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Click here to subscribeGRATEFUL DEAD: Signed 10 x 8 photograph by all six members of the American Rock band Grateful Dead individually, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Brent Mydland. The 1989 promotional image depicts the band standing and seated together in two rows. All have signed in black or pink inks with their names alone to light areas. With a small area of discolouration beneath Mickey Hart's signature. VG
CRAMPS THE: A good 19 x 25 silkscreen concert poster individually signed by all four members of the American punk rock band The Cramps comprising Lux Interior, Poison Ivy, Scott 'Chopper' Franklin and 'Jungle' Jim Chandler, the poster featuring artwork designed by Factor 27 for the Richard Goodall Gallery and issued to promote a performance by The Cramps at Rock City in Nottingham on 25th September (2003). Signed by each of the band in bold black inks to the poster. Limited Edition (RGG 16) numbered 22 of 50 in pencil to the lower border. Some very light, extremely minor wrinkling and age wear to the borders, VG
CONCERT POSTERS: Small selection of signed colour silkscreen and other printed concert posters of different sizes (19 x 25 and slightly smaller) issued to promote performances by various rock bands and other groups and musicians at Rock City, Nottingham, some of the posters being limited editions signed by the artists and featuring attractive designs commissioned by the Richard Goodall Gallery, comprising Kings of Leon (signed by all four members of the American rock band, comprising brothers Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill & Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew Followill), Fu Manchu (signed by three members of the American stoner rock band, comprising Scott Hill, Brad Davis and Bob Balch), The Beta Band (signed by four members of the cult Scottish indie rock band, comprising John Maclean, Richard Greentree, Steve Mason and Robin Jones), The Polyphonic Spree (signed by twenty members of the American choral rock band, including Tim DeLaughter, Mark Pirro, Jenny Kirtland, Rick G. Nelson, Audrey Easley, Andrew Tinker, Jennifer Jobe, Kelly Repka, Melissa Crutchfield, Logan Keese etc.), Wilco (signed by six members of the American alternative rock band, comprising Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline and Pat Sansone, togther with a second unsigned poster of an identical design for the same concert), Tomahawk & Melvins (signed by six members of the American rock bands, including John Stanier, Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover, Duane Denison etc.) and The Zutons (signed by four members of the English indie rock band, comprising Dave McCabe, Russell Pritchard, Abi Harding and Boyan Chowdhury. The poster issued to promote the release of the band's debut album Who Killed……The Zutons?). With some minor corner creasing and light age wear, otherwise generally VG, 8
CONCERT POSTERS: A selection of colour silkscreen and other printed concert posters of different sizes (19 x 25 and slightly smaller) issued to promote performances by various rock bands and other groups and musicians at Rock City and other Nottingham venues, some of the posters being limited editions signed by the graphic artists and featuring attractive designs commissioned by the Richard Goodall Gallery, comprising Motorhead, Baby Shambles (4), !!! (chk-chk-chk), Dropkick Murphys (3), The Rapture, The Shins (2), Yo la Tengo (2), Jane's Addiction, Mud Honey, Monster Magnet (2) and The Killers. None are signed by the groups. Some light age wear, generally VG, 19
NAGEL CONRAD: (1897-1970) American Actor, a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who also served as the fourth President of the Academy from 1932-33. Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Nagel in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull and bearing his blindstamp to the lower right corner. Signed by Nagel in bold black fountain pen ink to the image, partially across a darker area although reasonably legible. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album and with some light mottling to the image, G The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him
PAVLOVA ANNA: (1881-1931) Russian Ballet Dancer. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Pavlova standing en pointe in an elegant full-length pose. Signed in black fountain pen ink with her name alone to the centre of the image. The signature is slightly weak in parts. With light silvering to the dark areas, one small stain and age wear at the corners. About G
DALI SALVADOR: (1904-1989) Spanish Surrealist Painter. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Dali's Mustache by Salvador Dali and Philippe Halsman, First Edition published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1954. The book features 30 monochrome images of Dali (and his mustache, in typically surrealist poses) and represents a photographic interview between Dali and Halsman. Signed and inscribed by Dali to the front pastedown and across the front free endpaper in typically exuberant fashion, 'Pour Peter, Hommage de Dali', the artist adding various black circles to the conclusion and some of the intersections of the letters which form the inscription and further adding two original pen and ink drawings in his hand, the first of an ant and the second of two individuals, one a female, standing in full length poses alongside each other as they look upwards to observe a shooting star in the sky. Bound in the original publisher's glossy boards with a surrealist portrait of the one-eyed Dali to the front and a caption to the verso stating Warning! This book is preposterous. Some light overall age wear to the boards, most noticeable at the edges of the spine, otherwise about VG Ants are a recurring insect to appear in Dali's works and have been said to symbolise death, decay and immense sexual desire.
DALI SALVADOR: (1904-1989) Spanish Surrealist Painter. Book signed, a hardback edition of Dali: A Study of his Art-in-Jewels, The Collection of the Owen Cheatham Foundation, published by The New York Graphic Society, New York, Third Edition, 1970. Signed by the artist in bold blue ink with his name alone to the free endpaper. Housed in a slip case featuring a colour image of Dali's The Eye of Time. Together with an 8vo printed brochure and 4to printed guide, both which accompanied the exhibition of Dali's Art-in-Jewels. With light age wear, and minor creases and a tear to the upper left corner to the image on the slip case. Generally VG, 3
SPARE AUSTIN O.: (1886-1956) English Artist and Occultist. A.L.S., A O Spare, two pages, oblong 8vo, London, n.d. (c.1921), to [Clifford] Bax, on the printed stationery of Form, a monthly magazine of the arts. Spare informs his correspondent, in part, 'So pleased to have your contribution - would you mind if it appeared in the Dec: number? The first is finished: No 2 in hand and already a large number but will try to include it by leaving out my own article and a double page plate... Let me say how much I liked it. Very original & most interesting, and I'm keen on work that has a psychological bearing. I want more of it... I attach much value to your story.' With minor creasing to the left and right edges and light age wear, otherwise about VG Clifford Bax (1886-1962) English Writer, Playwright, Poet, Lyricist and Hymn Writer.
ARTISTS: Selection of signed A.Ls.S. (2) and sketches (2), by various artists, including Bernard Partridge (A.L.S., signed with his pseudonym Bernard Gould, in part, '…I shall be very pleased to play in the first piece if I like it (may I read it? I cannot decide unless I do)…' to Florence Farr, 12th February 1894), Thomas Millie Dow (A.L.S., in part, 'I should like you to take a photograph of my picture of "Eve" which is in the keeping of Messrs. Dolman & Son…', to Mr. Small, 11th May 1904), Charles Ricketts (pen and ink sketch for a costume design, with holograph annotations describing colours and materials to be used, n.d.) etc. One is neatly corner mounted to a 4to page bearing a neat ink calligraphic biography in the hand of a collector to the verso. With minor creasing, light age wear and dust toning. G, 4 Florence Farr (1860-1917) British Actress, Composer and Director, leader of the occult order, The Golden Dawn, and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw.
WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English Writer and Novelist. A.L.S., Evelyn Waugh, one page, 8vo, Combe Florey House, Combe Florey, 2nd July 1960, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Waugh states that it was a kind thought of Braybrooke's to have sent him a copy of London Green, remarking that it is 'a charming book which it is a pleasure to possess', although continuing 'But, alas, I can't do anything to prosper it. I do scarcely any reviewing myself and have no personal acquaintance with any editors except that of the Tablet who has already noticed it. I wish I could help, but can't'. Some light creasing and age wear, G Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English Writer and Novelist. A.N.S., with his initials E. W., on one side of his personal printed correspondence card, Stinchcombe, Dursley, Gloucestershire, n.d. (23rd June 1956), to J[ohn] Lehmann. Waugh informs his correspondent that he is moving house and ‘can’t write anything for months’, further adding ‘Anyway, I was born in London & left it, so I wouldn’t be a suitable man for your series’. Addressed in Waugh’s hand to the verso. Together with a second A.N.S., with his initials E. W., on one side of his personal printed correspondence card, Combe Florey House, near Taunton, n.d., to Neville Braybrooke. Waugh writes, in full, ‘Thank you for sending me the proof copy of your book which I look forward to reading’. Addressed in Waugh’s hand to the verso. Also including Auberon Waugh (1939-2001) English Journalist, eldest son of Evelyn Waugh. A.L.S., Auberon Waugh, one page, 4to, Chilton Foliat, Hungerford, Berkshire, 10th May 1970, to [Neville] Braybrooke, on Waugh’s attractive printed stationery. Waugh informs his correspondent that he has no objection to their studying ‘any marginalia in my father’s Tietjens editions’ although adding ‘I am rather surprised by what you tell me of their existence, since it was most certainly not his custom to write in books’. Waugh continues ‘I should check the handwriting – it might have been one of my sisters. When I last read them, I seem to remember a few underlinings, but certainly no annotations. I imagine he bought them second hand’. A few very light, minor creases, otherwise VG, 3 John Lehmann (1907-1987) English Poet and man of letters. Lehmann served as managing director of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press from 1938-46 after which he established his own publishing company, John Lehmann Limited, which operated from 1946-53. In 1954 he founded The London Magazine and edited the periodical up until 1961. Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
GERHARDIE WILLIAM: (1895-1977) Anglo-Russian Novelist and Playwright, one of the most critically acclaimed English writers of the 1920s. Series of four A.Ls.S. and a T.L.S., William, and one with his full signature, seven pages (total), small 4to, Portland Place, London, December 1960 – November 1961, all to Neville [Braybrooke]. Gerhardie writes regarding the publication of his tetralogy This Present Breath, in part, ‘Here are the opening and closing chapters of my tetralogy and the two drawings of the angels copied from the entablature of our old St. Petersburg house. This baroque house is both a talisman and a motto-theme running through the entire tetralogy, and this same friend of mine who copied the kneeling angels is making a drawing of the house for the book, to appear as end-papers and also on the jacket – unless having the two trumpeting angels on the jacket of the novel might be a better idea…..their function is to point to the musical construction of the tetralogy…..I asked my friend to provide them with trumpets. And I must say he has made a beautiful job of it. There is something of William Blake about the two angels. They have a dedicated, ecstatic expression, and really blow their slender silver trumpets with conviction. My friend’s name is James Parkhill Rathbone…..Please don’t think me fussy over my instructions to the printers…..but having lived with this idea for fifteen years, it would be a terrible shock if the printers (as printers are apt to do) substituted a lay-out with lettering of their own facile invention, contrived out of nothing better than contrariness and a wish to justify their inventiveness’ (31st December 1960), ‘Here are five new pages to be substituted for the five you have bearing the same page numbers. Then there are some corrections to be made in the text in your possession. These are marked on the other pages I enclose. The new pages are a great improvement, as you will see’ (16th June 1961), ‘I am returning the corrected galley-proofs today….I have made my point clear about the elaboration of the And sign before the chapter numerals and the galley margin. How happy I should be if the exquisite giant And sign could be reproduced in all its…..glory in miniature before the numerals! The whole title-plus contents page, with the Dante quotation, is laid out in such impeccable proportions that I look at it again, and again, in sheer aesthetic delight! It’s more than printing: it’s architecture’ (7th November 1961), ‘Olivia wrote a very charming article about my books, with special reference to the tetralogy in one volume – the one she half hoped you might like as an introductory piece in The Wind and the Rain. It was published in The Times…..and called ‘Buried Alive’’ (19th November 1961). Together with Gerhardi’s original design for the contents page of his tetralogy The Present Breath, with two rough sketches of the angels blowing their trumpets and various instructions, in part ‘I have attempted to indicate the different lettering needed but have not quite managed to get the proportions right. The sign & (which has symbolical significance, as appears in the penultimate chapter…..) should here divide, as it were, the title page from the contents page (sharing the same page between them)…..The ornamental lettering of Movement is perhaps too large in proportion….The quotation from Dante should be in rather smaller italics. The angels should not be reduced in size, or they will lose their individual expression of solemn, rapturous, ecstatic acclamation. The draw attention to the symphonic unity of the work’ and also including eight original pages of typescript from the manuscript of This Present Breath, with various corrections (some in holograph) and signed by Gerhardie to the final page. An interesting series of letters. Some with ink and pencil annotations by Braybrooke and some staining, paperclip rust stains and light overall age wear, G, 13 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
ACKERLEY JOE: (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor of The Listener, the BBC’s weekly magazine. Ackerley published many emerging poets and writers who would later become successful and influential in Great Britain. Ackerley was openly homosexual, a rarity at a time when homosexuality was socially ostracized and forbidden by law. Small group of five A.Ls.S., Joe Ackerley (2), J R Ackerley and one with his first name only, eight pages (total; two of the letters incomplete), 8vo and smaller, London, 1955-61, to various correspondents including Neville Braybrooke, two written on the printed stationery of The Listener. Ackerley writes an interesting series of letters concerning his literary work, in part, ‘I couldn’t make up my mind about your Housman review. Good? Oh yes. But the book has been so spat & shat upon by everyone else that I wondered whether it was worthwhile adding any further mess to the sidewalk.’ (22nd May 1955), ‘I am posting you my own copy of Prisoners of War today. After your second letter I see that I should not withhold it from you when I am so easily able to satisfy a desire which has survived in frustration for so long – though I fear that, as with many of our greatest wishes, anticipation may well turn out to have been a happier state than realisation…..It was misnamed, it should have been called ‘The Interned’. That was my mistake. Some of our critics expected to see barbed wire and bayonets and could not understand why men so comfortably and securely situated should have been so unhappy. In fact the play is not really about war, but about a few individuals and the effect of frustration and idleness upon their minds. One of the few critics who truly saw what was happening was Hugh Walpole, and he came out in its support with one of the most honest articles he ever wrote’ (24th January 1958), ‘I don’t know if anything will come of my family memoir…..It is hardly a new book, for I was at work on it in the late thirties when I was living in Maida Vale. A doodle-bug, or whatever it was, then fell upon me & it, & I did not look at it again until lately. I find it awfully badly written & sadly lacking in essential information…..’ (8th March 1960), ‘I doubt you will much enjoy the Casement Diaries, they are not really rewarding and, pity is, Casement himself was such a bore. I’m sure that if one had known him & however much one might have admired his work for humanity, & even known of his sexual proclivities – one wouldn’t have wanted to dine with him……(incomplete letter). Also including a manuscript copy of a poem by Ackerley entitled Letter to a Lost Soldier, two pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. Some light overall age wear, minor paperclip rust stains and one letter with two file holes to the left edge, generally G, 6
MACINNES COLIN: (1914-1976) English Novelist and Journalist. A.L.S., with his initials C.M., one page, 8vo, London, 3rd October 1961, to [Neville] Braybrooke. MacInnes informs his correspondent, in part, 'May I thank you for sending the T I, and tell you how much I like it: in particular, the London "dream sequences" (or dream-reality ones)… the meaningful "vagueness" of the persons who surround him, the style ("simple"), the mood (positive melancholy), the writers tone (definite-oblique)…'With minor creases to the lower right edge. Together with a second A.L.S., C. MacInnes., one page, 8vo, London, 8th May 1961, to [Neville] Braybrooke. MacInnes thanks his correspondent for their gift and note. With minor creasing and light age wear. G to VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
BELL QUENTIN: (1910-1996) English Art Historian and Author, nephew and biographer of Virginia Woolf. Small series of six T.Ls.S., Quentin Bell, six pages, 8vo (2) and 4to (4), Lewes, Sussex, February 1970 - October 1989, all to [Neville] Braybrooke. Bell's correspondence regards matters of literature, including, '…I have looked through the Hyde Park Gate News, having for a wonder found it, and I have extracted 8 articles which seem to me worth your attention… I seem to remember that you did use The Midnight Ride which forms a part of the list and the article on sailing To the Lighthouse… But there is one thing I have included entitled Miss Smith which is a story about a feminist which I think may cause some amusement and perhaps a little vexation amongst the more ardent American feminists.' 6th November 1988), 'Are you hoping to publish and if so who is your publisher? We are a little chary about unearthing and publishing the juvenilia of Virginia Woolf and I think I should have to consult with my co-partner in the estate and with my publishers before giving permission.' 22nd November 1988). With minor creases and one with a small tea stain. Together with Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) British Political Theorist, Author and Publisher, husband of author Virginia Woolf. T.L.S., LW, one page, oblong 8vo, Lewes, Sussex, 3rd January 1955, to 'Dear John'. Woolf apologises to his correspondent for not be able to write a piece for him, stating, 'I have a thing to do which will keep my nose to the grindstone this month and have promised to write another thing which will keep me going through March.' With a small staple to the upper left corner and age wear. Also including Cecil Woolf (1927- ) Publisher, nephew of Virginia Woolf. T.L.S., Cecil Woolf, one page, 4to, London, 8th October 1966, to J.R. Ackerley. Woolf states, in part, 'Very many thanks indeed for your letter of September 19th and for your statement on the Vietnam War… We have had, in general, an excellent response, from both British and foreign writers, and I fancy that the book, when published, will prove of considerable interest' adding a holograph postscript, in part, 'I cannot refrain from telling you how very much I enjoyed your "Hindoo Holiday"… not one of the literally dozens of friends, and acquaintances to who, over the years, I have presented copies, have ever failed to enthuse about it.' With creases and light age wear. G to VG, 8 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) British Writer and Editor.
cummings e. e.: (1894-1962) American Poet and Painter. T.N.S. E. E. Cummings, in red crayon, to one side of a correspondence card, Patchin Place, New York, 1st March 1960, to Neville Braybrooke. Cummings states, in full, 'sorry-don't know of any “juvenilia” I'd like to see published; but wish you and your project good luck'. Some light overall age wear and minor creasing and an ink blot to the left edge, not largely affecting the text or signature, about G Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. The present letter was written in response to Neville Braybrooke's research, which extended over some thirty years, into an anthology of juvenilia by writers who would later become famous. The book was published with the title of Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius in 1989.
