Swann Galleries: THEATER, DANCE, COSTUME & FASHION, SCENIC DESIGN including: PLAYS, COLLECTED WORKS, FETE-BOOKS MUSIC, AUTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHS PERIODICALS, PRINTS & DRAWINGS, ILLUSTRATED & PRESS BOOKS., 1231,

Auction Details

Auction Date
September 24, 1981 - September 24, 1981
Page Size: 390 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 Tanaka, Ryo KABUKI Tokyo

Kodansha, recent

USD 50.00 - 75.00 90.00
202 KABUK1-JUHACHIBAN: 18 Representative Classical Dramatic Plays of Kabuki. Tokyo

1951-1954

USD 60.00 - 90.00 220.00
203 KABUKI COSTUMES AND MAKE-UPS: by Hiroshi Soma and Kiyonobu.

USD 40.00 - 60.00 120.00
204 KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE. Records of a Girlhood. London

USD 70.00 - 100.00 70.00
205 KERNODLE, GEORGE R. From Art to Theatre: Form and Convention in the Renaissance. Chicago

1947

USD 30.00 - 40.00 18.00
206 KLEEN, TYRA de Wayang (Javanese Theatre) Stockholm

1947

USD 50.00 - 75.00 120.00
207 KOTZEBUE, AUGUSTUS von. New-York

1799, 1800

USD 40.00 - 60.00 50.00
208 KOTZEBUE, AUGUSTUS von., The Wild Youth, a Comedy for Digestion, Adelaide of Wulfingen, a Tragedy, The Count of Burgundy a Comedy, Fraternal Discord, a Comedy, The Writing-Desk, or Youth in Danger New-York

1800-1801

USD 50.00 - 75.00 60.00
209 LACROIX, PAUL XVIIIme Siecle: Institutions, Usages, et Costumes, 1700-1789. Paris

1875

USD 60.00 - 90.00 110.00
210 LACROIX, PAUL XVIIIme Siecle: Institutions, Usages, et Costumes, 1700-1789. Paris

1875

USD 50.00 - 75.00 30.00
211 LACY'S ACTING EDITION. London

15

USD 40.00 - 60.00 50.00
212 LAFAYETTE THEATRE. New York

1830

USD 40.00 - 60.00 100.00
213 MacMillan, Dougald LARPENT PLAYS. San Marino

1939

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
214 LA SCALA.

1850

USD 30.00 - 40.00 120.00
215 LE GALLIENNE, EVA.

USD 30.00 - 40.00 22.50
216 LELOIR, MAURICE Toudouze, Gustave. Le Roy Soleil. Paris

1917

USD 40.00 - 60.00 22.50
217 LEWES, CHARLES LEE Memoirs of, containing Anecdotes ... of the English and Scottish Stages, during a period of Forty Years. London

1805

USD 60.00 - 90.00 40.00
218 LEWIS, M. G. The Castle Spectre: a Drama in Five Acts, first performed at ... London

1798

USD 50.00 - 75.00 35.00
219 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Washington

1918

USD 50.00 - 75.00 18.00
220 LISSIM, SIMON par Cogniat, Lechevallier-Chevignard, et Reau. Paris

1933

USD 40.00 - 60.00 120.00
221 LISTER, G. Group of 22 plays published by Lister, all printed double-column, and each with a handsome copperplate frontispiece. London

1787

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
222 LOBEL-RICHE, II--la danse. Paris

1914-1915, 1915

USD 400.00 - 600.00 400.00
223 LONDON MELODIST, or Songster's Companion, containing 400 of the most Approved Modern Popular Songs, as sung at the Places of Public Amusement. London

1830

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
224 LONDON STAGE London

1825

USD 80.00 - 120.00 60.00
225 LONDON STAGE London

1850

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
226 LONDON STAGE Carbondale

1660-1800, 1965-1972

USD 100.00 - 200.00 240.00
227 LOUANDRE, CHARLES Les Arts Somptuaires: Histoire du Costume et de l'Ameublement, et des Arts et Industries qui s'y rattachent. Paris

1857-1858

USD 350.00 - 500.00 350.00
228 LOUIS XV Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'Eglise de Reims, le Dimanche XXV Octobre MDCCXXII. Np

nd

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
229 LUYKEN, JOHANN and CASPAR Group of 9 copperplates of costume, as below, from Weigel's German-text edition of Regensburg.

