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  1. ALBERTS Music Stores.  Morbid Thoughts Of A Bilious Philosopher. Funny, amusing Discourses $ Advice for Stage and Private Entertainments. illus. with advts. Boomerang Accordions, Mouth Organs on rear wrapper and inside front wrapper; pub. Sydney nd. c. 1918 (Boomerang Sixpenny Series) or wrappers, 16mo. pp.96. Fine.   Price: $20.00
     
  2. ALFORD VIOLET   The singing of the travels. In Search Of Dance And Drama  illus. with 10 plates, 17 line drawings & map, and a few music examples; pub. London, Max Parrish 1956 1st ed. or. cloth, 8vo d/w. pp. 256    Price: $40.00
     
  3. ALLEN JOHN Ed.  by. Entertainment  Arts  In  Australia. profusely  illus. with plates t/out. pub. Syd. Paul  Hamlyn 1968 p/b. cr.4to.obl. pp.160.    Price: $25.00
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  4. ALLSTARS - Doug Anthony DAAS Book profusely illus. with drawings t/out. some full page, some in comic form, pub. Sydney, Allen & Unwin 1989 or. maroon, card wrappers cr.4to. pp.122. fine copy.    Price: $60.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  5. ANDREWS SHIRLEY    Take Your Partners. Traditional Dancing in Australia.  illus.  with 12 full page  plates  t/out.  pub. Melb. Hyland House 1979 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.208.    Price: $35.00
     
  6. APPOLLO THEATRE Programme. Ernest C. Rolls   Rhapsodies Of 1935. Lyrics and Music by Jack O’Hagen. Scenery and costumes by Joan Scardon. Featured Players: Strella Wilson, Roy Rene, Rennie Riano, R. Barrett-Lennard, Cic and Buddy Roberts Robert Capron, Eve Alwyn Desiree and Montigue, Joyce Walker, Will Perryman, Keira Tuson.. and others. illus. with photo plates decorations t/out. advts. on cream paper and purple printing; pub. Melbourne 1935 or. col.illus. wrappers, cr.4to. pp.34 inc. covers. Fine copy.     Price: $60.00
     
  7. ARLISS  GEORGE  George Arliss By  Himself. illus.  with frontis.  &  39  full page plates t/out.  pub.  Lond.  John Murray  1940 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288.  spotting  to edges, d/w. torn at spine otherwise v/good copy.     Price: $45.00
     
  8. ARUNDELL  DENNIS  The Story Of Sadler's  Wells  1683-1977. illus.  with  frontis. & 16 full page  plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. David & Charles 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.352.    Price: $35.00
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  9. ATHENAEUM THEATRE Melbourne.   Programmes. Proprietors Frank Talbot P/L. Lessee E.J. Carroll. Presents Harry Green in "Nothing But Lies" by Aaron Hoffman. Commencing Sept. 6th 1926.
    "The Family Upstairs" Oct. 13th 1928 Three Act comedy by Harry Delf.
    "The Wrecker" Dec. 22nd 1928 by Arnold Ridley
    Cast for the three performances includes; Edward De Tisne, Marie Hurst, Norman Lee, Harry Green, Edward De Tisne, Ellis Irving, Wyrlie Birch, Mary Curtin, Leona Hogarth, Elizabeth Mears, Helen Saintsbury, Ivy Sparrow, Josephine Wilson, Frankston Morrison and others.. illus. with advts. inc. Hoadleys, Wilson’s Motor Service, MacRobertson’s Chocolates, Old Court Whisky, Green’s florists, Melbourne, Travel to Sydney and Tasmania; photo plates, some full page, portraits, or. lilac/black dec. wrappers, 8vo. (pp. unpaginated approx.20 per programme.) The three programmes are in fine condition.     Price: $100.00
     
  10. ATHENAEUM THEATRE  Melbourne.  Season of  The Mikado. Souvenir Programme. illus. with photo plates, drawings t/out. np. Melbourne nd. c. 1930’s or. gold and coloures wrappers, 4to. pp.14. Cast includes: Kenny Baker, Jean Colin, Martyn Green Gregory Stroud, Sidney Granville, John Barkley, Constance Wells, Elizabeth Paynter. Article by Geoffrrey Toye the Producer on ‘How I filmed the Mikado" Biography of Gilbert & Sullivan, story of the Mikado and history. Fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  11. ATKINSON ANN  Linsay Knight, Margaret McPhee.    The Dictionary Of Performing Arts In Australia. Theatre, Film, Radio, Television illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney Allen & Unwin, 1996 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.344. Fine.    Price: $30.00
  12. ATTERTON  MARGOT Ed. by. The Illustrated  Encyclopaedia Of Australian  Showbiz.  illus. with text plates  t/out.  some col. pub. Syd. 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.240.    Price: $35.00
     
  13. AUSTRALIAN  ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTORY Showcast. illus.  with many   photo   plates  of  people   associated   with   the entertainment  industry.  pub. Melb. 1965  5th.ed.  or.wps. 4to. pp.XXV.292. front page cut on margin, no  interference with text otherwise v/good.    Price: $60.00
     