AMERICAN LITERATURE: Selection of A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S. by various American writers, poets and novelists etc., comprising Bernard Malamud, John Hall Wheelock, Carl Van Vechten, Conrad Aiken (4; in part, ‘….what an appalling idea. I shiver to think of it. But what fun, too! My own juvenilia were innumerable and pretty dreadful, I’m afraid, but you are quite welcome to look at them, if you van find them, and to make use of them, if you can!’), Richard Eberhart (in part, ‘I must confess to a curious ignorance about you….Due to the reticence and propriety of your correspondence, which I take to be examples of good taste characteristic of Englishmen more than Americans, I had the notion that you were older than I am…..You may be interested to know that I liked your book so much that I wrote a review of it for the New York Times Book Review. This was accepted but returned as they do not review books unless printed on this side also…..It is the subtle kind of writing I grew up on and much admire. No doubt ‘socialist realist’ Russians would call it decadent, but I call it an example of the freedom of the individualistic imagination. By grow up on I mean that the roots seem to go back to Proust and James…..’, 3rd January 1962) and Charlie Miller (in part, ‘If you talk about Traven it will be his works, not the rumors and confusions. My whole purpose was to get the English-reading public interested in the books and not the man…..If you use or quote any part of this letter I’ll refer you to the Wobblies, the Mafia, International Copyright Convention, B’nai Brith, Anarchists United, and Traven’s private secretary!’, 7th October 1964). All of the letters are written to Neville Braybrooke and date from 1960-64. Some light overall age wear, a few tears and light staining etc., FR to generally G, 9 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
RUSSELL BERTRAND: (1872-1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician and Historian, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1950. T.L.S., Russell, one page, oblong 8vo, Merioneth, 18th March 1960, to [Neville] Braybrooke. Russell informs his correspondent that 'Some few juvenilia of mine have already been published and I have no others that I should wish to see in print' and concludes by apologising for not being able to be more helpful. Together with Julian Huxley (1887-1975) British Evolutionary Biologist, Eugenicist and Internationalist, the first Director of UNESCO. T.L.S., Julian Huxley, one page, oblong 8vo, Hampstead, 4th February 1960, to Neville Braybrooke. Huxley states that he was glad his correspondent was interested in the introduction to the Phenomenon of Man and adds that he is also interested in Braybrooke's project for a yearbook along the same lines, although remarking 'I regret that I cannot undertake any more writing at the moment, as I am overwhelmed with what I already have to do'. Some light creasing and very minor age wear, G to about VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. The first of the present letters was written in response to Neville Braybrooke's research, which extended over some thirty years, into an anthology of juvenilia by writers who would later become famous. The book was published with the title of Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius in 1989.
WHITE PATRICK: (1912-1990) Australian Writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1973. T.L.S., Patrick White, one page, 4to (folding air mail stationery), Castle Hill, New South Wales, 28th November 1961, to Neville Braybrooke. White thanks his correspondent for having sent a copy of The Idler which he had been very interested to read, remarking 'There are many details which remain with me - particularly the girl with the Camembert cheeks - but I suppose the key scene is most memorable. It reminded me of an occasion in Cyrenaica when I came across a burnt-out tank, somewhere near El Adem, I think. I walked round it, and there, suddenly, was the charred body of a man, caught by one ankle as he tried to escape. He was grimacing horribly, and bent like a bow. There was another scene - near Badia - a number of Italian infantrymen who had been slaughtered by Maoris a couple of days before. At least in their case they looked quite peaceful, lying there in the desert - again a kind of cheese, waxy green'. White concludes by hoping that Braybrooke will continue to write other novels. Together with a second T.L.S., Patrick White, one page, 4to (folding air mail stationery), Castle Hill, New South Wales, 7th December 1961, to Neville Braybrooke. White states that he feels the remarks made in his letter 'are too flabby to repeat in their existing form' and continues to suggest an alternative, 'Neville Braybrooke is the purveyor of a faintly sinister innocence. Many of his scenes linger: the London intellectuals and their not quite sympathetic child with cat; the brief, but memorable appearance of the girl with camembert cheeks; and the key scene of horror in an Army tank', further concluding by remarking 'Looking back, I think that scene in the intellectuals' flat, with child, cat etc. was probably the most successful, and I forgot to mention it when I wrote before'. Also including Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) South African Writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1991. A.N.S., Nadine, on one side of a printed correspondence card, Parktown West, Johannesburg, n.d., to Neville Braybrooke. Beneath a printed statement in which Gordimer thanks the recipient for their interest but regrets that pressure of work means she is unable to respond to a request, the writer has penned a brief note, in full, 'Have juvenilia somewhere about, but no time to search for it. Sorry! Best wishes'. Some light creasing and age wear to White's letters and some heavier creasing and staining to Gordimer's note. FR to G, 3 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
WATKINS VERNON: (1906-1967) Welsh Poet & Painter, a close friend of Dylan Thomas. A good T.L.S., Vernon Watkins, two pages, 8vo, Pennard Cliffs, near Swansea, 13th November 1953, to John Lehmann. Watkins thanks his correspondent for their letters and remarks 'I feel that if I wrote now about Dylan I would not do him justice. He was such a close friend that I simply cannot. If you want to know what I think of his work read the 'Times' obituary notice. I wrote it on Sunday. But it was the most painful thing I have had to write', further adding 'I stayed with Dylan many times in London and Laugharne. He sent me nearly all the poems up to and including 'Deaths and Entrances'. It is all too close. I saw him last a week or so before he went to America. He was my favourite living poet and just about my greatest friend'. Watkins also states that he has been asked by others to write a tribute and informs Lehmann that 'On Tuesday there was a short wireless tribute on the Welsh Home Service when Daniel Jones, the composer, his oldest and closest friend, spoke and played a piece of music. I read three of his poems and one of my own, - 'Portrait of a Friend', from my first book, which was written for him in 1938'. He concludes by suggesting that Edith Sitwell would give a very good appreciation, remarking 'What I have to say I feel I cannot say yet. This is, in fact, the most difficult time in which to say it'. Together with a second T.L.S., Vernon, two pages, 8vo, Pennard Cliffs, near Swansea, 8th August 1955, to John Lehmann. Watkins thanks his correspondent for their letter and adds 'I am glad that my Foreword to Dylan's book interested you', further remarking 'No, I didn't know you that you were paying Dylan a weekly sum for the novel, but I very much appreciate your having done this' and continuing 'I saw a lot of him when he was doing the film work, staying with him often, and certainly I had the impression that prose would come to him more easily at that time, as it nearly always did, than poetry. He found it extremely difficult to do any writing at all in London, and certainly most of his writing, and his best, was done in Wales. I do, though, agree with you that when he made that remark to Oscar Williams he was talking of a possibility, a rather remote one. I don't think he meant to finish the novel. I spent a day with him at Laugherne a fortnight after that letter was written, and he was entirely occupied with the revisions of 'Under Milk Wood'. I think I have implied that in my foreword, but I also think that the novel was something he worked on much earlier than I have suggested, perhaps when he was still seventeen. I wanted, though, to confine my remarks to my own contact with the work through his conversation and through his reading it aloud to me'. Also including an A.L.S., Vernon, three pages, 8vo, Pennard Cliffs, near Swansea, 12th December 1964, to Neville Braybrooke. Wakins thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks 'I'm glad you enjoyed Dylan's letters, which are wonderful, I think'. Watkins further adds that he cannot answer a question regarding a Stevenson story, although comments 'I bought the adaptation when it came out in a magazine this year, but my impression of it wasn't really as enthusiastic as yours. He certainly read Stevenson early, and liked him a lot, but I don't feel, as you do, that the adaptation is anything like as good as his original late prose, which in the broadcast scripts is superb. I must confess though that I haven't read the original Stevenson story, only Treasure Island and a few other things. His romantic imagination appealed to Dylan, & his wonderful power of transmitting physical sensations'. Watkins continues his letter with news of his own activities since returning from America, including translations of Dante and a presentation regarding Dylan Thomas for the Royal Institution with Professor Price, also referring to mutual colleagues including Professor O'Neill, and his experiences in Seattle where there was 'a very enthusiastic poetry audience & they were very kind….'. A small group of letters with good content, not least for their references to Dylan Thomas. Some light age wear and a few paperclip rust stains etc., generally G, 3 John Lehmann (1907-1987) English Poet and man of letters. Lehmann served as managing director of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1938-46 after which he established his own publishing company, John Lehmann Limited, which operated from 1946-53. In 1954 he founded The London Magazine and edited the periodical up until 1961. Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Welsh Poet and Writer. Thomas had died prematurely at the age of 39 in New York City on 9th November 1953, less than a week before Watkins wrote the first of the present letters.
