

Performing Arts
[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]
[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]
FONTAINE, Joan
No Bed of Roses
London: W.H.Allen, 1978
8vo, pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrappers. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GRAY, Spalding
2 pp. ALS TO DAVID GOTHARD, CO-FOUNDER OF THE RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON
7 June 1985.
2 pp. ALS, 280 x 215 mm, in the original envelope, written on the stationery of the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis.
Wooster Group co-founder and monologist Spalding Gray had met David Gothard at the... [more]
BURTON, Richard
Meeting Mrs. Jenkins
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1966
8vo, pp. 24. Original tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine and with device in gilt to front panel. Photographic... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HAMILTON, Patrick
Souvenir of Rope
London: Constable, 1929
Small 8vo, pp. 90, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Pale green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and... [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]
[intro. SITWELL, Sacheverell] BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The History Of Harlequin
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1926
Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut.
First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated.,
Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-em
HEATH, Edward
Music: A Joy For Life
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976
4to, pp. 204, index. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'For Bob Holness /... [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]
[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] [GODFREY, Arthur E.] LEHMANN, Liza
Selection From Sergeant Brue
London: Hopwood & Crew, 1904
4to, pp. 16. Original paper wrappers, printed in black.
First edition. PRODUCER FRANK CURZON'S COPY, WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[DENCH, Judi] [McKERN, Leo]
Handwritten Card from Judi Dench to Leo McKern
London: N.p., N.d. [1989]
Greetings card.
CARD FROM JUDI DENCH TO LEO McKERN ON THE OPENING OF THE CHERRY ORCHARD AT THE ALDWYCH THEATRE ON 24 OCTOBER 1989.
Dench played Ranyevskaya in this Michael Frayn translation, and was joined in the production by Leo's daughter Abigail as Yepihodova:
'...[A]t last, I get to work with Abigail -- who is a wonder. What a divine girl and how good she is. It's just the most lovely company and we all love doing the show. ... Mike and Finty join me in sending great love to you, Judi.'
AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
The Dog Beneath The Skin
London: Faber, 1935
8vo, pp. 180. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Lower edge uncut. Dustwrapper.
First edition. One of 2000 copies. ORIGINAL FLYER ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WILLIAMS, Kenneth
Acid Drops
London: J.M. Dent, 1980
8vo, pp. 176. Original cream boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[MORECAMBE, Eric] MORECAMBE, Gary
Funny Man: Eric Morecambe
London: Methuen, 1982
8vo, pp. 157. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SHAFFER, Peter
Equus
London: Andre Deutsch, 1973
Small 8vo, pp. 105. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition. Film maker Tony... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'CASEY, Eileen
Cheerio, Titan
London: Papermac, 1991
8vo, pp. 148. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Fine.
First UK edition, first published in the US in 1989. The book isan account of the friendship between George Bernard Shaw and Sean ... [more]
WANAMAKER, Sam
1 pp. TLS TO DAVID GOTHARD. 1 April 1985.
London: 1985
1 pp. TLS, 295 x 205 mm, lacking the envelope. Inked set of directions in Gothard's hand at top (see below).
Typed letter, signed by Sam Wanamaker, inviting Gothard to become administrator of the... [more]
