Lot: 1
Album of ‘Autographed Editions' FDCs (22) and photos (2), including signatures of Daley Thompson, Edmund Hillary, Mick Channon, Lester Piggott, Clare Francis, Ian Botham, Carol Vorderman, and other well-known. Also an unsigned cover. (25)
Lot: 9
Album of illustrated covers, 14 autographed including signatures of Ian Lavender and four other cast members of Dad's Army plus the two script writers; John Gielgud (2), Leslie Caron, Leslie Phillips, Cyd Charisse, Jerry Hall, Barbara Castle, and Kate Adie. Fine (36)
Lot: 11
Selection of signed books comprising autographs of Rudolph Giuliani, Muriel Spark, Carol Ann Duffy, and Dirk Bogarde. Fine. (4)
Lot: 12
Nobel Prize Winners autograph collection in binder, mostly Scientists, post-1945, with many signed commemorative covers, plus signed photos and letters. Includes Francis Crick (molecular biologist) T.L.S. dated 1967, and Robert Robinson (Chemist) A.L.S. dated 1945. VG/VF (46)
Lot: 13
Nobel Prize Winners, chiefly scientists, a few literary, a collection in binder with many autographed commemorative covers and postcards, plus few letters; includes Pearl S. Buck 1941 typed letter signed, Herta Muller (novelist), Frederick Sanger (biochemist), Norman Angell (typed letter signed, awarded Peace Prize), and various others. Also Elihu Root, American Statesman, 1889 signed cheque. (25)
Lot: 26
H. Rider Haggard: early 20th Century 2-page autograph letter signed, written from his residence in Bungay.
Lot: 27
George Bernard Shaw: 1950 autograph letter signed, to the Linotype & Machinery Ltd with their datestamp of receipt at top. Small peripheral splits at the folds.
Lot: 28
George Bernard Shaw: 1940 autograph letter signed on a photographic postcard of the author, thanking the recipient for a photo of Ensor Walters (Methodist minister & housing reformer), the photograph of Shaw by Marcel Sternberger. Written from Whitehall Court, London. Walters had passed away in 1938.
Lot: 29
Rudyard Kipling: 1920 typed letter signed, replying to an enquiry regarding the origin of his Christian name; written from his residence in Burwash. Fine, complete with the original envelope. [Kipling lived at Bateman's until his death in 1936. The property is now administered by the National Trust.]
Lot: 30
William Somerset Maugham: 1939 typed letter signed, written while on a visit to New York.
Lot: 31
P. G Wodehouse: 1965 autograph letter signed, from his residence in America, returning a manuscript which had been submitted to him, and, in addition, commenting on his problem with arthritis.
Lot: 32
Enid Blyton: 1954 autograph letter signed, on reverse of a postcard, written to Grace Kimber who had recently joined the Famous Five Club. The postcard depicts the Famous Five. Some slight foxing.
Lot: 33
Catherine Cookson: autograph letter signed, from her home in Corbridge, together with a cut signature matted with a photo, in card mount.
Lot: 34
Harold Pinter: 1965 brief autograph letter signed, from his London flat, together with a signed photo, the latter in fibre pen, the letter with folds.
Lot: 35
Frank Richards: 1950-51 pair of typed letters signed, from his home in Broadstairs, commenting on his Billy Bunter books and other matters. (2)
Lot: 36
Keith Waterhouse: 1994 autograph letter signed, from his home in London, commenting on Billy Liar.
Lot: 37
John Galsworthy: 1915 autograph letter signed, from his flat in London, commenting on the death of his mother.
Lot: 38
T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. ‘Lawrence of Arabia'): 1922 autograph letter signed, on reverse of a postcard of Crackington Haven, posted from Boscastle. I set off to the East Monday and will write to you from there. Yours, T.E.Lawrence.
Lot: 39
Compton Mackenzie: 1950 2-page autograph letter signed, from his home in Berkshire, concerning a planned trip to the North West of England; together with an autographed photo dated 1961.
Lot: 40
Peter Brough: three autographed PC size photos; together with Peter Brough's book Educating Archie 1955, first edn. in d/jkt. (4 items)