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Theatre interior designs. "A Corner of the Ball Room", The Empire Theatre, Morecombe, an art deco watercolour and crayon drawing by Harries & Sheldon Ltd, Birmingham, 23 in (58.5 cm) dia., framed and glazed, and a quantity of drawings and photographs of similar interest (a lot)

Playbills. Cardiff Capitol, The Super Cinema. For Six Days, commencing Monday, July 24th, D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, fore-runner to 'Intolerance' & 'Way Down East', n.d., c. 1920, broadside poster, printed in red and blue, approx. 30" x 10" (76 x 25 cm), framed and glazed, together with five others similar, including The Empire, Wolverhampton, 1904, The Leeds Empire, Palace Theatre, Briggate, 1905, The Theatre Royal, Lincoln, 1913, one in facsimile (with presentation inscription to John Huntley to verso from the Nottingham Historical Film Unit), various sizes, all framed and glazed (6)

Theatre programmes. Peter Saunders presents the 2,239th Performance of 'The Mousetrap', by Agatha Christie, at the Ambassador's Theatre, on Saturday, April 12, 1958, it thus becomes the longest running play of any kind in the history of the British theatre... , printed on crimson silk with all-round fringe, approx. 12 x 9 in. (30 x 23 cm.), together with a large collection of Edwardian and later printed paper theatre programmes, mostly small format (a carton)

A group of fifteen Ivor Novello cheques, 1942-44, three cheques drawn on a Drummond bank account with facsimile signatures of Novello countersigned by F. W. Allen, the remaining cheques drawn on a Glyn, Mills & Company bank account, all signed by F. W. Allen only, together with treasury sheets for Wyndham's Theatre, 6th February to 20th March 1926, seven printed letter sheets, with manuscript insertions showing artists' salaries and other expenses during the run of The Firebrand starring Ivor Novello, Hugh Wakefield and Constance Collier, plus other misc. Novello memorabilia including framed posters for Perchance to Dream and King's Rhapsody, and a personalised "Redroofs" enamelled circular ashtray (approx. 30)

A collection of approx. 120 black and white photo. film and theatre publicity stills of Ivor Novello, c. 1923-43, works include Symphony in Two Flats, The Lodger, Deburau, Treasury Sheet, The Truth Game, Proscenium, Henry The Fifth, The Dancing Years, and Arc de Triomphe, various sizes including some large format, one signed by Novello and one large cast scene from Spanish Lovers (1922), signed by a dozen members of the cast including Ivor Novello and Doris Lloyd, plus a quantity of reproduction photos. of Novello's performances (approx. 150)

A group of photos., postcards and related Ivor Novello memorabilia, including several childhood photos. and photo. postcards, incl. four dressed as a girl, of which three are signed, plus two signed colour photo. postcards of Iris Hawkins and Alice Hatton sent to Ivor Novello at his request in 1909, a signed photo. postcard of Novello's partner, Bobbie Andrews, signed photo. postcard of Fay Compton, plus various theatre and cinema publicity postcards of Novello interest, etc (approx. 70)

A collection of printed sheet music and programmes for musical plays, etc., with music by Ivor Novello, c. 1912-1950, titles include The Little Damozel (1912), Not Really! (1913), Till The Boys Come Home [better known as Keep the House Fires Burning] (1914), etc., two signed (including The Rat Step), plus one Theatre Play Bill for The Little Theatre, Strand, 9th June, 1914, listing Ivor Novello as the harpsicord player, some occ. soiling and minor fraying, but mostly slim folio, VG, arranged chronologically in plastic sleeves in a modern ring binder (approx. 70)

A collection of over 120 theatre programmes and related, starring or with music by Ivor Novello, c. 1916-50, including Theodore & Co., Arlette, Tabs, King's Rhapsody, The Rat, etc., one flyer for The Dancing Years with a signed presentation inscription to Doris, mostly slim 8vo, contained in plastic sleeves in three modern plastic ring binders (approx. 120)

