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Click here to subscribeACTORS: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various film actors comprising Rupert Everett, Jude Law, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Terence Stamp, Bob Hoskins, Tim Roth, Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor. The majority of images are colour and are boldly signed to clear areas. None are inscribed. VG to EX, 9
FLEMING ALEXANDER: (1881-1955) Scottish Biologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1945. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Nature of the Bacterial Surface-A Symposium of The Society for General Microbiology, April 1949, edited by A. A. Miles and N. W. Pirie, First Edition published by Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, November 1949. With a Preface by Alexander Fleming. Signed by Fleming to the front free endpaper and dated 1st January 1950 in his hand. With the stamp of the Wright-Fleming Institute Library alongside his signature and various other Library stamps etc. to the front pastedown. Blue cloth binding (spine faded) and lacking the dustjacket. About VG
STEWART JAMES: (1908-1997) American Actor, Academy Award winner. Bold black ink signature (`J. Stewart`) on a white card, with the title of his famous Christmas film It`s a Wonderful Life added in his hand above. Together with a signed First Day Cover by Stewart, bearing a US postage stamp commemorating W. C. Fields, postally cancelled 29th January 1980. Also including a D.S., James Stewart, being a signed cheque, Beverly Hills, California, 2nd December 1981. The cheque, drawn on the United California Bank, is made payable to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for the sum of $100. A feint bank cancellation only very lightly affects part of Stewart`s signature. VG to EX, 3
PATTI ADELINA: (1843-1919) Italian Soprano. A.L.S., Adelina Patti Cederstrom, four pages, 8vo, Craig-Y-Nos Castle, Breconshire, 27th April 1905, to Mr. Fiske. Patti thanks her correspondent for his Easter wishes and continues to announce `Since last writing to you, I have had a great pleasure, which perhaps you may have seen mentioned in the newspapers. I have received the Decoration de la Legion d`Honneur from the French President, & you can imagine how very proud I feel to possess this decoration, which has very seldom been given to a woman.` The singer further provides an address in London where she will be staying before concluding `I have so many hundreds of letters & telegrams of congratulations about my decoration to answer...` Together with Lily Pons (1898-1976) French-American coloratura soprano. Vintage signed and inscribed 11 x 13.5 photograph, an elegant image of the singer seated in a full length pose. Photograph by Seawell and bearing their credit stamp in the lower right corner. Signed in fountain pen ink with her first name only to a light area of the image, the inscription partially running across a darker area. VG, 2
NICHOLAS II: (1868-1918) Emperor of Russia 1894-1917. A very fine signed 9 x 13 photograph showing the Tsar standing in a three quarter length pose in uniform. In one hand he holds a pair of white gloves, and the other hand rests on a table at his side. Photograph by Boissonnas and Eggler and bearing their blind embossed stamp to the lower mount. Signed by the Emperor in English (`Nicholas`) in bold fountain pen ink to the lower photographer`s mount and dated 1914 in his hand. Rare. Some very slight silvering to the extreme edges of the image and a very few minor creases to the base of the mount. VG
MELBOURNE VISCOUNT: (1779-1848) British Prime Minister 1834, 1835-41. A.L.S., Melbourne, one page, 4to, Brocket Hall, 21st October 1836, to Palmerston. Melbourne writes, in full, `If we cannot interfere openly, it will never do to engage in a conspiracy in favour of the Queen of Portugal`. With blank integral leaf. A letter of interesting content between two Prime Ministers. A brief printed biography and small circular magazine portrait are neatly laid down at the base of the letter alongside the small circular ownership stamp from the Rawlins Collection. Together with Clementine S. Churchill (1885-1977) Wife of Sir Winston S. Churchill. T.L.S., Clementine S. Churchill, one page, 4to, Hyde Park Gate, London, 7th January 1964, to Miss. Harber. Churchill encloses a prize (no longer present) for a tombola being organised for the Annual Dance in aid of the British Empire Cancer Campaign for Research and also comments `My Husband and I are delighted that Colonel Barlow Wheeler`s work should have public recognition, and I am sure that-like you-many of his friends in Woodford join us in this.` G to VG, 2 Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) British Prime Minister 1855-58, 1859-65. Palmerston, who married Melbourne`s sister, died at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire.
