Gersten Bernard (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Hardback covers. Ex-Library labels and markings to the book and dust jacket. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine and corners. Corners slightly bumped.; 10.36 X 0.82 X 13.84 inches; 160 pages.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by (design by) Al Vandenberg (illustrator). [beautiful clean copy, with just a bit of wear along the stapled edge]. (B&W photographs) 24-page (including covers) promotional booklet for the Festival, issued just prior to the 1965 season. Largely photographic, with quotes about the Festival and its productions from various sources. Includes a full-page statement from founding director Joseph Papp, and a smaller statement from then-NYC Mayer Robert F. Wagner, under whose administration (1953-1965) the Festival was established and flourished -- with the annual budget for the program having by then (according to Papp's statement) reached the stratospheric sum of $825,000. Among the more prominent actors featured in the photos of a dozen or so recent productions are James Earl Jones (shown in both "Othello" and "King Henry V"), Julie Harris ("Hamlet"), George C. Scott ("The Merchant of Venice") and Colleen Dewhurst ("Antony and Cleopatra").

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated boards. Square Tight Binding.Clean interior. A GORGEAOUS coffee table book.A superior edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. Pictorial boards tight and straight, inner pages crisp and clean. Dust Jacket is price-intact, clean with very mild shelfwear. Publisher promo sheet laid-in.; 10.36 X 0.82 X 13.84 inch; 160 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 29 Color Illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. E.P. Dutton: 1977. Folio. Soft cover. First edition. Wraps are moderately rubbed. Internal contents clean and unmarked. On the lower end of very good condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

1st edition softback with french flaps As New folio 128pp., col. & b/w pls., Very large format 34 x 25 cms.

Folio, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims, xxix plates, VG (light to moderate creasing & spine & covers, prev. owner's name & details in ink to inside front cover).

[1] pp.; 43 x 17.5 cm.; color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Double-sided oversized program for performances produced by Joseph Papp, held throughout the summer of 1967 at the Delacorte Theatre, in New York City, including "The Comedy of Errors," June 7 - July 1; "King John," July 5 - July 29; "Titus Andronicus," August 2 - 26; "An Evening of Yiddish Poetry and Folk Music," July 17; "Rosalyn Tureck-Bach Society Concert," July 24; "An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music," August 14; "An Evening of Puerto Rican Poetry and Folk Music," August 21; and the "Rebekah Harkness Foundation Dance Festival," August 29 - September 9. Performances at the Mobile Theatre include "Volpone," June 23 - August 19 and "Lallapalooza, A Show for Kids," directed by Lotte Goslar and Bernard Gersten, June 29 - August 19. Choreographed by Lotte Goslar, George Martin, Ethel Martin, Alvin Ailey, Hope Clark, and Ian Horvath, with costumes by Mel Cabral. Good. Moderate overall handling marks and wear. Folded four horizontally. Address stamp of original recipient on top left corner of recto, otherwise clean and unmarked.