

Performing Arts
[illus. SELLERS, Peter] MILLIGAN, Spike and HOBBS, Jack
William McGonagall: The Truth At Last
London: M. & J. Hobbs/Michael Joseph, 1976
8vo, pp. 144. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow illustrated endpapers. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]".... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[GIELGUD, Sir John]
War And Remembrance: Gielgud's Working Script
N.p. 1985 [The show was eventually transmitted in 1988-9].
Large 8vo, pp. 10, printed on rectos only, bound between yellow wrappers with a split pin.
Sir John... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
Le Prat, Thérèse
Visages D'Acteurs
Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1950
Illustrated folio folder, housing a suite of 48 b&w photographic portraits.
First edition of the photographer's first book. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
KUREISHI, Hanif
Venus
London: Faber, 2006
8vo, pp. 111. Original illustrated card wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO DAVID GOTHARD, in the usual mode of address between the two: 'To my wife with love, as Ever -- HK.' ... [more]
[ed. CARTER, Graydon]
Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire:
New York: Rodale, 2009
Large 8vo, pp. 215. Original blue boards, lettered in blind on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND TO THE FILM DIRECTOR... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GROTOWSKI, Jerzy
Towards A Poor Theatre
Holstebro, Denmark: Odin Teatrets Forlag, 1968
8vo, pp. 262. Original printed stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY GROTOWSKI ON TITLE PAGE. With a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[TERRY-THOMAS]
Top Of The Town
London: N.p. [BBC], 1951
21 mimeographed pp. of 36, [pp. 2-7, 14-21, 31-36], secured with split pin to top left. Rewrite to p. 21 secured by pins top and bottom. Pencilled... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HASTINGS, Michael
Tom And Viv
London: Royal Court Theatre, 1984
8vo, pp. 41. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS ACCOUNTANT ON FRONT FREE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CUSHING, Peter
TLS to Leo McKern
Whitstable: N.p., 1993
1 p. TLS on Peter Cushing's personalised stationery. Unfolded.
TLS FAN LETTER FROM PETER CUSHING TO LEO McKERN DATED 16 SEPTEMBER 1993, LESS THAN A YEAR BEFORE CUSHING'S DEATH.
A warm, effusive fan letter from cinema's greatest vampire-slayer, it reads:
'Dear Leo McKern,
It's that fan again! Some years ago I wrote to you about your superb 'Rumpole' series, and received a most charming letter of thanks.
My admiration for your work goes back to the play (and subsequent film) 'A Man For All Seasons', and you have never failed to captivate me. Having seen you recently in 'Travelling North', and again the other evening in 'A Foreign Field' I just had to write once more.There is a 'je-ne-sais-quoi' quality about your performances which touches the heartstrings, and if you don't receive some public recognition eventually, there's no justice in this world!
Thank you, dear fellow, for such pleasure. It makes me very proud to remember we worked together in 1956 in 'Time Without Pity', with Michael Redgrave and Ann Todd. (Long ago and far away!)
With kindest wishes, and may God's blessing be with you always.
As ever,
(sgd) Peter Cushing O.B.E. Whitstable, Kent'
(The 'public recognition' Cushing refers to is of course not audience approval, but the possible future conferring of honours on McKern: Cushing himself was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1989).
A touching salute to a fellow actor from one of the most distinctive and distinguished figures of British cinema.
[McKern, Leo] OLIVIER, Laurence
TLS Laurence Olivier to Leo McKern
London: N.p., 1982
1p. TLS on headed notepaper.
1pp. TLS FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER TO LEO McKERN, WELCOMING HIM TO THE CAST OF KING LEAR.
In 1959, Laurence Olivier hired....[please click on the image or book title for more details]
AYCKBOURN, Alan
Three Plays
London: Chatto & Windus, 1979
Small 8vo, pp. 216. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition and review copy of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BROMLEY, Nick
Theatre Lore
London: LNP Books, 2012
8vo, pp. 248. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Foreword by Simon Callow.
The subtitle ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
TAYLOR, Ted
The Trouble With Toby
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], N.d. [1957]
32 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left corner.
First edition. PRODUCTION COPY OF THE TRIAL RECORDING, WITH... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[HANCOCK, Tony] STUCKEY, Hugh and WALE, Michael
The Tony Hancock Show: Episode Four: The Tape-Recorder
N.p. [Melbourne]: N.p. [ATN 7], 1968
31 mimeographed yellow pp., originally stapled at top left corner, now disbound, pp. 17-18 present in facsimile. 'FINAL SCRIPT' to top... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[POWELL, Michael] GIBBON, Monk
The Tales Of Hoffmann
London: Saturn Press, 1951
4to, pp. 96. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Cockerel device in gilt to front panel.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LERNER, Alan Jay
The Street Where I Live
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1978
8vo, pp. 303. Original brown boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SHAFFER, Peter
The Royal Hunt Of The Sun
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964
8vo, pp. 84. Original brown boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition.
Shaffer's first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BAILEY, Pearl
The Raw Pearl
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968
8vo, pp. 206. Original orange boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: 'To Cole -- Who loves deeply -- Pearl'.
Published in 1968, the year Bailey won a Tony for her performance in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly!<
