MUSIC and ENTERTAINMENT
ALDRICH,
ARNE, ATTERBURY, BATTISHALL, BOYCE & OTHERS: Apollonian
Harmony: a Collection of scarce & celebrated Glees, Catches,
Madrigals, Canzonetts, Rounds, & Canons, Antient & Modern with some
Originals Composed by Aldrich, Arne......and other eminent Masters;
most of which are sung at the Noblemans' Catch-Club, Theatres, &
Public-Gardens. The Words consistent with Female Delicacy.
Be Merry and Wise.
London: Printed for S.A. & P. Thompson, ca. 1795.
Volume 4 (the numeral being added in ink). Engraved
frontispiece, engraved title and engraved musical notation
throughout. Large 8vo, pp.60, contemporary quarter calf,
marbled boards; lacking backstrip, joints cracked.
Contemporary engraved label of Woodward's Musical Instrument and
Music Warehouse, Birmingham, laid-down on upper blank margin of
frontispiece.
Quote Item No. 5045
Price: £140.00
ALEJANDRO, REYNALDO G.: Philippine Dance. Mainstream and
Crosscurrents.
Philippines: Vera-Reyes, 1978.
Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Large 4to,
pp.254, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding bumped quite hard on
the lower corner of spine (with slight creasing to some pages), else
very good; dustwrapper slightly bumped along edges and with a small
piece missing from lower spine, with faint handwriting indentations
to surface of dustwrapper (not immediately noticeable and no damage
to glazed surface), shelf-wear; internally, very good.
Quote Item No. 6947
Price: £50.00
ANDERSON, EMILY
[Editor]: The Letters of Mozart and His
Family.
London: Macmillan,
1989.
Third edition. Black &
white plates. Tall 8vo
(8½
x 5½
inches wide), pp.1038, softcover;
an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 11508
Price: £20.00
BARDY,
RENE; MARSAC, JEAN;
REVOL, MAX; VARE, JEAN; ERTE:
Histoires d'Eve (All About Eve). La Nouvelle Eve, Music-Hall,
Cabaret, Dansant.
Paris: La Nouvelle Eve, 1954.
Souvenir Programme. Illustrations throughout, two plates being in
colour. 4to (10⅝
x 8¼
inches ), 24-pages, original pink decorated wrappers, the upper
cover die-cut to reveal the coloured photograph beneath; silk cord
and tassle. Inked date "Mon. 18/10/54" on upper margin of upper
cover; very good. Costumes et Decors de Erte.
Quote Item No. 11604
Price: £20.00
BASIE,
COUNT (Harold Fielding): Harold Fielding presents The Count
Basie Concert Tour Spring 1957.
London: Harold Fielding Concert Division, 1957.
Souvenir programme. Photographic illustrations. 4to (10⅝
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.
Quote Item No. 11606
Price: £15.00
CARROLL,
BRENDAN G.: The Last Prodigy.
A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Portland, Oregan:
Amadeus Press, 1997.
First edition. Black &
white photographic illustrations.
Tall 8vo (9½
x 6½
inches wide), pp.464, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding excellent;
dustwrapper with minor shelf-wear;
internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 11498
Price: £50.00
CAVANAGH THEATRE - AUCTION CATALOGUE: Books, Prints and Drawings from the
Cavanagh Theatre Collection. London, 20th July, 1993.
London: Sotheby's, 1993.
Numerous illustrations in black & white. 4to, pp.115:[9],
softcover; crease to lower corner of back cover with a couple of
tiny marks otherwise very good. This sale comprised 519 lots.
Quote Item No. 2531
Price: £7.00
COTON, A.V. [Alicia
Markova & Anton Dolin]: Alicia Markova & Anton Dolin, 1949 -
1950 Tour programme. Presented by Julian Braunsweg.
London: Julian Braunsweg, 1949.
Photographic illustrations throughout. 4to (11½ x 9¼ inches), 20-pages. Original gold
wrappers with design in black by George Kirsta; some marking
to wrappers but generally good.
