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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN THEATRE HISTORY 1583-1975
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: The Playwrights Co-op, 1976. Octavo, red cloth. pp 160. Ink owner name at top of title page, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44003More details Price: USD $19.00 -
CHEKHOV'S LEADING LADY: a portrait of the actress Olga Knipper
Edition: First US printing
New York: Franklin Watts, 1980. Yellow boards. pp viii, 288 + plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52828More details Price: USD $18.95 -
EDWARD GORDON CRAIG: a bibliography
London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967. Card covers. pp 117 + frontispiece portrait. A VG clean and unworn copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50276More details Price: USD $12.95 -
ENTRANCES. An American Director's Journey. Preface by Edward Albee.
Edition: First printing
New York: Viking, 1986. Cloth and boards. (xvi), 416 pp + plates. Fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has light surface rubbing to rear panel, else fine. Presented as a birthday gift to important Shakespearean actor, director, and film actor JOHN NEVILLE in 1986. The entire front free endpaper is covered with the ink signatures of members of The Young Company of Canadian actors. The Young Company was at Stratford, Ontario, where Neville was Artistic Director 1985-89. Schneider has directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Waiting for Godot, The Birthday Party, and much more. Two page Albee preface. In all, a nice theatrical package. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16075More details Price: USD $50.00 -
J.T. Grein, ambassador of the theatre, 1862-1935 : a study in Anglo-Continental theatrical relations
Assen (Netherlands): Van Gorcum, 1963. pp ix, 362. Card covers. Spine land page edges lightly yellowed, soft creases to rear cover and last leaf, a bit musty odour; VG otherwise. The author's doctoral thesis at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. Text is in English. Scarce.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50368More details Price: USD $24.95 -
L' ÉPREUVE: pièce scoute en trois actes et cinq tableaux
Edition: First printing
Montréal: L'Oeuvre de presse dominicaine, 1942. 12mo, light green card covers. 62 pp, stapled. Sunning to spine and margins of covers, text paper lightly yellowed, else fine. W.E. Collins's copy with his catalogue card laid in. A play for Boy Scouts, dedicated to la Troup Saint-Alphonse d'Youville de Montréal. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 44389More details Price: USD $22.00 -
L'histoire du théâtre au Canada. Pour un retour aux classiques
Montréal: Fides, 1945. Card covers. 172 p. Nicks to spine ends, bit of tanning to covers, VG otherwise. W.E. Collins's copy with a few pencil notes and his catalogue card laid in.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 44400More details Price: USD $15.00 -
Les Gracques. Tragédie romaine
Edition: First Edition
Joliette, Québec: Éditions des Paraboliers du Roi, 1945. Light green card covers. 127 pp. Book a little leaned, foxing to fore margin of front cover, else fine. W.E. Collins's copy with his catalogue card laid in.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 44395More details Price: USD $19.00 -
MEMORIES OF THE THÉÂTRE-LIBRE. Translated by Marvin A. Carlson. Edited by H.D. Albright
Edition: First edition in English
Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1964. Brown cloth. pp (238) + 12 pp sepia plates. Ink owner name, else fine in near fine jacket. The new theatre in late 19th century France.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48288More details Price: USD $19.95 -
Not bloody likely: The Shaw Festival, 1962-1973
Edition: First edition
Toronto: Dent, 1974. Squarish quarto, yellowish cloth. pp (160). B&w photos. A fine, jacketless copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45446More details Price: USD $16.95 -
OUR IRISH THEATRE: a chapter of autobiography
Gerrards Cross, Bucks., England: Colin Smythe, 1972. Octavo, blue cloth. pp 279 + frontispiece portrait and plates. Index. Fine, jacketless copy. First published 1913, this is the third edition, revised and enlarged. New Foreword by Roger McHugh. Fourth volume of the Coole Edition,
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46000More details Price: USD $24.95 -
PUPPETRY: a yearbook of puppets and marionettes
Edition: First Edition
