Performing Arts

  • # 15638 CUNNINGHAM, W. (arranger); ELLARD, Frederick, 1824-1874 (publisher) [SHEET MUSIC] The red-coat quadrilles : as performed by the author at the Assembly Rooms and at the Nobility’s balls / arranged for the pianoforte by W. Cunningham.

    # 15638

    CUNNINGHAM, W. (arranger); ELLARD, Frederick, 1824-1874 (publisher)

    [SHEET MUSIC] The red-coat quadrilles : as performed by the author at the Assembly Rooms and at the Nobility’s balls / arranged for the pianoforte by W. Cunningham.

    Sydney : published at F. Ellard’s Music Saloon, George Street [1852]. Folio, disbound (stitching intact), engraved cover by ‘Wilson, York St.’ (lightly marked, closed tear at lower fore-edge; lower wrapper with small loss at bottom corner); 6 pp, containing music notation for 5 individual compositions with instructions for dance steps printed at the foot of each; …

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  • # 15825 Compiler unknown. [SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION] Scrapbook of clippings from Australian newspapers and journals, 1860-80

    # 15825

    Compiler unknown.

    [SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION; THEATRE] Scrapbook of clippings from Australian newspapers and journals, 1860-80

    Folio ledger book, original half red calf over cloth boards (rubbed); original marbled endpapers; containing (at the front) 50 pages of pasted-in clippings relating to the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879-80 taken from various contemporary newspapers and journals including the Australian Town and Country Journal, Auckland Evening Star, The Evening News, the Sydney Morning Herald, and …

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  • # 15804 O'GRADY, Frederick Standish, 6th Viscount Guillamore (1847-1927) [NEW ZEALAND] Commonplace album of Frederick Standish O’Grady, 6th Viscount Guillamore, 1860s – circa 1900.

    # 15804

    O'GRADY, Frederick Standish, 6th Viscount Guillamore (1847-1927)

    [NEW ZEALAND] Commonplace album of Frederick Standish O’Grady, 6th Viscount Guillamore, 1860s – circa 1900.

    A fascinating treasure trove that constitutes a time capsule of four decades –  one of them spent in New Zealand – in the life of an Irish aristocrat of the late nineteenth century. Nineteenth century commonplace album. Folio, original marbled papered boards (heavily worn, lacking most of the leather backstrip), containing 160 pages completely filled with original manuscript material, ink …

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  • # 15685 ST. KILDA AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB St. Kilda Amateur Dramatic Club. Wednesday, December 20, 1876. The Second Performance of the above club will be given in the Assembly Hall, Grey Street, St. Kilda, when will be produced Sheridan’s successful comedy, in five acts, of “The Rivals” …

    # 15685

    ST. KILDA AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB

    St. Kilda Amateur Dramatic Club. Wednesday, December 20, 1876. The Second Performance of the above club will be given in the Assembly Hall, Grey Street, St. Kilda, when will be produced Sheridan’s successful comedy, in five acts, of “The Rivals” …

    Melbourne : McCarron, Bird and Co., 1876. Broadside, 330 x 203 mm, printed recto only; foxing, old folds, with tape repair verso of central horizontal fold. A scarce piece of early Melbourne theatre memorabilia. The cast in this production included Howard Dare, Richard Aspinall, C.F. Beauchamp, and sisters Miss Bessie and Carrie Evans.

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  • # 15798 BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan [SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad /​ the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.

    # 15798

    BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan

    [SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad /​ the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.

    Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in Australian …

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  • # 15809 Löhr, Marie Kaye Wouldes (1890-1975) Typed draft letter signed by Australian actor Marie Löhr, promoting a special benefit performance at her Globe Theatre, London, in November 1918

    # 15809

    Löhr, Marie Kaye Wouldes (1890-1975)

    Typed draft letter signed by Australian actor Marie Löhr, promoting a special benefit performance at her Globe Theatre, London, in November 1918

    Quarto sheet (250 x 200 mm), typed letter on the red embossed letterhead of the Globe Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, W.1. Lessees: Anthony Prinsep and Marie Löhr. Under the Management of Marie Löhr; dated 26 October 1918 and addressed to a Mr. Northcott, inviting him to attend a special matinee performance of Edmond Rostand’s L’Aiglon, with Marie Löhr herself playing the …

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  • # 15358 LITTLE, William The Thunder Storm.

