Bernard Sobel (93 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages tanned. Top and bottom of spine is worn. Top corners are worn otherwise Good Reading Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Gray paper over boards, red cloth spine, spine faded, small tears, cracked inside at spine, a bit loose. Plays ; Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket present. The book is in fair condition. It lacks a dust jacket, and the cover shows significant wear with a prominent tear. The binding appears intact, and the pages are clean, with no inscriptions or library markings. This copy is suitable for those interested in the content rather than pristine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 900 pp., Orig Blk Hardback, Gilt title, title bit faint else VG & Tight, 1st ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Theater bookplate on the inside of the front cover: "This book Presented to (no name) by the Priscilla Beach Theater, Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Trask, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Season of 1950". Black lettering on blue covers. 8vo, 897pp. Seventh printing - revised edition. Spine slightly sunned, corners worn, contents fine.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 900 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 3/4. Black cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. No dj. Cloth slightly faded and edgeworn. Darkened pages. Brown staining on both endpapers. Stains on page edges. Ownership markings ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover 1st edition. Light blue-grey boards with black titles on spine. No DJ. A clean and sturdy copy with only very minor shelfwear and a gift inscription on the FFEP. A Pictorial History of Burlesque was published in 1956, first by G.P. Putnam's Sons and simultaneously in a Bonanza Books edition. It runs to 194 pages and is illustrated throughout with black and white photographs drawn substantially from the collections of the New York Public Library, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Culver Service. The large octavo format ? roughly eight by ten and a quarter inches ? is designed to show the photographs to advantage, and the illustrations are the book's primary currency. The history Sobel traces begins with the origins of burlesque as theatrical parody in nineteenth-century Britain, in which grand subjects ? opera, classical mythology, serious drama ? were subjected to comic deflation and broad physical humour. The arrival of Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes in New York in 1868 is treated as the pivotal moment at which burlesque crossed the Atlantic and began its transformation into a distinctly American form. Thompson's company introduced tights, blonde wigs, and a style of female performance that was simultaneously comic and provocative, generating enormous popular enthusiasm and considerable moral alarm ? a combination that would define American burlesque for the following eighty years. From this point Sobel traces the form's evolution through the extravaganza era, the development of the olio format, the rise of honky-tonk and hootch dancing, and the emergence of the striptease as the dominant feature of twentieth-century burlesque. The gallery of figures who pass through the book is considerable: Michael Leavitt, the producer who systematized burlesque touring; Little Egypt, whose performances at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition became one of the period's most discussed scandals; Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Bert Lahr, and Bobby Clark, all of whom used burlesque as a training ground before moving into vaudeville and legitimate theatre; and Gypsy Rose Lee, whose elevation of the striptease into something approaching performance art represented the form's final flowering. The Minsky family ? Billy, Abe, Herbert, and Morton ? receive particular attention as the producers most associated with New York burlesque in the 1920s and 1930s, whose running battles with civic authorities became a theatrical institution in their own right. The eventual banning of burlesque in New York City by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1937 is treated as the beginning of the end, though Sobel documents the form's continued life in other American cities through the 1940s and into the 1950s. Sobel closes with an elegiac assessment of burlesque as a form that, like vaudeville before it, had run its course ? a conclusion that subsequent decades, with the revival of neo-burlesque as a performance art movement, would considerably complicate. The book remains the standard pictorial reference on the subject, valued by theatre historians, collectors of performing arts ephemera, and anyone interested in the social history of popular entertainment in America.

hardcover. 8v, cloth. New York, 1953.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The Encore Press , N.H. , 1944 First Edition 143 Page Vintage Digest sized Magazine Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by William March, Frank Norris , David Hume, Bernard Sobel and others. See Photos A near fine copy with light edge wear and light dust soiling to the covers . See Photos This week bx.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A HISTORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE IN THE UNITED STATES DATING BACK TO "THE BLACK CROOK" IN 1866. BEN HECHT'S " HAZEL FLAGG " PLAY IS BASED ON THE FILM COMEDY " NOTHING SACRED." IN "THEATRE ARTS" MAGAZINE. VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2, FEBRUARY 1953, PAGES 18-23, 84. ON THE FRONT COVER IS A COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF HELEN GALLAGHER, STAR OF THE PLAY IN THE ROLE OF HAZEL FLAGG. INCLUDED IN YJE MAGAZINE IS THE PLAY "STALAG 17.".

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HARD BACK GREY/RED. Condition: FAIR. dustjacket is torn, tattered, spotted and taped in places, bookplate to inside front cover, boards rubbed and some chipped to edges DATE PUBLISHED: 1953 EDITION: 352.

Softcover, 156 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. Separation from spine starting on title page. Rear back dust jacket loose, inside cover. Private library stamp on top, exterior pages. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Theater, Drama, Plays) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second edition / 1st Printing. Inscribed & Signed By Author on front endpaper : "For / Jim Moss /with best wishes / and in friendship / from / Bernard Sobel". Then below that inscription is another one from Jim to Conrad Kahn, an early Hollywood soundman. 2nd Edition / 1st Printing. Good, no dust jacket, slight wear to covers, gold lettering on spine is rubbed, slight darkening to inner edges of front & rear endpapers (caused by binding glue). 18 x 25cm. hard cover. 908pp. B2501 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Inscribed & Signed By Author. Book.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover without dust jacket, 897 pages; very gently used, tight in binding, only light shelf wear to spine ends and bottom cover edges, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, numerous pieces of related ephemera, mostly newspaper clippings, laid in resulting in foxing to both adjacent pages, brief notation in ink on one page, pencil markings on fewer than 10 pages, all remaining text pages very clean and unmarked. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for the very scarce Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary, by Philip C. Kolin, and for Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance, by Dennis Kennedy, as well as our various Shakespeare Survey titles published by Cambridge University Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Binding is sound. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Acceptable. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

first printing ed. hardback very good condition in a dust jacket with chipping , tape repair to the rear and a bit of spine darkening.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Some mild soiling around cover edges. Spine tips are worn. One inch tear at front cover fore edge. Richard Avedon photograph of Meg Mundy on front cover. Contains complete text of "Medea" and Album 1923. 104 pages.

Large 8vo, pp. 900. Hinges tender, cover worn. good only. Articles, short and middling, on all things theater, arranged alphabetically.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Original Cloth-backed Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. Inscribed: "For/Lydia B. Maier/whose beauty, humor and friendship have been an inspiration to me and my loved ones./With great love/Bernard Sobel." Spne top and lower cover corners slightly worn; small area of front cover lightly soiled. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Eighth edition, completely revised. 749pp. Preface by George Freedley. Spine ends lightly bumped, very good in about very good dustwrapper with spine a touch faded, tears on edges.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Book Good. No dust jacket. (History, Burlesque, Pictorial) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.