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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
301 ROGER-MILES, L. Comment Discerner les Styles du Ville au XIXe Siecle. Paris

1905

USD 50.00 - 75.00 27.50
302 ROHOZINSKI, L., Editor Cinquante Ans de Musique Francaise de 1874 a 1925. Paris

1925

USD 50.00 - 75.00 25.00
303 ROWE, NICHOLAS The Fair Penitent London

1703

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
304 ROWE, NICHOLAS The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray, as it is Acted ... in Drury-Lane. London

1715

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
305 RUTHERSTON, ALBERT Sixteen Designs for the Theatre London

1928

USD 120.00 - 180.00 35.00
306 SABBATINI, NICOLA Pratica di Fabricar Scene e Machine ne' Teatri. Roma

1955

USD 40.00 - 60.00 25.00
307 SACHS, EDWIN O.; and WOODROW, E. A. E. Modern Opera Houses and Theatres London

1896-1898

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,100.00
308 SCENE, la: Revue des Succes Dramatiques. Paris

October 1877-November 1884

USD 300.00 - 400.00 650.00
309 SCENOGRAPHY Milano

1960

USD 30.00 - 40.00 50.00
310 SCHNACKENBERG Kostueme, Plakate und Dekorationen. Mit Begleitendem Text von Oskar Bie. Muenchen

1922

USD 150.00 - 200.00 160.00
311 SCHOELLER. Vienna

1830

USD 60.00 - 90.00 80.00
312 SCHOELLER Vienna

1830

USD 60.00 - 90.00 45.00
313 SCHOELLER Vienna

1830

USD 60.00 - 90.00 35.00
314 SCHUBERTH, OTTMAR Muenchen

1955

USD 30.00 - 40.00 40.00
315 SCRAP BOOK, the: a Selection of Humorous Stories, Interesting Fables, and Authentic Anecdotes. New York

1837

USD 40.00 - 60.00 70.00
316 SELDES, GILBERT The Seven Lively Arts. New York

1924

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
317 SHADWELL, THOMAS Epsom-Wells London

1693

USD 50.00 - 75.00 40.00
318 SHADWELL, THOMAS Complete Works. London

1927

USD 150.00 - 200.00 125.00
319 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight. London

1632

USD 200.00 - 300.00 600.00
320 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Life of Tymon of Athens. London

1632

USD 100.00 - 200.00 130.00
321 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The life and death of King John. London

1632

USD 150.00 - 250.00 170.00
322 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Twelfe Night, Or what you will. London

1632

USD 200.00 - 300.00 200.00
323 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Group of 6 acting versions, as below, all as "arranged for presentation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean. London

1856-1859

USD 400.00 - 600.00 175.00
324 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet, Prinzen von Daenemark. New York

1972

USD 40.00 - 60.00 70.00
325 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Works of Shakespear in Six Volumes. London

1723

USD 100.00 - 150.00 60.00
326 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Works of Shakespear. Oxford

1744

USD 200.00 - 300.00 400.00
327 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays ... London

1774

USD 60.00 - 90.00 40.00
328 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Plays, Complete. London

1796

USD 70.00 - 100.00 25.00
329 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Dramatic Works; with a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Se lected. Boston

1836

USD 70.00 - 100.00 175.00
330 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Complete Works, revised from the Original Editions; with Memoir and Essay by Barry Cornwall. London

1870

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
331 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, faithfully reproduced in Facsimile from the Edition of 1685. London

1904

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
332 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Complete Works. London

1953

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
333 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; Halliwell, James O. An Historical Account of the New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, the Last Residence of Shakespeare. London

1864

USD 60.00 - 90.00 25.00
334 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; Smith, Gordon Ross A Classified Shakespeare Bibliography, 1936-1958 University Park, Pa.

1963

USD 30.00 - 40.00 19.00
335 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Studies in the First Folio, written for the Shakespeare Association. London

1924

USD 35.00 - 50.00 18.00
336 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS, the: Facsimiles, Transliterations

1940-1941

USD 40.00 - 60.00 17.00
337 SHAKESPEARE'S HEROES AND HEROINES. London

1890

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
338 SHAKESPEARE SONGS New York

1929

USD 30.00 - 40.00 17.00
339 SHAKESPEARE Oxford

1700-1740, 1935

USD 30.00 - 40.00 25.00
340 SHARAKU Tokyo

1960

USD 200.00 - 300.00 90.00
341 SHERIDAN, R. B. The School for Scandal. London

1890

USD 35.00 - 50.00 27.50
342 SHERIDAN London

1896

USD 35.00 - 50.00 25.00
343 SMOLLETT, TOBIAS The Regicide, or James the First, of Scotland London

1749

USD 80.00 - 120.00 60.00
344 SOTHERN, E. H. Fine program printed on gold satin, for his 50th performance at the Park Theatre in H. J. Byron's "Crushed Tragedian.

October 20, 1877

USD 30.00 - 40.00 25.00
345 SOUDEKINE, SERGE. New York

1930

USD 50.00 - 75.00 130.00
346 SOUTH AMERICA Paris

1850

USD 150.00 - 250.00 475.00
347 SPANISH THEATER Barcelona

1900

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
348 SPANISH THEATER.

