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Two Day Autograph Auction Day 2Sunday 03 November 2013 11:00

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Lot: 681GAINSBOROUGH THOMAS: (1727-1788) English Painter. Anexceptionally rare D.S., Tho. Gainsborough, one page, oblong8vo, n.p., 1st August 1758. The boldly penned and signedholograph document is a receipt stating, in full, â€˜Recd. ofDaniel Wayth Esq. the sum of fifteen Guineas in full for a halflength portrait of himselfâ€™. Signed by Gainsborough with alarge signature at the conclusion. With some light overall agetoning and two small holes, not affecting the text or signature, GDaniel Wayth (1723-1799) Gentleman Landowner of GreatGlemham, Suffolk, who would have been acquainted withGainsborough through his connections with the Kilderbee familyof Ipswich. At the head of the family was Samuel Kilderbee(1725-1813) who had married Wayth's daughter, Mary.Kilderbee, a lawyer, and Gainsborough were life-long friendsand the painter made Kilderbee 'overseer' of the execution ofhis will. The lawyer was present at Gainsborough's death. Thefirst document signed by Gainsborough to have appeared atauction in twenty five years; American Book Prices Currentrecord the sale of just eleven letters and documents signed byGainsborough, the last being sold in 1988.Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00

Lot: 682LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator andPoet. Black ink signature ('Believe me, yours very truly, EdwardLear') on a small piece, matted in white beneath an image ofLear in a head and shoulders pose. Framed and glazed in agold coloured frame to an overall size of 11 x 17. VGEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 683MUCHA ALPHONSE: (1860-1939) Czech Art Nouveau Painter& Artist. Vintage signed colour postcard, being a reproductionof the artist's painting entitled Vilem z Perstejna, being one of aseries the artist produced for the Mayor's Hall in Prague.Signed ('Mucha') in dark fountain pen ink with his name aloneto a clear area at the base of the image. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 684KNIGHT LAURA: (1877-1970) English Impressionist Artist. Agood original blue fountain pen and ink sketch of a ballerina ina full length pose standing en pointe, drawn and signed byKnight on a small 8vo page removed from an autograph album.Boldly signed by Knight at the base and dated R[oyal]O[rdnance] F[actory], Newport, March 1943 in her hand. Withintegral leaf attached. VG In March 1943 Laura Knight visitedthe Royal Ordnance Factory in Newport, Monmouthshire, topaint a woman at work and made the present drawing for anemployee. The result of the artist's visit was her picture entitledRuby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring which was voted the mostpopular painting in the RA Exhibition the following month.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 685KNIGHT LAURA: (1877-1970) English Painter. Signed colour26 x 22 print entitled The Trick Act (1936), published by Frost &Reed, depicting a female circus performer seated on a largeGerman spotted horse named Knapstroper in the big ring, withtwo clowns seated alongside in full length poses. Signed('Laura Knight') with her name alone in bold pencil to the lower

border. Some extremely light staining to white borders, VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 686PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter. A printed 8vocatalogue entitled Palissy a Picasso Poteries issued for aretrospective exhibition at Ville de Vallauris, 1949, with variousblack and white illustrations and French text, signed by Picassowith his surname only to the title page. The front and backcovers bear interesting notes in the hand of the previous owner,indicating that the signature was obtained on Thursday, 18thAugust 1949 on the beach at Golf Juan, which the artist visitsevery day between 11am and 1pm, and also stating, in part, 'atpresent working on light painting with an American who hasalso worked with Picasso. Does not expect to start serious workbefore mid Septemberâ€¦' Some light overall foxing to the greyand blue printed paper covers, GEstimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 687PICASSO PABLO: (1881 - 1973) Spanish Painter. A signed 8.5x 10.5 Linogravure illustration of Pablo Picasso's wife in anabstracted head and shoulders pose. Titled 'Portrait of HisWife'. Signed by Picasso with his name alone in pencil to thelower white border. Double matted in blue and cream. Framedand glazed in a modern grey frame to an overall size of 17 x 19.EXEstimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 688CRUIKSHANK GEORGE: (1792-1878) British Illustrator. A.L.S.,Geo. Cruikshank, one page, 8vo, n.p., 6th July 1830, to St.John (?). Cruikshank announces 'Mr. Finney (Mrs. Hawkings'sson in law) (does not want to get into law) but being in a little bitof a Delima is in want of a little bit of legal advice' and adds thathe hopes his correspondent will be able to provide it to him. Tothe verso appears an original pen and ink sketch, a simpledrawing of a full length figure walking and holding a cane orsword in one hand. Together with a series of autograph notes,unsigned, two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., seemingly beingCruikshank's rough drafts of letters, one to Mr. [John?] Ruskin,discussing his movements, appointments, the weather etc., oneside also featuring an original pen and ink sketch of a hot airballoon in flight. Very slightly neatly trimmed (1) and both withlight overall age wear, G, 2Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 689WARD LESLIE: (1851-1922) British Artist & Caricaturist whoworked under the pseudynom Spy. A.L.S., Leslie Ward, onepage, 8vo, Knightsbridge, London, 16th January n.y., to Miss.Manock. Ward sends his correspondent some tickets (no longerpresent), remarking 'They admit (as you will see) 2 each andperhaps Miss Jordan would like to come too.' In a postscriptWard adds that he will invite them both to his studio in a fewdays. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 690SEARLE RONALD: (1920-2011) British Artist and SatiricalCartoonist. An excellent original black pen and ink drawing by

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Searle, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. The artist has drawn a headand shoulders study of a bespectacled man, seemingly wearinga military uniform, and smoking a pipe. Signed by Searle in boldblack ink with his name alone at the base of the drawing. AboutEX The drawing most likely dates from around 1939-45 whenSearle was held as a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 691SEARLE RONALD: (1920-2011) British Artist and SatiricalCartoonist. A.L.S., Ronald, one page, 4to, London, 30th July1952, to Nicolas Bentley ('Dear Nick') on the printed stationeryof Perpetua Limited. Searle informs his correspondent that hedidn't fully enjoy a book, commenting 'It's difficult when youdislike almost every character. Still - it was interesting - and wellwritten.' He further informs Bentley that he has to go away untilthe end of August on a couple of features, 'but meanwhile youcould be looking out a drawing which would make an Americanlaugh for Â£10', explaining, 'The wife of a big New Yorkadvertising man (Mr. Henry Bach of Henry Bach Associates!)[Inc. Inc.] wants me to get for her one or two originals ofcartoons to hang in their apartment over there. (nocommission!) She fell in love with your trotting passenger in theSedan chair - but we weren't parting with it. So anything like.' Inconcluding Searle asks 'Did I tell you we are doing the oddbook under this firm? Our first on dramatic criticism, critics andsuch subjects will be out in October and we hope it will sweepthe profession! If it doesn't we'll have to give it away with icecreams in the Interval. Any way we are thoroughly enjoyingourselves.' VG Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) British Author andIllustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings inbooks and magazines of the 1930s and 1940s.Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 692SEARLE RONALD: (1920-2011) British Artist and SatiricalCartoonist. Vintage signed and inscribed 9 x 7 photograph ofSearle seated outdoors in a full length pose alongside anothergentleman. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink across a lightarea of the image, 'To Walter Alford, Souvenir of a pleasant'Monte Carlo' day in Rome, with best wishes, Ronald Searle'and dated August 1968 in his hand. Signed photographs ofSearle are scarce. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 693SMILBY: (1927-2009) Francis Wilford-Smith. British Cartoonist.Small collection of original pencil, pen and ink drawings andcartoons by Smilby, each drawn on folio, 4to and 8vo pieces ofpaper (some irregularly torn at the edges), depicting variousindividuals in different circumstances, including a cleanerwashing her mop under a shower above a bath, anothercleaner, with her long hair entangled in a mop as she washes afloor, another showing a man looking through the key hole ofTrue Love Stories Magazine Inc., three of the drawings signed('Smilby') by the cartoonist. Also including a few holographnotes and annotations etc. FR to about VG, 9Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 694BRATBY JOHN: (1928-1992) English Painter. Small group offour A.Ls.S., John Bratby and John, five pages (total), 4to,

Hastings, East Sussex & Blackheath, London, 7th March & 29thOctober 1982 and n.d., all to Don [Moore, of The MonasteryGarden Restaurant] on Bratby's personal printed stationery(three different designs, two in colour). In the first dated letterBratby announces 'I am very sorry. We had a very nicerelationship. But if the prices on my work are cut off they mustcome back to my studio' and adds that he will send a van tocollect them all; in the second dated letter Bratby states thatthere is something he would like to ask his correspondent,explaining 'Last Wednesday evening we had just arranged mysecond one-man show in London...of non-portrait work, therebeing a third in the Royal Festival Hall, and we were in acelebratory mood, went to The George and then came to pickup your kind offer of a meal, though as on the two previousoccasions the free bottle of wine knocks me out. The dinersacross from us asked us not to include them in ourconversation & the new head-waiter gentleman refused to wrapup Patti's uneaten chicken in no uncertain terms. Could youdrop me a line by letter, telling me what you understoodhappened. The matter has continued to worry me for 1 1/2weeks.'; and in the two undated letters Bratby refers to hispictures, enquiring if his correspondent would like some more('It will be much better with nice fresh stuff: they were becomingpart of the walls.') and also referring to arrangements to collect'all the oils & drawings....it will not disturb the look of therestaurant.' Some light overall creasing, G to about VG, 4Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 695FROST TERRY: (1915-2003) English Abstract Artist. A goodcollection of various signed greetings cards, exhibitionbrochures and other ephemera etc. by Frost, all to his friendsAlf & Margaret Rogers, including eight signed greetings cardssent by Frost on different occasions (Birthdays, Christmas etc.),three with original pen and ink sketches by the artist (depictinga fishing boat at sea with a large sun in the sky etc.), and threeapparently designed by Frost himself with brightly colouredcards in an abstract design, an A.L.S., Terry, to the verso of acolour postcard reproduction of his work entitled April Sun Up,9th May 1987, thanking his correspondent's for their hospitalityand continuing 'Our opening at the Henry Moore exhibition inthe Yorkshire Sculpture Park was superb. A wonderful site inDenby Dale & the sculptures looked magnificent. The Universityopening for my show was very good & they provided a goodbuffet & wine. Lots of old friends, some looking v. old. Very sadreally.', some signed Exhibition brochures and invitations etc.for Paintings and Collages at Rufford Craft Centre, 1982,Recent Paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1969,two signed and inscribed copies of Painting in the 1980's, asigned hardback edition of Warm Frost, also including anumber of cards etc. signed by Frost's wife (some also on hisbehalf), a few unsigned books and photographs (including twovintage 1960s images of Frost at work outdoors in Cornwall),two mugs designed by Frost for the Royal Academy of Arts,with black and red and black and yellow geometric designs andFrost's facsimile signature to the verso. Together with a fewunrelated signatures of Labour Politicians including R. StaffordCripps, Hugh Dalton, Arthur Greenwood, Aneurin Bevan etc.together on a brochure (P) etc. Generally VG to EX, 42Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 696WARHOL ANDY: (1928-1987) American Pop Artist. Signedcolour 9 x 11 front cover of the dust jacket to Warhol's bookentitled Andy Warhol's Exposures, signed ('Andy') in bold black

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ink with his first name only to a clear area at the right edge.Matted in black and yellow to an overall size of 16 x 18.5. AboutVGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 697LICHTENSTEIN ROY: (1923-1997) American Pop Artist.Signed colour 4 x 6 postcard, being a reproduction ofLichtenstein's artwork entitled Still Life with Pitcher (1972).Signed in bold blue ink to the lower white border and dated1981 in his hand. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 698CHRISTO: (1935- ) Bulgarian Land Artist & JEANNE-CLAUDE(1935-2009) American Land artist, wife of Christo. Selection ofeight signed 6 x 4 colour postcards, each depicting variouspieces of Christo's artwork, most different images. All aresigned ('Christo and Jeanne-Claude') or ('Christo') in bold blackinks across light areas of the images. Unsigned (1). VG to EX, 9Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 699HOCKNEY DAVID: (1937- ) British Artist. Signed colour 6 x 8photograph of Hockney in a head and shoulders pose. Signed('David Hockney') with his name alone in bold black ink to thelower white border. EXEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 700HOCKNEY DAVID: (1937- ) British Artist. Signed colour 10.5x 8 printed paper laser copy photograph of Hockney reclining ina head and shoulders pose with a small dog affectionately lyingon his face. Signed ('David Hockney') in black ink with his namealone to a clear area at the base of the image. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 701HOCKNEY DAVID: (1937- ) British Artist. Signed colour 19.5x 28.5 print, being a lithograph issued for a HockneyRetrospective at the Tate Gallery and featuring a colour imageof the artist's painting entitled My Mother Bridlington. Signed byHockney with his name alone to the lower border. Matted incream and framed and glazed in a blue light mottled woodenframe to an overall size of 31 x 41. EXEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 702GILBERT & GEORGE: Gilbert Proesch (1943- ) & GeorgePassmore (1942- ) Italian & English Artists, a collaborativeduo known as Gilbert & George. Selection of signed colourpostcards, most being reproductions of various differentartworks by the duo including Down to Earth, Blood Heads,Light Headed, Facing etc. Each signed by Gilbert and Georgeindividually to the borders or largely clear areas of the images.VG to EX, 12Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 703

MOORE HENRY: (1898-1986) English Sculptor and Artist.Signed colour 20 x 30 poster of one of Moore's sculpturescommemorating his 80th Birthday Exhibition, at the Bradford ArtGalleries & Museums, 1st April - 25th June 1978. Signed('Henry Moore') with his name alone in bold blue ink to thelower white border. Some light surface creasing, otherwise VGEstimate: £60.00 - £80.00

Lot: 704ARTISTS: A good selection of signed postcard photographsand slightly larger, some 8 x 10's, magazine photograph (1), byvarious artists, painters and sculptors etc, comprising VictorVasarely, Pietro Annigoni, David Shepherd, Richard Hamilton,Kenneth Armitage, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, MichaelNoakes, Hugh Casson, Graham Clarke, Maggi Hambling,Anthony Caro, Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake, Donald HamiltonFraser, Carel Weight and Paul Hogarth. G to VG, 17Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 705ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards, each beingreproductions of paintings and artwork, by various artistscomprising Hans Erni (original pencil sketch of a bird) JohnFlint, Harold Riley, Jean Helion (2), Bryan Organ, Erro, StevenCampbell, Carel Weight and Philip Sutton. All are signed to theversos, some with additional holograph notes. Generally VG, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 706ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards, each beingreproductions of paintings and artwork, by various artistscomprising John Ward, Theo Crosby, June Mendoza, PeterBlake, James Marsh, Leon Kosoff (2), Jean Bellany, Jean E.Cooke and Bernard Dunstan. All are signed to the versos,some with additional holograph notes. G to VG, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 707ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards and slightlylarger etc., most being reproductions of paintings and artwork,by various artists comprising Roland Penrose, WayneThiebaud, Patrick Caulfield, Maggi Hambling, Mel Ramos (2),Tom Wesselmann, Johannes Grutzke, Peter Blake, EduardoPaolozzi, David Hockney (weaker contrast) and Sandra Blow.Generally VG, 12Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 708ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards and slightlylarger promotional images etc., each being reproductions ofpaintings and artwork, by various artists comprising WilliamTillyer, Alan Davie, Robyn Denny, Patrick Caulfield, JeffreySteele, Anthony Whishaw, Victor Pasmore (3; two signed withhis initials) and William Wegman. Most are signed to the verso,some with additional holograph notes. G to VG, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 709ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards and slightlylarger, each being reproductions of paintings and artwork,

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signed First Day Cover (1), by various artists comprising MonaHatoum, Rineke Dijkstra, Sarah Lucas, Antony Gormley, GavinTurk, Gilbert & George (2), Christo & Jeanne-Claude, TraceyEmin and Roni Horn. Some are signed to the versos and a fewhave additional holograph notes. VG to EX, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 710ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards etc., each beingreproductions of paintings and artwork, by various artistscomprising Gilbert & George (3; one a signed slim 4to menu fora dinner at Simpsons-in-the-Strand to celebrate the opening oftheir Hayward Gallery Exhibition, 1987), Peter Blake (2),Johannes Grutzke, Joe Tilson, Bryan Organ (2) and RichardHamilton. Generally VG, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 711ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards and a fewslightly larger, each being reproductions of paintings andartwork, by various artists comprising Tom Wesselman (2),Jeffrey Steele, David Tindle, Patrick Caulfield, William Gear,Alan Davie, Robert Indiana, Joe Tilson, Howard Hodgkin(initials only), Stephen Buckley and Peter Blake. Generally VG,12Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 712ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards and slightlylarger (2), each being reproductions of paintings and artwork,by various artists comprising Frederick Gore, Alan Davie, PeterBlake, Edward Bawden, John Ward (2), Yvonne Gilbert (2),John Hubbard, Juliet Pannett and Gerald Norden. GenerallyVG, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 713ARTISTS: Selection of signed cards (2), signed postcards,being reproductions of paintings, artwork and postage stampdesigns (PHQ cards), by various artists including Gunter Grass,Paul Hogarth, Peter Scott, Philip Hicks (2), Mordillo, CrawfurdAdamson, Patrick Heron, Yvonne Gilbert (2), Ken Lilly etc.Unsigned (1). Most of the images are colour. A little duplication.Generally VG, 17Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 714ARTISTS: Selection of signed pieces, signed postcards, beingreproductions of paintings, artwork and postage stamp designs(PHQ cards), A.L.S. (1), by various artists including PatrickHeron, Yvonne Gilbert (2), Norman Arlott, Tom Wesselmann,Mordillo, David Shepherd, Howard Hodgkin (initials only), BryanOrgan, Philip Hicks, Ken Lilly etc. Most of the images arecolour. A little duplication. Generally G to VG, 19Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 715ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards and a fewlarger, each being reproductions of paintings and artwork, byvarious artists comprising Jack Goldhill, Terry Atkinson, Chris