Actors. An album of mounted b & w portrait postcards, theatre programmes and signatures, c. 1940s, incl. signed portrait postcards of Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger (plus signed note and specimen signature), James Mason (signed photo), John Gielgud, Patricia Hicks, Vivien Leigh, Dennis Price, Ivor Novello, Muriel George, Florence Desmond, Bebe de Roland, plus programmes signed by Donald Wolfit, Dennis Price, Catharine Marks (plus ALS), and cut autographs of Owen Nares and Robert Morley, over thirty items in total, compiled by Audrey Baker and pasted into orig. cloth album with spine tie, rubbed, oblong 8vo (1)

Sherlock Holmes. An archive of memorabilia relating to the great Holmes actor Eille Norwood and his appearance in 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes, An Adventure of the Great Detective, Founded by J.E. Harold Terry and Arthur Rose, on the Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', early 1920s, comprising a fair copy typescript of the full play, approx. 100pp. in black type with red underscoring, text to rectos only, interleaved with a printed programme from the original production at the Prince's Theatre and twenty-five b & w photos of the production by Stage Photographic Company, each approx. 28 x 18 cm and similar sizes, all mounted on guards, orig. black limp morocco, upper cover titled in gilt, 4to, together with the Producer's [i.e. Norwood's] copy of the play, four Acts bound in four books, numerous pen and pencil amendments, three hand-drawn stage plans tipped in, orig. stapled paper wrappers with typed labels, slim 4to, plus a group of thirteen actors' part scripts incl. Norwood's marked copy for Holmes, orig. paper wrappers with typed labels, some soiling and wear, oblong 8vo, plus a contemporary signed b & w head and shoulders portrait photograph of Eille Norwood, by Dorothy Wilding, 20 x 15 cm, mounted with tissue backing signed by the photographer, signed inscription on mount beneath, 'To the Best of Nevvilo, from his Uncle Ted, Eille Norwood', plus an Autograph Letter Signed from Arthur Conan Doyle on undated letterhead, 'Dear Mr Norwood, I fear there is no chance. It would about break poor [H.A.] Saintsbury's heart, I think, Yours sincerely, A Conan Doyle', with Norwood's note at foot, 'In answer to a request to allow a new version of a play on Sherlock Holmes to be written', 1 page, 8vo, plus orig. envelope, postmark date 17th October 1921. (20)

* Ballet and Theatre. A large quantity of black and white press photos., etc., c. 1950s/70s, British and European productions, most with credits and captions to versos, many from Ossia Trilling, various sizes (a carton)

Opera and theatre programmes, with various autographs.

British School c1930- "Prince Littler presents Cinderella"; original artwork for a theatre poster, gouache on paper laid down on board, incomplete, now in six sections, (6), (unframed)

Boyer, Abel Le Grand Theatre de l''Honneur & de la Noblesse, engraved frontispiece and 28 engraved plates, contemporary calf, 4to, "Londres", 1729, plates browned, some light soiling, binding worn; Brydson, Thomas A Summary View of Heraldry, first edition, presentation copy inscribed to John Hamilton of Sundrum, engraved title, list of subscribers, contemporary calf, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1795 (2) Provenance: Boyer: Bookplate of H. Askew; Brydson: inscription to and signature of John Hamilton

Pindar Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, engraved portrait, title-vignette, parallel text in Greek and Latin, contemporary calf, finely rebacked, spine gilt, folio, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1697 Provenance: Bookplate of W. Askew Note: Wing P2245.

