, work, and the testimony of representative critics and biographers as well as friends, family and employees. 576pp.

Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Press, Inc, 1935. HC. very good+, red cloth (hardcover). Establishes a historical and particularly a critical fixation of the early middle class drama in England, France, and Germany. 213pp.

Hanover, NH: Univ. Press of New England, 1974. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 087451083X This book is a biographical, historical, and analytic introduction to Musset's artistic development as a playwright and to his place in the context of the European literary scene. 268pp.

Burlingame, CA: Bock Publishing, 1980. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Dick tells it like it was...show business in New York! 153pp, index.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. HC. good, light blue cloth (hardcover) light stain along gutters. B&W ill.. The Marchesa Capranica del Grillo, better known as Adelaide Ristori, died in Rome, Italy, the 9th of October, 1906, aged 84. Her life was full of vivid contrasts; a life which, even apart from its stage aspects, was more… Read more about this item