BAIRNSFATHER BRUCE: (1888-1959) British Cartoonist. A good original pen and ink drawing signed and inscribed by Bairnsfather, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. In bold, dark fountain pen ink Bairnsfather has drawn a head and shoulders image of his most famous creation, Old Bill, smoking a cigar. Signed (''ullo! from Old Bill & Bruce Bairnsfather') in fountain pen ink beneath the sketch and with an inscription in his hand to the upper edge. Together with two slightly smaller 8vo sheets featuring a series of pencil sketches, unsigned although understood to be by Bairnsfather, the images depicting various soldiers of World War I in uniform, one accompanied by two horses, and another image depicting two open top cars driving at speed, one with a man in the back shooting at passers-by. One of the sheets has a partial pencil study of a female nude to the verso. Lightly mounted (1) and all three with varying degrees of age toning, evidently caused by previous framing. G, 3
We found 32316 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 32316 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
32316 item(s)/page
![[JOHNSON AMY]: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A good hardbound 4to menu for a Luncheon in Honour of Miss Amy Johnson,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/80a73d53-b26c-4190-b275-aacc00a13ca3/f0411fc4-5683-4dd2-a55d-aae100de2c6a/468x382.jpg)
[JOHNSON AMY]: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A good hardbound 4to menu for a Luncheon in Honour of Miss Amy Johnson, being ‘A Tribute from Representatives of British Youth & Achievement in all Activities of Life to Her Courage and Endurance during her Historic Flight from England to Australia May 5-24, 1930’, hosted by the proprietors of the Daily Mail at the Savoy Hotel, London, on 6th August 1930, signed to two inside pages by over twenty individuals present at the luncheon, including Richard Richardson (Lord Mayor of Hull, the city of birth of Johnson) and his wife, the Lady Mayoress, the Deputy Lord Mayor, and the Sheriff of Hull and his wife, Woolf Barnarto (1895-1948, British Financier & Racing Driver, one of the ‘Bentley Boys’ of the 1920s and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Race in 1928, 1929 & 1930), Eileen Fearnley-Whittingstall (1907-1979, English Tennis Player who won six Grand Slam doubles titles 1927-31), Harry Gordon Selfridge Jr. (1900-1976, Son of Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr., founder of the department store Selfridges), John William Johnson and Amy Johnson (the parents of Amy Johnson), William Morris (1877-1963, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English Motor Manufacturer & Philanthropist), George Sutton (Managing Director of Associated Newspapers), Mildred Bruce (1895-1990, Mrs. Victor Bruce, British Record-Breaking Racing Motorist, Speedboat Racer and Aviatrix of the 1920s and 1930s), Sylvia Thompson (1902-1968, English Novelist), Diana Fishwick (1912-1998, English Women’s Golf Champion), H. W. ‘Bunny’ Austin (1906-2000, English Tennis Player, Wimbledon finalist in 1932 & 1938), Tom Webster (1886-1962, English Cartoonist & Caricaturist; alongside an original pencil sketch of a long bearded man standing in a full length pose with the holograph caption ‘I may not look 35, but there! I’m a Russian’), William McWhirter (English Editor of the Sunday Pictorial and Managing Director of Associated Newspapers 1944-50, father of Norris and Ross McWhirter, founders of Guinness World Records), Violette Cordery (1900-1983, British Racing Driver & Long Distance record breaker), Jack Hylton (1892-1965, English Pianist & Band Leader), Lupino Lane (1892-1959, English Actor & Theatre Manager), Jean Forbes-Robertson (1905-1962, English Actress), P. H. Fearon (1874-1948, British Cartoonist for the Daily Mail, known as ‘Poy’; alongside an original pencil caricature of the Brighton hotelier Harry Preston), Richard Hughes (1900-1976, British Writer) etc. All have signed in bold pencil or dark fountain pen inks. The menu includes a Sonnet in Homage to Johnson by Robert Nichols, an essay entitled Dea Ex Machina by Sylvia Thompson and illustrated with six photographs of Johnson taken at various stages of her historic flight, a Guest List organised by profession, and the cover features a reproduction of a painting by Joan Manning Sanders (some tears and age wear). Accompanied by the loosely inserted original printed oblong 8vo invitation card issued to Annie Croft and a printed table plan for the luncheon. With the ink ownership signature of Annie Croft (1896-1995, English Stage Actress, mother of the writer & producer David Croft) to the upper edge of the front cover. The binding is a little loose and with some light overall age wear, G
ARTISTS: Selection of signed cards, First Day Covers, colour images etc., by various artists. sculptors, photographers and designers etc., comprising Grayson Perry (2), Henry Moore, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon. Henri Cartier-Bresson (initials), Lynn Chadwick and Vivienne Westwood (2; one an original unsigned green crayon sketch of a handbag by Westwood). Generally VG, 9