A collection of 1940's and 50's stage, film and TV autographs in two albums together with a collection of signed photographs including examples of Alma Cogan, the Deep River Boys, Mikey and Griff, the majority to one recipient, also a collection of letters from predominantly escapologists and trickologists, the majority to the same recipient together with assorted other theatre and cinema ephemera

A gilt brass and ivory opera binocular, centre focus, the barrels engraved "Mrs Mary Lincoln. Left these glasses in the box at Ford's Theatre Washington, Good Friday, April 11th 1865" and "When our beloved President and Leader Abraham. Lincoln. was cruelly assassinated. Found by, William Kent. Esq". GC (both barrels cracked)

Pollocks 20th Century Wooden Toy Theatre with three cut-out magazines

Kate Greenaway Five Piece Dressing Table Set for Dolls; building blocks; History of The English Toy Theatre book; The Awful Airship Book.

The Who (2 items) official programme Vol 1 No 1 May & June 1976, Rare copy of Keith Moon on Front & Centre Page of Moon naked, plus theatre tickets for "Tommy" London April 1975

The Who's Invitation Plaque for the Premier of "Tommy" The Movie. Unique Piece of Memorabilia, smoked perspex plaque, with silver enhanced features for film title "Tommy" logo (depicting the head of Roger Daltry wearing sun glasses) address, dates & times of performance presented by "Robert Stigwood" & Columbia Pictures. Cordially invite you and a guest The Premier "Tommy" the movie, Zigfield Theatre, 6th Avenue, 54th St., 7.30pm. The party - 57th St., Subway Station, on R.S.V.P. Measures 7 x 4.5 inches. This items is believed to have once belonged to Keith Moon.

Pete Best - Original Beatles Drummer 1960-1962. Pete Best Autographed book on "Beatle!" "The Pete Best Story" First Edition 1985, Pete has signed this book in two places (page 30 & inside first page) together with Theatre Ticket for Pete Best "The Magical History Tour"

Collection of over 20 West End Theatre Programmes Featuring "The Mouse Trap", "Fame", "Boogie Nights" and the "Summer Holiday" Souvenir Brochure from 1997 with Darren Day

1911 Theatre Royale Advertising Poster for the "Importance of Being Earnest" in black frame 13 by 24 inches

Postcards - A mixed collection of approximately 160 subject postcards, with artist cards by Mabel Lucie Attwell, Bruce Bairnsfather, Sybil Barham, Willebeek le Mair, H.T. Miller, A.R. Quinton, Agnes Richardson, Millicent Sowerby, Flora White and others, with other cards noted including four chromolitho Norddeutscher Lloyd cards dated 1900, a Harry Payne Boer War card, Victoria in memoriam card, six Gale & Polden Types of the Navy", a Price's Candles Battle of the Nile card, two Theatre advert cards, a Circus and Christmas Fair at Olympia ("Special Football Night" including directors and teams from Chelsea, Fulham, QPR, and Spurs), and a poor London, Chatham & Dover Railway official.

Autographs - A collection of programmes, pictures, publicity photographs and letters signed by television and theatre personalities, including Daniel Massey, Tim Pigott-Smith, Glenda Jackson, Don Henderson, Barbara Woodhouse, William Woollard, Geoff Boycott, Joely Richardson, Roy Strong, Charlton Heston, Dennis Waterman, etc. (over 100).

A collection of 1930's Cunard White Star Line literature, including 'Ocean Times' newspapers from the SS Doric, menus and shore excursion programmes and theatre programmes from the 1930's including Folies Bergere and the Ballets Russes

An autographed photograph of Cary Grant, another of Stanley Holloway, a portrait postcard of Sir Henry Irving and letter from the Lyceum Theatre and a signed letter from Dame Sybil Thorndike

A set of three Victorian theatre posters, for the Princess Theatre, London, promoting the plays; Othello, As You Like It and Hamlet, in glazed frames

A childs toy miniature theatre, the cream painted folding stage with numerous paper cut out and celluloid figures

A CLOTH COVERED AUTOGRAPH ALBUM with circa 50 ink signatures of sportsmen and women, theatre stars etc., including a collection of signed photographic postcards of cyclists, Sid Patterson, Jan Derksen, Arie Van Vliet and others, 1949/50.