  14. AUSTRALIAN Elizabethan Theatre Trust.- The.  The First Year 1955-6. illus. with col. & b/w photos, Front board designed by Donald Friend. advts. n.p. or. illus. boards 4to. pp.36. lacks paper at spine else fine.     Price: $35.00
     
  15. AUSTRALIAN  THEATRE YEAR BOOK 1958.    illus. with many plates, advts.  t/out.  some  full page pub. Melbourne Cheshire,  The  Australian Elizabethan  Theatre Trust 1958 or. laminated col.  pict. boards. cr.4to. pp.74.8 advts.     Price: $35.00
     
  16. AUSTRALIAN  THEATRE YEAR 1959-60. illus. with many plates, advts.  t/out.  some  full page pub.  Syd.  The  Australian Elizabethan  Theatre Trust 1960 or. stiff col.  pict.  wps. 4to. pp.160.     Price: $35.00
     
  17. BAGNOLD ENID Autobiography. (From 1889) with e/paper illus &  12  full  page plates t/out.  text  illus.  &  facsimile letters pub. Lond. Heinemann 1970 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.294.     Price: $35.00
     
  18. BAGOT ALEC Coppin The Great. Father of  the  Australian Theatre. illus. with frontis. & 10 full page plates  t/out. pub.  Melb.  M.U.P. 1965 1st.ed. or. dk.blu.  cl.  roy.8vo. pp.XIV.356.     Price: $50.00
     
  19. BAKER SIDNEY J.  Australian Pronunciation. A guide to  good speech. pub. Syd. 1947 or.cl. 8vo. pp.54.     Price: $40.00
     
  20. BARRYMORE LIONEL As told to Cameron Shipp. We Barrymores. illus.  with  16 full page plates t/out. pub.  Lond. Peter Davies 1951 1st.ed. or. lt.blu.cl. cr.8vo. pp.VIII.244.     Price: $35.00
     
  21. BECK CHRISTOPHER Compiled & Ed. by. On Air. 25 Years of TV in  Queensland.  profusely illus. with plates  t/out.  some full  page  &  col. pub. Brisb. One  Tree  Hill  Pub.  1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.240.    Price: $40.00
     
  22. BELL ALAN    Night In–Night Out Alan Bell Broadcasts A selection  of broadcasts. pub. Melb. Herald & Weekly  Times 1943 or. grey/green wps. 8vo. pp.128.     Price: $15.00
     
  23. BELL ALAN More Alan Bell Broadcasts. And So Good Night. A selection  of broadcasts. pub. Melb. Herald & Weekly  Times 1944 or.wps. 8vo. pp.94.      Price: $15.00
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  24. BERKOFF STEVEN   Free Association illus. with 31 b/w. plates  t/out.   pub. London Faber & Faber, 1996 paperback , 8vo. pp.XIV.410. The actor, director and playwright, Steven Berkoff, recounts his childhood in London's East End, the trips "up west" during his teenage years, a formative year with family in the USA, his early career in showbiz, and how he drew on his experiences to write his plays. Fine. Signed  by S. Berkoff. Fine copy. Price: $45.00 
     
  25. BERNHARDT   SARAH  Text  by  George  Arthur Sarah Bernhardt.  illus. with frontis. pub. Lond. Heinemann  1923 1st.ed.  or.cl.  8vo. pp.178. little light soiling  to  cl. v/good otherwise.     Price: $35.00
     
  26. BERNHARDT  SARAH  Text by Sandy Lesberg    The  Memoirs Of Sarah Bernhardt. Early Childhood Through the First American Tour. Including the first English publication of her  only novel `In the Clouds.' illus. by George Clarin pub.  Lond. Peebles  Press 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.256.  fine in the sl. chipped d/w.     Price: $35.00
     
  27. BERNHARDT  SARAH The Real Sarah Bernhart Whom He Audience Never Knew. Text by Basil Woon. From material supplied by Mme. Pierre Berton. illus. with frontis. & profusely illus. with plates t/out. (15) pub. N.Y. Tudor Pub. 1937 or.cl. d/w. 8vo.. pp.362. slightly chipped d/w. else very good copy.     Price: $45.00
     
  28. BERNHARDT  SARAH Text by William Emboden. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page pub. N.Y. Macmillan Pub. 1975 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.176.     Price: $35.00
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  29. BIHALJI-MERIN OTO - Great Masks. profusely illus. 157 illustrations, including 24 in color t/out. some full page, pub. New York, 1971 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. cr.4to, fine in d/w. With work by Horace Bristol, Cecil Beaton, Bischof, Morath, Cartier-Bresson, Horst and many others.      Price: $75.00  
     
  30. BINGHAM MADELEINE   The Great Lover. The Life And Art Of Herbert Beerbohm Tree. illus. with 35 black-and-white photo plates, acknowledgements, bibliography and index; pub. London Hamish Hamilton 1978or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.294. Biography of the famous theatre builder and promoter of Shaw, and a father to many children, some of whom also had great careers. A biography of the famous Edwardian actor and theatre manager, as well as establishing The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art. Produced many plays for children, overdid the decor for Shakespeare, but popularised Shaw and Ibsen.   Price: $35.00
     
