ASHTON ANTHONY

Harmonograph, a Visual Introduction to Harmony

Powys, Wooden Books. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 1902418050) Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. Ill.: Anthony Ashton. (500 grams) near fine copy in same DW, minor spots of discolouration to spine edge of DW, 58 pp, the mechanics behind the Harmonograph, a Victorian invention that records sound waves as pencilled lines on paper. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004625

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Music Harmony Harmonograph Mechanical Representation of Sound Waves Victorian Pastimes 1902418050 Anthony Ashton

HUNT LEIGH EDITED BY ARCHER & LOWE

Dramatic Essays By Leigh Hunt

London, Walter Scott. 1894, First Thus. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) first thus edited, after 1807 original, red cloth rubbed to joints and corners, gilt titled cover and spine, spine faded a little and titling dulled, all edges gilt, xlvii 241+14pp adverts, port frontis with tissue guard, VG but shows light foxing and handling wear, theatrical / drama criticism from early Nineteenth Century. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005472

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Leigh Hunt Victorian Literature Literary Figure Essays Criticism Drama Taler Dramatic Critic British Theatre Actor Actress Review Nineteenth Century

IBSEN HENRIK EDITED BY WILLIAM ARCHER

Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Edited By William Archer 5 Volumes

London, Walter Scott. 1890, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 5 vols, vols 1, 2 &4 are uniform green cloth with bevelled edges and gilt titling to covers and spines, spine ends and corners of rubbed and with short edge splits, top edge gilt; vols 3 & 5 are undated and the cover titling and publisher name at foot of spine is blind instead of gilt and it has a different paper stock and maybe an American printing? otherwise ithey are still in uniform size and binding, but not bevelled and with no gilt edge, all vols have early ink inscription to fep (uniform in vols 1,2 &4 and the same in vol 3 & 5, VOL 1= lacks fep, inscription to verso of frontis, biographical intro / The League of Youth / The Pillars of Society / A Doll's House ( the first translation after a limited illustrated version) xii 389 x pp foxed prelims, VOL 2= Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck 381 vi pp foxed prelims, VOL 3= Lady Inger of Ostrat / The Vikings at Helgeland / The Pretenders 379pp VOL 4= Caesar's Apostasy / The Emperor Julian 353 vi pp + insert advertising vol 5 and another insert 8pp with colour illustrations for the Sunflower Edition, the Camelot Series and the Windsor Series of books by Walter Scott, VOL 5= Rosmersholm / The Lady from the Sea / Hedda Gabler xiii 364pp SHIPPING QUOTED by destination at 3kg packaged. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012762

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Plays Playscript Theatre Victorian Nineteenth Century Norwegian English Translation Collected Set

FERGUSON ARCHIBALD

The St Columba Collection of Gaelic Songs; A' Choisir-Chiuil

London, Bayley & Ferguson. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. black printed green cloth over stiff card boards, front board minor split within the layering of the card, short inscription rear paste down, 100pp of Scots Gaelic songs with music and words in Gaelic. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002118

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Scotland Scottish Scots Gaelic Folk Songs Choral Choir Music Native

HASKELL ARNOLD

Ballet a Pelican Special

London, Penguin. 1938, reprint. Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Kay Ambrose. (500 gram rate) VG tidy copy DW unclipped 220pp + adverts illustrated with photogravures and decorations by Kay Ambrose. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 001669

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Ballet Penguin Pelican Dustwrapper Kay Ambrose Woodcuts Kay Ambrose

HASKELL ARNOLD

Diaghileff, His Artistic and Private Life

London, Victor Gollancz. 1936, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. second impression ( cheap edition), name across fep, dust jacket with minor chips to corners, spine has small bookseller label, as does bottom of front panel, 15mm hole rubbed into front fore edge flap of jacket, 382pp + plates, biography of Diaghileff. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011171

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Dance Ballet Russian Diaghileff Theatre Tsar Russian Revolution Russain Art Culture Nijinsky Biography

BENNETT ARNOLD

Judith, a Play in Three Acts, Founded on the Apocryphal Book of "Judith"

London, Chatto & Windus. 1919, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. fabric cloth boards with paper title label to spine, 125pp+ 32pp publisher catalogue at rear, spare title label tipped in between final page and the catalogue, very minor age related faint scattered foxing, almost not worth mentioning as it is so minor. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013293