ENGLAND v WALES match programme at Twickenham, 21 January 1939, number written to upper cover, together with 21 others and assorted theatre programmes, (Qty).

Charms, various: Liver Building, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, statue of Eros, steam ship, St. Paul's & Welsh dragon, all 9ct h/m (22.1g) (6)

A Pelham "Light weight" puppet theatre, box AF

A pair of Alhambra Theatre, Bradford posters, for April and September 1952, featuring Tommy Cooper, Betty Driver, Reg Varney and Albert Modley, 35" x 10", framed

A pair of Alhambra Theatre, Bradford posters for May/June 1955, featuring Frankie Howard and Max Wall, 35" x 10", framed

A set of four small reproduction posters for Alhambra Theatre, Bradford, Pantomimes, 19" x 13 1/2", framed

An Alhambra Theatre, Bradford poster for June 1962 featuring Billy Cotton and his Band, 35" x 10", framed, together with a quantity of old programmes and other material associated with the Alhambra Theatre and others

An album of approximately 120 autographed photographs of artistes who performed at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford in the 1950's and 1960's, including Winifred Atwell, Ken Dodd, Jackie Pallo, Harry Secombe, Jimmy James, Norman Evans, Tessie O'Shea, Evelyn Laye, Leslie Crowther, Terry Thomas, Reg. Varney, Edmund Hockridge, Jimmy Clitheroe and Billy Cotton

A Morecambe and Wise theatre programme with colour photograph autographed by Eric and Ernie in felt tip and ball point, 12" x 8"

R. O. Lenkiewicz. Theatre Royal Poster. An Evening with Lenkiewicz at the Plymouth Theatre Royal Sunday 28th April 1996 at 7.30pm. Signed in black ink

YEATS,W.B. 'Poems, 1899-1905' A.H.Bullen, Dublin, 1906. 1st edn. Frontis port. Glt.dec.spine ends bumped.(Newspaper cutting portrait of Yeats by Augustus John pasted on ffep).Tog.with 'Plays for an Irish Theatre' Bullen, 1913. 2nd.edn. designs by Gordon Craig. 2

OFLAG '79'.Brunswick.'A Wartime Log For British Prisoners' YMCA, Switzerland. Photographs and Accounts of the Camp life with the Entertainments performed in the Theatre constructed in the Attic. Tog. with 'Art in The Bag', Privately printed for the OFLAG '79' Art Club. Intro. John DUGDALE. 4To. Tog.with Memorabelia from the camp. Hand Written timetable of lectures/classes, photographs of unit (Royal Army Service Corp). Plus MSS. poems from the prison camp, 1944. Plus 'P.O.W. News' 1942/43. Plus other Wartime Newspapers & Publications.

A Disbound SCRAP BOOK. Theatrical interest, programmes of various theatres, Lyric, Globe, Brighton, Theatre Royal, Westminster, etc. 1935-36.

Four pairs of binoculars, to include one pair having adjustable lens for field, marine or theatre use.

Irving (Henry & Terry, Ellen). Irving's personal working prompt copy of the play 'Charles IX' by J. Comyns Carr, c.1885, lacking title page, some preliminaries detached, with pencil annotations by Henry Irving in pencil and Ellen Terry in ink, also a contemp. tipped-in letter by J. Comyns Carr to the theatre critic William Winter, contemp. qtr. calf, worn to spine, 8vo Bookplate of William Winter to front pastedown. Some of the annotations by Ellen Terry are humourous and softly mocking of the play. After a line that reads 'Still the plot hangs' the answer in ink -'By jove it does!!' (1)

[Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John]. Fifty Comedies and Tragedies.. published by the Authors Original Copies, the Songs to each Play being added, 2nd collected ed., part 2 only (of 2), 1679, lacks prelims., begins p.1 (with tear), some water-staining at gutter, Hhh1 with closed tear in blank gutter margin, some minor marginal worming, list of the plays in contemp. ms. mounted on front pastedown, contemp. panelled calf, worn, with front cover detached, folio, together with Motteaux (Pierre Antoine), Love's a Jest. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn-Fields, 1696, soiled and foxed, final leaf with small hole in top blank margin, disbound, 8vo in 4's, plus [Settle, Elkanah], The Notorious Imposter, or the History of the Life of William Morrell alias Bowyer, sometime of Banbury, Chirurgeon.. 1692, browned and soiled, edges torn and creased, sl. loss to title-page, disbound, 8vo in 4's, plus seven other defective pamphlets First item Wing B1582. (10)

The Theatre. A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts, ed. Clement Scott, 6 vols., 1880-82, numerous b & w plts., incl. many mounted photographs, letterpress illusts., some foxing, orig. cloth stamped in black and gilt, extrems. sl. rubbed, 8vo, together with ten odd vols. of the same, 1880-97, various bindings, some boards detached (16)

Orgel (Stephen, and Strong, Roy). Inigo Jones, the Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols., Sotheby Parke Bernet, University of California Press, 1973, b & w and col. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth in d.j.s, contained in orig. cloth slipcase with printed paper label to one side, folio, together with Strong (Roy), Tudor & Jacobean Portraits, 2 vols., 1969, numerous b & w and col. plts., orig. cloth gilt, contained in orig. slipcase, 4to (4)

Programme. Frank Hinde's Grand Boxing Competitions, Saturday March 28 til Saturday April 4, at Her Majesty's Theatre, [1891], 4 p., printed in black on orange paper, some minor soiling and slightly chipped at edges, 4to The programme features Ted Pritchard (Middle-Weight Champion of the World) v. Jack Burke (The Irish lad) and several commercial ads. incl. Feltham's 'Queensberry Gloves'. (1)

Edgeworth, M. Helen, A Tale, 3 volumes, spotted, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 12mo, 1834; White, G. Natural History of Selborne, illustrations by Kearton, half calf, 1903; Cruikshank, G. George Cruikshank's Omnibus, etched plates, some spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1870; Haigh, A.E. The Attic Theatre, contemporary calf, Oxford, 1889; Holbein, H. The Dance of Death, one of 100 on Japanese vellum, original wrappers, 1892; Hope, A. The Dolly Dialogues, original cloth, 1899; and 6 others (13)

National Anti-Corn Law League. Presentation volume from the Council of the League to Mrs Rawson 'in grateful acknowledgement of her zealous efforts on behalf of the Bazaar held in Covent Garden Theatre, London May 1845', specially printed title and extract from the Art Union, original pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to; with lithographed letter and ÒHints to LadiesÓ loosely inserted

Claude Blondin - Place du Theatre, Paris, signed, 8 1/2 x 10"

Henri Edmond Cross, 1856-1910 AU THEATRE stamped with the studio stamp watercolour on paper 12 by 17cm.; 4.75 by 6.75in.

Toy Theatre...Pollock's Juvenile Drama, a large toy theatre with hand painted stage, settings, surrounds, backdrops, characters, booklets, etc, etc, too numerous to list or count, all contained within a wooden box, B. Pollock, 73 Hoxton Street, London, Circa 1860's.

A pair of Chinese famille rose porcelain ribbed melon form teapots, each painted with scenes of actors from the Chinese theatre, both bearing seal marks to base, possible GUANGXU 1875-1908, 18cm (7in)

ASSORTED EARLY 20TH CENTURY BOOKLETS AND EPHEMERA INCLUDING:- Port of London Authority, London Transport, Theatre Leaflets, Letter headings (De Havilland Aircraft Co), etc (2 ring Binders)

ASSORTED THEATRE PROGRAMMES

Mahogany Book Rack And 11 Vols. Theatre World And 2 Annuals And 4 Rudyard Kipling Books

AUTOGRAPHS - Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike, in ink on Theatre programme, The Old Vic Theatre Company in Oedipus and the Critic at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane, W.C.2