Performing Arts

# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 38913

HOYT'S LTD.

[AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] The Man from Snowy River. Hoyt’s Barkly, St. Kilda [and] Kinema, Albert Park … November 8, 9, 10 Three nights only …

[Melbourne : Hoyt’s Ltd., 1920]. Advertising postcard, 89 x 143 mm; recto with an Australian-themed chromolithographic design featuring two magpies, verso printed in red with schedule of forthcoming screenings of The Man from Snowy River at Hoyt’s picture theatres in St. Kilda (The Barkly) and Albert Park (The Kinema) on 8-9-10 November, and at Essendon Theatre the following …

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# 38957

CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP COMPANY

Circus animals : puzzle pictures for boys and girls

California : California Fig Syrup Co., [ca. 1900]. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers (featuring circus animals including a kangaroo), pp. 12, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Ephemeral item promoting California Fig Syrup a laxative of children. Each of the nine animals, including the kangaroo is described and pictured. In order to win a free bottle of fig syrup …

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# 38937

FURHAGEN, Lesa-Belle and Toby CRESSWELL

Big Day Out for dummies. Completely updated for Version .03 users

[Sydney] : Big Day Out, 2003. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 98, illustrated, creases, stains and handling marks, a good copy. Event guide for the second Big Day Out music festival, which was staged in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in January – February 2003. It featured Australian and international acts including Foo …

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# 37961

CARLU, Jean; KRULL, Germaine; COCTEAU, Jean; LARA, René;

Théâtre Pigalle : ses éclairages, sa machinerie.

Montrouge : Draeger, [1929]. Quarto (290 x 200 mm), metal spiral binding, silvered boards, the upper board with 8 circular “windows” allowing glimpses of the stunning illustrated title leaf, a serigraph of a cubist-stye poster for the theatre designed by Jean Carlu, which is printed on black with six colours in pochoir; [24] leaves, with …

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# 38511

Rosy One

Cause we got style! European hip hop posing from the 80s and early 90s

Årsta [Sweden] : Document Press, 2011. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 144, photographically illustrated. ‘Posing is the art of self-expression. It comprises appearance, fashion, accessories and the art of arranging the body or face in a good pose. Cause we got Style is a collection of European hip hop pose photos from the 80s …

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# 38573

[THE BURLINGTON STUDIO]

Au revoir, Alfred Frith

[Melbourne : The Burlington Studio, 1922]. Gelatin silver print, 200 x 130 mm; photographic montage with 6 vignette shots of comedian Frith “in character” for his roles in A night out, Going up, You’re in love, High jinks, So long Letty, and Oh, lady! lady!, with a slightly larger head-and-shoulders portrait by Langham captioned ‘Au …

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# 37734

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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# 36842

SZEKELY, Josef (1838-1901)

Studio portrait of Ilka Pálmay, Hungarian opera singer and actress. Vienna, circa 1885.

Albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount), identifying caption beneath image in pencil in a 19th-century hand ‘Palmay’; recto and verso of the gilt-edged mount with imprint of the studio of Dr. Josef Székely, Vienna, and the wet stamp of the photography dealer S. Bloch, Vienna; print and mount are both …

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# 36835

Photographer unknown. [BRITTON, Haydn John, 1914-2013]

[AUSTRALIAN JAZZ] Haydn J. Britton, aged 6 years & 3 months. Melbourne, circa 1920.

Carbon print photograph, 134 x 84 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso inscribed in ink ‘Haydn J. Britton, 6 years & 3 months’; no photographer’s imprint; a superb print with beautiful soft tones; the verso has some staining. A magnificent study of a Melbourne jazz legend in early childhood. The following is Ralph Powell’s tribute …

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# 36811

LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

Studio portrait of Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, English operatic soprano. London, circa 1870.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); recto with fully contemporary inscription in ink ‘Mdlle. Lemens [sic] Sherrington’, verso with imprint of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and mount are in excellent condition (corners of mount clipped). ‘Helen Lemmens-Sherrington (1834-1906) was an English concert and operatic soprano prominent from the …

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# 36864

HERBERTE, H. A.

A group of young men relaxing at Tocumwal in the New South Wales southern Riverina, circa 1910.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘H. A. Herberte, Photo., Tocumwal’; a few marks to the margins, but the image itself is hardly affected. These likely lads were probably part of a sporting team or church social group out for a picnic in the fresh air at …

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# 35828

OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul

Puss in boots : J. C. Williamson’s Annual Pantomime Extravaganza

Australian Play Pictorials No. 8. [Written by J. Hickory Wood and Frank Dix ; music by Andrew MacCunn]. Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1912]. Quarto, wrappers illustrated by Ida Sherborne Rental Outhwaite (edge tears with loss to spine, old paper repairs), wrappers detached, pp. 64, handling wear, a good copy. Very rare theatre program …

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