[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: RARE AMERICAN THEATRICAL PAMPHLET

[Norman Kane]

ON THE STAGE; OR, HOW TO BECOME AN ACTOR. TOGETHER WITH DRAMAS, DIALOGUES, SPEECHES, BURLESQUES, SKETCHES, ACTS, SONGS, AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE DUTIES OF THE STAGE MANAGER, PROMPTER, SCENIC ARTIST. PROPERTY MAN ... HOW TO MAKE UP ... BY A PROMINENT STAGE MANAGER.  N. Y.: Tousey & Small, 116 Nassau St., 1878 (1878). Approx. 9-1/2 X 6-1/2 inches, original pictorial wrappers showing minstrels and what appears to be a scene from Romeo and Juliet. Light stain, mostly marginal, throughout, otherwise good.  39, [1], vi, [2] pages. Advts for boys' magazines, &c, on a few pages &  back cover. (Includes an Ethiopian Sketch, a Plantation Comedy, a Dutch Declamation, an Irish Family Sketch, Hans Bummelstine on Love - a burlesque German stump speech, Dot Bowery Auctioneer, and much more of the same.)   RARE: not in OCLC.  The Library of Congress has what is apparently some sort of copy. Many of Tousey & Small publications for 1878 exist in only one copy. $175.00

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