Sotheby Parke Bernet
DANCE, THEATER, OPERA: Costume & Decor Designs, Sculpture, Prints and Books. November 24, 1978
NY: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978

Square octavo. Unpaginated. 114 lots; b/w & color illustrations throughout. Paperback. Near Fine, back cover shows light edge wear, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #012243

Hurok, S.
COMEDIE-FRANCAISE. Amerique du Nord - MCMLXI
NY: Sol Hurok, 1961

Quarto. unpaginated, approx. 50 pp. Paperback. Gold embossed image of Moliere on the front cover. This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Very clean inside and lightly soiled covers. Text in English and French. Essays about the Comedie Francaise which Hurok had been bringing to the U.S. since the 1950's. This catalog was prepared for the 1961 season. Illustrated in color and black & white with costume and set designs, photographs of French actors, etc.
Inventory number #011543

Buckle, Richard
IN SEARCH OF DIAGHILEV
NY: Thomas Nelson & Son, 1956

Quarto. 127 pp; color frontispiece, [7] color and 177 b/w illustrations. Black cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly chipped at spine ends & corners, spine & top inch of jacket age toned, one short edge tear.
Inventory number #011416

Sharp, Dennis
THE PICTURE PALACE and other Buildings for the Movies
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969

First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; 5 color & profuse b/w illustrations; selected list of cinemas in Great Britain and the United States; bibliography; index. Cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has 1 3/4" closed tear at top of spine, spine & back panel lightly soiled. This is an entertaining and well-researched history of the movie house - from nickelodeons and Kinetoscope parlors to drive-ins, from the picture palace to the art theater - in America, England, and continental Europe. It features the colorful 1920's, the depression years of the 1930's, and the post-World War II era, with the trend toward small, intimate, simply decorated theaters. The author treats problems of sight lines, ventilation, acoustics, projection, and decoration; discusses the styles and innovations of important theater architects such as Thomas W. Lamb, John Eberson, and Ben Schlanger.
Inventory number #010437

Ringgold, Gene
THE FILMS OF BETTE DAVIS
NY: Citadel Press, 1971

Second paperback edition. Quarto. 191 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This book features stills from all of Bette Davis's movie career, starting in 1931 with Bad Sister and ending in 1965 with The Nanny.
Inventory number #010105

Buckle, Richard
IN THE WAKE OF DIAGHILEV
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982

First printing. Octavo. 367 pp; b/w photographs; index. Gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket, illustrated endpapers. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has sunned spine else Near Fine. Ballet memoirs.
Inventory number #009716

Panov, Valery & George Feifer
TO DANCE
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978

Book Club edition. Octavo. xiv, 397 pp; b/w photographs; index. Black cloth with silver lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG. Four photos that appear in book laid in. A clean, unmarked copy; light ink stain on bottom edge, jacket shows moderate rubbing, with light chipping at top & bottom of spine.
Inventory number #009711

Walker, kathrine Sorley
DANCE AND ITS CREATORS: Choreographers at Work
NY: John Day Company, 1972

Octavo. x, 214 pp; full of b/w photographs; biographies; bibliography; filmography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket shows light edgewear, mostly at top & bottom of spine.
Inventory number #009710

Allen, Shirley S.
SAMUEL PHELPS & Sadler's Wells Theatre
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971

Octavo. 354 pp; b/w photos and illustrations; chart of Shakesperian plays performed; list of non-Shakesperian plays performed; notes; select bibliography; index. Cloth in priceclipped dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket. small closed tear to top edge and minor soiling evident on lighter portions of jacket, spine darkened.
Inventory number #009546

Tebbel, John
A CERTAIN CLUB: One Hundred Years of the Players
NY: The Players, 1989

Octavo. 348 pp; color & b/w photographs. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt in illustrated slipcase.
Inventory number #009526

Stewart, George Woodbridge, ed.
THE PLAYERS: After 75 Years
NY: The Players, 1968