MANDELA NELSON: (1918- ) President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. Signed First Day Cover commemorating Unicef and featuring a colour image of a mother and child. The cover bears a United Nations postage stamp, featuring the flag of Uganda, and is postally cancelled at the United Nations, New York, 20th September 1985. Signed (`N Mandela`) in black ink to a clear area and dated 2nd October 1998 in his hand. EX
JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A.L.S., Amy, two pages, 8vo, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 27th May n.y. (1940), to her friend Lona Grainger, on the printed stationery of the Stone House hotel. Johnson laments that she has never been able to visit her correspondent in Blackpool and remarks `Now it`s out of the question for the duration as I`ve joined the A.T.A. [Air Transport Auxiliary] & am now working hard at Hatfield Aerodrome. We only get Sundays off & not always that, & very little petrol. I hate the life & am fed up to the teeth with doing such a stupid job when everyone is being urged to do everything they can. I feel awfully I`m wasting my time & not doing anything really useful, but maybe I`m being unjust about it. I only joined as a last resort, & it`s even worse than I expected. It`s like being back at a girls school again!` She continues to ask `Why aren`t you doing something useful! You ought to be a land girl or something. They`re really beginning to need women now, but even yet the demand isn`t very great. What an efficient nation we are!!!` Accompanied by the original envelope (postage stamp cut away) hand addressed by Johnson. A letter of interesting content. A couple of slight, minor spots of foxing, otherwise VG
GAGARIN YURI (1934-1968) Russian Cosmonaut, the first man to travel in space, 1961 & TITOV GHERMAN (1935-2000) Russian Cosmonaut, the second man to travel in space. Signed commemorative cover, the German envelope commemorating the two cosmonauts and featuring small portraits of each wearing their spacesuits. The cover bears an Eastern German postage stamp and is postally cancelled 6th August 1966. Signed by both Gagarin and Titov with their names alone to light areas alongside their portraits. Some very light, minor staining, not affecting the signatures, G
ARMSTRONG NEIL: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on the moon. Signed Commemorative cover honouring man`s third flight to the moon with Apollo XI and featuring portraits of the three crew members, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. A US postage stamp commemorating Apollo 8 is affixed to the cover and postally cancelled at Cape Canaveral, 16th July 1969, the date of the historic Apollo XI launch. Signed by Armstrong in bold black ink with his name alone to a clear area. About EX
APOLLO XI: Signed First Day Cover by all three crew members of Apollo XI individually, Neil Armstrong (Commander, the first man to walk on the moon), Buzz Aldrin (Lunar Module Pilot, the second man to walk on the moon) and Michael Collins (Command Module Pilot). The cover commemorates the first moon landing and features an image of a footprint on the moon with the printed words `We came in peace for all mankind`. With a colour United States postage stamp also commemorating the first man on the moon, postally cancelled at Washington DC, 9th September 1969, and with a second cancellation dated on the day of the moon landing, 20th July 1969. Signed by Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins with their names alone to clear areas, in blue and black inks. Armstrong`s signature is a little light although perfectly legible. EX
WAGNER ROBERT: (1895-1946) Nazi Gauleiter of Baden, Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the German occupation of France during World War II. Vintage signed 5 x 7 photograph of Wagner in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform. Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Munich and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed in bold dark fountain pen ink by Wagner with his name alone to a light area of the image. One very slight, minor surface crease, otherwise VG
A Good Victorian Stamp Collection in Stanley Gibbons Album, Hamid Mounted - Many High Value Stamps Including SG57 Ten Pence on Registered Cover and One Other Off Cover, SG54 One Shilling, SG70 Six Pence x Two, SG72 One Shilling x Two, SG150 One Shilling, SG151 One Shilling, SG163 One Shilling x Three, SG178/9 Half Crown, SG180 Five Shillings, SG111 Nine Pence x Two, SG118 Half Crown, SG120B Plate One, SG127 Five Shillings, SG183 Ten Shillings, SG196 One Shilling and SG214 One Shilling
WARTIME CHELSEA Scarce Chelsea home single sheet programme but in poor condition, Allied Armies XI v British Army, 15/3/41 at Stamford Bridge. Programme has been and still is attached to a page from a stamp album and is creased at the bottom. Team listings are complete, the Allied Armies XI including players from Norway, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia with a French reserve. The programme is just about complete, no writing and the reverse side is blank. As described
