Lot: 1
Billheads & related, mainly 1882/83 and mostly Rochdale but including D. Rudge Bicycles, Deansgate, Manchester; few later items include 1918 Lancs & Yorks Rly. Way Bill with L&Y Parcel Stamps. Also an 1840 Probate document. (19 items)
Lot: 2
Booksellers' Tickets (15) from 19th Century, and Mechanical Music Copyright Payment and Purchase Tax stamps (52) arranged on stockcards.
Lot: 3
Psychic Press (6), Psychic Book Club (23) and related publications, 1940s/60s, six in d/jkts, mostly good to VG, 24 with ownership details at front. (36)
Lot: 4
Assorted ephemera with greetings cards, military and maritime interest with few autographs, and documents, 1850s to 1960s. (63 items)
Lot: 5
Earl of Rochester Poems on Several Occasions with Valentinian; a Tragedy. To which is added Advice to a Painter, London, 1710; worn half-leather, boards detached, lacking backstrip; first eight leaves foxed; shaved at top edge, affecting some page numbers; together with The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell Tonson, 1710, in old leather binding, front board detached. (2)
Lot: 6
Cameras and accessories, a selection, including an MPP Microflex TLR Twin-lens reflex, 120 film; a Rolleiflex 3.5 Tessar; a Nikon FE2 35mm; a Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G1 Digital 14-45mm; a Samsung L301 Digital (in box); a Nikon Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5 A1 manual focus lens; a Nikkon A1 Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 manual focus lens; and five other items. Also and Olympus VN-7100 Digital Voice Recorder. VG condition. (13 items)
Lot: 7
Selection of commemorative covers, mostly autographed including signatures of Peter Scott, Alex Ferguson, Norman Wisdom, David Bellamy, Stanley Matthews and Patrick Moore. (10)
Lot: 8
Old Album of 19th Century Autographs, mostly cut signatures laid down, plus 29 complete letters; Peers & Celebrities including Hall Caine (ALS), Robert Peel, 15th Earl of Derby, Joseph Hulme (ALS), Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery, Earl Grey (1898 ALS), Joseph Chamberlian (2), Earl Shaftesbury (1846 note), G. Linnaeus Banks, Edward Stanhope, Annie Swan, Marie Corelli, Joseph Hocking (ALS), Alfred Lord Tennyson, Seymour Hicks, and various others. Some pages removed. (149)
Lot: 9
Old Album of 19th & early-20th Century Autographs, mostly cut signatures plus few complete letters, including Lord Robers V.C. (ALS), Dan Leno, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, J. Forbes-Robertson, Judge Lumley Smith, Herbert Asquith, King George III, Wilhelm Steinitz (Chess Champion), and others. Neatly mounted in slit corners, marginal annotations in pencil. (55)
Lot: 10
Autograph Album, 1940s, mainly entertainers, some sport, with signed photos (laid down) & signed pages, including Chico Marx, Lawrence Olivier, Gracie Fields, George Formby (signed photo), Richard Tauber, Max Miller (signed photo), Stanley Holloway, few Cricketers, and others. Some signatures ‘back to back' (108).
Lot: 11
Old album of cut signatures, including autographs of Nellie Melba, George (later George V), W. Harrison Ainsworth, J.K. Jerome, Michael Davitt, Marie Lloyd, W. Gladstone, Edward Burne-Jones, J. R. Capablanca (chess champion), Gilbert Dalziel, George Cutzon, Lord Roberts, Sir Evelyn Wood, Solomon Solomon, and many others. (109)
Lot: 12
Autograph album, 1960s, with signatures of The Rolling Stones (with Brian Jones but lacking Charlie Watts), Roy Orbison, Helen Shapiro, Harry Gregg, Billy Fury, Shirley Bassey, Harry Secombe (2), Bert Weedon, Nancy Whiskey, and others, mostly entertainers. Binding weak, some tape stains, many signatures ‘back to back'. (36)
Lot: 13
Album of Autographs, drawings and cuttings, 1900s-1920s, including Edward Elgar (obtained at the Coliseum 1917) and other classical musicians, many obtained at the Crystal Palace. Album damaged, many loose pages. (Qty.)
Lot: 14
Autographs from 19th Century to 1970s in albums (8) and loose, largely signed pages including Noel Coward, Kenneth More, Ellen Terry, Lillie Langtry, Carl Rosa, Jimmy Clitheroe, Cleo Laine, Gordon Jackson, Roy Welensky (TLS), Dighton Probyn V.C. (ALS, 1899), Alma Cogan, Bert Weedon, and many others. (100s)
Lot: 15
Album of autographed photos & few signed pages, including Paul Gambaccini, Paul Daniels, Jasper Carrott, Gloria Hunniford, David Baddiel, Beverley Knight, Robert Lindsay, Sue Hodge and other celebrities. Mostly PC size. (49)
Lot: 16
Autographs in 11 small albums including Jimmy Edwards, Derek Bond, Michael Bentine, Beryl Reid, Hayley Mills, Brian Poole, Julie Rogers, Yehudi Menuhin, Lulu, Gene Pitney, David Frost, Eddie Calvert, The Ivy League, Freddie & the Dreamers, Chris Barber, Ray Reardon, Paul Anka, Dora Bryan, and many others. Most obtained at theatres in Bournemouth and Oxford. Very mixed condition, many pages loose. (Few 100)
Lot: 17
Autographs, mostly Autographed Editions covers including Kelly Holmes, Murray Walker, Mary Peters, Kris Akabusi, Lester Piggott, Clare Francis, and others, mainly sport related. (14 items)
Lot: 18
Marcus Harmes Roger Delgado: I am usually referred to as The Master, 2017, 1st Edn., in fine d/jkt; and other books many author signed including John Aspinall, Edward Heath, Bill Alley, Derek Randall, Paul Daniels, and Doctor Who Companions signed by the authors and Sophie Aldred. Also 25 Stereographs by Underwood & Underwood, mainly humorous. (Qty.)
Lot: 19
American comics with Marvel, DC and other issuers, 1980s/1990s, mostly good to VF. (approx.340).
Lot: 20
La Commedia di Dante Allighieri illustrata da Ugo Foscolo, Pietro Rolandi, London, 1842-45, four vols (in two), full calf, gilt, boards detached, title labels chipped, marble edges and endpapers; fine internally, good clean text. (2)