Performing Arts

# 20334

VALE, V. "Valhalla" (or Hamanaka)

[PUNK] Search & Destroy magazine : a complete 11-issue run, 1977-1979.

San Francisco : V. Vale, 1977-1979. Vol. 1, No. 1 – Vol. 2, No. 1. Eleven issues; all first printings. Tabloid folio, folded as issued; newsprint with black-and-white photo-illustrations; some wear to No. 1, else uniformly very good condition. A rare complete run. Despite taking its name from the Stooges’ anthem, this legendary West Coast …

# 20493

[WAGGA WAGGA] Clive Darril, Australian giant

Weight 17 stone. Height 7ft 8 ins. Age 35 years. [s.l. : s.n., c.1907]. Photolithographic postcard, 137 x 87 mm; not postally used; minor corner and edge wear; verso shows signs of having been removed from an album. This postcard was most likely published in England in 1907, when Clive Darril, a wealthy farmer from …

# 20324

KOSARIN, Sol

Juvenile deliquency : a remedy through music. (Presentation copy for Sammy Davis Jr.)

New York : Vantage Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s grey cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (spine a little sunned), a presentation copy from the author, a Russian-born classical violinist, for Sammy Davis Jr., inscribed on the verso of the front free-endpaper: ‘To Sammy Davis, Jr., one of the most gifted, talented performers …

# 19732

HOPKINS, John (1937- )

[SWINGING LONDON] From the hip : photographs by John “Hoppy” Hopkins 1960-66.

Bologna, Italy : Damiani Editore, 2008. Oblong quarto, publisher’s cloth backed pictorial papered boards, 159 pp, b/w photographic illustrations throughout, with essays by Joe Boyd, Val Wilmer, Barry Miles and Addie Vassie; an as new copy. ‘When John “Hoppy” Hopkins first picked up a camera as a youth it never occurred to him that half …

# 7057

[MATTHEW FLINDERS GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL]

[HAWTHORN PRESS; GEELONG] Song book

Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire [printed at The Hawthorn Press], 1955. First edition. Octavo, fine blue cloth with gilt design and lettering,108 pp, illustrated, a pristine copy. A song book compiled specifically for the students of Matthew Flinders Girls School, Geelong, including ‘School and House Songs’. Copies are recorded in four Australian collections ( Deakin University …

# 19164

HOYTS THEATRES LTD.

[MELBOURNE; CINEMA] New Screen News. Volume 8, number 11. October 13, 1945. [Hoyts Suburban Theatres’ 25th Anniversary issue]

Melbourne : Hoyts Theatres Ltd, 1945. Folio, original pictorial wrappers featuring Vivian Austin inviting readers ‘to celebrate Hoyts Suburban Theatres’ 25th Anniversary’, lower wrapper featuring Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim and Rosalind Russell in Roughly Speaking; 11 pp, photographically illustrated throughout; a fine copy. This extra-large format Anniversary issue of Hoyts’ New Screen News previews …

# 19075

RUSSELL, Jane

That girl Marilyn!

S.l. : Affiliated Magazines Inc. c.1953. Duodecimo, illustrated colour wrappers, unpaginated. Also includes the article Did Marilyn need a helping hand? by Peter Sherwood. Illustrated with 60 black and white plates. Very fine copy. Published around the time of the release of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Scarce. “Marilyn is the most female girl I have ever met in …

# 19100

HUMPHRIES, Barry (1934 - )

At least you can say you’ve seen it : a tragi-farce in two acts for those too drunk to dance

Melbourne : Comedy Theatre, [1974]. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled, [32] pp, b/w photographic plates, advertisements; a fine copy of this scarce theatre programme (which contains much satirical material not included in the performance itself) for one of Humphries’ early one-man shows.