Rose, John Nash, R. Vivian Pitchforth, David Tindle, VictorPasmore, Olwyn Bowey, Clare Roberts, Anthony Eyton andArturo di Stefano. All are signed to the versos, a few withadditional holograph notes. Generally VG, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 716ARTISTS: Selection of signed colour postcards and slightlylarger (1), each being reproductions of paintings and artwork,by various artists including Brian Sanders, Erro, Jeff Cummins,C.J.F Coombs, Chris Rose, Allan Drummond, LeonardMcComb, Christopher Sanders, N.W. Cusa, Frank Auerbach(2) etc. All are signed to the versos, a few with additionalholograph notes. Unsigned (1). G to VG, 13Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 717ARTISTS: Selection of signed postcards, being reproductionsof paintings, artwork and stamp designs (PHQ cards), A.L.S. (1)etc., by various artists including Victor Pasmore, Ken Lilly (2),Gunter Grass, Mordillo (with a small original sketch), GwenRaverat, Patrick Heron, Michael Leonard, Philip Hicks, YvonneGilbert (2), etc. A little duplication. Most of the images arecolour. Unsigned (1). Generally VG, 19Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 718ARTISTS: Miscellaneous selection of signed postcardsphotographs and reproductions of paintings and artwork, signedmagazine pages, a few original pencil sketches, A.Ls.S (3),etc., by various artists, painters and sculptors etc., includingFrank Hampson (original pencil sketch of Dan Dare), MarinoMarini, Mordillo, Bryan Organ, Jean Lurcat, Malcolm Morley,Robin Tanner, Percy Hammond, Alan Lee, Philip Levine, PietroAnnigoni, Oskar Kokoschka, Karel Appel, Franta Belsky etc. Afew FR, generally G, 18Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 719ARTISTS: Selection of signed cards, letterheads, A.Ls.S.,T.Ls.S., signed colour reproductions of artwork etc., by variousartists comprising Sarah Lucas, Christo, Leon Kossoff, BridgetRiley, Gilbert & George, Anthony Caro (in part 'Just like Picassohe started at about your age and became a Great Artist'),Howard Hodgkin, Frank Auerbach (in part, 'Your love ofdrawing is shared by many, but very few of us manage to dointeresting drawings, and then only occasionally. If drawinghelps you to buy a house you will be quite exceptionally lucky.'),Roni Horn, Sean Scully and Michael Craig Martin. Most of theletters have interesting content. VG to EX, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 720PHOTOGRAPHERS: Selection of signed pieces, cards,postcard photographs and slightly larger etc., by variousphotographers including Cecil Beaton (2), Baron, Eve Arnold,Daniel Farson, Henri Cartier-Bresson (2), Lord Snowdon, SamHaskins etc. Unsigned (1). Generally G to VG, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

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Lot: 721ARTS THE: Miscellaneous selection of vintage signed 8 x 10photographs and slightly smaller by various writers, musiciansand entertainers including Stan Barstow, Alan Plater, DavidKossoff, Virginia Wetherell, Henry Livings & Alex Glasgow,Eileen Derbyshire, Alfred Bradley, Bettina Jonic, Paul Tortelier,Michael Roll, Leonid Kogan, Henryk Szeryng etc. GenerallyVG, 19Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 722SCULPTORS: Selection of signed postcards and slightly larger,each being reproductions of sculptures of artwork, A.L.S (1)etc., by various sculptors and artists, comprising Christo (4),Clive Barker, David Leach, Stuart Devlin, Tom Phillips, BarbaraTribe, Henry Moore, Albert Toft and David McFall. Some of theimages are colour. G to generally VG, 12Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 723SCULPTORS: Selection of signed colour postcards and slightlylarger, each being reproductions of sculptures and artwork byvarious sculptors and artists, a few signed hotographs etc.,comprising Christo (3), Clive Barker, Rowland Emett, DavidLeach, Damien Hirst, Joseph Beuys, Elisabeth Frink, AnthonyCaro and David McFall. Unsigned (1). Some are signed to theversos with additional holograph notes. Generally VG, 12Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 724CARTOONISTS: Miscellaneous selection of signed cards,signed photographs of various sizes, A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., a fewsigned reproductions etc., by various cartoonists, animatorsand illustrators etc., including Norman Thelwell, Bob Godfrey,Barry Fantoni, David Langdon, Len Dworkins, David McKee,Reg Smythe, Kim Casali, Mark Henn, Dale Messick, PeteDredge, Eldon Dedini, Terence Parkes ('Larry'), Garry Trudeau,Bill Tidy, Martin Handford, Raymond Briggs, Norman Bridwell,Quentin Blake etc. VG to EX, 34â€˜â€¦even children are all verywell in their wayâ€¦â€™Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 725DODGSON C. L.: (1832-1898) Lewis Carroll. English Author ofAlice's Adventures in Wonderland. A.L.S., C. L. Dodgson, twopages, 8vo, Lushington Road, Eastbourne, 26th August 1885,to [Thomas Gibson] Bowles. Dodgson writes 'Your very kindoffer to get the facts about â€œHart's Leapâ€• published in â€œVanityFairâ€•, â€œfree, gracious, and for nothingâ€•, had to be reported tomy friend (who is in France) before I cd. tell what to say - I nowhave her reply, & accept your offer, with many thanks, leaving itto you to select what parts of it to print: of course it will bearconsiderable abridgement.' The author concludes 'Yourdescription of domestic bliss is rather cruel to an old bachelor!Doubtless it is very nice: & even children are all very well intheir way - but unfortunately they are sometimes in otherpeoples' way, as well!' A letter of good content, boldly pennedin Dodgson's characteristic purple ink. Two small pencilannotations to the head of the first page. VG Thomas GibsonBowles (1841-1922) English Journalist, founder of themagazines Vanity Fair and The Lady.Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00

Lot: 726POTTER BEATRIX: (1866-1943) English Author of Children'sBooks. A good vintage signed and inscribed Christmasgreetings card, the folding 8vo card featuring a printed image ofJemima Puddle-Duck beneath the word Greetings to the frontcover and with a further printed image of Jemima Puddle-Duckand Peter Rabbit by Potter to the inside. The image depictsthem engaged in conversation by a garden gate and wall, witha kitten looking over the top, and bears a short passage ofprinted text beneath, 'Will you come to tea, Peter?' 'I shouldlove to, Jemima, but will there be a cat?' 'No cats, no foxes!Just me and you' 'M'ew! I come too!' said Tom Kitten'. Signed('Beatrix Potter') in dark fountain pen ink opposite the image tothe inside and inscribed in Potter's hand to Mary F. Gill, addingthe date, New Year 1935, and a few additional words in herhand, 'with good wishes to all at Milton'. A charming signedGreetings card. A few very light, minor areas of discoloration tothe front and a slight, neat tear at the base of the central fold,otherwise about VG Mary F. Gill, a prominent Boston Unitarian,and Beatrix Potter, herself a life-long Unitarian, had beencorresponding since the 1920s as a result of Gill's activities withFriendly Links, an organization promoting intellectual exchangebetween British and American Unitarians.Estimate: £600.00 - £900.00

Lot: 727MILNE CHRISTOPHER: (1920-1996) Son of author A. A.Milne, the basis of the character Christopher Robin in hisfather's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Signed First Day Covercommemorating the centenary of Ernest H. Shepard, 'The ManWho Drew Pooh', and featuring a reproduction of one of theillustrator's drawings of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. Post marked at Hartfield, East Sussex, 11th July 1979.Signed by Christopher Milne in black ink with his name alone toa clear area. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 728ROWLING J. K.: (1965- ) British Author of the Harry Potterbooks. Signed colour 4 x 6 postcard, being a reproduction ofThomas Taylor's artwork featuring Harry Potter and theHogwarts Express train, as used for the dust jacket illustrationof the first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(1997), the first in Rowling's series of fantasy novels. Signed byRowling in blue ink with her name alone to the lower whiteborder. About EXEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 729TENNYSON ALFRED: (1809-1892) English Poet Laureate. Avery fine signed sepia cabinet photograph of Tennyson seatedin a three quarter length pose holding a hat in his hands.Photograph by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London. Signed('Tennyson') in bold, dark fountain pen ink with his name aloneto the lower photographer's mount. Rare in this form. Someextremely light, minor age wear, about EXEstimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 730MASEFIELD JOHN: (1878-1967) British Poet Laureate 1930-67. Collection of ten A.Ls.S., John Masefield, and four with hisfirst name only, and one with initials, fifteen pages (total),

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largely oblong 8vo, Boars Hill, Oxford, Burcote Brook,Abingdon, n.d. (one dated Christmas 1965 in pencil in the handof the recipient, 'His last letter to me'), to Ruth Robinson.Masefield writes a series of largely social letters to his friend,sending her Birthday wishes, inviting her to tea and givingdirections on how to find his home, and also discussing herwork etc., in part, 'I hope that the new plays may have all happysuccess, & that you will have the thrill & the joy of directingthem, & your audience, now & then, the thrill & joy of seeingyou act in them.'; 'Please, let me wish you every happy successwith a new type of pupil, in Hardy's country. Lots of talent isthere always, and you are the very one to find and foster it. Ihope that lots of them will want to speak Thomas Hardy, & doscenes from the Dynasts.'; 'I am sorry to say that I cannot nowexpect to read much verse, for my eyes get worse daily. Still, Ishall be able to have a glimpse of poetry now & then.' Togetherwith four different 8vo and 12mo printed Christmas cards, twosigned by Masefield (one in pencil) and all inscribed by him,most with printed verses entitled A Christmas Thought (1945),Music etc., and also including a small 8vo printed bookletentitled Words spoken at the Music Room, Boar's Hill, in theafternoon of November 5th, 1930 at a Festival designed in thehonour of William Butler Yeats, Poet, Limited Edition(numbered 75 by Masefield), signed and inscribed with his firstname only, 1941. Some age wear and foxing to the Christmascards, FR (1), generally G to VG, 15 Betjeman on AustraliaEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 731BETJEMAN JOHN: (1906-1984) British Poet Laureate 1972-84.A.L.S., John Betjeman, three pages, 8vo, Cloth Fair, London(although on the printed stationery of Moor View, Edensor,Bakewell, Derbyshire), 15th December 1961, to Miss. I.Langley. Betjeman states that it was nice to receive hiscorrespondent's letter upon his return from Australia andcontinues 'I heardâ€¦.via Lady Elizabeth that they are delightedwith you up there in Hampstead & think you are just the sort ofperson they need - as I am sure you are. And what is so goodis that I sit back & take all the credit for having recommendedyou! But honestly, it is work worth doing, more worth doing thanmost work today, though it must be very exciting. It is dealingwith people as human beings & not as numbers or automata - &you are cut out for it.' Betjeman further writes of his visit toAustralia, 'Well, I can safely say that I have never enjoyedmyself so much since I was an undergraduate at Oxford as I didin Australia. The weather was wonderful, parrots flew about,lizards darted over stone, splendid great spiders spun webs & Isaw some long centipedes straw coloured & vicious & oh suchbeautiful, furled long legged Australian girls. The flowers were ariot of colours, the gum tree a wealth of different shapes &those wide verandalow bungalows delighted me. I went toSydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Perth, Orange,Armidale, Grafton, Ballina, Geelong, Fremantle, Launceston,Canberraâ€¦.I have not been so happy & free for years & wouldlike to live there for ever - I think in either Perth or Tasmania.'He adds 'Mrs. Betjeman loved Spain & has kept a fascinatingdiary & taken some very good photographs. The religion & theanimals & the discomfort of the zenati villages in the Sierraswhere she stayed suited her down to the ground. She talks ofnothing else & I can hardly get a word in about Australia.'Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed byBetjeman. Together with a small selection of printed ephemeraetc. relating to Betjeman including a printed 8vo Order ofService of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Betjeman atWestminster Abbey, 29th June 1984, and related ticket of entry,a 3.5 x 5.5 photograph of Betjeman at Princess Margaret's

wedding etc., and also including a signed and inscribedhardback edition of Two Middle-aged Ladies in Andalusia byPenelope Chetwode, First Edition published by John Murray,London, 1963, signed by Chetwode in blue ink to the front freeendpaper, 'Iris Langley, with good wishes from one of themiddle-aged ladies, Penelope Chetwode' and dated 19thSeptember 1963 in her hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket.Some age wear and considerable water staining and damageto the book, otherwise VG, 6Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 732BETJEMAN JOHN: (1906-1984) British Poet Laureate 1972-84.Illustrated T.L.S., John Betjeman, with holograph salutation andsubscription and six holograph lines of text, one page, 8vo,Wantage, Berkshire, 13th January 1960, to [William Iveson]Croome. The form letter sends thanks for Croome's message ofcongratulations and Betjeman continues, in holograph, 'I havehad to resort to this unworthy duplicated letter, but must thankyou especially & personally. I'd rather be a peer, wouldn't you?'further adding an original pen and ink drawing of a crown in hishand. Together with a hardback edition of Collins Guide toEnglish Parish Churches, edited and with an introduction byJohn Betjeman, First Edition published by Collins, London,1958. Bearing the bookplate of William Iveson Croome.Accompanied by the dust jacket (heavy tears and some areasof paper loss). G to VG, 2 Betjeman had been made aCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1960.William Iveson Croome (1891-1967) English Churchwarden inGloucestershire who shared Betjeman's passion and interest inecclesiastical buildings.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 733SPENDER STEPHEN: (1909-1995) English Poet & Novelist.T.L.S., Stephen, two pages, 4to, Berkeley, California, 4th June1959, to John [Morris]. Spender thanks his correspondent fortheir letter, with which he entirely agrees, commenting 'I agreewith you that Mel is a brilliant editor, and I also agree that the ill-treatment of our writers may do us more harm in the long runthan our present popularity with our readers. What you write isthe more serious because I do not see that my position will be,when I get back, so different from yours. If Mel has accepted asmuch material as you say, and if he refuses to read material,there will be no room for stuff recommended by me. In fact, Ifeel that in sending the story by Calvin Kentfield and poems byLowell, and asking for Aldous's lectures and for an essay byGerald on the psychology of modern clothes, I've alreadysimply made further bad public relations for us.' He continues'Anyway, it is really impossible to let matters deteriorate furtherand it seems to me that there are two things to be done. One,to reorganize the manuscripts round you (as long as you arethere) and then round me, and simply say that one will give upthe magazine unless Mel plays his part. Two, to insist that Melgives up Der Monat. Or that he chooses between Der Monatand Encounter' and further discusses the situation and possibleremedies, including asking a Paris office for assistance inorganising the magazine. In concluding Spender writes 'Themagazine has, in fact, improved in many ways. Mel seems tohave cut down a lot of that dead wood which was supplied byIrving's New York friends and Young Conservatives' and in aholograph postscript adds 'If you are communicating with Parisyou may (very confidentially) forward them this letter asexpressing my view'. Some slight creasing at the folds,otherwise VG John Morris (1895-1980) English Traveller,

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Anthropologist and Writer, Controller of the BBC ThirdProgramme (later Radio Three) from 1952-58. Melvin J. Lasky(1920-2004) American Journalist & Intellectual, founder of theGerman journal Der Monat in 1948 and editor of the Britishjournal Encounter from 1958-91.Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 734DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. Autographaddress panel signed, Charles Dickens, addressed in his handto the Editor of The Globe. The front panel of the envelope issigned by Dickens in the lower left corner and to the upper rightcorner a small piece bearing the words with the committee'scompliments in Dickens's hand has been neatly affixed. Neatlymounted and with a slightly irregularly trimmed bookplatebearing Dickens's name lightly pasted to the verso. About VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 735DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S.,Charles Dickens, with paraph, one page, 8vo, DevonshireTerrace, 30th April 1844, to Dr. [Thomas] Southwood Smith.Dickens informs his correspondent 'I feel, on second thoughts,the delicacy of chairmanship so strongâ€¦.that I would ratherleave Lords Normanby and Seymour to be written to, by theman of business' and concludes 'All the other people we spokeof this morning I have faithfully written to already.' With blankintegral leaf. VG Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861)English Physician & Sanitary Reformer. In 1837, ThomasSouthwood Smith issued his Report on the Physical Causes ofSickness and Mortaliy to which the poor are regularly exposedand which are preventable by Sanitary Measures. As a resultSouthwood Smith escorted Dickens to see the poor conditionsdescribed in the report, which prompted the novelist to writeBleak House and Oliver TwistEstimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 736DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. Blue inksignature and three lines of text in his hand on a piece neatlyremoved from the conclusion of a letter. Dickens writes, in full,'...for me one copy of Little Dorrit, and one copy of Old CuriosityShop, both cheap editions.' Professionally and attractivelymatted in ivory with gold coloured edges beneath an oval imageof the novelist and framed and glazed in a gold coloured frameto an overall size of 18.5 x 24. A desirable example in whichDickens makes reference to two of his most famous works.Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VGEstimate: £400.00 - £500.00

Lot: 737DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A goodvintage signed 9.5 x 11.5 engraving, the image depictingDickens in a pensive semi-profile head and shoulders pose withone hand raised to the side of his face. Signed in bold fountainpen ink to the lower mount and dated Boston, 26th February1868 in his hand. The ink to the paraph, place and date is alittle light in places although perfectly legible. Signed images ofDickens of this size are extremely rare and desirable. One lightcircular stain to the left edge of the engraving, not affecting theimage, and a few minor light stains to the lower edge of themount, a small tear to the left mount (repaired to the verso) and

some light overall age wear, generally G The present imagewas signed by Dickens during his last American Reading Tourand just a couple of days before his celebrated GreatInternational Walking Match of 29th February 1868.Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00

Lot: 738KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) English Author, Nobel Prizewinner for Literature, 1907. A good A.Q.S., Rudyard Kiping, onepage, 4to, n.p., 22nd September 1912. In bold, dark fountainpen ink Kipling has penned six lines from his verse The Looking-Glass (A Country Dance), beginning 'The Queen was in herchamber and she was middling old - Her petticoat was Satinand her stomacher was gold' and concluding 'The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass as comely or as kindly or asyoung as once she was.' Signed and dated by Kiplingimmediately beneath the quotation. With integral leaf. VG TheLooking-Glass was first published in Kipling's historical fantasybook Rewards and Fairies (1910) and concerns the ageingQueen Elizabeth I being taunted by the spirits of Mary, Queenof Scots and the Earl of Leicester, and the cruelty of lookinginto a mirror, whoever you are.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 739WELLS H. G.: (1866-1946) English Writer of Science Fictionnovels. A.L.S., H. G. Wells, one page, small 4to, Bournemouth,17th January 1933, to Mrs. [John Davys] Beresford, on theattractive printed stationery of the Royal Bath Hotel. Wellsannounces 'Alas! I have to cut out all these lecturing proposals.Life is too short for them' and continues 'My warmest regards tothe great man. I will send your note on to Odette. I parted fromher for good last year. Our relations continue friendlyâ€¦.she isreasonably well provided for.' In a postscript he providesOdette's present address in Boulogne sur Seine. Some lightcreasing at the folds, otherwise VG John Davys Beresford(1873-1947) English Writer of Science Fiction, Ghost & Horrornovels and short stories. Beresford was a friend and greatadmirer of Wells, and wrote the first critical study of Wells in1915. Father of Elisabeth Beresford (1926-2010) Children'sWriter and creator of The Wombles. In 1891 Wells had marriedhis cousin, Isabel Mary Wells, although they agreed to separatein 1894 when the author fell in love with one of his students,Amy Catherine Robbins, whom he married in 1895. With hiswife's consent, Wells conducted affairs with a number ofwomen including novelist Rebecca West and, from 1924, theAustrian writer Odette Keun (1888-1978) whom Wells refers toin the present letter.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 740MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET: (1874-1965) English Playwright &Novelist. Vintage signed 3.5 x 6 photograph of Maugham in ahead and shoulders pose. Signed ('W. Somerset Maugham') inbold blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area atthe head of the image. Together with a T.L.S., W. S. Maugham,one page, 8vo, St. Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 17th February 1956, to Mr.Roest, thanking him for his charming letter. VG to EX, 2Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 741WREN P.C.: (1875-1941) British Writer of Adventure Fiction,

