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theatrical ephemera
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1. Bubus [poster advertising the play, with photos of actors and actresses]. Moscow: Meyerhold’s Theatre;
printed by Mospligraf, 1925. 42x28.5 inch poster featuring black and white photo portraits arranged around the
title of the play, which is rendered in blocky green constructivist letters. One of 1000 copies. Chips to edges have
been professionally repaired, most of the work having been done at lower right
corner, and the paper has been de-acidified. (#192976)
$850.00
2. The Chinese Cultural Mission presents An Evening in Cathay. Shanghai:
Far Eastern Press, [193-?]. 10p., thread-bound wraps depict children playing
around a coin of the Qing emperor Kangxi. Some edge chips to front cover, not
affecting design. (#185122)
$60.00
Program booklet introducing the Shanghai-based troupe on a visit to the United
States. The show was produced by Averil Tam, managed by James Zee-Min Lee
(advisor to "The Good Earth" and long-time Hollywood liaison to the ChineseAmerican community), and included both Chinese
and Chinese-American performers. Several
versions of this program booklet were produced;
this is our first time encountering the version with a
coin on the cover.
3. Miss Quita: 23rd annual production of the
Haresfoot Club of the University of Wisconsin.
Madison: Haresfoot Club, [1921]. 6 panel brochure folded to 3.5x6.25 inches,
decorative red and black cover title and a b&w photo of "the girls" chorus line, story
of the play outlined dates, very good. (#184567) $75.00
The Club was formed in 1898 and while not an avowed LGBT organization, it was an
oasis for gay men at the school and produced musicals which featured men in drag
(slogan: All Our Girls are Men, and Everyone a Lady). There were homosexual
purges at the school in 1948 & 1962. This production was the story of a young girl
with big brown eyes who goes down to Mexico and entrances the leader of a Mexican
cactus conspiracy, gets kidnapped and is rescued by Larry Drake, an American
engineer.
4. Abbott, George and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry
Ross. Damn Yankees a new musical (based on the novel The year the Yankees lost
the pennant). New York: Random House, 1956. 164p., b&w photo of Gwen Verdon &
Robert Shafer on title pages plus two more photos, production information, very good
first edition first printing stated in boards with black panel and gilt title on spine, black
and gilt devices on cover with photo of Verdon and Shafer affixed, in unclipped dj
$2.95 price intact, very mild toning and edgewear, top edge stained orange. (#190995)
$500.00
First edition, first printing of an American classic. Ray Walston, Gwen Verdon and
Jean Stapleton starred. Directed by Bob Fosse. Filmed with Walston and the complete
Broadway cast except that Tab Hunter replaced Shafer. It pretty much swept the Tony
Awards in 1956. A very nice copy of an important Broadway play.
5. Actor's National Protective Union No. 3. Member's card.
San Francisco: the Union, 1904. Stiff card, slightly under
3.5x2.5 inches, very good, filled out with membership info for
Al Franks, a member of the SF local. (#185441)
$60.00
6. Adams, Steve, Shannon Austin, John Mitzel, Robert Patrick,
Maya Silverthorne, Mijo et al . Fag rag #27/28; dramatic issue.
Boston: Fag Rag, [1980]. 36p., folded tabloid newspaper, plays,
photos, art, news, reviews, services, ads, 12p., supplementary
section, mild toning and edgewear otherwise very good on
newsprint. Newspaper. (#192496)
$75.00
Special issue of plays and dialogues. Robert Patrick's one-act "Family Bar" Supplementary section a complete
play "Folie a Deux" by Silverthorne.
7. [Anonimo / anonymous], introduccion por Rene Acuña. Ystoria de Moros de David y Amón. Veracruz:
Universidad Veracruzana, 1965. pp. 689-745, introduction, playscript, footnotes, glossary, index, text in Spanish,
personal inscription signed by Acuña, very good offprint bound in leather and gilt. (#190321) $150.00
Separate offprint of the script and introduction which was published in La Palabra y el Hombre, octubrediciembre 1965, no. 36. A verse play about the indigenous people of Guatemala and Christian missionaries.
8. [Aristophanes / Aristophanis / Beck]. Aristophanis Aves Graece; recensuit et perpetua adnotatione illustravit
Christianus Daniel Beck. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtu Siegfr. Lebr. Crusii, 1782. 188p., Greek text on calendared
paperstock (alkaline, only slightly toned) with subscribed Latin commentary printed double-column in smallpoint.
A remarkable clean sound copy with two original blanks, re-cased into dark green buckram boards with brown
leather spine label gilt. No ownership marks or scholarly notes. Label mildly rubbed (it remains quite legible),
faint even dust-soil to cloth, the replacement endsheets are compatible with the 18thC stock, a very good copy.
(#177328)
$125.00
9. ARTEF Jubilee Committee. Ten Years ARTEF. New York: the Committee, 1937.
24, 172p., fake suede wraps edge worn, illus., 24p. in English, 172p. in Yiddish.
Contributions in English by Joseph Freeman, John Howard Lawson and Emanuel
Eisenberg. (#7967)
$75.00
"[A] Yiddish workers' theater company existing from 1925 to 1940, combined left-wing
politics, Soviet-inspired aesthetics, and Jewish folk culture into innovative productions
that drew large Jewish immigrant audiences while influencing the New York theatrical
scene of that period." *Encyclopedia p. 68
10. Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie a play (uncorrected proof copy).
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. 124p., notes for Blues by Baldwin, stage play, very
good in tan wraps. (#180480)
$75.00
Proof copy for the original first UK edition.
11. Baldwin, James. One day when I was lost: a scenario based on The autobiography of Malcolm X
(uncorrected proof copy). London: Michael Joseph, 1972. 167p., preface by Baldwin, screenplay, yellow post-it
tipped-in with notation in the hand of the late Peter Howard stating "Only 1 – Milkerit @ $300.00/correct first
edition $140," very good in yellow wraps. (#180478)
$75.00
This is the proof copy for the original first UK edition, which precedes the US edition.
12. Bannon, Ann. [Poster for a theatrical production of the Beebo
Brinker Chronicles, inscribed by Bannon]. Seattle: The Hourglass
Group; 37 Arts, 2008. 14x22 inch poster for the Seattle production of the
play, which was adapted from three of Bannon's novels. Very good. In
the upper right field, Bannon has inscribed the poster to Tamara Turner,
the Seattle-based lesbian labor activist, "With every good wish from her
friend - Ann Bannon. 7-21-2008." (#201614)
$150.00
13. Baraka, Amiri. Jello. Chicago: Third World Press, 1970. 38p.,
signed by Baraka, first edition, wraps,. Short theater piece. (#85108)
$75.00
14. Baraka, Amiri. The Sidney poet
heroical in 29 scenes. New York: I.
