Sondheim Stephen, Signed (54 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY JANIS PAIGE WHO WAS ROSE IN THE NATIONAL TOURING COMPANY A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Large hardcover in jacket with light wear. SIGNED publisher's bookplate laid in. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Later Printing. Signed By Stephen Sondheim on front free endpaper. A fine copy of this later printing hardcover in jacket (no date on title page, only silver stamping on binding is spine; no price on jacket). May be a book club hardcover edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing (complete numberline). SIGNED (inscribed) by Stephen Sondheim on a small bookplate decal affixed to half-title page. Also SIGNED by James Lapine on a bookplate affixed to half-title. Laid-in is a B&W photo-card SIGNED by KIM CROSBY (played 'Cinderella' in the original Broadway cast production). $24.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Note: No International orders for this item. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Stapled softcover inscribed to the front cover in felt pen by Sondheim ("Steve." ) Covers rubbed, corner lightly creased. ; quarto; 44,[4] pages; Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. Photo illustrations throughout. 449 pages. Small 4to, gray textured boards, d.w. New York: Knopf, 2010. First edition. Boldly signed by Sondheim on the half title. The previous owner has pasted a clipping from Sondheim's memorial service on the facing page, else fine in fine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine on limited edition page, signatures only. This being copy #220 of 250 copies. Pulitzer Prize winning play. First edition stated. 6 x 8 3/4 Book; fine. Slipcase fine. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition Set. A limited number of slipcased "HAT BOXES" were issued by Knopf on the occasion of the publication of "LOOK, I MADE A HAT: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011)," the companion volume to "FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981)."This "HAT BOX" contains mint First Edition copies of both volumes. It is signed in black ink on the slipcase by Stephen Sondheim, who signed these for Chartwell Booksellers.Also laid-in is an original invitation to the 2010 publishing party for FINISHING THE HAT that was held at Chartwell Bookselers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover with DJ. Black paper over boards, with silver lettering on the spine. Black pictorial DJ in excellent condition. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 2010. Number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 indicates first printing. 445 pages, illustrated. This copy signed by Sondheim on the title page; just his name without inscription or date. Measures 8.25 x 11.25 inches. DJ protected in mylar sleeve. Photos show this actual book. Some extra shipping will be needed since this is a bit larger than a standard volume. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing hardcover inscribed to the title page by Sondheim ('Steve') in felt pen. Light bumping to spine ends and points. The DJ in mylar is fine. ; 1954-1981; 8.3 X 1.21 X 11.19 inches; 480 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Talbott's adaptation of Sondheim and Lapine's celebrated musical is suitably fantastical in both imagery and design. Bound in full navy cloth over boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. First edition. Signed by the illustrator.

A Little Night Music made its Broadway debut in 1973 and then a North American tour from 1974-75 before making it's West End debut in 1975. The tour starred Jean Simmons as Desiree Armfeldt who went on to London, thus originating the role in the West End. After three years of singing the part she said she never tired of Sondheim's music. Simmons was an accomplished film actress, starring in over 30 movies in the course of her career. Shewas nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Supporting ActressforHamletin 1948, and won aGolden Globe Award for Best ActressforGuys and Dollsin 1955. Margaret Hamilton, best known for her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz film played the role of Madame Armfeldt, Desiree's mother, in the North American tour. This program is from the Chicago run of the tour (October 24, 1974 - January 05, 1975) and is inscribed with well-wishes for the New Year 1975. The inscriptions read, "Happy New Year, 1975. Jean Simmons" in red marker and "Happiest of New Years to you - Margarent Hamilton" in blue pen. 9" x 6.5". 24pp. Stapled pictorial wraps, illustrated throughout with color and black and white photos and advertisements. Signed by Jean Simmons and Margaret Hamilton on front cover. Very good.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. Frontispiece illustration. [10], 186 pages. Slim 8vo, green boards backed with black cloth, yellow printed d.w. (light wear at ends and spine just a bit faded, as usual). New York: Random House, 1965. Several pages bent at bottom corner, still a near fine in very good dust wrapper. Inscribed on the front endpaper by actor Lee Remick who played nurse Fay Apple in the original Broadway production.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Softcover with stapled binding. Inscribed to the front cover in felt pen by Sondheim. Corner slightly creased. Contains the music/lyrics for five song plus some stills from the musical. ; quarto; 47 pages; Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. A book of musical selections by Sondheim. Inscribed/dated to the title page by Sondheim, in 1984. Slight bumping/toning. Tight and square. ; quarto; Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Sheet music for the song "Losing My Mind" from the musical "Follies." Inscribed to the cover by Sondheim. Some handling, few minor stains and some penciling to the score. