Irving Actor (26 results)

No Binding. Condition: VG. 386-607. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VG. 386-605. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains [xii] 164 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece, ornate chapter capital letters. Tanning to the page edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 10 other books by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1850771855 STAGE & THEATRE.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The 24 x 15 cm front panel of envelope. Aged and worn, folded once. With two stamps, both postmarked. Boldly written, in Irving's distinctive hand: 'F. W. H. Sykes Esq / 31 Brunswick Square / W.C.' At top left, in pencil, in a Victorian hand: 'Henry Irving'.

No Binding. Condition: VG. Lower right front portion of front cover missing, otherwise a VG or better 28-page pressbook with no cuts or missing pages. Poster.

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 11'' x 8½''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 11'' x 8½''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 11'' x 8½''. Contains 4 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).

Carbon print, mounted on leaf with printed border and facsimile signature, from 'The Theatre',

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. In a difficult hand. He hopes there is 'no misunderstanding about the box for tonight', which is reserved in the recipient's name at the theatre: '& you have only to ask for your box'. He ends: 'We shall meet tonight I hope after the play.'.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with light pencil line by Forsyth through first page. She hopes that she is not 'asking too much' in requesting 'two stalls or a box for the premiere of "Eugene Oneghin" - Friday evening'. If 'not impossible', he would like 'a lunch to be present that night. He asks to be sent word to the Garrick Club.

Condition: Good. - The renowned Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving's autograph on a 4 inch high by 7 inch wide page removed from an album. Signed and dated "Faithfully [?] yours / Henry Irving / 1885". Penned on the verso is the autograph of the American actor Samuel Hemple: "Truly Yours / Saml. Hemple". A large light brown stain in the center of the verso affects Hemple's sentiments and signature. The Victorian era English stage actor Sir Henry Irving was highly regarded as an actor-manager, taking complete responsibility for all aspects of staging plays for countless seasons at the Lyceum Theatre. The first actor to be awarded a knighthood he is thought to have inspired the character of Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel.The American actor Samuel Hemple (1832-1892) performed at the Arch Street and Chestnut Street Theaters in Philadelphia. Known as a Shakespearean actor, he was also a playwright. His play "Cigar Girl of Cuba" premiered at NYC's Bowery Theater in 1873.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red buckram covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, square gilt vignette to the front cover, top edge gilt. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Hand written number 346 of 1500 Limited Edition copies on ordinary paper. Contains [xvi] 351 printed pages of text with tissue-guarded colour portrait frontispiece of Irving as Hamlet from a painting by Edward Long, 120 further illustrations including 1 tissue-guarded colour portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Lambeth. Neatly repaired cracking of the cloth to the front gutter, the end papers are not cracked, light foxing to the end papers and in Very Good condition. From the private library of Andrew Leigh, General Manager of The Old Vic, London, and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.

1p., 4to. On bifolium. Aged and worn, with small spots at head and foot. Irving's signature is firm and bold. The only other words in his autograph are 'Dear Hall Caine', but there is slight offsetting of other writing by Irving on the blank second leaf. The circular is an invitation to be 'placed on the list of Stewards on the occasion of the Annual Dinner of "The Actors' Benevolent Fund," of which I am the President'. Irving will be in the chair, and the dinner will take place at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole. 'The Fund is a very deserving one, and gives aid in a great number of cases to persons in theatrical life.' Hall Caine was a friend of Irving's secretary Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula).

Both items in good condition, lightly-aged. ONE: 2pp., 4to. Having returned from 'a rather long painting expedition to France' he finds that 'circumstances have arisen in regard to the administration of the Society' [ the Society of British Film Art Directors and Designers, of which Craig was a leading light], and in the light of these circumstances Irving feels compelled to resign. 'It is [.] unlikely that I shall design any more films. Life is short and there is so much to be done that even if anybody wished me to, I should hesitate to commit myself to the months not only of work but of preoccupation which a film production involves. Quite apart from this I feel that the principles of film design which, however wrongly, I have always advocated, are being abandoned, naturally, in the face of economic pressure and the general registration of film making. I am old fashioned enough to believe that the situation into which films have fallen is very largely due to the insistance [sic] of those who have misguidedly and not very successfully tried to make it into an industry rather than a medium of expression for groups of artists of enterprise and imagination.' Two more paragraphs follow before the letter ends. TWO: 1p., 4to. Following the last letter Irving has been offered honorary membership of the Society, and writes: 'I do not feel that I deserve such consideration, for you and several others have striven hard to maintain the prestige of Art Directors in the gruelling factory conditions of commercial studios through good and bad times. However, as you well know, to an artist, the only commendation or criticism which really touches him is that of his fellow craftsmen [.]'. He offers his assistance to the Society, before ending: 'I heard from Flower that your meeting in London was a success, and that you are going to get out drawings and plans for the proposed Elizabethan theatre. I am very glad to hear this, and I know you will find the Stratford people charming to deal with.'.

8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. Asking an unidentified recipient to dine with him: "I have just received your telegram. I would fix, if I must, Friday 28th - if you would delight me in having supper here - for on Monday 24th I am invited by Mr. Hichens to have the pleasure of meeting you at the Carlton". - The Mr. Hichens in question is very likely the journalist and novelist Robert Hichens (1864-1950), co-author of Henry Duff Traill's 1898 play "The Medicine-Man" that had been created with Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre. - On stationery of the Lyceum Theatre. With a French translation in a collector's hand in pencil. Slightly dust-stained.

167:110 mm.

165:107 mm. "With all good wishes". - Irving became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society.

2 pages 8vo, Lyceum Theatre, [?] May  Henry Irving, most famous actor of the Victorian stage, writes to a "friend" who will be his "guest tomorrow night", adding, "I am greatly looking forward to the pleasure of being with you", and "I am not sure whether your brother is coming, should be delighted if he joined you", assuring the recipient that "I could easily get another ticket".  Irving was performing in Tennyson's Becket at the time this letter was written. Irving's characteristic scrawl is evident here (Bram Stoker, Irving's business manager at the Lyceum Theatre, usually wrote his mail for him, and had marginally more legible handwriting). There is one almost-indecipherable word (a name), which looks to be "Pinero": "I put your more than handsome donation upon Pinero's list & we all are very grateful to you." The donation perhaps was for the Actor's Benevolent Fund, which Irving had founded in 1882. He was the President of the Fund until his death in 1905. Contemporary ink blot above the recipient's name; very slight age-toning to edges, otherwise in good condition.