BETJEMAN JOHN: (1906-1984) British Poet Laureate 1972-84. A.L.S., John Betjeman, one page, oblong 8vo, Wantage, Berkshire, 4th March 1946 ('Quinquagesima', Shrove Sunday), to [Neville] Braybrooke. Betjeman writes, in full, 'If as I believe it is from reading your editorial, The Wind & the Rain is a Christian & Catholic Church of England publication, right willingly do I submit for your consideration the recently composed poem of mine' With some extensive age toning and overall creasing, a few small areas of paper loss and a light stain at the centre, only very slightly affecting the text and signature. Together with a T.L.S., John Betjeman, one page, 8vo, Cloth Fair, London, 8th December 1965, to Neville Braybrooke. Betjeman states that it was nice to hear from his correspondent again after so many years, although remarks 'I ought to tell you that I really hate reviewing and anyhow couldn't possibly get anything in by December' further explaining 'I am having to do a lot of work for steam radio in our cathedrals, and it gives me no time to think of anything else'. A light band of age toning to the upper edge, not affecting the text or signature. FR to about VG, 2 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
LITERATURE: Selection of A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S. by various British writers and novelists etc., most to Neville Braybrooke, including Harold Acton (A.L.S., in part, 'I have received a copy of The Idler… I have read it will deep interest and admiration for your stream of vivid imagery and poetical prose. It leaves the haunting impression of a fine film, the suspense of which keeps one on tenterhooks' 21st January 1962), Jocelyn Brooke, Patrick Hamilton, Rayner Heppenstall, Oswell Blakeston, Ronald Blythe (2), Richard Adams (4; one T.L.S., in part, 'I would certainly like to include Mrs. Manning's "Black Cat" poem… You may be interested to know that response so far has been very good… It promises to prove rather an exciting project. Thanks, too, for your kind remarks about my novels. I have just published a new one, as a matter of fact. It's called "Maia", and got a very nice review from Isobel Murray in last Saturday's "Financial Times"', 3rd October 1984), Moray McLaren, H.E. Bates (A.L.S., 'I wrote a good many stories when I was still not 21 & some of these are included in my first volume of stories Day's End, which is still in print. I know that a story called The Flame… was one of them… I would suggest you use The Flame for your anthology; but you could have a look at Encore if you felt so minded' 17th November 1958), Gerald Brenan etc. Some minor foxing, light stains, creases and age wear. G, 19 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher.
WHITE ANTONIA: (1899-1980) British Writer. Small series of four A.Ls.S., Antonia, seven pages (total), 8vo and one on her personal printed correspondence card, London, 1964-65, all to June Guesdon Braybrooke. White writes to her correspondent on a variety of subjects, in part, ‘What a frightful adventure about the kitten. Poor things, I can imagine how you felt. I think it’s almost worse to lose a cat & not know what’s happened than to be faced with the death of one. One imagines such fearful possibilities. Well, St. Francis & St. Anthony certainly did a noble job for he might have been left in that coal-cellar till he starved to death…..I hope its frightened him just enough to be a little more cautious. Sue [White’s daughter, Susan Chitty] was delighted to meet you & went off with ‘Four Voices’ & sent me a card to say she was enjoying it immensely. Yes, aren’t we lucky to have such nice children?......I still find it hard to believe she’s been married over 12 years – longer than I ever managed to be. I’ve got nice grandchildren too…..’ (16th February 1964), ‘This is just to give you Sonia Orwell’s address if you’ve anything to send. She asked me if I had found anyone in the last few years whose work I was excited about & I said you were the only one……’ and continuing to provide Orwell’s address at Art & Literature in Paris (31st July 1964), ‘I can’t tell you how touched I am by the wonderful letter you wrote me about The Hound & the Falcon. It still all seems very dreamlike to me – the way it came to be published – the fact that it really exists, a printed book in ‘hard covers’ - & most of all people’s reactions to it, though it is only just out & only one review has appeared. I can’t help being very touched & very elated & yet I still can’t quite believe it…..And it is really all due to you & Neville that it happened. Anyway it’s all wonderfully comforting to me & perhaps I will eventually realise that I am still alive & not a ghost…….I do hope you get your novel finished by Christmas. I know what hell you have with each of your books which is probably why they’re so good’ (25th November 1965). Three of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes hand addressed by White. Together with a slim oblong 8vo folding Christmas greetings card signed by White with her first name only. Also including Susan Chitty (daughter of Antonia White who wrote an autobiographical book about the difficult relationship with her mother) Small series of two A.Ls.S. Sue, each on her personal printed correspondence cards, and a T.L.S., Suan Chitty, one page, 4to, East Grinstead, West Sussex, March – November 1989, all to Neville Braybrooke, briefly referring to works by her mother, mentioning Henry Newbolt, thanking Braybrooke for a copy of Seeds in the Wind and also making a reference to Adlers, the firm of solicitors who were handling White’s papers. The lot further includes Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) American Writer, best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), an important piece of Modernist literature and a cult classic of lesbian fiction. Two T.Ls.S., Djuna Barnes, each one page, 8vo and 4to, New York and n.p., 16th May 1957 and 22nd October 1960, both to [Neville] Braybrooke. In the first letter Barnes apologises for not having been able to supply a poem for an anthology as she is ‘up to my ears in proof sheets’ and further writes ‘regarding the idea of Nightwood for the B.B.C.’, commenting ‘I think you will have to see Faber and Faber. As far as I am concerned I should be very pleased to have it go on the B.B.C. providing you think you can do something with the book for that medium. Of course I would wish to see your script before any definite commitment’ and in the second letter Barnes thanks her correspondent for the charming Christmas present of A Partridge in a Pear Tree and continues to enquire if any progress was ever made with the BBC regarding Nightwood and further mentioning her play The Antiphon which has just been translated into Swedish and will be performed in Stockholm in the winter. Also including two original typescript copies of a poem by Barnes entitled Galerie Religieuse, the first copy featuring an A.N.S. by Barnes at the base, to Neville Braybrooke, stating ‘This has not been printed – Do you want it?’ and the second copy marked Corrected by Barnes at the foot and dated 4th May 1962 in her hand. Some light overall age wear and minor staining and creasing and one of the poems by Barnes with some extensive tears to the edges. FR to generally G to VG, 12 June Guesdon Braybrooke – English Writer better known by her pen name of Isobel English. Wife of Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. As the present letters suggest, White published a collection of letters entitled The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to the Catholic Faith in 1966. White and Barnes were friends and together at the time the latter wrote Nightwood, much of which was penned during the summers of 1932 and 1933 whilst both women were staying at Hayford Hall, a country manor in Devon rented by the art patron Peggy Guggenheim.
