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The CZARINA!; Third Week of the Engagement of Miss Davenport. Thursday Evening, June 7th, 1860. Mr. H. A. Perry, Will Appear as Peter the Great.
[San Francisco]: Calhoun, Printer. 1860. 1st Printing. Broadside leaflet. 7-3/8" x 4" Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. AN About VG copy, some age-toning and foxing, first line of text discolored & somewhat obscured from evidence of mounting materials and repair to top-edge verso. Item #45068
The headline production presumed to be inspired by Mrs Hofland's 1842 novel, "The CZARINA: An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia."
A scarce early San Francisco playbill for the Lyceum Theatre, which was managed by a member of the Booth family at the time.
Price: $235.00
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