    # 15358

    LITTLE, William

    The Thunder Storm.

    Thoughts suggested at the performance of the 4th Movement of L. van Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony Op. 68. Ballarat: James Curtis [1896]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 8, paper browned as usual, else very good.

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  • # 15302 RICHARD, Mrs. Timothy Paper on Chinese music

    # 15302

    RICHARD, Mrs. Timothy

    Paper on Chinese music

    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 (tape marks to head and foot of spine), portrait frontispiece, …

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  • # 15744 SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE CHILDREN OF SEAMEN Society for the Relief of Destitute Children of Seamen, Staten Island, N.Y., U.S.A. Programme of Concert, to be given in the saloon, R.M.S. “Britannic.” … May 8th, 1896 …

    # 15744

    SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE CHILDREN OF SEAMEN

    Society for the Relief of Destitute Children of Seamen, Staten Island, N.Y., U.S.A. Programme of Concert, to be given in the saloon, R.M.S. “Britannic.” … May 8th, 1896 …

    [New York : Society for the Relief of Destitute Children of Seamen, 1896]. Single sheet folding to form [4] pages, quarto (280 x 215 mm), lithograph illustration to front, second page with printed information about the Society, third page with Programme of Concert printed in blue (owner’s pencilled annotations including amount of funds raised, £25.17.0), last page …

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  • [MELBOURNE] Educational pictorial and musical entertainment in aid of the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund OLD PIONEERS MEMORIAL FUND. # 14753

    # 14753

    OLD PIONEERS MEMORIAL FUND.

    [MELBOURNE] Educational pictorial and musical entertainment in aid of the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund

    : souvenir ticket and programme. At head of title: 97th anniversary of pioneer day. The Foundation Day of Victoria, 19th Nov. 1931. [Melbourne : Old Pioneers' Memorial Fund, 1931]. Octavo, beige wrappers with cartouche illustrations of Edward Henty and Aborigine (upper wrapper with small pen annotation at top edge), staple bound, [12] pp, illustrated; a …

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  • [PULP] Rockabilly ELLISON, Harlan # 14612

    # 14612

    ELLISON, Harlan

    [PULP] Rockabilly

    Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1961. First printing (October 1961). Trade paperback, small octavo, 176 pp; a fine copy. “Stag Preston, idol of millions – whose private life was wilder than any of the songs he sang.” (cover)

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  • [PULP] The leather boys FREEMAN, Gillian # 14730

    # 14730

    FREEMAN, Gillian

    [PULP] The leather boys

    New York : Ballantine Books (by arrangement with Guild Press, Ltd.), 1967. First Canadian edition (July 1967). Trade paperback, small octavo, pp 155, [5 advertisements]; a fine copy. “Ride hard, die young – England’s motor-bike gangs.” (cover) Freeman’s story is centred around the rocker subculture in London and features a gay motorcyclist. Adapted for the …

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  • [JOHN CAGE] Cartridge music : also duet for cymbal and piano duet, trio, etc. CAGE, John Milton, Jr. (1912-1992) # 14641

    # 14641

    CAGE, John Milton, Jr. (1912-1992)

    [JOHN CAGE] Cartridge music : also duet for cymbal and piano duet, trio, etc.

    New York : Henmar Press : Sole selling agent, C.F. Peters Corp., [1965] ©1960. Series: Edition Peters, no. 6703. Quarto, original printed portfolio with Peters' advertisements for other John Cage musical scores to recto and verso of rear cover; printed inner wrappers with full page of composer's instructions for performance of the various compositions, and …

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  • [DUKE ELLINGTON] Jazz Magazine. Vol. 1, nos. 5 and 6. January 1943. Ellingtonia issue. JAZZ MAGAZINE; [ELLINGTON, Duke, 1899-1974] # 14633

    # 14633

    JAZZ MAGAZINE; [ELLINGTON, Duke, 1899-1974]

    [DUKE ELLINGTON] Jazz Magazine. Vol. 1, nos. 5 and 6. January 1943. Ellingtonia issue.