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remembered for his novel Beau Geste (1924). T.L.S., P CWren, one page, 4to, St. James's Square, London, 29thSeptember 1927, to Huldine, on the printed stationery of theE.I. United Service Club. Wren announces 'The new Edition of"Beau Geste" came out yesterday, and a copy of it shouldreach you with this' and continues 'I have had, in the distantpast, some good runs with the North Devon, being a Devonman...I'm afraid it will be some time before I am that way againthough, as I'm going to Spain, to see if the sun shines there.',further referring to Crichton-Miller and a money raising projectat His Majesty's Theatre, before concluding 'How old am I? 50something? Alas, you are right! But the something is only one,though it will be two soon.' Together with Thomas Hughes(1822-1896) English Author, famous for his novel Tom Brown'sSchool Days (1857). A.L.S., Tho. Hughes, one page, 8vo, PallMall, London, 3rd November 1877, to Howman, on the blindembossed stationery of the Athenaeum Club. Hughes thankshis correspondent for their letter and invitation, although regretsthat he is already engaged for his Birmingham Trip. With blankintegral leaf. Some light age wear and minor foxing, G to VG, 2Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 742WODEHOUSE P. G.: (1881-1975) English Writer, creator ofJeeves and Wooster. T.L.S., P. G. Wodehouse, one page, 8vo,Remsenburg, New York, 30th August 1971, to Robert J. Clarke.Wodehouse thanks his correspondent for their letter andcomments 'I am so glad you have enjoyed reading my books. Iam working on another and hope you like it, if it comes yourway.' In a holograph postscript he further writes 'Many thanksfor your birthday wishes'. Accompanied by the originalenvelope. Two light, uniform areas of discoloration, justaffecting the text and signature. Together with an A.L.S. byWodehouse's step-granddaughter Sheran Hornby, one page,8vo, Remsenburg, 23rd February 1975, to Robert J. Clarke,thanking him, on behalf of her grandmother, for his kind letter ofsympathy following Wodehouse's death on the 14th February.Accompanied by the original envelope. G to VG, 2Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 743SMITH DODIE: (1896-1990) English Novelist & Playwright ofThe Hundred and One Dalmatians. A.L.S., Dodie Smith, twopages, small 4to, Finchingfield, Essex, 16th February 1975, toMrs. Stanesby. Smith thanks her correspondent for her letterand remarks 'I am so glad to know that "Look Back With Love"[:a Manchester Childhood] gave you pleasure - which yourletter certainly gave me.' She continues 'I can well imagine howchanged Whalley Range must be but I suspect that you haveaccepted the changes much as one accepts the ageing ofone's friends faces, and affection persists. But I'm glad I canlook back on the old houses and gardens and wide, tree-linedroads' and further informs her correspondent that 'My husbandand I are now working on...the second volume of myautobiography. There is quite a lot about St. Paul's GirlsSchool, London. Though the teaching was admirable I neverfeel it had, on the whole, the class of Whalley Range HighSchool.' VG Look Back With Love: a Manchester Childhoodwas the first of four volumes of Smith's autobiography,published between 1974 - 85. Sold on behalf of the charityOxfam.Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

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WHEATLEY DENNIS: (1897-1977) English Author of thrillersand occult novels. Interesting T.L.S., Dennis Wheatley, twopages, small 4to, Lymington, Hants, 17th March 1955, to Mrs.P. Maddox. Wheatley writes concerning The Devil Rides Outand some of his other works, commenting 'This book was firstpublished in 1935, since which I am happy to say I havereceived many hundreds of letters of appreciation about it, so itproved a fine success.' He continues 'I write these books withoccult backgrounds only once in every four or five years, sothere are only three other titles of this kind; The Haunting ofToby Jugg....and also Strange Conflict and To the Devil - ADaughter which I hope you may also enjoy in due course' andfurther states 'How right you are about the flying saucer book. Itwas the worst that I have ever written, and it was a greatmistake on my part to go away from my own line of adventure,black magic and historical romances into science fiction. Theonly thing which can be said in favour of Star of Ill-Omen wasthat it is infinitely more plausible than the vast majority of bookswritten on similar subjects, and like it or not if there are anyinhabitants on Mars they are far more likely to be some form ofinsect than anything approaching human beings. The realtrouble about the book was that by the time I had got half waythrough it I had come to thoroughly dislike the principalcharacters.' In concluding he hopes that his correspondent mayhave read his latest book The Island Where Time Stands Still,remarking 'which I thoroughly enjoyed writing and feel is areally good story.' A few extremely minor, light creases,otherwise VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 745WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English Writer. Brief A.L.S.,Evelyn Waugh, one page, 4to, Taunton, 1st September 1965,to [Harold Frederick] Rubinstein, on attractive printed stationeryfeaturing an illustration of Combe Florey House. Waugh writes,in full, 'How very kind of you to remember me. I shall treasurethe Unearthly Gentleman. Thank you very much for sending itto me.' Some extremely minor, light creasing, VG HaroldFrederick Rubinstein (1891-1975) English Solicitor andPlaywright, a legal adviser to various publishing houses. Hiswork Unearthly Gentleman is a trilogy of one-act plays aboutShakespeare.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 746WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English Writer & Novelist.Autograph Manuscript Signed, ('Water Beetle by EvelynWaugh'), one page, folio, n.p. (Taunton, Somerset), n.d. (1962).The manuscript is a review of the book The Water Beetle byNancy Mitford, beginning 'The contemporary English literaryworld may be conveniently divided into: those who can write butcannot think, those who can think but cannot write, and thosewho can neither think nor write but employ themselves atinternational congresses lecturing on the predicament of thewriter in modern society. Miss Mitford, by her choice of title,puts herself in the first class. Modesty constrained her to alterthe original verse which runs: // 'He flabbergasts the humanrace// 'By gliding on the water's face// 'With ease, celerity andgrace.// 'But if he ever stopped to think// 'Of how he did it, hewould sink// These lines are more applicable to the writer thanher adaption of them. That she does not think is, in a sense,apparent. Most mature adults have adopted habits of thoughtwhich may loosely be dubbed a 'philosophy'; their opinions,however erroneous or extravagant, are consistent and one cangenerally predict how they will decide in the questions of their

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time. Not so Miss Mitford. She is purely idiosyncratic, a survivalof the time before feminism when it was thought feminine to becapricious.....She grew up in the years before girls of goodfamily went to the universities. She is far better read in thesubjects that interest her than most graduates. Her syntax isshaky. But her essential quality is that she can write.' Waughcontinues his review, 'In The Water Beetle she has collectedfourteen essays all but one of which have been published invarious, dissimilar periodicals. We have read them before withpleasure. Now, together, they bring delight. Perhaps she hasbeen at work polishing them. They seem not only as fresh aswhen they first appeared, but sharper too. The skill of the waterbeetle is speed of movement. Here she glances....from Scott'slast expedition to the Antarctic to her own euphoria in a Frenchchateau....And she does it all with ease, celerity andgrace....Her love of Louis XV is as sweet and impersonal as aschool girl's for a film actor....Her conventions are of her owndevising; she attributes them to a world of her own imagination.She constantly flabbergasts the present reviewer. When mostof our present writers have sunk, she will still be gliding on thewater's face. We all owe her a welcome & deep gratitude.' Anote in Waugh's hand in red ink in the left margin asks for aproof to be sent to Combe Florey House, Taunton.Accompanied by an unsigned hardback edition of The WaterBeetle by Nancy Mitford, First Edition published by HamishHamilton, London, 1962, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster.With the dust jacket. Rare. VG Nancy Mitford (1904-1973)English Novelist & Biographer, a member of the group knownas 'the Bright Young People' who appeared on the Londonsocial scene in the inter-war years. Evelyn Waugh was also amember of the bohemian group and his 1930 novel Vile Bodiessatirised the Bright Young People.Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 747GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) English Novelist. T.L.S.,Graham Greene, one page, 8vo, Antibes, 11th September1989, to Roger Sawyer. Greene announces 'It's quite true that Idid consult your Society before leaving for Liberia and I seem toremember I made a speech to the Society after my return. Idon't suppose you keep any record of such speeches but ifyour files did contain one you would be at complete liberty topublish it.' He continues 'I am afraid I simply can't writeanything for you now as I have to be very careful of my timeand a certain laziness arrives when one reaches eighty five.' Inconcluding Greene adds that he is sorry to hear that the Societyis in a bad way and wishes he could help, but does not havethe energy. Accompanied by the original envelope. EXEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 748DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. An early,long A.L.S., Daphne, ten pages, 8vo, Mustapha Barracks,Alexandria, Egypt, 26th September (1937), to 'My dear' (FoyQuiller-Couch), on the printed stationery of the 2nd BattalionGrenadier Guards. Du Maurier apologises for not having writtento her friend earlier, explaining 'My mind is a sort of blank, and Ieven find the hours at the typewriter rather beyond me' andcontinues 'There is no reason for it, as we are in a verycharming house, the weather is cool, and the social activitiesnot too arduous. In fact, all goes smoothlyâ€¦'. She further writes'Now, this business about Father being Mayor has rather gotme down. That dreadful hatâ€¦I feel that its going to be one longyear of â€œgoing belowâ€•. In fact, you will never be on deck at all!How can he possibly manage it from Cambridge, or will he

leave? I can forsee you being â€œtied upâ€• hopelessly for a solid12 months. Hang it your â€œroyalâ€• duties are hard enoughalready, without this being thrust upon you. We simply mustsnatch a butterfly some time, or you will have a nervousbreakdown!' and suggests bringing back an Egyptian servant,'It would add to the dignity of his position. What do you think?'She adds 'In the house we are in now the creatures don't speakEnglish, and its rather worse than dealing with Joe Welsh. Wemake furtive signs and signals when we want anything to eat'and also comments on life on Egypt, 'I am really enjoying thebathing this year, and so is the Guardsman. We go off quietlymost afternoons, with our tea in a Thermos, and splash about inthe warm water. Its so salt and buoyant that its impossible tosink, which makes one think one is a wonderful swimmer. Wemay visit Palestine before we come home, as I do so want tolook at the Sea of Galalee (sic). And the Guardsman has atremendous urge to see the Cedars of Lebanon. I'm not surewhy, as I believe they are like any other cedar round Aldershot.But of course the name is very attractive.' In a postscript DuMaurier concludes 'P.S. I suppose you realise this Mayorbusiness means a lot of new clothes? I am keeping my limegreen linen suit for you, unworn, and have a couple of ratherembarrassing â€œdressyâ€• hats.' Accompanied by the originalenvelope hand addressed by Du Maurier. VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurierwas accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she becameinspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Someyears previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn andwent riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weatherconditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelictcottage on the moor but were eventually led back to JamaicaInn by their horses. Arthur Quiller-Couch served as Mayor ofFowey from 1937-38. Frederick Browning (1896-1965) BritishLieutenant-General of World War II, husband of Du Maurier.The novelist refers to her husband as the 'Guardsman' in thepresent letter. Browning had been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1936 and was appointed commandingofficer of the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. The battalionwas deployed to Egypt in 1936 and returned in December 1937.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 749DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S.,Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 1st August1967, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier states thatshe has at last finished For Love of a Rose and comments 'It isa charming book, and all the characters in it so nice, which is achange for these days. My only criticism was that eachcharacter was so nice that they were difficult to distinguish onefrom the other, they had a kind of uniform benevolencewhichever family they belonged to, so at times I became a littlemuddled, and just slightly irritated by the whimsical delight ofthe author. But these were minor points.' She continues 'I findmost books very difficult to settle to these days, and read farless than I used to, making do with The Times at bedtime,which is itself is not so good as once it was, I think in a tiresomeendeavour to be what is called â€œwith itâ€• - a phrase I detest.'and further writes 'Vanishing Cornwall seems to be going well,especially in these parts, and the rather silly managers in theFowey and St. Austell Smiths say they have never sold somany copies of a book in their lives - which just shows to whatstraits they have been reduced, which their silly displays ofchildren's puzzles and horrid dangling Piskies and plastic bags!I have been into Fowey onceâ€¦.and it might have beenBlackpool on a Bank Holiday, I've never seen such a crowd,

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and not a single â€œroyalâ€• amongst them! The old days ofpeople coming in on their boats and coming ashore for suppliesseem to have gone.' Du Maurier also discusses the possibilityof moving to Kilmarth ('my lawyer and accountants are beingvery tiresome and will not tell me how much capital can be putat my disposal from the family Investment Trustâ€¦.I am hopingto have an answer out of them before the summer endsotherwise what money I have will run out, and I shall have toleave the country in a mask!') and her son, Kits, who has notsold his film yet but left it with Du Maurier's American publishersin New York ('when I see all about the riots and what goes on inthe U.S. I can hardly believe the Americans will want to sitthrough a peaceful film about Cornwall'). A letter of interestingcontent. EX Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer ArthurQuiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier.Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couchwhen she became inspired with the storyline for her novelJamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies werestaying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. Theybecame lost in bad weather conditions and apparentlysheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor butwere eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. ForLove of a Rose was written by Dutch-born Antonia Ridge (1895-1981) and published by Faber and Faber in 1965.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 750DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S.,Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 2ndNovember 1967, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurierannounces 'You once told me I was not known at Boconnoc.But times have changed, and it would appear, from theenclosed advertisement (no longer present) of trips downFalmouth way, that my fame is wide-spread, and in quite thewrong places! Where on earth is the â€œManderley Boathouse?â€•on the Helford river, is what I ask myself?' She continues torefer to the properties at Menabilly and of the potentialdecisions of mutual acquaintances, 'A fearful rumour is runningaround Polkerris that once installed, the Rashleighs are to turnMenabilly into a hotel or guest-house. I can hardly credit it,butâ€¦..I am prepared to believe anything, and I can't forget thatOenone and her Kate have been working at that hotel thatbelongs to some Lord (Gordon?) at Port Mellon. The Lordknows the Queen Mother. Was'nt it in the papers, when shecalled at Mevagissey? However, I cannot see Philip behind abar or little Mrs Rashleigh serving cream teas!' VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurierwas accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she becameinspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Someyears previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn andwent riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weatherconditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelictcottage on the moor but were eventually led back to JamaicaInn by their horses.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 751DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S.,Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 11th August1969, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier begins herletter with a reference to the historian A. L. Rowse, 'I don't knowwhat sort of a hard chair A.L. would be on, but I have signedand posted off the book for Mr. Godden to Mrs Williams today. Ithink he, Mr. Godden, would have done better with A.L. which is

really first-class, I bought a copy myself some months ago witha book-token. Still, the Strand may pass a few idle moments forhim, and I dare say he wants to check the historicalTywardreath allusions and possibly catch me out!' Shecontinues 'I've already had an aggitated (sic) telephone callfrom whoever it is lives at Chapel Down bungalow aboveTreesmill, saying that in the book I say there is a caravan letthere to summer visitors, and he does not and never has let hiscaravan to summer visitors, and already there is talk in thevillage that he is doing so behind the Council's back. My dear,what ever will it be next? I am a little disturbed at the thought ofwhat Professor Singer's son might say because of the embryosin bottles which I did find here. Could it be libel?' In a holographpostscript Du Maurier remarks 'P.S. Just had a laudatory reviewpraising book to skies from The Church Times! How singular.'VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier.Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couchwhen she became inspired with the storyline for her novelJamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies werestaying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. Theybecame lost in bad weather conditions and apparentlysheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor butwere eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. A. L.Rowse (1903-1997) British Historian from Cornwall. DuMaurier's novel The House on the Strand, was first published in1969. The novel has a supernatural element, concerned withthe ability to mentally travel back in time and experiencehistorical events at first hand, but not to influence them. It is setin and around Kilmarth, near the Cornish village of Tywardreath.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 752DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S.,Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 28thDecember 1969, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurierthanks her friend for a gift of gardening gloves and a headscarfwhich she opened in bed on Christmas morning, explaining 'Ihad to have this little celebration on my own, because none ofmy Browning family turned up!' further writing 'So, I eat (sic) mylarge turkey and plum pudding - Mrs Burt having surpassedherself, with the older generation, sisters Angela and Jeanne,and Cousin Dora. All very nice, and we became a little over-indulgent with a bottle of champagne that somebody had sentas a gift, most unexpected but most welcome. So with paperhats askew we made merry, and the jollity only damped slightlyby Cousin Dora refusing to listen to anyone's chat but her own,and that consisting entirely of grumbles about her quarters inTywardreath and the fact that her daily woman is fat. â€œI cantabide fat people, never couldâ€•. Really, not the correctChristmas spirit.' Du Maurier also writes of the radiance andwarmth of the flowers and holly at Kilmarth, commenting 'andthis I feel has not been so for many years. (The Singers beingpractising Jews one is not quite sure?)' further adding 'And Idoubt about the Lubbocks since receiving the most delightfulletter from the one-time-Mary, telling me about her arrival hereaged 11, and her first Christmas when she was alone with theformidable step-grandmother, and hung up her stockinghopefully, but found it empty in the morning. No signs ofChristmas for her at all. I nearly weptâ€¦' VG Foy Quiller-Couch -daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), anda life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier wasaccompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspiredwith the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some yearspreviously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and wentriding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather

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conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelictcottage on the moor but were eventually led back to JamaicaInn by their horses.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 753DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S.,Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 19th May1974, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier states thatshe feels guilty at not having thanked her correspondent for aChristmas mackerel before now, and continues to refer to abook, 'at a glance it looks to be about U.F.O.'s - unidentifiedastral objects! Guardsman (her husband, Frederick Browning)was very interested, and always talking about them, while Iremained, and indeed remain, sceptical. However, we shallsee, and I will report.' Du Maurier further comments on her ownwriting, 'I am trying hard to finish my Bacon bookâ€¦.and amslightly impeded now by dear Miss Todâ€¦.I get myself nicelylaunched into an authentic description of the Trial of the Earl ofEssex in 1601 and am lost to the 1970's when the door opensand â€œMy dear, I cant find a clean saucepan anywhere, andyour dish-cloths are in ragsâ€• - Miss Tod wanting to prepare themodest evening meal which I have set ready anyway but shehas not seen! I tremble to think what your Father would havesaid had there been intrusions into the study by your mother oranyone! However, as soon as poor Anthony Bacon breathes hislast, aged 43, and he will do so any day now, I shall feel morefreeâ€¦.' and also sends news of her family, 'Flavia still playingthe part of a lady of leisure in London and talks of things likeAscot. Kits who as a small boy never did anything in a gardenbut leap about pretending to be a cowboy or Red Indian, nowspends all his time at Tithe Barn planting, digging, mowing,grubbing, and far from talking about his onetime interest in filmsand T.V. his conversation on the telephone consists of ananxious enquiry â€œHow is the weather with you? I must haverain for my young seedlings and I have also re-turfed mylawn.â€• Well. Well.. And there will be another little Browning duein early June. They hope for a sister to the three small boys.'EX Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier.Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couchwhen she became inspired with the storyline for her novelJamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies werestaying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. Theybecame lost in bad weather conditions and apparentlysheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor butwere eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 754DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S.,Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 8thNovember 1975, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurierannounces 'You will soon be reported locally as â€œa missingperson, whereabouts unknownâ€•' and continues to explain 'Afew weeks ago I telephoned the nice Captain's wife at theHaven, as word had gone round you were to be in Foweyâ€¦.andshe agreedâ€¦.and she would telephone me if report wasconfirmed. Since when silenceâ€¦.so this is really to say if youcome Bodmin way let me know.' She further writes aboutdiscreet enquiries she had recently made about hercorrespondent's fathers works with a publisher, 'who confirmedthat all the â€œQâ€• books are now out of print, and they do noappear to have any plans for re-printing. Now this is sad, and Igather you would be within your rights if you wrote to Dents and

asked if this was true, and should they confirm it then you couldtell them you wished, as your father's heir or whatever the wordis, to have all the contracts cancelled and the rights revert toyou. You could then approach another firm. Mr. Watson didsay, though, that in these days other firms might not beinterested in novels and stories that had been popular in thepast. I wonder if he is right. Personally, I would think that novelsand stories of historical times, Victorian or Edwardian times, dohave a following, and certainly down here in Cornwall, and Iwould say throughout the West country, books written by yourfather would have a regular sale, not just among the visitors. Alocal publisher could be the answer, and I think it would have tobe paper-back because people will not buy hard-backs thesedays, except in a small number.' Du Maurier recommends alocal publisher who 'might think it a feather in his cap' torepublish Arthur Quiller-Couch's novels and stories andconcludes by referring to a biography of Dean Swift which A. L.Rowse had just written, 'I went into Smiths in Fowey to orderone, and the manager said that they did not have it in stock andhad not thought of ordering any. Oh dear, A.L. would go up insmoke.' A letter of interesting content. A couple of very smalltape stains to the head of the first and final pages, only justtouching two words of text but not the signature, otherwise VGFoy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier.Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couchwhen she became inspired with the storyline for her novelJamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies werestaying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. Theybecame lost in bad weather conditions and apparentlysheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor butwere eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. A. L.Rowse (1903-1997) British Historian from Cornwall.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 755DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S.,Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Menabilly, n.d. ('Sunday'), to 'Mydear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier writes concerning Mr.Runnalls Thomas, stating 'I do think he has all he needs for hisâ€œThesisâ€• at the present time. Its not as if he were about towrite you father's biography and must have every bit ofinformation. The point is that I have all the m.s.s. here, theoriginal, the various typed ones, and the early drafts, and theywould need to be carefully sorted out before giving to anyoneelse. After all, he is a stranger. Also, it would take time.(Different if you needed them yourselfâ€¦..) Could you bear towrite and say that the various m.s.s. have not been sorted sinceI worked upon them, and that you regret, etc, etc.? When I didthe â€œprunningâ€• (sic) I pruned nothing of your father's thought,or anything that would add to the thesis. Merely some passagesof description, and a few discussions with Ledru. And, ofcourse, that chapter on War, which shows the setting in the20th century, which I think would make everything too involved,not only for the Thesis but for ourselves!' VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurierwas accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she becameinspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Someyears previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn andwent riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weatherconditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelictcottage on the moor but were eventually led back to JamaicaInn by their horses.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

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DURRELL LAWRENCE: (1912-1990) British Novelist & Poet.Small collection of four T.Ls.S. and an A.L.S. (possiblyincomplete, final page only?), Lawrence Durrell and Larry, eachone page, 8vo and 4to (one typed to one side of his printedvisiting card), Sommieres, France, 1967-1971, all to MargaretMcCall, a British television producer of arts programmes.Durrell writes a series of informative, social letters to McCall,commenting on her excessive workload, 'sooner or later mothernature would insist on a spell of taking it easy -- hot water bottleand good book and all. Time to read and think; of course Iregret our having to put off the film after so many waveringsand wanderings but perhaps it will come off after all, later nextautumn' and Christmas, 'I am making plans for a whiteChristmas with the children; yes but its I who shall be white atthe size of the bills. They wash me whiter than white. For therest, I'm working and painting a bit, in the manner of Epfs. Ithink the new novel isn't so bad really; a new edition of thecollected poems is in train as well. Altogether the most worryingthing is that for the moment I have no cause to worryâ€¦.the startof all neurosis.' (21st November 1967), and further stating, inpart, 'In a chronic state of inconclusiveness I did nothing but geton with the French film which ended today. Off they went afterfifteen hectic days. The heartbreak heroine Arnaud was quitefascinating and very tough; she set out to break mine but I wentthe full fifteen rounds and sent her back to her corner lookingthoughtful I opined. I think I scratched some of her paintworkanyway. Nothing else much except scraps. My brother came infor a few days and played a part in the film. Claudine who hasthe hide of a rhino had to be put right back in her place -- shehad decided to move in and marry me without asking me for anopinionâ€¦.I've finished a long and rather famous poemâ€¦' (18thJuly 1970), 'your going away pains me - and I often wonder if itisn't foolish as well as painful to go onâ€¦.These are the right sortof thoughts for this wretched rainswept day - I envy you beingsurrounded by men & work. I wish I was surrounded bysomething nicer than clouds of ink - futile ink - I am writing apoem, not about love, but the loud perfume of cold gin' (n.d.,envelope postmarked 22nd June 1971), 'I have doubled myyoga ration and have turned off every female I know withdissuasion sour and crank. The result is reproachful letters fromGeneva, Los Angeles and Londonâ€¦I must go it alone like UDI -- Unity Damnably Intricate. I just got a book on sex and yogahoping to bolster up failing form and what do I read? Onlyabstinence will get one through to God. Well, I might as well try -- its about the only thing I haven't tried as yet. So roll on thewinter.' (n.d., 'Saturday second', envelope postmarked 4thSeptember 1972). Each of the letters are accompanied by theoriginal envelopes. G to VG, 5Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 757STERNE LAURENCE: (1713-1768) Anglo-Irish Novelist andAnglican Clergyman. Fountain pen ink signature ('L. Sterne')on a small 8vo printed page removed from an edition ofSterne's book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,Volume 5, Chapter 1, (1762). With an ink annotation in anotherhand at the head of the page, some light overall age-toning andminor foxing, very slightly affecting the signature, and neatlytrimmed, G Sterne autographed the beginning of the first andsecond editions of volume 5, and the first editions of volumes 7& 9 to protect his books from piracy. It has been estimated thatSterne signed his name about 12,750 times to achieve this.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 758

STOKER BRAM: (1847-1912) Irish Writer of the horror novelDracula (1897). A.L.S., Bram Stoker, one page, 8vo, Leeds,17th September 1901, to Miss. Stettitt (?), on the printedstationery of the Provincial & American Tour of Henry Irving,Miss Ellen Terry and the Lyceum Company 1901-02. Stokerwrites on behalf of Henry Irving who has asked him to informhis correspondent that he received 'Â£40 for Mrs. Johnson fromthe American Actors Fund' and continues to add that heforwarded a cheque yesterday to the address given in Mr.Palmer's letter. Accompanied by the original envelope handaddressed by Stoker. A few very light, minor creases, otherwiseVG Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) English Stage Actor & TheatreManager. Stoker was employed by Irving as a personalassistant and business manager at the Lyceum Theatre for 27years.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 759CRISP QUENTIN: (1908-1999) English Writer. Signed andinscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Crisp in a head and shoulderspose. Signed in blue ink across a light area of the image.Together with a signed and inscribed double album recordsleeve for An Evening with Quentin Crisp - The Naked CivilServant, being the recording of a live performance in New York,1979. Signed in blue ink across a clear area of the cover.Accompanied by the original records. VG, 2Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 760SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright,Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A.L.S., with his initialsG. B. S., on one side of his correspondence card, Ayot St.Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 23rd December 1918, toEdward Speyer. Shaw writes, in full, â€˜I should like to; but wehave some hospitalities of our own on Xmas day and Boxingday which will nail us to the spot for all meals. If it were lessmuddy I might dash over on a motor bicycle for half an hour onthe 26th; but the wretched machine has been laid up for so longthat before I could get her to start it would be too late; so I fearyou must write me off as impossible. Many thanks forremembering me.â€™ VG Edward Speyer - GermanBusinessman and wealthy banker who was also a friend of thecomposer Edward Elgar.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 761SCOTT WALTER: (1771-1832) Scottish Novelist. Smallfragment of an autograph manuscript, unsigned, being a 12mopiece irregularly torn from the corner of page 81 of Scott'smanuscript of Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, thepresent fragment bearing the following complete words of text(which differ slightly from the published work), 'which it hadwrought, a huge oak....had recommended to traditional....policyreluctant to abandon such....of evil spirits. On the contraryby....tree to the guardianship of some....doctrine, a species offortress which....to dismantle if it could be garris[oned]....wasnot uniformly observed. The....of Orleans. It is well knownthat....English after having by her courage....revived thedrooping.' Annotated in ink in the left margin 'Part of M.S. of SirWalter Scott'. Together with a small selection of unrelatedsigned pieces, A.Ls.S. (2) etc., including John Bright (A.Q.S.from Wordsworth, 15th August 1855) etc. Some light creasingand small tears to the edges, FR to G, 8 Scott's Letters onDemonology and Witchcraft was published by John Murray in

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1830 and was the novelist's contribution to a series of bookswhich appeared between 1829-47 and formed a collection ofeighty volumes known as 'Murray's Family Library'.Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 762DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN: (1859-1930) Scottish Author,creator of Sherlock Holmes. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('A.Conan Doyle') and a few additional words in his hand ('cause ofhis deathâ€¦.') on a piece evidently clipped from the conclusionof a letter. Neatly laid down, GEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 763DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN: (1859-1930) Scottish Author,creator of Sherlock Holmes. An exceptionally fine vintagesigned 8.5 x 11.5 photograph, the image depicting Doylestanding in a three quarter length pose. Photograph by WalterBenington of London and bearing his blindstamp to the lowerphotographer's mount. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink byDoyle to the lower photographer's mount, 'With all thanks forkindness shown, Arthur Conan Doyle' and dated New York, 3rdJune 1914 in his hand. Signed photographs of the author of thissize and quality are extremely rare and particularly desirable. Acouple of very slight corner creases and an extremely smalltear to the upper edge of the photographer's mount, otherwiseabout EX Doyle's novel The Valley of Fear, was first publishedin America in 1914, preceding the English edition by threemonths. It is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel andwas published by the New York publishing house George H.Doran Company.Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00

Lot: 764BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist, created PeterPan. A.L.S., J. M. Barrie, one page, 8vo, Adelphi TerraceHouse, Strand, 17th September 1923, to Miss. Edith Johnston.Barrie writes, in full, 'There might be a chance - I am not certain- of them wanting you to understudy the elderly Scotch woman,Nanny, in the revival of â€œThe Little Ministerâ€• and â€œwalk onâ€•.If you would care for this do you think you could master thedialect sufficiently? Rehearsals will probably begin before longbut not quite yet.' Accompanied by the original envelope handaddressed by Barrie. VG Edith Johnston (d.1931) Actressassociated with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Johnstoncreated the role of the Queen in Barrie's A Kiss for Cinderella(1916) and also appeared in his 1922 London production ofDear Brutus. Barrie's play, The Little Minister, was written in1897 and is set in rural 1840s Scotland. It was made into a filmin 1934, starring Katharine Hepburn.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 765TWAIN MARK: (1835-1910) American Writer. A black inksignature ('S.L. Clemens') on a small clipped piece, matted inblack below a 3.5 x 5.5 image of Twain in a head and shoulderspose. Framed and glazed in a modern black frame to an overallsize of 6.5 x 9. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 766

[TITANIC]: LORD WALTER (1917-2002) American Author of ANight to Remember, a non-fiction account of the sinking of theRMS Titanic.. A.L.S, Walter, one page, 4to, New York, 8th June1983, to Kenneth C. Schultz. Lord announces 'Trying to playwith the Big Boys!' and continues to enclose a cheque (nolonger present) for $250 'for item No. 20, Titanic. â€œadvertisingbrochure from one of her dining room suppliersâ€¦.â€•, as listed inSecond Annual Cataloguette.' Accompanied by the originalenvelope hand addressed by Lord. Some extremely light agewear, otherwise VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 767LEE HARPER: (1926- ) American Author of To Kill aMockingbird (1961). Pulitzer Prize winner. Black ink signature('Harper Lee') on a piece, double matted in black and greybeneath a colour 8.5 x 6.5 image of actor Gregory Peck in ascene from the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. 16x 12 overall. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 768STRINDBERG AUGUST: (1849-1912) Swedish Author &Playwright. Brief A.L.S., Aug Strg, on one side of a postcard,n.p. (Stockholm), n.d. (19th September 1906), to HermanAndersson, in Swedish. Strindberg states 'Look me up beforeyou raid the publisher' and adds that he has written to Karl andthe others. Hand addressed by Strindberg to the verso. Somelight staining and age wear, GEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 768AEUCKEN RUDOLF: (1846-1926) German Philosopher, NobelPrize winner for Literature, 1908. A.L.S., R. Eucken, on twosides of his personal printed correspondence card, Jena, 27thFebruary 1907, to Mrs. M. von Leydewitz, in German. Euckenthanks his correspondent for her kind invitation to aperformance by Miss. Friedlander and adds that he hadintended to accept the invitation, although remarking 'but ithappens that I have two books going to press simultaneously,with a printer's proof to correct, and much other scientific workto do, so that it is impossible for me to make myself availabletoday.' In concluding he asks for his apologies to be made toMiss. Friedlander. Accompanied by the original envelope handaddressed by Eucken. About EXEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 769AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 25signatures by various writers and novelists including H. R. F.Keating, P. D. James, J. P. Donleavy, Edna O'Brien, PeterTinniswood, Wolf Mankowitz, Eric Ambler, Gore Vidal, EvanHunter (Ed McBain), Peter Shaffer, Noel Streatfield, SidneySheldon, Athol Fugard, Frank Herbert, Penelope Lively, RuthRendell, Jack Higgins, Sue Townsend, Len Deighton, RumerGodden, Tom Sharpe etc. All are signed in bold black ink toindividual pages and each have small typed name labels neatlyattached to the lower right corners of the pages. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

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LITERATURE: Selection of signed cards, pieces, postcardphotographs and a few slightly larger etc., some vintage, byvarious novelists and writers comprising Erle Stanley Gardner,Arthur Miller, Vicki Baum, Norman Mailer, Georges Simenon,Arthur Hailey, Simone de Beauvoir and Pearl S. Buck.Generally G to VG, 8Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 771CLASSICAL MUSIC: An unusual small 4to page removed froma Birthday Book, bearing the printed date 6th November,featuring an A.M.Q.S. by I. J. Paderewski (1860-1941) PolishPianist & Composer, Prime Minister of Poland, 1919, four barswhich he identifies as being from Act II of his opera Manru.Signed and dated Sydney, 18th August 1904 immediatelybeneath the quotation and a second A.M.Q.S. by John PhilipSousa (1854-1932) American Composer, three bars which heidentifies as being from Hands Across the Sea. Signed anddated Sydney, 26th May 1911 immediately beneath thequotation. Both are boldly penned in dark fountain pen inks. Anunusual combination of two musical quotations by composerswho shared a birthday. Some light staining to the edges of thepage, about VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 772COLERIDGE-TAYLOR SAMUEL: (1875-1912) EnglishComposer. A.M.Q.S., S. Coleridge-Taylor, on a page removedfrom an autograph album, n.p., September 1910. In darkfountain pen ink the composer has penned three bars of music,with words beneath, from an unidentified composition. Boldlysigned and dated beneath the quotation. Together with aclipped signature of Coleridge-Taylor neatly laid down to apostcard photograph, a folio sheet signed and inscribed byColeridge-Taylor, 28th June 1911, loosely inserted into a copyof the sheet music for Three Dream Dances, and also includingfour individual signed postcard photographs of his sonHiawatha Coleridge-Taylor (three the same image and oneinscribed), an A.M.Q.S. by Hiawatha Coleridge-Taylor, avintage signed 8 x 10 photograph by his wife Jessie Coleridge-Taylor and their two children Hiawatha and GwendolinColeridge-Taylor individually, and further including a fewunsigned photographs and printed ephemera including aprogramme for a Memorial Concert to Coleridge-Taylor for thebenefit of his widow and children at the Royal Albert Hall,London, 22nd November 1912 etc. Some age wear and somephotographs with heavy creasing, generally FR to about G, 12Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 773BRITTEN BENJAMIN: (1913-1976) English Composer. SignedChristmas greetings card, the 8vo folding card featuring acolour photograph to the front of the Snape Maltings atChristmas, signed ('to you all, Ben') by Britten in black inkbeneath a printed greeting and also signed by Peter Pears(1910-1986) English Tenor, with his first name only in black ink.Together with a colour picture postcard featuring a reproductionof a painting by John Middleton of Alby, Norfolk, signed to theverso in bold black ink by Imogen Holst (1907-1984) BritishComposer & Conductor, daughter of Gustav Holst, with her firstname only, also adding a brief Christmas greeting in her hand.VG to EX, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 774SONDHEIM STEPHEN: (1930- ) American Composer &Lyricist. Signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Sondheimstanding in a three quarter length pose with a lit cigarette in onehand. Signed in bold black ink to the left white border. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 775SCHUMANN CLARA: (1819-1896) German Pianist &Composer. Selection of four individual ink signatures ('ClaraSchumann'), each on pieces clipped from the conclusions ofletters and each with several additional lines of text in her hand.Generally VG, 4Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 776STOKOWSKI LEOPOLD: (1882-1977) British OrchestralConductor. Bold black fountain pen ink signature on a whitecard. Together with Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) NorwegianOpera Singer. Bold blue fountain pen ink signature on a whitecard. EX, 2Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 777FURTWANGLER WILHELM: (1886-1954) German Conductor& Composer. A.L.S., Wilhelm Furtwangler, on one side of apostcard, St. Moritz, 21st June 1925, to Georg Jokl in Vienna,in German. Furtwangler states that he would be happy toreceive a copy of his correspondent's score Nachtmusik forStrings and Fanfare, 'in order to make your acquaintanceartistically'. In concluding he adds that he cannot commit to aperformance this year as he is already fully booked. Handaddressed by Furtwangler to the verso. Some very slight, minorage wear, otherwise VG Georg Jokl (1898-1954) AustrianPianist & Composer who fled from Vienna to New York at thebeginning of World War II.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 778CARUSO ENRICO: (1873-1921) Italian Tenor. Fountain pen inksignature ('Enrico Caruso') and date, Prague, May 1904, in hishand, to the upper half of a plain sheet of 8vo notepaper.Together with similar signed sheets of notepaper by theAustrian actor Josef Kainz and the Moravian tenor Leo Slezak(dated Prague, 27th September 1908 in his hand), and avintage unsigned photograph. Some light overall age wear andminor staining, G, 4Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 779TETRAZZINI LUISA: (1871-1940) Italian Soprano. Vintagesigned and inscribed sepia 8.5 x 11 photograph of the singerstanding in an elegant full length pose. Photograph by E. F.Foley of New York. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink,across a light area of the image, with a lengthy inscription inItalian to the concert director Percy Harrison, and datedLondon, 3rd November 1910 in her hand. Some light, minorage wear and a few small chips and areas of paper loss to theextreme edges of the image, GEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

