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TOWNSEND PETER: (1914-1995) British Group Captain and flying ace of World War II who participated in the Battle of Britain. Townsend was later a courtier romantically linked with Princess Margaret. Selection of fourteen signed printed images by Townsend, each neatly removed from books or magazines, of varying sizes (largest 12 x 9.5), most of the images depicting him in his flying gear whilst serving with 43 Squadron or 85 Squadron during World War II, alongside various aircraft (including a Spitfire) and other pilots etc. Four are signed by Townsend in bold pencil and the others in black inks, some with his Squadron number added in his hand. One of the images is also signed by the pilots John Oliver and John Cunningham, and another by the pilots Bob Plenderleith and James Hallowes. Colour (2). Also including a T.L.S., Peter Townsend, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Paul Terry, returning the images, duly signed, and commenting 'In the photo at the parachute factory the pilots are from left to right self, Flying Officer “Gus” Gowers and on the table Flying Officer Paddy Hemingway. It was on that occasion that Mr. Irving, the parachute inventor, in reply to a worker's remark “I should never have the courage to jump”, replied “you must remember it represents your last chance”.' G to generally VG, 15
WELLES ORSON: (1915-1985) American actor & film director, Academy Award winner. A good vintage signed and inscribed 9.5 x 7.5 photograph of Welles in a full-length pose in costume as Charles Foster Kane, seated at one end of a long dining table, reading a newspaper, as Dorothy Comingore, in costume as Susan Alexander Kane, Kane's mistress and second wife, is seated in a full-length pose at the opposite end of the table, also reading a newspaper, in a scene from the drama film Citizen Kane (1941). Signed by Welles in dark ink to a light area of the image. Welles was nominated for both a Best Actor and Best Director Oscar for his work on Citizen Kane, his first feature film. Signed photographs of Welles from Citizen Kane, today regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, are rare and highly desirable. VG
LEO MELISSA: (1960- ) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 2010 for her role as Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Leo seated at a table in a half-length pose, in costume as Alice, mother of the boxers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund, smoking a cigarette, from the biographical sports drama film The Fighter. Signed by Leo in blue ink with her name alone to the image. A typed label neatly affixed to the verso indicates that the signature was obtained in person at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on 10th January 2011. EX
NATIONAL VELVET: A good, rare vintage multiple signed and inscribed sepia 10 x 8 photograph by the Academy Award recipients Mickey Rooney (Michael 'Mi' Taylor), Elizabeth Taylor (Velvet Brown), Donald Crisp (Herbert Brown) and Anne Revere (Araminty Brown) individually, the image depicting the actors seated around a dining table together at the Brown's home in Sussex in a scene from the film National Velvet (1944). Signed by each in fountain pen inks to the image. It was for her performance in this film that Anne Revere won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Some light overall surface and corner creasing, G
BERGSON HENRI: (1859-1941) French Philosopher. A major influential Thinker. Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927. A good A.L.S. H. Bergson, two pages, 8vo, Paris, 9th April 1921, to Louis de Launay, in French. Bergson thanks his correspondent for forwarding his poems and states in part `…mais comme je trouve sur ma table, en la rangeant, une petite envelope vide qui porte votre adresse, je me demande si je n´ai pas tout simplement oublié d´y inclure une carte. A tout hazard, donc, je vous adresse ce mot. Si je me trouve ainsi, vous avoir remercié deux fois, ce ne será pas trop, étant donné le grand et rare plaisir que j´ai eu à vous lire …´ (Translation “…but as I find on my table, when I was putting order, a small empty envelope which bears your address, I wonder if I had simply forgotten to include a card. Therefore, and just in case, I send you the present message. If I end up having sent you my thanks twice, it will not be too much, considering the great and unusual pleasure I had reading your work…”) With blank integral leaf. Accompanied by the original envelope, postmarked and stamped, and addressed in Bergson´s hand. VG
HAWN GOLDIE: (1945- ) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1969 for her role as Toni Simmons in Cactus Flower. Vintage signed and inscribed 10 x 8 photograph of Hawn, in costume from her Oscar winning performance as Simmons, seated in a half-length-pose at a table eating potato crisps and drinking from a bottle of Coca-Cola in a scene from the screwball comedy film Cactus Flower. Signed by Hawn in fountain pen ink to the image, her surname running across a darker area. VGProvenance: The present photograph originates from the collection of Pierre Goulliard, a French gentleman who, for over 50 years, dedicated himself to obtaining in person autographs of British, American and European movie stars, always obtaining the signatures in fountain pen ink.
