

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]
WATKIN, David
Why Is There Only One Word for Thesaurus?
Brighton: Trouser Press, 1998
8vo, pp. 356. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographically illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
POEL, William
What Is Wrong With The Stage?
London: George Allen, 1920
8vo, pp. 38. Original stiff paper boards in blue dustwrapper, white title label to front panel.
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BECKETT, Samuel
Waiting for Godot
London: Faber, 1956
8vo, pp. 94. Original yellow boards, lettered in red to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portrait of the author to rear panel.... [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]
THOMAS, Dylan
Under Milk Wood
London: J.M. Dent, 1954
8vo, pp. 101. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, photographic portrait of author to rear... [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]
[LEWIS, Ted]
This Is Your Life
Burbank: NBC TV, 1959
41pp. in blue paper wrappers, secured with staple to top left corner.
Original script for Episode 328 of the US version of This Is Your... [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]
[ed. BRIGHOUSE, Harold] HOUGHTON, Stanley
The Works of Stanley HoughtonLondon: Constable & Co., 1914
3 vols., pp. 264, 283 and 310. Original green boards with spine labels. Spare spine label tipped in to rear of all three volumes.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[GIELGUD, Sir John] [trans. DUNCAN, Ronald] COCTEAU, Jean
The Typewriter
London: Dennis Dobson, 1947
8vo, pp. 100. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Bookplate to front pastedown (see... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
