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: Journal De Paris

Numero 140: Paris, 20th May 1785 original edition of this news sheet, includes theatre news, good condition 4pp. (Book ref. 15259) £22.00

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: Journal De Paris

Numero 140: Paris, 29th June 1785 original edition of this news sheet, includes theatre news, good condition 4pp. (Book ref. 15260) £22.00

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: Ernesto Rossi

cabinet photo of the tragedian as Hamlet, very good condition (Book ref. 15254) £16.00

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Arnott, James Fullarton and John William Robinson English Theatrical Literature 1559-1900 A Bibliography incorporating Robert W. Lowe's A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature published in 1888

London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 253mm Tall, 8vo 486 pages. Includes Author index and Index of Places of Publication. Red cloth covers, black title on spine. Missing end free endpaper. (Book ref. 5660) £15.00

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Bowers, Faubion Japanese Theatre

New York: Hermitage House, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 245mm Tall, 8vo An examination of all forms of theatre in Japan, particularly Kabuki. xxi; 294 pages. Index. 19 illustrations. Brown cloth covers. Light wear to cover extremeties. Gutter of front free endpaper and frontispiece illustration is half cracked. (Book ref. 5656) £16.00

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Reed, Jeremy Jean Genet: Born to Lose

London: Creation Books, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1840681233 Jean Genet, the poet-thief and one of the 20th century's most enduring gay icons was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child accused of stealing from his foster parents Genet at the age of 10 was sent to a reform school and spent most of his youth in the all-male communal life of harshly disciplinarian reformatories, including Mettray. In the 1930s, he was variously a deserter, a vagrant who begged his way across Europe, a prostitute, a thief and one of the dispossessed. Learning that imagination was a tool the authorities couldn't suppress, he emerged in 1942 from a series of prison stays with the first of his extraordinarily subversive novels, Our Lady of the Flowers. Taken up by Cocteau and Sartre Genet quickly became a legend to the underworld for his novels The Miracle of the Rose, Funeral Rites, Querelle of Brest and The Thief's Journal, all of which fused an inherent romanticism with the celebration of crime. An enigmatic, flagrantly controversial figure, whose creativity was largely extinguished by the 1950s, Genet lived his life as an itinerant outsider and in the 1970s became a spokesman for the Black Panthers, and finally championed the struggle for a Palestinian homeland, writing his last posthumously published book A Prisoner of Love in defence of their cause.; The only biographical and critical study of Jean Genet in print; Illustrated throughout. (Book ref. 039356) £4.99

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Nohain, Jean and Caradec, F. Le Petomane

London: Sphere, 1971. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0722164025 Biography of the man with the performing bottom who could carry the French national anthem with his farts. (Book ref. 039339) £9.99

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Kenneth Rose, Chairman of the Nonentities Society, The Playhouse Theatre, Kidderminster [Carlo Collodi; Pinocchio]: [Mimeographed typed playscript for the Playhouse Theatre, Kidderminster.] Pinocchio, from Carlo Colloddi's "Pinocchio - The Story of a Puppet", freely adapted for the stage and music added by Kenneth Rose.

[1953.] 4to, [iii] + 76 pp. In original orange titled wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, in worn and frayed wraps. A three-act adaptation of Collodi's children's classic, with cast of characters, 'Synopsis of Scenes', and 'Musical Contents' listing the plays twenty-six songs. The history of the 'Kidderminster Playhouse 1946-1968' states that in 1953 this 'adaptation of Pinocchio, with lyrics and music by Kenneth Rose, was an undoubted triumph and has since been played all over the world.' Rose had revived the Playhouse (previously the Theatre Royal and the New Opera House) in 1946. It was controversially demolished to make way for a ring road in 1969. There is no record on COPAC of Rose's adaptation having been printed. (Book ref. 10795) £280.00

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Charles James Mathews (1803-1878), British actor-manager [The Lyceum Theatre, London; Covent Garden]: [Printed on playbill sheet.] (Copy of a Letter in "THE TIMES" of Tuesday, February 14th, 1854.) Mr Charles Mathews and the Lyceum Theatre. To the Editor of the Times. [On his difficulties with creditors and the temporary closure of the theatre.]

Dated 'Lyceum, Feb. 12. [1854] C. J. MATHEWS'. Printed for display, on one side of a piece of paper 24.5 x 49.5 cm. Text clear and complete. On aged and creased paper, with one closed tear and bottom right-hand corner lacking, causing slight loss to the last letter of Mathews' name at foot of document. Heading in bold type in a variety of point sizes. Giving a 'brief statement of my fourteen years' struggle and of my latest difficulty'. He has 'stood in a false position towards the world for many years', 'performing an honorable duty under almost superhuman difficulties', while 'the world believes me to be an extravagant, thoughtless, reckless fellow, living an idle, dissolute life, totally regardless of my own honor and the interests of others'. Excessively scarce: no copy in the British Library, on COPAC or WorldCat. (Book ref. 10989) £280.00

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[Strand Electric and Engineering Company Limited]: [Printed pamphlet by 'The Directors of the well known Strand Electric and Engineering Company Limited'] A Completely New Glossary of Technical Theatrical Terms [...] With an Appendix of the Colours used for Lighting the Plays [...]

'Commencing Novr. 1st. 1947, and thereafter so long as supplies shall last!'] 'Smudgeham & Fowlem, Steam Printers, The Cut, Waterloo.' [i.e. The Strand Electric & Engineering Co., Ltd., 24 Floral St, Covent Garden, London.] Irregular (12 x 23.5 cm), 32 pp. In fair condition, aged and lightly worn. In original wraps, with cover design, in a variety of types and point sizes, imitating an early nineteenth-century handbill, stating that 'all Profits for the Benefit of the Deserving Actors' Orphanage. | Free list entirely suspended | Fees payable in advance are 2s. per copy'. Full-page foreword followed by the thirty-page glossary in alphabetical order from 'act-drop' to 'workshop flex', and with final full-page appendix giving the 'names and reference numbers of the shades of colour media and lamp lacquer which are in common use in stage lighting'. The only copy on COPAC at the British Library (Book ref. 10955) £80.00

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: Letter Re: "The Bells" Lyceum Theatre

March 18th 1878 an original letter from Darrell Mabel "Dear Sir - Having just concluded a special engagement to sing the "Betrothed Song" in "The Bells" at the Lyceum Theatre...................." (Book ref. 15251) £16.00

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Penley (Belville S) THE BATH STAGE: A History of Dramatic Representations in Bath.

1892. Illustrated. xv + 196pp including 14pp. of adverts, original cloth. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-2578) £28.00