Performing Arts

  • The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (limited edition)

    # 49385

    NORTH, Gerry, et al.

    The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (limited edition)

    Sydney : Rural and City Media Services, 1992. Quarto, full leather with pictorial inlay, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. Limited to 4000 numbered copies. The deluxe leather bound edition; a paperback edition was also released.

    $110.00 AUD Read more
  • The Klondyke Nugget / by S. F. Cody

    # 49192

    CODY, S. F. (Samuel Franklin) (1867-1913)

    The Klondyke Nugget / by S. F. Cody

    Belfast [Ireland] : David Allen & Sons, [1898]. Chromolithographed poster, 435 x 720 mm (sight); matted for framing; in fine condition. A striking poster produced in Ireland around 1899 for S. F. Cody’s stage production The Klondyke Nugget.  ‘The Klondyke Nugget was a gory melodrama, written by and starring the Wild West showman S. F. …

    $450.00 AUD Read more
  • [PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma ... Whitebait at Greenwich.

    # 47146

    [ROBINSON, William Cleaver Francis, Sir]

    [PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma … Whitebait at Greenwich.

    [Perth, WA : s.n., 1876]. Broadsheet, 215 x 140 mm, lithograph-printed recto in blue on buff paper, text set within decorative border with royal coat of arms at head; tipped onto a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, single horizontal fold, otherwise fine. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. H. …

    $600.00 AUD Read more
  • [MELBOURNE] Jazz : Red Light, 329 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne ... Friday, 5th July 1963.

    # 48896

    [MELBOURNE] Jazz : Red Light, 329 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne … Friday, 5th July 1963.

    Concert ticket, 46 x 88 mm, with admission price ‘6/-‘ in manuscript, verso with ticket number ’11’ in manuscript; light marks. Admission ticket for an obscure underground Melbourne nightclub hosting a jazz music event in October 1963. In Melbourne in the early 1960s – before the Sharpie phenomenon exploded – the city’s two main youth …

    $35.00 AUD Read more
  • Herb. Coombs in his comic act "The Celebrated Gee Gee".

    # 48126

    [COOMBS, Herbert George?]

    Herb. Coombs in his comic act “The Celebrated Gee Gee”.

    [Title from manuscript caption in image]. [Bendigo, Vic.? : Herb. Coombs?, c.1906]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 137 x 187 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso with Herb G. Coombs’s signed holograph message, the card addressed by him from his Wattle Street, Bendigo residence to a Mr. J. Miles in Charlton, Victoria, with a Bendigo postmark …

    $85.00 AUD Read more
  • [FEMINISM; MELBOURNE] "They said it couldn't happen"

    # 47157

    ADSHEAD, Soosie

    [FEMINISM; MELBOURNE] “They said it couldn’t happen”

    Large screen print poster designed by Soosie Adshead (signed in the image lower right), 600 x 430 mm; unmounted, original vertical and horizontal folds, in fine original condition (even though stored for over 40 years!). This striking poster was produced in conjunction with a landmark concert of women’s music – a joint production of LaTrobe …

    $250.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of opera singer Rosina Carandini (Palmer). Melbourne, late 1860s.

    # 46774

    HEWITT, Charles

    Studio portrait of opera singer Rosina Carandini (Palmer). Melbourne, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm; verso with the imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer, Australasian Studio, 95 Swanston St. Melbourne’, a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Rosina Carandini’, and a death notice cut from Melbourne newspaper recording her death in 1932; the print and the mount …

    $500.00 AUD Read more
  • Original autograph first draft of the lyrics to the Grinderman song "Fire Boy". London, July 2009.

    # 46193

    CAVE, Nick (1957- )

    Original autograph first draft of the lyrics to the Grinderman song “Fire Boy”. London, July 2009.