Reed Books, 1979. ISBN:
0918408121. 106p., signed by
Baraka, wraps. Play by the African
American dramatist. (#85707) $50.00
15. Bäuerle, Adolf, editor.
Allgemeine Theaterzeitung und
Originalblatt für Kunst, Literatur,
Musik, Mode und geselliges Leben. [Two bound volumes containing all
issues for 1838 of the daily newspaper of theater, art, literature, music, fashion
and social life]. Vienna, 1838. 1192p., all 261 issues of the newspaper for 1838
bound into two edgeworn hardcover volumes, 1192 pages in total, interspersed
with 32 tipped-in color engravings depicting theatrical costumes and other
fashion, with perhaps one in ten of fashionable young males. To elaborate:
mouldmade paperstock is strong but liable to intermittent
splotchy foxing, measures 11x8.6 inches, each leaf shows a gentle
vertical foldline (not a "crease"), while copperplate illustrations
measure 9.4x5.8 inch with 8.5x5.4 inch plate impressions. We
find one excision (between leaves 560/61, a rough stub and a
small collateral puncture in leaf 559/60). The plate at 776/77 is a
double-spread. Find thirty such illustrations, similar in technique
to a la mode picturebooks distributed in England and America by
Godey's Ladies Book and Peterson's. We count 32 by including
the titlepage of volume I and the frontispiece of volume II, which
are handled similarly. Colorwork is professional and restrained;
up until October, spot-color only, then in October a more
expansive colorist fills in dress-fabrics also, with similar
expertise. The large frontis (v.II, an 11x8.6 inch leaf with 8.8x6.3
inch strike) is notable for depicting an automaton man at a brown
and baize billiards table; this "robot" is collaged from game
supplies: chesspieces, dice-cups, die, cards, parcheesi board,
bowling pins &c., and is admirably enhanced with spot-color: this
plate shows two old faint foldlines, is a little toned and very
faintly foxed. The bound volumes themselves, of identical design
and amount of wear, are marbled paper over boards, very rubbed
with the marbling indistinct and all edges showing pulpy old card.
Spine panel is brown paper with turquoise labels gilt-lettered and -ruled, label legible, the one on v.II defective.
Joints split and abraded but hinges are sound, textblocks square with a couple of deep cracks and a few started
leaves. Three or four short marginal tears repaired with old document tape that is yellowed but holding. Finally,
any serious foxing is the exception, but we did see a 19thC cup-ring. Quite handleable and readable. (#190915)
$400.00
Bäuerle was not only a journalist but a successful playwright. Ten years later, inspired by the 1848 revolutionary
ferment, he founded a journal called Die Geißel, The Scourge, which essentially ended his theatrical career in the
wake of counter-revolutionary sentiment. He went on to publish fiction under the pseudonym Otto Horn.
16. Bowers, Teresa, Yvette Freeman, Adriane
Lenox et al. Two 8x10 publicity photos for
"Ain't Misbehavin'" signed by cast members.
n.p.: n.p., [1979?]. Two 8x10 b&w publicity
photos, one with publicity information in bottom
margin, signed by cast members of the National
tour, worn copy with soiling, creasing, tape residue
and plastic tape at edges. (#184091)
$75.00
Photo number 1 is of the three female cast
members Teresa, Bowers, Yvette Freeman and
Adriane Lenox signed by all three ladies, the
second photo is of the entire cast on stage signed
by all (though most of the signatures are
impossible to read)
17. Brice, Fanny, Rock Hudson, Lucille Ball,
Elizabeth Montgomery, Lana Turner, Lainie
Kazan - NOT! Henry Street presents Fanny Brice's Show Stoppers '76 directed by Rock Hudson; [playbill for
drag show]. Washington DC: Henry Street, 1976. [28p] 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, program, ads, mild soiling
otherwise very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. (#194359)
$75.00
Playbill for an awards-type show with female and celebrity impersonators including Rock Hudson and Fanny
Brice with show tunes and a special award for Miss Gay Universe 1976 - Elizabeth Montgomery!
"Fanny Brice's house, Henry Street, formed a drag performance show, Showstoppers, in 1971, which premiered
at Georgetown's Trinity Theatre in September 1971. In May 1972, the Showstoppers group participated in DC's
first Gay Pride celebration with a show at George Washington University's Marvin Center. Showstoppers
appeared at the Marvin Center from 1973 to 1981. Showstoppers endured for many years as a very popular
annual production in Washington DC's GLBT community." -Carl Rizzi.
18. Broughton, James, Kermit Sheets, et al. Bedlam in the playground
[poster]. [San Francisco]: The Playhouse Repertory Theatre, [1967]. Single
sheet 11.5x17 inch poster printed both sides, front side has a photo from the
play of a nude woman in bed with the following text: Bedlam in the
Playground: Concurrent Theatre by James Broughton, directed by Kermit
Sheets, at The Playhouse. Reservations: call PR-4-4426" On the verso it states
"The Playhouse Repertory Theatre presents as a public wake commemorating
this theatre location..." with cast list for the four short plays and
production/playhouse staff. Slight fold crease (never completely folded) staple
holes at corners, tiny chip at top edge, light soiling. (#165540) $75.00
No dates mentioned nor any address for the performance. Sheets was artistic
director at The Playhouse until 1965 and as this is a wake commemorating the
location it seems that this was a performance at that location after the theatre
had closed down. "Bedlam in the Playground" was performed at SFSC in
1967 so it is likely this was a special one-off performance of that production.
19. Brown, Cecil; shooting script collaborator Paul Aratow. The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger. A
screenplay by Cecil Brown from his novel of the same name. n.p.: the author, 1973. 96p., 8.5x11 inches, plastic
comb binding; the author's own copy, numbered 1 with his signature on title page. Appears not to have gone
beyond the screenplay stage. (#190718)
$175.00
"Marriage is not as strong as race." The homophobic tone of the original novel is preserved; one character is
called "Faggot."
20. [Burgess, Neilson]. Greeting .... Mr. Neil Burgess in his original creation Widow Bedott, supported by
Mr. George Stoddart as the elder. [New York?]: n. pub., [188-?]. 19th century card, 5x6.5 inches, decorated
with color motifs on outside and description of the play on the inside, without actually stating the date or theatre
locations. The inside is slightly stained and rubbed, with some impact on the text. (#154392)
$295.00
Alfred Habegger notes in his "Gender, fantasy, and realism in American literature" that the text has not survived,
but that Burgess, one of the most noted female impersonators of his day, "jumped at the chance to do Bedott" (p.
150), a strongly feminist and suffragist period piece. The play originally opened in Providence in 1879 and
attained enormous popularity over the next few years. The card notes that the production is "a new and improved
dramatization of the Widow Bedott papers ... the 3rd year of this most successful American Comedy ... altered and
revised making almost an entire new play abounding with innumerable situations of tje most comical nature."
