Hyattsville, Maryland: 24 February and 22 July, 1976. Cain writing of his current work "a child's book, a rewrite, for young consumption of one I ran across, that I never sent to the agent, about a child, a young girl, who was given a baby tiger to raise...tigers are a...... Read More about Two typed letters, signed "Jim", to columnist Cindy Adams

Hutchinson & Co. Number 72 of 100 copies of the Edition De Luxe, signed with her signed card laid in. Mrs Patrick Campbell (February 9, 1865 – April 9, 1940) was one of the most successful British stage actresses of her generation. Her first marriage, from which she took the..... Read More about My Life and Some Letters

[Philadelphia]: 1908. Among the cast of the play in addition to Carle was Dewitt Mott, Sylvain Langlois and George Bogues. This work was adapted from the French farce “Mme. Mongodin” by Carle. Read More about Broadside for the Chestnut Street Opera House presenting Richard Carle in “Mary's Lamb,”...

New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First American edition. Read More about The New Spirit in Drama & Art

New York: c. 1930. A short response in scrawled hand from the actor who immortalized “Casey at the Bat.” reading in part: “I guess whatever success I’ve achieved was born of a sense of responsibility to do all I could in anything I undertook.” American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical..... Read More about Autograph letter signed "DeWolf Hopper" to "Master Halpern" (Seymour Halpern)...

Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1903. First edition. Read More about The Mediaeval Stage

New York: January 5, 1956. Read More about Portrait photograph of Carol Channing "en chinoise"

Denver: 22 November 1959. Replying to Hartley's enquiry about her writing and education. High school was of importance to her due to her English and Latin teachers. The Latin helping her understand English grammar and the Latin teacher reciting poetry and the English teacher introducing her to Shakespeare. Of college..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Mary Chase”

London: John C. Nimmo, 1889. Parkes, R.B. First edition thus, of a work originally published in 1740. A well illustrated edition of the dramatist's ingenuously frank autobiography and description of the Restoration and early 18th theatre. Cibber (1671-1757) was an actor, and the author of the comedies The Careless Husband..... Read More about An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself. A new edition with notes and...

New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Inscribed by the Last of Barnum's Clowns. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “For the members of the Boys Club of New York in the fond hope they may enjoy reading this partial record of my happy past. ‘Uncle ’ Bob Sherwood, Last..... Read More about Hold Yer Hosses! The Elephants are Coming

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1931]. Inscribed. Inscribed on the free endpaper “Four Circus Guys are better any day than Four Hawaiians–So step Closah-h-h Friends! This book is inscribed by Courtney Ryley Cooper (world's imfamous clown and worse writer) to Eddie Nemo (world's infamouser laugh eradicator) thence to Leonard Traube..... Read More about Circus Day

London: [Henry Hills], 1709. Piracy of the First Edition (printed in the same year). Read More about The Circus: or, British Olympicks. A Satyr on the Ring in Hide-Park

Paris: Charles Portal Éditeur, [1953]. #128 of 1000. Inscribed to Madame della Paolera by Lifar et al with a pen drawing. Read More about Prestige de la danse...realisation de Jean Guéritte en collaboarion avec Monique Lancelot