NOBEL ALFRED: (1833-1896) Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist who bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. The scientist's most famous invention was that of dynamite, which was patented in 1867. An outstanding archive relating to the establishment of a dynamite factory in Italy, comprising - (i) A.L.S., A Nobel, three pages, 4to, Paris, 6th September 1872, to [Paul] Barbe, in French. Nobel provides his detailed requirements for establishing a factory to produce dynamite at Avigliana, near Turin, under the guidance of his agent Casimir Robaudi ('Voici le petit devis pour la Fabrique Italienne et le projet de contrat avec Robaudi') setting out his requirements in a detailed table, with their immediate and defrayable costs, including specifications for brick buildings, power of the traction engines, nitrite grinders, and other machinery, a building to house nitric acid, an ice room, various other wooden buildings for the production and washing of glycerine and dynamite, and for packing the dynamite, cartridge making, water heaters, and enclosures, and remarking that he envisages the quick production and sale of the dynamite, financed by three months' credit. Nobel then proceeds to define the terms of the contract under which the business should operate, giving the outlines for a five-year contract with Robaudi in nine numbered paragraphs, explaining that Robaudi will be named as agent for the Italian business and will be responsible for the costs of selling the dynamite sent to him, for which he can set a price above market rates, provided that the company can cancel the contract if Robaudi's consumption and marketing contravenes their policies, or if the company does not receive payment for the dynamite. Nobel advises Barbe to revise the contract as he sees fit before sending it to Carstens, the merchant in Hamburg. (ii) A fine, large original pen and ink plan of the proposed site of the dynamite factory in the Commune di Avigliana, prepared and signed by the surveyor Giuseppe Ferando, one page, large oblong folio, Turin, 27th July 1872, entitled Planimetria di parte della regione Valoja presso il trucco di San Martino, coloured in two shades of blue (one defining the waterways) and also featuring light pencil drawings of buildings to the left margin. (iii) A pencil sketch of several buildings at Avigliana entitled Croquis de fabrique de nitroglycerine a Avigliana, one page, oblong 4to, n.p., n.d., including the facilities labelled for 'Preparation, separation et lavage a l'eau'. (iv) A finely executed and detailed pen and ink plan of various constructions and buildings, one page, oblong folio, n.p., n.d., captioned in French, including cartoucheries, magasin, filtrage & dynamiterie, lavages, pompe pour l'appareil, glacier & magasin a glycerine, hanger a bomb acide nitrique. Maison de garde, chien de garde etc. (v) A scale drawing from a patent application on transparency paper (some tears and a few large areas of paper loss to the edges) bearing the official oval stamp of Jannot ('Constructeur - Mecanicien') and two other pen and ink and pencil sketches and drawings of machinery and apparatus. (vi) An autograph manuscript entitled Regolamento dei transporti delle Materie infiammabili ed esplodenti ('Regulations for the transportation of flammable and explosive materials') approved by the administrators Bolmira and Guglianetti, twelve pages, 4to, n.p. (Italy), 9th April 1872, commencing 'Flammable materials, such as phosphorus, phosphor matches, gun powder, turpentine, alcohol, and derivatives, objects for fireworks and any other material…..that easily starts or transmits fire, are excluded from transport if the sender has not subjected himself to the cautionary measures established by the administration' and continuing to outline the regulations concerning packaging, supervision, means of transport and other precautions which it is necessary to adhere to. (vii) Small collection of ten manuscript technical and legal documents, in Italian and French, over twenty pages in total, largely 4to, various places, 1870s, some regarding Nobel's patent and one on the printed stationery of the Dinamite Nobel factory at Avigliana. (viii) Autograph manuscript of the Atto di Costituzione della Societa per la Fabbricazione della Dinamite and Statuto della Scoieta Anonima per la Fabbricazione della Dinamite, in all over sixty pages, folio, Turin, 5th June 1873, in Italian, identifying the main shareholders, and accompanied by an eleven-page summary including a manuscript list of the shares allocated to each shareholder. A comprehensive archive relating to the Swedish chemist's important invention of dynamite and featuring an extremely rare autograph letter signed by Nobel himself, particularly desirable owing to its content. Some light overall age wear and minor faults and Nobel's letter with some light, minor staining and a few small tears to the edges. Generally G to about VG, Sml Qty. At the end of December 1871, Alfred Nobel obtained a six-year patent for the exploitation of dynamite from the Italian government, to be financed by both French and German investors. In April 1872, Nobel reached an agreement with five Parisian financiers (and engineers) to found a public limited company. Among the shareholders mentioned in the present archive were Paul Barbe, Amedeo Hoffer (director of the factory), Casimir Robaudi (agent for the Nobel company in Hamburg), Antonio Campagna (formerly mayor of Avigliana), the Hamburg merchants Carl Ferdinand Carstens and Edouard Bandmann, and the Parisian banker Gunzbourg. They acquired land near Avigliana, some thirty kilometres west of Turin, and set up a factory through a commissionaire, Robaudi, obtaining a patent for the manufacture of dynamite. The company established by Nobel continued production until being destroyed during the World War II.