RYHS JEAN: (1890-1979) Anglo-Dominican Novelist, best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). Small series of A.Ls.S., Jean Rhys, twenty two pages, 8vo, Crediton, October 1966 - July 1971, to either Mr. [Neville] Braybrooke (6) or Mrs. [June] Braybrooke (3). Rhys writes to her correspondents on a variety literary and social matters, including, 'Thank you so much for your letter, & for being so kind to Sargasso Sea. It didn't take fifty years but sometimes it felt like fifty' (to Neville Braybrooke, 3rd October 1966), 'I was so glad you liked “Voyage” & “Midnight” & I am looking forward to your review' (to Neville Braybrooke, 17th June 1967), 'Your books arrived this morning & I was so glad to see them… I've already started The Key that Rusts & when I've read them both I'll write & tell you how much I enjoyed them' (to June Braybrooke, 11th May n.y.), 'Yes I like R.C. Dunning's poems very much… There is a good deal about him in Hemingway's book 'A Moveable Feast'. And what a spiteful book! But it isn't spiteful about poor Mr. Dunning' (to Neville Braybrooke, 12th April 1971), 'I enclose the questions you ask answered to the best of my memory…' (to Neville Braybrooke, June 28th n.y., with attached typed questionnaire regarding Rhys' early stage career, with answers completed in Rhys hand) etc. Five are accompanied by their original envelopes. Some light age wear and minor creases, otherwise G to about VG, 9 Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. June Braybrooke (1920-1994) English Writer, better known by her pen name Isobel English, wife of Neville Braybrooke.
HILL GRAHAM: (1929-1975) English Motor Racing Driver, Formula One World Champion 1962 & 1968. Signed 4 x 6 photograph of Hill in a head and shoulders pose wearing his Firestone racing overalls. Signed in bold blue ink across a slightly darker area at the base of the image. With minor age wear and light creasing to two corners, otherwise VG
HEMINGWAY ERNEST: (1899-1961) American Novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1954, Pulitzer Prize winner 1953. An engaging vintage signed and inscribed 9½ x 7 photograph, the image depicting Hemingway seated in a half-length pose within an arena, evidently a bull ring, flanked by two other men. Photograph by the bullfight photographer Francisco 'Canito' Cano and signed ('Cano') by him with his name alone to a clear area at the base of the image. Signed by Hemingway in bold black fountain pen ink to a clear area of the image, 'To Annie Weete, love, Ernest'. Neatly laid down to a card and with some very minor, light age wear to the image. About VG
BERRY JAMES: (1852-1913) English Executioner, 1884-91, recognised for his important contribution to the science of hanging with his refinement of the long drop method developed by William Marwood,improvements which were intended to diminish the mental and physical suffering of the prisoner. An extremely rare A.L.S., James Berry, two pages, 8vo, Bradford, 22nd March 1889, to Lewis [Strange] Wingfield ('Dear Friend'), on the printed stationery of the Executioner's Office. Berry informs his correspondent that he has received his letter and invitation to lunch in London, continuing to comment on his health, 'Since I have returned from Shepton Mallet I have a severe attack of chills on my chest & lungs and this is the first day I have been down from my bedroom but I am thankful I am no worse' Berry further writes on the subject of his work, 'I have an engagement in Dublin Kilmainham Gaol on the 8th April, Kirkdale Liverpool on the 9th and Swansea on the 10th so I must brace myself together and try and get some strength before the time comes for one to leave home again for business…' Berry also recalls a jovial case of mistaken identity the last time he was in his correspondent's company, remarking, 'I was quite amused at the social gathering of friends guessing me a foreigner and the other was not so far wrong in stateing (sic) I was a musician as I have always had a strong attachment to music and singing. My wife gave a hearty laugh when she read it.' With some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Berry, the first British hangman with sufficient literacy skills to be able to write of his experiences, performed 131 hangings during his career including that of William Bury, a man considered a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders. Infamously, in 1885, Berry was also the executioner who failed to hang John Babbacombe Lee (1864-1945), the controversially convicted murderer who became a cause célèbre known as 'the man they couldn't hang'. As the present letter confirms, Berry had been at Shepton Mallet gaol to conduct the execution of Samuel Rylands (also referred to in some reports as Reylands) on 13th March 1889. Rylands had been convicted of the murder of Emma Jane Davies, who on the night of 2nd January 1889 had gone missing after walking to collect milk from Yeobridge. Failing to return home that foggy and frosty morning, her anxious family searched the route she would have taken. They found her body lying in a muddy ditch, a blind-cord around her neck, the body gashed and cut, and her dress thrown over her head, which was almost severed from her body. The police, having been called, found a bloodied razor nearby alongside a man's footprints. On the 4th January Rylands, a local labourer, was arrested. There was no direct evidence linking him to the crime, although milk was found on his hat and it had been noted he was seen perspiring heavily and had wet and muddy boots on the day of the murder. Indeed, it was pointed out to the jury in the case, that it was better to acquit a guilty man than an innocent one be convicted, such was the circumstantial evidence. However, convict him they did. Interestingly, in what was undoubtedly a reference to the Jack the Ripper murders, The Times of 22nd February 1889 reported, 'It was apparently an aimless and motiveless crime by whomsoever committed. It was probably the morbid results of reading the accounts of the horrors which of late have appeared in the newspapers. In this instance, however, there were no traces of any outrage with the view to gratifying the murderer's passions'. On 8th April 1889, Berry visited Kilmainham gaol, Dublin, to conduct the execution of Peter Stafford, convicted of shooting a farmer to death during a dispute. At the gallows Stafford resisted violently when Berry tried to pinion him, fearing his end and struggling for freedom. In a fraught scene, Stafford had to be forcibly taken by warders to the scaffold, where he cried, 'Lord have mercy on me! God forgive me my sins!' before Berry, with great difficulty, carried out the sentence. Berry gave a drop of 6ft 6in, Stafford's weight being 11 stone, and death appeared to be almost instantaneous, the spinal cord being completely severed and the blood vessels of the neck ruptured. Two days later, on 10th April 1889, Berry attended Swansea gaol to perform the execution of Thomas Allen, a black seaman said to be a Zulu. Berry was to write later in his account of the execution for The Post: 'One of the worst jobs I have ever tackled was the execution of Thomas Allan (sic)… Thomas was a black man, a big strong fellow, with muscles like iron bands, and it well nigh beat me to hang him.' Allen had been convicted for the murder of Frederick Kent, the landlord of the Gloucester Hotel, Swansea. Allen had hidden within the premises after closing time in order to steal the days takings. Upon being discovered a struggle ensued which resulted in Allen being shot in the thigh and Kent being mortally wounded with a cut-throat razor. Making good his escape, the police followed Allen's footsteps left upon the snow covered ground. The fleeing murderer had left his cap behind, and from this he was identified. He had also left a razor in the bedroom, this being the weapon that had inflicted the various wounds. Once discovered Allen found himself at the hands of a lynch mob and ultimately in gaol. Convicted of murder, Allen was led to the gallows. The hanging did not go well. Berry would later explain, '…the poor fellow sank down into the pit. The rope did not quiver. “Dead, dead!” Exclaimed the governor… but the words were scarcely out of his mouth before the man at the end of the rope began to struggle. The doctor assured me afterwards that nearly three minutes elapsed before [he] died, and he thought it would have been better if I had given my victim another six inches. He was probably right.' Despite Berry's reference to a third execution in the present letter, his presence at Kirkdale gaol, Liverpool on the 9th April was not required. The prisoner Charles Parton, under sentence of death, on 5th April 1889 for the murder of John Fletcher, was granted a reprieve and his sentence was commuted to one of penal servitude for life. OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM WE CANNOT DISPLAY THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT - PLEASE CONTACT IAA DIRECTLY FOR THE FULL DESCRIPTION
CODY W. F.: (1846-1917) American Showman, known as Buffalo Bill. Vintage signed sepia cabinet photograph, the image depicting Cody in a half length pose. Photograph by Gessford of New York. Signed ('W.F. Cody 'Buffalo Bill'') in fountain pen ink to the lower photographer's mount and dated 1908 in his hand. With light age wear to the corners, otherwise G
GREY OWL: (1888-1938) Archibald Belaney. British-born Canadian Conservationist, Author & Lecturer, an 'apostle of the wilderness'. Scarce vintage signed 9.5 x 7.5 photograph of Grey Owl in a head and shoulders pose. Signed ('Grey Owl') in fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area of the image. Together with a printed 8vo souvenir brochure entitled Grey Owl - A Biographical Note, published by Lovat Dickson Ltd., London, 1937, signed by Grey Owl with his name alone in fountain pen ink to the title page. Also including an unsigned printed 8vo souvenir brochure entitled Grey Owl - The Man and His Story and an unsigned hardback edition of The Green Leaf - A Memorial to Grey Owl, edited and arranged by Lovat Dickson. Some overall age wear, FR to generally G, 4
BOW CLARA: (1905-1965) American Actress who starred in Wings (1927), the first film to be awarded an Academy Award for Best Picture. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of The It Girl in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in dark fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album. VG The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
AUTOGRAPHS: A fine plain white handheld fan with ivory sticks, plain ivory guards and a brass loop attached to the pivot pin, individually signed by 21 famous men and women, most associated with art and literature, comprising Blanche Lindsay, Dorothy Tennant (signed Dorothy Stanley following her marriage to Henry Morton Stanley), Frances Hodgson Burnett, John Hare, Alfred C. Lyall, Henry Thompson, William E. H. Lecky, Garnet Wolseley FM, Princess Helena, Henry James, Lewis Morris, George H. Boughton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and his wife Laura Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter, Arthur Sullivan, Edward Burne-Jones, Bret Harte, E. F. Benson (signed in full, Edward Frederic Benson), Sarah Grand and Annie S. Swan. All have signed with their names alone in dark fountain pen inks, most to individual leaves of the fan. An attractive and unusual presentation. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, about VG
PANKHUSRT EMMELINE: (1858-1928) English Leader of the Suffragette Movement. An excellent vintage signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Pankhurst in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood of New York. Signed ('E. Pankhurst') with her name alone in fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image. Signed photographs of Pankhurst of this size and quality are rare and desirable. A couple of light, minor corner creases and a few small pinholes to the upper and lower borders, none of which affect the image or signature, otherwise VGIn 1913 Pankhurst had initially been prevented from entering the United States when she landed at Ellis Island. The activist had travelled to America to undertake a lecture tour, but officials were initially concerned that her presence in the country, and 'moral turpitude', would prove inflammatory. The original decision of the Immigration Commissioners was reversed after President Woodrow Wilson sought assurances that she would not preach militancy during her stay in the country. Consequently, Pankhurst stated, 'This is a great victory… and good advertisement'. Despite the assurances the suffragette provided it is interesting to note that in the present image the defiant Pankhurst proudly displays a suffragette memorial ribbon around her neck.
