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Very Good. Hardcover. No DJ. INSCRIBED TO PREVIOUS OWNER AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Pages clean and unmarked. Gilt top page edge. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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VG. Bobbs-Merrill edition in Very Good condition. Slight spine lean. Fadin g and darkening to the spine with soiling to the margins of the boards. Rubs to the corners. Tanning to the page margins. Frontispiece by Ge orge Luks. No dust jacket.
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Good. Signed. First Edition. Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages are clean and intact. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Very Good. First trade edition, Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED 1926 BY SKINNER on the front free endpaper. Color frontis portrait of Skinner366 pp. with index. Numerous en role in "The Honor of the Family". Numerous full page photographic and reproduction plates. Very good, spine sunned and rubbed at the edges. A classic theatrical autobiography. Cambridge, Massachusetts-born Otis Skinner (1858-1942) was an American actor who rose to stardom in the late 19th century. He had toured with Edwin Booth and Helena Modjeska. He was known for his Shakespearan roles as well as for comic turns. His signature role was as Hajj the beggar in "Kismet" beginning on Broadway in 1911.
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Very Good- No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. (1924) 368 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding a bit rubbed. Spine sunned. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece of Otis Skinner, and several b/w plates.
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1924, Bobbs-Merrill
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Bobbs-Merrill
Published:
1924
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English
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8vo, pp. 367. Illustrated. Author's presentation on flyleaf. A nice copy in little soiled dj.
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Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on fep. Bookplate of Sam Eskin, 1989-1974, famed U.S. folk singer/collector. Some page spiling anf foxing/spotting. [14], 7 p.l., 366, [1, [3]] p. col. front., illus., plates, ports., facsims. 23 cm. Index. From Wikipedia: "Otis Skinner (June 28, 1858 January 4, 1942) was a popular American stage actor active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Otis A. Skinner was born on June 28, 1858 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the middle of three boys raised by Charles and Cornelia Skinner. He was later brought up in Hartford, Connecticut where Charles Skinner served as a Universalist minister. His older brother, Charles Montgomery Skinner, would later become a noted journalist and critic in New York, while his younger brother William, an artist. Otis Skinner was educated in Hartford with an eye towards a career in commerce. A visit to the theater left him stage-struck. He secured his father's blessing for a theatrical career, and his father not only approved but also obtained from P. T. Barnum an introduction to William Pleater Davidge. Davidge employed him at eight dollars a week, and Skinner's career was launched. In the latter half of the 1870s, he played various bit roles in stock companies, and alongside stars such as John Edward McCullough. He built up his repertoire for several years in New York and Boston, including three years with Lawrence Barrett. By the mid-1880s, he was touring first with Augustin Daly, then, in 1889, with the troupe of Edwin Booth and Helena Modjeska. After that season, he played Romeo in London opposite Margaret Mather. His association with Mather lasted two years; after, with Booth dead, he returned to Modjeska, starring opposite her in her most famous roles. He also originated the role of Schwartz in Hermann Sudermann's Magda, and played Armand in Dumas's Camille. By the middle of the 1890s, he was a star in his own right. In 1894, he produced and starred in Clyde Fitch's His Grace de Grammont; the same year, he performed in his brother's translation of Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse. In 1895 in Chicago, he succeeded as Hamlet; his performance was praised as natural and unaffected, without elocutionary tricks. From 1895, he was associated with the troupe of Joseph Jefferson. He excelled in Shakespearean roles like Shylock, Hamlet, Richard III and Romeo, and his Colonel Phillipe Brideau in The Honor of the Family was considered one of the greatest comedic performances of the first quarter of the twentieth century. Skinner's signature role was as Hajj the beggar in Kismet (1911) on Broadway, and he continued playing it on stage for twenty years, recreating his performance both in the 1920 and 1930 film versions of the play. Later roles included Albert Mott in Humpty Dumpty (1918), the title role in Sancho Panza in Melchior Lengyel's adaptation of Don Quixote (featuring Lucille Kahn in a supporting role), Sir John Falstaff in both Henry IV, part 1 (1926) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1928), and Shylock opposite the Portia of Maude Adams (1931 32) in The Merchant of Venice. Like that of Henry Irving, his Shylock was naturalistic and at least partly sympathetic; he avoided the melodramatic excess characteristic of earlier interpretations of the character. Skinner was also a successful writer whose books included Footlights and Spotlights and Mad Folk of the Theatre. His daughter, actress and author Cornelia Otis Skinner, was born in 1901. He was portrayed onscreen by a somewhat miscast Charlie Ruggles, in the film version of Cornelia Otis Skinner's autobiography, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. In life Skinner had a cultured but raspy voice that sounded similar to actor James Mason. Otis Skinner died at his home in New York City on January 4, 1942, nearly a month after he had fallen ill while attending a benefit performance of The Wookey held at the Plymouth Theatre (today Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre). He had last appeared on stage in 1935 reciting the Forward in a revival of George M. Cohan s Seven Keys to Baldpate." From an on-line posting: "Sam Eskin was born in Washington,...
