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  • HONEYCOMB: Ballad of a North Beach Cabaret. by Asher, Don.
    Asher, Don.
    HONEYCOMB: Ballad of a North Beach Cabaret.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner, (1979). Hardcover first edition - A California Living Book - a fond remembrance of a little North Beach theater club where entertainers like Woody Allen, Dick Gregory, Phyllis Diller and Barbara Streisand appeared during its heyday. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Tom Cervenak. Small format - just 7 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches. 90 pp. plus final illustration. ISBN: 0-893950211.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.

    Book ID: 83586
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  • KING KONG: An African Jazz Opera. by Bloom, Harry; lyrics by Pat Williams.
    Bloom, Harry; lyrics by Pat Williams.
    KING KONG: An African Jazz Opera.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    London: Fontana, (1961). Fontana Books Paperback Original #605. A jazz opera play which tells the story of a black boxer in a South African shanty town - inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening in February 1959 and even though it was a direct challenge to apartheid it was an immediate success touring the country for two years, before multi-racial audiences, and then opening in London in 1961. The author, Harry Bloom, was a South African attorney and activist who worked with Nelson Mandela during the late 1950s and was detained, without being charged, after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. Lyrics…

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    London: Fontana, (1961). Fontana Books Paperback Original #605. A jazz opera play which tells the story of a black boxer in a South African shanty town - inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening in February 1959 and even though it was a direct challenge to apartheid it was an immediate success touring the country for two years, before multi-racial audiences, and then opening in London in 1961. The author, Harry Bloom, was a South African attorney and activist who worked with Nelson Mandela during the late 1950s and was detained, without being charged, after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. Lyrics by Pat Williams. Illustrated with black and white stills from the theater production. 98 pp.

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    Condition: Near Fine in white pictorial wraps with red & black lettering (an export edition with the price on the front cover replaced with 2 small red triangles)

    Book ID: 88617
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  • KABUKI DRAMA: Tourist Library 7. by Miyake, Shutaro.
    Miyake, Shutaro.
    KABUKI DRAMA: Tourist Library 7.

    Edition: Later printing.

    Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, (1959) dj. Hardcover - An introduction to Kabuki - a dramatic art based on singing and dancing - originally published in 1938. Illustrated with many photographs, with several in full color, including the frontispiece. Bibiliography. Index, 157 pp

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall good condition in a good dust jacket (spine label)

    Book ID: 76376
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  • SIGNS OF SILENCE: Bernard Bragg and the National Threater of the Deaf by Powers, Helen.
    Powers, Helen.
    SIGNS OF SILENCE: Bernard Bragg and the National Threater of the Deaf

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dodd & Mead Company, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of Bernard Bragg, one of the 10% of deaf children born to deaf parents. The overview of his life from his childhood in Connecticut on his grandfather's farm to the New York School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet College for the Deaf to his studies for the theater, including studying mime under Marcel Marceau He became one of the major performers for the National Theater of the Deaf, . using mime and sign language. Introudtion by Nanette Fabray. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-396-066127.

    Condition: Near fine with very good dust jacket (short closed tear on front of dust jacket, price-clipped)

    Book ID: 59501
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  • THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING: Henry Gresham and the Shakespeare Conspiracy. by Stephen, Martin.
    Stephen, Martin.
    THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING: Henry Gresham and the Shakespeare Conspiracy.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Little Brown, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second Jacobean thriller featuring gentleman spy Henry Gresham, set in 1612 and Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-316860026.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to pages and edges of textblock as usual with UK editions)

    Book ID: 80616
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