HUGGETT, RICHARD.

The Truth about 'Pygmalion'.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1969. 1st ed. "Richard Huggett's reconstruction of the witticisms, temperaments, clashes and delays that attended the first production of this classic and the ensuing scandal is drawn from letters, diaries, contemporary press reports and reminiscences of surviving members of the original company." Pp.10/195, 16 pages of half-tone illustrations, 13 line-blocks(cartoons), facsimile newspaper cutting endpapers. Brown cloth, illustrated d/w has edge wear. VG/G+.

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Book number: 29981

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Keywords: Huggett Truth Pygmalion Bernard Shaw Mrs Patrick Campbell Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Theatre 27944 Theatre

ILLSLEY, W.A.

A Shakespeare Manual for Schools.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Published as a guide to Shakespeare's plays for secondary school pupils in Nigeria. Pp.96, 5 figure illustrations showing British theatres. Illustrated boards. Scarce. VG.

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Book number: 32466

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Keywords: Illsley Shakespeare Manual Schools Nigeria Drama Theatre Education 32265 Theatre

IRVING, SIR HENRY.

The Drama Addresses.

London: William Heinemann, 1893. 0. 2nd edition. Four lectures: 1. The Stage As It Is.(Edinburgh 1881); 2. The Art of Acting (Harvard 1885); Four Great Actors (Oxford 1886); and 4. The Art of Acting (Edinburgh 1891). Pp.164,8(ads), portrait frontis, historated capitals to each start of chapter, some pages as yet un-cut to top edge, toning to endpapers. Grey boards, age darkened. G+.

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Keywords: Sir Henry Irving Drama Addresses Lectures Edinburgh Harvard Oxford Stage Acting Actors Theatre 32421 Theatre

KNIGHT, JOSEPH (1829-1907) .

Theatrical Notes By Joseph Knight .

London: Lawrence & Bullen, 16 Henrietta Street, Covent garden, 1893 . 0. Limited edition (No. 65 of 250). 8vo. 10.25" x 18.0cm x 3.3cm. pp.xvi/pp.321/[p.] . Soiled boards, edges rubbed and bumped. Faux vellum spine, rubbed and soiled with repair top top of spine, All page edges deckled (rough-cut). Plain endpapers. Dedication to front free-endpaper: "To H. W. Acaster on playing Hamlet at Wintersloe, Xmas 1904. Whose rendering appreciated as it was by all was much appreciated by S. Howard Fisher." Half-title present. Verso with note: "Two hundred and fifty copies No. 65". Clean text throughout illustrated with 7 sepia portraits (photograure?) by "Walker & Boutall Ph. Sc." VG. ** "Wintersloe was a fourteen-roomed detached property erected in 1881. Such large Victorian houses in Moseley lent themselves to development as schools. The name Wintersloe above the door meant ‘Blackthorn’. Sampson Howard Fisher, who preferred to be known as Howard Fisher, Wintersloe’s Principal, was born in 1869 in Birmingham. His family came from the Bockleton, Pudlton and Kimbolton area near Leominster.

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Keywords: 50191 Acaster Fisher Wintersloe Mosley Lawrence & Bullen Knight, Joseph Walker & Boutall Ph. Sc Theatre

KOMISARJEVSKY, THEODORE.

The Theatre and a Changing Civilisation.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1935. 1st edition. "The Theatre is closely connected with the social, political and religious life of people, and is a potent factor in the moral and cultural progress of humanity." Pp.xiv/183/2(publisher's catalogue), owner's details to front free endpaper, newspaper obituary of Komisarjevsky sellotaped to inside front board, tape marks to front free endpaper. Fawn cloth, spiine rubbed and darkened. Good.

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Book number: 47591

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Keywords: Theodore Komisarjevsky Theatre Changing Civilisation Civilization Sociology Politics Religion Moral Cultural Progress 49073 Theatre

KRAWITZ, HERMAN & KLEIN, HOWARD.

Royal American Symphonic Theater. A Radical Proposal for a Subsidized Professional Theater.

New York & London: Macmillan, 1975. 1st ed. "A provocative, practical, and eminently useful book packed with significant facts." Pp. 11/211. Black cloth, black boards, d/w has edge chipping. G+/G+.

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Keywords: Krawitz Klein Royal American Symphonic Theater Radical Proposal Subsidized Professional Theater A10002 Theatre

LANDA, M.J.

The Jew in Drama.

London:P.S.King & Son,1926. 1st ed. Pp.340,portrait frontis. of Richard Cumberland, errata slip to contents page. Grey boards with fawn cloth spine, edges and boards rubbed. G+.

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Book number: 22314

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Keywords: Landa Jew Drama Theatre Stage Shylock Semitism Cumberland Zangwill Jewish Characters Yiddish A18914 Theatre

LEA, GORDON.

Modern Stagecraft for the Amateur. Plans and Drawings by C.J. Vear. (Foreword by Dame Sybil Thorndike).

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1949. 1st ed. Here is a book of the greatest interest to the keen worker in the amateur theatre. Pp. 12/78, frontis, 10 b/w illustrations, 42 figures. Green cloth, d/w rubbed with edge tears. G+/G.

