Lot: 41
Uma Thurman autographed 10x8” colour photo in her role in Kill Bill. With Certificate of Authenticity.
Lot: 42
Lucy Lawless autographed 10x8” colour photo in her role as Zena Warrior Princess.
Lot: 43
Album of autographed photos, mostly TV personalities, some radio; including Gaby Roslin, Martin Bell, Jim Rosenthal, Bernard Cribbins, Wayne Sleep, Melvyn Bragg, Michaela Strachan, Lesley Garett, and many other well-known. Also few signed pages and Grace Kelly with printed signature. (97)
Lot: 44
J.E. Morpurgo Barnes Wallis, 1972, first edn., in d/jkt, signed by the author on title page, with a card signed by Barnes Wallis tipped on to front endpaper; together with a typed letter signed by Wallis, and newscuttings two of which are inscribed by him.
Lot: 45
Ambassadors, Diplomats and few Military autographs, 1950s/1960s: a collection in two albums of signed cards and few signed letters including ambassadors, high commissioners etc for Ethiopia, Australia, Argentina, Aden, USA (2, both Winthrop Aldrich), Bolivia, Denmark, Columbia, Sweden, Hong Kong, British Guiana, etc., and other signatures including Douglas Bader. Fine. (94). Also a small collection of British C/Wealth stamps
Lot: 46
Autographs of Viceroys and Governors of India, 1800s to mid-20th Century, with letters, envelope fronts, PPCs, etc; including Warren Hastings (ALS), Marquis Wellesley (4), Mountbatten of Burma, Earl Wavell, Thomas Baring, Lord and Lady Curzon, and many others including few military commanders connected with India. Loosely inserted in folders. (70)
Lot: 47
Aaron Hamilton Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, 2020, revised & expanded 2nd edition., large format h/bk in d/jkt; with the s/bk companion Map Book (corner crease). (2)
Lot: 48
German Military History comprising Nash Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket January-February 1944, 2005, in d/jkt; Dimbleby Barbarossa, 2021, in d/jkt; Schneider Tigers in Combat Vol.III, 2016, in d/jkt; and another. Fine (4)
Lot: 49
German Military History comprising George Nipe Blood, Steel and Myth, 2011, in d/jkt; Nash & Spezzano Kampfgruppe Muhlenkamp, 2020, pictorial boards, lavishly illustrated; and Nevenkin From Leningrad to Narva 2019, pictorial boards. Fine (3)
Lot: 50
Bradbury In the Derbyshire Highlands, J.C. Bates, 1881, gilt cloth, spotting to prelims; Gibson Northumbrian Castles, Churches, and Antiquities, 1848, first series, tissue-guarded plate; Cunliffe Excavations at Fishbourne, Leeds, 1971, 2 vols., fine, in the d/jkts; and other local history & topography. (15)
Lot: 51
Social and political history including six by George Ewart Evans (mostly first editions) and other mainly 20th Century works, most in d/jkts. (31)
Lot: 52
Americana including ‘A Grand Terrible Dramma'…The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed, 2000; Mullen The Donner Party Chronicles…1846-1847, 1997; The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1795-1798, 1977, two vols., and various others, most in d/jkts, Lawmen & Desperadoes signed by the author. (12)
Lot: 53
Michael B. Taylor and V.L. Wilkinson Badges of Office: An Illustrated Guide to the Helmets and Badges of the British Police 1829 to 1989, R. Hazell & Co., 1989, pictorial boards, inscribed by Michael Taylor on title page, ownership signature to front endpaper.
Lot: 54
Crime reference works including Lloyd Trott Mafia, a select annotated bibliography, Cambridge, 1977; Kent & Flynn The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook, Boston, 1992, in d/jkt, signed by the authors; John Cumming Bibliography Dealing with Crime and Cognate Subjects, London, 1935 (2 copies); and various others. (11)
Lot: 55
William Smith Old Yorkshire 1881-84, five volumes, and the New Series additions of 1889-91 in three volumes; gilt cloth, b/w plates. Some minor spotting to prelims. Attractive set. (8)
Lot: 56
J. Sutcliffe Stuart A Musical Pilgrimage in Yorkshire, 1928, b/w plates, 369 of 500, and The Literary Shrines of Yorkshire, 1892, b/w plates; Frederick Ross Yorkshire Family Romance, 1891; and other Yorkshire related. All in the original cloth bindings, Fletcher's Nooks and Corners of Yorkshire with map in rear pocket. (10)
Lot: 57
Edward Ingram Leaves from a Family Tree being the Correspondence of an East Riding Family, A. Brown, [1951], in d/jkt; Smith The Place-Names of the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1937, gilt cloth, seven maps in rear pocket; Harris The Rural Landscape of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Oxford, 1961, in d/jkt; and two others, Yorkshire families related. (6)
Lot: 58
An Old York Church. All Hallows in North Street, York, 1908, folio, gilt cloth, No.218 of 500, many plates; Caine The Martial Annals of the City of York, 1898, gilt cloth, 60 illustrations; Widdrington Analecta Eboracensia – Some Remaynes of the Ancient City of York, C.J. Clark, 1897, gilt cloth, No.27 of 265, twenty-six plates; Memoirs illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York, John Murray, 1847-48, two vols., with plates, title pages foxed; and York Bridgemasters' Accounts, York Archaeological Trust, 2002, 497pp, damage to foot of the spiral binding. (6)
Lot: 59
Angelo Raine York Civic Records, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1939-53, eight volumes, plus the additional Vol.9 published 1978. Gilt cloth, one with ownership signature. (9)
Lot: 60
George Benson Coins: Especially those relating to York, 1914, and The Ancient Painted Glass Windows in the Minster and Churches of the City of York, 1915, both in later cloth, gilt; Solloway The Alien Benedictines of York, 1910, gilt cloth, No.122 of 250, b/w plates; Ritchie The Ecclesiastical Courts of York, 1956, in d/jkt; Depositions from the Castle of York, Surtees Society, 1861, gilt cloth, and others including two bound volumes of York Historian 1976-2003. (9)