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General who, in 1899 during the Second Boer War in South Africa, successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Later Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement. Autograph Manuscript signed, with his initials BP, three pages, 8vo, Waiho Gorge, Westland, New Zealand, n.d. (1934), in pencil, on the printed stationery of the Glacier Hotel at the Franz Josef Glacier. Baden-Powell’s manuscript, with several corrections throughout, is entitled On a Glacier and states, in part, ‘As I write this I am sitting on a bluff on the shoulder of one of the great mountains which rear their snowclad heads high above me on every side. In front and below me runs a wide valley which is filled from side to side with a vast white sheet of ice; not the sort of ice you know at home but a jumbled mess of blocks and waves and walls of ice. It is a glacier, or frozen stream, a mile wide and twelve miles long from where it starts…..I can see three tiny moving specks some two miles away on the glacier. These are my two daughters mountain climbing with their guide. Dressed in breeches and puttees and heavy iron-shod climbing boots and armed with ice axes for cutting steps in the ice and with goggles to escape the glare of the snow, they love the excitement of clambering over those great slippery crags…..As for me I am taking it easy, sitting on my bluff and gazing over this mighty frozen torrent. There is a steady rumbling hum in the air, just like the roar of the traffic in London as you hear it sitting in Hyde Park. This rumbling is the sound made by that vast mass of ice slowly, slowly grinding its way over the rocks and stones beneath it. Watching it and standing on it you can perceive no movement, but moving it is all the same…..It behaves just as a stream of water does in running down a steep water course, the difference being that it is all a solid block of ice….’ The final page is lightly and neatly laid down to a page most likely removed from a scrapbook and the first two pages are neatly laid down to the left edges alongside. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, about VG The present manuscript was most likely written in preparation for Baden-Powell’s book Scouting Round the World (1935) which records the Chief Scout’s round-the-world voyage undertaken in 1934 in the company of his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, and their two daughters. The book features a description of his observations as his daughters climb the Franz Josef Glacier.
MCLUHAN MARSHALL: (1911-1980) Canadian Philosopher & Intellectual who coined the terms 'global village' and 'surfing' and also predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented. A.L.S., Marshall McLuhan, one page, 4to (onion skin notepaper), Toronto, 24th February 1963, to [Neville] Braybrooke. McLuhan announces 'It was a happy inspiration that made you send me The Idler!' and continues 'I have read it with much enjoyment and shall now seek out your other writings. As a devoted student of T. S. Eliot I had of course read your volume for his 70th birthday'. The philosopher further informs Braybrooke that 'Frank Kermode has written me to say that he has suggested to the editors of Encounter that they start a debate in a series of articles concerning the themes of the Galaxy' and asks if he would like to participate, adding 'Roland Penrose of the Institute of Contemporary Arts has written to say that the Galaxy has given them the idea for a 1965 show on the Extensions of Man: Technologies seen as extensions of our organic being, having immediate as well as persistent psychic and social effects. Thus electromagnetic technologies are extensions of our central nervous systems as much as others of our bodies. i.e. E.S.P.' McLuhan concludes by stating that he hopes to come to England in the summer to discuss the matter with Penrose, 'and it would be a great disappointment if you were not there at the same time'. A letter of good content, not least for its references to two of McLuhan's most famous works. Some light overall creasing, about VG Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) English Poet, Writer, Editor, Literary Critic and Publisher. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) is a pioneering study in the fields of oral culture, print culture, cultural studies and media ecology in which McLuhan prophesised the web technology experienced today when he stated 'The next medium, whatever it is-it may be the extension of consciousness-will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopaedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind'. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) is a more widely known work by McLuhan and is regarded as a pioneering study in media theory. Dismayed by the way people approached and used new media such as television, McLuhan famously argued that in the modern world 'we live mythically and integrally ... but continue to think in the old, fragmented space and time patterns of the pre-electric age'.
FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed pieces, letterheads, a few signed album pages etc., by various famous men and women, mainly entertainers, including Eugen Sandow, Charles Beresford, Mark Hambourg & family members, John Hare, Gipsy Smith, Wilson Barrett (A.Q.S.), Charles Santley, Emma Albani, Dan Leno, Julia Neilson, Cyril Maude, Hayashi Tadasu (2), Ellis Jeffreys, Lewis Waller, Wilhelm Backhaus, Ralph Lynn etc., together with fifteen vintage unsigned postcard photographs of some of the signatories. Some light overall age wear and slight traces of former mounting to the corners, G to about VG, 50
NEWTON ISAAC: (1642-1727) English Physicist, Mathematician & Astronomer. Rare, dark ink signature ('Is. Newton') on a slim oblong 4to (10.5 x 2.5) piece removed from the head of a document, n.p., n.d. (annotated 1718 in pencil in an unidentified hand to one corner, and the verso bearing the date 3rd May 1718). The fragment has evidently been taken from a page of a financial ledger and is headed with the letters N.O.P. at the head. Newton's signature appears in the left margin, with his name written alongside in another hand, along with various figures, including the sum of £500 which is assigned to Newton. Above Newton's signature appears that of Sir John Norris and to the verso there are three further signatures, identified as Francis de Lizsew (?), Elizabeth Lee and William Lamb. With some light age toning and a few minor tears and very small areas of paper loss to the edges, none of which significantly affect Newton's signature. G In describing the present lot for this catalogue, the fragment was removed from the matt in which it has been previously presented by a collector. The signature could easily be replaced to be displayed this way, in a cream matt beneath an engraving of Newton to an overall size of 7.5 x 11.5. Our research, in the limited time available, has found no immediate connection between Newton and the other individuals named alongside him in the present lot. It is likely that Norris was the British Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Norris (1670/71-1749) who had joined the Board of Admiralty in March 1718. Both Newton and Norris were also involved in the Longitude Act of 1714.
