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AMATI, NICOLO - Violins by: Catalogue of Objects of Virtue and Watches the Propert of the Earl of Cromer .... Also Violins by Nicolo Amati the property of Arthur Collis and others which are to be sold at auction...
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London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 20, 1946. 14-page auction catalogue. 8vo. Wire stitched; a little creased. £15.00 |
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ANON: The Life of Billy Purvis, the Extraordinary, Witty, and Comical Showman (1784-1853) With many facts not before published.
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham, 1981. Facsimile of the edition of 1875 published by T. Arthur. Illustrations. Softback. 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 149-pages original glazed pictorial wrappers; good. |
£14.00
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BALLET: Three programmes, as under. Ballett Rambert, Russe, St. James's.
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London: 1938 and later. The three programmes comprise: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Leonide Massie, Artistic Director. 1938 (4to, original wrappers); Ballet Rambert Arts Theatre Ballet & Opening Night of The Cave of Harmony. The Arts Theatre Club & The Ballet Club, Leicester Square, April-May 1940. (3-fold programme with portrait of Harold Turner, folded); & The St. James's Ballet Company presents a programme of new and original ballets ..... (4to, decoraive wrappers, Jan. 1949). Some dust marking, staples rusted. £14.00 |
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BASIE, COUNT (Harold Fielding): Harold Fielding presents The Count Basie Concert Tour Spring 1957.
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London: Harold Fielding Concert Division, 1957. Souvenir programme. Photographic illustrations. 4to (10 5/8 x 8 inches), 8-pages. Original orange wrappers with portrait of Basie. Ticket stub formerly paper clipped to lower wrapper now loosely inserted, mark from paper clip to lower wrapper and last leaf. The programme leaf annotated in ink, else very good. £15.00 |
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BLACK, GEORGE & ALFRED: Presents Anton Walbrook , Evelyn Laye in a Romantic Musical Play, "Wedding in Paris" at the London Hippodrome.
London: 1954. Souvenir brochure. 4to, 16-pages, illustrated throughout, original coloured pictorial wrappers; some edge creasing. Togethe with the standard 8-page 8vo programme, original coloured pictorial wrappers.
£10.00
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BRITTEN, BENJAMIN (1913-1976), Composer, Conductor, & Pianist & PEARS, SIR PETER (1910-1986), Tenor.: Their signatures on a programme Bach at Long Melford, Aldeburgh Festival, September 1963.
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4to sheet folded vertically in 2, also with horizontal fold. The signatures rather scratchy and faint, that of Pears with (coffee?) marking. £75.00 |
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BUSBY, THOMAS: A Complete Dictionary of Music. To which is prefixed, a Familiar Introduction to the First Principles of that Science. Third edition, with Additions and Improvements.
London: Richard Phillips, 1811. Folding plate. Small 8vo (6 1/4 x 4 inches), unpaginated. Contemporary full tan calf; joints cracked but holding, vertical crack to backstrip (but not broken), headbands a little chipped. Bookplate of Godolphin School Library on front pastedown, 1947 inscription on front free endpaper.
£100.00
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CENTLIVRE, [SUSANNA]: The Busy Body a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and Covent-Garden.
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mr King in the Character of Marplot; this detached. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 22-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin but without loss.
£10.00
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COTON, A.V. [Alicia Markova & Anton Dolin]: Alicia Markova & Anton Dolin, 1949 - 1950 Tour programme. Presented by Julian Braunsweg.
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London: Julian Braunsweg, 1949. Photographic illustrations throughout. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), 20-pages. Original gold wrappers with design in black by George Kirsta; some marking to wrappers but generally good. £20.00 |
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DRYDEN, [JOHN]: The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery, a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and Covent-Garden.
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mr. Dunstal in the Character of Dominic. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 22-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin but without loss.
£15.00
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FARQUHAR, [GEORGE]: The Constant Couple; or a Trip to the Jubilee a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and Covent-Garden.
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mrs. Barry in the Character of Sir Harry Wildair. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 23-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin with the loss of just a few letters on one leaf.
£12.00
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FARQUHAR, [GEORGE]: The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and Covent-Garden.
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Mrs. Lessingham in the Character of Oriana; this detached 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 20-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin without loss
£15.00
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FORREST, THEODOSIUS: The Weathercock, or, Ladies fortune-teller. A musical entertainment of two acts.
Dublin: Thomas Wilkinson, n.d. ca. 1780. 8vo, pp.24, disbound. Title browned and ink-marked, generally dusty and slightly edge-worn. Anonymous. Rare.
