Lot: 81
Hardie & Sabin War Posters issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919, A. & C. Black, 1920, half-leather, gilt; ex-library with blind-stamps to the 80 colour & b/w plates, a further light stamp on reverse of each plate. Very clean internally.
Lot: 82
[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, together with seven 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 with all text and tissue-guards. Front cover of Fair Maid of Perth slightly stained. (8)
Lot: 83
GPO and HMSO Posters, 1950s, including Premium Bonds, Air Mail, 1955 Railway Strike, Post Early for Christmas etc. Peripheral faults, especially at corners. Mostly 14 x 10”. (13)
Lot: 84
Film Star autographs, a selection of ink-signed photos including Tony Curtis (2), John Forsythe, Richard Todd, Nadja Tiller, Celeste Holm, and various others. The photos are copies of 1940s/50s PPCs, though the signatures are authentic. (22)
Lot: 85
Photographs of Entertainers & Cinemas, many autographed, laid down in an album; signatures include Noel Coward; Reginald Dixon, Harold Ramsay and several other cinema organists; Harry Roy, Jack Jackson and other dance-band leaders; Vera Lynn, Michael Dennison, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Violet Carson, & others. The photos feature cinema organs and cinema buildings (many now closed) with particular interest in the Manchester area. Also many admission tickets. (Large qty).
Lot: 86
Boy's Cinema Annual 1932, and similar for 1935, 1937, 1940 and 1941; ownership inscription to front pastedowns, very clean internally. Some wear to corners. (5)
Lot: 87
Entertainers autographs, a collection of signed photos in album, including Sophia Loren, Rita Moreno, Albert Finney, Liv Ullman, and other cinema, mostly 10 x 8”. VG/VF (40)
Lot: 88
Album of autographs, mostly British Radio & Screen personalities, 1930s to modern, with many photographs, plus signed pages and letters; including Virginia McKenna, Una Stubbs, Colin Clive, Lorraine Kelly, Faith Brown, Sasha Distel, Donald Sinden, Monte Rey (ALS), and many other well-known. VG/VF (111)
Lot: 89
UK Screen & Stage autographs, a collection in album of signed photos, plus few signed pages, including Nigel Havers, Neil Morrisey, Susan Hampshire, Tom Conti, and many others. VG/VF (141)
Lot: 90
Album of signed 10x8” photos, mostly entertainers, including Liv Ullman, Phyllis Diller, Larry Hankin and Paul Anka. VG/VF (40)
Lot: 91
Arthur & Winifred Percival (musicians): a collection of photographs (6), a book and other items, mostly signed or inscribed. Arthur Percival was one-time leader of the Halle Orchestra
Lot: 92
Shao Qingqing Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Painting, Abbeville Press, 2011, folio, in the issued box, fine.
Lot: 93
Men's Magazines 1960s to early 1980s, mainly 1970s, including Penthouse, Men Only, Playboy, Fiesta and variety of others. Mainly VG/Fine, some with creasing, two lacking outer covers. (49)
Lot: 94
Enrique Carlos Moody (photographer, 1863-1935): Forty-One early 20th Century Photographs of the Andes and South American cities in the issued album. [c.1905]. Landscape octavo, cloth bound, peg-fitting album, containing 41 high quality 17 x 23cm photographs depicting scenes in the Andes (10) plus views of Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and elsewhere, each laid down on thick boards. The condition of the photographs is fine, without fading. Pencil inscriptions on the mounts accompany many of the photographs. A couple of the photographs appear to be by other photographers of the period.
Lot: 95
Amundsen and Ellsworth Our Polar Flight, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1925, first edition, fine in scarce d/jkt; Umberto Nobile My Polar Flights, Muller, 1961, first edition, in d/jkt, near fine; and two related, plus another on airships. All in d/jkts, the jacket of the Amundsen with peripheral faults and faded. (5)
Lot: 96
Elisee Reclus Africa and Its Inhabitants, H. Virtue & Co, [1899], 4 vols in 8, gilt cloth, a.e.g., complete with coloured maps (3), tissue-guarded plates, and many other maps/wood-engravings in text. 11 x 7.5”. Near fine. (8)
Lot: 97
F.O. Morris A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie [1880], quarto, volumes 1 to 4 (of 6), full red crushed morocco, gilt, coat of arms to front boards, slightly rubbed at extremities o/w fine; 160 tissue-guarded chromo-litho plates. Variable foxing, mostly affecting text, tissue-guards and plate margins. (4)
Lot: 98
Picturesque Europe with Illustrations on Steel and Wood, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co [1876-79], 5 vols bound in 10, tall 4to, gilt cloth, now mylar-protected; each vol. with steel-engraved title & frontispiece, plus a further 55 steel-engraved plates and many wood-engravings. VG condition, couple of endpapers creased, some discoloration to couple of rear boards. (10)
Lot: 99
H.W. Bates (Ed.) Illustrated Travels: A Record of Discovery, Geography, and Adventure, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1869-75]; 4to, 6 vols in 3; half-leather, gilt, some wear to extremities, a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; fine internally with numerous wood engravings after Gustave Dore and other artists. (3)
Lot: 100
H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent, Newnes, 1899, 2 vols, half-leather, gilt, worn at extremities; fine internally with large folding-map.