Performing Arts
-
# 45641
J. LAUWERS (PARIS)
Josephine Baker, l* des Folies Bergère, Paris.
Paris : J. Lauwers, [1926-27]. Erotic card, 175 x 115 mm, with tipped-on printed cut-out of Josephine Baker, publisher’s caption and imprint at bottom margin, publisher’s wet stamp at upper margin ‘FAITES TOURNER UNE LUMIÈRE / WORK A LIGHT IN THIS SIDE’ (i.e. heat from a light source will cause the image to move, creating …
-
# 45617
FRENCH, John "Drumbo"
Beefheart : through the eyes of magic
London : Proper Music Publishing, 2010. First edition. Thick octavo, hardcover in publisher’s dust jacket, 864 pp., b/w photographic illustrations; top edge lightly foxed, otherwise a fine copy. ‘One of the most incredible stories to emerge out of 20th century music – the definitive account of life with the Captain from the inside.’ – Kris …
-
# 45321
MENTAL AS ANYTHING
Mental as anything art show
Melbourne : Westpac Gallery, circa 1990? Exhibition catalogue, single sheet, folded, black and white illustrations, text by Reg Mombassa, catalogue of works with prices by Wayne Delisle, Reg Mombassa, Peter O’Doherty, Martin Plaza and Greedy Smith, Scarce catalogue from the Australian new wave and pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976.
-
# 45616
MOFFATT, Tracey (b. 1960)
beDevil : a sixth draft script by Tracey Moffatt
Willoughby, NSW : Anthony Buckley Productions, [1992]. Film script. Foolscap folio, original metal brad; iv, 83 leaves, printed recto only; dog-eared corners, last leaf heavily creased, otherwise clean and complete. beDevil is a 1993 horror film by Australian photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt. It was the first feature film written and directed by an Australian …
-
# 45332
RIISFELDT, Emil
Five studio portraits of comedian and female impersonator Gilbert Saroney (in and out of character). Sydney, 1880.
Five albumen print photographs, in uniform carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mounts); verso with the imprint of ‘Palace Photographic. E. Riisfeldt, Artist Photographer. Hordern’s Chambers, 490 George Street, Sydney’; on the verso of one is a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Saroney’; the prints and mounts are all in excellent condition. Provenance: …
-
# 45585
MILNE, Peter
Juvenilia
Curated by Helen Frajman and Linsey Gosper. Fitzroy, Vic. : Strange Neighbour, [2015]. Square quarto, pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp. 23, [1]; b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an excellent copy; loosely enclosed is the gallery’s printed list of 113 works with prices for limited edition prints. Extremely hard-to-find catalogue for this fabulous exhibition of Peter Milne’s …
-
# 45569
J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.; AUSTRALIAN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE TRUST
[MELBOURNE; THEATRE] “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare. (Season commencing 23 July 1957, at the Comedy Theatre)
Melbourne : J C. Williamson Theatres Ltd., 1957. Theatre programme. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), stapled wrappers, pp. 26, b/w photographic illustrations of the leading cast members, advertisements; a very good copy. Melbourne actress Zoe Caldwell (1933-2020) was a rising local star when she played Ophelia in this production at the Comedy Theatre; she went …
-
# 45568
MINERVA THEATRE
[SYDNEY; THEATRE] Minerva Theatre magazine programme. (For “French Without Tears”, season commencing 23 May 1940)
Sydney, NSW : Whitmarks Pty. Ltd. [for Minerva Centre Ltd.], 1940. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound; 20 pp, with photographic portraits of actors Aileen Britton, Don Nicol, Lloyd Lamble, Jane Conolly, and Charles Norman, and many fabulous advertisements for Kings Cross and Sydney businesses; a fine copy. Programme for …
-
# 44387
COWARD, Noel (1899 - 1973)
Operette
London : Heinemann, 1938. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (a little discoloured), in the original dustjacket foxing, short edge tears, large section missing to head of spine), pp. [xvi]; 135, black and white plates, scattered foxing, a good copy. ‘Operette is a musical in two acts composed, written and produced by Noël Coward. The show …
-
# 45028
"STIFFY AND MO" (Nat Phillips and Roy Rene)
Stiffy and Mo’s Book of Fun. A feast of merriment
[Sydney] : [Fuller’s Hippodrome], c. 1922. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by cartoonist Brodie Mack (light wear), pp. 32, illustrated throughout by Mack and others, pale foxing, a very good copy. The inner wrapper advertises ‘Fullers’ Big Xmas Pantomime’ commencing December 23 titled ‘Mother Goose’ featuring a number of performers including Stiffy and Mo as the ‘Prime …
-
# 43681
WARD, Jack (compiler)
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA; THEATRE] Jack Ward, vaudeville performer : his personal scrapbook, documenting his career on the stage in Adelaide and regional towns, 1895-1905.
[Adelaide : Jack Ward, c.1895-1905]. Handmade scrapbook, elephant folio (440 x 300 mm), original red pebbled cloth over boards (stained and rubbed), printed name of the compiler ‘JACK WARD’ mounted at centre of upper board, spine reinforced with a later leather backstrip; it is evident that the boards were repurposed by Jack Ward, as the …
-
# 44542
GENTHE, Arnold (1869-1942)
Margaret Anglin as Antigone. Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, 30 June 1910.
Platinum print photograph, 225 x 157 mm; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Margaret Anglin as Antigone. Greek Theatre, Berkeley, 30 June’, and with a later pencilled annotation ‘Arnold Genthe 1910’; unmounted; very slight bend at bottom left corner, otherwise superb condition. A magnificent study by Arnold Genthe of the great Canadian actress …
-
# 44206
HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich
Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …
-
# 44595
PRINGLE, George R. G.
[SHEET MUSIC; ST. KILDA, MELBOURNE] Sea Grove : polka brilliante. Dedicated to his pupils, the Misses M. F. and M. E. Symonds, Sea Grove Villas, St. Kilda, by the composer, George R. G. Pringle.
At head of title: Second Edition. Melbourne : Published by Wilkie, Webster, & Co., Collins Street East, and may be had of Mr George R. G. Pringle, 161 Collins Street East, [between 1865 and 1870]. Folio (340 x 240 mm), upper wrapper lettered in decorative fonts (original owner’s name ‘M. Macvean’ to upper margin); [4] pp. …
-
# 44700
KEAN, Charles (1811-1868)
Charles Kean, Irish-born actor and theatre manager: autograph note, signed, to theatre designer Thomas Grieve. (Plus a clipped signature of his wife, actress Ellen Tree)
[London? no date – simply “Thursday night” – but probably circa 1850]. Manuscript in ink, 1 page, written on the first side of an octavo bifolium of expensive notepaper (190 x 150 mm); the note is addressed ‘My dear Grieve’ (i.e. Thomas Grieve, theatre designer and scene painter), and is signed ‘Yours sincerely C. Kean’; …
-
# 44777
DAVIDSON, Mark et al.
Bob Dylan : mixing up the medicine
London : Thames and Hudson Ltd., 2023. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 608, illustrated. Edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, Foreword by Sean Wilentz. New copy. BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of America’s most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists. ‘If there is anything new …