£35.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Programme for "...Merely Players" at the London Coliseum 20th November (no year). Signed by Gielgud. Also signed by Dolores Gray. Gregory Peck's name added to cast list in ink.
Figure of £4500 added in ink to title, one assumes the figure raised on behalf of the British Equity Club. 4to, 32-pages, original blue pictorial wrappers, silk tie bound; good. Gielgud played King Richard II in the play "Richard of Bordeaux".
£20.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre Festival Week in aid of King George's Pension Fund, programme for various productions, signed by Gielgud.
4to, 16-pages. Original coloured pictorial wrappers. Gielgud appeared as John Worthing in "The Importance of Being Ernest".
£21.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (across the cast list) for the production of King Lear at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Stratford upon Avon. 1950.
Single sheet folded ; some browning. Gielgud played King Lear.
£15.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (across the cast list) for the production of Measure for Measure at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Stratford upon Avon. 1950.
Single sheet folded ; some spotting. Gielgud played Angelo. Ticket stapled to rear panel.
£15.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (across the cast list) for the production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Stratford upon Avon. 1950.
Single sheet folded ; very good. Gielgud played Benedick.
£15.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (across the list of acts) for the production of The Winter's Tale at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, 11th June 1951.
20-page small format programme ; rear cover a little soiled. Gielgud played Leontes.
£15.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (on front wrapper) for the production of A Day by the Sea by N. C. Hunter at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, November 26th 1953.
Single sheet folded ; slightly spotted. Gielgud played Julian Anson.
£15.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (on front wrapper) for the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, n.d.
Single sheet folded ; the pictorial front wrapper by Sheila Jackson. Gielgud played Oberon.
£15.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (on front wrapper) for the production of Lady Windermere's Fan at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, n.d.
Single sheet folded ; foxed, corner crease, plain back cover stained.. Gielgud directed.
£10.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre programme signed (on front wrapper) for the production of The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, April 18th 1945.
Single sheet folded ; slightly spotted. Gielgud played Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria.
£15.00
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GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000; actor): Theatre World July 1949. Signed on the front wrapper by Gielgud.
Front cover shows Gielgud and Pamela Brown in costume in "The Lady's Not For Burning"; the photograph by Angus McBean. 40-pages; wrappers edge rubbed and a little soiled.
£10.00
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GILBERT, W.S: The 'Bab' Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense. With Illustrations by the Author.
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London: George Routledge, 1870. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches), 154-pages. Contemporary quarter grained brown calf with green letterig piece, all edges marbled. With the half-title. Contemporary ownership inscription on title; very good. £12.00 |
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GOLDSMITH, OLIVER; HOME, JOHN; & DRYDEN, JOHN (adapted by DAVID GARRICK): She stoops to conquer: or, the mistakes of a night. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Doctor Goldsmith. The Second Edition. Bound with Homes, "Fatal Discovery" & Drydens "King Arthur" as under.
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London: Printed for F. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1773. Goldsmith [Oliver]. She stoops to conquer: or, the mistakes of a night. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Doctor Goldsmith. The Second Edition. 8vo, pages (8):106:(2); with the half-title. |
Bound with: [Home, John]. The fatal discovery. A tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. London: printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand, 1769. 8vo pages (4):76:(2, Epilogue):(1, blank). Small blank upper fore-corner of title cut away.
Bound with: King Arthur: or, the British worthy. A masque. By Mr. Dryden. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, ... The music by Purcell and Dr. Arne. The scenes by French and Carver. London: printed for W. Strahan, L. Hawes and Co. T. Davies, T. Lownds, T. Becket, and W. Griffin, 1770 ( an adaption by David Garrick of Dryden's play, A re-issue of the edition of the same year which has p.[9] unnumbered, with a reset titlepage and an advertisement on p.3). 8vo, pages: (4):49.
Three plays bound in one. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), contemporary tan calf; binding rubbed and chipped, upper joint cracked, lower board detached. Some marginal browning/foxing; overall good.
£250.00
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HESS, DAME MYRA (1890-1965); pianist: Her signature on a slip of paper perhaps cut from a letter.
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2 1/4 x 3/4 inches; very good. £15.00 |
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LOGAN, W. H: A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs with Illustrative Notes.
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Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1869. First edition. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 479-pages. Original brown cloth blocked in brown & gilt. 1 quire partly sprung, upper joint pulled but very firm. Overall a good bright copy. Armorial bookplate. £48.00 |
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LUCKMAN, A.W: The Development of the role of play in the theatre of Jean Anouilh.
Unpublished. 1975. Being the Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of French of the University of Leicester. Folio, pp. 366, binder's cloth. Carbon typescript.
