Performing Arts
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# 42996
[MIFF]
39th Melbourne International Film Festival, June 8-23, 1990.
Melbourne : The Melbourne Film Festival, 1990. Official programme. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers; pp. 72, illustrated in b/w; a couple of pages with highlighting, but an excellent copy with loosely inserted newspaper clipping on Kieslowski and the MIFF.
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# 42993
[BRAKHAGE, et al]
Invisible Cinema present Loud Visual Noises. The Musicians Club, 65 Wellington St, St Kilda Thursday 15th July at 7.30 pm.
[Melbourne] : Invisible Cinema, [1993]. Foolscap folio flyer, photostatted, printed on both sides; some old water staining, otherwise good condition. A combination of the perpetual calendar and the nine-digit phone number allow us to date this obscure Melbourne experimental cinema event to 1993. The flyer is more than likely a unique survivor. The screening comprised …
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# 42995
[NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA]
First Australian History and Film Conference. Canberra, 22nd to 27th November, 1981 at the National Library of Australia.
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1981. Informational brochure. Folding sheet 220 x 360 mm (open), 220 x 90 mm (folded); with programme outline, brief synopses of proposed papers, registration details etc.; excellent condition.
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# 42756
BIG DAY OUT
Big Day Out Version .09. Program Manual
[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2009. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 124, illustrated, a very good copy. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January/February 2009. It featured Australian and international acts including Arctic Monkeys, Sneaky Sound System, Birds of Tokyo, …
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# 42757
BIG DAY OUT
Big Day Out Summer 2010 Festival Guide
[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2010. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 132, illustrated, a very good copy. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January/February 2010. It featured Australian and international acts including Powderfinger, Lily Allen, Hilltop Hoods, Kasabian, Muse, Dizzee …
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# 43024
BIONDO, Sam and PUGH, Rohan
Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The forgotten subculture Melbourne 1971 to 1979.
Melbourne : Skins ‘n’ Sharps, 2006. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 14 pp (including wrappers), b/w and colour illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue produced to accompany a low-key Melbourne exhibition staged in 2006, Skins ‘n’ Sharps. The catalogue contains many original photographs, previously unpublished, documenting the unique …
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# 16383
DALTON, Edward
[OPERA] Photographic portraits of Henry Squires and Lucy Escott, Sydney, early 1860s
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mounts), 90 x 57 mm (images), versos with imprint of Dalton’s Royal Photographic Gallery, Sydney; the albumen prints with some tiny ink spots, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. The American opera singers Henry Squires (1825-1907) and Lucy Escott (1827-1895) arrived …
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# 42724
NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)
[SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)
New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, owner’s name to upper panel, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing …
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# 42821
Various.
[FEMINISM] Lip. Issue 7. 1982/3. A feminist arts journal.
Melbourne : Women in the Visual Arts Collective, [1982]. Quarto, original wrappers (light handling marks), pp 89, b/w illustrations, a very good copy. ‘Lip is a collective of feminists who represent a wide range of political, social and cultural stances’ (p. 1) Lip was published in 8 issues from 1976 to 1984. This issue includes …
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# 42806
SOUNDWAVE
Soundwave 2015. Official program
[Perth?] : Soundwave Festival, 2015. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [64], illustrated, bottom edge unopened. Soundwave was a music festival founded by AJ Maddah which originated in Perth and toured other major Australian cities from 2007 – 2015. The 2015 edition (the final one) saw international headliners Faith No More (USA), Soundgarden (USA), Incubus (USA), Lamb …
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# 41963
GESANG VEREINS "GERMANIA" (BRISBANE)
[GERMAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENSLAND] Ball und Stiftungsfeier des Gesang Vereins Germania, in School of Arts, Brisbane, Montag, 20th September, 1875. Eintritt 7/6.
[=Ball and foundation ceremony of the “Germania” Choral Society … Admission. The Committee]. Brisbane, Qld. : Cleghorn, printer, 1875. Admission ticket, 59 x 91 mm, printed recto only on buff card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript ’38’, and beside the word Eintritt (Admission) is written the price 7/6; the ticket was initialed by the seller C.H.; verso …
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# 42319
PARAMOUNT (SYDNEY)
[CINEMA; SYDNEY] Press sheet : “The Blob”
Sydney : Paramount Film Service Pty. Ltd., [1958]. Broadsheet, 315 x 255 mm, printed on both sides, illustrated; old horizontal fold, else fine. Press sheet for the Australian release of The Blob (1958), consistently voted as one of the worst science-fiction movies ever made. It was Steve McQueen’s first major role: note he is billed here as Steven …
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# 40518
SOLOMON, Saul
Portrait of a veiled woman in velvet. Adelaide, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm, verso with imprint of ‘S. Solomon, School of Photography, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; print and mount are in superb condition. A magnificent head-and-shoulders portrait. Surely the sitter is a celebrity – possibly an actress?
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# 41386
GARNET H. CARROLL and J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.
The Classical Theatre of China : New Zealand. Australia. 1956.
Melbourne : Australian Pacific Agencies for The Classical Theatre of China, 1956. Large octavo (245 x 175 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; [32] pp., b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements for Melbourne businesses; a good copy. The Classical Theatre of China’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1956-57 was part of a world tour by the company, …
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# 41276
[ADELAIDE] Norwood Town Hall. Monday, August 26, 1901. Grand Benefit Concert will be tendered by the Silver Star Vaudeville Co. to Mr. Harry Lane,
who is unable to follow his employment owing to an accident he met with at the Marryatville Tramsheds. Adelaide : Smith & Heap, printers, Bray Street (late Quiz Office), 1901. Broadsheet, 295 x 225 mm, lithographically printed recto only; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, plus advertisements for 12 Adelaide businesses; printed on very cheap …
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# 41279
[ADELAIDE] Federal Hall, Grote Street. Friday, August 14, 1903. A Grand Concert & Dance will be held in aid of Funds to erect a Memorial for the late Mr. C. Pryor, late member of the Cornwall Football Club,
and for many years in the employment of Messrs A. Simpson and Son. Adelaide : A. H. Kruss, Pirie Street, 1903. Folding broadsheet, 295 x 450 mm (fully opened), 295 x 225 mm (folded), lithographically printed on [4] sides; with programme of the evening’s entertainments, headlined by Will Raymond, Alf Bushby, Miss Mary Lawler, Bert …