21. California Labor School. Labor School Theatre bulletin, vol. 1, no. 1, January, 1950. San Francisco:
California Labor School, 1950. [6p.], mimeographed, 8.5x11 inches, stapled in the far left margin, closed tears on
edges and center (all text still legible). (#179827)
$65.00
Includes a discussion of casting policy for African Americans, an article on fighting Jim Crow, articles on Brecht
and more.
22. Cao Yu. Lei yu. Shanghai; Chongqing; Chengdu: Wenhua shenghuo
chubanshe, 1945. 332p., lightly worn wraps with some smudging;
characteristics of the paper and printing suggest one of the southwestern
branches of this press. Series: Cao Yu xiju ji 1. (#193432)
$65.00
Cao Yu was one of the most important playwrights of 20th century China,
his work seeing numerous reprints during his lifetime. This play, translated
as Thunderstorm, is about the destruction of a family at the hands of its
incestuous patriarch. Cao Yu played the lead role himself at its Nanjing
debut in 1936. After World War II Cao and Lao She toured the United
States for a year.
23. Childress, Alice, illustrated by Loring Eutemey. Let's hear it for the
queen; a play. New York: Coward, McCann & Geohegan, 1976. ISBN:
0698203887. 48p. illustrated children's book, warmly inscribed, signed, and
dated by the African American author, very good first edition in red boards
and a shelf worn, unclipped dj. (#155000)
$75.00
A one-act play which starts where the story of the Knave of Hearts who stole some tarts ends.
24. Chinese Theatre Group. An evening in Cathay. Produced by Averil Tam and presented in Los Angeles by
James Zee-Min Lee. Los Angeles: The Chinese Theatre Group, [193-?]. [16p.], very good in red wraps with
dragon motif; program for the performance with black and white photos, biographies, and ads for ChineseAmerican businesses. (#171761)
$60.00
25. Crisham, Walter, Julie Andrews, Hermione Baddeley & Hermione Gingold et al. [Two theatrical
scrapbooks of dancer Walter Crisham]. London and Los Angeles: Self-published by the author, 1930s - 1950s.
Two large old-fashioned scrapbooks filled with reviews, clippings, photos, programs etc., fairly worn and soiled,
covers detached or loose, 10x5 inches and 10x13 inches. (#196913)
$450.00
Hundreds of photos, playbills, news clippings, reviews and magazine clippings relating to the career of
dancer/actor Walter Crisham who was born in Worcester, MA but made a name for himself as a dancer and
performer working in London with the two Hermiones (Baddeley & Gingold) in a string of hit Revues such as
"Rise Above It" & "Sweet and Low" and the sequels. He was involved with London's High Society, especially with
several dancing Dames such as Lady Plunkett (who died in a plane crash on her way to the Hearst Castle) and
Lady Diana Worthington whose husband was shot by a sentry during WWII and who committed suicide not long
after. There is a signed, handwritten card from Lady Worthington. He performed with a 15 year-old Julie
Andrews in one Panto, "Aladdin" at the London Casino, and the program from that event is signed by her, as well
as by Crisham and Jean Carson. He also performed for Ivor Novello & Noel Coward and appeared in extensive
make-up in the film "Moulin Rouge" as Valentin le Desosse in 1952. He also dance with Dorothy Dickson,
Ziegfield Follies dancer and singer. Wonderful memorabilia from London theatre and society of the War Years
and on to Hollywood where Crisham settled and finally died in Granada Hills, CA in 1985.
26. Cumbuka, Ji-Tu. Slim Sunday: a funky western (screenplay). Altadena: Self-published by the author,
[1970s?]. 85p., recto-only, 8.5x11 inch manuscript of a screenplay, red binder with title in gold, brown tape on
spine with handwritten numerals "77-11-210," very good condition. Set in 1868 in a small out-west town; sample
dialogue: "Do you mean to tell me you left my woman out there with a bunch of Mexicans and whites?"
(#191515)
$35.00
Cumbuka was born in Alabama in the 1940s and came of age during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. He
has appeared as an actor in over 80 films and TV episodes including "Bound for Glory" This is his
unproduced/unpublished screenplay (a copy of which is in Alex Haley's papers, looks like a very professional
script.
27. Cutler, Ron. Willie Dynamite: final screenplay. Universal City,
CA: Universal Studios, 1973. 113p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps, bound with
metal brads; the red front cover has several cup rings and discoloration
with resulting red dye transfer to first several interior pages (not musty).
Ownership signature of the poet David Henderson (author of "De Mayor
of Harlem") (#191606) $45.00
Screenplay for the Blaxploitation classic, directed by Gil Moses and
starring Roscoe Orman (best known as "Gordon" from Sesame Street).
28. Davis, Ossie; Ruby
Dee. Purlie Victorious
[signed Playbill]
Playbill, a weekly
magazine for
theatregoers; vol. 5 no.
46. New York: Playbill
Inc., 1961. 52p., 6.5x9
inches, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps featuring
cover photo of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, each of whom have
inscribed their photo. (#196077) $75.00
29. de Acosta, Mercedes. Sandro
Botticelli: a play. New York:
Moffat, Yard and Co., 1923. 49p.,
original production cast list,
character list, very good first
edition rebound (one believes in
the 1950s) in full blue calf with 5
raised bands, gilt titles and laid
lines, top edge gilt, floral design in
gilt on turned leather, blue
endpapers (some toning to foreedge, off-setting from leather) Brick Row Bookshop label on front paste-down,
remains of original free endpaper (pre leather binding) just visible in gutter.
(#193947)
$250.00
This play was first produced at Provincetown Theatre, New York on March 25, 1923
and starred Basil Sydney and Eva Le Gallienne. The playwright was a Cuban
American lesbian reputed to have had affairs with the likes of Greta Garbo,
Marlene Dietrich and Le Gallienne among others. Lovely leather binding.
30. [De Marco, Gordon]. Who's afraid of
Abbie Hoffman? [three posters and two
leaflets for the performance of the play at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival]. Edinburgh:
Greyfriar's Kirk House; Red Rose Theatre, 1985.
Three different 12x17 inch posters for the play,
each neatly creased from having been folded in
quarters, as well as two mildly worn playbills.
(#203119)
$95.00
The play featured a Reagan-era reunion in San
Francisco of 1960s student radicals.
