![Item #2024-Q366 [Julie Harris Autograph] Playbill, Colonial Theatre: Lucifer's Child](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2024-Q366.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735695861)
[Julie Harris Autograph] Playbill, Colonial Theatre: Lucifer's Child
1991. Hardcover. Playbill inscribed by Julie Harris, staring as the author Isak Dineson in the play based on her life. Inscribed on the front cover. Slight toning. 8.5 x 5.5"
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The Bright Island
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Hardcover. This is book 82/184 of a limited printing of this play, signed by the author Arnold Bennett. The book is bound in vellum with the title and author in gilt on the spine. Author's signature is on the limitation page. Pages are clean and.....
The Black Camel, A Charlie Chan Mystery
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in unclipped jacket. Wear and small losses to edges of jacket, tear along rear joint, loss to tail of spine. Blue boards with red lettering. Toning to pages, foxing to fore edge. 312pp. The fourth of Biggers' Charlie Chan novels.....
Lord Byron's Works [Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Werner, The Island, The Age of Bronze, Marino Faliero]
London: John Murray; John Hunt; James Cawthorn. Hardcover. Four volume 'set' of Byron's works assembled by the nineteenth-century English politician John Hodgetts Hodgetts Foley. Having acquired the third volume of John Murray's 1819 three volume 'Works of Lord Byron' he bound later works (and one earlier) to almost match. While.....
Les Chef-D'Oeuvres de P. Corneille. Savoir, Le Cid, Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte, Pompee, Rodugune. Avec Le Jugement des Savans
Oxford: Jaques Fletcher, 1746. Hardcover. 'Nouvelle Edition' of the major works of the sixteenth-century French tragedian, published (in French) in Oxford in 1746. Marking it's place of publication, an engraving of Oxford landmarks including the newly completed Radcliffe Camera illustrates the title page. Bookplate of 'Sr John Mordaunt, Bart., Walton.....
LaChapelle Land (Deluxe Edition)
Channel Photographics, 2006. Special Edition. Hardcover. 11.5" x 14.5" Housed in publisher's original box with shrink wrap.
Crossings: A Fairy Play by Walter de la Mare with Music by C. Armstrong Gibbs
London: Beaumont Press, 1921. Schwabe, Randolph. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, printed entirely on Japanese vellum and signed by the author, composer and illustrator (Randolph Schwabe). Of 330 copies, 10 were printed on vellum and signed, 56 on Japanese vellum and signed, and the rest unsigned on handmade paper. No.....
![Item #2024-Q250 The Doge Club: Or, Italy in MDCCCLIX [Cecil B DeMille Bookplate]. James De Mille](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2024-Q250.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724538876)
The Doge Club: Or, Italy in MDCCCLIX [Cecil B DeMille Bookplate]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. Hardcover. A comic novel by the Canadian novelist James De Mille, with the distinctive bookplate of Cecil B DeMille (not, as far as we know, a relation). John DeMille's novel satirizes the grand tour, and its humorous depiction of Americans abroad was linked by.....
The Toy Story Sketchbook: The Sketchbook Series (The Disney Sketchbook Series)
Applewood Books, 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,500 copies of which this is 533. Certificate of Authenticity included. Minor shelf wear to slipcase, tiny blemish to front cover (see photos). Otherwise clean and unmarked. From the introduction: 'When audiences watch Toy Story and Toy Story 2, they are seeing.....
Kon Ichikawa (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)
Indiana University Press, 2001. Soft cover. This the 4th volume in a series of retrospectives created by the Toronto International Film Festival Group. This book focuses on the esteemed Japanese director Kon Ichikawa. The book is a collection of essays by the esteemed director and his wife, more than 20.....
