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Auction No 370, Category: Performing Arts

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Album of autographs, early 1990s, sport & entertainment, with Manchester United & City

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £185
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Album of autographs, early 1990s, sport & entertainment, with Manchester United & City players including George Best, Bryan Robson, Niall Quinn, Denis Law, Ryan Giggs & others; Muhammad Ali, Clive Lloyd, Mike Sweeney, Coronation Street & Brookside stars, Hayley Mills, Juliet Mills, Bill Wyman, Norman Wisdom, Robert Powell, Alvin Stardust, Dora Bryan, Foo Foo Lamar, Billy Connolly, Frank Windsor, Gordon Kaye, George Cole, Screaming Lord Sutch, and many other well-known. Signed pages mostly ‘back to back’. Fine (110)

Album of autographs, early 1990s, chiefly Footballers, some entertainers, including Tom Jones, Tommy Steele,

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Album of autographs, early 1990s, chiefly Footballers, some entertainers, including Tom Jones, Tommy Steele, Manchester City and Everton players, Martin Buchan, Steve Coppell, Howard Kendall, Denis Tueart, Alan Hansen, Peter Reid, Tony Book, Rowan Atkinson, Viv Anderson, Bernard Manning, and many other well-known. Signed pages mostly ‘back to back’. Fine (56)

A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including "The Astrologer's Magazine"

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £135
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A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including The Astrologer’s Magazine ( formerly The Conjuror’s Magazine) August to December 1793; W. Cockburn The Nature and Cures of Fluxes, 1724; Michael Quin A Steam Voyage down the Danube, 1836, with folding map; Bayle The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, 1743, with frontisp; Marksman’s The Dead Shot, four different editions; and J. Clarke The Wreck of the Orion, 1851, with litho plate. Most have clean text, but The Astrologer’s Magazine suffers from intermittent foxing. (15)

Geoffrey Gimcrack [John Stanley Gregson] "Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £56
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Geoffrey Gimcrack [John Stanley Gregson] Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners Ten Years Ago, Manchester, 1833, octavo, contemp. cloth, marked, title label badly worn; engraved frontispiece and seven engraved vignettes (including title page); offset impression on title page; good clean text. 196pp. [This book includes a rare reference to the playing of Golf on Kersall Moor, plus other sporting references]

                        

"An Account of the Manchester Musical Festival, 1828….with a Description of the characters who attended the Fancy Dress Ball"

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £26
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An Account of the Manchester Musical Festival, 1828….with a Description of the characters who attended the Fancy Dress Ball, T.Sowler, Manchester, 1828, octavo, brown paper wraps with remains of original title label on front; worn at corners and last page of text darkened. Frontispiece & two fine folding plates. The publication includes an alphabetical list of all those known to have attended the event detailing their costume for the evening, over 3000 names. 129pp

Cliff Green "Professional Card Magic", Louis Tannen, New York, 1961, quarto, full leather, gilt, pictorial onlay

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £74
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Cliff Green Professional Card Magic, Louis Tannen, New York, 1961, quarto, full leather, gilt, pictorial onlay, 159pp, VG; and Dai Vernon Malini and His Magic, Harry Stanley, [1962], 1st Edn., quarto, fine in very good original d/jkt, 108pp. No internal inscriptions. (2)

Liverpool & area Theatre Programmes and some related items, a collection in a folder, 1870s to 1940s,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £140
SOLD £230
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Liverpool  & area Theatre Programmes and some related items, a collection in a folder, 1870s to 1940s, including Coronation Programme for Wallasey 1902, Blackpool Pier 1902, The Liverpool Lantern issue for Nov.30th 1878, Programmes for the Rotunda, Pavilion, Royal Court, Shakespeare, Star, Olympia, Kelly’s, Hippodrome, Empire Palace, and others. Fair to fine. (68 items)

[Hugh Shimmin] "Liverpool Life: Its Pleasures, Practices, and Pastimes", Egerton Smith, Liverpool, 1856

Lot: 132

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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[Hugh Shimmin] Liverpool Life: Its Pleasures, Practices, and Pastimes, Egerton Smith, Liverpool, 1856, 19th Century gilt cloth, VG, fine text, 111pp ; bound with C. Dunning Clark Warncliffe, The Wanderer (all of which has been singed by fire!) and two stories extracted from Tales from the Note-Book of a Parish Officer. [Liverpool Life is an excellent survey of popular entertainments of the day including the Theatre, Gambling and Dog Fighting]

Professor Angelo Lewis Hoffmann "Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring"

Lot: 134

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
UNSOLD
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Professor Angelo Lewis Hoffmann Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring, George Routledge, 1877, 2nd Edition, original decorative cloth, gilt, recased with new endpapers, lower right corner to front board rounded; spotting to frontispiece, title and colophon o/w fine internally; xvi,509pp

Sir John Vanbrugh "Plays Written by Sir John Vanbrugh", J. Tonson & others, London, 1730, small octavo

Lot: 142

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Sir John Vanbrugh Plays Written by Sir John Vanbrugh, J. Tonson & others, London, 1730, small octavo, contemp. calf, worn, gilt title labels replaced; occasional minor browning. Good (2)