1939. Inscribed photograph of African-American television, theater, and film pioneer, Ethel Waters (1896-1977), depicting her in one of... Read More about Photograph signed ("Ethel Waters") and inscribed, from the Broadway production of Mamba's Daughters
Price: $2,500
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 about Portrait photograph of Diana Adams in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND
Price: $750
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 about Typed letter signed "Louis Mann" (to Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry...
Price: $75
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 about A volume of 10 bound plays, all but two from the Turner Dramatic Library, described as...
Price: $250
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Dame Judith Anderson as Mother Mary. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mary in "Family Portrait"
Price: $3,500
New York: [May 12, 1951]. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Medea
Price: $3,500
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mother Mary in "Family Portrait"
Price: $3,500
Washington, D.C: Anderson House, 1939. First edition. Read More about Key Largo. A Play in Prologue and Two Acts
Price: $175
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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 about Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman
Price: $250
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More about Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit
Price: $200
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More about Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit
Price: $250
[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 about Clipped autograph signature, “Albert S. Flint”
Price: $175
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 about Gabrielle. Comedie en vers
Price: $250
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 about La Ciguë. Comédie en Vers
Price: $250
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 about Two Typed Letters of Agreement, signed, to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming two amendments...
Price: $850
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 about Typed letter signed "Gene"
Price: $150
N.P. [Hollywood]: n.d. [ca. 1950]. Young Man with a Camera: Bacall & Douglas. Bacall & Douglas starred together in YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950), in which Douglas plays a jazz trumpeter involved with the strange and beautiful (and possibly lesbian) Amy, played Bacall. The inscription is reproduced in EISENSTAEDT'S..... Read More about Autograph Inscriptions Signed ("Best Always, Lauren Bacall" and "to Alfred...
Price: $350
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..... Read More about Lauren Bacall By Myself
Price: $400
New York: privately printed, 1834. A copy in the original cloth of this "not published" American verse tragedy, with the title role written for Charles Kean. "It was first produced at the Park Theatre, November 1, 1831, and Ireland remarks that 'having many passages of rare merit,' it deserved more..... Read More about Waldimar. A Tragedy, in Five Acts
Price: $275
New York: July 3, 1946. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978). Inscribed "I don't care who sees me, Pearl." Read More about Portrait photograph of Pearl Bailey
Price: $1,250
New York: July 5, 1946. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten (from this print). Read More about Portrait photograph of Pearl Bailey in "St. Louis Woman"
Price: $950
London: Printed for Messr. Rivingtons, 1782. New Edition, usual cancels. Read More about Biographia Dramatica, or, A Companion to the Playhouse: containing historical and critical...
Price: $300
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 about Autograph: "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928"
Price: $2,000