  31. BISHOP HUMPHERY Comic and Operatic Coy. On a World Tour.  The Famous English Humphery Bishop. Programme illus. with photo plates (portraits) includes: Mr George Ross, Miss Doris Pretty Miss Marie Landon, Mr Dan Flood, Frank Egan, Norman Johns, Alan Kitson,Ekaine Mayne and others, all in portrait photos. np. Sydney? C.1920’s or. blue and white wrappers, folding 3 times, inserted the programme for the evening; roy.8vo. Almost fine.     Price: $25.00
     
  32. BLUNT JERRY The Composite Art Of Acting. illus. with  text illus.  t/out. pub. N.Y. Macmillan 1966 or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.450.     Price: $45.00
     
  33. BOBO  J.B. Modern Coin Magic. 116 coin sleights, 236  coin tricks.  illus.  with 510 dwgs. pub. U.S.A. Carl  W.  Jones 1952 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XVIII.358.   Price: $75.00   Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  34. BOGDAN  ROBERT Freak Show. Presenting Human  Oddities for Amusement  and  Profit.  profusely illus.  with  b/w.  text plates  t/out.  pub.  U.S.A. Uni.  of  Chicago  Press  1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.322.    Price: $45.00
     
  35. BOTTOMLEY GORDON PAUL NASH Poet And Painter. Being the correspondence between Gordon Bottomly and Paul Nash 1910-1946. Ed.  by Claude Colleer Abbott and  Anthony  Bertram. illus.  with 16 full page plates t/out. & 11 dwgs.  through the  text pub. Lond. Oxford Uni. Press 1955 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.278.     Price: $65.00
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  36. BOY'S BOOK Of Conjuring.  Ed. by Eugene Stone. Tricks with Cards, Coins, Hats and Handkerchiefs,  Second sight and Mesmeric Tricks,  Match Puzzles, and Shadowgraphy. illus. with nearly 100 illus. pub. Lond. Ward  Lock & Co. 1952 or. brown cl. 12mo. pp.208. Very good copy.     Price: $35.00
     
  37. BOY'S OWN Conjuring Book: Being a Complete  Hand-Book of Parlour Magic; and Containing Over One Thousand Optical, Chemical,  Mechanical,  and Magical  Experiments,  Amusing Transmutions,    Astonishing   Sleights   and    Subtitles, Celebrated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks with  Numbers, Curious   and  Entertaining  Puzzles,   Charades,   nigmas, Rebuses,  Etc., Etc., Etc., illus. with frontis.  (eng.)  & nearly  two  hundred engravings. Intended as  a  Source  of Amusement  for  One Thousand And One  Evenings.  pub.  N.Y. nd.188-? or. red dec.cl. glt. to front board and spine  12mo. pp.384.  sl.  rubbed to spine &  flecked  otherwise  very good copy.     Price: $50.00
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  38. BOWDEN  TIM The Way My Father Tells It. The Story  of  an Australian  Life. illus. with many text plates t/out.  pub. Syd. ABC 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.276.   Price: $30.00
     
  39. BOWSKILL  DEREK All About Theatre. Development of Theatre and  staging a play. illus. with text plates, dwgs.  t/out. pub. Lond. Allen 1975 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.158.   Price: $20.00
     
  40. BRADDON RUSSELL Joan Sutherland. illus. with frontis. & 14 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Collins 1962 or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.256. fine in the chipped d/w.     Price: $25.00
     
  41. BRADFIELD  RAYMOND  A.  Lola Montez  And  Castlemaine. Early theatrical History. illus. with 12 full page  plates t/out. text illus. pub. Vic. & printed by Castlemaine  Mail nd.198-? or.illus.wps. 8vo.obl. pp.unnumbered (54)   Price: $15.00
     
  42. BRADNA FRED as told to Hartzell Spence. The Big Top. My  40 years with the Greatest Show on Earth. Barnum  and  Bailey Circuis. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates  t/out. pub.  Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1953 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.XVI.254. fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  43. BRANDRETH  GYLES John Gielgud. A  Celebration.  profusely illus.  with  plates  t/out.  many  full  page  pub.  Lond. Pavilion Books 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.186.   Price: $40.00
     
  44. BRIDGES  NANCYE  Curtain Call.  Australia's  Variety  and Musical  Stars from the Twenties to the Sixties.  profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page. pub. Syd. Cassell 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.140. Fine.    Price: $35.00
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  45. BROADHURST THEATRE 44th Street, West of Broadway. Programme.   Week Beginning Monday Evening July 22 1918. The Messrs, Lee and J.J. Shubert Present "Maytime" A Play with Music in four acts. Book and Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young, Score by Sigmond Romberg, Staged by Edward P. Temple. Cast includes: Otis Sheridan, Carl Stall, Peggy Wood, John Charles Thomas, Isabel Vernon, Jenetta Methven, John T. Murray, Douglas J. Wood, Hennietta Dix, Arthur Geary Ensemble of Apprentices, Young Ladies, Gypsies, Etc. illus. with Dyer-Kiss Perfume, lovely col. ad for National biscuits, Nabisco, Horten’s Ice Cream, War Savings Stamps, C/B Corsets, Standard 8 car and others. pub. N.Y. 1918 or. light orange/black dec. (full page ad to rear cover) 8vo. pp.20 inc. covers. Covers little shelf worn otherwise very good condition.     Price: $70.00     (See picture-press   )
     
