The New Spirit in Drama & Art by Carter, Huntly - 1912

Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 1994. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good+ condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Book would also be 'near fine' except for previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and a slight bump to upper front spine edge. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. This is a heavy book (weighs over 4kgs unpacked) and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 684 pages. Complete encyclopedia of almost 750 French Artists, with biographies, listings of works (along with size and foundry when known), museum pieces in France and elsewhere. It also includes an overview of 19th century bronze sculpture, the foundries that cast the bronzes and the methods used. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

Krung Thep: Krom Sinlapakon, c.1999. 3 Vols. 361pp., 361, 398pp. 100s of color illus. Pictorial Boards. Fine.Please Note: This set requires additional shipping and insurance. Thank you.

Works Projects Administration, 1939. Softcover. Good. The hard-to-find Volume 13, Minstrelsy, of the notable ca. 1939 WPA San Francisco Theater Research series. This volume presents an extensive history of regional San Francisco minstrelsy from its earliest days. Illustrated with 19 historical photos of performers, some in blackface. Contents include discussions of blackface. Numerous appendices. Scarce. 301 pp. 10 3/4" x 8 3/8". Tight, unmarked copy with light shelf wear and minor loss to bottom right corner of front panel. Light staining along margins of front panel spine and bottom. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

New York: Dutton, 1978. Signed facing the title page at the top of his portrait by Charlton Heston. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this title. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben Hur. From 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Five-term president of the National Rifle Association (1998-2003).

New York: Crown Archetype, 2018. Signed on a blank page following the endpaper by Eric Idle. First U.S. edition / First printing. Pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Creator of the Rutles. Creator of Spamalot. Comedy legend Eric Idle looks back on a career of looniness.

China: China Pictorial Publications, 1990. First Edition. Oversize Paperback. Near Fine. A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 64 pages. Full color reproductions. 8 1/2"" x 11 1/4"".

NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929, first printing. folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/4." 363 pp., profusely illustrated with 400 plates. Dark blue cloth with gilt titloes and design, top edge gilt. Very good plus.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Folio.

Stuttgart: Würtembergischer Kunstverein, 1976. First edition. Near fine copy, covers just a little frayed along edges, and with some soiling.. 4to. Paper covers. Pp. 226. Illustrated. Text in German.

Second edition. Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London. nd. [1919] Quarto. xxiii, 422pp, 2pp ads. Colour frontis tipped in, colour plate tipped in, numerous further monochrome plates and illustrations. Contemporary quarter calf, green cloth. Spine in six compartments, with red and green leather labels, gilt lettering. Corner of frontis. slightly creased. A nice copy.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Green-Price to fep.
The Green-Price Baronetcy, of Norton Manor in the parish of Norton in the County of Radnor.

London: Constable, 1930. Hardback. Very Good. Uniform English Edition". 8vo, pp. [vi], [390], [2]. Fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bumped, bands of sunning to top and bottom edges. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, review clipping laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original muted brown paper dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned and creased, head of spine frayed, wear to extremities. Still, a pleasing copy. Very good/ very good. Unusual in the trade. Originally published in 1916 by John Lane in New York and London, Constable's new edition featured an additional four plays, 'Phantasmagoria,' 'The Court of Progress,' 'The Dream' and 'The Hand of the Potter'. The laid in review draws attention to the cinematic facets of the playwright's work: "Mr. Theodore Dreiser's collection of plays is a reminder of the films' continuous and increasing influence upon the theatre. This influence is neither wholly good nor wholly bad; its effect depends upon the innate quality of… Read More