Octavo. 267 pp; color frontispiece, b/w photos of club interior, drawings by Marshall Goodman; list of officers, list of players. Maroon cloth with gilt spine label. VG, minor rubbing to corners of spine. This seventy-fifth anniversary book of Gramercy Park's Players Club presents the nature and composition of the Club from 1938 to 1963 is full of reminiscences from members.
Inventory number #009525

Cochran, Charles B. [Inscribed to Collin Brooks]
SHOWMAN LOOKS ON
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945

First edition. Octavo. viii, 323 pp; color frontispiece [Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec], 32 pages of b/w plates from photographs and drawings; index. Original purple cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in dustjacket. VG/VG, top rear corner bumped; head of jacket spine chipped, small chips at corners, short tear at base of jacket spine, pp 303/304 has short tear. Inscribed by author on the title page: "To Collin Brooks, With the friendliest regards of Charles B. Cochran, Nov. 22 '45". This is Cochran's second book of reminiscences, full of tales of his fifty years in the theatrical world.
Inventory number #006275

Kapp, Julius
200 JAHRE STAATSOPER IM BILD Aus Anlass Des 200 Jahrigen Jubilaums Der Berliner Staatsoper Im Auftrage Der Generalintendanz Der Preussischen Staatstheater
Berlin: Max Hesses, 1942

Quarto. 247 pp; profusely illustrated with color & b/w illustrations. Text in German. White cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering & drawing of the opera house on front cover. VG, minor wear to top corners, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Pictorial history of 200 years of the Berlin State Opera, with many hundreds of b/w illustrations of actors, programs, theatricals, autographs, notes, stage pictures, and 24 color plates on cardboard with stage images, costumes, etc.
Inventory number #003233

Deans, Marjorie
MEETING AT THE SPHINX: Gabriel Pascal's Production of Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra
London: Macdonald & Co., 1946

First British edition. Octavo. 114 pp. Illustrated with 32 color photos & 32 photogravure stills, along with some of Oliver Messel's costume sketches reproduced in the margins of the text. Red gilt-lettered cloth with tipped-on illustration of Michelangelo's head of Cleopatra* on cover with dustjacket. VG+/VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, gilt lettering bright; jacket price clipped with light wear at spine ends, small loss at bottom corner of front cover; light rubbing at edges; tiny puncture in fold of spine.
Inventory number #002547

St. John, Christopher, Ed.
ELLEN TERRY AND BERNARD SHAW : A Correspondence
NY: The Fountain Press, 1931

Limited edition of 3000 copies. Octavo. xl, 370 pp. Green cloth with gilt decoration & border on cover and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt & deckle fore edges. Spine sunned, a few marks on covers, else a clean, tight copy. #1968/3000, printed by The Merrymount Press.
Inventory number #001472

Friedman, Mildred & Glenn M. Andres
HHPA: Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Buildings and Projects 1992-1998
NY: Rizzoli, 1999

First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; profusely illustrated in color & b/w photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket in protective mylar cover. HHPA is especially renowned for its theater and performing arts complexes. This book features the presentation of 50 projects (interiors and exteriors), plus works in progress and planning projects. They include: Windows on the World restaurant at the World Trade Center and Bryant Park in New York City; Cleveland Library, Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu; the comprehensive development plan for Warner Bros. Hollywood Studios; and the Los Angeles Public Library, Central Library, built in 1926 by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.
Inventory number #000351

Clarke, Mary
THE SADLER'S WELLS BALLET : A History and Appreciation
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1955

First American edition. Octavo. xv, 336 pp; 55 b/w photographs, appendices; bibliography of sources; index. Maroon cloth with silver-stamped lettering on spine in dj. VG/VG-, dj spine slightly darkened, price clipped at bottom of dj flap. Well-written history of the Sadler's Wells Ballet, founded in 1931 by Ninette de Valois, with the help of Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert.
Inventory number #000284