  46. BRODSKY  ISADORE Sydney Takes The  Stage.  with  e/paper illus.  &  40 full page facsimile plates with  examples  of programmes  and  bill-posters, 2 full pages  of  portraits. pub.  Syd.  Old  Sydney Free Press 1965  or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.96. fine.   Price: $65.00
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  47. BRONHILL JUNE  The Merry Bronhill. illus. with 34 full page plates  t/out.  pub.  Syd. Methuen 1987  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.216.   Price: $35.00
     
  48. BROOK PETER Text by John Heilpern. Conference Of The Birds. the  Story of Peter Brook in Africa. illus.  with  frontis. (map). or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.318.   Price: $45.00
     
  49. BROOK GABRIELLE & Peter Zala.  Ballarat Light Opera Company The First Twenty One years 1959-1980. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page, all col. sepia; pub. Ballarat Vic. or. card wrappers, (paperback), cr.4to. pp.116. Lavishly produced commemorative publication. Fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  50. BURKE BILLIE  With A Feather On  My  Nose.  illus. with frontis.  &  16  full page plates t/out.  pub.  Lond.  1950 or.cl.  d/w.  cr.8vo.  pp.X.236.  lacks   f/free   e/paper otherwise fine in the torn d/w.     Price: $35.00
     
  51. CAMPION MARGARET  3AW Is Melbourne - 75 years of Radio profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Prime Advertising Marketing Publishing, 2007 or. card wrappers, (paperback), roy.4to. square pp.230 Radio station celebrating 75 years on Melbourne’s airwaves. Hes Majesty’s Theatre in Exhibition Street, where 3AW first broadcast to the Melbourne public on February 22, 1932. Very fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  52. CAROL EDDIE   Complete Square Dance Book. A Picture-Cyclopedia for Square Dancers and a Reference Book for Callers, Teachers and Organisers. illus. with Eddie Carol's b/w. photo as frontispiece & many plates, pub. Melbourne, Hallcraft Publishing, 1953 or. red cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.186. d/w. chipped, else very good copy. History of square dancing, principles, basic steps (illustrated) tips for callers, alphabetical list of dances described, recommended music for square dancing.    Price: $40.00
     
  53. CARROLL BRIAN Australian Stage Album. with e/paper illus., b/w.  & col.  plates  t/out. some  full  page  pub.  Melb. Macmillan 1975 1st.ed. or.illus.bds. folio pp.112.   Price: $45.00
     
  54. CASSON JOHN Lewis & Sybil. illus. with frontis. & 22  full page plates t/out. published London, Collins 1972 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.352. a very good copy.   Price: $35.00
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  55. CHATER GORDON   (The Almost Late) Autobiography. illus. with 24 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney, Bantom Books 1996 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.342. Signed by Gordon Chatter.    Price: $50.00    Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  56. CLARK MAVIS THORPE Strolling Players. Joan & Betty Rayner. founders of the Australian Children's Theatre. with e/paper illus.  &  6 full page plates t/out. pub.  Melb.  Lansdowne Press 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.164.   Price: $35.00
     
  57. CLARKE JOHN S. Circus Parade. profusely illus. with plates t/out. mostly full page some col. pub. Lond. Batsford 1936 or. blue cl. 8vo. pp.VIII.120.     Price: $45.00
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  58. CLINTON-BADDELEY V.C. - The Burlesque Tradition In The English Theatre After 1660. illus. with col. frontis. & 11 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Methuen 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.152. small in inscription to f/free e/paper, short closed tear to d/w. else fine.    Price: $45.00
     
  59. CLUNES  ALEC The British Theatre. History of  theatre  in Britain profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full  page 3  col. pub. Lond. Cassell & Co. 1964 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. roy. 4to. pp.186.   Price: $50.00 
     
  60. COCHRAN CHARLES B. Showman Looks On. Book of reminiscences of  the stage in Lond. & Europe. illus. with frontis. &  33 full  page  plates  t/out. one col. pub.  Lond.  Dent  1946 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.324.   Price: $25.00
     
  61. COCHRAN  CHARLES The Secrets Of A  Showman.  Actor then Promoter. Promoted boxing in England & shows inc. Bernhardt &  Diaghlif's Ballet, also worked in America.  illus. with frontis. & 14 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond.  Heinemann 1929 or.grn.cl. 8vo. pp.XVIII.436.   Price: $35.00
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  62. COLEMAN  PETER The Real Barry Humphries. illus.  with  12 full  page  plates  t/out. pub.  Lond.  Robson  Books  1990 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192.   Price: $35.00
     
  63. COLLIS MAURICE & Feliks Topolski (designer) Lord Of The Three Worlds - with designs for the stage by Feliks Topolski. illus. with 4 folding plates & numerous line drawings by Topolski in text, some full-page; pub. London Faber 1947 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.108. The play is set in Burma. Very good copy with edge-torn end chipped dustwrapper previous owner's small name stamp to f/free e/paper.    Price: $45.00
     