ENGLAND / IRELAND Match ticket and Linen itinerary for Inter-League Match , England v Ireland, played at Bradford City 10/10/1903 as a welcome to Bradford City who were newly formed and in their first season in the Football League. These items were likely to be the property of one of the Linesman as noted in pencil in the itinerary which provides details of the teams, match official , timetable for the day etc. Steve Bloomer was in the English side whilst the Irish side included players from Distillery (3), Bohemians (2), Glentoran (2), Linfield (2), Belfast Celtic, and Cliftonville. Only Villa had two players in the England team. Both itinerary and ticket are in generally good condition. A rare souvenir from the earliest days of Bradford City and Valley Parade. Ticket has official Football League stamp on the reverse. As described
French playing cards. La Dot, c.1820s,. seventy-eight col. litho. cards (complete), French suits, comprising Fool card, twenty-one double-illust. trump cards, and four suits of fourteen, each with four double-ended courts and ten pips, ace of clubs with circular ink stamp, tartan pattern on versos, rounded corners, dusty, 110 x 61 mm (4.25 x 2.5 ins), plus a boxed Spanish deck of playing cards, 1929 (3)
Bull (Rene, illust.). The Arabian Nights, New York, 1917, eight mounted col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, b & w illusts. to text, contemp. ms. ownership name on front free endpaper, edges untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth with pictorial panel to upper cover, spine rubbed and with gilt dulled, sq. 8vo, together with Goble (Warwick), The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for Land-Baby, by Charles Kingsley, Macmillan, 1922, sixteen col. plts., t.e.g., oval ink bookseller’s stamp on front free endpaper, orig. gilt dec. red cloth, some v. sl. rubbing to extrems., 8vo, plus Mackenzie ([Tessa], illust.), Arthur and His Knights, Nisbet, [1920], eight col. plts., pictorial endpapers, orig. pictorial cloth, 8vo, plus nine other illust. books similar, incl. R.G. Mossa, Caldecott, T.H. Robinson Lancelot Speed, Willebeek Le Mair, etc. (12)
Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing (with The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, and envelope), 1890 [but later], comprising 38pp. booklet, postage-stamp case containing stamp-holder with twelve separate pockets for stamps of different values, and orig. printed envelope (a little creased and frayed at edges), stamp-case verso with ‘published by Emberlin and Son, 4, Magdalen Street, Oxford’ printed above the Cheshire cat, and below ‘(post free, 13d.) price one shilling’, approx. 105 x 80 mm (4 x 3 ins) See Williams, Maddan, Green 223. (1)
Stein (Gertrude). Three Lives, Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena, 1st ed., New York, John Lane, 1915,. some light toning, small ink stamp to centre of title, front pastedown with remains of label removed, some marks to endpapers, front inner hinge partly cracked and a little loosened, orig. dark blue cloth gilt rubbed and a little frayed to extreme head and foot of spine, together with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1st ed., New York, Harcourt Grace & Company, 1933, b&w frontis. and plates, 2 pages towards centre of vol. with some browning, bookplate of James B. Gitlitz to front pastedown, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., chipped with loss to head and foot of spine and margins, plus Everybody’s Autobiography, 1st ed., New York, Random House, 1937, b&w port. frontis. and plates, orig. cloth in rubbed d.j., chipped to extreme head and foot of spine, and with vertical crease, now partially split, and Geography and Plays, 1st ed., Boston, Four Seas Company, 1922, orig. cloth-backed boards patterned in gilt [4th binding, 1st variant], paper label to spine, in d.j., rubbed and some marks, a little chipped to extrems., plus others by and about Gertrude Stein, including many 1st eds., some in d.j.s, all 8vo (35)
Sub-Mariner, no. 1, 1968,. cents copy, date arrival stamp in pen on front cover, [vfn-], together with nos. 7, 10, 16, 26, 29, 33, 36, 37, 39, 42, 55 & 63, 1968-73, six issues pence stamps/copies, [gd-vg to vg-fn], plus nos. 2, 3, 12, 14, 15, 17-21, 23, 24, 38, 41, 48 & 49, 1968-72, no. 12 onwards pence copies, [fn- to vfn+], and nos. 50-54, 56-58, 60-62, 65-67, 69, 70 & 72, 1972-4, cents copies, [fn- to vfn+] (46)
Reginald `REGGIE` KRAY, letter addressed Patsy MANNING, 10th Oct (1984), on two A5 lined sheets, double sided, official stamp 11 OCT 1984, an interesting letter mentioning both Alan Lake and Ken Stallard.. 10th Oct Hello Patsy Thanks for your letter Tonight I heard the tragic news of Alan Lake Yesterday I went to see Ron and it was a good visit Have you got Nicky (name indistinct) Adress ?! I will be asking Ken Stallard to pick up the plates from you… He is a real good friend and an author He has dined with Royalty and Ministers so make him welcome he is one of our best friends Under no circumstances do I want Bowcott to have any more to do with "Slang" He has had long enough The…. contract is nul and void We will see if you get the £1000 back and I will look after you Steve sends his best wishes God bless Your friend Reg Kray Ken does not want publicity.!