    New York : Jazz Magazine, 1943. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, original owner's signature to upper wrapper; pp 31, photographic illustrations throughout; occasional underlining, but a good copy.  A double issue of Jazz Magazine, devoted to one of the most important music composers (in any genre) of the twentieth century, Duke Ellington. Contains a complete discography …

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  • [DADA] Le coeur à gaz TZARA, Tristan (1896-1963) # 14632

    # 14632

    TZARA, Tristan (1896-1963)

    [DADA] Le coeur à gaz

    Paris : GLM, 1946. Edition limited to 380 numbered examples and 25 hors commerce copies; this is one of 355 copies on vélin du Marais (no. 57). Small quarto (260 x 200 mm), printed card covers, pp 39, [1 colophon]; a fine copy.  The full text of the play Le coeur à gaz, by Romanian-born Dadaist …

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  • Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues [Max Harris; Sidney Nolan; James McGuire; Harry Roskolenko] # 14372

    # 14372

    [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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  • Amateur Performance in aid of .. the Benevolent Asylum ... June 4th 1856. The Melbourne Garrick Club [MELBOURNE GARRICK CLUB]; HORNE, Richard Henry (Hengist) (1802-1884) # 14145

    # 14145

    [MELBOURNE GARRICK CLUB]; HORNE, Richard Henry (Hengist) (1802-1884)

    Amateur Performance in aid of .. the Benevolent Asylum … June 4th 1856. The Melbourne Garrick Club

    have the honor to announce that they will give a Dramatic Entertainment, at the Olympic Theatre, on Wednesday Evening, 4th June, in Aid of the Funds of the Benevolent Asylum, Upon which occasion the Performances will commence with John O'Keeffe's celebrated Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled Wild Oats … Previous to the rising of the …

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  • [TASMANIA] Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Co., in Audran’s Comic Opera in 3 Acts “La Mascotte” POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN OPERA CO. [CORINTHIAN THEATRE, CALCUTTA] # 14144

    # 14144

    POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN OPERA CO. [CORINTHIAN THEATRE, CALCUTTA]

    [TASMANIA] Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Co., in Audran’s Comic Opera in 3 Acts “La Mascotte”

    At head of text: Corinthian Theatre, Monday, December 21st 1896. Grand Vice-Regal Command Night! Under the Distinguished Patromage of Their Excellencies The Right Hon'ble Earl of Elgin, Lady Elgin and Suite. Calcutta : Cones & Co., 1896. Broadside, 350 x 200 mm, printed in blue ink on pink silk; a few small rust marks at right …

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  • [MORNING STAR] Missionary life boats. BINGHAM, Hiram, Senior # 14278

    # 14278

    BINGHAM, Hiram, Senior

    [MORNING STAR] Missionary life boats.

    / Written for the occasion, and chiefly sung at the embarkation of the Author's children on board the MORNING STAR, Boston, Nov. 12, 1866. Tune – Missionary Chant. [Boston] : [s.n.], [1866]. Small broadside, 220 x 100 mm, caption title in calligraphic bold, nine verse stanzas; small chips at upper corners, old horizontal fold line; …

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  • Johnny Morton’s Mastodon Minstrel song book, containing all the favourite songs, &c., MORTON, Johnny; MASTODON MINSTRELS # 14032

    # 14032

    MORTON, Johnny; MASTODON MINSTRELS

    Johnny Morton’s Mastodon Minstrel song book, containing all the favourite songs, &c.,

    which have made the “Mastodon Minstrels” famous on their tour of the Australian Colonies. Wellington : Printed at the “New Zealand Times” office, Lambton Quay, 1882. Duodecimo, original printed wrappers, lower wrapper with advertisement for the Company, pp 23, [1 contents]; upper corners a little dog-eared, otherwise a very good copy. Bagnall, 3641.  Formed in …

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  • Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels and Burlesque Opera Troupe. Book of songs. LESTER, Edwin; KELLY AND LEON'S MINSTRELS # 14033

    # 14033

    LESTER, Edwin; KELLY AND LEON'S MINSTRELS

    Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels and Burlesque Opera Troupe. Book of songs.