31. de Rohan, Pierre, editor, Hallie Flanagan,
Rosamond Gilder et al. Federal Theatre:
monthly bulletin of the Federal Theatre
Project vol. 1, numbers 5 & 6, vol. 2, numbers 1
- 5, & Summer Report [8 issues]. New York: Federal Theatre/WPA, 1936-1938. Eight issue broken run, various
pagination, 9.25x12 inches, reports, essays, photos, production notes, tables, color plates of set and costume
designs, worn, 3-hole punch at spine on several issues, some loose pages but intact, soiling, mild musty odor,
stapled black and white wraps. Magazine. (#196445)
$750.00
The Bulletin began as a mimeograph sheet or sheets in 1935 and developed into the present magazine-format
publication. Includes much information on rehearsals, productions and design including color lithographs of
costumes and sets (2:4 has a color plate of the design for "Revolt of the Beavers") 2:4 also contains a list of all
the Federal Theatre productions in NYC to that date. This short run also includes de Rohan's "First Federal
Summer Theatre . . . a report" published May 8, 1938
32. Diakonoff, Serge. Metamorphoses; interview de Serge Diakonoff par Jacques Bofford (journaliste). [Paris]:
Editions dell'Arte, 1984. ISBN: 2867200067. 143p., 9.5x12.5 inches, illustrated endpapers, text in French,
profusely illustrated with color photos of the artist's theatrical make-up creations on faces and bodies, very good
first edition in green cloth and unclipped, lightly-worn dj. Hand-drawn and painted color illustration of Icarus
spreading across the two-page title page accompanied by a florid personal inscription signed by the artist and
dated Chicago '87 Hardcover. (#161190)
$250.00
The artist specializes in body and face painting. His work has appeared in film ("All That Jazz") and on stage.
33. Evans, Zishan. Zetta: a 3-act play with music, script and piano/vocal score. Oakland: Bird International
Group, 1987 & 1989. Two books, vii, 117p. & iii, 47p., 8.5x11 inches each, first book is a manuscript for the play
with introduction, biographical notes, author photo, and vocal selections/sheet music at rear, very good in spiralbound wraps, the second is a piano/vocal score with a review and introduction also in spiral-bound wraps.
(#191514)
$75.00 Self-published musical play by African
American playwright/lyricist/composer from Chicago. The play is set in the
1960s Civil Rights era.
34. Federal Theatre/WPA, John Howard Lawson. Federal Theatre
presents "Processional: U.S.A. 1925": Maxine Elliott's Theatre
[program/playbill]. New York: Federal Theatre/WPA, [1937]. 4 panel
playbill/program, 6x9 inches, cast, scene synopsis, theatre plan, crew,
laid-in is a folded 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill advertising a
Music Project presentation of the NY State Symphonic Band under the
direction of Creator on November 6th, 1937, very good pamphlet, blue
text on semi-glossy white stock. (#196413)
$75.00
This is the playbill for the initial production of John Howard Lawson's
which opened at the Maxine Elliot Theatre October 13, 1938
35. Gardner, Herb. I'm not Rappaport. New York: Grove Press, 1988.
ISBN: 0802110142. 88p., illustrated with 4 photos from the original NYC
production, very good first edition, first printing stated, in cloth-backed
Federal
boards and unclipped dj. Program and ticket from the 1989 Theatre on the Square production starring Ben Vereen
and Nehemiah Persoff laid-in. (#153281)
$75.00
The play won the 1986 Tony Award and the 1086 Outer Critics' Circle Award and was filmed later. Originally
published as a Samuel French acting edition and a Doubleday Book Club edition in 1986, this is the first trade
hardcover edition.
36. Gidlow, Elsa, foreword by Henry Anderson. Wise man's gold: a drama in rhythm. Mill Valley: Druid
Heights Press, [1974?]. 132p. printed recto-only, 8.5x11 inches, play manuscript reproduced from typed pages,
signed by the author on title page, in yellow clasp folder. Cover somewhat spotted, clasps are very rusty with
some offsetting, title label on cover has collected a coffee cup ring. (#200607)
$150.00
Gidlow's drama in blank verse concerning the oppression of workers and Native Americans upon the discovery of
gold in California.
37. Golden, Israel J. Precedent; a play about justice. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. 148p., first edition, dj
slightly chipped at tail and head of spine, a neat tape repair on verso of dj at head of spine. (#858)
$75.00
This fictionalized version of the Tom Mooney frameup, set during a streetcar strike, was first presented at the
Provincetown Theatre in 1931.
38. Goldoni, Carlo; translated by Jiao Juyin. Nü dian zhu. Shanghai: Bei xin
shu ju, 1929. 118p., very good in pictorial wraps. Chinese translation of Goldoni's
play, La Locandiera. Second printing. (#193376)
$75.00
39. Goldsmith, Jeff. McCarthy; a play; revision 7/29/88. Richmond: The
playwright, 1988. 132p., 8.5x11 inches, one page marked revised 11/1/89, edges
titled in marker, cover marked pointing up the role of William Mandel on pages
64-68, some wear otherwise very good original photocopied manuscript bound in
brads with an image of McCarthy on the cover. (#150653)
$75.00
This play was a critical and financial hit when it played for 8 months in 1988 at
The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in West Los Angeles. It was directed by Frank
Condon who had directed the Chicago Conspiracy Trial and Tracers at the OTE.
The play then had a run at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre in 1989. Bay Areabased playwright.
40. Guquzhoulang [pseudonym]. Zui jin yi bai ming ling xiao shi [Cover
title: Nan nü ming ling xiao shi]. Shanghai: Zhong wai shu ju, 1921. 56p.,
lightly worn wraps with “China” stamped on cover (as usual for books
imported from China in this period). Brief biographies of one hundred
prominent and not-so-prominent actors and actresses of the time. (#193440)
$125.00
41. Harken, Anne Hood and Gertrude Folks Zimand. Children in the
theatre; a study of children employed on the legitimate stage. New York:
National Child Labor Committee, 1941. 94p., wraps slightly chipped and head
and tail of spine, front. (#9589)
$75.00
42. He Jingzhi; Ding Yi, et al. Bai mao nü.
Shanghai: Huanghe chubanshe, 1947. 186p.,
pictorial wraps, small piece of clear tape at top end of spine, otherwise very good. Prerevolution edition of "The White Hair Girl," which was adapted into a famous film
during the Cultural Revolution. (#193369)
$275.00
43. Hellman, Lillian, Tom Eyen, Jane Chambers, Frank Marcus . A Collection of
Playbills for Lesbian plays: Women Behind Bars, Children's Hour, Killing of Sister
George, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove et al [seven playbills]. New York & San
Francisco: Playbill et al, 1952-1987. Seven playbills/programs, various pagination,
digest-size magazines, cast bios, advertising, features, photos etc., generally very good
with light wear in stapled pictorial wraps. (#195319)
$75.00
The plays represented are "The Children's Hour" Coronet Theatre December 1952, Patricia Neal & Kim Hunter,
"The Killing of Sister George" 3 programs from the Geary Theatre 1968 with Claire Trevor, Belasco Theatre
1966 with Beryl Reid & The Colonial Theatre 1968 withj Hermione Baddeley, "Last Summer at Bluefish Cove"
Theatre on the Square1984 with Camilla Carr, "A Late Snow" Theatre Rhinoceros 1987 * "Women Behind Bars"
[1983?] Alcazar Theatre with Lu Leonard and Susan Barnes.
