Performing Arts

  • [SHEET MUSIC] You taught me how to love you (now teach me to forget.)

    # 41143

    DRISLANE, Jack (words); MEYER, George W. (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] You taught me how to love you (now teach me to forget.)

    Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1910]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 403. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with portrait of Australian vaudeville singer Miss Maud Bletsoe by Punchinello Co., Manly, inscribed by original owner ‘R. Thomas 1912’; [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a fine …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] She was a girl in white.

    # 41146

    MILLS, A. J. (words); SCOTT, Bennett (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] She was a girl in white.

    Cover: Artistically sung by England’s dainty song artist Miss Florence Cromer Challis. Also now being sung with great success by Miss Ida Berridge. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 160. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Miss Florence Cromer Challis by Talma (taken during her Australian tour in 1911), …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.

    # 41147

    ARMSTRONG, Tom (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.

    Cover: Tome Armstrong’s very latest bewitching rag song. Also sung with great success by Les Warton at Rickards’ Tivoli Theatres. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 169. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian vaudeville star Tom Armstrong, [3] pp of music notation; a fine copy. Trove locates only the NLA …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Have you got another girl at home like Mary.

    # 41144

    LAWRENCE, Alf. J. and GODFREY, Fred (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Have you got another girl at home like Mary.

    Cover: The latest song craze. / Miss Cissie Curlette’s great success. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 269. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with inset portrait of English vaudeville singer Cissie Curette by Talma (taken during her 1909 Australian tour), inscribed by original …

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  • [HOLBROOK] School of Arts, Germanton ... Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company ... Conn, the Shaughraun.

    # 41156

    [GERALD, Maurice]

    [HOLBROOK] School of Arts, Germanton … Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company … Conn, the Shaughraun.

    Germanton [i.e. Holbrook], N.S.W. : “The Courier” office, [circa 1908]. Broadsheet, 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides, verso with lithographed portraits of Maurice Gerald (acror-manager) and Miss Maud Philippi (actor); loss to upper corner (marginal only), old fold lines. Maurice Gerald’s Dramatic Company toured extensively throughout Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and New …

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  • [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. April, 1934.

    # 40952

    COTTON, William, 1880-1958 (illustrator)

    [ART DECO] Vanity Fair. April, 1934.

    New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., April, 1934. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers featuring a superb front cover illustration of actress Katharine Hepburn by American artist William Cotton, 80 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; front cover lightly marked and with original 35-cents price sticker, spine chipped, contents in fine …

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  • Move under yr own power. Interviews with women and queers making DIY music

    # 40941

    FIFE, Kirsty

    Move under yr own power. Interviews with women and queers making DIY music

    [Leeds] : Kirsty Fife, 2016. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. ‘Move Under Yr Own Power, a zine about women and queers making DIY music in the UK. The zine is 72pp, black and white riso printed, A5 with a rad centrefold illustration. It’s mainly interviews and an introduction. The zine comes with a link …

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  • A Book of Bits, or, A Bit of A Book. (With a Milliganesque inscription by the author)

    # 40608

    MILLIGAN, Spike (1918-2002)

    A Book of Bits, or, A Bit of A Book. (With a Milliganesque inscription by the author)

    London : Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s navy cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and spine ends; spine sunned); with a typically absurdist and manic inscription by Milligan, original Goon, written in black pen on the front free-endpaper: ‘I Spike Milligan being of sound mind body, legs …

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  • Big Day Out magazine : collector's edition. Volume two

    # 40200

    BIG DAY OUT

    Big Day Out magazine : collector’s edition. Volume two

    [Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slight corner wear), pp. 94, illustrated, a very good copy. Limited numbered edition of 4000 copies. The second year the quarto publication was issued. Collectable large format book published for the Big Day Out music festival (different to the free pocket size program issued free at …

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  • [THEATRE] A book of make-up

    # 40097

    WARD, Eric

    [THEATRE] A book of make-up

    London : Samuel French, Ltd., 1930. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (a little worn), pp. 98, illustrated with numerous colour plates, as well as b/w ‘before and after’ plates with tissue overlays; front endpaper with stamps of Sydney & Melbourne bookseller Will Andrade; scattered foxing, more pronounced on …

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  • Book of words of songs sung by Miss Margaret Cooper on her Australian and New Zealand tour, 1912. Direction J. & A. Tait.

    # 40015

    [COOPER, Margaret]

    Book of words of songs sung by Miss Margaret Cooper on her Australian and New Zealand tour, 1912. Direction J. & A. Tait.

    Melbourne : Atlas Press [for J. & A. Tait?], [1912]. Octavo (225 x 145 mm), original printed wrappers (upper wrapper with ownership inscription), stapled; 15 pp; scattered light foxing, a good copy. Margaret Cooper was one of the most popular English singers and entertainers of the Edwardian era. Her repertoire included songs from both the …

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  • Mick Jagger as "Ned Kelly"

    # 39358

    UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION

    Mick Jagger as “Ned Kelly”

    U.S.A. : United Artists Corporation, 1970. Cinema poster, printed on two sheets 133 x 103 cm / 67 x 103 cm, as issued, overall dimensions 200 x 103 cm, evidently one of 184 posters which were printed in this large format, with the printer’s unique serial number 70/184 stamped bottom right and on verso; unbacked, …

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  • [THEATRE PLAYBILL] For the Benefit of Mr & Mrs Liston. Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, June 15, 1814.

    # 18501

    THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. [LISTON, John, c.1776-1846]

    [THEATRE PLAYBILL] For the Benefit of Mr & Mrs Liston. Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, June 15, 1814.

    Will be performed [for the first time] a New Comick Extravaganza called Broad but not Long: Or, How to Damn a New Piece … the New Grand Serio-Comick Melo-Dramatick Romance called The Black Princess … After which, the Comedy of Who Wants a Guinea? … To which will be added (2d time) the musical Entertainment …

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  • Big Day Out 95. Top Rods + Top Music.

    # 39419

    BIG DAY OUT

    Big Day Out 95. Top Rods + Top Music.

    the-need-to-know guide to the big day. Maps, guides, profiles. [Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 1995. Quart, illustrated wrappers (signed R. Moore)a couple of short tears and small loss along spine, light handling wear, pp. 72, illustrated; LACKING pp. 6-7, which have been torn out (Ministry promo and part of The Cult interview). Rare. Event guide for …

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  • Big Day Out Space Cadet Operations Manual 04

    # 39190

    BIG DAY OUT

    Big Day Out Space Cadet Operations Manual 04

    [Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2004. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, light handling wear to wrappers and spine, pp. 130, illustrated. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, featuring Australian and international acts such as The Darkness, Black Eyed Peas, The Dandy Warhols, Muse, Metallica, The Strokes, Something for Kate, Kings of Leon, The Flaming …

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  • Big Day Out Summer Tournament Guide 2002

    # 39250

    BIG DAY OUT

    Big Day Out Summer Tournament Guide 2002

    [Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2002. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, light handling wear, pp. 112, illustrated. Scarce. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, featuring Australian and international acts such as Silverchair, The Prodigy, Regurgitator, Grinspoon, Shihad, New Order, Garbage, System of a Down, Something for Kate, Magic Dirt, NoFX, John Butler Trio, The …

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