    At head of title: “Organized 1862.” Sydney : Henry Solomon, 1879. Small octavo, original printed mauve wrappers (sunned, short split to paper at tail), lower wrapper with advertisement for Anthony Hordern & Sons, pp 23, [1 contents]; a good copy. The American blackface minstrel company, Kelly and Leon's Minstrels, toured Australia and New Zealand in …

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  • [MAGIC] De La Mano the magician DE LA MANO. [DREITZEHN, Zell, 1830-1882?] # 13974

    # 13974

    DE LA MANO. [DREITZEHN, Zell, 1830-1882?]

    [MAGIC] De La Mano the magician

    A group of ephemera relating to the nineteenth century Austrian-born magician and spiritualist De La Mano, who toured the east coast of the United States in 1876, 1878 and 1881. As early as 1878 he was incorporating spiritualist elements into his shows, and his 1881 tour as an illusionist was ultimately abandoned in favour of …

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  • [OPERA] Ada Crossley : autograph letter, signed. To a fan about a fan. CROSSLEY, Ada Jemima (1871-1929) # 13935

    # 13935

    CROSSLEY, Ada Jemima (1871-1929)

    [OPERA] Ada Crossley : autograph letter, signed. To a fan about a fan.

    [Sydney : September, 1903]. Manuscript in ink, written on [2] sides of octavo size notepaper with the embossed letterhead of The Australia Hotel, Sydney; old horizontal fold; fine. “Dear Miss Fox, Many warm thanks for your kind letter. With pleasure I will sign your fan – if you will leave it at the office. With …

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  • [MELBA] Saint-Saëns’ opera “Hélène”, produced at Covent Garden, June 20 [1904] MELBA, Nellie, (Dame), 1861-1931 # 11552

    # 11552

    MELBA, Nellie, (Dame), 1861-1931

    [MELBA] Saint-Saëns’ opera “Hélène”, produced at Covent Garden, June 20 [1904]

    Double page lithograph, 560 x 400 mm, removed from a copy of The Illustrated London News, no. 961, June, June 25, 1904; original horizontal fold, roughened along right edge, otherwise good; [TOGETHER WITH] another small magazine cutting, from the same period, with a portrait of Melba from a photo by Guigoni & Bossi,  This artist's …

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  • Bachelder’s Anglo American Christy’s Minstrels [BACHELDER, R.G.] # 5892

    # 5892

    [BACHELDER, R.G.]

    Bachelder’s Anglo American Christy’s Minstrels

    Circa 1880. Official reply envelope, 80 x 136 mm, recto printed 'R.G. Bachelder, Manager, Anglo-American Minstrels', verso printed with patriotic illustration of eagle surmounting Stars and Stripes and 'Bachelder's Anglo American Christy's Minstrels', sealed, some light staining to both sides, but complete and attractive. The American entrepreneur R.G. Bachelder is an important figure in the story …

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  • East BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - ) # 13379

    # 13379

    BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - )

    East

    [Adelaide] : 1978. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, staple bound. Theatre program from the Australian premiere of Berkoff’s controversial play about the East End of London. First performed in 1975, the 1978 Australian season resulted in a call for its ban by the Liberal Party; the Premier of South Australia refused, and the season was extended …

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  • A new song made in New South Wales on the Rebellion [presentation copy] [DAVOREN, Lawrence]; MACKANESS, George # 13218

    # 13218

    [DAVOREN, Lawrence]; MACKANESS, George

    A new song made in New South Wales on the Rebellion [presentation copy]

    Edited with an essay on historical detection, notes and commentary by George Mackaness. With ten illustrations. Sydney : D. S. Ford, 1951. Quarto, wrappers, pp. 40. Limited to 135 copies, this one of an additional 15 presentation copies, inscribed and signed as such by Mackaness. 

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  • Old violins A. E. Smith & Co. # 12901

    # 12901

    A. E. Smith & Co.

    Old violins

    Sydney : A. E. Smith & Co., n.d. [c. 1930]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 16, catalogue of antique and contemporary violins, violas, cellos, double-bass's, and bows, some dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. Important catalogue by the noteworthy Sydney based string instrument maker. Held in two Australian collections (NLA, Powerhouse)

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  • [CIRCUS HISTORY] Wild Australian Children [FREDRICKS, Charles D.] # 12581

    # 12581

    [FREDRICKS, Charles D.]

