Performing Arts

# 35737

CAVE, Nick

Stranger than kindness

Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 276, illustrated. New copy. Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, presented by …

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# 35476

[WALTERS, Norman Murray Carrington, 1901-1988]

Signed photograph of Australian escapologist and illusionist, Murray, dated 1944.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 139 x 89 mm, signed in ink across the lower section of the image ‘Best wishes, Murray, Escapologist, 1944’; verso addressed to a young fan in Grantham, Lincolnshire, with 2d stamp and postmark dated Manchester 13 April 1944; in excellent condition. ‘Norman Murray Carrington Walters (11 November 1901 – 22 January 1988), …

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# 35471

WILLS (CARDIFF)

[CIRCUS HISTORY] Mr. Fred Lindsay

[Circa 1910]. Photolithographic postcard, 137 x 87 mm, printed caption beneath image; original signature in ink of ‘Fred Lindsay’ across the lower section of the image; verso with the imprint of the photographer and publisher ‘Wills, Photo., Cardiff’; in excellent condition. ‘Fred Lindsay’ was the stage name of Bendigo-born and Wesley College (Melbourne) educated stock whip …

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# 34946

ROYAL GRECIAN THEATRE (LONDON); CONQUEST, George Augustus (1837-1901)

Royal Grecian Theatre. Forget & forgive ; or, Love me, leave me not.

At head of title: On Monday, April the 8th, 1861, and during the week, the performances will commence with a New Drama, in 4 acts, by Mr. G. Conquest, partly founded on a tale by Pierce Egan, Esq., entitled … Whitechapel : Pownceby, Steam Printer, 43 Leman St., [1861]. Double-page playbill, 340 x 430 mm; lithograph …

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# 35228

BIG DAY OUT

Big Day Out Program 05

[Sydney?] : Big Day Out, 2005. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 130, illustrated. Ephemera enclosed. Event guide for the Big Day Out music festival, featuring Australian and international acts such as the Beastie Boys, System of a Down, Powderfinger, Sarah Blasko, The John Butler Trio, Cut Copy, the Chemical Brothers, Eskimo Joe, Frenzal Rhomb, Grinspoon, the …

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# 34533

Publisher unknown. [E. W. HORNUNG]

[AUSTRALIAN THEATRE] Julius Knight as “Raffles”

[Australia : s.n., probably 1907]. Photographic postcard, 86 x 137 mm, captioned in the negative ‘Julius Knight as “Raffles”‘; verso imprinted ‘Post Card’ and ‘Julius Knight Series’; unused, in fine condition. The Scottish thespian Julius Knight (born James Dickson Kirkpatrick, 1862-1941) visited Australasia under the management of entrepreneur J. C. Williamson four times between 1897 …

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# 34251

HALL, Fred (words and music); TISDALE, Clarence (performer)

[SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

Cover: “Sung by Clarence Tisdale”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 200. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of African-American tenor Clarence Tisdale by Talma Studios and vignette portrait of Fred Hall, original owner’s name ‘Roland Thomas’ and wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Miss …

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# 32306

ESSON, Thomas Louis Buvelot (1878–1943)

Louis Esson, Australian dramatist and poet : autograph letter, signed, mentioning a forthcoming poduction of one of his plays. Carlton, Melbourne, early 1920s.

1 page, small quarto (200 x 170 mm), manuscript in ink on faint-ruled writing paper; headed ’67 Queensberry St. Carlton, Wed.’ (but no precise date), addressed ‘Dear Dave’, and signed at the foot ‘With all good wishes, I am Yours sincerely, Louis Esson’; Esson writes: ‘Do you think you will be around some afternoon at …

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# 21143

CAMPBELL, Ramón

[EASTER ISLAND] La herencia musical de Rapanui : etnomusicologia de la Isla de Pascua

Santiago de Chile : Editorial Andrés Bello, 1971. First edition. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers (edges chipped), 594 pp, plus staple-bound abstract in English (10 pp, rear poket), illustrated with black and whitew and colour photographic plates and line drawings in the text, musical notation, bibliography; a very good copy. Scarce. An important study of the …

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# 32733

ŠEVČÍK, Otakar (1852-1934)

Otakar Ševčík, violinist and influential pedagogue: autograph note, signed, on a postcard featuring a portrait of himself. Sent from Prague, and addressed to a music critic in Berlin, April 1904.

Prague : Mojmír Urbánek, [1904]. Postcard, 91 x 141 mm; on the left side of the recto is a photomechanical process portrait of Ševčík from a photograph by V. Donát, with a printed caption ‘PROF. OT. ŠEVČÍK’ at top centre; the right side is occupied by an autograph note by Ševčík written in German in pen, …

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# 24171

WHITEHALL PRODUCTIONS (SYDNEY); [MINERVA THEATRE]; [COPPEL, Alec]

[SYDNEY; THEATRE; CINEMA] Minerva. Whitehall Productions presents “Mr. Smart Guy”.

[Cover title]. Sydney, NSW : Publicity Pty. Ltd., 1941. Small quarto (247 x 184 mm), original pictorial wrappers (light vertical fold), staple bound, 16 pp, with photographic portraits, including writer/director Alec Coppel and actors, advertisements for local businesses; a good copy. Programme produced for the world premiere on May 10 1941 of the play Mr. …

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# 31795

STEWART & CO.

Studio portrait of Madame Majeroni in costume as Mary Stuart. Melbourne, circa 1890.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 164 x 106 mm (mount); recto of mount with gilt imprint of ‘Stewart & Co., 40 & 42 Bourke St., East, near Parliament House, Melbourne’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in fine condition. A rare potograph of the Italian tragic actress Madame Majeroni (née Giulia Tessero: …

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# 32642

LOW, Reg (words & music)

[SHEET MUSIC] Ukulele dream girl.

Words & music by Reg. Low. Arrangement for ‘banjulele’ banjo and ukulele by Kel Keech. Cover: A new haunting Hawaiian fox-trot song. Sung by Iza Crossley and Jock Thompson of Pat Hanna’s “Diggers” Costume Comedy Co. / Featured by Queenie & David Kaili with Kaai’s Hawaiian Troubadors / Delightfully featured by Jack Blake on Columbia …

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# 32643

O'HAGAN, Jack (1898-1987) (words & music); HALL, Frederick (arranger)

[SHEET MUSIC] Along the road to Gundagai : song.

/ Words and music by Jack O’Hagan. Melbourne : Allan, 1922. Publisher’s number “B558”. Folio (315 x 240 mm), disbound, original pictorial wrappers (light printing flaws front and back) with inset portrait of “The Big Four” singers, and the early ownership signature of Grace Ward; 4 pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano, with …

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# 32373

BARDWELL, William (1836-1929)

Studio portrait of George Bennett, stage actor. Ballarat, October 1869.

Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, cabinet card format, 160 x 120 mm; recto with gilt border and imprint in lower margin ‘Cabinet Portrait. From Bardwell’s Royal Studio, Ballarat.’; verso with the sitter’s inscription in ink ‘George Bennett, Oct. 1869, Ballaarat, Australia’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. A magnificent hand-coloured studio …

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# 31950

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH; [BYRON, Henry J.]

Royal Princess’s Theatre, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday! Or Harlequin King Hoop-de-Dooden-Doo & the Savages of the Desolate Island.

The Overture and Music Composed, Selected, and Arranged by Mr R. B. Stewart. The whole produced under the entire direction of Mr J. W. Kimber, and Personal Supervision of Mr W. Paterson … … Edinburgh : [s.n.], 1864 [5 – 30 January]. Playbill, 760 x 255 mm; lithograph printed recto only, with an illustration by …

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