Search Results: Music, Stage, Film, TV from Lawrence Jones

Sydney: Topmill Pty Ltd, 1997. 128pp, bw ills. Or pictorial card. Remanant of original price sticker on rear cover. Complete history of professional wresting in Australia.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. HEAVY-will require extra postage to most destinations. 319pp, index, num bw & some col ills. Or gray cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, a couple of small dark spots on bottom edge. The first 60 years of the Academy Awards, or Oscars, in detail.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Brunswick, Vic.: Globe Press, 1986. viii, 216pp, bw ills, facsimiles, glossary, bibliography. Or card. Very slight edge wear, very slight foxing to page edges. The lives of the speciality acts in Australia. It is about the theatres, the agents, the special theatrical accommodation, the travel and the institutions which once served this enormous commercial enterprise. It is a first hand account by someone who herself performed on the world circuits and whose parents toured the world with their successful act 'Napier and Yvonne', 'The Spider and the Butterfly'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Copacabana, NSW: Lexington Avenue Press, 2004. 217pp, index, sources, bw ills. Or card. Light edge wear, somewhat untidy gift note on one page. The history of a theatrical dynasty. The Fuller family arrived in NZ from London in the 1890s. From magic lantern shows and travelling waxworks to vaudeville, buying up theatres as their success increased. They came to Australia buying more theatres and discovering performers such as Roy Rene and George Wallace, and venturing into ballet and opera. They built or bought cinemas and were radio pioneers. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 1992. x, 261pp, index. Or boards in jacket. Jacket faded at edges, price clipepd. A book which will alter our fundamental view of television and whit has brought to and stolen from our lives. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. 224pp, index, bibliography, filmography, bw ills. Or card. Front cover creased at bottom corner, pages browned.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Chartwell Books, 2010. 192pp, index, further reading, num col ills. Or pictorial glossy boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, sticker shadow to front. Designer of classic album covers for The Who, The Doors, Robert Plant and Van Morrison explores album cover design from the 1940s to the present, including a section on how to go about designing album covers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Voorhees, NJ: The Author, 1983. 244pp, glossary. Or card. Slightest of edge wear. . Revised & Expanded Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Harrisburg, PA: Cameron House, 1978. 222pp, index, bibliography, discography, num bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Several very short (<1cm) tears at edge of jacket which is lightly rubbed.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1968. 372pp, appendix, bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Narrow reinforcement tape at edges of jacket, prev owner bookplate on front pastedown. An nice example of a nice well written biography of the Fab Four.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Radnor, PA: Wallace- Homestead Book Company., 1993. 228pp, index, glossary, hundreds bw ills, col plates. Or pictorial card. Prev owner sticker inside front cover. Prices obviously outdated but an invaluable reference.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012. xv, 389pp, index, notes, col ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Hardi Grant Books, 2009. x, 406pp, index, references, num bw & col ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new. The Buckley family were involved almost from the inception of movies. The young Tony Buckley got a job at a film laboratory and moved into film editiong. Thus began a acareer that was to include a cast of thousands including Australian film pioneers, international stars and the pick of the Australian film and television industry.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Wise Publications., 1991. 111pp, music scores. Or card. Light edge wear to covers. 20 classic Iron Maiden tracks in guitar tablature and standard notation.. First UK Edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvi, 339pp, index, filmography, notes. Or black cloth in jacket. Small bump to bottom front corner. Investigates Hollywood's roots in the most popular original form of American mass culture, blackface minstrelsy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Pier 9 / Murdoch Books Australa, 2006. 271pp, bw ills. Or card with integral flaps. Near new. SIGNED and inscribed (to Ajith) by author on title page. Biography of Australia's greatest jazz trumpet player.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. Large 8vo.

New York: Castle Books, 1968. 352pp, index, appendix, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Spine faded, jacket mildly chipped at top, approx 3cm tear at bottom of rear flap fold.Detailed history of the silent serial, so much a part of early Hollywood.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Small 4to.

Milwaukee: G. Schirmer, 2001. 391pp, Or pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers, both covers creased, prev owner stamp on first (blank) page. No date-c2001. Music and words (in French and English) to Bizet's opera, Carmen.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Fairview Park, OH.: Amusement Park Books, 1995. 222pp, index, bum bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or pictorial glossy boards. 125th anniversary edition of Cedar Point Amusement Park on the shores of Lake Erie.. Revised Edition, Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1978. 144pp, index, notes, chronology, num bw ills. Or brown boards in jacket. Near new. Biography of Charles Dickens.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.