    [CIRCUS HISTORY] Wild Australian Children

    Buffalo ; New York : Warren Johnson & Co., circa 1864. Promotional card with colour lithograph design, after a photograph by Charles D. Fredricks, carte de visite format (102 x 67 mm), printed caption and publisher's imprint in lower margin, verso blank; in good condition, a little darkened and with a small amount of pale …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Take me some place will you Johnnie HAMILL, Fred J. & ROBINSON, Charles (words); WENRICH, Percy (music) # 12555

    # 12555

    HAMILL, Fred J. & ROBINSON, Charles (words); WENRICH, Percy (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Take me some place will you Johnnie

    Cover: Sung with great success in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Aladdin. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Miss Clara Beck, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, 7 pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a fine copy. …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Zambesi : an African love serenade ARMSTRONG, Tom # 12553

    # 12553

    ARMSTRONG, Tom

    [SHEET MUSIC] Zambesi : an African love serenade

    Cover: Written, composed and sung by Tom Armstrong. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [c.1911]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers (small mark near centre), contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1911, [4] pp of musical notation (piano and voice arrangement), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a near fine copy. Copies are recorded in two Australian collections (National …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] I played my concertina LOVELL, H.C. (music); DAVID, Worton (words) # 12551

    # 12551

    LOVELL, H.C. (music); DAVID, Worton (words)

    [SHEET MUSIC] I played my concertina

    Cover: Sung by Sam Mayo, also by William Cromwell, in Rupert Clarke, Meynell & Gunn's operatic pantomime Cinderella. Produced by Charles A. Wenman. Sydney : Albert's, [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer William Cromwell, ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, [3] pp of musical notation, lower wrapper with publisher's …

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  • The Overlanders : a romance in film making ; echoing the heartbeat of Australia’s greatness. BRITISH EMPIRE FILMS PTY. LTD. # 12389

    # 12389

    BRITISH EMPIRE FILMS PTY. LTD.

    The Overlanders : a romance in film making ; echoing the heartbeat of Australia’s greatness.

    [Sydney : British Empire Films, Ltd.?, 1946?]. Small quarto, original pictorial stiff wrappers (lightly creased), [16] pp, photographic illustrations throughout, including stills from the film, shooting on location in the Roper River region and portraits of the cast, led by Chips Rafferty and Daphne Campbell; internally clean and sound.

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  • Book of words of songs sung by Miss Margaret Cooper on her Australian and New Zealand tour, 1912. COOPER, Margaret # 11988

    # 11988

    COOPER, Margaret

    Book of words of songs sung by Miss Margaret Cooper on her Australian and New Zealand tour, 1912.

    Melbourne : Atlas Press, [1912]. Octavo, original decorative wrappers (upper wrapper with ownership inscription), 15 pp, scattered foxing, a good copy. Margaret Cooper was one of the most popular English singers and entertainers of the Edwardian era. Her repertoire included songs from both the music hall and light opera.  Only two copies are recorded in …

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  • Lady Precious Stream : presented by Australia-China Co-operation Association AUSTRALIA-CHINA CO-OPERATION ASSOCIATION. # 11982

    # 11982

    AUSTRALIA-CHINA CO-OPERATION ASSOCIATION.

    Lady Precious Stream : presented by Australia-China Co-operation Association

    / Union Theatre, University, Saturdays, 8th & 15th May 1943, at 8 p.m. Melbourne : Australia-China Co-operation Association, 1943. Theatre programme. Single sheet folding to [4] pp oblong octavo, illustrated; faint vertical fold, otherwise fine. “Proceeds for relief of the famine in China, where, in Honan Province, millions of people are starving and dying daily through …

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  • [GOLD RUSH] Not dead yet, or, The counterfeit. A tale of the times. [JEAFFRESON, John Cordy, 1831-1901]; THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW. # 11927

    # 11927

    [JEAFFRESON, John Cordy, 1831-1901]; THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW.

    [GOLD RUSH] Not dead yet, or, The counterfeit. A tale of the times.

    [Glasgow] : Theatre-Royal, Glasgow, 1866. Playbill, single sheet (760 x 260 mm), lithograph printed on thin paper, advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow: This evening, Tuesday, 12th June, 1866, will be presented the highly successful new and romantic drama, written by David Fisher … entitled Not dead yet, or, The counterfeit : a …

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  • [BALLAD] Van Dieman’s (sic) Land Anon. # 11413

    # 11413

    Anon.