44. Hughes, Langston, edited with an introduction by Webster Smalley. Five plays; [Includes Tambourines to
Glory, Mulatto, Soul Gone Home, Little Ham and Simply Heavenly]. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1963. xvii, 258p., near-fine in brick cloth and very good unclipped dj. (#57834)
$75.00
45. Jenkins, Frank S. Last man out; a play [Driving While Black in Beverly Hills]. Los Angeles: Paul Kohner
Agency, 1970. 86p., 8.5x11 inches, lightly-worn and soiled photocopied sheets brad-bound in mylar and plastic
binder, agency-printed manuscript of a stage play. (#155183)
$75.00
"Last Man Out" is the name of a childhood game played by the African American poet/playwright growing up in a
mixed-race neighborhood in Seattle. The last man out in the game was called a “nigger baby.” While living in LA
in the 1960s he witnessed an affluent African American motorist being pulled over by LA cops apparently for no
reason other than being Black in Beverly Hills. He developed this play over the next decade. It premiered to good
reviews at the Matrix Theatre in 2001 and starred Felton Perry. While Jenkins has had other poetry books and
plays published, this one apparently has not been published.
46. Jones, LeRoi [Amiri Baraka]. Four black revolutionary plays; all praises to the black man. Indianapolis:
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. viii, 89p., inscribed by Baraka, first edition, shelfworn dj. (#73278) $95.00
47. Ke Ling; Shi Tuo; Maxim Gorky. Ye dian. Shanghai: Shanghai chuban
gongsi, 1948. 208p., very good in wraps. Four-act play based on Gorky’s Na Dne
(The Lower Depths) Series: Wenyi fuxing congshu, di 1 ji. (#193428) $65.00
48. King, Pendleton. Cocaine: a play in one act; being number V of the
Provincetown Plays. New York: Frank Shay, 1917. 14p., 5x7 inches, cast, very
good first edition in lightly-worn stapled wraps with publisher's device on front
cover. Fifth Series. (#101934) $75.00
49. Koch, Howard. A
Revolutionary Affair: a
living newspaper on Vietnam. New York: n.pub.,
1968. 35p. plus two pages of lyrics; 8.5x11 inch
mimeographed sheets bound into a Studio duplicating
service folder with brads; the cover somewhat soiled and
worn, interior pages clean. Music selected and arranged
by Peter Yarrow. (#203406) $350.00
Howard Koch, winner of a 1943 Academy Award as cowriter of "Casablanca,” had been blacklisted in 1951.
After returning from Europe he settled in Woodstock,
New York and continued writing and participating in
activist causes. This play was performed in a student
production at Barnard College. No holdings found in
OCLC, though the Barnard College web page about
Koch does mention it, and a copy may be held with his
papers.
50. Kryzhitskii, G.K. Ekzoticheskii teatr: Iava, Indo-Kitai, Turtsiia,
Persiia, Koreia. Leningrad: Academia, 1927. 77p., 17 pages of plates; wraps
with illustration of a Javanese puppet, ownership inscription at top edge of
front cover and on front endpaper, moderate wear, pages evenly toned.
(#200232) $250.00 “Exotic theater,” with
coverage of the traditions of Java, IndoChina, Turkey, Persia and Korea.
51. Kuznetsov, E. Arena: teatralʹnyĭ
alʹmanakh. St. Petersburg: Vremia, 1924.
113p., wraps chipped along spine,
textblock evenly toned but intact. Text in
Russian. (#192965)
$150.00
52. Labor School Theatre, Dave Sarvis,
Writers Committee, et al. What's Left 3; Labor School Theatre's new variety
show. San Francisco: California Labor School, [1940s]. 8 panel program
folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, fragile construction-paper stock. (#132679) $75.00
No year to be found but performance dates were Sept. 14-October 8. The
setting was a beer garden and direction was by Sarvis with sketches and music
by The Writers Committee, Leo E. Christiansen and others.
53. Lawson, John Howard. Loud speaker; a farce. Introduction by Joseph
Wood Krutch. A New Playwrights' Theatre production. New York: The
Macaulay Company, 1927. 186p., first edition, spine of dj slightly darkened,
minor edge wear along the top edge, original price intact. Front panel of the
jacket is illustrated by William Siegel. "First presented by the New
Playwrights' Theatre, at the 52nd St. Theatre, on March the second, 1927."
(#60444)
$275.00
54. Lik, Vladimir (Val). A Boricua's bond; an original screenplay. New
York: Big Ones Entertainment, [199-?]. 128 sheets, printed rectos only,
8.5x11 inches, in ring binder. An early version of the script that became a
movie. Lik, a Rusian emigré, grew up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New
York, memorializing his youth - and the Puerto Rican musical culture around
him - in the turn-of-the -century film. (#93444)
$150.00
55. London, Jack. The acorn-planter: a
California forest play planned to be sung by
efficient singers accompanied by a capable
orchestra. New York: Macmillan, 1916. vii,
84p., [iv] adverts, two page Argument, very
good first edition first printing in maroon cloth
with white cloth spine, white box surrounding
white titles on cover, black titles on spine, top edge gilt, BAL "A" binding. Sisson
page 86, BAL 11964 Hardcover. (#192303) $950.00
1300 copies printed. Very nice copy. Small Boston bookshop label on front
pastedown.
56. London, Jack. The human drift. New York: Macmillan, 1917. 184p., [vi] ads,
frontis-portrait, offsetting to top margin of frontis and corresponding title page,
otherwise a very good first edition first printing in red cloth and gilt. Sisson page
92, BAL 11972. (#192307)
$275.00
A collection of essays, short stories and two plays; "A Wicked Woman" and "The
Birth Mark" Published posthumously within 3 months of the author's death.
57. London, Jack. Scorn of women in three acts. New York: Macmillan, 1906. x, 256p.
[iii] ads, characters, actors' description of characters, mild shelf wear otherwise a very good
first edition of 920 copies in variant binding maroon cloth with white cloth spine, titles
white on front cover, black on spine, no gilt on top edge. Sisson page 32, BAL11878.