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Keywords: Lea Thorndike Vear Modern Stagecraft for Amateur Illustrated A15825 Theatre

LELYVELD, TOBY.

Shylock on the Stage.

London:Routledge and Kegan Paul,1961. 1st ed. "This is a study of the many interpretations of Shylock by leading actors of the British and American theatre, from Shakespeare's time to the present(1961)." Pp.12/149,b/w frontis. + 6 further plates,figure notations to rear endpaper,minor tape marks to endpapers. Red cloth, d/w rubbed with clear protective wrap. G/G.

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Book number: 14761

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Keywords: Lelyveld Shylock Stage Shakespeare Theatre Drama Acting Actors Macklin Kean Booth Irving Merchant Venice A8911 Theatre

MACQUEEN-POPE, W.

Late Night Theatre, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Plaistow: The Curwen Press, 1951. Late Night Theatre: With plays and players representative of the British Theatre presented by The Newspaper Proprietors Association by kind permission of the Directors of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Monday 9th July 1951 at 11pm. Organized by Prince Littler and John Varley. Contains an outline history of the theatre by Offical Historian W. Macqueen-Pope. Plus Programme to centre pages: 1.Prologue spoken by Sybil Thorndike as Sarah Siddons; 2.Excerpt from The Gondoliers - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; 3.Scene from School for Scandal introduced by Laurence Olivier; 4. Pat Kirkwood; 5.Scene from The Admirable Crichton Introduced by Ralph Richardson; 6.The Palladium Girls introduced by George Robey; 7.Eddie Gordon and Nancy; 8.Tommy Trinder; 9.Olive Gilbert introduced by Edith Evans; Interval; 10.Introduction to the Second Half by Esmond Knight as King Charles II; 11.Scene from Man and Superman; 12.Beatrice Lillie; 13.Scene ferom Twellfth Night featuring Peggy Ashcroft; 14.Grand Pas de Deux from the ballet Don Quixote with Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin; 15.Kensington Girls; 16.Happy and Glorious by Laurence Housman; 17.The Toast from Cavalcade by Noel Coward; 18.Finale. Pp.29, 6 pages of the programme bound in with decorated papers to centre, black & white frontispiece + 10 further plates and text illustrations, crease to lower corner tip of title page. Decorated card covers (matching inner programme cover), chipping to top front edge. G+.

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Book number: 47613

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Keywords: Macqueen Pope Late Night Theatre Royal Drury Lane History 49093 Theatre

MATES, JULIAN.

The American Musical Stage Before 1800.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1962. 1st ed. "Here is a book which discloses and recaptures a lively segment of American cultural history". Pp. 9/331, 8 b/w illustrations. Cream and red cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w rubbed and chipped. G+/G.

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Book number: 14848

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Keywords: Mates American Musical Stage Before 1800 A8908 Theatre

MAY, ROBIN.

A Child's Guide to Looking at Theatre.

London: Marshall Cavendish/Woodpecker Books, 1979. 0856856851. 1st ed. Introduces children to the magic world of theatre: plays, musicals, mime, opera, ballet, puppetry. Gives an outline of the history of theatre and a view of what happens backstage. 27cms x 21.5cms. Pp.44, colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Laminated boards. VG.

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Book number: 30621

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: May Childs Guide Theatre Plays Drama Musical Mime Opera Ballet Puppets History Backstage 29959 Theatre

MELLING, JOHN KENNEDY.

Discovering Theatre Ephemera.

Shire Publications Ltd, 1974. 085263245. 1st edition. Shire Discovering No.185. "Theatre Ephemera is a wide term because it embraces theatre, music-hall, circus, opera, ballet, concert-party, puppets, films, television and revue, with items made of paper, cardboard, cloth, wood, metal, and even stone. Pp.56, 11 photo illustrations, toning to pages. Paperback, wear to edges. Good.

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Book number: 47589

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Theatre Ephemera Playbills Photos Tickets Cartoons Autographs Relics Programmes Drawings Books, Cigarette Cards Costume Music Newspapers Postcards Posters Prints Props Records Scripts 49071 Theatre

MILES, BERNARD AND TREWIN, J.C.

Curtain Calls.

Guildford:Lutterworth,1981. 0718824768. 1st ed. Book about the world of the theatre. "Linked by Bernard Miles's reminiscences of his own experiences as actor, manager, director and author, and by John Trewin's scholarship..Curtain Calls is alive with laughter, affection and surprise." Pp.192, inscribed by Bernard Miles ("To Tony and Amanda for Tony's faithful but elderly Apprentice! As first of these two compilers! Bernard"), 26 prints and photograph illustrations,billboard endpapers. Blue cloth, illustrated d/w has 1cm tear to lower front corner. VG/G+.

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Keywords: Miles Trewin Curtain Calls Signed Theatre Drama Stage A8903 Theatre

MOORE, ALEX.

Ballroom Dancing.

London: A & C Black, 1987. 8th ed. With 100 diagrams and photographs of the Quickstep, Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, etc. Pp. 11/324, portrait frontis. Laminated boards with creasing to front laminated board. G+.

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Book number: 19696

Catalogue: Theatre: : Dance

Keywords: Moore Ballroom Dancing Diagrams Photographs A15146 Theatre: : Dance