  64. COMEDY THEATRE Melbourne. Programme for the opening of the Comedy Theatre. Opening Souvenir Saturday April 28, 1928. Managing Directors Sir George Tallis, E.J. Tait. Frank S. Tait, John H. Tait. illus. with drawings and photo plates/portraits of Margaret Bannerman, Geoffrey Millar, Ern Elliott, Millie Wolf and others from the cast. Opened on Saturday Night April 28, 1928 by Anthony Prinsept's London Company with Margfaret Bannerman in 'Our Betters'. Contains history of the spot where the 'Comedy' now stands, 'The Iron Pot' written by Norman Campbell. Full page advts. of companies associated with the building of the theatre Bucklys, Dunlop, Dey & Gairn, (ventilation, heating) Johns & Waygood, Picton Hopkins & Son (Plasterers), Crittall (window frames) Cgaig's (carpets) Wunderlich (terra cotta) etc. or. stiff stapled and brown ribbon tied wrappers, gilt lettering & dec on front cover, gilt emblem (Speciality Press) to rear wrapper, 4to. pp.28. fine condition.    Price: $200.00    (See picture-press   )
     
  65.  COMEDY THEATRE  Programme Feb. 12th 1955. J.C. Williamson Theatres Ltd. Googie Withers and John McCallum in   "Simon And Laura" A Comedy by Alan Melville. With Collins Hilton, Letty Crayton, William Rees, Charles Tingwell, Bettina Welch, Bobby Mack and others… illus. with advts. and photo plates; pub. Melbourne 1955 or. lime green/maroon wrappers, 8vo. pp.28. fine.    Price: $20.00
     
  66.  COMEDY THEATRE  Programme July 21st 1956. J.C. Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in association with Williamson Theatres Ltd. presents    "Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll." By Ray Lawler. Featuring Jacklyn Kelleher, Madge Ryan, June Jago, Ray Lawler, Ethel Gabriel, Kenneth Warren, Lewis Luton. illus. with advts. and photo plates; pub. Melbourne 1956 or. maroon/white wrappers, 8vo. pp.28. fine.     Price: $40.00
     
  67. COMEDY THEATRE  Programme. March 7th 1959.  J.C. Williamson Theatres Ltd. Googie Withers and John McCallum in   "Roar Like A Dove" A Comedy by Lesley Storm. With Sue Appleton, Christina Groves, Mary Hoskings, Noel Ferrier, Melissa Jaaffer, Florence Dunlap.illus. with advts. and photo plates; pub. Melbourne 1959 or. lime green/maroon wrappers, 8vo. pp.24. fine.     Price: $20.00
     
  68. COMEDY THEATRE  Programme.  "The Sentimental Bloke" A new Australian musical. Commencing on Sat. Nov. 4th 1961. Cast includes, Peter McCredie, Tom Farlie and others. Choreography by Betty Pounder. illus. with advts. (TAA, Catanachach’s, jewellery, Alfred Nott, optical etc.) photo plates (portraits) pub. Melbourne or. green wrappers, 8vo. pp.24. inc. covers. Fine.     Price: $20.00
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  69. CORSON RICHARD - Stage Makeup. profusely illus. with plates, drawings, t/out. some full page & col. pub. U.S.A. Prentice Hall 1975 5th.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.384. Very good copy.   Price: $75.00   Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  70. COURTNEY  RICHARD Play, Drama & Thought. The Intellectual Background to Drama in Education. pub. Lond. Cassell 1974 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.302.   Price: $30.00
     
  71. COWARD  NOEL  Compiled by Dick Richards. The Wit  Of Noel Coward.  illus. with 8 full page plates t/out.  pub.  Lond. Leslie Frewin 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. white d/w. 12mo.  pp.112. d/w. short closed tear else fine.   Price: $25.00
     
  72. COWARD  NOEL And His Friends. Cole Lesley, Graham  Payn & Sheridan  Morley.  with unpublished material from  his  own archive. profusely illus. with plates t/out. 6 full page  & col. pub. Lond. Wiedenfeld & Nicholson 1979 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.216. a fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  73. COWARD NOEL A Talent To Amuse. A biography of Noel Coward written by Sheridan Morley. illus. with 32 full page plates t/out.  pub. Lond. Heinemann 1969 1st.ed. or.blk.cl.  8vo. pp.360.    Price: $35.00
     
  74. COWARD NOEL Cowardy Custard. The World of Noel Coward. Ed. by   John Hadfield.   based  on   the   Mermaid   Theatre Entertainment. illus. with frontis. & profusely illus. with plates  t/out. some full page & col. pub.  Lond.  Heinemann 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144.   Price: $35.00
     
  75. COWARD  NOEL Biography by Patrick Braybrooke. The Amazing Mr. Noel Coward. illus. with frontis. & 7 full page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. 1933 or.cl. 8vo. pp.168.   Price: $35.00
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  76. CRAMPTON JOHN Evie Hayes `And I Loves Ya Back! illus. with text plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1992  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.278.   Price: $35.00
     