    [BALLAD] Van Dieman’s (sic) Land

    IN: The everlasting songster, containing a great variety of sentimental, comic and other songs, for the present year. Lincoln : Printed by and for R.E. Leary, Silver-Street [probably 1825-1830]. Small octavo, title leaf with woodcut vignette, [22] pp, closely trimmed, but crisp and clean; an unrecorded ballad pamphlet. [BOUND WITH] The Royal Visit, containing a …

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  • Harold Hawk ; or, The convict’s vengeance : an original domestic drama in two acts SELBY, Charles (1802?-1863) # 11549

    # 11549

    SELBY, Charles (1802?-1863)

    Harold Hawk ; or, The convict’s vengeance : an original domestic drama in two acts

    / by Charles Selby, comedian. London : Samuel French [for Thomas Hailes Lacy], 1858. Series: Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, 38. Octavo, disbound, the publisher's imprint on the first page, Samuel French, publisher, 89, Strand, partially concealed by the contemporary label of the Chicago bookseller J. McGrath, pp 1-26, the second and third pages being …

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  • His Majesty’s Theatre Dame Nellie Melba & J.C. Williamson Ltd. present a season of Grand Opera MELBA, Dame Nellie; J.C. WILLIAMSON LTD.; HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE # 11624

    # 11624

    MELBA, Dame Nellie; J.C. WILLIAMSON LTD.; HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE

    His Majesty’s Theatre Dame Nellie Melba & J.C. Williamson Ltd. present a season of Grand Opera

    At head of title: “Faust”. Melbourne : Syd. Day Ltd., [May, 1924]. Theatre programme. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled, [44] pp, illustrated, advertisements, a fine copy. In this production, Melba sang the part of Marguerite, one of her most famous operatic roles. The cast also included Dino Borgioli, Umberto di Lelio, Alfred Maguenat, Antonio Laffi, …

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  • In response to numerous requests Dame Nellie Melba will substitute “Chanson Indoue” .. Rimsky-Korsakoff MELBA, Nellie, (Dame), 1861-1931 # 11553

    # 11553

    MELBA, Nellie, (Dame), 1861-1931

    In response to numerous requests Dame Nellie Melba will substitute “Chanson Indoue” .. Rimsky-Korsakoff

    in place of “Mandoline” …. Debussy in her group of Songs in French. [London? : probably between 1918 and 1922]. Concert programme insert, 155 x 125 mm, printed recto only; foxed.  Melba made Chanson Indoue (Hindu Song), from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko, famous. It became one of the most popular pieces in her later recital repertoire. 

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  • Madame Melba as Marguerite in Faust. Royal Opera, Covent Garden. May 20th 1893 MELBA, Nellie, (Dame), 1861-1931 # 11551

    # 11551

    MELBA, Nellie, (Dame), 1861-1931

    Madame Melba as Marguerite in Faust. Royal Opera, Covent Garden. May 20th 1893

    London : Printed by J. Miles & Co. [for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden], 1893. Folio broadsheet, 460 x 360 mm, printed recto only, with programme of performances scheduled at the Royal Opera between May 19 and 25, 1893, including an appearance by the legendary Australian soprano Nellie Melba in the role of Marguerite in …

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  • [THEATRE] Miss Nellie Stewart STEWART, Eleanor Towzey "Nellie" (1858-1931) # 11554

    # 11554

    STEWART, Eleanor Towzey "Nellie" (1858-1931)

    [THEATRE] Miss Nellie Stewart

    Lithographed portrait from a photograph by Alfred Ellis, London, 240 x 205 mm, and text cutting taken from an English periodical, annotated in contemporary hand April 30, 1892 / no. 966, laid down on a leaf removed from a nineteenth century scrap album. A beautiful portrait of Nellie Stewart, the phenomenally successful Australian actress and …

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  • School of Arts, Germanton ... Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company ... Conn, the Shaughraun. [GERALD, Maurice] # 11264

    # 11264

    [GERALD, Maurice]

    School of Arts, Germanton … Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company … Conn, the Shaughraun.