Quote Item No.
11817
Price: £20.00
BACHMANN, ALBERTO: An Encyclopedia of the Violin.
New York and London: D. Appleton & Company, 1929.
Illustrated with one colour plate, and numerous black & white
plates. Large 8vo, pp.xiv:470, original green grained cloth
lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; spine faded;
headbands and corners bumped and slightly rubbed; some slight
foxing to prelimns and page-edges; some inner joints slightly
cracked.
Quote Item No. 7323
Price: £30.00
BAFFEL, WILL: Easy Conjuring without Apparatus.
London: Routledge, n.d. ca. 1926.
Diagrams. 8vo, pp.143, original coloured pictorial boards
showing a conjuror entertaining a family; spine browned, ends
of spine very slightly chipped (tiny amount of loss), back cover
slightly soiled but generally a very bright and attractive copy;
internally, foxing, and with a number of pages with the top corner
creased where it has been turned down, some with varying degrees of
soiling.
With the original receipt for its purchase dated 1926 loosely
inserted.
Quote Item No. 4078
Price: £9.00
BARBOUR, ALAN G: Cliffhanger. A Pictorial History of
the Motion Picture Serial.
New York: A & W Publishers, 1977.
First edition. Profusely illustrated. 4to, pp.248,
original cloth; very good in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper
slightly worn at head of spine.
Quote Item No. 3253
Price: £12.00
BOSTON, CANON NOEL
and
LANGWILL, LYNDESAY G.: Church and Chamber
Barrel-Organs.
Their Origin, Makers, Music and Location.
A Chapter in English Church Music.
Edinburgh: Lyndesay G.
Langwill, April 1967.
First edition limited to 1000 copies.
Black & white illustrations.
4to, pp.viii:120, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding headbands and corners bumped;
dustwrapper foxed and slightly soiled, with a number of
creased tears (some slight loss) along outer edges and ends of
spine; internally very
good.
Quote Item No. 9900
Price: £15.00
CLARKE,
A. MASON: A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers, including
performers on the Violoncello and Double Bass. Past and Present.
Containing a Sketch of their Artistic Career ..... With portraits.
London: William Reeves, n.d. but 1895.
First edition. Portraits. Title in red & black. Small 8vo (7 x 4½
inches), 360-pages. Original bevelled blue cloth lettered in gilt
and blocked in black. Slight marking to upper cover; generally very
good indeed.
Quote Item No. 10951
Price: £25.00
CLINTON-BADDELEY, V.C: The Burlesque Tradition in the
English Theatre after 1660.
London: Methuen, 1952.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, black & white plates and
illustrations. 8vo, pp.xvi:152, original cloth, no dustwrapper;
headbands bumped; spine and edges of binding faded, else good.
Quote Item No. 593
Price: £9.00
COXE, ANTONY HIPPISLEY: A Seat at the Circus. With special
illustrations by John Skeaping.
London: Evans Brothers, 1951.
First edition. Frontispiece and black & white illustrations in
the text. 8vo, pp.252, original red cloth in dustwrapper;
binding headbands and corners bumped and rubbed, first two words of
gilt lettering to spine slightly faded, else good; dustwrapper very,
very poor, with large amounts of loss to areas of spine and back top
edge together with other smaller tears and chips to edges (what
remains, still bright); internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 1673
Price: £9.00
DENIS, JEAN: Traite de l'Accord de l'Espinette. New
Introduction by Alan Curtis.
New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.
A facsimile of the edition of 1650. Frontispiece, folding
table. 8vo, pp.xiv:49, original simulated quarter leather;
some pencil underlining. Small name & address label on front
free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 5436
Price: £12.00
EIPPER, PAUL: Circus. Men, Beasts, and Joys of the Road.
London: Routledge, 1931.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.213, original brown
cloth; crease to backstrip else very good.
Quote Item No. 3018
Price: £10.00
ELLIOT, W.G: Amateur Clubs and Actors, with
Illustrations by C.M. Newton and from Photographs.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898.