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Stapled softcover. Inscribed to the front cover in felt pen by Sondheim. Contents unmarked. ; Vocal Score; 9 X 0.436 X 12 inches; 48 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition. Stated 2nd edition hardcover inscribed to the ffep by Stephen Sondheim, dated 1987. Slightly bumped points, one edge ding. The DJ in mylar is lightly toned to flaps. ; quarto; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "West Side Story: A Musical" based on a conception by Jerome Roberts, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. William Heinemann, London. 1959 first UK edition. half-tone illustrations, a little slight toning, original cloth, dust jacket, a few chips and tears, spine and rear panel toned, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper 'To David, Stephen Sondheim". Inscribed copies of the UK edition of "West Side Story"'s book are rare and far more uncommon than signed first US editions. A must have for Sondheim and theatre lovers. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition of this classic work, the basis for the Broadway musical and subsequent film. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Lengthily signed by James Lapine on the half-title page, "'Once Upon A Time.' James Lapine." Additionally lengthily signed by the illustrator on the half-title page with an original drawing of a bean stock growing from a pile of beans, "'There are giants in the sky' - all the best for your own adventures - Hudson Talbott." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Hudson Talbott. Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine and illustrated by Hudson Talbott. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Rapunzel", and "Cinderella", as well as several others. The musical is tied together by an original story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, their interaction with a witch who has placed a curse on them, and their interaction with other storybook characters during their journey. The musical debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986 and premiered on Broadway on November 5, 1987, where it won several Tony Awards, including Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical (Joanna Gleason). The film adaptation directed by Rob Marshall and starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski and Johnny Depp was released and received three Academy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Look, I Made a Hat. Collected Lyrics (1981-2011), Virgin, 2011 first UK edition. Inscribed by Stephen Sondheim. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Finishing the Hat. Collected Lyrics (1954-1981), by Stephen Sondheim. Virgin, 2010 first UK edition. Inscribed by Stephen Sondheim. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Red/Orange cloth over boards. Black lettering on the spine. Pictorial DJ with $6.95 price on front flap. Both book and DJ are in very good condition - a touch of shelfwear to back of DJ, now protected with mylar sleeve. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1977. Number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 indicates first printing. This copy has the signature of Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman, Hal Prince and Al Hirshfeld on the half title page. No inscriptions or dates, just their names, in different pens. Sondheim died in 2021. Hal Prince, one of the greatest Broadway directors of the 20th century, died in 2019. The great illustrator Al Hirshfeld lived until 2003. Weidman collaborated with Sondheim several times, and won more than a dozen Emmys for his writing on Sesame Street. An extraordinary collection of signatures on this fringe Sondheim - it closed after 193 performances. The photos show this actual book. Also included is a 2001 invoice from a California bookstore for this book, priced at that time for $375. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of this classic musical. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein on the half-title page and inscribed by Stephen Sondheim on the front free endpaper. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed by these three contributors. In 1947, Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He proposed that the plot focus on the conflict between an Irish Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during the Easterâ"Passover season. The girl has survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Israel; the conflict was to be centered around anti-Semitism of the Catholic "Jets" towards the Jewish "Emeralds" (a name that made its way into the script as a reference). Eager to write his first musical, Laurents immediately agreed. Bernstein wanted to present the material in operatic form, but Robbins and Laurents resisted the suggestion. They described the project as "lyric theater", and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story. Only after he completed it did the group realize it was little more than a musicalization of themes that had already been covered in plays like Abie's Irish Rose. When he opted to drop out, the three men went their separate ways, and the piece was shelved for almost five years. In 1955, theatrical producer Martin Gabel was working on a stage adaptation of the James M. Cain novel Serenade, about an opera singer who comes to the realization he is homosexual, and he invited Laurents to write the book. Laurents accepted and suggested Bernstein and Robbins join the creative team. Robbins felt if the three were going to join forces, they should return to East Side Story, and Bernstein agreed. Laurents, however, was committed to Gabel, who introduced him to the young composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim auditioned by playing the score for Saturday Night, his musical that was scheduled to open in the fall. Laurents liked the lyrics but was not impressed with the music. Sondheim did not care for Laurents' opinion. Serenade ultimately was shelved. Laurents was soon hired to write the screenplay for a remake of the 1934 Greta Garbo film The Painted Veil for Ava Gardner. While in Hollywood, he contacted Bernstein, who was in town conducting at the Hollywood Bowl. The two met at The Beverly Hills Hotel, and the conversation turned to juvenile delinquent gangs, a fairly recent social phenomenon that had received major coverage on the front pages of the morning newspapers due to a Chicano turf war. Bernstein suggested they rework East Side Story and set it in Los Angeles, but Laurents felt he was more familiar with Puerto Rican immigrants and Harlem than he was with Mexican Americans and Olvera Street. The two contacted Robbins, who was enthusiastic about a musical with a Latin beat. He arrived in Hollywood to choreograph the dance sequences for The King and I, and he and Laurents began developing the musical while working on their respective projects, keeping in touch with Bernstein, who had returned to New York. When the producer of The Painted Veil replaced Gardner with Eleanor Parker and asked Laurents to revise his script with her in mind, he backed out of the film, freeing him to devote all his time to the stage musical. West Side Story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood (in the early 1960s, much of the neighborhood was cleared in an urban renewal project for the Lincoln Center, which changed the neighborhood's character). The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang's leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical includes "Something's Coming", "Maria", "America", "Somewhere", "Tonight", "Jet Song", "I Feel Pretty", "A Boy Like That", "One Hand, One Heart", "Gee, Officer Krupke", and "Cool". The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, and Best Picture.

Presumed later printing. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by the composer on title-page to Stuart Pedlar, 'For Stuart - Best wishes from Steve Sondheim', and with the recipient's ownership inscription above, 'Stuart Pedlar, London, Aug 7 '75, "with Night Music", and further initialled and dated by him on the next printed page. Spine and lower corner of upper wrapper slightly creased, wrappers slightly soiled, else a very good copy. Pedlar was the assistant musical director on the original London production of 'A Little Night Music', and musical director on 'Side by Side by Sondheim' from its conception in 1975 to numerous productions across the world, including the 10th, 20th and 25th anniversary productions. He wrote the arrangement for 'Conversation Piece' for the show. He was also associate musical director (and, apparently, conductor) on the original London production of 'Sweeney Todd', amongst other later productions.

sheet_music. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED in full and inscribed "For Ed" by Leonard Bernstein on the cover. Paper wraps in near fine condition. Scarce.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. Signed by Sondheim and inscribed and signed by Arthur Laurents on front free end paper. Book fine, very slight sunning to edges of covers. Dust jacket very good, minor sunning to spine, very minor wear, rubbing to front panel, minor soiling to rear hinge and rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, limited and signed issue. Fine in fine slipcase. Issued without dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by both Sondheim and Lapine. A very desirable edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning play which featured Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in the original production. Signed.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Kurt Rowley, with best wishes from Stephen Sondheim." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a drawing by Hirschfeld and photographs. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254â"184 BC), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity (frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another), and satirical comments on social class. The title derives from a line often used by vaudeville comedians to begin a story: "A funny thing happened on the way to the theater". The musical's original 1962 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Author (Musical). A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the stage musical, Zero Mostel.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the Broadway musical and later film. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Josh Kaiser, with very best wishes for you and your future-Â Hudson Talbott 2/3/90." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example. Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine and illustrated by Hudson Talbott. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Rapunzel", and "Cinderella", as well as several others. The musical is tied together by an original story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, their interaction with a witch who has placed a curse on them, and their interaction with other storybook characters during their journey. The musical debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986 and premiered on Broadway on November 5, 1987, where it won several Tony Awards, including Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical (Joanna Gleason). The film adaptation directed by Rob Marshall and starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski and Johnny Depp was released and received three Academy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations.