Lot: 141
Album of entertainers' photos, 1940s/50s, all with facsimile signatures, many famous names. PC size, mounted with photo corners. (68)
Lot: 142
Gemma Levine Faces of British Theatre, 1990, in d/jkt, signed by the author, with autographs of various personalities, some loosely inserted or laid down, including Brian Cox, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley, Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen, Alan Bates, Bob Hoskins and many other well-known. Two pages removed. (over 60 autographs).
Lot: 143
Entertainers' autographs, a selection of signed photos & few cuttings, generally 10 x 8”, including Elizabeth Hurley, Charles Dance, & Helen Slater, a few items with printed signatures. (21 items)
Lot: 144
Glenn Miller and his orchestra, a selection of photographs, various sizes, some 10 x 8”, one with a stamped signature. Adhesion marks on reverse. (16)
Lot: 145
Album of autographs, mostly signed photos, including Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Ranulph Fiennes, modern TV soap stars & presenters, etc. Also few items with printed signatures. (abt.120)
Lot: 146
Album of signed 10 x 8” photos, some cuttings & signed pages; including Jane Adams, Michael Dennison, Johnny Mathis, Colin Firth, Joley Richardson, Fiona Fullerton, Linda Lusardi, and others with some printed signatures. (50)
Lot: 147
Photographs of Entertainers, a collection of good quality coloured photos, laid down in album, including Ava Gardner, Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, Clark Gable, Ursula Andress, Katharine Hepburn, Lee Van Cleef, and many other famous names. Mostly 10 x 8” (67)
Lot: 148
Album of 10 x8” photos of entertainers, mostly female, some ink-signed. (40)
Lot: 149
Commando comics from issue No. 1138, and three related Picture Library titles. Mostly VG/Fine. (20)
Lot: 150
Colm O Lochlainn Irish Street Ballads and More Irish Street Ballads, both Three Candles Ltd, Dublin, 1965, latter in d/jkt; G.M. Tweddell Rhymes and Sketches to illustrate the Cleveland Dialect, Stokesley, 1875, limp cloth, very worn; and three others, regional poetry. (6)
Lot: 151
Ben Brierley's Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life, Abel Heywood, 1882-85, nine volumes, gilt cloth; bookplates of W.H. Lever of Thornton Manor and ownership stamps of Robert Holland Ford. Most with front endpaper removed, hingeing weak in places, Vol.VI with few loose pages. Some foxing to prelims. (9)
Lot: 152
Dialect stories, mostly Lancashire, including works by Edwin Waugh (9), Samuel Laycock, John Hartley and others. Two rebound; two others with tape repairs to inner hinges, and the map in Waugh's Rambles with similar repairs. Fair to fine. (15)
Lot: 153
Gollancz Thrillers and Crime Fiction, with works by W.J. Burley (5), June Drummond (4) and three others. All fine First Editions in VG/VF d/jkts, Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin price-clipped. (12)
Lot: 154
Gollancz Thrillers and Crime Fiction, a selection of First Editions including Iain Pears The Titian Committee, 1991, and The Raphael Affair, 1990, both signed by the author, and works by John Sherwood (4) from 1961. All in d/jkts, mostly fine but Del Shannon's Case Pending with signature on front of jacket, and H.R.F. Keating's A Rush on the Ultimate with spine darkened and chipped. Also an uncorrected proof of Anthony Price Other Paths to Glory, 1974. (12)
Lot: 155
John Harland Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Whittaker & Co., 1865, the author's personal copy & signed by him on front endpaper; alterations and annotations in Harland's hand to 'The Blessed Conscience' extending from pp.47 to 55 based on a manuscript provided to him after the book's initial publication. Small ownership stamp of the collector Robert Holland Ford at top of half-title. Together with Edwin Waugh Th' Owd Blanket and other stories, 1867; and Robert Dottie The Rambles and Recollections of “R' Dick”, Manchester 1898. (3)
Lot: 156
C.S. Lewis selection including The Abolition of Man, Oxford 1944, a pamphlet, unopened; Broadcast Talks, 1943, in d/jkt; Miracles, 1957, First Edition; Of This And Other Worlds, 1982, First Edn., in d/jkt; and Poetry and Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century, 1990, in d/jkt. VG/VF (7)
Lot: 157
Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, T. Fisher Unwin, 1908, 2nd printing, gilt cloth, uncut, small library stamp on reverse of title page o/w VG.
Lot: 158
English Poets, Oxford University Press, in full leather bindings, gilt, 1913-67, mostly 1943-51, the Elizabeth Barrett Browning a little faded, one with gift inscription, o/w fine and attractive lot. (11)
Lot: 159
Wesleyan interest including John Wesley Sermons on Several Occasions, John Mason, 1863, 3 vols, gilt cloth; Early Days; or, The Wesleyan Scholars Guide for the Year 1858, John Mason, gilt cloth, engraved plates; a 1779 pamphlet; The Primitive Methodist Hymn Book, 1878, bound in full stippled leather, with brass edges and clasp, and a Book of Common Prayer with similar binding; Swindells Brentnall Street Wesleyan Sunday School, Stockport, 1916; plus five others (one ex-library), and a fine engraving of the Wesleyan Conference Office, London, c.1860. (15)
Lot: 160
George Bellairs Crime Fiction, all Thriller Book Club editions in good to near-fine d/jkts, none price-clipped, no inscriptions, plus a duplicate Death in the Fearful Night with damp-stained d/jkt. (7)