First edition. Plates. Large 8vo, pp.xv:320, original
blindstamped cloth, lettered in gilt, uncut; spine slightly
dulled; page edges browned; inner joints cracked but very firm; a
very good copy. Bookplate to front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 705
Price: £35.00
FONTEYN, MARGOT: The Magic
of Dance. Signed copy.
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980.
First edition. Well illustrated. 4to, pp.326, original cloth;
excellent in very slightly edge creased price-clipped dustwrapper.
Signed by Margot Fonteyn on half-title.
Quote Item No. 10681
Price: £15.00
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.
Quote Item No. 9007
Price: £35.00
FOSTER, FRANK
(in collaboration with BOSWORTH, WILLAN G): Clowning
Through. With nineteen
drawings specially made for this book by Clifford Hall.
London: Heath
Cranton, 1937.
First edition. Black
and white plates. 8vo,
pp.163, original yellow cloth in chipped and torn dustwrapper;
some slight browning.
Inscribed on the f.f.e. by Bosworth.
Quote Item No. 1679
Price: £40.00
FYVIE, JOHN: Tragedy Queens of the Georgian Era.
London: Methuen, 1909.
Second edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.x:316, original red
cloth gilt; some foxing else good.
Quote Item No. 2986
Price: £12.00
GILBERT, W.S:
The Gondoliers or The King of Barataria. With Coloured illustrations
by W. Russell Flint.
London: Bell, 1912.
Eight coloured plates. First edition thus. 4to, original
cloth blocked in gilt.
Gilt to spine dulled, some foxing to prelims. but generally a very
good copy.
Quote Item No. 2647
Price: £60.00
GILBERT, W.S:
The Yeoman of the Guard or The Merryman and his Maid. With
Eight Illustrations in Colour by W. Russell Flint & Drawings in Pen
and Ink by Charles E Brock.
London: Macmillan, 1929.
First edition thus. Large 8vo, pp. vi:102, original pictorial
cloth gilt; an excellent and bright copy in slightly yellowed
d.w.
Quote Item No. 2645
Price: £60.00
GROVE, SIR GEORGE [Edited by H.C. Colles]: Grove's
Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 6 volumes, complete.
London: Macmillan, 1940.
Fourth edition. Five volumes plus supplementary volume. Plates
and illustrations. 8vo (9¼
x 6¼
inches), original dark blue cloth spines ruled and lettered in gilt.
Puncture to the spine of volume 1; generally a very good set.
Quote Item No. 11166
Price: £35.00
HILL, WILLIAM HENRY, ARTHUR F. and ALFRED EBSWORTH: The
Violin-makers of the Guarneri Family 1626-1762. Their Life and Work.
London: The Holland Press, 1965.
Plates, some coloured, folding map. 4to (11¾
x 9¼
inches), 173-pages. Original cloth. Very small white mark to upper
cover else very good in worn
& chipped dustwrapper. Armorial bookplate on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 11038
Price: £21.00
HOFFMANN, PROFESSOR [pseud. of
Angelo John Lewis]: Magical Titbits.
With Illustrations by H.L. Shindler.
London: George Routledge, 1911.
First edition. Portrait frontispiece, illustrations in the
text. 8vo, pp.viii:221, original burgundy cloth lettered in
gilt and pictorially blocked in white. Spine faded, lower
cover stained, headbands and corners rubbed, 2-inch split to outer
lower joint, front free endpaper removed, last few leaves corner
bumped, two edge nicks and crease to first leaf of preface, some
foxing.
Quote Item No. 10215
Price: £65.00
HOUSMAN,
LAURENCE; WHISTLER, REX: Souvenir of Laurence Housman's
Victoria Regina, presented by Gilbert Miller in association with
Norman Marshall. Entire Production designed by Rex Whistler ..
at the Lyric Theatre, London, on June 21st 1937.
London: 1937.