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Lot: 780CLASSICAL MUSIC: Selection of signed 5 x 7 photographs anda few slightly larger by various conductors and opera singersincluding Andre Previn, Christoph von Dohnanyi, John EliotGardiner, Seiji Ozawa, Jessye Norman, Franco Corelli, Kiri TeKanawa, Montserrat Caballe, Gwyneth Jones, Placido Domingoetc. Some of the images are colour. VG to EX, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 781CLASSICAL MUSIC: An autograph album containing over 30signatures by various classical musicians including JanSedivka, Alfred Cortot, Claudio Arrau, Cyril Smith, KathleenLong, Moura Lympany, Leff Pouishnoff, Myra Hess, GeraldMoore, Ida Haendel, Witold Malcuzynski, Walter Gieseking,Victoria de los Angeles, Joan Hammond, Walter Susskind etc.A few of the pages are multiple signed and most are neatlyannotated in ink in the hand of the collector. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 782OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs and a fewslightly larger, most vintage, by various male and female operasingers comprising Christa Ludwig (2), Astrid Varnay (incostume from the Bayreuth Festival, 1966), Sena Jurinac, FritzKrenn, Melitta Muszely (in costume from Cardillac at La Scala),Esther Rethy, Matti Saminen, Jose Curaand Willi DomgrafFassbinder (in costume from The Barber of Seville). All of theimages depict the singers in costume poses. VG to EX, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 783OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs by varioussopranos including Angela Gheorghiu, Olga Borodina,Anneliese Rothenberger, Montserrat Caballe, Felicity Lott,Waltraud Meier, Grace Bumbry, Cecilia Bartoli etc. Some of theimages are colour. VG to EX, 11Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 784OPERA: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and slightlysmaller (2), by various opera singers and conductorscomprising Placido Domingo, Angelika Kirchschlager, GraceBumbry, Rene Fleming, Christa Ludwig, Mario Berti, AnnetteDasch, Inva Mula, Ferruccio Furlantetto, Vassily Sinaisky,Giuseppe Sinopoli, Kent Nagano and Gilbert Kaplan. Most ofthe images are colour. VG to EX, 13Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 785AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 50signatures by various classical musicians, conductors etc.,including Gyorgy Pauk, Rudolf Schwarz, Louis Fremaux,Hephzibah Menuhin, Kyung-wha Chung, Edith Peinemann,Vaclav Hudecek, Karl Suske, Julius Koppel, Mincho Minchevetc. All of the pages are annotated in ink in the hand of thecollector and many pages are multiple signed. GEstimate: £60.00 - £80.00

Lot: 786

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 70signatures by various classical musicians and composers etc.,including Maurice Ravel (a good example dated London, 18thOctober 1927 in his hand), Thomas Beecham, Daisy Kennedy(A.M.Q.S., in pencil), Benno Moiseiwitsch, Ernesto Badini,Mariano Stabile, Luisa Tetrazzini (3), Jan Kubelik, JohnMcCormack, Arthur De Greef, Fritz Kreisler (hurried example;surname only), Josef Hofmann, Daniel Melsa, Adela Verne,Wilhelm Backhaus, Titta Ruffo, Elena Gerhardt, Frieda Hempel(3), Florence Austral, Jascha Heifetz, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi,Leopoldo Mugnone, Sacha Guitry & Yvonne Printemps etc.Many of the pages are multiple signed and some signatures arein pencil and a few are on photographs neatly clipped fromprogrammes. G to about VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 787OPERA: A blue oblong 4to leather bound autograph albumcontaining over signatures by various opera singers andclassical musicians etc., including Luciano Pavarotti, PlacidoDomingo, Jose Carreras, Joan Sutherland, Georg Solti,Anthony Dowell, Yvonne Kenny, Eva Marton, Frederick Ashton,Antoinette Sibley, Donald McIntyre, Bernard Haitink, PaoloMontarsolo, Dennis O'Neill, Agnes Baltsa, Carlos Kleiber,Felicity Lott, Hermann Prey etc. The signatures date frombetween 1987-1990 and all have affectionate inscriptions to NatDiamond, Stage Doorkeeper of the Royal Opera House, CoventGarden, upon his retirement. Together with a selection ofsigned 8 x 10 photographs and smaller by various operasingers etc., including Montserrat Caballe, Jose Carreras, ZubinMehta, Janet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Ghena Dimitrova,Wayne Sleep, Luciano Pavarotti, Margot Fonteyn etc., a few ofthem candid images with Nat Diamond. The photographs withextensive faults, tape stains, tears etc., P, the album VG, 27 +albumEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 788NUREYEV RUDOLF: (1938-1993) Russian Ballet Dancer.Signed postcard photograph of Nureyev in a close-up head andshoulders pose. Signed ('Rudolf Nureyev') in bold black ink tothe lower white border. Together with a signed 4to programmefor a performance by Nureyev in Homage to Diaghilev at thePalace Theatre, Manchester, 21st August 1985. Signed with hisname alone in bold black ink across a clear area of the frontcover featuring Nureyev's image. VG to EX, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 789RAMSAY WILLIAM: (1852-1916) Scottish Chemist, Nobel Prizewinner for Chemistry, 1904. A.L.S., W. Ramsay, one page, 8vo,Gower Street, London, 18th December 1911, to Dr. [H.Charlton] Bastian, on the printed stationery of UniversityCollege. Ramsay informs his correspondent that he had a talkwith Stevenson, after showing him Bastian's letter, andcomments 'He thinks that the removal of organisms from youroriginal fluids could almost certainly be accomplished bycentrifugalising them.' He continues 'If you would do what yousuggest, & let him have the chemicals, he will centrifugalisethem & return you half. This would remove the objectives to theuse of the Chamberland filter; for there wd. be no reason whythe "dirt" should not be centrifugalised out of the silicate solution before it is heated.' Together with a small selection ofother A.Ls.S., each to Bastian, by other scientists etc., including

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Michael Foster, Jabez Hogg, Thomas Barlow, Victor Horsleyetc. Generally VG, 7 Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915)English Physiologist and Neurologist.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 790EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born TheoreticalPhysicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. Vintage signed8 x 10 photograph, an unusual image of Einstein seated in a fulllength profile pose at a table opposite Charles E. St. John.Photograph by E. Willard Spurr of Pasadena, California andsigned and dated, February 1931, by him in the lower leftcorner. Signed by Einstein (â€˜Albert Einsteinâ€™) in fountain penink at the base of the image and dated 1931 in his hand.Einsteinâ€™s signature has somewhat weaker contrast, althoughis legible. Some extremely minor silvering at the edges of theimage, otherwise VG Charles Edward St. John (1857-1935)American Astronomer. The present photograph was signed byEinstein while a visiting professor at the California Institute ofTechnology in Pasadena where he spent six weeks. Thephysicist had been attracted by the research being carried outthere, particularly by St. John and the Mount WilsonObservatory (which housed the worldâ€™s largest telescope atthe time) and the astronomerâ€™s work to confirm the theory ofgeneral relativity. St. John and fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble(1889-1953) had recently discovered the red shift effect andconcluded that the universe was expanding.Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00

Lot: 791CRICK FRANCIS: (1916-2004) English Molecular Biologist, aco-discoverer (with James D. Watson) of the structure of theDNA molecule in 1953. Nobel Prize winner for Physiology orMedicine, 1962. A.L.S., Francis Crick, one page, small 4to, LaJolla, California, 13th July 2002, to G. R. Milon. Crick thanks hiscorrespondent for their letters and confirms 'Yes, I did know RVand had a high opinion of him. I met him a number of timeswhen we were both in Intelligence, but only rarely afterwards.'Crick further states 'I do have his book, and indeed another ofhis. I was a civilian during the war but after it ended in Europe Iwas a Lt. Commander for just 3 weeks! You had a much moreactive war than I did.' Accompanied by the original envelopehand addressed by Crick. About EX During World War II Crickworked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory on the design ofmagnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental indesigning a new mine that was effective against Germanminesweepers.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 792EDISON THOMAS: (1847-1931) American Inventor of thephonograph and light bulb among many other items. A.L.S.,with his initial E, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. (annotated 4thJanuary 1926 in the recipient's hand), to [Jaffrey P.] Buchanan,manager of Edison Records Disc Division. Edison writes in boldpencil, asking Buchanan to check a thermometer on a bakingoven, adding 'Years ago we had a bad result from this - oneoven may not be working right'. Dated and annotated byBuchanan at the head of the page, 'Checked. All OK'. Slightlyirregularly torn and with a small, neat tear to the top edge, onlyjust affecting Buchanan's text, but not Edison's. Otherwise VGEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 793BAIRD JOHN LOGIE: (1888-1946) Scottish Engineer andInventor of the worldâ€™s first working television system. Bold,dark fountain pen ink signature ('J L Baird') on a 12mo card,matted in cream beneath a vintage 6.5 x 7.5 photograph ofBaird in a head and shoulders pose. 9.5 x 13.5 overall.Together with a vintage signed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph by filmactor Charles Farrell and an A.L.S. by American singer andactress Rosemary Clooney (neatly laid down and with twominor stains). G to VG, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 794PIUS X: (1835-1914) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1903-14. Vintage signed 5.5 x 7.5 photograph, the oval imagedepicting the Pope seated in a half length pose wearing hisecclesiastical robes. Photograph by Felici of Rome. Signed('Pius PP X') in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to thelower photographer's mount. Double matted in the originalmount (some staining and light age wear) to an overall size of 8x 10.5. Some slight silvering to the image, otherwise VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 795NIGHTINGALE FLORENCE: (1820-1910) British Pioneer ofNursing. Fountain pen ink signature ('Florence Nightingale')and four additional words in her hand on a piece clipped fromthe conclusion of a letter. Neatly laid down beneath a similarpiece clipped from an envelope addressed in Nightingale'shand to J. Sutherland MD at Southwood Place, Highgate. Somevery light staining only very slightly affecting Nightingale'ssignature and the text, GEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 796CAVELL EDITH: (1865-1915) British Nurse and Patriot,celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides withoutdistinction and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape fromGerman-occupied Belgium during World War I. Cavell wasarrested, court-martialled and found guilty of treason for heractions. Sentenced to death, the nurse was executed by aGerman firing squad. Rare, brief A.L.S., with her initial E, to theverso of a picture postcard of the Chapel in the High Street atMundesley, Norfolk, n.d. (postmark indistinct, c. 1913/14), toher mother. In bold pencil Cavell writes, in full, 'Mundesleymuch changed & much grown'. Addressed in her hand, 'Mrs.Cavell, 24 College Rd., Norwich'. Some extremely minor, lightage wear, otherwise VG The present postcard most likely datesfrom around the time of the outbreak of World War I whenCavell was visiting her widowed mother in Norfolk.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 797TERESA MOTHER: (1910-1997) Albanian Roman CatholicNun, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1979. A good signed colour 6 x7 magazine photograph depicting Mother Teresa in a head andshoulders pose. Signed ('God bless you, M Teresa MC') in boldblue ink to a clear area at the base of the image. Lightly laiddown to an A4 sheet bearing various neat ink annotations in thehand of a German collector, otherwise VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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DALAI LAMA: (1935- ) Tibetan Spiritual Leader, Nobel PeacePrize winner, 1989. Signed colour 5 x 7 photograph of the DalaiLama in a head and shoulders pose wearing his familiarBuddhist robes. Signed in blue ink with his name alone to aclear area of the background. Accompanied by the originalenvelope. EXEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 799DALAI LAMA: (1935- ) Tibetan Spiritual Leader, Nobel PeacePrize winner, 1989. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of theDalai Lama seated in a full length pose in his traditional robes.Signed with his name alone in bold black ink across a cleararea of the image. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 800CHURCHILL CLEMENTINE S.: (1885-1977) Wife of SirWinston S. Churchill. A.L.S., Clementine S C, one page, 4to,Hyde Park Gate, London, 31st July 1962, to Norman [Brook].Churchill announces 'It was a shock to me when I read of thechanges at the Treasury' and continues 'I know you selectedyour successors; but they cannot measure up to you.' Onesmall file hole to the left edge, not affecting the text orsignature, VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 801KELLER HELEN: (1880-1968) American Author, Activist &Lecturer. T.L.S., Helen Keller, in bold pencil, one page, 4to,Park Lane Hotel, London, 25th October 1946, to Miss. Roper.Keller thanks her correspondent for her letter and regrets thatshe does not have the time, during her brief visit to England, towrite a message for one of Miss Le Pla's books, continuing 'Ihave talked over your letter with Mr. John Jarvis of the NationalInstitute for the Blindâ€¦.and he has suggested that the Deaf-Blind Helpers' League might like to ask its own President, LordLeverhulme, to write something for inclusion in Miss Le Pla'snew book'. Keller further states 'You can be certain that I shallfollow with the greatest interest the inauguration anddevelopment of the new home for the deaf-blind: nothing couldbe nearer to my heart than the launching of such a venture.' Asmall piece of Braille appears below Keller's signature. VGEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 802KEELER CHRISTINE: (1942- ) English Model and Showgirl, acentral figure in the Profumo Scandal of 1963 & RICE DAVIESMANDY (1944- ) British Model and Showgirl associated withKeeler. Individual blue ink signatures by Keeler and RiceDavies on separate pieces, matted alongside each other inblack and white beneath an 11 x 8 photograph of the twomodels standing in three quarter length poses together at thetime of the Profumo Scandal. Framed and glazed in a modernwooden frame to an overall size of 18.5 x 18.5. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 803KEELER CHRISTINE: (1942- ) English Model and Showgirl, acentral figure in the Profumo Scandal of 1963. Blue inksignature ('Best Wishes, Christine Keeler') on a piece, matted

in white beneath a 7 x 10 photograph depicting Keeler in herfamous full length pose seated on a chair. Framed and glazedin a modern black frame to an overall size of 12.5 x 17.Together with Mandy Rice Davies (1944- ) British Model andShowgirl associated with Keeler. Signed 4.5 x 6.5 photographof Rice Davies in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in boldgold ink and further annotated in her hand 'Leaving The OldBailey 1963'. Matted in white and framed and glazed in amodern black frame to an overall size of 12 x 14. VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 804TWIGGY: (1949- ) English Fashion Model of the 1960s.Small selection of signed colour 8 x 10 photographs andsmaller (1), each of the different images depicting Twiggy invarious modelling poses, most full length. All are signed('Twiggy') in bold black inks, largely to clear areas of theimages. VG to EX, 4Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 805TWIGGY: (1949- ) English Fashion Model of the 1960s. Smallselection of signed 12 x 8 photographs of Twiggy in variousdifferent modelling poses. All are signed ('Twiggy') in bold blackand blue inks with her name alone, largely to clear areas of theimages. Colour (1). VG to EX, 4Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 806STRATTON CHARLES S.: (1838-1883) American Entertainer,known as General Tom Thumb, who achieved fame under thecircus pioneer P. T. Barnum. Vintage signed sepia carte-de-visite photograph, the image depicting Stratton and his wife,Lavinia Warren (1841-1919), standing together in full lengthposes with a printed caption at the base stating that the coupleare seen wearing 'the identical costumes worn before EmperorLouis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie, at the Palace of theTuileries, Nov. 29, 1864'. Photograph by E & H T Anthony ofNew York from a photographic negative by Brady. Signed('Compliments of Charles S Stratton') by Stratton in darkfountain pen ink to the verso and also signed ('Compliments ofLavinia Warren Stratton') by his wife immediately beneath.Some light staining and age wear, about VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 807STRATTON CHARLES S.: (1838-1883) American Entertainer,known as General Tom Thumb, who achieved fame under thecircus pioneer P. T. Barnum. Fountain pen ink signature('Charles S. Stratton known as General Tom Thumb') on an 8vopage removed from an autograph album. Some light age wear,GEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 808CODY W. F.: (1846-1917) American Showman. Bold pencilsignature ('W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" ') on a piece, neatly laiddown to an 8vo page removed from an autograph album. Alsobearing a clipped signed piece by English Music Hall singer andcomedian Gus Elen, dated 25th July 1903 in his hand. AboutVG

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Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 809CROWLEY ALEISTER: (1875-1947) English Occultist,Ceremonial Magician & Poet, a notorious figure whom, duringhis lifetime, was denounced in the popular press as â€œthewickedest man in the worldâ€•. Rare A.L.S., Aleister Crowley,one page, 4to, Washington D.C., 10th May n.y. (1917) to 'Mydear Mines', on letterhead featuring the printed text 'Autographvs. Holograph Reason indicated below'. Crowley writes asomewhat intriguing letter, most likely part of a subterfuge, infull, 'Could you sneak this letter (no longer present) into thepost, do you think? It would be very useful to me if you could. I'llbe here till Tuesday next; so if you want me, or to meetanybody, 'phone.'. The present letter would therefore appear tobe a covering letter, originally accompanied by another, which itwould seem Crowley was asking his correspondent to mail onhis behalf, presumably so that the recipient would assume, fromthe postmark, that Crowley was somewhere entirely different toWashington. Some minor staining at the very head of the page,caused by previous mounting to the verso, and a few neat splitsin the folds, only very slightly affecting the text and signature. GThe curiously printed letterhead ('autograph' and 'holograph'essentially being the same) originates from an office thatCrowley shared with Henry Stuart Clifford, a businessman whohad employed Crowley to edit A Prophet in His Own Country:Being the Letters of Stuart X (1916). Given Clifford's eccentriccharacter and the fact that he was a prolific letter writer, it wouldappear that the printed caption was his own, and that Crowleysimply borrowed a sheet of the notepaper. Crowley spent thewhole of World War I in America working as a Double Agent,employed by British Intelligence services to infiltrate andundermine Germany's operation in New York.Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00