  77. CREIGHTON C.   Shakespeare's Story Of His Life pub. London: Grant Richards, 1904 - top edge gilt, red/brown cloth , spine title papered, text block very clean 8co. pp.456. slightly flecked, and faded else very good copy.    Price: $65.00
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  78. CREMORNE THEATRE (Brisbane) Cremorne Vaudeville. The Tivoli Circuit Presents  "The Hat Trick" with Will Mahony, Alec Kellaway, Mavis Richie, Jack Mortimer, and others. illus. with photo plates (portraits) , advts. t/out. some full page, inc. Castlemaine Ale, Lustre Lingerie, all in blue printing, pub. Brisb. nd. c.1945 or. red/white/blue wrappers, 8vo. pp.16 inc. covers. Fine copy.     Price: $25.00
     
  79. CREMORNE THEATRE (Brisbane) Cremorne Vaudeville. Presents   The Laugh Round-Up. illus. with advts. (Fourex beer, Mercolized Wax, etc.) photo plates (portraits, group from the Cremorne Ballet) pub. Brisb. nd. c.1948 Cast includes, Miss Evie Hayes, Will Mahoney, Terry Scanlon, Bruce Carrol June Holm, The Lampinis etc. or. white wrappers, 8vo. pp.12. inc. covers. Fine.    Price: $15.00
     
  80. CURRY PAUL  Magician's Magic illus. with Julio Granda b/w drawings, bibliography, index. pub. London Ronald Whiting & Wheaton 1966 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.270 An explanation of the principles behind tricks and legendary effects and directions for performing tricks in those categories. The author provides historical background and touches on all the great names of magic: Robert-Houdin, Houdini, Hermann, Kellar, Blackstone, Cardini, and Scarne. Looks at the lives of some of the great names of magic, explains the secrets behind their illusions, describing how to saw a woman in half, how levitation works, and how to wriggle free from ropes. Fine in the chipped d/w.    Price: $45.00
     
  81. DAMASE JACQUES Les Folies Du Music-Hall. A history of  the Music-Hall  in  Paris. with e/paper illus. &  photo  plates t/out.  some full page pub. Lond. Spring Books 1970  or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.190.   Price: $25.00
     
  82. DERVAL  PAUL The Folies Bergere. illus. with 32 full  page plates  t/out. pub. U.K. Methuen 1955 or.cl. d/w.  8vo.obl. pp.X.148.   Price: $35.00
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  83. DEVANT DAVID   Lessons In Conjuring. illus. with many drawing in the text. pub. London Routledge 1922 or. light grey cl. black illus. to front board; 12mo. pp.152. sl. rubbed to spine else very good copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  84. De ZOETE BERYL and WALTER SPIES    Dance And Drama In Bali illus. with 112 plates after orig. photographs by Walter Spies, additional notes, stories, glossary & index. pub. London Faber & Faber 1938 or. beige cl. 4to. pp.XX,344, shelf-edge rough-cut. Almost fine copy.     Price: $150.00
     
  85. DICKER  IAN R. J.C.W. A short biography of James  Cassius Williamson.  with col. frontis. & many text  plates  t/out. pub.  Syd. Elizabeth Tudor Press 1974 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.211.   Price: $45.00
     
  86. DISHER M. WILLSON Fairs, Circuses & Music Halls. profusely illus.  with  27  plates, 8 full page  &  col.  pub.  Lond. Collins 1942  (Britain  in  Pictures  Series).   or.yell. pict.bds. cr.4to. pp.48. fine.   Price: $25.00
     
  87. DOERFLINGER WILLIAM Written & Compiled by. The Magic Catalogue. A Comprehensive Guide to the Wonderful World of Magic. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & 10 col. pub. U.S.A. Sunrise 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.242.   Price: $60.00
     
  88. DOWNS BRIAN W. Ibsen. The Intellectual Background.  Study of  the background  of  ideas,  artistic  convictions  and historical events.  pub. U.K. Cambridge  Uni.  Press  1948 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.188. torn d/w. at spine.   Price: $35.00
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  89. DUNCAN  IRMA ALLEN ROSS MacDOUGALL  Isadora Duncan's Russian  Days.  And Her Last Years in  France.  pub. Lond. Victor  Gollancz  1929 or.ornge.cl. 8vo. pp.384.  sl.  worn copy, f/bd. flecked.   Price: $45.00
     
  90. EAST  JOHN  M.  `Neath The Mask. The  story  of  the  East Family. Theatrical managers & pioneers of the British  film industry. illus. with 30 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Allen & Unwin 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.356.   Price: $35.00
     
  91. ELLIOTT BRUCE    Classic Secrets Of Magic illus. with over 60 full page line drawings, pub. New York, NY Galahad Books 1953 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.210 fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  92. `ENTERTAIN EM'  Compiled by. A Book Of Games  for  Young and Old.  Games And Competitions. for parties,  Entertainments, Evenings, socials, Family Entertainments, etc. Suitable for Young Children, Boys and Girls, Young People  and  Adults. pub.  Melb.  for  John Pollard nd.192-?  or.  red  &  blk. pict.wps. 12mo. pp.64. fine.   Price: $25.00
     