ROSS RONALD: (1857-1932) Anglo-Indian Physician, noted for his work on Malaria. Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1902, becoming the first British Nobel Laureate. T.L.S., Ronald Ross, one page, small 4to, Putney Heath, London, 24th April 1931, to Mrs. De Fano, on the printed stationery of The Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Ross states that he is sorry that his correspondent can not continue the drawing she was making of him and continues to remark 'A Lady - Miss Peggy Smith - made a sketch of me a few days ago which she seems to like, and which I think is good enough.' One tear to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, and some light creasing, otherwise VG
WHALE JAMES: (1889-1957) English Film Director of Frankenstein (1931) and other horror films. An excellent, rare original pencil and watercolour drawing signed (‘J. Whale’) by Whale, one page, small 4to, n.p., 1920. Whale has drawn a fine costume image of the actor Dirk Daniell wearing a tweed checked suit and purple cravat and waistcoat as he lumbers forwards with his long arms hanging before him, the sleeves of his suit jacket evidently too short. Annotated in pencil by Whale at the side ‘Dirk Daniell as “Mr. Hawkins”’ and signed and dated in pencil at the foot of the sketch. Autographs of James Whale are extremely rare in any form and this is a particularly desirable example. One minor crease to the upper left corner and with some extremely minor traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG Dirk Daniell (d.1926) English Actor, son of Frank Daniell (1868-1932) English Portrait Painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1889-1921. Following the end of World War I, Whale returned to England (having been a Prisoner of War) and tried to find work as a cartoonist. Unable to secure a permanent position, in 1919 he embarked on a stage career, working as an actor, set designer and stage director and it is from this period of Whale’s career that the present drawing dates. It has long been debated as to whether it was James Whale or make-up artist Jack P. Pierce who created actor Boris Karloff’s familiar on-screen appearance as Frankenstein’s monster, with his shortened coat sleeves and awkward, lumbering gait. These characteristics are certainly evident in the present drawing and would certainly indicate that it was in fact Whale who devised the monster’s look for his 1931 movie.
FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Miscellaneous selection of signed cards, magazine (1), programme (1), photograph (1) etc., by a variety of famous men and women including Hank Ketcham (original signed pen and ink sketch of Dennis the Menace wearing a Santa Claus hat), James Taylor, Valentina Tereshkova (2), Pappy Boyington (signed cheque), Edmund Hillary, Lord John Russell, Margot Fonteyn, David Copperfield (signed 8.5 x 11 photograph), Yehudi Menuhin (signed folio edition of Life magazine) etc. Generally VG, 13
HILL GRAHAM: (1929-1975) British Motor Racing Driver, Formula One World Champion 1962 & 1968. Vintage blue ink signature and inscription, 'To Peter, With my Best Wishes, Graham Hill', on a page removed from an autograph album, amusingly additionally annotated in his hand at the base of the page, 'Don't use your Old Mans Tailor!!'. Together with a selection of other individually vintage signed pages by various other sportsmen, all removed from the same autograph album, comprising Stirling Moss, Henry Cooper (unusual example with a small sketch of a boxing glove in his hand), Floyd Patterson and Christopher Chataway. Most are neatly annotated in ink or pencil in the hand of the collector at the base of the pages. Generally VG, 5
LITERATURE: Selection of signed pieces, cards, album pages, a few letterheads etc., by various writers, novelists, poets, playwrights etc., including Pearl S. Buck, John Betjeman (signed by Louis MacNeice to the verso), Gore Vidal, Erskine Caldwell, Arthur Laurents, J. B. Priestley, Edward Albee, Thornton Wilder, Willis Hall, Robert Bolt, Alan Ayckbourn, Lawrence Durrell, P. L. Travers, Athol Fugard (2), Arthur Koestler, Edna Ferber, John Creasey (with a small, hasty sketch of The Toff in his hand) etc. A few of the cards have typed annotations by a collector and some are accompanied by the original envelopes. Generally VG to about EX, 21
Disney (Walt) Sketch-Book of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first edition, frontispiece and 11 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers a little spotted, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine creased and browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short tear to head of upper joint, light surface soiling, 1938; The Pied Piper, illustrations, many in colour, ink ownership inscription to pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped with some loss, rubbed and a little soiled, 1934; and 5 others Disney, 4to (7)
