Hardcover. Large 8vo, black buckram, several hundred pages, dozens of Playbills etc. for concerts and Broadway productions, seems like a goodly portion are from the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, but many from Pittsburgh's "Mary Beegle Presents" series and Playbills from Broadway productions in NYC. Productions or performers include: Bless.....

Paris: Gallimard, 1926. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1926, 8vo, wraps, inscribed to Edmond Roze, a theatrical director, actor and stage manager (d. 1943 Auschwitz). Good plus copy with some wear and soil to wraps, pages unopened but a little tanned.

Paris: Gallimard, 1949. Hardcover. 2 volumes, both published 1949, imitation vellum bindings with wraps bound in, each inscribed to Alvin Laidley (UNESCO) and his wife Jeanne Silvain, an actress and daughter of Eugene Silvain, doyen of the Comédie Francaise. Fine but for tanning pages.

London: Tamesis Books, 2001. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, octavo, 189pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book shows mild wear and rubbing to rear board, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.

Birmingham: John Baskerville for J and R Tonson, 1761. Hardcover. Complete in four volumes. 1761. Hardcover, 4to. in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, spines poorly repaired with laid on cloth, all edges marbled. Varying paginations, complete with frontis of Addison, engraved plates and diagrams of medals. Deaccessioned ex-library, with plates.....

Paris: Librairie Hachette, (1919). First printing. Paperback. First printing of this translation, 1919, wraps, very good, unopened, with an inscription by Silvain and his colleague Jaubert (hard to read the name of the recipient); probably inscribed in advance of the performance, only the anticipated recipient was a no-show, as this.....

Cambridge: Printed for the Author, 1875. First printing. Paperback. Owner's pencil signature on cover from 1876, very good, mild discoloration to front wrap, 40 pp, rare, only one copy located by OCLC, at the University of Chicago. Andrews lived in Cambridge and was the brother of anti-slavery novelist Mary Andrews.....

Geneva and Paris: La Palatine, 1950. First printing. Paperback. First edition, no. 898 of 1000 on papier Roto Blanc, signed by three of the main actors in the original production: Jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud and Pierre Bertin. Large 8vo, illustrated wraps with wax overlay, 186 pp, fine copy with minimal.....

New York: Universe Books, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1976. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 192 pp., illustrated (some in color), Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, some erasable pencil-notes to the text, a bit of discoloration to the top edge, soiling/discoloration to the dust jacket.....

London: Walter Scott, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 1897. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. 421pp. plus publisher ads, Ex-library, with stamps and stickers entailed. Rubbing to boards, loss to spine title. Cloth of spine mellowed and separated from spine, revealing stitching. Long blue paint stain on spine. Plate of former owner on.....

Paris: Lucien Vogel, 1921. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1921, this one unnumbered but probably one of 250 on Lafuma, INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS to theatrical producer, director and set designer Edmond Roze: 'A notre Edmond Roze, en souvenir des bonnes soirées que passa chez lui...et en temoignage de notre.....

London: Bowes and Bowes, Publishers, 1964. Reprint. Hardcover. 1964 Hardcover in Very Good+ condition, with very light edge wear and handling soil. The dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with light edge wear, and light handling soil. Pages: 198.