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Theater Playbill: Last Night of Mr. Walter Montgomery Who Will Appear As Macbeth on Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 1864, Will Be Presented Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth with Locke's Music...

Theatre Royal, Manchester · 1864

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Manchester, Eng. 1864. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Good condition The Theatre Royal in Manchester, England, opened in 1845. Situated next to the Free Trade Hall, it is the oldest surviving theatre in Manchester. Operating as a theatre from 1845 until 1921, The building has since ...

Theater Playbill: Boston Theatre, Thomas Barry, Lessee and Manager. Mr. Forrest, the American Tragedian in His Great Shakespearean Character of King Lear... Friday Evening, Nov. 9, 1855...

Boston Theatre · 1855

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Boston, 1855. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) was a prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor ...

Theater Playbill: Boston Theatre, Mr J.H. Booth, Lessee and Manager. Saturday, April 8th, 1871. Two Performances, Last Appearance of Mr. Fechter and Miss Leclercq... [in] Ruy Blas... [and] Plot and Passion...

Boston Theatre · 1871

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Boston, F.A. Searle, 1871. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Carlotta Leclercq (1838–1893) was a British actress, one of the children of Charles Clark (1797–1861) and his ...

Theater Playbill: The American Actress, Mrs Julia Hayne, Late Miss Julia Dean Will Appear... In the New Tragic Play of the Priestess... To Conclude with the Operatic Bagatelle of Jenny Lind... By Mrs. John Wood

Boston Theatre · 1855

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Boston, 1855. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Julia Dean (1830 – 1868) was an American actress who made her New York debut at 16 in a starring role with the James Sherid...

Theater Playbill: Edwin Forrest Will Appear in His Powerful Rendering of the Cardinal Duke, in Bulwer's Romantic Drama If Richelieu

Boston Theatre · 1864

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Boston, F. A. Searle, printer, 1864. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Very good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) was a prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His ...

Theater Playbill: Boston Theatre... Engagement of the Favorite Actor Mr. Frank Mayo, Who Will Appear in His Famous Character of "Badger"... J. H Budworth Has Been Expressly Engaged to Perform His Unique Part of "Bob, the Bootblack... Dion Boucicault's Master Creation, the Streets of New York...

Boston Theatre · 1867

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Boston, Searle, printer, 1867?. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Very good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Frank Maguire Mayo (1839–1896) was an American actor and comedian, born in Boston. Mayo was an early...

Theater Playbill: Triumphant Success of the Great Equestrian Drama Produced in a Style of Magnificance Never Excelled! in Which Will Appear... Messrs. Nixon & Co. 's Superb Stud of Arabian Horses... Wednesday Evening, -- January 26, 1859, Will Be Performed for the 12th Time, the Grand Romantic Drama in 3 Acts, by W.T. Monerieff, Entitled the Cataract of Ganges or -- the Rajah's Daughter!... The Entertainments Will Commence with the Farce in 1 Act by J.B. Buckstone Called a Kiss in the Dark

Boston Theatre · 1859

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Boston, 1859. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Performers include: Mr. E.L. Davenport; Mrs. E.L. Davenport; Mr. E. Adams. Very good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Edward Loomis Davenport and his wife Fanny ...

Theater Playbill for Mr. John E. Owens: Last Night But One of the Popular Comedian Mr. John E. Owens Who Will Appear in Three of His Celebrated Comic Creations, Mr. Gillman, Mr. Fright, and Horatio Spruggins Wednesday Eve'Ng, April 8

Howard Athenaeum · 1857

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Boston, F.A. Searle, [1857?]. unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Very good condition The Howard Athenæum (1845-1953) was one of the most famous theaters in Boston history. Founded in 1845, it remained an institution of culture and learning for most of its years, finally closing in 1953....

Sad Fate of Poor Robin. Susie Sunshine's series

1880

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New York, McLoughlin Brothers, [1880?]. Paperback. [8] leaves : col. illus. Good condition, stitched, back cover worn and corners chipped Cover title. At head of title: Susie Sunshine's series. This is one of the Susie Sunshine's series printed on paper with 8 chromoliths Issu...

Little Gidding, by T.S. Eliot.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) · 1942

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London, Faber and Faber 24 Russell Square, [1942]. First edition. Paperback. 16 p. 22 cm. Very good condition, in mauve wrappers First published in Mcmxlii.

The Three Voices of Poetry Annual lecture of the National Book League, 11

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) · 1953

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London, Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, 1953. First edition. Paperback. 23 p. 19 cm . Very good condition, covers lightly soiled, rear edge of scraped Stapled cream wrappers, green title, logo and author.

A Daughter of Eve. Paris: Privately Printed 1898. Edition of 200 Copies Only.

Harris, Frank · 1970

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[no place], circa 1970. Paperback. 28 p. 1 illus. Ill.: Elliott. Good condition .

A Valedictory Sermon on Leaving the Old Meeting House in the First Parish in Dorchester, 1st December, 1816; and a Dedicatory Sermon on Entering the New House of Worship, the Next Day

Harris, Thaddeus Mason · 1817

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Boston, Printed by John Eliot, 1817. Unbound. 36 p. ; 23 cm. Good condition, stain on t.p. & early leaves Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41004.

An Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. By Daniel Webster

Webster, Daniel · 1825

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Boston, Cummings, Hilliard, and company, 1825. Unbound. 40 p. 24 cm. Very good condition .

An Oration on the Fiftieth Anniversary of American Independence

Codman, John · 1826

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Boston, 1826. Crocker & Brewster. Unbound. 24 p. ; 25 cm. Good condition, light stain on first few leaves Delivered and published at the request of the Committee of Arrangements in Dorchester, for the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1826".

Good Wishes for Youth : Expressed in a Discourse Delivered at Dorchester, January 1, 1804

Harris, Thaddeus Mason · 1804

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Boston, Printed by Manning & Loring, 1804. Unbound. 30 p. ; 21 cm. Very good condition .

Autograph Letter Signed to Capt. Fainch Arranging to Visit Him on a Trip to London, Mentioning That the Fox Hunting Has Been Good.

Lothian, William John Kerr, Marquis of · 1794

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Monteviot Lodge,, 3 Nov. 1794. Unbound. 2 p. plus two engraved portraits. Very good condition .

An Eulogy Pronounced July 20, 1810, at the Interment of the Rev. Samuel Webber, D.D. , President of Harvard University, Who Expired Suddenly on the Evening of July 17, in the Fifty-First Year of His Age. By Henry Ware

Ware, Henry · 1810

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Cambridge, Mass. Printed by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1810. Unbound. 19 p. 24 cm. Fair condition, stained .

The Political Progress of Britain, or, an Impartial History of Abuses in the Government of the British Empire in Europe, Asia, and America : From the Revolution, in 1688, to the Present Time : The Whole Tending to Prove the Ruinous Consequences of the Popular System of Taxation, War, and Conquest. Part First.

Callender, James Thomson · 1795

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Philadelphia, Printed by and for Richard Folwell, 1795. Third edition. Disbound. 120 p.g. Ex-library, Good condition, light stain on t.p. and first leaves Evans 28379.

The Prophet Jeremiah's Resolution to Get Him Unto Great Men, and to Speak Unto Them, Considered and Applied: In a Sermon

Hancock, John · 1734

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Boston, Printed for S. Kneeland, 1734. Unbound. 26 p. Fair condition, half-title edge-worn, some staining throughout, top margin of last page chipped Evans, C. American bibliography, 3778.