DALI SALVADOR: (1904-1989) Spanish surrealist artist. Signed colour 4 x 6 postcard, the image depicting the artist's painting The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934). Signed ('Dali') by Dali with his surname only in green ink to a light area at the head of the image. About EX
TAYLOR ELIZABETH: (1932-2011) English actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1960 for her role as Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed 10 x 8 photograph of Taylor, in costume from her Oscar winning performance as Wandrous, seated in a half-length pose at a café table opposite Laurence Harvey, in costume as Weston Liggett, kissing her hand as he professes his love to her in a scene from the drama film Butterfield 8. Signed by Taylor in bold blue fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image. About EXProvenance: The present photograph originates from the collection of Pierre Goulliard, a French gentleman who, for over 50 years, dedicated himself to obtaining in person autographs of British, American and European movie stars, always obtaining the signatures in fountain pen ink.
HANKS TOM: (1956- ) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1993 for his role as Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Hanks seated at a restaurant table in a half-length pose, in costume from his Oscar winning performance as the homosexual Beckett, fired by his employers after discovering that he has AIDS, in a scene from the legal drama Philadelphia. Signed by Hanks in bold blue ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. EX
HAYES HELEN: (1900-1993) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1931/32 for her role as Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity portrait depicting the actress seated in a half-length pose at a table upon which appears a small porcelain figurine of an admiral. Signed by Hayes in bold black ink with her name alone to a light area of the image. Some very light, extremely minor creasing to the white borders, VG
O'NEAL TATUM: (1963- ) American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 1973 for her role as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon. Signed 10 x 8 photograph of the young actress seated in a full-length pose, in costume as the orphaned Addie, at a café table opposite Ryan O'Neal, in costume as itinerant con man Moze Pray, in a scene from the road comedy-drama film Paper Moon. Signed by Tatum O'Neal in bold black ink, and also signed by her father, Ryan O'Neal, in bold blue ink, both to clear areas of the image. VG
FLAUBERT GUSTAVE: (1821-1880) French novelist. A significant autograph manuscript, unsigned, three pages, folio, n.p., n.d. (c.1857), in French. Flaubert's extensive manuscript notes are entitled Un repas de noces - Lettre d'Hyppolochus a Lincée('A wedding meal - Letter from Hyppolochus to Lincée') and were prepared by the novelist as research notes for chapter one ('The Feast') of his historical novel Salammbo. The text states, in part, (translated) 'Caranus making a nuptial feast in Macedonia invited twenty parasites there. As soon as they were seated at table each of them was given a bottle of silver. They had each received before entering the room a gold band estimated at five gold Ecus….. For us happy for the rest of our days, with what we took from the feast of Caranus, we seek goods, country houses, slaves to buy, with the presents with which he has showered us'. Rare in this form. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Hippolochus was a Macedonian writer and student of Theophrastus, who addressed in a letter to his fellow student Lynceus of Samos a description of a wedding feast in Macedon in the early 3rd century BC. The bridegroom was a certain Caranus, most likely a relative of the Caranus who had been a companion of Alexander the Great. Flaubert's Salammbo is a historical novel which was published in 1862. Enormously popular in its day, the novel opens with a feast to celebrate the victory of the battle of Eryx, won against Rome, and was praised for its style and story. Provenance: It is believed that the present manuscript was originally included with a series of other research notes made by Flaubert, totaling some 26 pages, and entitled Letters of Alciphron. As well as including extracts relating to a wedding feast, the manuscript also featured observations relating to courtesans and the manners of the people of Greece (see Les Amis de Flaubert, bulletin 12, 1958).
VIKANDER ALICIA: (1988- ) Swedish actress, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in 2015 for her role as Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl. Signed colour 10 x 8 photograph of Vikander seated on a table in a full-length pose, in costume as the illustrator and painter Wegener, as she works on a piece of art in a scene from the biographical romantic drama film The Danish Girl. Signed by Vikander in bold gold ink with her name alone to the image. EX
MIKHAILOVICH MICHAEL: (1861-1929) Russian Grand Duke, a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. A.L.S., Grand Duke Michael, to one side of his attractive personal printed correspondence card, n.p. (Paris), n.d. ('Tuesday'; October 1894), to [Richard] Winslow, in English. The Grand Duke writes, in full, 'I am writing to say that our dinner will be not in “Café-Rick's” but at “Voisin” at 7 ½'. Together with a 12mo table place card for a separate dinner given at the Grand Duke's villa in Cannes, bearing a small gold embossed crown to the upper left corner and annotated Mr. Winslow in the Grand Duke's hand in bold, dark fountain pen ink. Accompanied by two fragments of pages from an album kept by the American socialite Richard Winslow and annotated in his hand with various comments regarding the dinners, the first hosted by Grand Duke Michael at the Café Voisin in October 1894, listing several other individuals present and noting that they went to see Falstaff at the Opera Comique, and the second in Cannes observing that afterwards they participated in a game of whist. G to VG, 4
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