    Germanton [i.e. Holbrook], N.S.W. : “The Courier” office, [c.1908]. Broadsheet, 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides, verso with lithographed portraits of Maurice Gerald (acror-manager) and Miss Maud Philippi (actor); loss to upper corner (marginal only), old fold lines. Maurice Gerald's Dramatic Company toured extensively throughout Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and New Zealand …

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  • Monday November 21 9pm. Hunters & Collectors. I-Beam, 1748 Haight St. I-BEAM, SAN FRANCISCO. # 11614

    # 11614

    I-BEAM, SAN FRANCISCO.

    Monday November 21 9pm. Hunters & Collectors. I-Beam, 1748 Haight St.

    San Francisco : I-Beam, [1983]. Concert poster, 215 x 350 mm, in fine condition.  Rare poster for a performance by Melbourne band Hunters & Collectors during their first American tour.

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  • The new His Master’s Voice electrical recordings : Australian edition. June, 1929. HIS MASTER'S VOICE. # 11126

    # 11126

    HIS MASTER'S VOICE.

    The new His Master’s Voice electrical recordings : Australian edition. June, 1929.

    Cover: “Goldberg's,” 85 Glenferrie Road, Glenferrie. “His Master's Voice” Specialists. [Sydney : Gramophone Company Ltd. (His Master's Voice), 1929]. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled, 34 pp, a fine copy. Scarce. A single copy traced in Australian collections (State Library of Victoria).

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  • [AUSTRALIAN SILENT FILM] The life’s romance of Adam Lindsay Gordon [ADAM LINDSAY GORDON]; LINCOLN, W.J.; BARNES, G.H. # 10958

    # 10958

    [ADAM LINDSAY GORDON]; LINCOLN, W.J.; BARNES, G.H.

    [AUSTRALIAN SILENT FILM] The life’s romance of Adam Lindsay Gordon

    [Melbourne] : Bonwick, Pride, Nuttall, for the Lake Hall picture theatre, Coburg, [December, 1916]. Broadsheet, 250 x 310 mm, printed on both sides, folding to form [4] pp small quarto, illustrated with scenes from W.J. Lincoln's silent film about the life and suicide of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, accompanied by background text and a full …

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  • How to do the American square dance GIANNINI, Ted # 10885

    # 10885

    GIANNINI, Ted

    How to do the American square dance

    Cover: With full instructions for beginners. Sydney ; Auckland ; Melbourne : Southern Music Publishing Co., [1951]. Small octavo, original pictorial stiff wrappers, staple bound, 19 pp, glossary on rear cover, a very good copy.  Two copies are recorded in Australian colections (Monash University Library; National Library of Australia). 

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  • Madame Tussaud’s exhibition : catalogue SALA, George Augustius # 11100

    # 11100

    SALA, George Augustius

    Madame Tussaud’s exhibition : catalogue

    [Cover title]. London : Madame Tussaud & Sons, Ltd., 1897. Jubilee edition. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (chipped, spine reinforced with tape), pp [12 advertisements], 84, [2 advertisements], internally clean and sound. Rare. OCLC records only one copy (International Institute of Social History, Amesterdam); COPAC records two copies (V & A Libraries; National Library of Wales).

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Hong Kong : the Chinese love song PASCOE, Richard W. (words); VON HOLSTEIN, Hans and SANDERS, Alma M. (music) # 11096

    # 11096

    PASCOE, Richard W. (words); VON HOLSTEIN, Hans and SANDERS, Alma M. (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Hong Kong : the Chinese love song

    New York : Leo. Feist Inc., [1916]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 2 pp of musical notation, a very good copy. Unrecorded in Australian collections.

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  • The Royal “Arawaian” Dramatic Society: RMS “Arawa”. H. Clayden, Commander [SHAW, SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD.] # 11012

    # 11012

    [SHAW, SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD.]

    The Royal “Arawaian” Dramatic Society: RMS “Arawa”. H. Clayden, Commander

    [At sea, on board RMS Arawa : The Royal “Arawaian” Dramatic Society, c.1909]. Concert programme, single sheet of thick paper, 200 x 320 mm, folding to form [4] sides, roneo printed, outline of shipboard entertainments for Saturday April 10th & Monday April 12th (suggesting the year is probably 1909), including names of performers (all civilians, …

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