Souvenir theatre programme. Title designed by Whistler. Sepia
photographic illustrations throughout. 4to (12½
x 9¼
inches), 24-pages. Original coloured pictorial wrappers designed by
Rex Whistler, wire stitched. Staples rusted. A very nice copy indeed
in the original glassine dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 11600
Price: £40.00
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.
Quote Item No. 7874
Price: £25.00
McBEAN,
ANGUS: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier: A group of 34
original photographs, mostly full plate, collected by Stella Lang,
an actress who was a stand-in for Vivien Leigh in the 1930's.
Scenes from films, e.g.
Fire Over England, Wolf's Clothing etc. 1930's.
Also
a photographic portrait of Stella by the photographer Angus McBean
with his stamp to the reverse. Also a menu for
a dinner for the cast of "First and the Last" directed by
Basil Dean on 16th July 1937, this signed to the reverse by the cast
including Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh amongst others; the
original signatures would appear to have been in pencil, as Stella
Lang's still is. It seems likely that she has gone over the pencil
signatures in ink.
Quote Item No. 10776
Price:
£100.00
MELLERS, WILFRID: Music and Society, England and the
European Tradition.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1946.
First edition. Plates, folding table. 8vo, pp.160,
original cloth; binding dulled, inscription on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 1638
Price: £10.00
MUSIC & DRAMA: WOHLMUTH, ROSA [Translator]: The
International Exhibition for Music and the Drama, Vienna 1892.
Vienna: Moritz Perles, 1894.
Heliographic portraits, numerous plates some printed in sepia,
facsimiles etc. Large folio (16½
x 12½ inches), pp.340:(4),
original purple cloth blocked in blind and gilt, all edges gilt;
headband chipped, rubbed at joints, inner hinges strained due to
weight of text block.
This splendid production details the German, Spanish, French and
British loan sections of the exhibition, details of the German
Drama exhibition, the Modern Theatre and the Special Exhibition of
Fellner and Helmer, the Viennese Harlequini, the musical instruments
in the exhibition, the M. Steinert Collection of keyed instruments,
etc. etc. etc.
Quote Item No. 3779
Price: £150.00
NEIL, C. LANG: The Modern Conjurer and Drawing-Room
Entertainer. With an Introduction by Charles Bertram.
Explaining and Illustrating Tricks by J.N. Maskelyne [& others].
With over 500 Original Illustrations from Photographs.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1903.
First edition. 8vo, pp.414, original blue cloth; a good
copy. Ink stamp of the Harrogate Society of Magicians on
endpaper and occasionally in the text.
Quote Item No. 2716
Price: £75.00
NORDMAN, A.B: One Hundred Simple Parlour Tricks and
Problems.
London: Wells Gardner ca.1925.
Illustrations in the text. 8vo, pp.110:[10, publisher's list],
original green cloth, no dustwrapper; binding headbands and corners
bumped and rubbed, lower headband with small split to side, spine
faded and browned, small patch of loss of colour to cloth on back
lower edge; page edges browned; internally endpapers slightly
browned with ink name and date on front free-endpaper, else very
good.
Quote Item No. 1046
Price: £10.00
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.)
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.
Quote Item No. 6936
Price: £32.00
PARNEL,
VAL; DELFONT, BERNARD; & KANTER, BEN (Presenters): Folies Bergere
Revue
at the London Hippodrome. Souvenir programme
of C'est de la Folie.
London: circa 1950.
Photographic illustrations throughout of nudes, tableaux, etc.
4to (12 x 9 inches), 24-pages. Original pink illustrated
wrappers; backstrip rubbed, tiny marginal nick, generally good.
This revue ran from September 1949 to March 1951 at the Hippodrome.
Quote Item No. 11601
Price: £12.00
PARNEL,
VAL; DELFONT, BERNARD; & KANTER, BEN (Presenters): Folies Bergere
Revue at the London Hippodrome. Souvenir programme of Encore des
Folies.
London: 1951.
