Performing Arts

  • [THEATRE BROADSIDE] Savage of the Island; Or, the Orang Outang

    # 1774

    Theatre, Northampton

    [THEATRE BROADSIDE] Savage of the Island; Or, the Orang Outang

    Single printed sheet (470 x 170 mm). 'For the Benefit of M. Gouffee…On Monday August 8th, 1831…Savage of the Island; Or, the Orang Outang….Lieut. Falkner (shipwrecked on the island), Mr. Green. Kantibuo, a Savage-chief, Mr. Millton. Omolo, Mr. Connor. Kanko, Mr. Cook. Boatswain, Mr. Owen. Spritsall, Mr. Spencer. Orang Outang, M. Gouffee, In which he …

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  • Views from the balcony. A biography of Catherine Duncan.

    # 34598

    KEANE, Michael

    Views from the balcony. A biography of Catherine Duncan.

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 222, illustrated. New copy. This is the remarkable and revealing story of Catherine Duncan, a leading Australian actress and playwright during the golden years of radio, the winner along with Peter Finch of the 1947 Macquarie Award and Australias first official female film director: a woman with …

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  • Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues

    # 34457

    [Max Harris; Sidney Nolan; James McGuire; Harry Roskolenko]

    Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues

    Editors: Max Harris, nos. 1-10; James McGuire, nos. 1-9; Sidney Nolan, nos. 2-9; Harry Roskolenko, no. 10. [Melbourne : Reed &​ Harris, 1946]. Ten issues, no. 1 (Jan. 1946) – no. 10 (Dec. 1946), large octavo, staple-bound, pictorial wrappers, illustrated; a very good complete set. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet was an offshoot of Max Harris’ …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

    # 34251

    HALL, Fred (words and music); TISDALE, Clarence (performer)

    [SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

    Cover: “Sung by Clarence Tisdale”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 200. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of African-American tenor Clarence Tisdale by Talma Studios and vignette portrait of Fred Hall, original owner’s name ‘Roland Thomas’ and wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Miss …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] In your green hat

    # 34238

    YELLEN, Jack (words); AGER, Milton (1893-1979) (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] In your green hat

    Words by Jack Yellen / Music by Milton Ager. Ukulele arrangement by May Singhi Breen. Cover: Featured with great success by Miss Lila Rayne. Sydney : D. Davis & Co. Ltd., [1926]. Folio (310 x 240 mm), pictorial wrappers with inset portrait of Australian singer Lila Rayne, [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice, piano …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] There's a girl in Berlin

    # 34252

    GODFREY, Fred, D'ALBERT, Fred and MOORE, J. Chas. (words and music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] There’s a girl in Berlin

    Cover: “The latest London pantomime hit” / “Sung by The Two Bells”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1909]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 310. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of vaudeville performers The Two Bells; [3] pp of music notation; a superb copy. Impresario Harry Rickards first brought the …

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  • Sunbury : Australia's Greatest Rock Festival

    # 29395

    EVANS, Peter

    Sunbury : Australia’s Greatest Rock Festival

    Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 240, extensively illustrated with rare photographs from the festival. New copy. “After 45 years, here is the first book on the SUNBURY rock festival, the festival that is often referred to as ‘Australia’s Woodstock’ that heralded a revolution in Australian music and culture. This book explores the …

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  • Louis Esson, Australian dramatist and poet : autograph letter, signed, mentioning a forthcoming poduction of one of his plays. Carlton, Melbourne, early 1920s.

    # 32306

    ESSON, Thomas Louis Buvelot (1878–1943)

    Louis Esson, Australian dramatist and poet : autograph letter, signed, mentioning a forthcoming poduction of one of his plays. Carlton, Melbourne, early 1920s.

    1 page, small quarto (200 x 170 mm), manuscript in ink on faint-ruled writing paper; headed ’67 Queensberry St. Carlton, Wed.’ (but no precise date), addressed ‘Dear Dave’, and signed at the foot ‘With all good wishes, I am Yours sincerely, Louis Esson’; Esson writes: ‘Do you think you will be around some afternoon at …

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  • [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1932 : the "Hitler" issue.

    # 34176

    GARRETTO, Paolo (1903-1989) (illustrator)

    [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1932 : the “Hitler” issue.

