Lot: 41
Gilbert & George: an autographed set of four PPCs issued by the Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, c.2020. Fine
Lot: 42
Autographed photos and fliers (2) of mainly female actors and few athletes including Beryl Reid, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Zoe Wanamaker (2), Virginia McKenna, Stephanie Beacham, Phyllis Calvert and Maureen Lipman. Also a few with printed signatures. The two fliers are creased. (110)
Lot: 43
Autographed photos, few cuttings & FDCs, of male celebrities including Derek Jacobi (2), Harry Secombe, Peter Andre, David Baddiel, Donald Sinden (2), Edward Fox, Bill Beaumont, Warren Mitchell, Ronald Pickup, James Bolan and other well-known, plus couple of printed signatures. (58)
Lot: 44
Autographs in card mounts, mostly cut signatures matted with photos, including Alma Cogan, Doris Day, Nigel Hawthorne, Ivor Novello, Gracie Fields, Vera Lynn (FDC), Judi Dench (FDC), Bob Hope (FDC), Humphrey Lyttelton, and Bob Monkhouse. Also three unmounted items. (22 items)
Lot: 45
Radio entertainers, a collection of cut signatures in a binder, matched with related pictures, including Jack Payne, Tommy Handley, Jack Train, Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels, Jimmy Jewel & Ben Warris, Henry Hall, Vera Lynn, Charlie Chester, Jimmy Edwards, Peter Brough, Eamonn Andrews and others. (39)
Lot: 46
Autographs of entertainers including signed photos of Elizabeth Taylor (2, one a signed cutting), Frankie Howerd (with covering letter from his secretary), Henry Hall (smudged) & Sarah Lancashire; signed pages by Howard Keel and Valerie Singleton, and other items. The signatures of Elizabeth Taylor not guaranteed and offered 'as is'.. (20)
Lot: 47
Album of 1940s / 1950s autographed photos, PC size, including Peter Cushing, Michael Holliday, Mantovani, Henry Hall, Vera Lynn, George Formby, Alastair Sims, Tom Walls, Tommy Trinder, Max Miller (poor contrast), Tessie O'Shea, Bebe Daniels & Ben Lyon, Ivor Novello, Yvonne Arnaud, Dora Bryan, Stanley Holloway, Winifred Atwell, and other well-known. Of the remainder some are printed signatures, and a few photos unsigned. (143). [9 sports items have been removed from the album].
Lot: 48
A Collection of 1960s to c.1990 45rpm vinyl records, both singles and EPs, including The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour double-EP; The Rolling Stones (3 singles 1964-66); and Fleetwood Mac, Hot Chocolate, Cliff Richard and various others. Seven in replacement sleeves. (28).
Lot: 49
Jane Meiring Jock: the art of Edmund Caldwell, Frank Read Press, Rhodesia 1978. Folio, No.136 of 250; quarter leather, gilt, a little marked & worn; fine internally, illustrated throughout, complete with the colour plates.
Lot: 50
Cinema Lobby Cards 1950s / early 1970s, including Ice Cold in Alex (3), Weekend at Dunkirk (7), Patton (2) and War and Peace (3). VG/VF (17)
Lot: 51
[Sir Walter Scott] Six Engravings in Illustration of ‘The Antiquary' for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1867, folio, original gilt cloth, various artists; together with companion volumes issued 1868-78, similarly bound, each with six engravings for The Lady of the Lake, Old Mortality, The Pirate, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, and The Fair Maid of Perth. Browning to first plate of Lady of the Lake o/w clean throughout, tissue-guards intact. (8)
Lot: 52
Judaica interest with four illustrated editions of The Haggadah, one bound in gilt cloth with metallic inlay and Gustave Dore wood engravings; a bilingual copy of Siddur Avodat Israel in elaborate metallic binding; 1940 Prayer Book for Jewish Members of H.M. Forces issued by HMSO; and a ceremonial pictorial satin cloth. Good to fine.
Lot: 53
Arthur Ransome 1937-47 first editions comprising We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, The Big Six, Missee Lee, The Picts and the Martyrs, and Great Northern?, all Jonathan Cape published in fair/good d/jkts, mylar protected, Great Northern and Picts & Martyrs with gift inscriptions. (5)
Lot: 54
Alan Garner Thursbitch Harvill Press, 2003, 3rd printing, signed by the author on title page, in a fine d/jkt.
Lot: 55
Selection of signed first editions in d/jkt comprising Stephen Fry Making History, Andrew Morton Monica's Story signed by Monica Lewinsky, and four by Ian Rankin. Also Louis de Bernieres Birds Without Wings signed limited edition in slipcase. Fine. Obtained through Waterstones. (7)
Lot: 56
Edgar Allan Poe Le Corbeau – The Raven illustrated by Edouard Manet, Easton Press, 1995, facsimile of the Richard Lesclide edition of 1875, folio, quarter-leather, gilt, in the issued folder, a print on India paper loosely inserted, one of 240 printed. Fine.
Lot: 57
Graphic Novels c.2009-2011, several published by Marvel, good to fine. (17)
Lot: 58
American comics with Marvel, DC and other issuers, 1980s/1990s, good to VF. (approx.300)
Lot: 59
Titanic survivors: 1992-1996 PPCs (3) and a cover variously signed by Titanic survivors E.E. Haisman, Eleanor Shuman, Millvina Dean, and Eva Hart, each limited to 100 issued and certified as authentic. (4)
Lot: 60
The Lothians Regional Survey and Plan HMSO 1966, 2 vols, in d/jkts; Innes Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquites 1872; Maidment The Court of Session Garland 1888; Campbell & Smellie The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1983; and other Scottish history & culture, several Edinburgh related. Mostly VG/VF (31, plus pamphlet & a map).