1698

USD 60.00 - 90.00 40.00
230 McCULLOUGH, JOHN In Memory of New-York

1889

USD 70.00 - 100.00 160.00
231 MACKLIN, CHARLES Memoirs, with the Dramatic Characters, Manners, Anec dotes, &c. of the Age in Which he Lived, forming an History of the Stage during almost the Whole of the last Century. London

1804

USD 70.00 - 100.00 25.00
232 MAGIC New York

1906

USD 40.00 - 60.00 70.00
233 MALLET, DAVID Elvira: a Tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. London

1763

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
234 MALLET, DAVID; and THOMSON, JAMES Alfred: a Masque, represented before Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Cliffden, 1 August 1740. London

1740

USD 60.00 - 90.00 70.00
235 MANLEY, MARY DE LA RIVIERE The Royal Mischief: a Tragedy as it is Acted by His Majesties Servants London

1696

USD 70.00 - 100.00 35.00
236 MANTZIUS, KARL A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times. New York

1937

USD 70.00 - 100.00 60.00
237 MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER a Concise Bibliography. New York

1937

USD 30.00 - 40.00 25.00
238 MASKS. Wendigen Maskernummer Amsterdam

1920

USD 40.00 - 60.00 30.00
239 MATHEWS, CHARLES The Theatrical Olio. London

USD 40.00 - 60.00 35.00
240 MATHEWS, CHARLES Mathews at Home, or Travels in Air, on Earth, and on Water, A Christmas at Brighton, Mathews' Trip to Paris, La Diligence, The Actor of All Work New-York

1822

USD 50.00 - 75.00 120.00
241 MATHEWS, CHARLES The London Mathews, containing an Account of this celebrated Comedian's Trip to America. Philadelphia

1824

USD 60.00 - 90.00 120.00
242 MATHEWS, CHARLES Group of 5 pamphlets London

1820

USD 50.00 - 75.00 50.00
243 MATHEWS, CHARLES Another group of 4 pamphlets, as above London

1820

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
244 MATHEWS, CHARLES Collection of pamphlets London

1820

USD 70.00 - 100.00 60.00
245 MATHEWS, CHARLES The London Mathews.

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
246 MAYNE, JASPER The Amorous Warre, a Tragi-Comoedy. Oxford

1658

USD 80.00 - 120.00 50.00
247 MEMORIAL DRAMATIQUE, ou Almanach Theatral, pour l'an 1812. Paris

1812

USD 50.00 - 75.00 19.00
248 MERMAID SERIES London

1890

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
249 MILLER, JAMES The Humours of Oxford: a Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. London

1730

USD 70.00 - 100.00 60.00
250 MINSTREL SHOWS. Bones: his Gags and Stump Speeches; Nigger and Dutch Stories and Dialogues ... 'Broken China' Dialect Pieces, and Other Conundrums. New York

1879

USD 50.00 - 75.00 25.00
251 MINSTREL SHOWS New York

1911

USD 40.00 - 60.00 18.00
252 MODELLES DE TOILETTES: HAUTE NOUVEAUTE. Paris

USD 300.00 - 400.00 300.00
253 MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY Parme

1803

USD 200.00 - 300.00 160.00
254 MOSCOW. Moscow

1936

USD 30.00 - 40.00 27.50
255 Hulfish; McKay; Rotha MOTION-PICTURE WORK, Handbook of Motion Picture Photography, Documentary Film Chicago, New York

1913, 1927, 1939

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
256 MOTION PICTURES Boston

1931, 1932

USD 30.00 - 40.00 80.00
257 MOUSSINAC, LEON Le Theatre des Origines a nos Jours. Paris

1957

USD 30.00 - 40.00 22.50
258 Antonio Stradivari MUSIC London

1909

USD 60.00 - 90.00 25.00
259 Sandys, William; & Forster, S. M. MUSIC London

1864

USD 50.00 - 75.00 40.00
260 NANSOUTY, MAX de Les Trucs du Theatre, du Cirque et de la Foire. Paris

1909

USD 30.00 - 40.00 100.00
261 Laura C. Holloway NEILSON, ADELAIDE a Souvenir New York

1885

USD 50.00 - 75.00 25.00
262 NEW ENGLISH THEATRE London

1776-1777

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
263 NEW YORK CITY New York

1861

USD 60.00 - 90.00 80.00
264 NICOLL, ALLARDYCE; Masks, Mimes, and Miracles The Development of the Theatre ... from the Beginnings to the Present Day, Studies in the Popular Theatre London

1927, 1931

USD 50.00 - 75.00 25.00
265 NICOLL, ALLARDYCE Stuart Masques and the Renaissance Stage London, etc.

