HIGH HOPES: my autobiography.
Pp. [vi]+282, 32 plates, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, corners of a few leaves lightly creased; Ebury Press, London, 2000. First edition. More
Pp. [vi]+282, 32 plates, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, corners of a few leaves lightly creased; Ebury Press, London, 2000. First edition. More
Pp. xii +308, 32 plates, index; med. 8vo; pale grey boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; Viking Press, Melbourne, 1997. First edition. More
Pp. viii+164, frontispiece, plus 31 plates, 3 text figures; small med. 8vo; qr. cream cloth, spine lettered and decorated in black, green papered boards, slightly canted, the edges faded to brown; dust wrapper, browned and slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips; book label..... More
Forty years a critic. Pp. 256, index; boards a trifle mottled; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn; free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Harrap, 1960. First edition. *Autobiography of a theatre critic. More
Pp. 240, 24 plates, appendix, index; demy 8vo; pale yellow boards, spine lettered in white (slightly faded), the boards faintly foxed; dust wrapper, back panel a trifle soiled; top edges of leaves slightly foxed; Rigby, Adelaide, 1983. First edition. *Autobiography of the Australian bandleader, ABC entertainer and consultant, Army entertainments..... More
With a Foreword by Oscar Mendelsohn. Pp. 24(last blank), illustrations (some full page); pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, slightly soiled and rubbed, name in ink at head of upper wrapper, a couple of small edge splits, top fore-corner of lower wrapper creased; Heidelberg Historical Society, Heidelberg, 1969. *Second of a...... More
Pp. 100, 12 plates, text illustrations, printed music, suggestions for further reading, summary of works by Delius, index; cr. 4to; boards slightly sprung, edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1972. First U.S. edition. The Great Composers series. More
Story and illustrations inspired by the music of Peter Illich Tchaikovsky. Special arrangements freely transcribed for piano by Frederick Stark. Foreword by Leopold Stokowski Pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; demy 4to; pictorial card, stapled, slightly soiled and bowed, edges lightly rubbed, small surface graze below..... More
The World's greatest consulting Detective, considered against the background of the contemporary Theatre. Pp. 20+[2](blank), title page vignette, pictorial tailpiece; small cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, slightly creased; pages lightly creased; Covent Garden Press, London, 1974. Edition limited to 750 copies. De Waal, The International Sherlock Holmes, 1389..... More
A Motion Monograph. Pp. 96(including advertisements), plus 6 pages of illustrations, bibliography; f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, slightly soiled and faintly creased, edges lightly rubbed, tiny split at foot of backstrip; corners of several leaves slightly creased; Motion Publications, Loughton, Essex, 1963. First edition. *An early study of La..... More
Pp. 206, 32 plates (8 coloured), pictorial title page, list of recordings; med. 8vo; boards a trifle canted and faintly scuffed; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, edges lightly rubbed and split; upper free endpaper slightly soiled, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Rigby, Adelaide, 1979. First edition. *Autobiography. More
Composer, Frank R. Denke; Orchestrations by Eral O. Zindars; Director, James Robert Minser. Pp. [xii]+42+[10], frontispiece, decorated title page printed in red, pale ochre & black, headings printed in red; med. 8vo; brown textured papered boards, the upper board decorated in darker brown; uncut; top edges of leaves a trifle..... More
Pp. xiv+210, 24 plates, text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, index; med. 8vo; tiny bruise to bottom edge of lower board; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. *June Epstein (1918-2004) was a musician, writer, and broadcaster for the ABC. More
Pp. 160, illustrated, index; dust wrapper; occasional foxing; Elm Tree Books, London, 1976. First edition. More
Photography Nick Briggs. Foreword Julian Fellowes. Pp. 304(last colophon), printed in various colours and illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page), patterned endpapers, cast list, further reading; small cr. 4to; pale blue papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; inked gift..... More
An interpretation from Walt Disney's "Fantasia" inspired by the music of Franz Schubert. Lyrics by Rachel Field. Pp. [36], printed in red & black, illustrated in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, printed music; small cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled and foxed; Walt Disney Productions, Sydney, n.d...... More
Pp. [ii]+94, illustrated throughout (many in cartoon-strip format, 8 pages printed in red & blue); narrow demy 4to; blue cloth backed pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled, edges lightly worn; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed, occasional slight soiling; The Amalgamated Press Ltd., London, 1950. *The cartoon strips feature Laurel and..... More
Pp. 368, illustrated title page, plates, list of films; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; leaves browned; Granada, London, 1982. First U.K. edition. More
Pp. xvi+190, printed endpapers, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; cream papered boards, spine lettered in black; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; ABC Books, Sydney, 2005. First edition. More
A translation from the French of Vincent D'Indy with an introduction by Rosa Newmarch. Pp. [iv]+286+[2](publisher's advertisements), frontispiece, 3 plates, musical notations, list of work, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; burgundy boards, lettered, decorated and rule in gilt & blind; top edges red (stained), others uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges..... More
Pp. [16], including 6 hand-tipped coloured illustrations with cellophane guards, music score; roy. folio; cream paper wrappers, the upper wrapper lettered and decorated in blue, foxed and slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, with a couple of short splits, two small tape repairs on reverse of upper wrapper; the tape..... More
A selection of stage & screen lyrics written for sundry situations; and now arranged in arbitrary categories. To which have been added many informative annotations & disquisitions on their why & wherefore, their whom-for, their how; and matters associative. Pp. xvi+362+12(indices, colophon), headpiece decorations, indices; demy 8vo; qr. brown cloth..... More
Pp. [x]+182, frontispiece portrait from a drawing by David Hockney, 24 plates, text illustrations, chronology, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1984. First edition. *Contributors include Emlyn Williams, Alec Guinness, John Mortimer, Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Bennett, Irene Worth, a.o. More
Pp. 192(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, chronological tables, bibliography, index super roy. 4to; orange boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper; Sandstone Press, Sydney, 1998. Australian edition. *Includes synopses of all the operas. More
Pp. 32, illustrated throughout; cr. 4to; cloth slightly soiled; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small tears; upper free endpaper slightly soiled, a little light foxing; A. & C. Black, London, 1957. First edition. Dancers of To-Day No. 12. More