Lot: 43
Lee Child Persuader 2003, first edition in d/jkt, signed by the author on title page; Sophie Irwin A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting 2022, special signed first edition in decorated boards; and other author-signed modern fiction including Peter James, Salman Rushdie, Michael Connelly, and Ian Rankin. Works by Alan Hollinghurst and Karin Slaughter with tears to d/jkts o/w fine. (11)
Lot: 44
Heywood Broun A Shepherd privately printed for George Nelson, New York 1926, in slightly worn blue boards, gilt; and a similar work published by William Rudge in yellow boards with glassine wrapper in very good condition. 250 of each printed.
Lot: 46
Andy Warhol 25 Cats Name Sam and one Blue Pussy, and Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother, facsimile reprints by Panache Press 1987, in the illustrated slipcase, fine, no inscriptions.
Lot: 58
Collection of Theatre & Cinema ephemera with postcards, programmes, photos etc; including 1879 playbill for Beaumaris Town Hall; and programmes/flyers for theatres/cinemas in Great Yarmouth, Halifax, Ramsgate, Blackpool, Wallasey, Palace de Paris 1923, Salford, Bournemouth, and London. Items include the Crazy Gang, Marx Brothers and other popular entertainers. Six items concern the career of Dick Calkin ventriloquist. (59 items)
Lot: 62
Theatre Programmes 1899-1919 including Portsmouth (5), Bolton (2), Finsbury Park (3), & Manchester Hippodrome 1912 featuring Lillee Langtry. Fair to fine, mostly VG. (15)
Lot: 64
Blackpool Theatre Programmes 1930s to 2000s, all decades well represented; and a 1954 Poster for the Blackpool Palace Theatre. Many well-known entertainers. (219)
Lot: 65
Provincial Theatre Programmes mostly 1930s/50s, notably Nottingham, Bolton, Manchester (Palace & Hippodrome), Great Yarmouth, and Derby; together with Posters for the Pavilion Theatre Liverpool, and the Palace Fleetwood 1933. Fair to fine. (82)
Lot: 66
Programmes for the Empire Theatres of London 1900s/1950s, notably Edmonton (10, pre-1920), Wood Green (13), Chiswick, Kilburn (3), and Croydon. One damaged, others fair to fine. (38)
Lot: 68
London Theatre Programmes, mostly 1930s/60s but including Royal Variety Performance at the Palladium 1980. Includes Streatham Hill Theatre 1940s (17). Many with inked date on front cover. (101)
Lot: 69
Alberto Morrocco, Victoria Keller and Clara Young Morrocco, Mainstream Publishing 1993, signed & inscribed by Alberto Morrocco on half-title; A4 s/back, fine. 90 plates, many in colour
Lot: 78
L.M. Angus-Butterworth Sir Alex. K. Butterworth and Captain G.S.K. Butterworth 1979, inscribed by the author, and General W.J. Butterworth 1978. Pamphlets, card wraps. VG (2)
Lot: 79
Manchester related books, all in d/jkts, and a Peak District guide. (5)
Lot: 80
F.O. Morris A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, [1880], six vols., bound in leather-covered bevel-edged boards, elaborate gilt decoration, rubbed at extremities, complete with 240 fine coloured tissue-guarded plates; foxing to endpapers, occasional minor spotting elsewhere, the plates largely unaffected. (6)
Lot: 81
H.M.S. Hood, on tour, 1936-1939: a collection of photographs, 2.5 x 3.5” to PC size, including a group of Spanish Civil War (18) centered on Barcelona, the remaining photos either topographical or relating to the Hood and other British Naval ships. Arranged in album, with corner mounts, each photo with hand-written caption, the album damaged, pages loose, photos fine. (131)
Lot: 84
The Wipers Times Peter Davies 1973, and a selection of other WWI titles, mostly in d/jkt. (12)
Lot: 85
Capt. S.W. Roskill History of the Second World War – The War At Sea, H.M.S.O., 1954-61, four vols, in d/jkts, ex-library. (4)
Lot: 86
Military History, mostly WW2 titles, including Jefferson Assault On the Guns of Merville 1987, Leslie Chapman-Andrews and the Emperor 2005, Daglish Over the Battlefield – Operation Epsom 2007, Beach Run Silent, Run Deep 1955, and Bezymenski The Death of Adolf Hitler 1968. Most in d/jkts. Good to VF (18). Also two pamphlets.
Lot: 91
Eric Fitch Daglish Birds of the British Isles Dent 1948, gilt cloth, one of 1500 issued, complete with the 48 art plates (25 in colour), slight foxing (largely confined to fore-edge, plates unaffected), in poor d/jacket.
Lot: 92
The Modern Tramway June 1938 to December 1948, most in fine cloth bound volumes, near complete (few 1938 issues missing). Issued monthly.
Lot: 93
Omnibus Society pamphlets, 1960 to early 1970s, many in a fine cloth-bound volume. (36)