    Nick Cave’s own first draft of the lyrics to Fire Boy, written for Grinderman, his Bad Seeds side project. Fire Boy was recorded in London in late July 2009 and appeared as an iTunes bonus track on the album Grinderman 2, released in September 2010 on Mute Records in the United Kingdom and ANTI- in the United States. Handwritten by Cave …

    $15,000.00 AUD Read more
  • [AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] Boomerang Theatre, Taree, New South Wales, 1929.

    # 47230

    C. H. SODEN (photographer)

    [AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] Boomerang Theatre, Taree, New South Wales, 1929.

    Taree, NSW : C. H. Soden, [1929]. Gelatin silver print photograph printed as a real photo postcard, 89 x 137 mm; lower margin imprinted ‘C. H. Soden, Series 100’; not mailed, in superb condition. This photograph of Taree’s Art Deco-style Boomerang Theatre was taken by local photographer C. H. Soden and can be dated to …

    $90.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of Miss Lily Dampier as Imogen in "Cymbeline". Sydney, 1887.

    # 47781

    FALK STUDIO

    Studio portrait of Miss Lily Dampier as Imogen in “Cymbeline”. Sydney, 1887.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mount); recto with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’, along with a pencilled annotation ‘Imogene’ (sic); verso with a fuller inscription in ink ‘Lily as “Imogene” in Cymbeline September 4th 1887’; the print with some light foxing, …

    $110.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of Miss Lily Dampier as Portia in "The Merchant of Venice". Sydney, 1887.

    # 47782

    FALK STUDIO

    Studio portrait of Miss Lily Dampier as Portia in “The Merchant of Venice”. Sydney, 1887.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mount); recto with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’, along with a pencilled annotation ‘Portia’; the print with some light foxing, more pronounced on the mount. Provenance: from a group of theatre-related photographs originally collected by the …

    $110.00 AUD Read more
  • Three studio portraits of Miss Lily Dampier as Lady Macbeth. Sydney, 1887.

    # 47779

    FALK STUDIO

    Three studio portraits of Miss Lily Dampier as Lady Macbeth. Sydney, 1887.

    Three albumen print photographs, in identical cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mounts); rectos with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’; one with pencilled annotation recto ‘Sept. 1887 / Lady Macbeth’ and a fuller inscription in ink on the verso ‘Lily as Lady Macbeth Sept 4th …

    $320.00 AUD Read more
  • Two studio portraits of Miss Lily Dampier in "The Lady of Lyons" by Bulwer-Lytton. Sydney, 1887.

    # 47783

    FALK STUDIO

    Two studio portraits of Miss Lily Dampier in “The Lady of Lyons” by Bulwer-Lytton. Sydney, 1887.

    Two albumen print photographs, in identical cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mounts); rectos with printed caption ‘Miss Lily Dampier’ and imprint of ‘Falk / 496 George Street, Sydney’; one with pencilled annotation recto ‘Lady of Lyons Sept. 1887, both identically inscribed in ink to verso ‘Lily as Lady of Lyons Sept 4th 1887’; …

    $300.00 AUD Read more
  • [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. July, 1935.

    # 48367

    GARRETTO (illustrator)

    [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. July, 1935.

    New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., July, 1935. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers featuring a superb front cover design Peace on a Tightrope by Garretto, 72 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; spine worn, contents in fine condition. This issue includes Lynching in America by Austin Glimour, various articles about …

    $80.00 AUD Read more
  • [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1929.

    # 48361

    M. F. AGHA (illustrator)

    [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. November, 1929.

    New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., November, 1929. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers featuring a superb front cover design by M. F. Agha, 144 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; spine worn, contents in fine condition, slight tear between lower spine and front cover, tiny tear to 48p . This …

    $80.00 AUD Read more
  • [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. August, 1931.

    # 48360

    BENITO (illustrator)

    [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. August, 1931.

    New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., August, 1931. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers featuring a superb front cover design -by Benito, 84 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; spine worn, contents in fine condition, slight tear between upper spine and front cover. This issue includes When Is a Divorce Not …

    $80.00 AUD Read more