Theatre
POEMS & SONGS FROM THE PLAYS.
Edited and mainly translated by John Willett. Pp. xviii+268, chronological list, index; demy 8vo; grey cloth, lettered in silver, spine blocked in red; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Methuen, London, 1990. First U.K. edition. More
BRECHT & COMPANY: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama.
Pp. xx+732, frontispiece, plus 32 plates, notes, index; thick med. 8vo; qr. tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream papered boards; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Grove Press, New York, 1994. First edition..... More
BRECHT: a biography.
8 plates, chronology, performances, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, backstrip slightly browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little foxing, mainly to outer leaves; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1983. First..... More
LEWIS & SYBIL: A memoir.
Pp. 352, frontispiece plus 22 plates, indices; price-clipped dust wrapper, the backstrip faded; signature & date on upper free endpaper; Collins, 1972. First edition. *Memoirs of the lifelong partnership of Lewis Casson & Sybil Thorndike. More
ALEC CLUNES: An illustrated study of his work, with a list of his appearances on stage and screen.
Pp. 134, frontispiece portrait plus 30 plates, price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip faded, lightly soiled and worn, tear into front panel from bottom edges; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed;R ockliff, London, 1958. Theatre World Monograph No. 12. More
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
RUTH CRACKNELL: a biased memoir.
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
BOOKS AND THEATRES.
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
SIX THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS.
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
THEATRICAL MR HOLMES.
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
NOAH.
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
THE AGES OF GIELGUD: an actor at eighty.
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
ALEC GUINNESS: The Unknown. A Life.
pp. xxii+438, 16 plates, full page text illustrations, sources; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed; edges of leaves a trifle browned; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2002. First edition. More
EVIE HAYES: 'And I Loves Ya Back!'.
Pp. x+278, text illustrations, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, small split to bottom corner of upper flap fold; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1992. First edition. More
THEATRE COMES TO AUSTRALIA.
Pp. xii+260, 12 plates, appendix, bibliography, index; boards a trifle scuffed, edges lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves slightly foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1971. First edition. *The story of Australia's first permanent theatre, Sydney's Theatre Royal. The appendix lists..... More
FANNY KELLY OF DRURY LANE.
Pp. xvi+208(last blank), coloured frontispiece portrait plus 24 black & white plates, printed endpapers, list of appearances, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised, the lower joint slightly marked; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges chipped and split..... More
THE ARDENT YEARS.
Pp. 374; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly worn, back panel marked; Gollancz, London, 1960. First edition. *A novel based on the life of the actress Fanny Kemble. More
IT DON'T SEEM A DAY TOO MUCH.
Pp. [xvi]+208, l6 plates, pictorial endpapers, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, the back panel slightly scuffed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Rigby, Adelaide, 1971. First edition. *Autobiography. 'Featuring the..... More
SUE LAWLEY'S DESERT ISLAND DISCUSSIONS.
Photographs by Nicholas Read. Pp. x+208, text illustrations and decorations, appendix; roy. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1990. First edition. *Selection of 20 guests interviewed by Lawley when she presented the radio programme Desert Island Discs, including Stephen Fry, The Duchess of..... More
WORLDS AWAY.
Foreword by Dame Sybil Thorndike. Pp. 196, frontispiece plus 6 plates, pictorial endpapers; edges of boards a trifle flecked and rubbed; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split; edges of leaves faintly foxed; John Baker, London, 1964. First edition. *The author's father, Cyril Maude, was a famous..... More
FRENCH FARCE & JOHN HEYWOOD.
Pp. 176(last blank), appendices, bibliography, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased and split; ownership inscription on upper free endpaper; Melbourne University Press/Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1946. First edition. *'The author endeavours to account for John Heywood's almost complete independence of the contemporary English theatre. He believes Heywood's inspiration..... More
IN THE FRAME: My Life in Words and Pictures.
Pp. 272, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full or double page), pictorial free endpapers; cr. 4to; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. First edition. More
MY LIFE OF SONG.
Pp. 152, 16 plates, list of stage appearances and recordings; bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Rigby, Adelaide, 1971. Third printing. More
ANNA CORA.
The life and theatre of Anna Cora Mowatt. Pp. 376, frontispiece portrait plus 7 plates, notes, index; dust wrapper, rubbed and lightly soiled, edges a trifle split; free endpapers faintly offset; Secker & Warburg, London, 1954. First U.K. edition. *Full-length biography of an almost-forgotten mid-nineteenth century American actress. More