EDISON THOMAS: (1847-1931) American Inventor of the phonograph and light bulb among many other items. A highly unusual hardback edition of The Boy’s Life of Edison by William H. Meadowcroft, with autobiographical notes by Edison, First Edition published by Harper and Brothers, New York, November 1911, signed by Edison and over 100 other individuals, many of them employees of the Edison Storage Battery Company in New Jersey as well as other famous individuals who visited the company, including Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924, American President 1913-21. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1919; ink signature on a slightly irregularly clipped card bearing the printed address of The White House, Washington, laid down to the head of the front free endpaper above Edison’s signature), William Meadowcroft (1853-1937, Anglo-American Secretary of Edison), E.S. Charlier (1826-1896, French Educationalist, founder of the Charlier Institute), Charles Steinmetz (1865-1923, German-born American Mathematician and Electrical Engineer), George Palmer Putnam (1887-1950, American Publisher, Author and Explorer, husband of Amelia Earhart), David Binney Putnam (1913-1992, American Aviator, son of George Putnam), Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935, American Businessman, first son of Thomas Edison), Charles Edison (1890-1969, American Businessman and Inventor, the third son of Thomas Edison; three ink signatures, one dated 1940 in his capacity as Secretary of the Navy and another on a piece neatly laid down), Theodore Edison (1898-1992, American Businessman, Inventor, and Environmentalist, the fourth son of Thomas Edison), Arthur Walsh (1896-1947, American Politician, whose early career began as a recording violinist for Edison in 1915, and later holding executive positions with the Edison Enterprises), William F. Cody (1846-1917, American Showman, known as Buffalo Bill; A.Q.S., ‘True to friend & foe, W. F. Cody, Buffalo Bill’ and dated 18th December 1911 in his hand), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President 1933-45; dated 14th June 1940 in his hand), Miller Reese Hutchison (1876-1944, American Electrical Engineer and Inventor, associated with Edison from 1909, and chief engineer of Edison's laboratory in West Orange from August 1912 until July 1918), Charles A. Boston (1863-1935, American Lawyer, President of the American Bar Association, 1930-1931), Robert Walsh (1861-1928, American Army Brigadier General), John J. Pershing (1860-1948, American Army General, most famous as the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917-18), Harry Bates Thayer (1858–1936, American Businessman, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) 1919-25), George S. Fleming (American Actor and Film Director, hired by the Edison Manufacturing Company in January 1901, just as the new Edison Studios in New York City were opening), George A. Campbell (1870-1954, American Engineer), Laurence Eyre (1881-1959, American Stage Director and Writer), E.E Hudson (Sales Manager, Primary Battery Department), Walter E. Holland (Chief Electrical Engineer), Horace Wilson (Edison Storage Battery Co., Mining Scout and Manager of Darby Mine), H. R. Leist (Edison Storage Battery Co.), A. E. Pratt (Chief Clerk, Edison Storage Battery Co.), F.B. Neely (The Electric Storage Battery Co.), C. J. Welcke (Electric Storage Battery Co.), R.E. Darling (Anderson Electric Car Co.), E.M. Cutting (Manager Edison Storage Battery Supply Co. San Francisco), John A. Trumble (Edison Co. New York), Harry Robinson (Edison Co. New York), Norman R. Speidan (Curator of Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison), J.D. Maxwell (Detroit Electric Car Co.), Bruce Emerson, James Orme and Edgar Orme (Emerson & Orme, Buick dealers), Harvey Robinson (The New York Edison Co.) and many others, some of them American military personnel who served in World War I. The signatures appear on various pages throughout the entire book, some of the pages are multiple signed, and many have added their positions within Edison’s company, or their military ranks, beneath their signatures. The book is signed and inscribed to a fly leaf by Henry Lawrence Davisson, a sales and service manager with the Edison Company, on the occasion of the birth of his first child, ‘The first present to Henry Lawrence Davisson Jr., from his Dad, Dec. 14 – 1911, Thursday, 210 West 4 St., New York, “Dave”’. Together with a second unsigned hardback edition of The Boy’s Life of Edison by Meadowcroft, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1921. The binding of the First Edition is loose, the spine largely detached and with extensive sellotape repairs, and the inside pages with light age wear, occasional sellotape stains and small tears to the edges etc. FR to about G, 2 Provenance: To celebrate the occasion of the birth of his first son, Henry Lawrence Davisson (affectionately known as ‘Harry’) obtained the present copy of the recently published book and duly circulated it amongst his colleagues at the Edison Storage Battery Company for their signatures. Davisson was also fortunate enough to obtain the signatures of the company’s hierarchy, including Thomas Edison himself, as well as some of the more distinguished visitors to the company over the next three years. Harry joined the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I and, as a Captain in the Engineer Corps and in command of troops, he sailed for France on the USS Tenadores a day after the armistice. It is evident that the book accompanied Harry to France as the signatures of various officers and senior NCOs are also included. Some other signatures were further added to the book over the coming years and an interesting, more detailed history of the book, its previous owners and some of the signatories, as written and researched by the vendor, is included in the lot. A copy of the document is available upon request.
LIVINGSTONE DAVID: (1813-1873) Scottish Missionary & Explorer. A.L.S., David Livingstone, three pages, 8vo, Newstead Abbey, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 18th February 1865, to 'My dear W'. Livingstone asks 'Are you intending to go on in MacMillan Mrs. Webb enquires' and continues 'If so she will order the Mag. but not if you are not on the staff - there's a compliment'. Livingstone also states that he doesn't know if Tom has arrived ('he ought to have left on Wednesday morning') and asks his correspondent to tell a mutual friend that 'I wish he may be protected from all ill both of body & soul', and further makes reference to several ladies (some of the surnames struck through in ink), asking which school one is collecting for and remarking 'If we can do Mrs [name illegible] a good turn we will of course'. Livingstone concludes his letter 'Snowing as if it would never tire'. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Livingstone stayed at Newstead Abbey, the former home of Lord Byron, as the guest of William Frederick Webb (1829-1899) a big game hunter who had spent much time in Africa, and his wife, for eight months between 1864-65. Livingstone left Newstead Abbey in April 1865 and returned to Africa in January 1866, spending the last years of his life there without ever returning to Great Britain.
WOOD EVELYN: (1838-1919) British Field Marshal, Victoria Cross winner for his actions during the Indian Mutiny, 19th October 1858. Vintage signed 8 x 6 photograph, the image depicting Wood standing in a full-length pose beside the porch of a large house. Signed ('Evelyn Wood FM') in bold black ink to the base of the image and dated 1919 in his hand. With minor creasing to two corners and light age wear, otherwise G
FISHER JOHN: (1841-1920) British Admiral, often considered the second most important figure in British naval history, after Lord Nelson. Three A.Ls.S., J.A. Fisher, three pages (total), large 8vo, n.p., 1903, all to Robert Chalmers. Fisher informs his correspondent of the nomination of Ralph Chalmers Navy Cadetship, 'With great pleasure I forward enclosed (no longer present) and I shall make it my duty to look after him' adding, 'Please return when filled up then give to me' (8th January 1903), 'I am so truly grieved to find on my return here from Marienbad that your boy has not qualified. May I offer you my nomination under the old scheme? (17th August 1903), '…I've sent in Ralphs name as my nomination & you need not trouble further as I hold receipt from Private Office until you will receive it in due course' adding, 'I shall never forget your kind help!' (18th August 1903). Together with an A.L.S., Lord Fisher, in the third person, one page, 8vo, London, 23rd October 1910, to Vezey Strong, Lord Mayor of London. Fisher states, in full, 'Lord Fisher requests being unable to accept the kind invitation of the Lord Mayor for Nov. 1st owing to unavoidable absence from London'. Also including an A.L.S., J.A. Fisher, being the last two pages of a longer letter, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to an unknown correspondent. Fisher informs his correspondent, in part, '…us in London provided you don't mind a small room. I see that Evelyn is engaged to be married. I hope Mr. Evelyn is very very nice (as you know I am in love with all your Aunts). We are very happy up here and to remain till Oct. 1st unless the Admiralty get impatient at my long absence.' Further including a signed colour postcard, the image depicting a full length portrait of Fisher in full naval uniform. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Signed ('Fisher') in bold black ink to a clear of the image. With minor discolouration to the letters, light creasing and age wear. G, 6 Robert Chalmers (1858-1938) British Civil Servant.
GILBERT JOHN: (1899-1936) American Silent Film Actor. A good vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Gilbert in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold fountain pen ink across a light area of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album. VG The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
WILLIAM IV: (1765-1837) King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland 1830-37. A.L.S., William R, as King, two pages, 4to, Admiralty, 31st December 1827, to [Augustus] Clifford. William informs his correspondents, in part, '…Mrs Clifford will order the plate at Rendell and Bridges which will be ready for your return. Under the present state of affairs I am sure you will return to Europe the moment you can' further adding, 'I have been informed that Lord and Lady William Bentinck left town yesterday…' and concluding, 'I shall be very sorry if Lady Charlotte is detained by ill health.' With blank integral leaf. With minor age wear and light creases, otherwise G Augustus Clifford (1788-1877) British Royal Navy Officer, Court Official, and Usher of the Black Rod. William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839) British Soldier and Statesman, Governor-General of India, 1828-35.