1937

USD 40.00 - 60.00 45.00
266 NIJINSKY, Barbier, George Dessins sur les Danses de Vaslav Nijinsky; Glose de Francis de Miomandre. Paris

1913

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,100.00
267 Arthur Waley NO PLAYS OF JAPAN New York

1922

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
268 Iwao Kongo NOH COSTUMES Kyoto

1949

USD 60.00 - 90.00 80.00
269 ODELL, GEORGE C. D. Annals of the New York Stage. New York

1927-1928

USD 50.00 - 75.00 80.00
270 ODELL, GEORGE C. D. Annals of the New York Stage. New York

1927

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
271 O'NEILL, EUGENE G. Thirst, and Other One-Act Plays. Boston

1914

USD 70.00 - 100.00 50.00
272 O'NEILL, EUGENE G. Gold: a Play in Four Acts. New York

1920

USD 50.00 - 75.00 100.00
273 O'NEILL, EUGENE G. The Moon of the Caribbees, Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones; Diff'rent; The Straw New York

1919-20-20

USD 50.00 - 75.00 45.00
274 O'NEILL, EUGENE The Hairy Ape; Anna Christie; The First Man, All God's Chillun Got Wings, and Welded, Marco Millions New York

1922-24-27

USD 40.00 - 60.00 45.00
275 O'NEILL, EUGENE; Ralph Sanborn and Barrett H. Clark A Bibliography of the Works New York

1931

USD 40.00 - 60.00 30.00
276 Byainin, D. OPERA Russia

1927

USD 50.00 - 75.00 80.00
277 Calve, Emma OPERA France

1894

USD 50.00 - 75.00 60.00
278 OTWAY, THOMAS Friendship in Fashion: a Comedy as it is Acted at his Royal Highness the Dukes Theatre. London

1678

USD 100.00 - 150.00 70.00
279 OTWAY, THOMAS The Complete Works Bloomsbury

1926

USD 150.00 - 200.00 80.00
280 OTWAY, THOMAS The Complete Works Bloomsbury

1926

USD 60.00 - 90.00 30.00
281 PANDOLFI, VITO La Commedia dell' Arte. Firenze

1957

USD 80.00 - 120.00 40.00
282 PATTERN BOOKS, Pictorial Review Fashion Book, Summer, Butterick Quarterly, Spring New York

1925, 1925, 1925

USD 30.00 - 40.00 45.00
283 PEAKE, RICHARD BRINSLEY Memoirs of the Colman Family, including their Correspondence ... London

1841

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
284 PEEPSHOW Swiss or German

1840's

USD 400.00 - 600.00 550.00
285 PINERO, SIR ARTHUR WING Delightful Autograph Letter, signed "W.P." London

29

USD 30.00 - 40.00 18.00
286 PLUTARCH London

1878

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
287 POMPE FUNEBRE de S.A.R. Charles III Duc de Lorraine. Muenchen

nd

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
288 POOR COVENT GARDEN! or, a Scene Rehearsed, an Occasional Prelude intended for the Opening of the New Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this Season. London

1792

USD 60.00 - 90.00 40.00
289 POUGIN, ARTHUR Dictionnaire Historique et Pittoresque du Theatre et des Arts qui s'y Rattachent. Paris

1885

USD 40.00 - 60.00 22.50
290 PRUCHE, CLEMENT Paris

1837

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
291 PUPPEN UND PUPPENSPIELE: von Max von Boehn. Muenchen

1929

USD 35.00 - 50.00 27.50
292 RACHEL et la tragedie: par Jules Janin. Paris

1859

USD 50.00 - 75.00 80.00
293 RACINET, AUGUSTE Le Costume Historique: Types Principaux du Vetement et de la Parure. Paris

1888

USD 300.00 - 400.00 250.00
294 RACINET, AUGUSTE Le Costume Historique. Collection of 170 (of 200) plates from this great work, chiefly in colors and gold. Paris

nd

USD 100.00 - 150.00 150.00
295 Oliver M. Sayler REINHARDT, MAX: and his Theatre New York

1924

USD 50.00 - 75.00 40.00
296 REINHARDT: 25 Jahre Deutsches Theater. Ein Tafelwerk herausgegeben von Hans Rothe. Muenchen

1930

USD 30.00 - 40.00 30.00
297 REZNICEK, F. von Verliebte Leute. Muenchen

1900

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
298 REZNICEK, F. von Der Tanz. Muenchen

1908

USD 40.00 - 60.00 45.00
299 ROCHESTER, JOHN WILMOT earl of. Collected Works. London

1926

USD 60.00 - 90.00 35.00
300 RODGER, ALEXANDER, Editor Whistle-Binkie; a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle. Glasgow

1846

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
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