John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954) Vision (B.W. L36) wood engraving 1927 signed titled and dated in pencil numbered 10/30 the edition was not completed with the studio stamp verso on Japan paper with full margins in good condition 123 x 91 mm (4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in) Condition report: in good fresh condition
John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954) Baigneuses Balina wood engraving 1931 titled and dated in pencil numbered 3/30 there were only 23 impressions printed with the studio stamp verso on Japan paper with full margins in good condition 280 x 216 mm (11 x 8 1/2 in) Condition report: in good condition apart from minor handling creases at extreme upper and lower margins
John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954) Le Chevriere (The wood engraving 1932 signed titled and dated in pencil inscribed ep. d` essai a trial proof aside from the edition of 40 only 16 impressions printed with the studio stamp verso on Japan paper with full margins in good condition 202 x 152 mm (8 x 6 in) Condition report: in good condition
John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954) Three Bathers (B. wood engraving 1933 signed titled and dated in pencil numbered 11/30 one of only 16 impressions printed with the studio stamp on lower right corner on Japan paper with full margins in good condition 150 x 200 mm (5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in) Condition report: in good condition apart from minor creasing at lower left margin
John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954) Girl Undressing the set of four wood engravings 1944/1993 each titled and dated in pencil numbered 9/30 with the studio stamp verso printed in 1993 the edition was never completed on Japon nacre paper with full margins in good condition each 108 x 50 mm (4 1/4 x 2 in)
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) First Class Marksman fro silkscreen printed in colours 1978-79 signed in pencil numbered 66/75 printed by Kelpra Studio London with their stamp verso on wove paper with full margins in good condition 480 x 640 mm (18 7/8 x 25 2/8 in) First Class Marksman is Nolan`s most iconic image from the Ned Kelly series and the only painting from the series that remained outside of the collection of the Art Gallery of new South Wales; this was rectified in march of this year when the painting sold to the museum for $4 500 000 Australian Dollars a world record not only for Nolan but for any Australian artist at auction.
Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) Plant Pot (c. 61) silkscreen printed in colours 1979-80 signed in pencil numbered 83/100 published by Waddington Graphics London with their blindstamp printed by Kelpra Studio London with their stamp verso on wove paper the full sheet printed to the edges in good condition 838 x 596 mm (33 x 23 1/2 in)
Kennard (Adam Steinmetz). Eastern Experiences Collected During a Winter’s Tour in Egypt and the Holy Land, 1st ed., 1855, pub. catalogue at end, a few spots, library label remnants to pastedowns, contemporary cloth, a little rubbed, slight lean, 8vo, together with The Navy in India 1763-1783, by Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, 1931, illustrations, one or two spots, presentation inscriptions, original cloth, spine a little faded and spotted, 8vo, plus Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis, by Martin Haug, 2nd ed., 1878, library stamp to title, a few spots, original cloth, small numbered label to spine, light soiling, 8vo, with two others: J. Carlile McCoan’s Egypt Under Ismail. A Romance of History, 1889 and Tales of the East; Or, Adventures of Amurath, Prince of Persia, in Search of Instruction and Amusement, c. 1815 (5)
Scott (Captain R.F.). Scott’s Last Expedition, 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1913, photogravure portrait frontispiece to each, folding maps, coloured and b & w plates, blind embossed library stamp to half-titles and engraved bookplate to upper pastedowns, t.e.g., original blue cloth gilt, large 8vo (2)
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