Search Results: Theatre and Film from Old Saratoga Books

NY: George Sully and Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Part of rear jacket panel stuck to rear . boards, pages toned and some light foxing, jacket toned, sunned, . waterstained and chipped.. 1927. Hardcover. xiv, 187pp. Many illustrations. Red cloth binding. A vintage book of magic trick instructions by the "World's Master Magician". Photo of Thurston on front jacket flap. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London and New York: Charles A. Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Pages toned, jacket soiled, tattered and . has loss at head of spine.. 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Blurbs by Heywood Broun, Brooks Atkinson and Richard Watts, Jr on rear jacket panel. [xii], 250 pp. Front jacket portrait of actor Richard Massey portraying Lincoln by Norman Rockwell. Includes cast list from the premiere production of this play at the National Theatre in Washington, DC, on October 3rd, 1938. This play gained Sherwood the second of his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and was the basis for the 1940 film of the same title. ; 250 pages .

Brunswick, Australia: Globe Press. Very Good; Covers rubbed, lower front cover corner creased.. 1986. First Printing. Softcover. 0958854319 . viii, 216pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Black and white photos and illustrations, acknowledgments, glossary, and bibliography. First-hand account by the vaudeville dancer and contortionist about her world tours and her parents' music hall acts. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops soiled.. 1973. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth. xi, 252pp. Illustrated endpapers, foreword, black and white photo section, and index. Reminiscences and anecdotes from an assistant cameraman on some of D. W. Griffith's major films. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Birmingham, MI: Puppetry Imprints. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed and soiled.. 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1000 copies. Photos and illustrations by Ivan and Nina Efimova. Translated from the Russian by Elena Mitcoff. Yellow illustrated cloth. Decorative endpapers. Index. The author’s account of puppet theatre in Russia during the Revolution and early 20th century. Includes new chapters and illustrations from the original Russian edition. Inscribed by Mitcoff on the front free endpaper to fellow puppeteer Helen Reisdorf. Reisdorf signature also on front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 199 pages .

NY: Disney Editions. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Top front corner bumped.. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1423128877 . Black and white and color photographs, index. A study of Tim Burton's version of this childrens classic focusing on the film's artwork, costume design, and visual developments. ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 249 pages .

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0899502504 . xiii, 295pp. Maroon cloth. Many photos, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered, pages lightly toned at . margins.. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs by Gjon Mili and Al St. Hilaire. Striking color pictorial boards. Preface by Robert Traver. A look at 20th century movie-making documented by on- and off-stage photographs of the filming of Traver’s novel “Anatomy of a Murder”, as directed by Otto Preminger. Many shots of actors Lee Remick, George C. Scott, and Jimmy Stewart. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 119 pages .

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly soiled.. 1978. First Printing. Hardcover. 0195021657 . Red cloth. xiv, 253pp. Foreword, acknowledgments, black and white photos, notes, and index. Spiced with anecdotes, the book is an intellectual portrait that serves as a fine introduction to his work (front jacket flap). Foreword by Francois Truffaut. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Sand Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly soiled.. 1982. First Printing. Hardcover. 0151070520 . Translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Orange paper quarter-bound in maroon cloth. xv, 104pp. Black and white illustrations by Igor Tulipanov. This fascinating, moving drama is the only significant English translation of Andromache in half a century. (rear jacket flap) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Mitchell Kennerley. Very Good with no dust jacket; Corners bumped.. 1921. Later Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth binding. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 55 pages .

Boston: Baker's Plays. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and rounded, front free endpaper . rudely removed with resultant damage to front joint.. 1937. Hardcover. An interesting book about choral speaking, the performing art in which choirs deliver poems and prose to their audiences. Introduction by Professor Charles Swain Thomas. Blue cloth binding. Index, many suggested selections for choral reading. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 227 pages .

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed, jacket rubbed and toned . with closed tears.. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0809309424 . Red cloth. vii, 150pp. Foreword, acknowledgments, black and white photos, afterword, and textual note. A volume in the Screenplay Library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops foxed.. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0674058305 . x, 377pp. Black cloth binding. Notes, illustrations, index. "An original perspective on American film...tying the emergence of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere." (from front jacket flap). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket sunned and lightly worn, page tops . foxed.. 1978. Hardcover. 0870231901 . English translation of the ancient Greek play by Euripides, with introduction and notes by Robert Bagg. Mustard cloth titled in gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 82 pages .

NY: MacMillan. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed, jacket chipped, worn, and . faded.. 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Typed note inscribed by author tipped in on the front free endpaper. Blue cloth. vii, 236pp. Black and white photos and illustrations, afterword. The author's careful research, her personal enthusiasm and sympathy for Tom Thumb, and the remarkable photographs she collected to illustrate this book, make this not only a fascinating story but an important historical record of life in America. (front jacket flap). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: David McKay Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly edgeworn.. 1973. Hardcover. 0679504249 . Index. Black cloth binding. Examines the influence and control of organized crime in Hollywood and the entertainment industry. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages .

Larchmont, NY: Argonaut Books. Very Good; Slipcase worn.. 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. Commentaries by Louis Kronenberger and Max Goberman. Decorative binding in decorative paper-covered cardboard slipcase with printed side label. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards lightly soiled, jacket rubbed, . lightly soiled, and price-clipped.. 1961. First American Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Blue paper quarterbound in white cloth. Acknowledgements and musical score illustrations. Three plays by the Irish dramatist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164 pages .

NY: The Viking Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, owner (I. A. . Herskowitz) bookplate on front pastedown, spine cracked.. 1928. Hardcover. Zweig's adaptation of Ben Jonson's play, translated from the German by Ruth Langner. Frontispiece, title page vignette, endpapers and boards illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Tan decorative cloth. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages .