

Performing Arts
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]
[SECOMBE, Harry] PEDRICK, Gale
The Laughtermakers No. 8: Harry Secombe
London: N.p. [BBC], 1956
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Title page bound in at rear, placed there during the show's production.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SHAFFER, Peter
Amadeus
London: Andre Deutsch, 1980
Small 8vo, pp. 124. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine. Errata slip to p. 109. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] CARYLL, Ivan and MONCKTON, Lionel
The Girls Of Gottenberg
London: Chapell & Co., 1908
4to, pp. 176, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CARGILL, Patrick and BEALE, Jack
Ring for Catty
N.p. [London]: N.p. [Michael Codron] N.d. [1956]
Theatre playbill, single sheet, 50.6 x 31.8cm, printed on verso only.
Ring for Catty opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, early in 1956; after the try-out, the actor Wallas Eaton was replaced by a young Patrick McGoohan, and the play transferred to the West End later that year ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BAXTER, Anne
Intermission
London: W.H. Allen, 1976
8vo, pp. 384. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of author to front panel.
First UK... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MORECAMBE, Eric
Over The Moon, Sick As A Parrot
London: Hutchinson/Stanley Paul, 1982
4to, unpaginated. Original photographic laminated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY MORECAMBE: 'Best Wishes,... [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]
WILSON, Sandy
I Could Be Happy
London: Michael Joseph, 1975
8vo, pp. 283. Original purple boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portraits of the author to front and rear... [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]
NORDEN, Denis
ALS to Anthony Parker
London: N.p. 1979
1p. ALS on headed notepaper.
ALS FROM DENIS NORDEN TO ANTHONY PARKER, 21 July 1979, ON HIS HEADED NOTEPAPER.
The letter congratulates... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
The Ascent Of F6
London: Faber, 1936
8vo, pp. 123. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, one of 2000 copies.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BECKETT, Samuel
Endgame
London: Faber, 1958
8vo, pp. 60. Original salmon boards, lettered in pale blue on spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First UK, and first English-language edition.
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!<
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]
PINTER, Harold
Old Times
London: Methuen, 1971
Small 8vo, pp. 75. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine.
First edition.
A beautiful copy.
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]
GREEN, Michael
The Art Of Coarse Acting
London: Hutchinson, 1964
8vo, pp. 143. Original black boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition.
Hilarious dismantling of the acting profession which... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
