Lot: 41
Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman: a pair of signed promotional cards for The Avengers. Fine (2)
Lot: 42
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: an ink-signed promotional card, postcard size. Fine
Lot: 43
Ink-signed postcards, 1900s/1940s, including Gracie Fields, Hetty King, Marie Lloyd, Elsie Randolph, Dorothy Ward, and Elsie & Doris Walters. VG/VF (8)
Lot: 44
Jimmy Durante: a signed & inscribed 7x5” vintage photo, fair contrast.
Lot: 45
Robert Vaughan: fine signed 10x8” photo, in his role as Napoleon Solo in ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.', obtained ‘in person' by the vendor.
Lot: 46
Selection of signed items including Dylan Teague (comic book artist) pair of signed drawings; remainder are mostly stage & TV actors. Also 1906 Ellen Terry souvenir programme (not signed) in poor condition. (21 items)
Lot: 47
Jeremy Spenser: ink-signed PC size photograph. Spenser (b.1937) played opposite Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl. Fine
Lot: 48
Signed PC size photos of Entertainers including Jack Buchanan, George Formby, Jimmy Clitheroe, Will Fyffe and Stainless Stephen. Four with adhesions on reverse. (9)
Lot: 49
P.G. Konody The Art of Walter Crane, George Bell, 1902, folio, gilt cloth; complete with the many colour & b/w plates; re-backed, overlaid with most of the original backstrip. Some tone marks affecting text. Few minor library marks (plates unaffected).
Lot: 50
John Fisher An Illustrated Record of the Retrospective Exhibition held at South Kensington, 1896, Chapman & Hall, 1897, 156 b/w plates, near fine; and Spielmann Souvenir of the Fine Art Section, Franco-British Exhibition 1908, b/w plates complete, gilt cloth, some wear, fine internally. 4to. (2)
Lot: 51
The Art Journal 1904, Virtue & Co, half-leather, gilt title, b/w & colour plates including etchings; The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, The Studio, 1906, 40 colour plates; Berthold Laufer Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, 1962 reprint in slipcase; Belgian Art in Exile, 1916, many tipped-in plates (most in colour); and related works. Modern Decorative Art in England with damaged spine; Painting in the Far East ex-library; others VG/Fine. (9)
Lot: 52
Johnny Dankworth, Cleo Laine and the Johnny Dankworth Seven, an autographed PPC of the 1951 Festival of Britain, signed on reverse by all nine members of the famous jazz band. [Cleo Laine joined the Johnny Dankworth Seven in 1951]
Lot: 53
Glamour photos, majority in colour, many with facsimile autographs, including Marilyn Monroe (15), Jayne Mansfield, Shirley Eaton, Joan Collins, Diana Rigg, Jean Harlow, Diana Dors, and other well-known. 7 x 5”. Fine. (61)
Lot: 54
Signed Theatre Programmes 1980s to 2000s, large format, including Richard Griffiths, Michael Gough, David Hare, Fenella Fielding, David Tennant, Howard Davies, Ned Sherrin, John Fowles (novelist), Michael Bryant, Matthew Bourne, and others, some with multiple signatures. (14 programmes)
Lot: 55
Autographed photos and some cuttings in album, including Joan Rivers, Richard Eyre, Val Doonican, Richard Wilson, Anne Robinson, Anthea Turner, Tom O'Connor, Petula Clark, Mitzi Gaynor (signed album page), and other entertainers. (80)
Lot: 56
G.M. Musgrave The Parson, Pen and Pencil: or Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris, Tours and Rouen, in the Summer of 1847, Richard Bentley, 1848, 3 vols, half-leather, gilt, wear to corners and volume labels. Ownership bookplates to pastedowns. Very clean internally. (3)
Lot: 57
John Kitto The Court of Persia, bound with The People of Persia and The Tahtar Tribes, Religious Tract Society, c.1850, each title with separate pagination, 12mo, half-leather, gilt, marbled edges & endpapers Some light wear, fine internally.
Lot: 58
George Nicholson The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, L. Upcott Gill, [1885-1900], set of 12 volumes, publisher's decorated cloth, gilt, complete with the 36 colour plates. A few volumes slightly marked; volume VII has a small puncture hole to the front board which has affected the first plate.
Lot: 59
F.B. Kirkman (Ed.) The British Bird Book, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910, 4 vols in 12 parts, tall quarto, printed boards, 200 fine colour plates. Few repairs to spine extremities o/w VG.
Lot: 60
Electroplating and Metal Finishing, a collection of mainly h/bk works, 1950s/60s, plus a scarce related trade catalogue by Canning, and a 1930s pamphlet. Good to fine. (14)