Lot: 1
Two albums of signed PC size photos including Tom Courtenay, Martin Shaw, Paul Scofield, Una Stubbs, Jenny Seagrave, Bonnie Langford, Michael Crawford, Ian Carmichael, and Ricky Tomlinson, plus few signed cuttings. (78)
Lot: 2
Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences 1771, facsimile of the first edition in 3 vols, in gilt leatherette bindings.
Lot: 3
Softback publications with many of Architecture interest, some Scotland, local history, a few exhibition catalogues. Good/VF (68)
Lot: 4
Various including Walter Savage Landor – Last Days, Letters and Conversations 1934, 1st Edn., in d/jkt; Galbraith The Affluent Society Houghton Mifflin 1958 in VG price-clipped d/jkt (ownership stamp overlaid with a plain label); Grieve Examples of English Handwriting 1150-1750, Essex 1959; and assorted others. (10)
Lot: 5
Assortment with many autographed fliers, pages, photos, greetings cards etc, largely entertainers from West End shows, comedians etc, plus classical musicians & vocalists including John Shirley-Quirk (2), John Tavener etc. Signed photos include Robert Lindsay, Patricia Hodge, Charles Dance, and Brian Cox. (100s). Also album of film star photos (many with facsimile signatures), stamps on leaves, cig card sets stuck down in albums, and folder of autograph reference material. (Large qty)
Lot: 6
Album of Signed PC size photos including Beryl Reid, Terry Wogan, Brian Rix, Amanda Redman, Polly James, Brian Blessed, Julie Rogers, John Inman, Cheryl Baker & other well-known. (40)
Lot: 7
Two albums of signed PC size photos, with many TV actors and presenters including Matthew Kelly, Sue Johnston, Carol Vordeman, Ulrika Jonsson, David Jacobs, Gaby Roslin, Lorraine Kelly, Peter Sissons and other well-known. (90)
Lot: 8
Celebrity Autographs in folder, mostly signed photos with many 10 x 8”; includes Frank Finlay, Willie Carson, Pat Boone, Annina Ucatis (topless), Tempest Storm (burlesque star), Nell McAndrew (2), Sophia Loren and other well-known. (64). Also few with printed signatures and unsigned photos.
Lot: 9
Celebrity Autographs in folder, mostly signed photos with many 10 x 8”; includes Caroline Munro, Victoria Sellers, David Jason, Barry McGuigan, and various others including some printed autographs and few unsigned photos. (80 items)
Lot: 10
Photographs including Lancashire and WWI interest, plus softbacks and ephemera; wide variety with 1950s Railway Excursion leaflets, 1900s auction notices, 1928 Goodshaw parish church Grand Bazaar handbook, OK! Magazine April 1993 (issue no.1), and other items. (Qty.)
Lot: 11
Booksellers' and Bookbinders' Tickets from early 19th Century. (30)
Lot: 12
Cabinet Photos, late-19th Century, largely portraits, country-wide photographers, some faded, fair to fine. (77)
Lot: 13
Carte-de-Visite 19th Century portrait photos, country-wide photographers, plus some foreign. Some faded, fair to fine. (346)
Lot: 14
Autographs, mostly British artists, 19th & early-20th Century, mainly cut signatures, some envelope fronts and PPCs (5); including Seymour Lucas, George Jones R.A., Edward William Cooke, Charles Landseer, George Leslie, & others, plus politicians and peers. (29)
Lot: 15
Collector's autograph accumulation of signed letters from early 19th Century, many Victorian cut signatures, 20th Century signed pages, photos, etc, with peers, entertainers, politicians, writers, presenters, editors, business leaders & others. Includes many well-known names, but also many items requiring research. (Over 1500 autographs)
Lot: 16
Autographs in folder, with many 19th & 20th Century letters, and signed photos, including ALS from Michael Redgrave (7, two TLS), Robert Atkins (2), Henry Ainley (4), Ralph Richardson (3, one TLS), ‘Jock' Alan Dent (5), George Grossmith, Donald Wolfit, and Tyrone Power Snr., (1828); plus ALS from 19th Century clerics and peers, and modern signed photos of entertainers. VG/VF (85 items)
Lot: 17
Autographs, 1940s/60s, a collection mostly from senior academics, with signed pages, TLS and some ALS, including F.R. Leavis, Nicholas Pevsner, G. M. Trevelyan, Sir Isaiah Berlin, and Fred Hoyle. Good to fine. (82)
Lot: 18
Assorted Autographs, with many signed photos including Eric Sykes, Emma Thompson, Frank Finlay, Al Read, Steve Race, Charlie Chester, Violet Hopson, and Lena Ashwell; also Claire Bloom & Daniel Massey (signed card), signed fliers, etc. (53 items)
Lot: 19
Autographs in box file with many signed photos of entertainers including Ronald Pickup, Kenny Everett, Michael Winner, Michael Palin, Magnus Magnusson, Larry Grayson, Alfred Burke, George Sewell, Millicent Martin, Janet Suzman, Rod Hull, Roy Castle, and Bamber Gascoigne; plus many signed pages, programmes, fliers; and a group of ALS from British Authors including Andrew Lang (written in the third person) and Bessie Marchant. (156 items).
Lot: 20
Victorian scrapbook of Autographs Letters and cut signatures, with peers, MPs, clergy and others, including cut signatures of Rowland Hill, Mrs Charles Dickens, Joshua Rowntree, W. Harrison Ainsworth, and numerous others. Few letters loosely inserted but most items laid down, many ‘back to back'. A few items have been removed. Leather bound, 9 x 7.5”. (over 200)