[New York: 1925]. Folding brochure, 9.25 x 15 inches, folded into four panels. Light wear and soiling, particularly ti lower edge; signed by Anderson at top of first panel. Brochure printing reviews of the play "Appearances," the first full-length play written by an African-American to be produced on Broadway. Garland..... More
Netherfield, Nottingham: Stafford Co., [ca. 1890]. Broadside, 11.25 x 9 inches. Old fold lines, light staining to left side. Broadside advertising a performance of the Livermore Brothers Court Minstrels, an English minstrel band who performed in blackface during the Victorian era. The program includes “American Song & Dance,” “The Darkies..... More
Boston: 1862. Broadside, 14.25 x 6.25 inches. Slightly rumpled, light soiling. Lightly tanned. One of the earliest playbills to use John Wilkes Booth's infamous surname, advertising his appearance as Charles De Moor in Friedrich Schiller's play "The Robbers," from the third night of his first Boston engagement. Booth's performance in..... More
San Francisco: Theatrical Publishing Co., 1889. Broadside, 17 x 6 inches. Previously folded. Small closed tear at top edge. Even tanning. An attractive broadside advertisement for entertainments at a downtown San Francisco theater in 1889. The Wigwam Theater was built in 1884 on the corner of Stockton and Geary Streets..... More
Chicago: National Printing & Engraving Co., [ca. 1909]. Broadside poster, 41 x 28 inches. Red ink printed on yellow paper. Old folds, minor wear, a few small chips and tears. A large, striking broadside advertising an unidentified Hawaiian show or exhibition, printed in vivid red ink on a yellow background..... More
Boston: 1868. Broadside, 13 x 9.75 inches. Printed on purple paper. Light fading and minor soiling at edges. Broadside advertising the rail line from North Bridgewater, East Stoughton, and East Randolph departing for Boston for passengers to take in the afternoon and evening theatre shows in the city. Times are..... More
[Providence? 1873?]. Illustrated broadside, printed on yellow paper, comprised of two joined sheets, measuring 22 x 9.5 inches total. Previously folded. Small pencil annotation under title. A few very small areas of loss; two short internal tears. Light dust soiling. A striking illustrated broadside advertising a performance of blackface minstrel..... More
Singer's Glen, Va. Joseph Funk's Sons, 1867. 112pp. Oblong 12mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Moderate wear and soiling to covers, spine ends chipped, corners worn. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on end leaves and title page. Lightly foxed. Third edition, first published in 1865. Scarce hymnal, with printed musical score. The introduction..... More
[Lincoln, Ne. 1876]. Broadside, 24.5 x 10 inches. Old fold lines. Some wear and soiling, small loss near top left and lower right edges. Announcing the fourth appearance of the Lincoln Thespians on the evening of June 29, 1876, performing Enoch Arden and a vaudeville play entitled The Loan of..... More
New York: 1960. [4],97 leaves. Folio. Mimeographed typescript in original black folder, cover gilt. Cover heavily chipped with some loss. Light wear to contents. Mimeographed script of the off-Broadway play "Thistle in My Bed" by Gudrun Powers, noted in pencil as copy number four. The play opened in November 1963..... More
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Cuernavaca: 1976. 79,[5]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Wear to spine and edges; text block separated from wraps. Light tanning. Scarce Mexican work, published in Cuernavaca, on the Chicano Teatro Campesino of Delano, California, which produced works aggressively dedicated to Latin American social, economic, and political justice, "contra el imperialismo yanqui" in..... More