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: British Literature Theatre Play Script Stage Jewish Hebrew Biblical Character Apocrypha Arnold Bennett Modern First Edition

NOEL ART & DON PELOSI

Kiss Me Good-Night Sergeant-Major Sheet Music

Sydney, The Sterling Music Publishing Company. 1939. Newsprint Broadside, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. (200 gram rate) light handling wear, single sheet folded to make 4pp total, colour pictorial cover of a private in a military camp embracing a shocked and rigid Sergeant-Major, small pencil name to top corner. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010326

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Music Sheet Music Military Militaria Popular Song Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major Piano Score

KOESTLER ARTHUR

Twilight Bar, an Escapade in Four Acts

London, Jonathan Cape. 1945, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. price clipped dust jacket sun faded to spine, some edge wear and rubbing, short splits to spine ends, first UK issue, bookplate to paste down of G E ROTH ( George Emmanuel Roth ) 76pp, a play, George Emanuel Roth was educated in Vienna, emigrated to New Zealand in 1938, and worked in the Travis Radiological Laboratory which later became the Dominion x-ray and Radium Laboratory, then the National Radiation Laboratory. Roth was appointed Director of the Laboratory in 1950, a position he held until his retirement in 1972. He also served with the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.] 1959-1962, and on the World Health Organisation's Expert Advisory Panel on Radiation. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012802

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Philosophy Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Modern First Edition Bookplate of G E Roth George Emmanuel Roth Play Playscript

ADAMOV ARTHUR

Two Plays; Professor Taranne and Ping Pong

London, John Calder. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library, (500 gram rate) ex-library, DW has shelf mark and bottom corner of front fold in flap has been cut out, stamps and slips to front and rear paste downs and front endpaper, light tape residue to boards, stamps to copyright page, 126pp, DW under plastic sleeve, translated from the French. Good/Good.

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Book number: 011979

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: French Theatre Stage Play Playscript Drama Translated English Translation

YEATS W B

The Land of Hearts Desire volume Two of Dublin Plays

London, T Fisher Unwin. 1913, reprint. Original Wraps, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. slate grey card covers with vignette of woman restraining an Irish wolfhound (?). Lower half of spine strip missing. soiling and edge wear to wraps. inside cover and fep foxed and soiled, inscription dated Christmas 1916 to half title, 48pp text clean and tidy, glue perishing so starting to loosen. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000553

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Irish Theatre Plays Yeats

RENNOLDS MARGARET B.

National Museum of Women in the Arts

New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810913739) Cloth, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. (2500 gram rate extra shipping cost) 253pp, welll illustrated in colour and b&w from the collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, inscription whited out to verso of fep, bookshop plate to front paste down. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003870

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: American Modern Art National Museum of Women in the Arts Art Gallery Women's Studies Feminist Feminism 0810913739

YEATS W B

Plays in Prose and Verse Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend

London, MacMillan. 1922, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. One of 1500 copies, ( Wade 136) 8vo, unicorn design on endpapers, original blind-stamped decorated green cloth, design by Charles Ricketts, ix, 447 pp + 1 p adverts, unicorn design on endpapers, spine sun faded and with small area torn at head of lower joint, faint browning to paste downs, untrimmed edges. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012382

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Irish Literature Theatre Plays Celtic Revival Yeats Abbey Theatre

REEVE ARTHUR B.

The Radio Detective

New York, Grosset & Dunlap. 1926, First Thus. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. head and tail of spine rubbed and frayed, pencil to fep, slight foxing closed edges, first thus after Harper edn, 251pp + photo frontis of Ruth Adams and Easton Evans in the Universal Serial production. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009948

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Photoplay Universal Serial Ruth Adams Easton Evans First Thus Film Tie-in Edition American Cinema

STEWART BASIL

A Guide to Japanese Prints and their subject Matter

New York, Dover. 1979, First Thus. (ISBN: 0486238091) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. spine sunned, xvi 382pp + b&w plates (274 illustrations). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009897

Catalogue: Art,Cinema, Theatre & Music

Keywords: Japanese Art Prints Collecting Japan Dover Sewn Binding 0486238091