Detroit: Paul McPharlin, 1931. Oblong 16mo, 11 x 15.5 cm. pp (3)-130. Illustrations and photos. Front cover has a tiny chip and soft crease, very nearly fine otherwise. First issue of this annual which survived into the 1950s. Nice copy of a scarce little book.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41811More details Price: USD $95.00 -
Stage Left: Canadian Workers Theatre, 1929-1940 (Canadian Theatre History)
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1985. Card covers. pp 245 + photos. Very nearly fine.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48862More details Price: USD $16.95 -
STANISLAVSKY ON THE ART OF THE STAGE. Translated with an Introductory Essay on Stanislavsky's System by David Magarshack
Edition: First edition in English
London: Faber, 1950. Orange cloth. 311 pp + plates; indexed. Minor wear to one corner at head of spine, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 25121More details Price: USD $25.00 -
THE BOOK OF MARTIN HARVEY: with the true story of "The Only Way" and other matters .Foreword by R. B. Cunningham Graham . Compliled and Edited by R. N. G.-A
Edition: First printing
London: Henry Walker, no date (1930). Green cloth gilt lettered. pp xvi, 176 + colour frontispiece with tissue guard and numeroous b&w plates. Spine lightly sunned; 1931 ink owner name at front; yellowing to page edges, tissue guard, and endpapers; musty odour; VG clean and unworn otherwise. The dust jacket was clipped and in pieces; we have put it back together and it doesn't look too bad.. Some tape stains, some loss to spine ends. Also laid in is a 12 page booklet with colour illustrations "Some of the Stage Productions of Sir John Martin-Harvey". Also a five stanza typed original verse by the former owner of the book, Florence E. Rice of Winnipeg, Manitoba, titled "Sir John Martin-Harvey" and dated 17 April, 1926. 1.3 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 52549More details Price: USD $34.95 -
"The Festival Grows", an article contained on pp [5-6] of the program for the Fourth Annual Festival of Drama and the Second Annual Festival of Music
Stratford, Ontario: Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956. pp [40], unpaged, stapled in card covers. Many photos, 2 pp colour illustration. Front cover has an ink name at top and a half inch tear to fore edge; creases and light rubbing to spine; VG otherwise. Henry V, with Christopher Plummer, Donald Davis, Gratien Gelinas, William Hutt, William Shatner, many others. Merry Wives of Windsor, with a number of the same. Boyd Neel, Nat Hentoff, Ernest MacMillian, others contribute articles on music.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50597More details Price: USD $24.95 -
"The Future of the Festival", an article contained on p 5 of the program for the Second Annual Festival
Stratford, Ontario: Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1954. pp 24, stapled in card covers. Many photos. Small rubbed spots to front cover, bit of rubbing to spine fold, VG otherwise. Laid in are three mimeographed sheets of maps and information about accomodations. Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, and Oedipus Rex. Cast included James Mason, Frances Hyland, Douglas Campbell, Mavor Moore, Donald Harron, Robert Christie, William Hutt, Donald Davis, Bruno Gerussi, William Shatner, and many others.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50599More details Price: USD $24.95 -
THE GREAT CHICAGO THEATRE DISASTER: The Complete Story Told by the Survivors
No place: No publisher, c1904. Blue cloth gilt. pp 217 + numerous photos front, rear, and mid text. Mild rubbing to spine ends; front inner hinge neatly repaired with clean archival paper tape; gilt on front cover partially oxidized; a VG clean and unworn copy otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50579More details Price: USD $24.95 -
THE GREAT SHAKESPEARE FORGERY. A new look at the career of William Henry Ireland
Edition: First Edition
London: Heinemann, 1966. Black cloth. pp (12), 308 + plates. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41541More details Price: USD $15.00 -
The magic world of marionettes : Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla e figli.
Chicago: Istituto italiano di cultura, 2003. Light blue card covers. pp 100 including colour photos. Sunning to spine and inner margins of covers; lower outer corners a bit curled; VG+ clean and unworn otherwise. Text is in Italian.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53307More details Price: USD $14.95