Lot: 41
Autographed Theatre Programmes, 1990s/2000s, mostly signed internally, some with multiple signatures, including Dennis Waterman, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Jeffrey Archer, Richard Todd, Peter Bowles, Richard Briers, Ian McShane, Kate O'Mara, Frances De La Tour, Warren Mitchell, Ian Lavender, Jane Asher, and many other well-known, over 50 signatures. Some with tickets taped in, one programme creased. (32 programmes).
Lot: 42
Robert Taylor: fine ink-signed 10x8” photograph.
Lot: 43
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, cut signature in card mount matted with a related photo; and a 1944/45 commonplace book ex. Sgt. K. Jones, RAF, with signatures of entertainers including George Chisholm, Dick Emery, Monty Rey, Arthur Madden, and many others.
Lot: 44
Vice-Admiral Arthur C. Bromley (1847-1909): a signed good conduct certificate, issued 1897 while Captain of H.M.S. Brake, shortly before Bromley became Commander of H.M.S. Hood. Some creasing.
Lot: 45
Military Autographs, a collection of covers signed by Victoria Cross winners comprising Thomas Gould, Havildar Gaje Ghale, Richard Annand, Philip Gardner, David Jamieson, Edward Kenna, John Cruikshank, Ian Fraser, Eric Wilson, Harold Ervine-Andrews, Ferdinand West, and William Speakman-Pitt, plus covers signed by other gallantry medal winners. Fine throughout. (19).
Lot: 46
Aviation autographs, a selection of 1968-97 commemorative covers with signatures of Paul Tibbets, Douglas Bader (2), Arthur T. Harris, Brian Trubshaw, Johnnie Johnson, Leonard Cheshire, and Thomas Sopwith, two with autographs of other pilots. Fine throughout. (8)
Lot: 47
Edward Baines The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, John Heywood, 1888, revised edition (with Pedigrees), edited by Croston; five volumes, quarto, orig. gilt cloth, backstrip of Vol.1 with some damage; small repair to folding map; minor spotting to prelims o/w very clean internally. Partly unopened. (5)
Lot: 48
Robert Eaton A History of Samlesbury in the Hundred of Blackburn, J. Dickinson, 1936; J.H. Priestley Mills of the Ryburn Valley, Halifax 1934, signed by the author; 1949 sales brochure for The Sawley Lodge Estate, with tipped-in photographs, large folding plan loosely inserted; George Miller Hoghton Tower, Preston, 1948, signed portrait of the author loosely inserted; and related titles, h/bk and s/bk, Newbigging's History of the Forest of Rossendale 1868 with damaged spine. (15)
Lot: 49
The Lord Roberts Memorial Fund Stamp Album, Fawcett & Co., WWI, containing 142 (of 144) of patriotic poster stamps. VG
Lot: 50
WWI group of original captioned snapshot photos showing various scenes from the Western Front notably French & German soldiers including war dead. Good quality. (15)
Lot: 51
Thomas Baines and William Fairbairn Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present, William Mackenzie [1868-69], two vols in four, pictorial gilt cloth, worn at extremities; Division II with binding detached from text-block and foot of backstrip chipped; plates & maps intact, occasional browning to text. (4)
Lot: 52
Lewis The Medieval Earthworks of the Hundred of West Derby, British Archaeological Reports, 2000, and other BAR publications including Evans Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes of Cumbria, 2008, and similar. A4, card wraps. (9)
Lot: 53
Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1899-1930, including The Registers of the Parish Church of Whalley, 1900, and similar titles, many scarce. Seven are ex-library. Gilt cloth. Some shelfwear to bindings. (14)
Lot: 54
Lancashire Parish Register Society publications 1998-2022, a complete run. Vols. 176 & 177 with ownership initials o/w uninscribed. Gilt leatherette bindings. (57)
Lot: 55
British Place-Name studies including Carroll & Parsons Perceptions of Place, 2013, a run of the journal Nomina 2005-2021 (13 vols.), and Ekwall Studies on English Place-Names 1936. (35)
Lot: 56
Louis Rousselet India and its Native Princes. Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal, revised by Lt.Col. Buckle, Bickers and Son, 1878; tall 4to, original decorated cloth, gilt, complete with 317 wood-engravings and 6 coloured maps. Backstrip dulled with couple of small tears, frayed at extremities; front hinge very weak, frontispiece & title page loose o/w VG internally, clean pages and maps. Ownership signature to front endpaper dated 1927.
Lot: 57
Andrew Lesot France Politique, large folding map, dissected, linen-backed, c.1880, coloured lithograph. 100 x 127cm. VG condition.
Lot: 58
Shipping PC size photos in old album, mainly 1940s/50s RPs, many by Real Photographs of Liverpool. Also a brochure for the Queen Mary (the spine with tape repair) and a few PPCs of WW2 aircraft. (108 items)
Lot: 59
UK Railway Ephemera, 1930s/40s, with items from GWR (63), LMS (63), Southern (78) and LNER (63), including many luggage labels, plus route labels, parcel labels and others. VG/VF (267).
Lot: 60
L.N.E.R. softbacks (3) 1935-46 including two versions of On Either Side, one with yapp edges frayed; and British Rlys. ephemera from late-1940s with luggage labels (192), window notices, various forms etc. Mostly VG/VF (359 items)