  93. EVANS PETER Evans The Wireless  Scrapbook.  illus. with facsimile pages of newspaper clippings t/out. many  plates, pub. Melb. ABC or. 2 col. illus.wps. (p/b.) cr.4to. pp.96.   Price: $15.00
     
  94. EXHIBITION Building Melbourne.  In Aid of War Charities. Souvenir Programme: October 21st to November 4th 1939 In Aid of the Australian Red Cross and War Comforts Fund. "Hiawatha" Dramatised and Produced by T.C. Fairbairn. Musical Director Bernard Heinze. The Cast will include: Strella Wilson, Fred Collier, Phillis Curnow, Marion Daniels, Tom Minoge, Horace Stevens, Walter Kingsley, Cecil Atkinson, Wilma Berkley, Tjea Philips, Browning Mummery, Vera Hickenbotham, Elizabedt Coote, Reg Hood. Ballet: Laurel Martyn, S. Bousloff, Lawrence Rentoul. Chorus of 700, Ballet of 80. Full Symphony Orchestra Leader: Edouard Lambert. Sponsored by the Melbourne City Council. illus. with photo plates of production, portraits, advts, inc. S.A. Cheney (cars, Vauxhall) Seppelts, The Argus, The National Bank, Gaunts, (jewellers) Cyclone, Veals (Radios) and others.. pub. Melbourne 1939 or. illustrated brown/black/grey wrappers 4to. pp.40. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  95. FABIAN MONROE H. 200 Years Of Theatrical Personalities. Stage.  profusely illus. with plates t/out. 16 full page  & col.  pub. N.Y. Mayflower Books 1980 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. roy.4to. pp.224.   Price: $40.00
     
  96. FARNHAM WILLARD -  The Shakespearean Grotesque: Its Genesis and Transformations illus. with 3 plate illustrations pub. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. 176. A study of Shakespeare concentrating on the element of the Grotesque in his plays; the author suggests that the Grotesque tradition (pre-and-post Renaissance) reaches a kind of fulfilment in Shakespeare as articulated in the characters of Falstaff, Hamlet, Shakespearean fools, Iago, and Caliban;    Price: $45.00    Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  97. FARNSWORTH  MARJORIE The Ziegfeld Follies. A  History  in Text and Pictures. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full  page, pub. Lond. Peter Davies 1956 or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.194.   Price: $45.00
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  98. FERNANDEZ  NATALIE Circus  Saga-Ashton's.  illus.  with frontis.  & 18 full page plates t/out. line dwgs. by  Mitzi Hicks pub. Syd.  by  Ashton's   Circus   1971   1st.ed. or.illus.bds. 8vo. pp.136.     Price: $45.00
     
  99. FINDON B. W. (Ed)   The Play Pictorial, Volume One & Two. Each containing six plays. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page, attractive advts, (3 col.), fashion, what’s on, good costume reference; pub. London Greening & Co. 1903 or. light green cl. quarter-bound with off-white cloth backstrip, gilt art nouveau decoration, 4to. pp. Vol.I 240- Vol.II.474. Plates of actresses and actors of that period. Very attractive set. Fine.     Price: $175.00
     
  100. FINDON B. W. (Ed) The Play Pictorial, No. VI (nd. c. 1906) 37, VIII (nd. c. 1907) 46, XV (1909) 88, 90, 92 XVI (1910) 94, 96, 97, 98 99, XVII (1910) 101, 102, XVIII (1911) 108, 109 111, XIX 114, (1912) 116, 117, XX (1912) 118, 120, 121 XXI (1912) 124, 125, 126, 127,129,XXII (1913) 130, 132 XXIII 137, 138, 139, 140, also a bound set of odd numbers in plain boards No.s 33, 48, 54, 55, 67, 87, 143, 147; profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page advts, for fashion, what’s on, good costume reference; pub. London The Stage Pictorial Publishing Co. c.1906-1913 or. pictorial & dec. wrappers, 4to. approx. pp.38 per magazine. 37 issues; very good run of this early Edwardian Play Pictorial Magazine. Almost fine.     Price: $350.00
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  101. FRENCH YVONE Mrs Siddons Tragic Actress. 18th Century actress who acted with Garrick and worked for Sheridan and was a favourite of George III. illus. with frontis. pub. Lond. Derek Verschoyle 1954 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. XVI.256. very good copy in the sl. chipped d/w.    Price: $45.00  
     
  102. FERRIER  NOEL There Goes Watsisname. The Memoirs  of Noel Ferrier. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub.  Melb. Macmillan 1985  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.   pp.VIII.144. inscrip. f/free e/paper otherwise fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  103. FISHER JOHN Paul Daniels And The Story Of Magic. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub.  Lond. Jonathan Cape 1987 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.288.  Price: $35.00
     
  104. FITTON  DORIS Not Without Dust & Heat.  My  life  in the theatre.  with title page vign. & many plates  t/out.  some full  page pub. Syd. Harper & Row 1981 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.200.   Price: $35.00
     
  105. FLYNN T. Rev.  The ABC Of Elocution: A Brief Exposition of a Plain, Logical and Practical System of it's True Principals as a Science and as an Art. pub. Ballarat J. Fraser 1905 or. maroon wrappers, 12mo. pp.58. wrappers chipped, else very good.   Price: $25.00
     