MARY: (1867-1953) Queen Consort of the United Kingdom 1910-36, wife of King George V. Vintage signed 5½ x 8 photograph of the young Duchess of York seated in a three-quarter length pose holding the infant Prince Edward, the future King Edward VIII, in her lap. Signed ('Victoria Mary') by the Duchess in bold black fountain pen ink across a light area of the image, also adding '& Edward' and the date 1894 in her hand. Very slightly irregularly trimmed to the edges, not affecting the image or signature. G
GEORGE V: (1865-1936) King of the United Kingdom 1910-1936. D.S., George R. I., as King, at the head, one page, oblong folio, Court of St. James, 14th September 1935. The partially printed document approves the appointment of Mr. G.C. Forster to be Consul at Calcutta following a commission issued by 'Our Good Friend the President of the Republic of Ecuador'. Countersigned at the foot by Samuel Hoare (1880-1959, Foreign Secretary). With blind embossed seal. With light age wear, otherwise G
ELIZABETH II: (1926- ) Queen of the United Kingdom 1952- . Bold black fountain ink signature ('Elizabeth R') and date, 10th July 1975, in her hand on an oblong 4to page removed from a visitor's book. A very light smudge only affects a few letters of the signature. Neatly laid down, otherwise VG
CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Vintage signed 4 x 6 photograph, the image depicting Churchill seated in a half-length pose at his desk within the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street. Photograph by Walter Stoneman and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to the lower photographer's mount and dated 1950 in his hand. The signature and date are faded although still legible. Irregularly trimmed to all four edges and with two small water stains to the edges of the photographer's mount, neither of which affect the signature or date. Together with a T.L.S., Elizabeth Gilliatt, Churchill's Private Secretary, one page, 8vo, London, 14th June 1950, to Mrs. Glanville, being the original letter that accompanied Churchill's photograph, and stating, in full, 'Mr. Churchill has heard from Mr. McCorquodale that you are celebrating your 100th birthday tomorrow, and he has asked me to send you the enclosed signed photograph of himself, with his best wishes. He learns also that you are a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party, which pleases him very much. Mr. Churchill hopes you will have many more years of good health and happiness, and he thanks you for your support of the Party he has the honour to lead.' With two splits to the edges of the central fold and some light age toning. FR to about G, 2
BOLIVAR SIMON: 1783-1830) Venezuelan-born Military and political leader. President of Gran Colombia 1819-30, President of Bolivia 1825 & President of Peru 1824-27. Bolivar played an important role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians in the history of the Americas. D.S., Simon Bolivar, one page, folio, Lima, 2nd October 1823, in Spanish. The partially printed document is a military commission appointing Lieutenant Leon Galindo to be a Colonel of Infantry. Signed by Bolivar in his capacity as 'Liberator President of the Republic of Colombia'. With a good red wax seal affixed, protected by seven flower paper petals. With blank integral leaf. The edges are very slightly irregularly trimmed, and with light some overall water staining, not affecting the legibility of the text, G Leon Galindo (1795-1865) Commander of the Bogota Battalion, 2nd Division, who was victorious in the decisive battle of Ayacucho on December 1824, under Commander-in-Chief Antonio Jose Sucre.
ZINOVIEV GRIGORY: (1883-1936) Bolshevik Revolutionary and Soviet Communist Politician, one of the seven members (alongside Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and others) of the first Politburo founded in 1917 to organise the Bolshevik Revolution. Convicted and executed as part of the Great Terror in the USSR, August 1936. An extremely rare, large vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8.5 x 13.5 photograph of Zinoviev seated in a half length pose with his arm resting on a desk at his side. Photograph by Moses Nappelbaum. Signed by Zinoviev to the lower photographer's mount and inscribed in German to Otto Grimlund, with a reference to Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) and dated 13th March 1919 in his hand. Contained in the original beige matt to an overall size of 12 x 16. A signed photograph with an interesting association. Some light overall age wear and various scuffs to the image and mount, none of which significantly affect the signature, G Otto Grimlund (1893-1969) Swedish Communist Politician who was one of the main organisers of Lenin's historic 1917 trip from exile in Switzerland, through Germany and Sweden and back to Petrograd in Russia. Grimlund is known to have kept a signed photograph of Lenin (now part of an important private collection of autograph letters, manuscripts, historical documents and signed photographs) and it is more than likely that the present portrait of Zinoviev hung alongside it.
PEARSE PATRICK: (1879-1916) Irish Nationalist & Political Activist, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. Following his court martial and subsequent execution Pearse came to be seen by many to be the embodiment of the rebellion. Rare D.S., Padraic Mac Piarais, in Gaelic, being a signed cheque, Terenure, Co. Dublin, 29th August 1913. The partially printed cheque, completed in Pearse's hand, is drawn on the The Royal Bank of Ireland Limited and is made payable to William Magee for the sum of £9-12-1. With several bank cancellations in various forms including a fine single ink stroke which only very slightly affects Pearse's signature. Endorsed to the verso with signatures of William Magee and Thomas O'Connor. Autographs of Pearse are rare in any form as a result of his execution by firing squad at the age of 36. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG William Magee & Co supplied food to St. Enda's School in Dublin, a secondary school for boys that had been set up by Pearse in 1908.
OWENS JESSE: (1913-1980) American Athlete, famous for his participation at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 where he became the first American to win four Olympic Gold medals in track and field events. Signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, the image depicting Owens in a full-length action pose. Signed ('Jesse Owens') in bold ink to a light area of the image. VG
DENNY REGINALD: (1891-1967) English Actor. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Denny in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in fountain pen ink to the image, largely across a darker area. Some light staining to the background of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album, G The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
TALMADGE NORMA: (1894-1957) American Actress. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of the actress in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold fountain pen ink across a light area of the image. One very light, minor stain to the background of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album, VG The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
DANIELS BEBE: (1901-1971) American Actress. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Daniels in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink across a light area at the base of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album, VG The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
DOVE BILLIE: (1903-1997) American Actress. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Dove in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink across a light area at the base of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album. VG The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
COSTELLO DOLORES: (1903-1979) American Actress. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Costello in a close-up head and shoulders study. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink to a clear area of the image and dated 1928 in her hand. Some very minor, light mottling to the image and some equally minor silvering to the extreme edges. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album. VG The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
MOORE COLLEEN: (1899-1988) American Actress. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Moore in a head and shoulders pose sporting the bobbed haircut which she helped popularise in the 1920s. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink across a light area at the base of the image. Neatly and lightly mounted to a folio page removed from an album. VG The present photograph was originally included (along with thirty-six others) in a folio calf leather bound presentation album which was one of just fourteen (as far as our research indicates) that were presented to the individual members of a delegation of British journalists who visited America for a two month tour in 1928. Funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the objective of the tour was to improve Anglo-American relations and the presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th November 1928 (just over six months before the first Oscar was presented at the very same venue) was a major highlight of the tour. The album from which the present photograph was extracted had been presented to F. Lawrence Johnson, a journalist associated with the Northeastern Daily Gazette, and the photograph bears an inscription to him.
HEPBURN AUDREY: (1929-1993) Belgian-born Actress, Academy Award winner. A good, early A.L.S., Audrey Hepburn, two pages, 8vo, n.p., 18th August 1951, to [William] Templeton. Hepburn thanks her correspondent for having sent her some beautiful flowers, but above all for the kind thought, and continues 'I enjoyed being in your play emmensely (sic) and am very happy for you that it was such a success, may it be followed by many more'. A letter of good association. Some very light, extremely minor creasing, VG William Templeton (1913-1973) Scottish Playwright and Screenwriter, a major contributor to the 'Golden Age of Television' in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1951 Hepburn starred in the role of Celia in a live British teleplay entitled The Silent Village for which Templeton had provided the screenplay.
LEIGH & OLIVIER: LEIGH VIVIEN (1913-1967) English Actress & OLIVIER LAURENCE (1907-1989) English Actor, both Academy Award winners. A vintage printed 8vo theatre programme for a performance of Caesar and Cleopatra at the St. James's Theatre, London, individually signed by both Leigh and Olivier in blue fountain pen inks with their names alone to clear areas of the front cover. Some very light age wear, otherwise VG
ASTAIRE & ROGERS: ASTAIRE FRED (1899-1987) & ROGERS GINGER (1911-1995) American Actor & Actress and Dancers, both Academy Award winners. Signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph by both Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the image depicting the duo in head and shoulders poses together in costume as Josh and Dinah Barkley from the musical film The Barkleys of Broadway (1949). Signed by Astaire in bold black ink with his name alone and signed and inscribed by Rogers in bold black ink, both to clear areas of the image. A couple of light, extremely minor corner creases, otherwise about EX
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