    New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., November 1932. Large quarto format (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the front cover design a lampoon of Adolf Hitler by Italian artist Paolo Garretto; 72 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; the wrappers have some very light handling wear, and the paper spine is chipped in a few …

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  • [EASTER ISLAND] La herencia musical de Rapanui : etnomusicologia de la Isla de Pascua

    # 21143

    CAMPBELL, Ramón

    [EASTER ISLAND] La herencia musical de Rapanui : etnomusicologia de la Isla de Pascua

    Santiago de Chile : Editorial Andrés Bello, 1971. First edition. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers (edges chipped), 594 pp, plus staple-bound abstract in English (10 pp, rear poket), illustrated with black and whitew and colour photographic plates and line drawings in the text, musical notation, bibliography; a very good copy. Scarce. An important study of the …

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  • [HOLLYWOOD] Welcome to Universal International.

    # 33646

    UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL STUDIO

    [HOLLYWOOD] Welcome to Universal International.

    Hollywood, California : Universal International Studio, [between 1955 and 1960]. Oblong octavo (140 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled, [8] pp, a visitor’s guide with double-page of thumbnail photographic portraits of current stars, and illustrations of and printed information about the Studio; a fine copy.

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  • Paper on Chinese music

    # 15302

    RICHARD, Mrs. Timothy

    Paper on Chinese music

     / by Mrs. Timothy Richard. Read before the China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Shanghai, November, 1898. (Illustrated, vocally and instrumentally, by natives and foreigners). Repeated (by request) before the Shanghai Literary and Debating Society January 4th, 1899. Shanghai : Presbyterian Mission Press, 1923. Fourth edition. Octavo, printed wrappers (old tape marks to head …

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  • [EARLY AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] The Lyceum. Pitt Street. Sole Director: C. Spencer. Week commencing Saturday, June 6. Spencer's Theatrescope Coy. Sixth Season.

    # 25713

    LYCEUM THEATRE (SYDNEY); SPENCER, Cosens (1874-1930)

    [EARLY AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] The Lyceum. Pitt Street. Sole Director: C. Spencer. Week commencing Saturday, June 6. Spencer’s Theatrescope Coy. Sixth Season.

    Every evening at 8. Matinees: Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2.30. Presenting a new era in animated photography. New subjects every week. [Sydney, NSW : J. W. Eedy (printer), for Ashur Hart [advertising agent], [1909]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with vignette portraits of Cosens Spencer and Senora Spencer, owner and operator of the Lyceum’s Great American …

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  • Barry Humphries : bepraisements on his birthday. (Limited edition, inscribed by Barry Humphries for Geoffrey Dutton)

    # 33287

    THOMSON, Ken (compiler)

    Barry Humphries : bepraisements on his birthday. (Limited edition, inscribed by Barry Humphries for Geoffrey Dutton)

    London : Enitharmon Pres, 1994. “The edition is limited to two hundred anf fifty copies, the first ten of which have been specially bound and slipcased by The Fine Bindery. This is number 31” (colophon). Octavo (240 mm), publisher’s brown cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine, in pictorial dust jacket; pp 95, [1]. illustrated; in …

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  • Caricature of G. H. Smith, stage manager of His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, circa 1930.

    # 31142

    WELLS, Samuel Garnet ("Sam") (1885-1967)

    Caricature of G. H. Smith, stage manager of His Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, circa 1930.

    Pen and ink on artist’s paper, 225 x 175 mm (sight), signed by the artist ‘Wells’ lower right; fine condition, mounted in the original glazed timber frame (360 x 31 mm), verso with attached contemporary label with identifying caption in manuscript ‘G. H. Smith’, and later explanatory note in manuscript ‘Stage Manager – Her [i.e. …

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  • My Salute to Five Bells (signed presentation copy with small sketch)

    # 33392

    OLSEN, John (1928 - )

    My Salute to Five Bells (signed presentation copy with small sketch)

    Canberra : NLA Publishing. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 80, illustrated.  The book tells the journal of John Olsen’s phenomenal 70 foot mural in the Sydney Opera House, inspired by the poem by Kenneth Slessor. Fitst published by Angus & Robertson in 1973, this edition published by the National Library includes new commentary by the …

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