  106. FOX  CHARLES PHILIP A Ticket To The Circus. The  incredible story in  detail  of  Ringlings  from  humble   Wisconsin beginnings  to  world-wide glory.  profusely  illus.  with plates t/out. many full page pub. U.S.A. Superior Publishing  Co. 1959 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.184. fine copy.   Price: $60.00
     
  107. FREEBURG VICTOR OSCAR Disguise Plots In Elizabethan Drama. A study in Stage Tradition. pub. N.Y. Benjamin Blom (Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature) 1965 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.242.   Price: $45.00
     
  108. FREEDLEY  GEORGE JONH A. REEVES A  History  Of  The Theatre.  with  418  illus.  from  photographs,  playbills, contemporary  prints.  pub. N.Y. Crown  Pub.  1941  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo. pp.XVI.688. some light  spotting  t/out. otherwise v/good.   Price: $45.00
     
  109. FYFE  HAMILTON Sir Arthur  Pinero's  Plays  And Players. illus.  with frontis. illus. with frontis. & 15  full  page plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. Ernest Benn  Ltd.  1930  1st.ed. or.orng.cl.  pp.VIII.312. spine  faded  slightly,   little rubbed. $45.00
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  110. GASSNER  JOHN Masters Of The Drama. The Story  of  Theatre and  its  Creators from Primitive Man to the  Present  Day. illus. with 56 b/w. full page plates t/out. pub. N.Y. Dover Pub. 1954 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXII.890.   Price: $50.00
     
  111. GELL HEATHER Music, Movement And The Young Child. Delcroze Method  of  Movement. illus. with frontis. &  8  full page plates  t/out. text dwgs. pub. Syd. Australasian Pub.  1953  or.cl. 8vo.obl. pp.XI.196. sl. sunned to spine.     Price: $40.00
     
  112. GIELGUD JOHN Early Stages. illus. with frontis. & 16  full page plates  t/out. pub. Lond. The Falcon Press  1948  or. maroon  cl. 8vo. pp.250. cover of d/w. adhered  to  f/free e/paper else v/good copy.  Price: $35.00
     
  113. GIELGUD JOHN   Stage Directions  illus. with 11 b/w. & 1 colour illus. appends., index, pub. London, Heinemann, 1963 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.146 Few living actors have greater claim to speak with authority on the subject of acting and directing than Sir John Geilgud, whose lifetime on the theatre has given him wide experience and a profound understanding of modern and classical drams and of the particular problems of both actor and director. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  114. GOLDBERG  ROSELEE Performance.  Live  Art  1909  to  the Present.  illus.  with text plates t/out.  of  examples  of modern  drama,  costumes,  sets,  productions.  pub.  Lond. Thames & Hudson 1979 or.blk. & wht. pict. wps. 4to. pp.128.     Price: $25.00
     
  115. GORDON MEL    Grand Guignol. Theatre of Fear and Terror. with several photographs and illustrations pub. New York Amok 1988 or. illus. (purple marble) card wrappers, deep red to spine, (paperback), 8vo. pp.188. Fine.    Price: $65.00
     
  116. GRAVES  CHARLES The Cochran Story. A  biography  of  Sir Charles  Blake  Cochran, Kt. 50 Years  of  enterprises  and activities.  illus.  with frontis. & 25  full  page  plates t/out.  pub. Lond. W.H. Allen nd.195-?  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.XIV.282.      Price: $35.00
     
  117. GRAY LESLIE R.   The Little Theatre. Souvenir Prepared For The Opening Of The New Melbourne Little Theatre.: 24th, August, 1956. illus. with numerous  b/w. plates  t/out.  some full page, pub. Melbourne 1956 or. pictorial wrappers, 4to. pp.16. This souvenir was designed and written by Leslie R. Gray with the Cover Design by Kenneth Rowell. Slight crease through the centre where programme has been folded, else very good.     Price: $45.00
     
  118. GREAVES  GEOFF The Circus Comes To  Town.  Nostalgia  of Australian  Big Tops. profusely illus. with  plates  t/out. many full page, e/paper illus. pub. Syd. Reed 1980  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.96.    Price: $30.00
     
  119. GURR  ANDREWJOHN ORRELL Rebuilding  Shakespeare's Globe.   Archaeological   discovery   and   rebuilding    of Shakespeare's Globe theatre. illus. with frontis. & 46 b/w. dgms., plates, 4 col & full page pub. Lond. Weidenfeld  and Nicholson 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.196.    Price: $45.00
     
  120. GUTHRIE TYRONE   A Life In The Theatre Autobiography. illus. with 12 b/w photos, including frontis. pub. London Hamish Hamilton, 1960 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VI.320. The first British director to be as prominent as his actors, who included Laughton and Olivier at the Old Vic. Previous owner's name on front free e/paper, torn d/w. else fine.   Price: $40.00
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  121. HARDWICK J.M.D. (Ed.) Emigrant In Motley. The unpublished letters  of Charles and Ella Kean in quest of a theatrical fortune in Australia and America. illus. with col. frontis. &  18  full  page plates t/out. one col.  pub. &