(#192092)
$950.00
Stage play set in the Northwest Territories (Alaska) adapted from the short story of the
same title from the collection "The God of His Fathers"
58. London, Jack. Theft a play in four acts. New York:
Macmillan, 1910. xii, 272p., list of acts, characters, actors'
descriptions of characters, hinge slightly loose at title page
otherwise a very good first edition as per Sisson page 50 & BAL
11919 including typographical points, limited to 990 copies in
maroon cloth boards and white cloth spine, white boxed titles on
front (worn) black letters on spine, top edge gilt. (#191775)
$950.00
Radical play, one of his earliest. "Money is theft."
59. Martinez Littlebear/Osita, Naomi. The dark
side of the moon / El lado oscuro de la luna;
Gay Theatre and Music from Mexico City
with Juan Jacobo Hernandez. Music (Latin
folk to rock) with Mario Rivas. [poster]. San Francisco: Mission
Grafica, n.d.. 17.5x22.5 inch poster, very good screen print. Lists benefit
performances; endorsers include Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention
and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. (#186810) $75.00
60. Matsumoto, Norihoko. Norihoko Matsumoto:; photographs;
portfolio. n.p.: self published, [1972]. 10 individual plates from b&w
photographs on 9.5x9.25 inch semi-glossy sheets, texts in English and
Japanese, in folio with photos of Marcel Marceau in performance on
front and rear covers, signed in Japanese characters by the great
photographer on inside rear cover where also a stamped numeral,
evidently no.829 of an unspecified limitation. (#150568) $125.00
The photos are from performances in the 1950s & 1960s, opera, dance,
drama etc.
61. Michener, James A., Booth Tarkington, George Kelly, John Hersey,
Edna Ferber, Robert E. Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, Philip Barry,
Marc Connelly, Susan Glaspell, Sydney Howard, Norman Lessing, John
P. Marquand, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman et al. Pulitzer Prize
Playhouse [group of 25 original scripts]. New York: ABC/Schlitz
Brewing Co., 1950-1952. Twenty-five original manuscripts for twentyfive television plays, various pagination, mild wear, toning, some handcorrections, character lists, set descriptions, etc. Each is a thick
staplebound packet, though several have had the staple removed or have
loose sheets that are still present. (#205605) $750.00
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse ran on ABC beginning October 6, 1950 with
Nancy Moore's adaptation of Kaufman and Hart's "You Can't Take it
With You" directed by Alex Segal; it ran through June 4 1952. There
were a total of thirty-nine episodes in season one and thirteen in season
two. Present here are twenty-five of those scripts, including the first
script, as well as "Monsieur Beaucaire" and "The Magnificent
Ambersons", "The Jungle" by Michener, "Mary of Scotland" by Anderson, etc. Please inquire if you seek a list of
titles present.
62. Mo Zhikang, artist. Xixiang ji [Romance of the West Chamber]
[poster]. Shanghai: Shanghai huapian chubanshe, 1954. 30x21 inch
poster, foxing and small chips around edges, Stamped “Yangzhang”
(Proof) by the issuer in one corner of the reverse, slightly showing
through, closed tears backed by pasted strips of paper. (#175255) $175
Poster published to mark the 1954 revival of the Yuan dynasty play,
authored by Wang Shifu, about a scholar and his lover during the Tang
dynasty. Defying an arranged marriage, Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying
marry for love. In the early years of the People’s Republic of China, the
play was viewed as a progressive denunciation of stifling traditional
morality. Thus despite the poster's apparently traditional and prerevolutionary style, it does in fact carry a political message.
63. Nocturnal Dream Shows.
Nocturnal Dream Shows
presents ... the Cockettes in
Pearls over Shanghai, midnite,
Friday & Saturday, May 19, 20
at the Palace. San Francisco:
Nocturnal Dream Shows, 1972.
5x6.5 inch card with drawing by
"Pristine Condition," a fine example. (#52380) $75.00
64. Olauson, Judith. The American woman playwright: a view of
criticism and characterization. Troy, NY: The Whitston Pub. Co., 1981.
ISBN: 087875198x. viii+182p., preface, notes, very good first edition
limited to 750 casebound copies. Very good in publisher's original
lavender cloth boards and gilt. (#77870)
$95.00
A general bibliography and history of American women playwrights. The
chapters are divided into decades from 1930 - 1970. Writers include
Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Zoe Aikens, Carson McCullers, Jane
Bowles, Lorraine Hansberry, Megan Terry, Rochelle Owens and others.
65. Ortiz, Fernando. Los bailes y el teatro de los Negros en el folklore de Cuba. Havana: Ediciones Cardenas y
Cia, 1951. xvi, 466p., (2) prologue, introduction, bibliography, illustrations, musical transcriptions, text in Spanis,
very good first edition in red buckram cloth and gilt. (#202767)
$250.00
66. Ostrovsky, Alexander; Fang Xin. Da lei yu. Shanghai: Guomin shudian,
1940. 7, 136p., very good in wraps, slight dust-soiling to spine. Chinese
adaptation of Ostrovsky’s play Groza (The Storm), critical of the merchant class.
Note that OCLC incorrectly attributes the original to Nikolai Ostrovsky instead
of his predecessor Alexander. Series: Shijie mingju congkan 65. (#193439) $65
67. Ostrow, Eileen Joyce, editor, J. California
Cooper, Dianne Houston, Robert Alexander et
al. Center stage: an anthology of 21
contemporary Black-American plays.
Oakland: Sea Urchin Press, 1981. ISBN:
0960520805. xiii, 309p., playwright photos,
bios, very good first edition trade paperback
limited to 1200 copies in black pictorial
wraps. (#205326) $45.00
Possibly first appearance of Joan "California" Cooper predating her first
separate book "A Piece of Mine" published in 1984. She is represented by the
play "Loners"
68. Radlov, Sergei. 10 [Desiat'] let v teatre. Leningrad: Priboi, 1929. 328p.,
wraps, mildly edgeworn overwrap with Constructivist design by Khodasevich,
bookseller's stamp and penned price inside back cover, small circular orange
sticker (modern) on front free endpaper. Text in Russian. (#190276) $300.00
Autobiographical work by the playwright and director, then about 37 years of
age, discussing his ten years up to that point working in the theater. Beginning
under Vsevolod Meyerhold in St. Petersburg, Radlov went on to lead a long and
productive life, including many Soviet productions of Shakespeare to his credit.
69. Rudnick, Paul, Bryan Batt, Tom Hewitt,
John Michael Higgins, Patrick Kerr, Richard Poe,
Scott Whitehurst, Edward Hibbert and
Christopher Ashley. Jeffrey [signed poster]. New
York: WPA Theatre & Minetta Lane Theatre,
1993. poster 14x22 inches, framed signed by 8 of
the original Off Broadway cast members and the director, very good. poster.
(#170222) $150.00
This was the original production of Rudnick's comic play about AIDS.
