[Rarebooks] FS - Charades, anyone?

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

FROST, S. A. /PARLOR ACTING CHARADES, Intended Solely for Performance in 
the Drawing Room, and Requiring no Expensive Scenery or Properties to 
render them Effective./  Bound in original stapled decorated wraps. 
Published by Dick & Fitzgerald, New York City. 1876. 1st edition. Tall 
12mo, pp. 182, ads. Rear wrapper absent, front wrapper soiled, chipped 
and worn; spine chipped, contents clean & tight; overall good condition.

Containing twelve charades, each with its own title, viz. "Matrimony", 
"Misfortune", "Mad-Cap", "Purse-Proud", etc. From the Preface: "The 
increasing taste for Amateur Theatricals has transformed the old pastime 
[of charades] into a well-prepared performance, and the 'Acting Charade' 
of to-day is a complete amateur dramatic
entertainment. There is, in consequence, a growing demand for really 
good, sensible 'Charades' for parlor performance.." "The Charades 
presented in this book were written exactly with that object..." and 
were first published in 1866 in a book entitled /The Parlor Stage/. 
However, as the editor admits, so popular were the charades in that book 
that they have been re-published in this format. "The plots are simple 
and intelligent, the dresses are almost all of the present-day, and the 
properties such as are to be found in every well-appointed
house, with the single exception of a curtain." A very scarce item, 
partially due, no doubt, to the fragility of the manner in which it is 
bound. No copies offered for sale on the internet at the time this 
listing was posted. OCLC lists five copies: three in university 
libraries, one in a public library and one in the Library of Congress. 
At the end of the book is a 26-page catalogue of Dick & Fitzgerald books.

Price: $100.00.   (#30477)

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