Brisbane: H. Pole & Co., [1917]. Large broadside, 40 x 15 inches. Small tears and creasing at edges, a few minor losses to the sheet. Lower edge chipped with some loss to imprint, lower corner torn away affecting several lines. Handsome and striking broadside advertising a performance at the Empire..... 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
![Mt. Shasta Minstrel and Comedy Co., of Yreka [caption title]. California, Theatre](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2440.JPG?v=1638288608)
[Yreka]: Press of the Siskiyou News, [n.d., but after 1895]. Broadside, 10.75 x 5.5 inches. Several tiny edge chips, slightly bigger chip to bottom right corner, old folds, short closed tear, minor toning, a few contemporary pencil notations. An unrecorded theater broadside touting a satirical minstrel performance of "One of..... 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
Madrid: 1820. 120pp. Original drab wrappers. Minor wear, internally fine. Untrimmed and unopened. First edition. A one act farce, in verse, written by Mexican author and diplomat Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza. Gorostiza (1789-1851) was born in Mexico, grew up in Spain, and spent several years abroad in London. He returned..... 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
Mexico City: 1925-1926. Twenty-four issues, sixteen pages each, bound into contemporary three-quarter brown cloth and textured paper boards. Binding somewhat bumped and edge-worn, minor staining on rear board, some dust soiling. A few leaves with small closed tears or minor chipping, minor scattered foxing and toning, but mostly well preserved..... 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
[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
Mexico City: En la Imprenta de D. Celestino de la Torre, 1821. 23,[1]pp. Dbd. Small quarto. Minor marginal staining at edges. Scattered light foxing. A scarce one-act play by Francisco Luis Ortega, written in celebration of Mexico's independence from Spain and dedicated to Iturbide. In this verse melodrama, the allegorical..... More
![Gran Baile de Calaveras [caption title]. Jose Guadalupe Posada](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2430_01.jpg?v=1638221857)
Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1906. Broadsheet, approximately 15 x 11 inches. Matted. Closed tear at center of image, sympathetically repaired on verso. An unusual, double-sided Posada calavera, with numerous lively illustrations imagining the "Great Skeleton Ball" on Dia de los Muertos. "Several Posada plates have been combined to produce..... 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
Dallas: Carter & Gibson, 1883. Small silk broadside, 8.5 x 3.5 inches. Frayed at edges, cut from a fabric printing multiple advertisements. Minor soiling and foxing. Scarce silk handbill that advertises a performance of the play “Banker’s Daughter” on, April 6, 1883 at Craddock's Opera House in Dallas. Craddock opened..... More