70. San Francisco Mime Troupe, design by Sabine Mamat, photo by Manfred
Waffender. San Francisco Mime Troupe presents Cacao; oder der letzte tango
in Huahuatenango [poster]. Berkeley: Inkworks and the Mine Troupe, 1981.
Poster, 17.5x23 inches, landscape format, photo of the cast in costume, text in red
and yellow on turquoise and yellow background, glossy stock, lightly-worn.
(#184041)
$75.00
Poster for a German touring production of "Americans or Last Tango in Huahuatenango" Written by Joan
Holden Music & Lyrics by Eduardo Robledo & Bruce Barthol,Directed by Dan Chumley? LAST TANGO featured
Esteban Oropeza, Eduardo Robledo, Sharon Lockwood, Wilma Bonet, Patricia Silver, Joaquin Aranda & Brian
Freeman and band members Bruce Barthol, Glenn Appell & Al Guzman?
71. Shaffer, Peter, introduction by Frederick Brisson,. Five finger excercise; a play in two acts and four scenes.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1959. 110p., very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj.
Young 3488 Hardcover. (#45452)
$75.00
Playwright's first play about a young German tutor who changes the lives of every member of the family.
Reminiscent of "Something for Everyone"
72. Shappin, Irwin. Graf and Mopey; a play in three acts. no place: no publisher, [1940s?]. [i] 110p., 8.5x11
inches printed recto-only, ribbon-copy of original typewritten play manuscript with title-page and character/scene
page, bound with two brads to heavily-worn manila envelope covers, a Railway Express Collect label dated May
23, 1944 affixed to inside rear cover. (#128821)
$75.00
Labor and politics stage play about a big-city mayor, graft, corruption and revenge. Written by a WPA author
from Pennsylvania who worked on or wrote "The Story of Glass," "The Story of Copper," "The Story of Clay,"
"Frog," and others. As far as we can tell it went unproduced and unpublished.
73. [Sidery, Lillian]. First Villager side from Johnny Johnson by Paul Green. [Los Angeles]: Federal Theatre
Project - Division of Works Progress Administration, [1937]. [3p.] printed recto-only, mimeograph, 9x5.75 inches
oblong in stapled wraps. Plain printed cover is worn and browned and bears several holograph and typewritten
captions. (#137738)
$75.00
In musical comedies and plays with very large casts, "sides" are printed for the various actors in place of full
scripts. A side usually contains only the cue lines for the actor and that actor's lines. This side is for the First
Villager in Paul Green's play "Johnny Johnson" and is from the Los Angeles production. It is actor Lillian
Sidery's copy with her name and address written in pencil on the front cover with blocking and character notes
written in the same hand throughout. Sidery was considered a "fellow traveller" at the time of this production.
She apparently joined the CP in 1938. She is named in papers relating to Un-American activities in California.
74. Sifton, Paul. The belt. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. 193p., first edition, very heavily chipped
dj with William Siegel illustration intact. A New Playwrights' Theatre Production. (#21585)
Proletarian play about speed-ups on the factory assembly line.
$65.00
75. Sinclair, Upton. Damaged goods; the great play "Les avariés" of Brieux novelized with the approval of the
author by Upton Sinclair. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1913. 194p., front., illus., first edition,
first state binding (blue-gray cloth), very good condition in a first state gray dj with chipping on the edges and
extensive chipping along the spine. *Ahouse A20a. (#2002)
$45.00
The original play in France was about syphilis and was challenged by the French censors.
76. Sinclair, Upton. Depression Island. Pasadena, California: published by the author, 1935. 124p., first edition
in dark red cloth, gilt titles on spine bright, white dj still bright with chipping along the front fold and minor
creasing on the rear panel. *Ahouse A55a. (#3882)
$95.00
"Dedicated to our loyal EPIC workers in Los Angeles, who first produced this little play." -p. 6. Sinclair tried to
have this filmed, couldn't raise the money.
77. Sinclair, Upton. A giant's strength; drama in three acts. Monrovia, CA: Selfpublished by the author, 1948. 52p., very good first edition in original red cloth and
unclipped dj with minor edge wear and just a trace of soiling. (#87594) $125.00
Play about the atomic bomb. *Ahouse A81a, issued also in wraps by both Sinclair and
Haldeman-Julius.
78. Torrence, Ridgely. Granny Maumee, the rider of dreams, [&] Simon the
Cyrenian; plays for a Negro theater. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.
111p. + [4p.] ads, hardcover with exterior spine panel largely chipped away. A reading
copy only. Incribed and signed by the author to poet Owen Dodson by the white
dramatist known for his works sympathetic to African Americans. (#179639) $75.00
79. United Workers Theaters of New York. Workers Theater March 1932. New
York: author, 1932. 41p, 8.5 x 11 inches, red original wraps worn along spine, paper is
supple. Periodical produced by a group of agitprop theaters: Workers Laboratory
Theater, Prolet-Bühne, and German Agitprop Troup which preceded the Federal
Theater Project. Contents include an essay by noted set designer Mordecai Gorelik on
"Scenery: The Visual Attack," several plays, a film review by Harry Alan Potamkin,
and a call for the April 1932 First National Workers Theater Conference and
Spartakiade. (#168838)
$225.00
80. Valdez, Luis. Actos y El Teatro Campesino. Fresno: Cucaracha Press,
1971. 145p. + [12p] photos by George Ballis, 8.5x11 inches, very good true
first edition with Fresno publication location, red stapled pictorial wraps.
(#5899)
$75.00
81. Vidal, Gore. A visit to a small planet; a comedy akin to vaudeville.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. xxii, 158p. + 4p. photos, signed by
Vidal on the half title, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped but
worn and toned dj with single small tape repair on rear of jacket. (#101488)
$250.00
This is the stage version based on the TV script. It was first performed at the
Booth Theatre in NYC on February 7, 1957 starring Cyril Ritchard and
Conrad Janis (Mindy's Dad!)
82. White, Edgar [Nkosi]. The life and times of J. Walter Smintheus: a
play. New York: New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre, [1971]. [81p]
recto-only, 8.5x11 inches, photocopied manuscript of the play with Property of
New York Shakespeare Festival on title sheet, very good, bound in mildly
worn dark red vinyl binder with brass brads. (#197787)
$75.00
Edgar White was born in Montserrat and has lived in the United States and
England. His plays have been successfully presented in New York, London, and Africa. His radical activities in
the seventies played a role in his expulsion from Yale. This is the version of the play that was first produced at the
New York Shakespeare Festival in 1971.