A George Algernon Fothergill (1868-1945) lithograph, of a hunter and huntsman, The Squire, signed in pencil and inscribed 'The Squire' - a wonderful old hunter pic of my basket - which I hunted with the Pytchley (1896-97), and two volumes by the same, A North Country Album, and George A Fothergill's Sketch Book (3)Report by GHVisible area 28 x 33 cm
Charles Dickens First Edition Book 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club', Victorian era, circa 1837. A mixed issue first edition of ''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'' aka ''The Pickwick Papers'' by Charles Dickens, published in London by Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand, with illustrations by Seymour & Phiz, as well as the front piece and vignette title page. It also has early issue points such as ''S. Veller'' present on page 342, line 5. In a move familiar to modern fandom, publishers often created special editions - as this one is with its hand-drawn illustrations - in order to entice buyers to purchase more than one copy. Size: 6'' W x 8.95'' H (15.2 cm x 22.7 cm). ''Pickwick'' was Dickens' first novel. He was 24, working as a journalist and sketch writer, when the publishers, Chapman and Hall, asked him to author small comic stories based on a series of illustrated plates to be made by Robert Seymour. Dickens accepted the commission but the stories quickly took on a life of their own. Seymour illustrated the first few, and then Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) the rest. The latter proved to be a fruitful partnership and Phiz went on to illustrate many of Dickens' books. The character of Sam Weller in Pickwick led to the book becoming a massive publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, joke books, and other merchandise as well as multiple unlicensed stage productions. Real Pickwick Clubs sprang up about the country, including the Pickwick Bicycle Club in London, which is still in operation, and whose members are bestowed with a name of a character from the novel. This book is in aged condition, with a detached front cover and some loose pages, but a rare and collectible item. See accompanying images.
Attributed to Augustus John (1878-1961) a pen and ink study on artist's board, two classical figures, male and female, some foxing (25 x 31cm), ebonised frame and glazed with John B. Smith - 117 Hampstead Road paper label verso. Provenance: the sketch was given to the vendor's family in the late 1950s by Major Richard Gregory (1909-1981), the grandson of the Irish administrator, Sir William Gregory, and his playwright wife, Lady Augusta Gregory. John was a frequent visitor to the Gregorys and the sketch, which he discarded whilst visiting the Gregorys, was rescued by their grandson
A framed and glazed shoulder-length portrait pencil sketch 'Jonathan Aetat VII (Aged 7)', signed Stanley in pencil lower-left, together with original GPO greetings telegram verso detailing the Artist's sentiments 'Thank you most sincerely for collaborating so splendidly in what I think is one of my best portraits, yours ever = Stanley', the sketch 51cm x 35cm
James Aumonier (British, 1832-1911), " Evening Sunlight " watercolour, signed 'J. Aumonier' lower right, remnant of original mount pasted verso, inscribed "Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Sketch Exh. 1896 No 4, Title of Work Evening Sunlight 15/15-, Members Name J. Aumonier" 12 x 18½in. (30.5 x 47cm.)* Condition: Modern gilt framing with stepped mount. Paper has some time staining throughout. Mount line visible just below upper margin. Colours mellowed due to age. A few tiny scuffs to paper surface to lower corners. Not examined out of frame.
R O Lenkiewicz, 'A pencil sketch of a young man', signed, 42 x 30cm, (rolled, foxed, torn edges), C Kensington 'SS Geelong', a signed gouache, 20 x 32cm, (a/f, insect damage to picture), an Oriental silk-work picture, one other oil painting and two leather-bound volumes of 'Osterwald On The Bible', 5th Edition.
L. Ruet, signed Limited Edition etched proof of Napoleon I, After J.L.E Meissier, together with a hand drawn emblem of the 5th Regiment of Foot or Northumberland Fusiliers and Crimean hand drawn sketch by Lieut Thomas Siddell, 10th Royal Hussars, killed at Sevastapol, all framed and glazednapoleon approx 21.5x27cm, 5th foot approx 27.5x32.5cm, sketch approx 12x17cm, some creasing to the sketch, some very minor foxing otherwise generally good condition, no obvious signs of significant damage or repair
George Richard Deakins (British 1911-1982)/Harbour Sketch No 3/signed/acrylic on board, 29cm x 29cm and/Harbour Scene/signed/acrylic on board, 28cm x 28cm CONDITION REPORT: ARR Artist's Resale Right may apply to the sale of this lot, incurring an additional fee. For further information please ask Chorley's or visit www.dacs.org.uk
An England Rugby World Cup 1999 shirt , with stitched inscription to the lower right, 'Jason Leonard 76th Cup Rugby World Cup England vs Fiji 20th October 1999', signed in black marker pen, framed as one with a Fiji shirt, 112cm x 80cm, an original pencil sketch, and a limited edition print by John Scantlebury, and a limited edition framed display of badges, some signed (4)
Loading...-
32316 item(s)/page