NICHOLAS POUNDER • RARE BOOKS • 2015
Patrick White
Emmett Williams [1925 - 2007]
This is a draft screenplay. Revisions may occur between this version and the final shooting script. None of these alterations would affect consideration of the script in its current form.
341. Sweethearts. New York, NY: Something Else Press, 1967. A book length anagrammatic concrete sequence. A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Williams made several performances and poems that endure as defining compositions of those genres. Among them is the book-length concrete poem “Sweethearts”. This copy is the wrappered state (simultaneous with the cloth) of the first edition from Something Else Press (where Williams was editor in chief ). Sweethearts is an erotic dalliance between a he and a she, whose entire vocabulary is derived from the word “sweethearts”. The letters maintain the same spacing in every word on each page, lending the volume a flipbook dimension that Williams enhances by organizing the text to read backwards, so that the reader can flip the book with her or his left hand (thus the front cover is on the back, and vice versa). Octavo [220 x 145] [144] leaves rectos only, in illustrated wrappers with cover art “Coeurs Volants” by Marcel Duchamp. A very good copy. $200.00
338. “The Monkey Puzzle: A Comedy For The Screen.” Sydney [1977]. Circulating typescript, listing Anthony Buckley as Producer and Jim Sharman as Director. Two other copies of this piece are known to exist: an earlier state, in the author’s typescript, held at the State Library of NSW [mlmss 7008/1/1]; and another state with the papers of David Marr at the National Library of Australia [ms9356]. A4, 87 pages photocopy typescript clipbound and held in green foolscap spingback binder. Title sheet with creases, tear and holes; some darkening with age, and rust stains at fastening clip. $450.00 Patrick White
jonathan williams [1928 - 2008] 344. The Loco Logodaedalist In Situ: Selected Poems 1968-70. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1971. With embellishments by Joe Tilson and notes by the poet. Small quarto [245 x 185] [142] pages. The poet, Philip Hammial’s copy. Very good in illustrated wrappers. $40.00
339. The Twyborn Affair. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. A fine copy of the first edition in dust jacket, signed boldly and simply across the title page.Cutting of the TLS review (30.11.79) laid in $650.00
NANCY WILLS [1920 - 2005] Brisbane playwright Nance Macmillan (later Nancy Wills) acted with a little theatre in 1939. In Melbourne she joined a Realist Writers’ Group and in 1944 joined the Communist Party of Australia. She attended the World Peace Conference in Paris in 1949 and met Paul Robeson, the famous black singer, who was an ardent campaigner for workers’ rights, peace and equality. This meeting provided the inspiration for her play Land of Morning Calm written in the following year and presented in 1952 by Brisbane New Theatre.... Nance Macmillan’s 1961 play The Painter, based on the life of Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira, raised the issue of civil rights for Aborigines. It played to packed houses for four nights in Brisbane’s All Saints Hall. connie healy Women in Radical Theatre in Brisbane
this copy signed by the author and by patrick white – who presented the author with the national book council award for australian literature 1980
340. Whirlwinds In The Plain: Ludwig Leichhardt, Friends, Foes & History, by Elsie May Webster. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1980. This copy signed and inscribed by the author and by Patrick White – who presented the author with the National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1980. An exceptional moment in White’s public life, closely guarded from spin, hype and promotion, one can only imagine the significance of this endorsement — rare if not unique in any part of White’s private or public life. Especially resonant given the subject matter: Ludwig Leichhardt. With the menu and order of ceremony for the occasion. Cloth a little worn and marked in a few places, but not noticeable beneath a well preserved dust jacket. $500.00
345. Robeson. Lota, Qld: GEM Publications, [1987]. A passionate scrapbook anthology with commentary and much local insight, with an afterthought on Robeson in Australia. The volume also reproduces a “production draft” script “Deep Bells Ring” by Nancy Wills with a credit to radical Queensland theatre director, Errol O’Neill. The play was performed later that year in Brisbane with Margaret Roadknight and Jeannie Lewis under the direction of O’Neill, and, in the spirit of Robeson, there were four performances at construction sites in Melbourne. this copy warmly inscribed by the author to radical filmmaker and comrade, martha ansara. Small square quarto [200 x 215] 56 pages stapled into printed wrappers. $45.00 [58]