[McKern, Leo]

Nottingham: N.p., 1959

Greetings telegram, stamp-dated 10 August 1959 to reverse.

FIRST NIGHT TELEGRAM, DATED 10 AUGUST 1959, TO LEO McKERN FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER AND HIS WIFE VIVIEN LEIGH: 'Great good wishes for huge success, Vivien and Laurence Olivier.'

'[McKern's] second, and last ever, directing job was the Australian prize-winning stage play The Shifting Heart by Richard Beynon, a story of Italian immigrants living in Collingwood, then a slum suburb of Melbourne, and their struggle for acceptance and survival in a racist community. ... It's UK season was at the Nottingham Theatre Royal from 10 August 1959, then the Duke of York's in the West End -- a joint venture by Sir Laurence Olivier's company and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Olivier had invited McKern to direct.'

George Whaley, Leo 'Rumpole' McKern: The Accidental Actor [USNW Press, 2009]

The show received mixed reviews, and McKern himself felt he'd done a bad job. On the up side, he kept the telegram sent to him by one of twentieth century theatre's most glamorous couples.

SPAETH, Sigmund

New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1959

8vo, pp. 288. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

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SHAFFER, Peter

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973

Small 8vo, pp. 105. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.

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[RICKMAN, ALAN] BECKETT, Samuel

London: Faber, 1964

8vo, pp. 60. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

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[ed. BROTCHIE, Alastair and IRVIN, Magnus] [HANCOCK, Tony]

London: London Institute of Pataphysics, 2002

8vo, pp. 48. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. No. 232 of 666 copies, INSCRIBED BY MAGNUS... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

McCOWEN, Alec

London: Elm Tree Books, 1980

8vo, pp. 198. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper, portraits of McCowen to front and rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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]

HUDIS, Norman

N.p.: N.p., 1958

116 typed mimeographed pp., secured by staple press to left edge, housed in a manilla folder with 'CARRY ON, NURSE Working Title Draft Script 19.9.58'.

DICK VOSBURGH'S COPY OF THE DRAFT SCREENPLAY OF ONLY THE SECOND CARRY ON FILM, WITH OCCASIONAL PENCIL ANNOTATIONS IN HIS HAND.

In 1958 Carry On, Sergeant... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[HANCOCK, Tony] GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan

London: N.p. [BBC], 1952

39 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

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[Cinema History] [ed. BAZIN, André, LO DUCA, Joseph-Marie and DO

Paris: Les Editions De L'Etoile, 1951

Five issues. Uniform yellow photo-illustrated wrappers, lettered in black. Between 50 and 60 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photographs throughout, advertisements at rear.....[please click on the image or book title for more details]

[RICKMAN, Alan] JONES, Dedwydd

London: Bozo,
1985


8vo, pp. 138. Original black stiff paper wrappers. TLS laid in.


Revised reprint. First published in 1980. ALAN RICKMAN'S COPY..... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[FRANCIS, Freddie] CHALLIS, Christopher

London: Janus, 1995


8vo, pp. 276. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographically illustrated dustwrapper.


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SHAFFER, Peter

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]