£25.00
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MACGREGOR, JOHN: Eastern Music: twenty melodies from the Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, Syrian, Turkish, and Arabic, for the voice, dulcimer, and drum, with pianoforte accompaniments and illustrations by John Macgregor.
London: J. Alfred Novello [1851 ]. First edition. 5 lithographic plates. Text and musical notation. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 34-pages. Original red blindstamped grained cloth, all adges gilt. With the binder's ticket of J. Rowbotham Caoutchouc Bookbinder, 70 Castle St. East, Oxford Street on front pastedown. The leaves now loose due to the usual failure of the latex (caoutchouc) binding glue. (A particular (and probably first) form of adhesive binding, invented by William Hancock, and patented in 1836). Chip in the blank margin of 2 leaves without loss. Short split to upper joint and wear to headband.
"The profits of this work ...... are devoted to the Ragged School Union". Contents are as follows: Nile boat song -- Jewish marriage chaunt -- Cry of the Muezzim at Constantinople -- Mosque music -- Greek lullaby at Marathon -- Camel chaunt of the Arabs in the desert -- Nile sailors' music -- Egyptian sailors' music -- Boatman's chorus on the Nile -- Turkish dulcimer music -- Reed-pipe music in the desert -- Love song of the Nile boatman -- Funeral music, Alexandria -- Comic dance of the Nile sailors -- Egyptian carol -- Nubian song and chorus -- Syrian war challenge -- Arab marriage music -- Love song on the Nile -- The Syrian warrior's farewell to his wife. Rare.
£180.00
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MILTON, [JOHN]: Comus. A Masque. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and Covent-Garden. Altered from Milton.
London: Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144 Fleet Street, 1777. Engraved portrait of Miss Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 inches), 12-pages, disbound. Some light foxing and dustmarking. Shaved by the binder rather close on fore-margin but without loss.
£15.00
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OSMAN, MOHD. TAIB [Editor]: Traditional Drama and Music of Southeast Asia. (Papers presented at the International Conference on Traditional Drama and Music of Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, 27th to 30th August, 1969.)
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Kuala Lumpur: Dwan Bahasa Dan Pustaka, 1974. 8vo, pp.xxviii:352, original blue cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper slightly edge-rubbed; internally, some very light creasing to first few pages else very good. £32.00 |
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PRESLEY, ELVIS: Elvis Monthly, Nos. 199-206, August 1976-March 1977. 8 issues.
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Heanor, Derbyshire, Albert Hand, 1976/7. 8 issues. Photographic illustrations. Each 48-pages 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches), original wire-stitched pictorial wrappers; very good. £25.00 |
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PURVIS, WILLIAM [ BILLY ] 1784 - 1853. Puppeteer, Magician, Dancer, Singer & Clown: A very rare, perhaps unique, survival of a playbill for one of his performances with his Fantoccini figures, the place of the performance left blank to be filled in by hand as he proceeded from Fair to Fair. The playbill with creasing but no loss.
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Printed by R. Stobbs, Durham. c.1823. The playbill, 20 x 7 3/4 inches, headed, "GREAT NOVELTY. MR PURVIS Respectfully informs the Ladies, Gentlemen ....... the Performance of his Liliputian Theatre or SUPERB MECHANICAL FIGURES for a short time only ....... the Performance will commence with Mr. P's GRAND DECEPTIONS with Cards, Rings, Medals, Watches, Boxes, Trinkets etc ............. After which will be performed ....THE CHILDREN OF THE WOOD; or the Cruel Uncle. Performed by Figures three feet four inches high ....... after which will be exhibited the Grand Theatre FANTOCCINI. THE GRAND MOGUL TURK who will come forward .... dance ... move his head, roll his eyes ...... RAMO SAMEE the East Indian Juggler ...... 17inches high, ... throwing the Golden Ball in a wonderful manner ..... BEN BLOCK, the Sailor .... only 12 inches high ... take off and put on his Hat, and perform a real English Hornpipe, consisting of twenty-one steps, ..... MORGIANA, the Musical Hoop Dancer, will perform a waltz .......THE ANIMATED SKELETON will perform a Dance of Death ................. chatter his teeth and move every joint ....... PANTALOON AND PANTILINA, will ... dance a Jig ...... THE POLANDER ... A Tight Rope Dance .... and conclude with his Antipodean Feats by standing on his head on the Pole ...... THE ITALIAN SCARAMOUCH, Or the Representation of Joe Grimaldi, who will make his Appearance without his Head, then with his Head ......The whole to conclude with the laughable burlesque Farce of BILLY BUTTON and his Man Jeremiah here correctly represented by Liliputian Performers and a Fairy Horse ........"
