Performing Arts
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# 44353
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …
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# 44535
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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# 41477
MARSHALL-HALL, G. W. L. (George William Louis) (1862-1915)
Hymns Ancient and Modern
Melbourne : The Atlas Press (W. H. Newlands), Block Place, 1898. First and only edition. Small octavo (190 x 125 mm), original stiff green wrappers printed in black and red (spine expertly repaired); title-page stamped ‘With the author’s compliments’, pp. [1-6], 7-70; scattered foxing, mostly marginal but more pronounced on the preliminary and last few …
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# 44306
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. New. 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 …
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# 44079
Photographer unknown.
Tinted studio portrait of Miss Leila Pyers, champion Highland dancer. Lismore, Northern New South Wales, circa 1915.
Gelatin silver print photograph with hand colouring, 140 x 80 mm, on the original studio mount of green board; verso with contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Leila Pyers’; the print and mount are in excellent condition. There are many newspaper notices that mention the achievements of Leila Pyers of Lismore in local and regional Highland dancing …
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# 43740
A. H. WOODS
[CROSS-DRESSING] Julian Eltinge in the “Fascinating Widow”.
[Indianapolis?] : A. H. Woods, [1912]. Postcard, 90 x 140 mm, recto with half-tone photographic portrait of Eltinge in stage costume, verso imprinted ‘A. H. Woods presents Julian Eltinge in “The Fascinating Widow”‘, and underneath in red ‘English Opera House, Week commencing Monday March 25th. Matinees Wed. and Sat.’; not mailed; two short tears at …
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# 43558
KNOWLES, Squire (designer); KNOWLES, Evelyn (illustrator)
Program : Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1945. Presented by the United Nations Conference Committee of the City and County of San Francisco.
[Drop title]. San Francisco, CA : The United Nations Conference Committee of the City and County of San Francisco (printed by Pisani Printing Company), 1945. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), stapled blue wrappers lettered in gold (lightly rubbed), 15 pp., sepia tone illustrations (including double-page view of the San Francisco Civic Center Buildings, the venue …
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# 43674
FORD, Percy (words); MOORE, J. Chas. (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Won’t you come down and open dat door? (“achew”).
Written by Percy Ford. Composed by J. Chas. Moore. Cover: “The great sneezing song” / “Sung with immense success by J. M. Campbell in J. C. Williamson’s pantomime ‘Jack & Jill’” / “Copyright in all countries 1907”. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co, [c.1907]. Allan’s popular sixpenny edition ; no. 241. Folio (350 x 250 …
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# 43672
RONIN FILMS
Red Matildas : women, peace and politics in the Great Depression
[Drop title]. Canberra : Ronin Films, [1985]. Portfolio, 310 x 220 mm, printer in black on red card, with 9 single-sided press-release sheets loosely enclosed; in very good condition (appears complete, as issued by the film’s distributor). ‘Through the lives of three women Red Matildas explores the social and political conditions in Australia during the …
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# 43285
SOUNDWAVE
Soundwave 2010. Official program
[Perth?] : Soundwave Festival, 2010. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [72], illustrated. Loosely enclosed : original concert ticket. Soundwave was a music festival founded by AJ Maddah which originated in Perth and toured other major Australian cities from 2007 – 2015. The 2010 edition saw international headliners Faith No More (USA), Jimmy Eat World (USA), Jane’s …
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# 17332
VAN AMBURGH & CO.
[BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children
are Evidently of a Cannibal Race! / Judging From Their Natural Proclivities, Their Long Sharp Teeth, etc. / Perhaps the Only Specimen From That Country Now Living … These Wonders of All Wonders were captured about 7 years ago by a party of gold hunters in the mountainous regions of Australia … Can Be Seen In a …
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# 43134
LADY BUNNY
Wigstock West. San Francisco 1996
San Francisco : Wigstock West, 1996. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated in black and white. Souvenir program for the west coast edition of the famous drag queen Wigstock Festival. ‘Wigstock was an annual outdoor drag festival that began in 1984 in Manhattan’s East Village that took place on Labor Day. Continuing, with a few …
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# 43176
BROPHY, Chris (compiler); BLONSKI, Annette (editor)
Australian women’s film & video : a catalogue of films and videos produced or directed by Australian women
/ compiled and researched by Chris Brophy ; edited by Annette Blonski. Melbourne : AFI Distribution Ltd., 1988.Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated; includes indexes, bibliography; a very good copy.
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# 43115
ELITE STUDIO (JONES & LOTZ) (SAN FRANCISCO); WENDT, Frank (NEW YORK)
Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).
I. San Francisco : Elite Studio, Jones & Lotz, 838 Market Street, [1892]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (108 x 163 mm, mount), recto with embossed studio imprint at left margin; verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Nov. 3 92 Stockton Cal. saw them throw them. Photo of Cannibals from Australia who use the …
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# 42991
WOODS, Tony; PATERSON, Rod; RYAN, Ben, et al. (eds.)
Super Eight : newsletter of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Inc. (Twenty-four individual issues, 1997-2001)
Fitzroy, Vic. : Melbourne Super 8 Film Group, September 1997 – March 2001. Twenty-four issues (itemised below); uniform format of foolscap folio, self-wrappers, [8] pp., illustrated; all issues in very good condition; from the estate of Virginia Fraser, artist, writer, editor and curator. The Melbourne Super 8 Film Group was an independent co-operative formed in …
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# 42254
FORMAN, Michael (editor)
3 Days of Peace & Music. Aquarian Exposition : Woodstock Music & Art Fair
Official programme for the first Woodstock Music & Art Fair held in Woodstock, New York in August 1969. [Philadelphia?] : Concert Hall Publications, Inc., 1969. First edition, first issue, with the ‘f’ in the word ‘of’ on the upper wrapper overlapping a flower, adjusted for greater clarity in later reprints. Quarto, colour photographic wrappers, pp …