83. Whitney, Salem Tutt. Mellow musings Introduction by Thomas L.G. Oxley. Boston: Colored Poetic League
of the World, 1926. xxiii, 126p., boards rubbed and faded, spine lettering worn away, interior very good
condition, first edition, full page portraits from photos of Salem Tutt Whitney, Leana Sanford Roberts, Mabel
Ridley and Homer Tutt Whitney (all African American performers). Laid in is a printed form letter from the
Colored Poetic League of the World along with an ordering slip. (#170489)
$300.00
The Indiana-born Whitney worked in Black vaudeville for several decades and was one half of the Tutt Brothers
duo, they also produced shows and acted in some films. This collection of poetry, with a 14-page selection of
autobiographical reminiscences in prose (focusing mainly on his family, headed by a Methodist minister father),
appears to be his only solo book. The poetry often touches on racial themes. From his poem "Our boys come
marching home," "America! these boys, though black / Faced the foe, nor once turned back / Will you now the
courage lack / To make them FREE!" - p. 38
84. Wiegand, Alicia (pseudonym) . Genitals-M; the sailor. Mineola: Bonne Santé, S.A., 1965. 23p., 8.5x11
inches, foreword, play, publisher's note and catalogues with return envelope laid-in, very good in stapled green
printed wraps. Field Research Edible Inquiry Development 007. (#171476)
$125.00
Humorous two-act play about a sex-education class where a man is brought to orgasm before the class to
demonstrate the male genitalia. Published by a company that made vitamins to aid sexual activity. One copy
located in OCLC.
85. Williams, Tennessee. Collection of Playbills from various Tennessee Williams productions [13 playbills
and 1 souvenir booklet]. Various places: Playbill & Program Publishing Co., various dates. Thirteen Playbills and
one Souvenir Program for various Tennessee Williams plays, various pagination and sizes, several original cast
productions, mild wear otherwise very good booklets/magazines in stapled pictorial wraps. Magazine. (#194787)
$125.00 The plays included are "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" 5 Playbills including the 1955 & 1956 productions at
the Morosco, the 1957 tour at the Curran, the 1958 Victor Jory production at the Geary, & the 1990 revival with
Kathleen Turner. "Glass Menagerie" souvenir program 8.5x11 inches starring Pauline Lord at the Geary about
1946, "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" at the Morosco in 1963 starring Hermione Baddeley and
Mildred Dunnock; "The Night of the Iguana" at the Royale in 1962 starring Patrick O'Neal and Shelley Winters;
"Orpheus Descending" at the Martin Beck in 1957 starring Maureen Stapleton and Cliff Robertson; Two
programs for "The Rose Tattoo" for the Martin Beck in 1951 starring Sal Mineo, Eli Wallach and Maureen
Stapleton and two programs for "Sweet Bird of Youth," one for the
Martin Beck in 1959 with Paul Newman and Geraldine Page and
the other for the Curran in 1960 with Page and Rip Torn.
86. Williams, Tennessee. Portrait of a Madonna: teleplay for
program #1 of The Actor's Studio series. New York: World
Video, Inc. & The Actor's Studio, 1948. [ii] 43p., cover sheet,
8.5x11 inches, mimeograph/typescript, printed recto-only, stapled
top-left corner, mild toning to edges, closed tear on last page at
bottom-left corner going through the typed-intialed sign-off on
script dated 9/2/48 5:25pm. (#205602) $750.00
This is the television script for the first episode of "The Actor's
Studio" which ran for 65 episodes from September to October 1948
on ABC and then from November 1949 to June 1950 on CBS.
Hosted by Marc Connelly, the series featured plays adapted for TV,
performed by members of The Actor's Studio. This first program
was directed by Hume Cronin and starred Jessica Tandy. It aired
September 19, 1948. This is fairly early in Tennessee Williams'
career, as "Streetcar" had just opened the year before. Includes the
revised rehearsal schedule, production crew etc.
87. Wright, Richard, Orson Welles, John Houseman. Native son; the playbill for the Mercury Theatre Production
at the St. James Theatre. New York: St. James Theatre, 1941. 20p., 6.5x9.25 inches, theater seating plan laid in,
b&w photo of Wright, ads, cast bios, very good playbill/program in stapled cream wraps. (#155448)
$250.00
Playbill for the original 1941 production. The playbill contains scenes from the Richard Wright/Paul Green play,
starring Canada Lee, with an introduction by Wright (with his photograph) stating that these scenes "in my
opinion, state in essence, pro and con, the issues involved in "Native Son." Wright further elucidates the reasons.
Orson Welles directed the play, which was produced by his Mercury Theatre. The theatre seating plan laid-in was
given out at the beginning of the performance and the program handed out at the end of the show. One of many
innovations by Welles & Co.
88. Wu Tian. Hong lou meng. Shanghai: Yongxiang yinshuguan, 1946.
219p., very good in wraps. A play based on the classic novel, “Dream of the
Red Chamber.” Series: Wenxue xinkan. (#193430)
$85.00
89. Xia Yan. Faxisi xi jun. Shanghai:
Kaiming shudian, 1946. 142p., very
good in wraps, text in Chinese. Prerevolutionary edition of “The Fascist
Bacillus,” one of the best-known plays
by Xia, who became the PRC’s Deputy
Minister of Culture between 1954 and
1965. He was then arrested and spent
much of the Cultural Revolution in
detention. (#193427) $175.00
90. Yang Hansheng. Qian ye. [China]:
Xiju shudian, 1939. 161p., very good in
wraps, transparent glassine overwrap still
intact with small chip at edge; ornate
ownership stamp of Huang Keyi on title page and front free endpaper. Guo
fang xi ju cong shu, di 3 zhong. (#193375) $95.00
Four-act play by one of the masters of historically-themed theater at the time.
91. Zeami, ; Matsudaira Masuko. Aya-no-tsuzumi. Traduction sommaire.
Tokyo: Kiemon Nishikawa, 1937. 4], 5, [1] p. 2 black and white photo plates,
bound with thread, private library label at upper right corner of front cover.
Text in French. "100 exemplaires tires de cette edition." (#143440) $95.00
Single sheet laid in explains the purpose of the pamphlet in Japanese.
92. Visconti, Luchino, a cura di Pietro Bianchi. Vaghe stelle dell'orsa . . . [inscribed and signed by Visconti].
Rocca San Casciano: Cappelli editore, 1965. 202p., introduction, script, credits, shooting schedule, illustrated
with glossy b&w plates from film stills, text in Italian, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped
lightly-edgeworn dj with closed tears, personal inscription in Italian signed by Visconti dated Roma 1965 (year of
publication) Dal soggetto al film: Collana cinematografica diretta da Renzo Renzi #34. (#200585) $1,250.00
The film script and a history of the filming with stills of the the Visconti film "Sandra of theThousand Delights"
("Sandra" in the US) inscribed and signed by the writer/director who had just filmed "The Leopard." This starred
Claudia Cardinale. Visconti was openly gay and his last partner was Helmut Berger.