Foy Eddie Harlow Alvin (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Red boards with some areas of spotting and what appears to be a a few white drip spills. Spine has some soil markings, edge wear to spine extremities. Bumping to spine head, joints and the adjacent areas of front/back board and hinges. "95.00" in pencil to top corner of FFEP. Photo opposite pg. 22 has soil, pg. 327 bottom corner has open tear and pg. 328 has edge tear with loss of paper and light crease through page number. Erased Pencil notation and light ink "500" stamp to back fly.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The covers and spine have moderate wear with some minor spotting and the spine is slightly faded. There are two bookworm holes at the top of the forward page edges. There is foxing scattered throughout the book especially around the photo pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., 331 pp., cloth, vg. 6-Guns #754 scarce. " The author tells of his experiencein Dodge City, Kansas and Tombstone, Arizona, as an early day actor, among the gunmen of those wild cow towns. "-- Adams.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1928 second printing. Red hardback covers. Ex-library small label at the bottom of the spine and library pocket and discard stamp inside the front cover. The title on the front cover is slightly dulled. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. A scarce autobiography of this actor, who acted in Vaudeville and other early venues. ; 331 pages.

Red Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Frontispiece Eddie Foy in "That Casey Girl" his last play. Illustrated. Former library labels, stamps and markings. Eddie Foy (b. Edwin Fitzgerald) Actor, dancer, vaudevillian b. Mar. 9, 1854 (New York City) - d. Feb. 16, 1928 (Kansas City, MO). When his Irish immigrant father died, six year old Foy began performing in local saloons to support his family. He played the variety circuits for years in a series of song and dance acts, eventually rising to musical comedy stardom in such Broadway hits as The Strollers (1901), Mr. Bluebeard (1903), and Mr. Hamlet of Broadway (1908). Foy specialized in eccentric routines and costumes, often appearing in drag to hilarious effect. He spoke with a slurred lisp that audiences adored. Foy had several wives, the third of which gave him eleven children, seven survived. Foy earned tons of publicity with stories about his spirited brood, whose misbehavior he pretended to indulge far beyond the strict standards of that era. In 1910, he formed a family vaudeville act, and "Eddie Foy and The Seven Little Foys" quickly turned into a national institution. With Eddie acting as a stern disciplinarian backstage and an indulgent papa onstage, the Foys toured successfully for over a decade. When Eddy remarried in 1923, the children went their separate ways. A dedicated trouper, the elder Foy continued to appear in vaudeville and starred in the hit Broadway comedy, The Fallen Star. He died while headlining on the Orpheum circuit at age 73. His son Eddie Jr. went on to musical comedy stardom on Broadway. Sunned covers with much shelf wear and corners worn through. Upper ½" of backstrip missing with lower spine frayed. Hinges starting. Binding loose. Seems to be missing one or more front flyleaves, as half title is first page. Tear to half title page. Interior rather clean.

8vo. pp. [4], 331. 22 b/w plates. cloth (previous owner s signature on front free endpaper, spine discoloured). Second Printing.