Arts
This rags-to-riches story of the highest paid performers in live entertainment tells how Siegfried and Roy climbed from their troubled childhoods in wartime Germany to the heights of show business with their amazing Las Vegas magic show.
1st edition; inscribed by Siegfried and Roy. Dust jacket has minor soiling on rear cover; slight cant to volume; bundled with program, two tickets, postcard of the Mirage, and slightly soiled napkin from the Mirage. VG/VG
Typed draft script of 1982 TV movie "Sister, Sister," by Maya Angelou. Twentieth Century-Fox Television, June 12, 1978. Hole-punched, held together with two metal brads; covers lightly creased, corners bent; spine fore-edge has the title written in ink; one red crayon smudge on front cover; text clean and legible. Very scarce. Good condition.
Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing, demystifies the publishing process, offering some insider how-to advice for aspiring authors. "A compact, practical manual ... a wealth of information usually only available to insiders."--The Times Literary Supplement
This slim but insightful guide offers concrete, witty advice and information to authors, prospective authors, and those curious about the publishing industry's inner workings. The chapters are chock full of important advice and information, including:
- How advances and royalties really work
- The surprising methods that actually move books off the shelves
- The art of pitching to agents
- The differences between Big Five and independent presses
- The ins and outs of distribution, direct sales, and selling through Amazon.
Written by an industry veteran who's been on both the writing and publishing side, So You Want to Publish a Book? is a refreshing, no-nonsense, and transparent guide to how books get made and sold.
For readers and writers looking for a straightforward guide for publishing, promoting, and selling their work.
Art by Gloria Vanderbilt illuminated stories by Richard Burgin. We have two copies available of this limited edition book, signed by both the author and artist. One copy is number 150/500 and one copy is number 171/500. Both are in very good condition with dust jackets showing minimal wear.
Generally agreed to be one of the most significant forces in the history of the American theater, O'Neill is a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in literature for 1936. He won one of his Pulitzer prizes for Strange Interlude. The play exemplifies O'Neill's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts and it was probably the furor of discussion aroused by the novelty both of theme and treatment in Strange Interlude that made O'Neill's name known wherever the English-speaking stage is discussed.
Boni & Liveright, 1928. Dust jacket in protective cover; attractive but tattered dj with repaired tear and missing chunk at top of spine; dark green cloth with lettering in gilt and decoration in light blue; decorated endpapers; binding good; text clean. G+/G-
Published by Edition des Massons, "A Paul Bianchini Book," published in cooperation with and at the occasion of Brice Marden's exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, and other venues; 70 pages of black-and-white pen drawings made by Marden in New York from Feb 1972 to July 1973, with reproduced hand-written title on front cover: "These are Suicide Notes - I don't know what my mind means!?"
Laminated white covers, some yellowing to front cover; small tear at top of front cover; corners creases; last page detached and laid in rear. G
Paul Claudel (1868-1955) was the author of numerous plays and several volumes of poetry.
Yale University Press, 1919. 1st edition. Translated from the French by John Strong Newberry. No dust jacket; dark gray cloth over gray boards; title and author on paper label on spine; front cover has one stained area; endpapers foxed; binding tight; some pages uncut; deckled edges; text clean. G
In That Way Madness Lies, fifteen acclaimed writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare's celebrated classics!
"From comedy to tragedy to sonnet, from texts to storms to prom, this collection is a knockout." --BuzzFeed.com West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. Kiss Me, Kate. Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of Shakespeare's most beloved works. Now, some of today's best writers for teens take on the Bard in these 15 whip-smart and original retellings! Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining The Merchant of Venice), Kayla Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew), Lily Anderson (As You Like It), Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter's Tale), Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet), A. R. Capetta and Cori McCarthy (Much Ado About Nothing), Brittany Cavallaro (Sonnet 147), Joy McCullough (King Lear), Anna-Marie McLemore (Midsummer Night's Dream), Samantha Mabry (Macbeth), Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus), Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night), Lindsay Smith (Julius Caesar), Kiersten White (Romeo and Juliet), and Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (The Tempest).