Sobel Bernard (94 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacks. Both in very good condition. Confessions of a New York Press Agent. Wonderful read.

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

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

Condition: New.

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. …

Condition: New.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Worn with edge tears. Ninth Printing, December, 1964. This hardcover edition of "The New Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays" is in good condition, with a dust jacket that shows wear, including notable edge tears. The binding remains strong, and the pages are clean and intact, making it a durable addition to any collection. The jacket's wear is consistent with its age, adding character to this vintage reference book.…

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

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. worn with tears and edge wear. The book is in fair condition with a hardcover binding. The dust jacket is worn, displaying noticeable tears and edge wear, but remains intact. The interior pages are clean, with no inscriptions or markings, preserving the integrity of the rich photographic content.…

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.

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

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Some interior markings to the insides of the covers. Binding is tight and square. Minor to moderate soiling to the clothboards. Missing DJ.

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.…

hardcover. Condition: Good.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. GOOD-. Brownish cloth hardcover boards. Approx. 10.5" x 7". Bumps/chips to edges and corners. Rub wear, dust markings and light scratches to covers. Slightly frayed spine ends and corners. Grey dirt stain to top right corner of cover and top of back cover. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.…

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.…

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.…

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

Condition: New.

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.

Condition: New.