Lot: 810TITANIC: A 21 x 15 colour print entitled RMS Titanic - FirstLight by artist Martin Smith, signed in bold pencil by MillvinaDean with her name alone to a clear area at the base. Alsosigned in pencil by the artist. Limited Edition number 352 of750. Matted in silver and cream and framed and glazed in asilver coloured frame to an overall size of 30 x 23.5. Togetherwith a signed colour 4 x 6 photograph by Robert Ballard(framed and glazed) and also including two modern postcardphotographs relating to the Titanic, one signed by Eva Hart to aclear area of the image and the other signed by Edith Haismanto the verso. Loosely inserted together into a presentationfolder. VG to EX, 4Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 811[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English Archaeologist,discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun (1922-23). MUNTHEAXEL (1857-1949) Swedish Physician and Psychiatrist, authorof The Story of San Michele. T.L.S., Axel Munthe, one page,oblong 8vo, n.p. (London; typed to the verso of the printedstationery of the St. James' Club in Piccadilly), n.d.('Thursday'), to Howard Carter ('Dear Carter'). Writing insomewhat erratic English, Munthe informs Carter that he isalready 'pinned to a luncheon' at Gattocks Club 'given I far (sic;fear) in my honour' and adds 'therefor beg ypu to let me knowwjen you can lunch with me later on in the fo::owing weekâ€¦' VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 812[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English Archaeologist,discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun (1922-23). NICHOLSBEVERLEY (1898-1983) British Author, Playwright & Journalist.T.L.S., Beverley Nichols, one page, 4to, Hasker Street, London,12th August 1927, to Howard Carter. Nichols writes at thesuggestion of his editor, Bruce Ingram, with whom he believesCarter is acquainted, and states that Ingram had suggested'that you might be willing to form the subject of one of a seriesof articles which I contribute every week to â€œThe Sketchâ€•under the title of â€œWoadâ€•.' Nichols continues 'I do not know ifyou would shrink in horror from the idea, but I might mentionthat I have now written nearly eighty of these articles,concerning men ranging in quality from Lloyd George to GeorgeRobey, and have not yet got into any serious trouble with themabout what I have said' and further remarks 'I am afraid that myknowledge of you is only that of a member of the general publicand if the article is to be a success I should have to submit youto a form of â€œinterview.â€• However, I don't think it would be soabominable as it sounds, especially if I could induce you tolunchâ€¦.at the St. James's Clubâ€¦.They have an old, dry Hockthere which has a way of softening these things.' A letter ofinteresting association. Two small rust stains at the base of thepage, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 813[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English Archaeologist,discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun (1922-23). An unusualA.L.S. by the eccentric and wealthy Margit Labouchere (1893-1951), one page, 8vo, Villa Laviosa, Rapallo, 3rd February1927, to Howard Carter. Labouchere writes, in full, 'Don't forgetmy letters! You didn't find the mummy of Tot - ench - Amon. Iknow the truth. Only I.' With blank integral leaf. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 814CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English Archaeologist,discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun (1922-23). A good draftT.L.S., with his initials H C, in bold pencil, with a holographsubscription and several corrections in his hand, two pages,4to, Luxor, Upper Egypt, 30th January 1930, to Harold de Bildt.Carter writes in reference to some lectures in Stockholm,confirming 'I shall be most pleased to give one or more to the tothe Swedish-British Society of Stockholm' and asking hiscorrespondent to also convey this to the President, AdmiralHenry Lindberg. Carter expands on the subject, 'My proposedlectures will comprise two: 'The Discovery of the Tomb ofTutankhamen' and 'The Royal Burial and contents of theInnermost Chambers'. These I would willingly repeat inaccordance to the requirements of the Stockholm Institutions'and also states that he will provide his own English size slides'but would ask only that a competent operator with adequatelantern be secured.' He also refers to a letter received from Dr.Otto Smith in which he mentions halls, advising 'Upon such aquestion it is impossible for me to advise as I do not know thebuildings nor their qualities with regard to acoustics, but myexperience has been that theatres are generally best.' Lettersby Carter referring to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamunare rare and desirable. Two very small pinholes to the upper leftcorner of each page, otherwise EXEstimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00

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Lot: 815ONASSIS ARISTOTLE: (1906-1975) Greek-Argentine ShippingMagnate, lover of Maria Callas and husband of JacquelineKennedy 1968-75. Rare blue ink signature ('A. Onassis') to theverso of an oblong 8vo printed invitation card issued byOnassis for a Buffet Luncheon in the Harland & WolffEmployees' Social and Recreation Club in Belfast, 5thSeptember 1970. Accompanied by the original envelope. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 816PHILBY KIM: (1912-1988) British Intelligence Officer, a DoubleAgent and member of the spy ring known as the CambridgeFive. Philby defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. T.L.S., H. A.R. Philby, one page, 8vo, Moscow, 29th January n.y.(annotated 1969 in pencil in another hand), to [Brian] Rooney ofFaber & Faber Ltd. Philby thanks his correspondent for theirletter and remarks 'It is clear that Elizabeth Monroe must be theone to decide what help she needs, and from whom' and alsothanks him for promptly returning a manuscript. Philbycontinues 'I hope that Davis-Poynter made it clear to you that Irejected his suggestion that I should tackle my father'sbiography. I hold strongly that biographies should not be writtenby close relatives. Their praise must be suspect; their blamecould be reprehensible. I suppose that one could except fromthis general rule cases where quite unusual relationships exist,e.g. as with the Ackerleys, pere et fils.' and concludes with anintriguing paragraph, 'I feel rather awful using you as a channelof communication with John, but as you say you see him mostevenings, perhaps you would tell him that I am awaiting theletter he promised me; that when it arrives, I will transmit themoney again; that the Volga trip is off for reasons which I willexplain to him here; that I am trying to arrange an extensive triparound Siberia instead. Siberia has the advantage that, if hemisbehaves, we can accommodate him there for a long time. Isuppose your wife wouldn't care to come too. I was smitten byher picture.' Rare. Some light creasing, otherwise VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 817PHILBY KIM: (1912-1988) British Intelligence Officer, a DoubleAgent and member of the spy ring known as the CambridgeFive. Philby defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. T.L.S., H. A.R. Philby, one page, 4to, Moscow, 5th March n.y., to BrianRooney of Faber & Faber Ltd. Philby thanks his correspondentfor the copy of Mary McCarthy's book and for 'the news aboutJohn', continuing 'It was the first direct intimation I had of hisSaigon project, but it did not really surprise me because therewas a short item in a recent New York Herald-Tribunesuggesting that he might be going there.' Philby further writes 'Iagree with you that London is probably a more comfortableplace than Saigon at the moment, but as a press photographerhe is probably destined to spend much of his life in nastysituations. As for my feeling shock at your news, I am fairlyimmune by now!' Accompanied by the original envelope (largearea of paper loss to one corner, FR). Rare. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 818CALCRAFT WILLIAM: (1800-1879) British Executioner, themost famous hangman of the 19th century. A.L.S., W. Calcraft,one page, 8vo, London, 28th December 1866, to a gentleman,most likely a doctor. Calcraft writes, a little illiterately, in full, 'I

have rote with respect to my wifes mouth idoo not see thares isany alteration in her face one side of the sweling is quite goonaway and the other is no worse.' Rare. Laid down and with twosmall areas of paper loss, not affecting the text or signature,about GEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 819CHRISTIE ETHEL: (1898-1952) English Wife of Murderer JohnReginald Halliday Christie, herself one of his victims who waslater discovered strangled under the floor boards of their houseat 10 Rillington Place. Extremely rare A.L.S., Ethel, threepages, 8vo, n.p. (10 Rillington Place, St. Marks Road, London?)6th January n.y. (1952?), to 'Dear Lily' [Bartle, her sister].Christie enquires about her sister's health, stating 'I wrote toyou yesterday, somehow I "felt" that you were not so well,because you have not written to me. Are you being looked afteralright? Would you like me to come up?' and continuing 'If itwas not such a long way I should have come to see you rightaway but it is rather difficult leaving Reg to manage on his own.'She further adds that she hopes her sister will soon feel better,'you must rest more. You have been doing too much withhaving the shop on your own. Is it your back? You must havebeen feeling bad for a long time.' VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 820KRAY REG: (1933-2000) English Gangster who, with hisbrother Ron, were the foremost perpetrators of organised crimein London during the 1950s & 60s. A good original colourcrayon drawing by Reg Kray, on a 4to sheet of paper, n.p., n.d.,the image depicting a somewhat mean looking sailor standingin a full length pose, with a simple sailing boat in the distanceand a bright orange sun in the sky. The slightly primitivedrawing, in blue, green, yellow, orange and brown crayons, issigned by Reg Kray in bold black crayon with his name alone.Scarce in this form. About EXEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 821CRIME: Small selection of signed cards, pieces, 8 x 10photograph etc., by various infamous criminals comprisingRonnie Biggs (signed colour 8 x 10 photograph), BruceReynolds, Howard Marks, Reg Kray and Frankie Fraser (2). VGto EX, 6Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 822FAMOUS WOMEN: Small selection of signed clipped piecesetc. by various famous women comprising Queen Victoria (FreeFront envelope panel addressed in her hand to the LordChancellor and signed The Queen, numerous small tears to theedges), Elizabeth Gaskell (ink signature and three additionalwords in her hand on a small piece clipped from the conclusionof a letter), Elizabeth Fry (ink signature and six lines of text inher hand on a small piece clipped from the conclusion of aletter) and Agnes Strickland (bold ink signature and date, 20thJune 1855, on an oblong 8vo sheet of notepaper). FR (1) toabout VG, 4Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

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Lot: 823FAMOUS MEN: Small selection of individually signed cards byvarious famous men and women comprising James Thurber (inbold pencil, with a small, simple drawing to the verso), OswaldMosley, Thor Heyerdahl and Friedrich Hayek. VG to EX, 4Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 824FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of vintage signed pieces,cards, album pages etc., by a variety of famous men andwomen including Norman Birkett, R. Anderson Jardine(Performed the marriage of Edward, Duke of Windsor andWallis, Duchess of Windsor; the present example dated 3rdJune 1937, the day of the wedding), Kermit Roosevelt, TomWebster, Cosmo Lang (as Archbishop of Canterbury), IanHamilton, Bertram Mills, W. Reginald Bray ('The AutographKing') etc. Some are on pieces laid down to album pages. G toVG, 32Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 825AUTOGRAPHS: Miscellaneous selection of A.Ls.S. etc., by avariety of famous men and women, mainly writers and artists,including Edwin Landseer (autograph envelope signed with hisinitials), Rudolf Eucken, Beatrice Harraden, AlexanderSiemens, Adolf Wilbrandt, Marie Adelaide Belloc, Johan LudvigHeiberg etc. G to generally VG, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 826AUTOGRAPHS: Miscellaneous selection of A.Ls.S. etc., by avariety of famous men and women, most associated with thearts, including William Sterndale Bennett, Frances PowerCobbe, Frances Allitsen, Martin Conway (briefly referring to anexpedition to South America) etc. G to generally VG, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 827AUTOGRAPHS: Miscellaneous selection of T.Ls.S., A.Ls.S.,signed postcard photographs and larger (some vintage) by avariety of famous individuals including Dodie Smith (mentioningDear Octopus), W. Heath Robinson, Christopher Stone, H. V.Morton, Beniamino Gigli, Julian Slade, Yehudi Menuhin,Solomon, Dannii Minogue, Martin Kemp, Dana, Elaine Paige,Twiggy etc. Generally VG, 19Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 828FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Small selection of signed 8 x 10photographs, most colour, by various famous men and womenincluding David Attenborough, Victoria Pendleton, John Glenn,Alain Prost, Charlie Watts, Jimmy Carter etc. All are boldlysigned to clear areas and most of the images depict thesubjects in poses relating to their professions. Generally EX, 7Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 829FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed postcardphotographs and a few 8 x 10s by a variety of famous men andwomen including Twiggy, Hardy Amies, Millvina Dean, Agnetha

Faltskog, Lulu, George Melly, Barbara Dickson, Dannii Minogue(2), Will Young, Jose Carreras, Marilyn Manson, Paul Anka etc.Some of the images are colour. Generally VG, 21Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 830FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Miscellaneous selection of signedpieces, cards, album pages, signed postcard photographs, afew 8 x 10s etc., by a variety of famous men and womenincluding Edmund Hillary, Jessica Mitford, Denis Thatcher,Henry J. Wood, Paul Robeson, Luciano Pavarotti, ChristiaanBarnard, Oleg Popov, Neil Simon & Marsha Mason, J. EdgarHoover (T.L.S.), Reg Kray (signed and inscribed Christmasgreetings card), Reg Smythe etc. Generally VG, 14Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 831FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed postcardphotographs and slightly larger, some 8 x 10's, a few letters,pieces etc, by a variety of famous men and women, includingDanny Boyle, Michael Winner, Ann Widdecombe, Tara PalmerTomkinson, Emma Freud, Uri Gellar, Twiggy, Glenda Jackson,Nick Park, etc. Some duplication. Secretarial (1). VG to EX, 38Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 832FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Miscellaneous selection ofunsigned 8 x 10 photographs and smaller, some vintage, byvarious famous individuals, film stars etc., including OscarWilde (7 x 9.5 photograph by W & D Downey), CardinalNewman, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi (each carte devisite photographs), Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, AvaGardner, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Franz Lehar & RichardTauber, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Falcon Scott, Charles deGaulle, Rudolf Nureyev & Margot Fonteyn, Roger Moore etc. Gto generally VG, 106Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 833VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom GreatBritain & Ireland 1837-1901. A.L.S., The Queen, in the thirdperson, two pages, 8vo, Windsor Castle, 26th June 1881, toArnold Royle, on her black monogrammed mourning stationery.Queen Victoria announces 'The Queen must ask Mr. Royle towarn & remind Pce. Leopold to be very careful for he looks andseems very tired' and further refers to an engagement with theDuke and Duchess of St. Albans, concluding 'She wd. wish him& Mr. Collins to write frequently during the visit & to telegraph ifhe shd. be ill.' With blank integral leaf. VG William Beauclerk(1840-1898) 10th Duke of St. Albans. British Politician, Captainof the Yeoman of the Guard 1868-74 and Lord Lieutenant ofNottinghamshire 1880-1898. His second wife was Grace Bernal-Osborne (d.1926) whom he had married in 1874. Sir RobertHawthorn Collins (1841-1908) Private Tutor to Prince Leopold,and later Comptroller of his household. Prince Leopold visitedNottingham shortly after the present letter on 30th June 1881and opened the new University College, The Prince stayed withthe Duke of St. Albans at Bestwood Park and was given toursof Newstead and Welbeck Abbeys. He also gave a majorspeech on education, as well as three others during the lunchfollowing the ceremony for the University College opening. Thenext day he toured Nottingham and perhaps contrary to his

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motherâ€™s remarks in the present letter Prince Leopold, dressedas King Louis XV, attended a costume ball at Wollaton Hallwhere he danced until the early hours of the morning.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 834PRINCE LEOPOLD: (1853-1884) Duke of Albany, son ofQueen Victoria and Prince Albert. A.L.S., Leopold, three pages,8vo, Balmoral Castle, 23rd September 1882, to Arnold Royle.The Prince thanks his correspondent for their letter andcomments 'I am very well, saving a cough, which I got two daysafter my arrival, & which I can't shake off - though it shakes menearly off.' He further reports 'The Duchess is much better,thanks to Hoffmeister's treatment, which agrees very well withher' and that 'The Grand Duke arrives here on Monday - & noton board the "Osborne" as you had arranged! I shall not wantyou here at all - but you with Mrs. Moreton & Yorke must meetthe Duchess & myself somewhere on the 13th "en route" forBlythswood. Perhaps at Glasgow; but I will let you know place& hour.' In concluding he sends 'kind remembrances to Mrs.Royle, & love to my godchild (or vice versa).' Autographs of thePrince are rare in any form following his untimely death at theage of 30 as a result of haemophilia. VG The Hon. Alexander'Alick' Yorke (1847-1911) Equerry to Prince Leopold from 1874and Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria from 1884-1901.Yorke also held the office of Extra Groom-in-Waiting to KingEdward VII from 1901-10. Queen Victoria's famous remark 'Weare not amused' is said to have been as a result of a ratherrisky joke that Yorke once made. Dr. William Hoffmeister (1817-1890) Apothecary in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and the RoyalFamily while in residence at Osborne on the Isle of Wight.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 835[PRINCE LEOPOLD]: (1853-1884) Duke of Albany, son ofQueen Victoria and Prince Albert. A very fine, highly attractivesilver gilt Christening cup presented by Prince Leopold to hisgodson, Leopold Victor Arnold Royle (the son of Arnold Royle),the 3â€• tall cup bearing the maker's mark of F. B. Thomas &Company to the base, along with a London 1881 hallmark,engraved To Leopold Victor Arnold Royle, from his Godfather,Leopold Duke of Albany May 11 1882. Contained in anattractive blue leather hinged presentation case, with giltstamped initials L.V.A.R. to the outside and with a blue satinand velvet interior, also bearing the name and address of F. B.Thomas & Company of New Bond Street. Rare. VG LeopoldVictor Arnold Royle (1882-1918) was Arnold Royle's eldest sonand pursued a military career, gaining the rank of Kaimakamwith the Egyptian Coastguard and later serving in World War Ias a Flight Commander in the Royal Air Force (March 1918).He was awarded the Military Cross and was killed in action on17th August 1918.Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 836MARY OF TECK: (1867-1953) Queen Consort of the UnitedKingdom 1910-36, wife of King George V. Vintage signed 9.5 x12 photograph, a fine image of Queen Mary standing in aformal full length pose in a state room wearing ceremonialrobes. Photograph by Hay Wrightson of London and signed byhim in pencil to the upper photographer's mount. Signed ('MaryR') in dark fountain pen ink to the lower photographer's mountand dated 1937 - 1949 in her hand. Some very slight silveringto the edges of the image and and a very slim band of

discoloration to the edges of the photographer's mount, aboutVGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 837GEORGE VI: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. A good, unusual vintage signed 14.5 x 13.5 photograph, theimage depicting the King seated in a full length pose onhorseback. Photograph by W. A. Rouch of London and bearinghis pencil signature to the lower photographer's mount. Signed('George R. I., Col-in-Chief') by the King in fountain pen ink to alight area at the base of the image and dated 1937 in his hand.Matted in the original ivory matt to an overall size of 21 x 18.The signature is a little faded, although perfectly legible,however the image remains remarkably clean and crisp. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 838ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER: (1900-2002) QueenConsort of King George VI. Signed Christmas Greetings cardby the Queen Mother, the oblong small 4to white stiff foldingcard featuring a photograph to the inside of the Queen Motherstanding in a half length pose alongside her daughters QueenElizabeth II and Princess Margaret at Buckingham Palacefollowing a Thanksgiving Service in St. Paul's Cathedral.Signed ('Elizabeth R') in black ink beneath a printed greeting,1980. With a gold embossed crown to the front. A few heavycreases to one corner, not affecting the image or signature, GEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 839ROYALTY: Selection of five multiple signed oblong 4to pagesremoved from the Distinguished Visitors Book of WembleyStadium 1935-1947, each signed by various members ofEuropean Royal families and some other famous individuals,including King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav of Norway,Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Athlone, Prince Georg andPrincess Anne of Denmark (2), Lord Wavell FM etc. Each pagehas neatly typed headings indicating the events that thesignatories attended (International Football matches, IceSkating show etc.) and all with three file holes to the left edges,not affecting the signatures. Some light creasing (1). G to VG, 5Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 840FEODOROVNA MARIA: (1759-1828) Empress Consort ofRussia 1796-1801, the second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia andmother of Tsar Alexander I and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.Autograph Minute Signed, Maria, one page, 4to, St.Petersburg, 3rd March 1824. The holograph document, inRussian, is signed by an unidentified teacher of an orphanageunder the patronage of the Empress, and seeks permission fortwo daughters to attend classes at the orphanage. In themargin the Empress has signed her name and added the wordAllow in her hand, thereby approving the request made to her.Dated in another hand beneath her signature. With blankintegral leaf. The signature and date are encircled by two redand blue crayon circles. Some extremely light age wear, VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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VISITORS BOOK: The oblong 4to Visitors book from the BritishIndustry Pavilion at the Brussels Universal and InternationalExhibition 1958 containing over 350 signatures including PrincePhilip, Duke of Edinburgh (signed alongside Elisabeth ofBavaria, Queen Consort, and her grandson King Albert II ofBelgium and Aga Khan III) Princess Margaret, Anuerin Bevan,Hugh Gaitskell, David Heathcoat-Amory, Oliver Lyttelton('Chandos'), Reginald Maudling, Pat Smythe, Donald Campbell,Leo Villa, Sholto Douglas, Peter Townsend, John Mills, BillyButlin, Charles Hill, Geoff Duke, Maurice Buckmaster, InfanteJuan, Count of Barcelona, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz,Percival Brundage, Whanki Kim, Lord Brabazon of Tara, Isa binSalman Al Khalifa, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, DonaldFleming, David Maxwell Fyfe ('Kilmuir'), Alexander of Tunis,Montgomery of Alamein, Vivian Fuchs and other members ofthe Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Alan J. Cobham, Prince Axeland Princess Margaretha of Denmark, Jean, Grand Duke ofLuxembourg, Princess Josephine Charlotte of Belgium, KingLeopold III of Belgium, King Baudouin I of Belgium, PrinceWilliam of Gloucester, Morarji Desai, Mountbatten of Burma,Edwina, Mountbatten of Burma, Oliver Franks and many otherworld political and business figures etc. The Visitors book isattractively bound in contemporary full scarlet morocco, theupper board titled in gilt, the spine divided into fivecompartments with raised bands gilt, a fleur-de-lys gilt centretool to each compartment, elaborate gilt dentelles, silkdoublures and all edges gilt. Contained in the original card box.VG Expo 58, also known as the Brussels Universal andInternational Exhibition, was held from 17th April - 19th October1958 and was the first major World's Fair following World WarII. The Expo attracted more than 42 million visitors and wasopened with a call for world peace and social and economicprogress issued by King Baudouin I.Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 842O'CONNELL DANIEL: (1775-1847) Irish Political Leader.Signed Free Front envelope panel, addressed in his hand tothe attorney John Boyse at 31 Dame Street, Dublin and datedat Ennis, 6th July 1928. Signed ('Daniel O'Connell') in the lowerleft corner. Together with a second signed Free Front envelopepanel, addressed in O'Connell's hand to William Leckie inEdinburgh and dated Dublin, 24th December 1828. Signed('Daniel O'Connell') in the lower left corner. Both with lightoverall age wear and the second Free Front panel closelytrimmed and with clipped corners, very slightly affecting the textand signature. G, 2Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 843SIDMOUTH VISCOUNT: (1757-1844) British Prime Minister1801-04. A good A.L.S., Henry Addington, four pages, 4to,Downing Street, 8th April 1803, to William Frederick, Duke ofGloucester. Addington thanks His Royal Highness for 'the manyProofs of Recollection, & Confidence, with which you havehonor'd me during your Tour on the Continent' and particularlyfor a communication of the extraordinary proceedings atStockholm, commenting 'The Reflections which they suggestare extremely painful, & discourage those Hopes, which it wasat one time both reasonable and gratifying to entertain.' ThePrime Minister continues 'Of our present situation with respectto the French Government, & of our prospects, it is hardlypossible for me to say more than what will reach your RoyalHighness thro' other Channels: in the event of the Renewal ofHostilities, your Royal Highness may be assured that I shall

