Performing Arts
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# 28405
[BOWERY, Leigh]
Take a Bowery : The art (and larger than) life of Leigh Bowery
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 184, illustrated throughout, a fine copy in mint condition. Scarce. ‘Take a Bowery: The Art and (larger than) Life of Leigh Bowery examined the extraordinary contribution to performance, fashion design and visual culture of the late Australian-born, London-based performance artist, Leigh Bowery. Incorporating …
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# 28301
BONYNGE, Richard
Chalet Monet : Inside the home of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge
Foreword by Marilyn Horne. Photography by Dominique Bersier. Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. 343, extensively illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. New copy. This sumptuously produced coffee table book captures the essence of the fairy tale that is Chalet Monet. Inside its pages over …
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# 28130
MOORE, John Hammond
The young Errol : Flynn before Hollywood
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1975. First edition. Octavo, lettered wrappers (paperback), light rubbing to edges, short crease, spine faded, pp. [vi]; 154; 16 pp. black and white photographic plates. The first edition of Moore’s revealing insight into Flynn’s early years, prior to his fame, derived from first hand sources in New Guinea and Australia. …
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# 26183
BOWIE, David, & SUKITA, Masayoshi
Speed of Life
Guildford : Genesis Publications, 2012. Folio, quarter pink calf over blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, mirrored photographic portrait of Bowie on upper board (still retaining its protective film), all edges silver, black endpapers with pink and blue metallic inserts, 7-inch vinyl single housed in lower board, blue and pink silk pagemarkers, in the original …
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# 27365
[BALLETS RUSSES]
Autograph book. Melbourne, 1937-45. With signatures of many figures in the performing arts world, including most of Colonel W. De Basil’s Monte Carlo Russian Ballet company, Roy Rene and Sadie Gale, and Peter Dawson.
Deluxe autograph album made by Norman Bros., Melbourne (binder’s ticket to rear pastedown); oblong octavo (125 x 180 mm), limp textured blue leather boards (sunned, ink stain to lower board), upper board embossed in gilt ‘Autographs’; all edges gilt; [60] leaves; the signatures in the first third of the album date to between 1937 and …
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# 27878
MILLER, Henry.
Murder the Murderer.
An excurus on war from “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”. Melbourne: Reed & Harris, [1946]. First Australian edition (published in Big Sur by the author in 1944). Duodecimo, printed wrappers, 86 pp., a fine copy. At the time of publication this work by important playwright Miller was banned in America. Miller’s anti-war pamphlet in two parts. Part …
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# 28005
Small archive of cinema tickets souvenired by an Australian soldier in Alexandria, Egypt, in April 1941.
Group of thirteen tickets, various sizes up to 90 x 120 mm; cinemas include the Rialto (2), the Rio, the Ritz (2), the Royal (2), the Lido, the Strand (2), the Mohamed Aly, La Gaîté and the Radio Ciné; one is inscribed ’64 General Hospital April 1941′; all printed in French, on cheap and brittle paper; occasional …
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# 27925
[KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.
Adelaide : Adelaide Festival of Arts Executive Committee, 1960. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), colour pictorial wrappers (some light staining to lower wrapper), staple bound; inside wrappers with colour advertisements, pp 71 [1], photographic illustrations, mostly b/w but including a double-page of colour plates of Louis Kahan’s costume designs for Rigoletto, a full-page colour plate …
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# 27584
ELIZABETHAN TRUST OPERA COMPANY; ANNAND, Douglas (artist)
[ANNAND] Opera 1963 Princess Theatre Melbourne
South Melbourne, Vic. : Frelance Press, [1963]. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers featuring a striking abstract design by revered commercial artist Douglas Annand (very reminiscent of the work of John Coburn), lower wrapper with advertisement for Coonawarra wines, stapled, [16] pp, numerous b/w photographic portraits of members of the Company, advertisements for Melbourne …
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# 27422
PATERSON BROTHERS
Pair of photographic portraits of the great aerialist Charles Blondin. Melbourne, 1874.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mounts), both captioned in image ‘Farewell of Le Chevalier Blondin’; verso of one (Blondin riding a bicycle on the highwire) with the imprint of Paterson Brothers, Photographic Artists, Portrait Rooms, 12 Bourke St. East, Melbourne, the other verso blank; the albumen prints are a …
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# 27356
BECHTER, Karl
[SHEET MUSIC] Jolly darkies : piano duet
Melbourne : Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd., [1915?]. Publisher’s number ‘B.837’. Folio, illustrated wrappers depicting a scene of African-American plantation workers dancing, clapping, singing and playing the banjo (upper wrapper with wet stamp of Ballarat music seller Suttons and early ownership signature, lower wrapper with later owner’s name), 5 pp, music notation; short paper splits …
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# 27266
THEATRE ROYAL, EDINBURGH
[CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH] Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh. Second Night of the New Christmas Harlequinade . . . Thursday, December 20, 1849, Will be Performed . . . The Rivals!! . . . To conclude with the New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime … entitled Little Boy Blue!! Or Harlequin and the Goblin Gnome of the Californian Gold Mines.
Written expressly for this Theatre by the Celebrated Nelson Lee, Esq., Poet Laureate to the Court of Fun and Metropolitan Pantomimic Association … … Edinburgh : Reid, Printer, Nottingham Place, 1849. Playbill, 430 x 235 mm; printed recto only; despite being printed on cheap, thin paper the broadside is remarkably well preserved: a little dusty …
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# 27513
ADELAIDE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY; MARSHALL, Samuel (publisher)
Adelaide Philharmonic Society’s Concert. Thursday, June 26, 1873. Haydn’s oratorio, “The Creation”, part 1. Mendelssohn’s oratorio, “Elijah”, part 1.
Adelaide : Published by S. Marshall, Music Seller, &c., Rundle St., … Printed by Webb, Vardon, & Pritchard, King Wm. St., 1873. Octavo (215 x 135 mm), original printed yellow wrappers (light staining, bottom corners dog-eared), stitched; 10 pp; contains the libretto for each work; lower wrapper with illustrated advertisement for S. Marshall; a good …
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# 27509
BOOTHBY, Guy (1867-1905); SHARP, Cecil (1859-1924); [GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ADELAIDE]
The lyric of “Dimple’s lovers” : an original operetta in one act / by Guy Boothby and Cecil Sharp.
At head of title: Government House, Adelaide. Adelaide : Government House, 1890. Octavo (205 x 130 mm), original printed buff wrappers (top corner a little dog-eared), stapled; 10 pp; a very good copy; loosely enclosed – presumably as issued – is the souvenir of the concert given at Government House, Adelaide on 12 August 1890 …
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# 27507
ROOT, G. F. (1820-1895) {GROTE STREET MODEL SCHOOL, ADELAIDE]
The Flower Queen : a tonic sol-fa cantata by G. F. Root, Esq. : Given in aid of the Blind and Deaf and Dumb Asylum, by Alexander Clarke, Esq., and the children of the Grote Street Model School.
[Cover title]. Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser and Chronicle Offices, 1880. Duodecimo (155 x 100 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, pp 16; contains the complete libretto for this work, including printed synopsis and “Personifications” (list of characters) on inside upper wrapper; two marginal annotations in pencil noting the surnames of soloists; a fine …
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# 27515
ADELAIDE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
Adelaide Philharmonic Society’s Concert. Thursday, December 24, 1871. Handel’s “Messiah”.
Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser and Chronicle Offices, 1871. Octavo (212 x 135 mm), original printed blue wrappers, stitched; 11 pp; contains the libretto for Handel’s Messiah; lower wrapper light creasing, else a fine copy. Rare. Trove locates no copies.