Portrait photograph of Alfred Lunt
New York. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More
Price: $1,000
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Portrait photograph of Diana Adams in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND.
New York: April 23, 1948. A fine and rare image (there are none of her in the Library of Congress) of one of the the great American ballerinas. Adams danced major roles in works by some of the century's greatest choreographers, including George Balanchine, Anthony Tudor, and Jerome Robbins. Later... Read More
Price: $750
‘Skittles and Beer’
Typed letter signed "Louis Mann" (to Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life.
New York: October 29, 1930. ‘Skittles and Beer’. A sincere letter a man considered one of the most versatile actors of his day that opens with the mention of a recent illness (Mann died less than a year later from cancer) and touches on his early days acting alongside actors... Read More
Price: $75
A volume of 10 bound plays, all but two from the Turner Dramatic Library, described as “Correctly printed from the...
Philadelphia and Baltimore: Frederick Turner and various publishers for most, J. Robinson, Circulating Library and John H. Gihon, 1833-1841, Turner plays undated. Containing: "Fra-Diavolo, or the Inn of Terracina. A Comic Opera. Composed by Auber. Written and the Music adapted by Rophino Lacy." [Turner]; "Songs, Duets, Glees, Recitatives, &c, &c... Read More
Price: $250
Dame Judith Anderson as Mother Mary
Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mary in "Family Portrait"
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Dame Judith Anderson as Mother Mary. Read More
Price: $3,500
Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mother Mary in "Family Portrait"
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Read More
Price: $3,500
Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mother Mary in "Family Portrait"
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Read More
Price: $3,500
Key Largo. A Play in Prologue and Two Acts.
Washington, D.C: Anderson House, 1939. First edition. Read More
Price: $175
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Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph
[Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman].
ca. 1911. Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph. Three quarters portrait of an armless Mexican woman named Concha. Miraculously, she has inscribed the verso in an elegant copperplate hand, “Cata: La cinceridad de mi cariño, se la demuestra el presente recuerdo de la ultima de tus amigas. Concha. Apetatitlán, 15 April de... Read More
Price: $250
Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More
Price: $200
Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More
Price: $250
Old Salem Families
Clipped autograph signature, “Albert S. Flint”.
[Salem: 1863]. Old Salem Families. Albert Stowell Flint (1853-1923)the noted astronomer. Flint, born in Salem, Mass., a Harvard and M.I.T. graduate, was best known for his work on the meridian circle on the paralaxes of stars, also his contributions to the reobservation of the secondary stars in Auwer's catalogue and... Read More
Price: $175
Gabrielle. Comedie en vers.
Paris: Ancienne Maison Lévy Frères, 1895. Dubufe, Guillaume. First edition, no. 7 of 50 on Japon, with extra suite of plates before letters (edition of 300). Read More
Price: $250
La Ciguë. Comédie en Vers.
Paris: Ancienne Maison Lévy Frères, 1893. Dubufe, Guillaume. First edition. No. 5 of 50 copies on Japon, with extra suite of plates before letters (edition of 300). Read More
Price: $250
The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox
Two Typed Letters of Agreement, signed, to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming two amendments regarding the starting date of a previously signed...
Los Angeles: July 15 & November 17, 1939. The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox. Following this agreement — due, it is said, to the intervention of 20th-Century Fox star Jane Withers — Western box-office star Gene Autry signed with the Hollywood giant, and made his first movie with them... Read More
Price: $850
"if it was easy everyone would be doing it"
Typed letter signed "Gene"
Los Angeles: 29 March 1993. "if it was easy everyone would be doing it" Responding to Hartley's enquiry into the importance of education to his career. The Cowboy-singer responded "I have always considered a good education extrememly important and one of the best tools to take along with you in... Read More
Price: $150
Portrait photograph of Ethel Ayler as Zirata in Simply Heavenly, by Langston Hughes.
New York: June 10, 1957. Read More
Price: $450
Lauren Bacall By Myself.
New York: Knopf, 1979. First edition, UNCORRECTED PROOF. With a Typed Note of presentation from the publisher to "Mr. (Benjamin) Sonnenberg", dated 8 Aug. '78 : " ... I swiped this copy from the publicity department the moment it arrived this morning - not even Alfred Kazin has a copy yet ... " Read More
Price: $400
Portrait photograph of Pearl Bailey in "St. Louis Woman"
New York: July 5, 1946. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten (from this print). Read More
Price: $950
Biographia Dramatica, or, A Companion to the Playhouse: containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes of British and Irish...
London: Printed for Messr. Rivingtons, 1782. New Edition, usual cancels. Read More
Price: $300
The Companion to the Play-House: Or An Historical Account of all the Dramatic Writers (and their Works) that have appeared...
London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1764. First edition. Read More
Price: $1,250
Autograph: "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928"
Copenhagen: 1928. Inscribed "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928" in pencil. Baker's (1906-1975) first performed in Copenhagen in June 1928 in the show "Wien, Wien – Oh Josephine" at the Dagmar Theatre. Her performance, which included her famous banana skirt dance, caused a sensation. The Danish avant-garde embraced her, while the conservative... Read More
Price: $2,000
Balieff's "Chauve-Souris" Bat Theatre, Moscow. American Season under the Direction of F. Ray Comstock & Morris Gest.Souvenir Program.
[New York: The Dancy Davis Press, c. 1923]. La Chauve-Souris (French: The Bat) was the name of a touring revue during the early 1900s. Originating in Moscow and then Paris, and directed by Nikita Balieff, the revue toured the United States and Europe. The show consisted of songs, dances, and... Read More
Price: $250