miss no occasion of representing your earnest wish for activeservice, & your Readiness to undertake it in any Part of theWorld.' In concluding he asks His Royal Highness to assure theDuke of Brunswick 'that the business upon which he waspleased to honour me with a letter is now under theconsideration of His Majesty's Government.' VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 844GRENVILLE WILLIAM: (1759-1834) British Prime Minister1806-07. A.L.S., Grenville, two pages, 8vo, Dropmore, 5thDecember 1822, to a gentleman. Grenville announces 'Amongthe subjects which you mention my own predilection would be',continuing with a list of four ('1. All Geologica 2.Stonehengeâ€¦.') and further adding 'But I think you could notchoose wrong among the others, if they seem to you betteradapted to the purpose. Only I should fear that Corigson (?)might be made the occasion of trenching on the principle ofexcluding all topics of present political controversy.' With blankintegral leaf. A couple of neat splits to the head and foot of thecentral fold, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 845WELLINGTON DUKE OF: (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish FieldMarshal & British Prime Minister 1828-30, 1834. A.L.S.,Wellington, one page, 8vo, Stratfield Saye, 14th January 1845,to Sir William Heathcote. Wellington informs his correspondentthat 'His Majesty will arrive here on Monday the 20th at shortlyafter four o'clock' and adds that he had also written toHeathcote yesterday from Windsor Castle. With blank integralleaf (partially laid down). Together with a photocopy of aholograph statement by William Heathcote recounting hismeeting with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at StratfieldSaye on 20th January 1845. About VG Sir William Heathcote(1801-1881) British Landowner and Politician.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 846DISRAELI BENJAMIN: (1804-1881) British Prime Minister 1874-80. Bold, dark fountain pen ink signature ('B. Disraeli') anddate, 24th January 1853, in his hand on an 8vo sheet ofnotepaper. With blank integral leaf. Together with Robert Peel(1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46.Autograph Envelope Wrapper signed, Robert Peel, addressedin his hand to The Chancellor and marked Immediate. Somelight age wear, G to about VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 847BALDWIN STANLEY: (1867-1947) British Prime Minister 1923-24, 1924-29 & 1935-37. A fine, unusual vintage signed 14.5 x13.5 photograph by Stanley Baldwin and eleven of the NationalGovernment Whips individually, the image depicting the PrimeMinister and the twelve Whips formally standing and seatedtogether outdoors in two rows. Photograph by Vandyk ofLondon and bearing a printed caption to the lowerphotographer's mount National Government Whips, May, 1937.Signed by Baldwin in bold black fountain pen ink with his namealone to the lower photographer's mount and also individuallysigned by eleven of the Whips, each in fountain pen inks to thelower edge of the image and the photographer's mount,

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including James Stuart (1897-1971) 1st Viscount Stuart ofFindhorn. Scottish Unionist Politician; David Margesson (1890-1965) 1st Viscount Margesson. British Politician, GovernmentChief Whip during the 1930s; Arthur Hope (1897-1958) 2ndBaron Rankeillour. British Politician; A. Lambert Ward (1875-1956) British Soldier & Politician; George F. Davies (1875-1950) British Politician; John Llewellin (1893-1957) 1st BaronLlewellin. British Army Officer & Politician; Charles Waterhouse(1893-1975) British Politician; Ronald Ross (1888-1968) UlsterUnionist Northern Irish Politician and three others. The name ofJames Blindell (1884-1937) British Politician has been added inink in an unidentified hand to the image, Blindell himself dyingon the 10th May 1937. Three of the signatures are a little lightand faded. Framed and glazed in the original dark woodenframe to an overall size of 15 x 14.5. Some very light foxing andminor age wear to the photographer's mount, about VGEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 848CHAMBERLAIN NEVILLE: (1869-1940) British Prime Minister1937-40. T.L.S., with his initials N. C., one page, 4to, EatonSquare, London, 8th May 1931, to Lord Beaverbrook ('My dearMax'), marked Personal. Chamberlain states that he hasobserved from his correspondent's last letter that 'you haven'tquite got the position right as regards South Paddington' butdoesn't want to engage in correspondence and would prefer toclear matters up with Beaverbrook when he is back in town. Hecontinues 'I should like to hear what you think of Scarborough.Personally, I am delighted. The first-fruits of the Lib-Lab alliancewas Ashton; the second, Scarborough. I cannot see how eitherWing of the alliance can derive any satisfaction from suchresults.' In a postscript Chamberlain writes 'I have just beeninformed that Taylor is issuing an appeal for funds in SouthPaddington, accompanied by a claim to be considered theofficial candidate. I hope this is not true. If it is, it will lead tountold trouble. Unprovoked aggression of this kind would makeall co-operation quite impossible.' Two file holes to the leftedge, not affecting the text or signature, VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 849CHAMBERLAIN NEVILLE: (1869-1940) British Prime Minister1937-40. T.L.S., N. Chamberlain, one page, 4to, Eaton Square,London, 22nd May 1931, to Lord Beaverbrook ('My dear Max'),marked Personal in Chamberlain's hand. Chamberlain informshis correspondent that he has 'fixed things up' concerningSouth Paddington and remarks 'Accordingly, Taylor will get theWhip when we come back the week after next, and othermatters will proceed according to plan'. In concluding he states'You will have seen no doubt in the Times and Telegraph myexplanation about the Wheat Quota. If the C.O. publishes mybroadcast, I will see that a foot-note is added, to make theposition clear.' Two file holes and a minor paperclip rust stain tothe left edge, none of which affect the text or signature,otherwise VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 850CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Bluefountain pen ink signature, WSC, initials only, on a slip of papermost likely neatly removed from the front free endpaper of abook. Accompanied by a typed note, unsigned, 'With Mr.Churchill's Thanks and Good Wishes', on an 8vo sheet of

printed stationery from Chartwell, Westerham, Kent. About VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 851CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Avintage signed 8vo menu for the National Land & HousingCouncil and Mr. Percy Illingworth's Dinner to meet the PrimeMinister and His Majesty's Ministers at the National LiberalClub, 9th December 1913, signed ('Winston S. Churchill') inbold fountain pen ink by Churchill to a clear area. Also signedby two other British Prime Ministers and various otherpoliticians including H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) British PrimeMinister 1908-16, David Lloyd George (1863-1945) BritishPrime Minister 1916-22, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1908-15,Reginald McKenna (1863-1943) British Politician, HomeSecretary 1911-15 & Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915-16,Lewis Harcourt (1863-1922) British Politician, Secretary ofState for the Colonies 1910-15, Charles Hobhouse (1862-1941)British Politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1911-14, John Burns (1858-1943) English Politician, President of theLocal Government Board 1908-14, Thomas McKinnon Wood(1855-1927) British Politician, Secretary for Scotland 1912-15,Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) English Politician, ChiefSecretary for Ireland 1908-15, Joseph Pease (1860-1943)British Politician, President of the Board of Education 1911-15,Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) British Politician, PostmasterGeneral 1910-14, The Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938) BritishPolitician, First Commissioner of Works 1910-14, John Simon(1873-1954) British Politician, Attorney General 1913-15,Stanley Buckmaster (1861-1934) British Politician, LordChancellor 1915-16, Thomas James Mcnamara (1861-1931)British Politician, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to theAdmiralty 1908-20, Percy Illingworth (1869-1915) BritishPolitician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1912-15 andfive others. All have signed with their names alone in fountainpen inks. Neatly laid down opposite a printed invitation card tothe dinner, issued to Mr. W. H. McNamara, and contained in anoblong 4to red leather folding presentation case bearing a giltstamped title Ministers' Signatures and McNamara's initials tothe cover. Some light scuffing and minor age wear, largely tothe edges of the menu, only just affecting the signatures ofIllingworth, Beauchamp and Wood, and close to, but notaffecting Churchill's signature. FREstimate: £400.00 - £500.00

Lot: 852CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953.Autograph Minute Signed, with his initials WSC, in bold redfountain pen ink, one page, folio, n.p., 15th July (1919). Thetyped document is addressed to the Private Secretary of theSecretary of State and concerns troops who have servedoverseas taking part in a procession, remarking 'if we give wayon this point we will be inundated with applications from allkinds of Organizations - the Procession has, with AlliedContingents, already assumed very large proportions. We havehad numerous applications already and have turned them alldown either to take part in the Procession or line the streets.Much as we should like to include everyone, I really think itwould be unwise to make an exceptionâ€¦..' Churchill has circledthe last five words (quoted above) and remarks, in full, 'I agree.Mr. Bonar Law has asked whether a few Canadians cannot beincluded if they want to march. Please report', adding his initialsand date immediately beneath. With several other holograph

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notes to the base (large area of paper loss affecting much ofthe text) and verso. Some light wear and extensive small tearsand areas of paper loss to the edges, not affecting Churchill'stext or signature, FR Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923) Canadian-born British Prime Minister 1922-23. At the time of the presentdocument he was serving as Lord Privy Seal 1919-21 andChurchill was serving as Secretary of State for War 1919-21.Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 853CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953.Typed Statement Signed, Winston S. Churchill, one page, 4to,10 Downing Street, Whitehall, n.d. (September/October 1954),on the printed stationery of the Prime Minister. Churchill'sstatement was prepared for delivery at the National Conferenceof the South African War Veterans' Association held at theCouncil House, Birmingham, 2nd October 1954 and reads, infull, 'I send my greetings to the Annual Conference of the SouthAfrican War Veterans' Association of which I have the honour tobe a Vice-President. May the comradeship we shared as youngmen on the South African Veld, more than half a century ago,always united us. When the Boer War ended a magnanimoussettlement opened an outstanding period of good will betweenBritain and South Africa. May this long continue to bringprosperity to the wide and sunlit lands which we shall neverforget.' One file hole to the uper left corner and some lightoverall damp staining and two small areas of paper thinningand small tears to the lower corners. The damp staining onlyvery lightly affect the text and signature, all of which remainperfectly legible. FREstimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 854CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Darkink signature ('Winston S. Churchill') on an oblong 12mo pieceneatly removed from the foot of an official document, with thetyped date 16th May 1952 at the base. With blank integral leaf.VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 855CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Darkfountain pen ink signature ('Winston S. Churchill') on an oblong12mo piece neatly removed from the foot of an officialdocument, with the typed date 31st December 1954 at thebase. With blank integral leaf. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 856CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Darkfountain pen ink signature ('Winston S. Churchill') on an oblong12mo piece neatly removed from the foot of an officialdocument, with the typed date 19th March 1954 at the base.With blank integral leaf. A couple of very small, extremely minorink blots, just affecting two letters of the signature. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 857CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Agood vintage signed 9.5 x 12 photograph, the image depictingChurchill seated in a half length pose holding some papers inone hand and a cigar in the other. Signed ('Winston SChurchill') in bold black fountain pen ink with his name alone toa clear area of the image. Framed and glazed in the originalblack wooden frame to an overall size of 10.5 x 12.5.Accompanied by a T.L.S. by Nina E. Sturdee (1920-2006,Churchill's Personal Secretary 1941-45 & Principal PrivateSecretary 1945-53, later Lady Onslow), one page, 4to,Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, 18th December 1949, to MissNina Jarvis, Private Secretary to S[id] Field, stating, in full, 'Mr.Churchill was so much complimented that Mr. Field should wishhim to sign a portrait of himself. Mr. Churchill hopes Mr. Fieldwill not mind, but he disliked the painting which was brought forhim to sign and, instead of returning this original to Mr. Field, heprefers to send a photograph which he has been pleased tosign. Mr. Churchill hopes Mr. Field will accept this token fromhim with his good wishes for a happy New Year. Mr. Churchill isso sorry to hear of Mr. Field's illness and hopes so much thathe will soon be quite better.' The letter is neatly laid down to theverso of the frame. VG Sid Field (1904-1950) British ComedyEntertainerEstimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 858EDEN ANTHONY: (1897-1977) British Prime Minister 1955-57.Vintage signed postcard photograph of Eden in a head andshoulders pose, signed in blue fountain pen ink, partially acrossa darker area of the image, and dated 1955 in his hand.Together with Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (1920- ) Wifeof Anthony Eden. A.L.S., Clarissa Avon, one page, 8vo,London, 28th May 1971, to Mrs. B. Doolan, on the blue printedstationery of Claridge's. Eden writes on behalf of her husbandto thank her correspondent for their letter which he had beenpleased to receive. Accompanied by the original envelope handaddressed by Eden. Also including an unrelated T.L.S. byChloe Otto, Eden's Private Secretary, one page, 4to, 10Downing Street, Whitehall, 16th May 1956, to Miss. BeatriceFraser, stating that the Edens had enjoyed their visit to Perthand forwarding a signed photograph. Accompanied by theoriginal envelope. Otto's letter FR, otherwise VG, 3 Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 859THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. T.L.S., Margaret Thatcher, with holograph salutationand subscription, and five additional holograph words, onepage, 4to, London, 19th December 1975, to Miss Christine Hall,on the printed stationery of the House of Commons. Thatcherthanks her correspondent 'for all your hard work in the PrivateOffice during the past weeks' and adds 'You have been a greathelp to us all, and I am very grateful to you for all you havedone.' VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 860THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Signed Christmas greetings card, the official House ofCommons oblong 8vo stiff folding card featuring a colourillustration to the cover of a painting entitled Frost on the

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Thames. Signed by Thatcher in bold black ink with her namealone beneath a printed greeting. Together with a small oblong12mo Christmas gift tag signed and inscribed by Thatcher inbold blue ink to the verso and also including a printed 12moPass to the House of Commons, issued to Miss Christine Hall,Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, for December 1975.Some overall creasing and small tears to the pass (FR),otherwise VG, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 861THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Thatcher standing in afull length pose alongside American President Ronald Reagan.Signed in bold black ink with her name alone to a light area atthe base of the image. Framed and glazed in a modern frameto an overall size of 10 x 12. Together with James Callaghan(1912-2005) British Prime Minister 1976-79. Signed 3 x 5photograph of Callaghan in a head and shoulders pose. Signedin blue ink with his name alone to the lower white border.Framed and glazed in a modern frame to an overall size of 6 x8. VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 862THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Signed 10 x 8 photograph of Thatcher standing in afull length pose alongside James Callaghan and David Steel,each of the party political leaders holding Remembrance Daywreaths. Signed by all three individually to the lower whiteborder in black inks with their names alone. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 863THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Signed colour 12 x 8 photograph, a poignant image ofThatcher gently resting one hand on the coffin of RonaldReagan, draped in the American stars and stripes flag, as theformer President was lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda onCapitol Hill in Washington, 9th June 2004. Signed by Thatcherin bold black ink with her name alone to a clear area at thebase of the image. Some extremely light creasing, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 864THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Thatcher in ahead and shoulders pose. Signed in bold black ink with hername alone to a light area at the base of the image. EXEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 865THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Signed 5 x 7 photograph of Thatcher in a half-lengthpose. Signed ('Margaret Thatcher') with her name alone in boldblack ink to the lower white border. Together with DavidCameron (1966- ) British Prime Minister 2010 - present.Signed colour 6 x 8 photograph of Cameron in a head andshoulders pose. Signed ('David Cameron') in bold black ink tothe lower white border. VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 866THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Signed First Day Cover commemorating the visit ofThatcher to the Falkland Islands and her being awarded theFreedom of the Falklands, signed with her name alone in boldblue ink to a clear area. Post marked at Port Stanley, FalklandIslands on 10th January 1983. Together with Tony Blair (1953- ) British Prime Minister 1997-2007. Signed colour 13 x 10photograph showing him in a half length pose, outdoors,alongside Bill Clinton. Signed by Blair with his name alone inblue ink to the lower photographer's mount. Some slight cornercreasing to the mount. About VG to EX, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 867THATCHER MARGARET (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90 & DENIS (1915-2003) British Businessman & husbandof Margaret Thatcher AND GORBACHEV MIKHAIL (1931- )Soviet Statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Partyof the Soviet Union 1985-91 and Head of the Soviet Union1988-91. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1990 & RAISA (1932-1999) Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev. Signed 6.5 x 9.5 photographby both Margaret & Denis Thatcher and Mikhail & RaisaGorbachev individually, the image depicting the two couplesstanding together in full length poses on the steps of Chequersin December 1984. Signed by each in bold black inks with theirnames alone to light areas at the base of the image. Matted inred and pale brown and framed and glazed in a modernwooden frame to an overall size of 17 x 19. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 868BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A good signed colour 10 x 8photograph by five British Prime Ministers of the 20th centurycomprising Harold Wilson (1916-1995) British Prime Minister1964-70, 1974-76, Edward Heath (1916-2005) British PrimeMinister 1970-74, James Callaghan (1912-2005) British PrimeMinister 1976-79, Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) British PrimeMinister 1979-90 and John Major (1943- ) British PrimeMinister 1990-97. The image depicts the five former PrimeMinisters standing together in a row in full length poses withQueen Elizabeth II standing at the centre. Signed by each ofthe Prime Ministers in bold black inks with their names alone,most to clear areas of the image. Major's signature is partiallyacross a darker area although still perfectly legible. Attractivelyand professionally float mounted and matted in black and whiteabove a brief printed caption. Framed and glazed in a blackframe to an overall size of 19 x 22. EXEstimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 869BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: An excellent collection of signedpieces and cards etc., by every British Prime Minister from1868-2010 comprising Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) BritishPrime Minister 1868, 1874-80. D.S., B Disraeli, one page, n.p.(London). 27th April n.y., admitting the bearer to the Gallery ofthe House of Commons; William Gladstone (1809-1898) BritishPrime Minister 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94. Signed FreeFront envelope, 24th May 1870; Marquis of Salisbury (1830-1903) British Prime Minister 1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1902. Inksignature ('Yours faithfully, Salisbury') on a piece neatly clippedfrom the conclusion of a letter, laid down to an attractive colourpostcard featuring an image of Salisbury; Earl of Rosebery

