Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph, an attractive image of Pavlova in costume for the Bleichmann Pas De Deux. This photograph is featured in the Jane Pritchard book: "ANNA PAVLOVA. Twentieth Century Ballerina."
Paris: M. de Brunoff. 1912. First English Edition. Translated from the Russian by A. Grey. Large 4to, original lettered paper wrappers, with original slipcase. 194 pp. 23 plates by Bakst, Barbier, Serov, Soudekine, and others including photogravures and woodcuts in margins etc.. A very bold original signature by Anna Pavlova on the half-title. Number 67 of 300 copies, also signed by Publisher. This being the copy of dancer Elsa Heilich, inscribed on the ffe to her on Christmas, 1930. Pages bright and clean, wear to slipcase and spine with a small tear starting lower right front, some spliting from the block throughout. Reference: Derra de Moroda 2452. Magriel 126.
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Vintage 8.5 x 10.5 inch book page photograph boldly signed by the American dancer/choreographer. The photo has been signed by Robbins in bold black felt tip marker and is in good condition. Accompanying the signed photo is a clipped New York Times obituary.
Magnificent oversized photograph, 10 x 14 inches, signed and inscribed on the A. Laviosa studio, Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York mount by the supreme Italian baritone. Read More...
Autograph letter to the pianist Lucette Descaves (1906 - 1993), stating that she is "very busy, very tired, but always very happy to listen to her" and arranging a time to meet. Signed "Emma Claude Debussy." Read More...
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Scarce signed St Andrew's Halls, Glasgow, May 1922 program of the great French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. 12.5 cms x 19 cms., four pages. Scattered wrinkling and central horizontal crease, otherwise fine. Boldly signed in ink "Marcel Dupre" across the top of the front page illustrated by a photograph of Dupre at the organ. The program included works by Bach, Dupre, Franck, Widor, Tallis and others. Read More...
Paris: Alphonse Leduc . 1925. 1st Edition. Scarce signed score from the great French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. 4 parts numbered from I to IV. 41 pages (numbered), large in-4. Inscribed on the front cover "A Maurice Emmanuel - souvenir profondément affectueux - Marcel Dupré - 16 mai 1925." An interesting association copy. Read More...
Paris: Durand. 1948. First edition. Softcover, 9.5 x 12.25, 80 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first page in French in ballpoint by Durufle and his wife, and dated October 1, 1971. Overall toning, a couple small tears to the spine, and ownership notations to cover and title page, otherwise fine condition.
Written in memory of his father, Requiem is almost certainly Durufle’s most famous composition.
An attractive program from "An Evening with Fiedler," boldly signed on the cover beside a profile portrait of the beloved Boston Pops conductor. Very fine.
Original press photograph. "Adding a special flavor to his music, conductor Arthur Fiedler gets set to dig in on the king-sized sandwich before performing his baton duties in front of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. The five-foot gourmet's delight, weighing 35 pounds and costing $90, was loaded with spicy meats and cheeses for the orchestra members by an enterprising delicatessen owner. The show went on after the sandwich was disposed of by the musicians, but even after the songs were ended, the flavored melody lingered on." Photo measures 7 x 9.25 inches, dated 08-01-1956.
Signed FDC envelope from the Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
Charming original doubleweight photograph of the great comedian with Sophia Loren in 1965, who he was about to direct opposite Marlon Brando in the film, "The Countess." 10 x 8 inches. Fine.
Colorful vintage reproduction of a celluloid drawing from the first Disney animated feature film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Very nicely signed by Disney himself on the mount in red artist’s crayon, the mat bubble-cut around the contour of the signature. Framed to 16 1/4" x 17 1/4", the revere with the original vintage label from Walt Disney Productions. Unexamined out of the frame but in apparently fine condition.
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Gielgud writes a paragraph on his process of learning his lines. A neatly penned paragraph on his personal stationary card, the reverse of the card printed “With the compliments of John Gielgud." Signed "Best Wishes, John Gielgud." Fine.
DS, ten pages, 8.5 x 11, March 12, 1956. Contract between Day and Warner Bros. for her “to portray the role of ‘Babe Williams’ in a motion picture…tentatively entitled ‘The Pajama Game.’” In fine condition.
The Pajama Game is a 1957 musical film based on the stage musical of the same name, with a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The principal cast of the Broadway musical repeated their roles for the movie, with the exception of Janis Paige, who was replaced by Doris Day.
Boldly penned AMQS from the English/Welsh composer considered Arthur Sullivan's successor. He composed a great output of incidental music for stage and many comic operas ("Merrie England" and "Tom Jones") as well as much symphonic music ("Welsh Rhapsody"), and songs. 5 measures, marked "Allegro giocoso" and identified by the composer as from his very celebrated comic opera "Merrie England." Dated May 11th, 1903, the year after the premiere. 15 x 17.5 cm and in fine condition.
Original 1940 Cleveland Orchestra program, signed by the great American bon vivant, actor and pianist. A student of Schoenberg, he was a close friend and important promoter of George Gershwin and played the role of himself in the Gershwin biopic "Rhapsody in Blue." The present program features, among other works, performances by Levant of the Gershwin Concerto in F and Levant's own "Dirge, in memory of George Gerswhin." Some toning and light creasing, overall very good.