Chicago: The Story-Press Corporation, 1914. 4to (25 x 17.5 cm); illustrated wrappers with yap edges; 369-528 pp.; illus. A single issue of this publication initially published as "The Green Book Album" before becoming "The Green Book Magazine" in 1912. According to the "Oxford Companion to American Theatre," it "featured 'novelized'..... More
This issue primarily focuses on the union's 41st convention, which includes two centerfold panoramas of delegates. Other sections include obituaries, a directory of local secretaries and business agents by state, news, a composite of three articles on the Eidophor projector, etc. Magazine format (12" x 9"), 48 pp., illus. Some..... More
Re-Evaluation Counseling, [197-?]. A poster advertising a screening of the 1970 documentary King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis at UC Davis and sponsored by the controversial peer counseling group, Re-evaluation Counseling. The documentary was directed by Sidney Lumet and featured newsreel footage of King from 1955 until his assassination with..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Communist Party. A flyer issued by the Los Angeles Communist Party following the kidnapping and beating of labor leader and Hollywood union organizer Herbert K. Sorrell on March 2, 1947 outside of his home in Glendale, California. The assault was the result of an ongoing labor..... More
[San Anselmo, Calif.?]: [Marian Guild Films?], [1950s]. While laying in a foxhole during WWII, soldier Paul Lawrence read a pamphlet about the story of Fatima, the appearance by Mary to three Portuguese children in 1917 in which she warned that wars with a punishment for sin. After he was discharged..... More
New York: The New Lafayette Theatre, [1969]. A promotional sheet for the controversial Black Arts play, We Righteous Bombers, which was published in New Plays from the Black Theatre: An Anthology (1969) and staged at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem beginning April 18, 1969. The play was attributed to..... More
![Item #11153 Rumpelstiltskin [with] The Sleeping Beauty [with] Hansel and Gretel [with] Five...](https://davidanthembookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11153.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692202881)
Anchorage, Kentucky: The Anchorage Press ; The Children's Theatre Press, 1944; 1940; 1951; 1947. Four plays adapted from classic children’s stories by Children’s Theatre (later Anchorage) Press. Children’s Theatre Press was founded by Sara Spencer to produce children’s plays that could be licensed for production. Stapled blue wrappers (9” x...... More
Boston: Arthur Fisher, 1923. First edition. Original stapled and printed wrappers; 32 pp. Arthur Fisher appears to have been an actor and the editor of this magazine, which ran for nearly 15 years before being sold to Doubleday. A Very Good copy with some minor rubbing to wrappers. More
New York: Random House, 1939. First printing. Octavo; xi, [1], [4], 5-456 pp.; dust jacket. Blue cloth printed in black and gilt; dark top-stain. A Fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has one punched hole to spine and one to rear panel, else Fine. An anthology of ten plays written by..... More
![Item #07978 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [SIGNED BY EDWARD ALBEE]. Ernest LEHMAN](https://davidanthembookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/07978.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1599790614)
Los Angeles: Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., [196-?]. Limited ed. The script of Ernest Lehman’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from the award-winning play by Edward Albee. Albee has playfully crossed out Lehman’s name on the title page and SIGNED his own. Hand-numbered 75 of an undisclosed number of..... More
Edinburgh: W. M. Urquhart & Son, 1928. First English language edition. Original black-stamped green wrappers; 60 pp., [1] (glossary). A well-preserved, unclipped, Near Fine copy with some faint toning along wrapper edge; many pages still uncut. Scarce in commerce. More
Derby, N.Y. Daughters of St. Paul, [1936?]. Stapled wrappers, 19 pp. A near fine copy. More
White Plains, MD: The Barnes Review, 2019. A booklet by the French far right writer and activist on the anti-Christian bias in modern films, both in Hollywood and abroad. Ryssen is a well-known Holocaust revisionist with ties to The Barnes Review. Stapled wrappers, 59 pp. A fine copy. More
San Francisco: People's Press, [1970]. A unique feminist publication designed to be disassembled and transformed into a miniature cranky, which is described as “a paper movie or cartoon sequence inside a simple wooden frame. The moving paper roll unwinds (is cranked) onto a take-up real, enabling you to tell a...... More
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New York: Brentano's, 1906. First edition. Two octavo volumes. Bound in green cloth with paper labels to spine; deckle fore and bottom edges; xix, 447 pp.; vii, 466 pp. An about Fine set of this unauthorized edition, which preceded the English edition. None of the darkening to spine labels or..... More
Hollywood: Clayton Thomason, 1965; 1969. Two issues of this anti-Communist, film newsletter edited and published by H. Clayton Thomason in Hollywood. Thomason worked in the film industry as a scenic designer beginning in 1928 with MGM. He served in the Navy during WWI and was heavily involved with the American..... More