Performing Arts

# 50604

[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 couple of minor stains, a very good complete set. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet was …

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# 50511

ARLINGTON, L. C.

The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter cloth, lettered in gilt, over …

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# 50560

TROEDEL, Charles (printer)

[MELBOURNE THEATRE] Weston’s New Opera House. Bourke Str. East, Melbourne. Soirée d’Ethiop. Opera. Instrumental. Comedy. Terpsichore. Burlesque. West & Hussey’s Minstrels, presented with the compliments of Messrs. Weston & Hussey. H. Peachman, Agent.

[Drop title]. [Melbourne : Charles Troedel, 1869]. Souvenir programme printed in purple on cream silk, bifolium, 200 x 140 mm, a bifolium printed on two of [4] sides, stitched at left edge and opening to reveal the third side containing the programme itself, headed ‘Grand Vice-Regal Command Night’; extremely well preserved; accompanied by two typed …

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# 50432

[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. CITIZENS' RECEPTION COMMITTEE]

[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens’ Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o’clock.

[Sydney : s.n., 1906]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm; lithograph printed; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the O’Connors; scattered small stains, bottom edge roughened; laid down on section of card from a nineteenth-century album. Scarce ephemeral item associated with the career of the “Australian Queen of Irish Song”. …

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# 50401

HUGHES, Thomas W. & QUINLAN, Henry G. (Hon. Secretaries)

[SYDNEY] East Sydney Gymnastic & Social Club, 123 William Street. A Musical and Variety Entertainment will be held on Tuesday, 17th December, 1889, at 8 o’clock p.m.

[Sydney: s.n.], 1889. Invitation card, 115 x 75 mm; lithograph printed recto only in red on lightweight buff card; endirsed ‘Complimentary’ in pencil, and initialled by a committee member; toned and lightly marked, small loss at one corner, verso with some residual glue and paper adhesions from where the card was once mounted in an …

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# 50446

ST. VINCENT'S CONVENT (DARLINGHURST)

[SYDNEY] St. Vincent’s Convent. The Reverend Mother and the Community request the honor of Mr. O’Connor’s presence at the Annual Soiree Musicale, St. Vincent’s College, Victoria Street North, Tuesday next 10th inst. at 3 o’c.

[Sydney : s.n., c.1890]. Invitation card, 115 x 150 mm, printed recto only in sepia on buff card; O’Connor’s name recorded in manuscript; the word ‘Hospital’ struck to and revised to ‘Convent’, ‘Bi-Annual’ changed to ‘Annual’, ‘7.30 p.m.’ revised to ‘3 o’c’, ‘Carriages at 9.30’ struck out; lightly foxed overall, left side with some minor …

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# 50437

SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. TOWN CLERK.

[SYDNEY] The Mayor & Mayoress of Sydney request the honor of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s company to a Ball at the Exhibition Building on Thursday the 10th of April 1890 at 9 o’clock. Please reply to the Town Clerk. Carriages at 1 o’clock.

[Sydney : s.n., 1890]. Invitation card, 120 x 185 mm, lithograph printed recto only in black on buff card with embossed crest of the Sydney Town Hall at the head, the O’Connors’ names entered in manuscript; toned, lightly foxed, left edge roughened, laid down on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album mount. …

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# 50012

EGAN, Pierce

The life of an actor

The poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane. London : Pickering and Chatto, 1892. Octavo, finely bound in half crushed Morocco over buckram, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed at edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. xvi; 257, colour plates (a …

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# 50128

[BOULARD, J. M.]

[TORONTO] Concert. The Alleghanians, Vocalists and Bell Players. Organised in 1846 by J. M. Boulard.

Miss Carry Hiffert, contralto; Miss Toma Hanlon, mezzo-soprano; Mr. Walter Field, buffo’ Mr. J. M. Boulard, basso; Miss Eva Leroy, accompanist. Toronto [Canada] : Mail Printing Co., [1850]. Handbill, 230 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with vignette illustration at head, list of performers, and concert programme; verso with complete lyrics to “The Burning …

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# 50084

YANG, William et al.

William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen

Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the …

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# 49795

SMITH, Patti (1946 - )

Just kids. (Signed deluxe edition)

New York : Ecco (Harper Collins), 2010. Octavo, silver lettered. blue cloth, ribbon marker, decorated endpapers, pp. xii; 280; (12), photographically illustrated, housed in a silver lettered blue cloth folding clamshell box, with an additional broadside Reflecting Robert loosely enclosed. The deluxe edition, limited to 1000 hand numbered copies signed in pen by Patti Smith. …

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# 11025

JONES, Clifford (editor)

[JAZZ] Discography : for the jazz student

Willesden, U.K. : Clifford Jones, for the Discographical Society, January – February – March – May – June – July – August, 1943. Seven individual issues, uniform format square quarto (225 x 200 mm), newspaper print, 8 pp., illustrated; all issues complete and in good condition. These scarce wartime issues of Discography – essentially an early …

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# 26665

HORNE, H. E.; TREHARNE, Herbert F.; HELLEMANN, Christian

Ode for Australia’s 150th Anniversary. (Presentation copy for Francis Crosslé)

/ words by H.E. Horne ; music by Herbert F. Treharne and Christian Hellemann. Cover: “Schools’ concert, Town Hall, Sydney, 8th, 9th & 10th March, 1938”. Royal octavo (240 x 180 mm), original printed wrappers, staple bound, a presentation copy inscribed on the upper wrapper by the author H. E. Horne and composer Herbert F. …

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# 49813

BRAMLY, Sophie et al.

Yo! The early days of Hip Hop 1982 – 84

London : Soul Jazz Records, 2022. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. Over 250 rarely seen stunning images documenting the rise of hip-hop in the early 1980s. Photographs by Sophie Bramly, Introduction by Bill Adler, Text by Fab Five Freddy, Grand Mixer D.ST, Rahiem (The Furious Five), Arthur Baker, Zephyr Muhamad (The …

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# 48514

THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)

Inaugural entertainment, St. George’s Hall, Perth, Western Australia, under the patronage of His Excellency Major-General Sir Harry St. George Ord … on Thursday and Monday, December 4 and 8, 1879,

an Amateur Company will perform the well-known 3-act musical melodrama the Colleen Bawn, or the Brides of Garryowen … … Perth, W.A. : Stirling Bros., Printers, 1879. Quarto bifolium, [4] pp., printed entirely in gold ink; short closed tear at upper margin of second leaf, last side lightly marked, otherwise extremely well preserved; accompanied by …

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# 49412

COLLIER, Jeremy

A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage : together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument.

London : S. Keble, 1698. Second edition. Octavo, contemporary English panelled calf, ruled in blind (rubbed and worn, rebacked with new spine lettered in gilt),preliminary blank, title leaf, pp. [iv – Preface]; [x – xiv – Contents, Errata, Books printed for R. Sare and H. Hindmarch, the last leaf loose]; 288, general foxing and toning, …

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