Lot: 1
Visitors' Book of St. Gabriel's Celebrity Lecture Guild, Sheffield, 1937-1952 including signatures of Romany, Godfrey Winn, Vera Brittain, Val Gielgud, Anna (May) Wong (?), Gilbert Harding, Julian Huxley, and others. Signatures ‘back to back'. VG condition (111 signatures)
Lot: 2
The Letter Book of Arthur Skeffington M.P. 1945-1962 containing over 50 signed letters including Hugh Gaitskell (ALS plus four TLS), Stafford Cripps, Richard Crossman, George Brown, Arthur Greenwood, and others, mainly from Labour politicians. Letters loose or laid down. Mixed condition.
Lot: 3
Nobel Prize Winners: a collection of Autographs in folder with many signed FDCs, some photos, and signed pages, including Desmond Tutu (signed photo), F.W. de Klerk (FDC), Milton Friedman (signed photo), William Shockley (FDC), Linus Pauling (signed page), Jean Joliot-Curie (signed page), Kofi Annan (signed photo), William Golding (signed page), Saul Bellow (FDC), and many others especially Science and Medicine. (64)
Lot: 4
Mother Teresa: a signed and inscribed newscutting, set in a card mount.
Lot: 7
Autographs in carton, mostly drawn from the worlds of Entertainment and Sport, with signed photos, pages, few programmes and record sleeves; many well-known personalities, 1940s to modern. (100s)
Lot: 8
Autographed photos, cuttings, pages, few FDCs, mostly entertainment and sport, some with multiple signatures; includes Nicholas Cage, Neil Diamond, Robert Lindsay, Colin Jackson, David Duckham, Geoff Capes, Bonnie Langford, and Jonny Wilkinson, 80 items in all. Also few unsigned photos.
Lot: 9
Autograph albums (11) and many loose signed pages. Includes old album of cut signatures featuring John Wesley, Isaac Newton, [Michael] Faraday, S.T. Coleridge, John Keats, Nelson & Bronte, John Milton, George Cruikshank, Rembrandt, and other famous names, but some are likely to be skilful forgeries and are not guaranteed. Inspection recommended. (100s)
Lot: 12
Folder of Autographed photos, FDCs, etc, including Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (King of Nepal 1945-2001), Terry Wogan, Terence Cuneo, McDonald Hobley, David Shepherd, Ted Willis (ALS), Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Gloria Hunniford, Ian Lavendar, and others. (23 items). Also some unsigned ephemera
Lot: 13
Selection of Autographed covers including Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hillary (1978 issued by Franklin Mint), Desmond Morris (2), and Ranulph Fiennes (2), together with a signed photograph of Reinhold Messner. Fine
Lot: 14
A selection of signed books with autographs of Frankie Lane, Gregory Peck, Richard Attenborough (2), Will Dean and Julie Andrews, five in d/jkts, two in slipcases. VG/VF (6)
Lot: 15
A selection of books signed & inscribed to Roy Plumley (presenter of Desert Island Discs from 1942 to 1985) with autographs of John Osborne, Joan Fontaine, Donald Sinden, Bernard Miles, Peter Hall, and Mary Martin, all first editions (the Donald Sinden is a second impression) in complete d/jkts. (6)
Lot: 16
A selection of books signed & inscribed to Roy Plumley (presenter of Desert Island Discs from 1942 to 1985) with autographs of Anthony Armstong Jones (Lord Snowdon), Clive James, Lord Harewood, Sammy Cahn, Sir John Hackett, Julian Bream, Alan Jay Lerner and Ian Wallace, all first editions (ex. Hackett's I was a Stranger) in the d/jkts, the jacket of Snowdon: Personal View with faults. (8)
Lot: 17
Princess Grace of Monaco My Book of Flowers 1980, first UK edition, signed & inscribed by Princess Grace to Roy Plumley on the half-title. Fine, in near fine d/jkt.
Lot: 19
Daphne du Maurier Growing Pains: The Shaping of a Writer Gollancz 1977, first edition, signed and inscribed by the author to Roy Plumley on the title page. Fine, in a VG d/jkt.
Lot: 20
Collection of Autographs in folder, mostly TV presenters with many signed photos; including Josef Locke (ALS), Trevor McDonald, Barry Norman, Lorraine Kelly, Peter Sissons, Jon Snow, Anna Ford, Cliff Michelmore, David Dimbleby and other well-known. (52)
Lot: 22
Assorted autographs including 1964 menu signed Francis Chichester; two autograph albums with signatures of Richard Burton, Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Haynes, Terry Downes, Al Read, Harry Secombe and others; and Charlotte Rampling ALS written in 2000 concerning the purchase of family memorabilia.
Lot: 27
Roger Ressmeyer Space Places Collins, 1990, in d/jkt, signed by all 9 members of the crew and back-up crew of STS-55 or D-2 on contents leaf. This was the 14th flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. A resume of the book identifying the signatures of each astronaut is loosely inserted.
Lot: 28
Joseph Lister (1827-1912): a signed mortgage document, signed as a witness, along with seven other signatures. The mortgage document is incomplete.
Lot: 29
Renato Casaro: Painted Movies 1992, card wraps, signed by the artist on title page; and four different paper bags with Casaro artwork. Fine.
Lot: 30
Gilbert & George: autographed promotional cards, 2016-2020, for exhibitions held at the Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy and the Museo Casa Rusca (Lucarno). The Hayward Gallery item is a four-picture ‘concertina' card. Fine