Photographic illustrations throughout of nudes, tableaux, etc.
4to (12 x 9 inches), 24-pages. Original pink illustrated
wrappers; backstrip rubbed,
generally good. Date added in ink on upper cover.
Vertical crease.
Quote Item No. 11602
Price: £12.00
POLIAKOFF, NICOLAI: Coco the Clown by Himself.
London: J.M. Dent &
Sons, 1940.
First edition. Black &
white photographic plates.
8vo, pp.vii:243, original red cloth in price-clipped
dustwrapper; binding
very good; dustwrapper
poor, edge-rubbed, creased and torn along edges with a piece missing
from top of spine and repaired in places with cellotape; internally very good.
Quote Item No. 8706
Price: £70.00
POULTON, ALAN: The Recorded Works of Sir William Walton.
A discography celebrating 50 years of recording history 1929-1979.
Kidderminster: Bravura Publications, 1980.
Limited edition - 1 of only 250 copies printed. Portrait.
Folio, pp.132, original cloth-backed boards. Backstrip marked
and titled in ink, small stain to upper cover.
Quote Item No. 3247
Price: £14.00
ROLLINS, HYDER E. [Editor]: Cavalier and Puritan.
Ballads and Broadsides Illustrating the Period of the Great
Rebellion 1640 - 1660. Edited with an Introduction and Notes.
New York: New York University Press, 1923.
Illustrated throughout with facsimiles of the original often
illustrated broadsides & ballads, some double-page. 8vo,
pp.xv:532, original linen-backed boards with printed paper title
label to spine, uncut. Spine darkened, some minor spotting to
upper cover; generally very good.
Quote Item No. 5224
Price: £35.00
SCANDINAVIAN DANCES: 1st to 3rd Series. Folk Dances
from Many Lands, 1st to 3rd Series.
London: Ling Physical Education Association, n.d.
Six 8-page pamphlets, each 8vo, original printed wrappers.
Quote Item No. 1964
Price: £10.00
STEANE,
J.B.: Singers of the Century.
Volume 2.
London: Duckworth,
1998.
First edition. Black &
white photographic illustrations.
Tall 8vo (9½
x 6¼
inches wide), pp.280, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper with very slight bumping to top edge, else very
good; internally,
excellent.
Quote Item No. 11496
Price: £18.00
STEARNE,
J.B.: The Grand Tradition.
Seventy Years of Singing on Record.
London: Duckworth,
1993.
Second edition. Black &
white photographic illustrations.
Tall 8vo (9½
x 6½
inches wide), pp.628, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good, two corners bumped;
dustwrapper with a 3-inch split along front flap with an area
of multiple creasing alongside, top edges bumped, some shelf-wear;
internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 11499
Price: £28.00
STEARNE,
J.B.: Voices.
Singers & Critics.
London: Duckworth,
1993.
Second impression.
Black & white photographic illustrations.
Tall 8vo (9½
x 6½
inches wide), pp.294, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding excellent;
dustwrapper spine lightly sunned,
slightly bumped along edges, very minor shelf-wear;
internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 11504
Price: £30.00
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.
Quote Item No. 2830
Price: £15.00
VARNA,
HENRY (Producer): Casino de Paris,
Gay Paris, une Revue du Tonnerre.
Paris, n.d. circa 1950.
Photographic illustrations thoughout of nudes and tableaux.
4to (12¼
x 9¼
inches), 12-pages. Original pictorial wrappers in red white &
blue. Backstrip a little rubbed, very good.
Quote Item No. 11603
Price: £12.00
VARNA,
HENRI (Producer): Casino de Paris. La grande revue Gay Paris. Une
Revue du Tonnerre!
Paris: Casino de Paris, 1954.
Programme. Illustrations from photographs and drawings throughout.
8vo (9¼
x 6 inches ), 32-pages, original pictorial wrappers printed in red
and black; inked date, 16/10/54, on upper margin of front cover else
very good.
Quote Item No. 11607
Price: £12.00