USD 60.00 - 90.00 17.00
349 STAEL, BARONESS de A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Literature. London

1803

USD 60.00 - 90.00 150.00
350 STAGE New York

USD 200.00 - 300.00 110.00
351 STAGE New York

USD 100.00 - 200.00 150.00
352 STAGE AND ITS STARS Philadelphia

1900

USD 80.00 - 120.00 35.00
353 STAGE AND ITS STARS Philadelphia

1900

USD 80.00 - 120.00 35.00
354 STAGECRAFT. Helvenston. Scenery., Komisarjevsky & Simonson. Settings & Costumes of the Modern Stage., Frette. Stage Design., Gorchakov, The Vakhtangov School of Stage Art. Vp

1931, 1933, 1955, Nd

USD 40.00 - 60.00 100.00
355 STASSEN, FRANZ Parsifal: 15 Bilder zu Richard Wagner's Buehnenweihfestspiel. Berlin

1900

USD 70.00 - 100.00 30.00
356 STEELE, ELIZABETH The Memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley, late of Drury Lane Theatre. London

1787

USD 100.00 - 150.00 60.00
357 STEELE, SIR RICHARD The Conscious Lovers: a Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatres, by His Majesty's Servants. Dublin

1729

USD 40.00 - 60.00 17.00
358 STROLLERS PERFORMING HAMLET BEFORE THE 'SQUIRE. Hilarious cop perplate caricature London

April 18, 1772

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
359 STRUTT, JOSEPH A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time. London

1842

USD 400.00 - 600.00 400.00
360 STRUTT, JOSEPH The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England, containing the Representations of all the English Monarchs, from Edward the Confessor to Henry VIII. London

1842

USD 100.00 - 150.00 100.00
361 STYL: Blaetter fuer Mode und die Angenehmen Dinge des Lebens.

1924

USD 250.00 - 350.00 350.00
362 SUMMERS, MONTAGUE, Editor Restoration Comedies. Boston

1922

USD 35.00 - 50.00 60.00
363 SUNDSTROM, EINAR, Editor Svenska Konstnarer inom Teaterns, Musikens och Filmens Varld. Stockholm

1943

USD 40.00 - 60.00 25.00
364 SVETLOW, V. Le Ballet Contemporaine. St-Petersbourg

1912

USD 150.00 - 200.00 325.00
365 Leggatt, W. E.; and Hodgkinson, T. W. TAILORING, The "Climax" System for Cutting Gentlemen's Garments. London

1920

USD 40.00 - 60.00 60.00
366 TATE, NAHUM The Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth: or, the Fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. London

1682

USD 250.00 - 350.00 150.00
367 Russell T. Chase THEATER SCRAP-BOOK

1953-1954

USD 60.00 - 90.00 25.00
368 THEATRE le. Paris

1898-1907

USD 500.00 - 750.00 700.00
369 THEATRE Paris

1898

USD 60.00 - 90.00 30.00
370 THEATRE Paris

1908-1914

USD 350.00 - 500.00 150.00
371 THEATRE Two bound volumes, for July-December 1901 and July-December 1906. Paris

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
372 THEATRE the. New York

USD 70.00 - 100.00 80.00
373 THEATRE MAGAZINE New York

1904-1930

USD 500.00 - 750.00 350.00
374 THEATRE GUILD MAGAZINE New York

USD 200.00 - 300.00 70.00
375 UNIVERSAL SONGSTER, or museum of mirth: the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language. London

1834

USD 40.00 - 60.00 35.00
376 VALERIO, THEODORE Costume de la Hongrie et les Provinces Danubiennes ... Paris

1885

USD 100.00 - 150.00 70.00
377 VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN The False Friend, a Comedy London

1702

USD 100.00 - 150.00 50.00
378 VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN The Complete Works. Bloomsbury

1927-1928

USD 100.00 - 150.00 60.00
379 VEINSTEIN, ANDRE, Editor Performing Arts Libraries and Museums of the World.

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
380 VERDI, GIUSEPPE La Traviata: Opera in Tre Atti. Paris

1856

USD 30.00 - 40.00 30.00
381 VERTES, MARCEL 2 original watercolor costume designs

USD 150.00 - 200.00 80.00
382 WARNER, RICHARD A Letter to David Garrick, Esq. London

1768

USD 60.00 - 90.00 25.00
383 WEMYSS'S CHRONOLOGY of the American stage, from 1752 to 1852. New York

1852

USD 50.00 - 75.00 35.00
384 WESTERHOUT

USD 50.00 - 75.00 25.00
385 WIGS Paris

1770

USD 50.00 - 75.00 19.00
386 WINTER, WILLIAM Two lengthy original manuscript articles, as below; the first in ink, the second in lead pencil.

USD 80.00 - 120.00 35.00
387 Augustin Daly WOFFINGTON: a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.

1888

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Not Sold
388 WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM The Country-Wife, a Comedy, acted at the Theatre-Royal. London

1688

USD 100.00 - 150.00 40.00
389 WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM Complete Works.

USD 150.00 - 200.00 60.00
390 YEATS, W. B. The Celtic Twilight. London

1902

USD 30.00 - 40.00 40.00
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