![Item #2024-Q367 [Anne Bancroft Autograph] A Cry of Players, Berkshire Theatre Festival Programme....](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2024-Q367.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735695861)
[Anne Bancroft Autograph] A Cry of Players, Berkshire Theatre Festival Programme
1968. Soft cover. Program for the performance of William Gibson's 'A Cry of Players' from the 1968 Berkshire Theatre Festival, signed on the cover by the starring actress, Anne Bancroft. Slight toning to pages and upper edge of soft covers. Slightest loss to rear cover. 8.5 x 5.5"
Small Collection relating to Medea / Judith Anderson in Medea
New York: Random House, 1946. Hardcover. A small collection of material relating to Robinson Jeffers' Medea, with ticket stub, playbill, two programmes, book, and recording. Jeffers, Robinson. Medea. New York: Random House, 1946. Third printing in unclipped jacket with $2.50 price. Previous owner's inscription, "Barbara Baker, October 17, 1948, Carmel.....
Shrek: The Art Of The Quest
Insight Editions, 2007. Hardcover. A lavishly produced artbook celebrating the first three Shrek films. Some scuffs to the exterior of the slipcase (see photos). The interior, including several mini-booklets and interactive elements, is bright and unmarked. 148 pages. 13.5 x 9.5". As a large, heavy book this order may incur.....
The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Abrams Books, 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing with complete number line. Slightest wear and curling the edges of the jacket, bump to lower corner. Bright illustrated boards, pages clean and unmarked. 256pp. 12 x 11". As an oversize, heavy book this order will be packed carefully and may incur.....
Kindred of the Dust
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy of the 1920 novel that was adapted into the 1922 silent film starring Miriam Cooper and directed by her husband Raoul Walsh. "For Bill Hetfield [?] - from his friend, the old [?] author himself. Sincerely, Peter B Kyne.....
Making Pictures: A Century of European Cinematography
Harry N. Abrams, 2003. Hardcover. A comprehensive book on the art of cinematography including a history of the craft, film analyses, illustrations and enlargements of film frames. The dust jacket of this book has been wrapper in mylar. This book is almost like new with clean and unmarked pages.
An American Comedy
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of Harold Lloyd's autobiography, beginning "Birth was one of the least interesting things that every happened to me..." Slight bumping to corners, fading to red top stain, slight toning throughout. vii, [3], [1]-204pp. Many plates from photographs.....
L'Oiseau Bleu
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.....
To-Night at Eight: Comedies and Comediettas.
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.....
La Samaritaine; Les Romanesques; Chantecler; Cyrano de Bergerac; Les Musardises
Libraire Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1910. Hardcover. Five plays by Rostand in attractive uniform bindings. Quarter leather spines with gilt ornamentation and titles. Top edges gilt. Bindings signed "Em. Terquem Rel." All later printings, dated 1910 or 1911. marbled boards; marbled endpapers; pages faintly toned. "Chantecler" only has original pale green.....
Yale French Studies Vol. 1 No. 1: Existentialism [Sarte, Les Maines Sales / Dirty Hands / Red Gloves]
1948. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Founding issue of the journal, opening with an extract from Sartre's play "Les Maines Sales", with contributors examining the emerging existentialist movement. Yellow paper covers darkening, splits along top and bottom of front joint. Stapled pages, faintly toned with age. 127, [1]pp 9 x 6".....
Film in Depth [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; No Reason to Stay; Overture; The Language of Faces; Orange and Blue; Toys; Timepiece; Night and Fog; Sunday Lark; Flavio; The Little Island; A Stain on his Conscience]
Dayton, Ohio: Geo. A. Pflaum, 1970. Soft cover. Twelve stapled booklets in worn cardboard slipcase, each offering a detailed study of a short film and "a related aspect of film art and appreciation". An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; No Reason to Stay; Overture; The Language of Faces; Orange and.....
The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630
Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine jacket (now in protective plastic cover) of Turner's work on the English stage. 326 pages. 9.75 x 6.5"
"Ah Sin" A Dramatic Work
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1961. Limited Edition. Hardcover. An edition of the unsuccessful collaboration between Harte and Twain, drawing upon the then recently rediscovered "amanuensis copy apparently prepared for the early rehearsals of the play", still the only text known. Frederick Anderson provides an introduction, noting that.....
The Art of DreamWorks Megamind: Bad, Brilliant, Blue
Insight Editions, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of DreamWorks' interpretation of the comic book superhero genre. Very slight wear to the extremities of the jacket, while the illustrated cover and 156 pages are wonderfully bright and clean, including the fold-out pages. 10.25 x11.25". As a......