Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Serebriakoff, Alexandre. Hardcover. A complete set, four books in jackets in original slipcase, of "The Authorized Edition of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc." Adapted by Robert Lawrence with illustrations by Alexandre Serebriakoff. From the jackets: "In dramatic narrative and colorful pictures, enriched by musical quotations from.....
Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1929. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A biography of the Chinese actor Mei Lan-Fang, famous for his female roles, translated and adapted from Chinese sources by George Kin Leung on the eve of Mei Lan-Fang's American tour. Lavishly illustrated, with chapters addressing his background, productions, admirers, and.....
London: Printed for C. Chapple, Pall-Mall, 1811. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in one. Mrs. Sumbel's account of her extraordinary life, including her long career as an actress, her affairs and marriages, her imprisonments for debt, her conversion to Judaism, and her attempts to settle scores and defend herself from.....
Belford, Clarke & Co., 1889. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition in pictorial paper wrappers of the first collections of short plays published by a woman in America", including the "The Proposal", "The Title and the Money", "At the Grand Central", "Teacups" and "The Chatterbox". Wrappers worn with minor chips.....
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An nineteenth-century edition of the first and second quartos of Hamlet, printed on facing pages so they might be easily compared, from copies in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire. With a bibliographical introduction by Samuel Timmins, and facsimiles.....
Paris: Libraire Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1909. Hardcover. Early printing of Maeterlinck's play, handsomely bound for the San Francisco department store The White House. The printer's label to the front endpaper reads "Bound expressly for Raphael Weill Co. Inc. San Francisco", while an embossed stamp to the rear endpaper reads "Book.....