About this title: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter II Boyhood Westward Ho!?Chicago in 1839?An Adventure in Springfield, Illinois ? Hard Times? James Wallack, Sr.? The Elder Booth ? Mac- ready ? Our Voyage on a ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, The Century co
Date Published: 1897
Description: Good. Hardcover. Modest wear. Name of previous owner on endpaper. Pages lightly tanned, clean and unmarked. Binding tight. No dust jacket. read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, #5, September, 1890. Includes Reverend Joseph Jefferson, Gainsborough, In Scotland, In Ireland, At Home Again, Talks with Charles S. Mathews, John B. Rice, The Rivals, and William Warren. Illustrations include a portrait of the Reverend Joseph Jefferson, a view of Booth's Theater at Twenty-Third Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City, a full ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 10 drawings and portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 3, January, 1890. Sections include From Stock to Star, From Star to Stock, The Elder Booth as Sir Giles Overreach, The Southern Theatrical Circuit, A Wandering Star, The Balcony Scene, Julia Dean, Legitimate Comedy, James E. Murdoch and Henry Placide, and A Play is an Animated Picture. Illustrations include Old Chatham Street ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 15pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 portraits of the subject in character, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 5, March, 1890. Sections include With Laura Keene, Dramatic Action, Our American Cousin, A Theatrical Quarrel, Changes in Old Plays, The Duchess, The Winter Garden, Caleb Plummer, I Receive Good Advice, and The Octoroon. Portraits include E. A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary in Our American Cousin, Laura Keene with facsimile ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 6 portraits, faded water stain noted at top edge, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, #4, August, 1890. Includes John Brougham, Tom Robertson, Artemus Ward, Edwin Adams, the Combination System, George D. Prentice, Tom Glessing, George Holland, Charles Fechter, once more in Paris, French acting, French and English painters, and English acquaintances. Portraits include Brougham as ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 4 portraits, pencil scribbles at a couple pages, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 4, February, 1890. Sections include Edwin Forrest, From London to Paris, An Early Comedy, and In The Second-Hand Shops. Portraits include Forrest about 1835, Forrest again from a bit later, with a facsimile signature, and full page views of Forrest as Metamora, and King Lear. Housed in protective mylar report ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 6pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 2 full page plates, small faded water stain at top left corner of first couple pages, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, No. 2, June, 1890. Includes The Keans In Australia, and A Chinese Theater. Illustrations include Charles Kean as King Lear, and Mrs. Kean as Hermione. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1889
Description: VG. 8vo. 23pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 11 drawings and portraits, including a full page portrait with facsimile signature, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 1, November, 1889. This is the opening segment of the popular actor's autobiography and includes the sections My First Playhouse, Further Recollections of Childhood, Westward Ho, Chicago in 1839-An Adventure in Springfield, Hard Times, James Wallack, Sr., the Elder Booth, and ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1889
Description: VG. 8vo. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 7 portraits, and a portrait collage, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 2, December, 1889. Sections include Barn-Storming in Mississippi, Pudding Stanley, In Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Wallack, Jr., John E. Owens, Crossing the Alleghanies, My Friend the Scene Painter, William E. Burton, An Effort in Greek Tragedy, and Charles Burke. Portraits include Wallack and Mrs. Wallack, Owens, Owens in ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 9pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 4 portraits of the subject as Rip Van Winkle, and one of Harry A Perry, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIX, No. 6, April, 1890. Sections include Some Remarks on Guying, The Comedian's Disadvantage, The First Successful Star Comedian, How I Came to Play Rip Van Winkle, Failure in San Francisco, and Harry Perry. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Century Company, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: VG. 8vo. 9pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, #1, May, 1890. Includes Australia, Melbourne, the Skeleton Dance, the Shepherd, an Australian Tragedy, a Terrible Audience. Housed in a mylar type report cover with spine sleeve. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Century Co., New York
Date Published: 1890
Description: Good. 501 pgs. Lightly yellowed and soiled cover has two 1/8" to 1/4" dings near front external hinge which are chipped through the cloth. Book is tight and paper is white. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Century Co., NY
Date Published: 1897
Description: Very Good. Clean brown cloth with gilt lettering. Tight, clean & intact copy. Top edge gilt. Light scratch on front cover & top corners lightly bumped. Pictorial frontispiece. Numerous B/W portrait illuastrations. Theater; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 509 pages. read more
Edition: Later Edition
Binding: Cloth(Hrdcvr)
Publisher: Century Co., New York, NY
Date Published: 1897
Description: Black & White Plates. G/-- 8vo., xv, 509 pp., Corners slightly rubbed, pages slightly yellowed, bookplate on inside front cover, small stain on inside fron. Bookplate states From The Century Company; No. 200. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Century Co., New York, NY
Date Published: 1890
Description: Frontis, 76 Plates. Good+ DJ Not Issued 501pgs(Index) 2" cover tear at top front spine edge, front endpaper removed, rear hinge paper tear, owner name embossments on first 2 blank. Pages of book, small ink date stamp (3), number inside rear endpaper, o.w. clean & tight. Text bright & in Fine condition. read more
Description: Good Condition. 1890. Dark red boards. Top page edge gold gilt with embossed design on boards. Light rub to boards with wear to corners/spine ends. Interior pages are very good with b/w illustrations.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 501 pages. read more
Binding: Brown cloth
Publisher: The Century Co., New York
Date Published: 1897
Description: Tall octavo. xvi + 510 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and 76 plates. Appendix. Index. Spine worn at tip and base, covers edgeworn, front inner hinge cracked, else a very good copy. read more
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