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A short history of the Unity Theatre, a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red."
In 1938, Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play, "Plant in the Sun." Moreover, Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K.
OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan, Wisconsin, Waterloo, Auckland, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the National Library of Scotland. SCARCE.
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12mo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm), 11, [1] pages, in pictorial stapled wrappers (soft cover).
A short history of the Unity Theatre, a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red."
In 1938, Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play, "Plant in the Sun." Moreover, Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K.
OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan, Wisconsin, Waterloo, Auckland, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the National Library of Scotland. SCARCE.
CONDITION: Mild external wear, some soiling to lower wrapper, staple rusted but internally clean and unmarked. First page stamped "Made in England." A Very Good copy.
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The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. The Second Edition: To which is Added The Ouverture in Score; and the Musick prefix'd to each Song
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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family…
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Miss 318 And Mr. 37
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Golden Shape 1st Ed. "A")
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Los Angeles Free Press, 1966 vol 4 39 1ssue #114 Sept. 30, 1966
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n. 1966. Soft cover. Good. 1966 Soft cover Good+The Los Angeles Free Press, the "freep" was perhaps one of the larges and foremost counter culture paper of its era; It was ell known for its political news and opinion articles, However , no matter where you stand on the pollical spectrum , the concert adds and art work are fabulous and make owning one of these papers is worth the cost Barbers, Sailors and Booksellers have chosen the best to the best freep to offer you The issues that we have chosen are generally early editions that are chalk full of enjoyment and very difficult to find !This issue contains:
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The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. The Second Edition: To which is Added The Ouverture in Score; and the Musick prefix'd to each Song
by JOHN GAY
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1728. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine. With A Table of 69 Songs; Overture Compos'd by Dr. Pepusch; typographic music throughout the text; plus woodcut head- and tailpieces. 8vo. Full speckled calf, gilt ruled, spine with 2 gilt lettering-pieces; aeg; by Rivière & Sons. London: John Watts, 1728. Second Edition. The first expanded edition to include the music printed in the text. Gays highly successful ballad opera, satirizing popular Italian opera was an immediate triumph, and ran for a record 62 consecutive performances at the Theatre Royal where it premiered in January 1728. The first edition, printed earlier the same year, had 16 pages of engraved music at the end. Here, the music is printed in the text in woodcut. It features such memorable low-life characters as Polly Peachum, Jemmy Twitcher, Filch and Sukey Tawdry. For some lyrics, Gay borrowed from Allan Ramsays Gentle Shepherd. The music was composed by the German born Johann Christoph Pepusch, a contemporary of George Frederick Handel. It…
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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
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Miss 318 And Mr. 37
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Golden Shape 1st Ed. "A")
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Los Angeles Free Press, 1966 vol 4 39 1ssue #114 Sept. 30, 1966
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family…
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray (A Midnite Mystery)
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Oscar Wilde. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. 1944 Books, Inc., NY First Printing, December, 1944 in its original dust jacket. RARE THUS. Victorian Horror/Fantasy novel. USED. VG Condition/ Good- dust jacket. Jacket is missing the bottom half of its spine. Front cover illustration of a beautiful young aristocratic man and a large green face of the hideous, debauched monster he was later to become in the background. Cover art by RA. Jacket states: "A life with great possibilities that ends in disaster and tragedy – a great classic." Back panel lists "Midnite Mysteries" series titles. 220 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Source material for the 1945 Warner Bros. horror film.
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Miss 318 And Mr. 37
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Confessions of An English Opium Eater: Edited by Ernest Rhys
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Marbled boards with gift inscription on free endpaper, dated 1892. Hardcover measures 17 x12mm, octavo with intro by William Sharp. Minor edge wear to boards. Pages have minor age toning. 2 other stories included in the 275 pages, ROSICRUCIANS AND THE FREEMASONS as well as KANT ON NATIONAL CHARACTER IN RELATION TO....
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Man Lung Artristic Pot Plant
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Wing Lung Bank, n. 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Wing Lung Bank, 1976. Very Good.
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Kim IL Sung - a Political Biography. Complete in three volumes.
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1970 Guardian first American editions. Credited to author Baik Bong, the books are thought to be collectively written by the Chinese and North Korean governments.First published in the Korean language in 1968 and 1969. The English language translations were first published in 1969 and 1970, in Japan, under the Miraisha imprint.
The three books offered in this listing are first American editions, with US copyrights and Library of Congress catalog numbers. Kim's three volume biography was published and distributed worldwide under various imprints and languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, and Serbian. Presumably, this worldwide distribution was undertaken in support of "exporting revolution", a priority of the Chinese government in the 1960's and 1970's.
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The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X
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T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.
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Talkies
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Sarasota FL, Sarasota Poetry Theater Press, 2002, trade paperback, 21 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good in pictorial card covers. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, small faint stain to front cover, slight corner bumps. Striking in its seamless marriage of common and uncommon speech, something the poet feels is the mark of a great oral poetry. And although this is a written poetry, it comes close to the clarity of oral poetry in that its seemingly ordinary, gossipy speech always hints at something deeper just beneath the surface. ISBN 9780971737440
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