From J. P. Robson's "The life and adventures of the far-famed Billy Purvis" [1849]: "I commenced manufacturing a set of Fantoccini figures myself. My first attempt was on 'Ben Block, the Sailor', and I succeeded in blocking out my Ben in a style that proved I was no blockhead. Mr Hardy, Sen., Carver, who is still living, materially assisted me in cutting of my heads. I worked away, and in a short time I finished nine excellent figures, which I named in the following order: - 'Ben Block' was my eldest born. Then followed 'The Grand Mogul Turk', 'The Indian Juggler', 'Morgiana, the Musical Rope Dancer', 'Pantaloon and Pantalina', 'Scaramouch',' The Boy and the Butterfly', and lastly the figure that always must come last 'Death, or the Skeleton!' whose astonishing convolutions, evolutions, dislocations, and evaporations, were witnessed by thousands with unmitigated pleasure". From T. Arthur's "The life of Billy Purvis : the extraordinary, witty, and comical showman; with many facts not before published" [1878]."Now he felt that he had so many strings to his bow that it could not fail to hit some marks. He was a comic singer, dancer, conjuror, Phantasmagoria, Fantoccini exhibitor, all of which he was well up in; and the public yielded their patronage willingly. His figures completed, he prepared for the October Fair, and he attended Houghton Feast, next Sunderland Fair ..."
£2,000.00
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SEARLE, TOWNLEY: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, with Bibliographical Adventures in the Gilbert & Sullivan Operas.
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Galashiels: Printed by John McQueen & Son, London: 30 Gerrard St. 1931. 1 of 300 copies but out of series and un-numbered. Uncoloured illustrations by the author. 4to (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. The binding in exceptional bright condition.
£155.00
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SHORE, BERNARD: Sixteen Symphonies.
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London: Longmans, 1949. First Edition. Portraits. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches), 387-pages. Contemporary half brown calf, spine lettered in gilt direct and gilt ruled on raised bands, top edge gilt. Gilt arms of the King's School Canterbury on upper cover and prize label on front pastedown. Very good. £ 15.00 |
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SIGERSON, DORA [MRS CLEMENT SHORTER]: The Woman who went to Hell and other ballads and lyrics.
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London: De La More Press [1902]. First (& only?) edition. 8vo (8 x 5 inches), 36-pages. Original green ribbed cloth; a very good copy. Contemporary signature & date on front free endpaper. Attractive engraved bookplate on front pastedown. £80.00 |
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Sotheby & Co: Catalogue of the Jack Cole Collection of Books and Pictures on the Dance. Parts I & II.
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London: Sotheby's, 1979. Auction catalogues. Plates. Two volumes (9 1/2 x 7 inches)pages: 124 & 61 (735-Lots), original pictorial green wrappers; price lists loosely inserted. Good. £18.00 |
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STEARNE, J.B: Voices. Singers & Critics.
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London: Duckworth, 1993. Second impression. Black & white photographic illustrations. Tall 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches wide), pp.294, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper spine lightly sunned, slightly bumped along edges, very minor shelf-wear; internally, excellent. £15.00 |
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TAYLOR, ELIZABETH (1932-2011) & BURTON, RICHARD (1925-1984): Photographs of each. Signed & inscribed.
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Taylor's photograph 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Inscribed, "To Sally Best Wishes Elizabeth Taylor". Mounted to an album leaf wth an unsigned photograph of a boxer to the reverse.
Burton's photograph, 10 x 8 inches, inscribed, "To Sally with best wishes Richard Burton" this with remains of an album leaf to the reverse, pin holes to margins.
Both pieces from the collection of Sally Reynolds who was given these photographs when a telephonist at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
£280.00
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THORPE, CH: illustrated by F. Sexton: The Perfect Cure. Quadrille Comique.
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London: B. Williams, circa 1870. Sheet music with chromolitho. cover by F. Sexton lithographed by J. Griffiths. Edge browned, old tape on blank inner margin; residue of tape to margins of blank rear cover. Ideal for framing. Complete with musical notation. £30.00 |
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VARIOUS: 15 Danseurs et Danseuses par 15 Critiques et Ecrivains de la Danse.
Paris: Cahiers Danse et Culture, 1948. Plates from photographs. 8vo, pp. (36), original printed wrappers; wrappers a little bumped and spotted.
£15.00
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VARNA, HENRY [Producer]: Casino de Paris, Gay Paris, une Revue du Tonnerre,
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Paris, n.d. circa 1950. Photographic illustrations thoughout of nudes and tableaux. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches), 12-pages. Original pictorial wrappers in red white & blue. Backstrip a little rubbed, very good. £12.00 |
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