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(1847-1929) British Prime Minister 1894-95. Ink signature('Rosebery') and four lines of holograph text from theconclusion of a letter; Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) BritishPrime Minister 1902-05. Bold fountain pen ink signature ('ArthurJames Balfour') to a clear area of an attractive postcardfeaturing a colour vignette image of Balfour; Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908) British Prime Minister 1905-08. Boldfountain pen ink signature ('Yours very truly, H. Campbell-Bannerman') and date, 10th January 1901, to a clear area of anattractive postcard featuring a colour vignette image ofCampbell-Bannerman; H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) British PrimeMinister 1908-16. Bold fountain pen ink signature ('H. H.Asquith') and date, February 1901, in his hand to a clear areaof an attractive postcard featuring a colour vignette image ofAsquith; David Lloyd George (1863-1945) British Prime Minister1916-22. Bold fountain pen ink signature ('D Lloyd George') onan attractive 12mo card, neatly laid down; Andrew Bonar Law(1858-1923) British Prime Minister 1922-23. Fountain pen inksignature ('A. Bonar Law') on an attractive 12mo card, neatlylaid down; Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) British Prime Minister1923-24, 1924-29 & 1935-37. Bold fountain pen ink signature('Stanley Baldwin') on a 12mo piece with the blind embossedcrest of the Prime Minister above, neatly laid down; J. RamsayMacDonald (1866-1937) British Prime Minister 1924, 1929-35.Ink signature ('J. Ramsay MacDonald') on a 12mo card, neatlylaid down; Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) British PrimeMinister 1937-40. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('NevilleChamberlain') on a piece, neatly laid down; Winston S.Churchill (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55.Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Fine, dark fountain penink signature ('Winston S. Churchill') on a slim, pale blue feintruled piece, neatly laid down; Clement Attlee (1883-1967)British Prime Minister 1945-51. Ink signature and severaladditional words in his hand, 'All good wishes for your recovery,Attlee' on a piece, neatly laid down; Anthony Eden (1897-1977)British Prime Minister 1955-57. Double blue fountain pen inksignature ('Avon (Anthony Eden)') on a card, neatly laid down;Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) British Prime Minister 1957-1963. Blue fountain pen ink signature ('Harold Macmillan') on apiece, neatly laid down; Alec Douglas-Home (1903-1995)British Prime Minister 1963-64. Blue ink signature ('AlecDouglas-Home') on a card; Harold Wilson (1916-1995) BritishPrime Minister 1964-70, 1974-76. Blue ink signature ('HaroldWilson') and date, 25th February 1963, in his hand on a card;Edward Heath (1916-2005) British Prime Minister 1970-74.Bold blue fountain pen ink signature ('Edward Heath') on a blindembossed House of Commons card; James Callaghan (1912-2005) British Prime Minister 1976-79. Blue ink signature ('JimCallaghan') on a card; Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) BritishPrime Minister 1979-90. Bold blue ink signature ('MargaretThatcher') on a blind embossed House of Commons card; JohnMajor (1943- ) British Prime Minister 1990-97. Black fountainpen ink signature ('John Major') on a card; Tony Blair (1953- ) British Prime Minister 1997-2007. Black fountain pen inksignature ('Best wishes, Tony Blair') on a page removed froman autograph album; Gordon Brown (1951- ) British PrimeMinister 2007-10. Black ink signature ('Gordon Brown') andseveral additional typed words on a piece neatly clipped fromthe conclusion of a letter. Each of the signatures are neatly andprofessionally float mounted in three groups of eight beneathpostcard images (some of them vintage) most of which depictthe Prime Ministers in formal head and shoulders poses, andabove brief printed biographies. Double matted in two shadesof brown with a mottled gold and brown border against a darkochre background and framed and glazed in three identicallarge wooden frames, each measuring 42 x 35. A desirable andhighly attractive display of British Prime Minister's signatures.

Generally VG to about EX, 3Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 870BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of signed pieces andcards etc., by various British Prime Ministers comprisingBenjamin Disraeli (signed Free Front envelope panel), WilliamGladstone, David Lloyd George, Harold Macmillan and LordHome. Each are individually matted beneath images of thePrime Ministers and framed and glazed in modern woodenframes to various sizes. G to generally VG, 5Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 871POLITICAL: Selection of vintage signed pieces, cards, albumpages etc., by various British Prime Ministers and politicians,some Foreign leaders etc., including David Lloyd George, J.Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, SamuelHoare, Kingsley Wood, Lord Halifax, John Simon, AustenChamberlain, R. Stafford Cripps, Oliver Stanley, Leslie HoreBelisha, Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, Robert Menzies, JosephLyons, W. L. Mackenzie-King, Joachim von Ribbentrop etc.Some are on pieces laid down to album pages. G to VG, 28Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 872BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of ink signatures byvarious British Prime Ministers of the 20th century, each onoblong 12mo pieces neatly removed from the foot of officialdocuments, comprising David Lloyd George (2), StanleyBaldwin (2), J. Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, AnthonyEden and Margaret Thatcher. All have typed dates at the baseand most have blank integral leaves. VG, 8Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 873BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of ink signatures byvarious British Prime Ministers of the 20th century, each onoblong 12mo pieces neatly removed from the foot of officialdocuments, comprising David Lloyd George (2), StanleyBaldwin, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee (2), HaroldMacmillan and Margaret Thatcher. All have typed dates at thebase and blank integral leaves. VG, 8Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 874BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of ink signatures byvarious British Prime Ministers of the 20th century, each onoblong 12mo pieces neatly removed from the foot of officialdocuments, comprising David Lloyd George (3), StanleyBaldwin, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, AnthonyEden, Harold Macmillan and Margaret Thatcher. All have typeddates at the base and most have blank integral leaves. VG, 9Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 875BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Small selection of three signed 5x 7 photographs and slightly larger by various former andpresent British Prime Ministers comprising Margaret Thatcher,Gordon Brown and David Cameron. Each have signed in bold

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black pen with their names alone to the lower white borders.VG to EX, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 876BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Small selection of three signed 5x 7 photographs and slightly larger, signed card (1), by variousformer and present British Prime Ministers comprising TonyBlair, John Major, David Cameron and Margaret Thatcher.Each have signed in bold black and blue inks with their namesalone to the lower white borders. VG to EX, 4Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 877BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Small selection of three signed 5x 7 photographs and slightly smaller by various former andpresent British Prime Ministers comprising Margaret Thatcher,David Cameron and Tony Blair. Each have signed in bold blackand blue inks with their names alone to the lower white borders.VG to EX, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 878WASHINGTON GEORGE: (1732-1799) American President1789-97. Bold, dark ink signature ('Go: Washington') on a slimoblong 12mo piece. The piece (4 x 1) bears an attractiveprinted design and the date 1768 and has been neatly clippedfrom a Mountain Road Lottery ticket. Neatly laid down and withan extremely thin border of discoloration to the extreme edgesof the piece, only very slightly touching Washington's signature.About VG The Mountain Road Lottery was organised in 1768 inorder to fund the building of a road which would open a route tothe west of Virginia. The project was of great importance toWashington.Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 879CLEVELAND GROVER: (1837-1908) American President 1885-89, 1893-97. D.S., Grover Cleveland, as President, one page,large oblong folio, Washington, 4th August 1886. The partiallyprinted document relates to the appointment of Robert CharlesClipperton as Consul of Her Britannic Majesty for the states ofPennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan and declaresClipperton 'free to exercise and enjoy such functions, powersand privileges as are allowed to Consuls by the law of nationsor by the laws of the United States and existing treatystipulations between the Government of Great Britain and theUnited States.' Signed by Cleveland at the foot andcountersigned by Thomas F. Bayard (1828-1898) AmericanLawyer and Politician, United States Secretary of State 1885-89and Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1893-97. With blindembossed seal. Some light overall surface creasing, GEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 880EISENHOWER DWIGHT D.: (1890-1969) American General ofWorld War II, later American President 1953-61. Vintage signed8 x 10 photograph, as President, showing Eisenhower in aformal head and shoulders pose. Signed with his name alone indark fountain pen ink to the lower white border. A couple of verylight, extremely minor surface and corner creases, VG

Provenance: The present photograph was presented to thefather of the vendor, a member of the UK Police Protectionteam, during Eisenhower's last State Visit to the UnitedKingdom from 27th August - 2nd September 1959. The lot alsoincludes two unsigned photographs relating to Eisenhower'svisit, the first a 10 x 8 photograph of two official cars standingon an airport runway and the second an 8 x 6 press photographof Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan leaving the church of St.Peter and St. Paul before returning to Chequers.Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00

Lot: 881EISENHOWER DWIGHT D.: (1890-1969) American General ofWorld War II, later American President 1953-61. Vintage signedand inscribed 11 x 14 photograph of Eisenhower seated in athree quarter length pose. Signed in bold brown fountain penink to the lower white border, 'best wishes from Dwight DEisenhower', with an additional printed inscription 'For: TheStudents of Redrice School, Andover, England'. Some slightcorner and surface creasing, predominantly at the head of theimage, and a small tear to the upper edge, G Red Rice House,near Andover in Hampshire, was used by the military duringWorld War II and was visited by Eisenhower in the run-up to D-Day. After the war it became home to Redrice School andEisenhower again visited when he was in England for thefuneral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, presenting the currentphotograph to the school.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 882EISENHOWER DWIGHT D.: (1890-1969) American General ofWorld War II, later American President 1953-61. T.L.S., DwightD Eisenhower, one page, small 4to, Gettysburg, 2nd December1957, to Miss Katherine Cornell, on the printed stationery ofThe White House, Washington. Eisenhower states 'I cannot tellyou how deeply I appreciated your telegram of ThanksgivingDay.' and continues 'Your thought of Mrs. Eisenhower and mehelped make the day one of the happiest in the annals of theEisenhower family'. Accompanied by the original envelope.Together with Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) AmericanPresident 1945-53. Dark fountain pen ink signature on a pageremoved from an autograph album. Some light staining, causedby remnants of mounting to the verso, just affects the signature.G to VG, 2Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 883KENNEDY JOHN F.: (1917-1963) American President 1961-63& MACMILLAN HAROLD: (1894-1986) British Prime Minister1957-1963. An excellent, vintage, large signed colour 18 x 13.5photograph by John F. Kennedy, Harold Macmillan, AlecDouglas-Home (1903-1995) British Prime Minister 1963-64,Foreign Secretary 1960-63, 1970-74 and Dean Rusk (1909-1994) American Politician, United States Secretary of State1961-69 individually, the image depicting the President, PrimeMinister, Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State standingoutdoors together in half length poses outside The WhiteHouse. Bearing several credit stamps to the verso, includingone indicating that the image is an official U.S. Armyphotograph by Lt. Cecil W. Stoughton. Signed by each withtheir names alone in fountain pen inks to the lowerphotographer's mount, Kennedy and Macmillan's signaturesbeing particularly bold examples. A rare signed photograph.The image is very slightly uniformly faded, although the

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signatures are not. Some very light, extremely minor age wear,otherwise VG The present image of Kennedy and Macmillanwas captured in 1961. The two men had built a strong, specialrelationship (Kennedy's late sister Kathleen had been marriedto Dorothy Macmillan's nephew), Macmillan offered his supportduring the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion by the United States of Cubaand later, at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October1962, Kennedy turned to Macmillan for advice, at timesspeaking to him up to three times a day on the telephone.Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 884NIXON RICHARD: (1913-1994) American President 1969-74.Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Nixon in aformal head and shoulders pose. Signed in dark fountain penink to the lower photographer's mount. With the stamped date11th February 1969 to the verso. Some extremely minor, lightage wear to the photographer's mount, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 885NIXON RICHARD: (1913-1994) American President 1969-74.T.L.S., Richard Nixon, as President, one page, small 4to,Washington, 10th December 1971, to John S. McCowan inStourbridge, Worcestershire, on the printed stationery of TheWhite House. Nixon states that, even though he does notalways acknowledge his correspondent's letters, 'they are mostwelcome and I look forward to your pertinent observations onmatters of mutual interest. I hope you will continue to keep meposted on current events on your side of the Atlantic!' Inconcluding he sends his warmest wishes, and those of hisfamily, for a happy Holiday season. Accompanied by theoriginal envelope (only FR). Some slight creasing and smalltears to the left and right edges of the central horizontal fold, GEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 886BUSH GEORGE H. W. (1924- ) American President 1989-93. An unusual signed and inscribed colour 11 x 8 photographof Bush during a skydive, accompanied by two fellow skydivers,1997. Signed by Bush in bold black ink to a clear area at thebase of the image, 'Jimmy - Come fly with me! George Bush'.Some light discoloration to the extreme edges of the image, notaffecting the signature. About VG The present photograph wasinscribed to Jaime 'Jimmy' Ortiz-Patino (1930-2013) French-born Bolivian owner and Honorary President of the ValderramaGolf Club who was instrumental in bringing the Ryder Cup tothe Spanish golf course in 1997.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 887CARNOT LAZARE: (1753-1823) French Politician, Engineer &Mathematician, the Organizer of Victory in the FrenchRevolutionary Wars. D.S., Carnot, one page, folio, n.p., 29Prairial, Year 2 of the Republic (29th May 1794). Themanuscript document, in French, is issued by the Commissionfor Arms, Gunpowder and Mines of the Republic and states, infull, 'The Army of the Pyrenees Orientales is in urgent need ofCartridges. These are manufactured in Toulouse, but there willbe an imminent shortage of Gunpowder. Consequently, theCommission proposes to the Committee of Public Safety totake from the Gunpowder manufacture of Toulouse 20,000

pounds of Gunpowder, to be transferred to the Artillery base ofthis town.' The proposal is approved by the Committee of PublicSafety and signed by Carnot at the foot and countersigned byClaude Antoine, Comte Prieur-Duvernois (1763-1832) FrenchEngineer & Politician and Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne(1756-1819) Instrumental figure in the Reign of Terror duringthe French Revolution. Some light age wear and minor areas ofpaper loss to the extreme edges and lower right corner, notaffecting the text or signatures. GEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 888MANDELA NELSON: (1918- ) President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. Black ink signature ('NMandela') on a stiff plain white card. Accompanied by a T.L.S.by Mandela's administrative secretary, one page, 4to, Pretoria,16th April 1999, stating, in part, 'Your card has beenautographed by the President as requested, and is enclosedwith his best wishes. He trusts that it will be of value to you.' EXEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 889MANDELA NELSON: (1918- ) President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. Signed colour 12 x 8photograph of Mandela standing in a three quarter length posebefore a group of individuals. Signed in bold black ink to a lightarea at the head of the image and dated 15th March 2000 in hishand. The image is very slightly grainy. VGEstimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 890MUGABE ROBERT: (1924- ) President of Zimbabwe 1987- . Signed colour 5 x 6.5 photograph of Mugabe in a formal halflength pose. Signed ('R. G. Mugabe') in bold blue ink with hisname alone to a light area of the image. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 891CHINA: Chen Cheng (1897-1965) Chinese Political and MilitaryLeader, Premier of the Republic of China 1950-54. Vintagesigned 4 x 5.5 photograph of Chen in a head and shoulderspose. Signed in bold black ink, in Chinese characters, with hisname alone to a clear area of the background; Chow Chih-jou(1899-1986) Chinese Air Force General and Governor ofTaiwan 1957-62. Vintage signed 7 x 9 photograph of Chowstanding in a three quarter length pose. Signed, in English, withhis name alone in blue ink, partially across a darker area of theimage although perfectly legible; Wang Shu-ming Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Air Force and Chief of the GeneralStaff, known as 'Tiger' Wang. A good vintage signed andinscribed (?) 8.5 x 11.5 photograph of Wang in a head andshoulders pose wearing his uniform. Signed in bold black ink, inChinese characters, to the white border and with severaladditional words in his hand. Some light surface and cornercreasing, G to about VG, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 892HISTORICAL: Selection of signed Free Front envelope panelsby various Victorian politicians and nobility etc., mainly 1830s,including Leonard Dobbin, Charles Augustus FitzRoy, Admiral

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James Dundas, Sir George Grey, George Canning, BaronBagot, Henry Brougham, Henry Hardinge, John Hardy, ThomasWilde, Adam Gifford, Evelyn Denison, Henry Villiers-Stuart,Matthew Bell, Baron Clinton, George Pryme, James Mangles,Nicholas Ridley-Colborne and many others. Recipients includeThe Lord Chancellor, Viscount Melbourne, Robert Peel etc. FRto generally G, 112Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 893HISTORICAL: Selection of signed Free Front envelope panelsby various Victorian politicians and nobility etc., mainly 1830s,including Charles Cumming-Bruce, Earl Fortescue, Lord Clifton,Earl Cornwallis, Viscount Newark, Baron de Clifford, BaronSkelmersdale, Baron Brownlow, Admiral Charles Adam, BaronLyttelton, 2nd Marquess of Bute, Hugh Arbuthnott, GeorgeSinclair, Earl of Wicklow, George Stewart, Earl of Galloway,Baron Erskine, Earl of Dartmouth, Henry Frederick Cooke, Earlof Charleville, John Bonham-Carter, William Ponsonby,Viscount Hood etc. Each of the envelope panels are addressedto various London bankers including Coutts, Drummonds andCooke & Holford. Generally G, 90Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 894HISTORICAL: Selection of signed Free Front envelope panelsby various Victorian politicians and nobility etc., mainly 1830s,including William Fox-Strangways, Earl of Minto, Paul Methuen,Daniel O'Connell, William Molesworth, Horace Twiss, Earl ofMalmesbury, Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (asArchbishop of York), Baron Wallace, William Taylor Copeland,John Wilson Croker, Charles Buller and many others.Recipients include The Lord Chancellor, the Landlord of theKings Arms in Bagshot, a London fishmonger, Lord Mayor ofYork etc. FR to generally G, 114 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 895HISTORICAL: Collection of 190 signed Free Front envelopepanels by various Victorian politicians and nobility etc., eachneatly laid down in multiples to 41 pages removed from analbum, including 2nd Viscount St Vincent, Henry Willoughby,Richard Weyland, John Barrow, John Abel Smith, ViscountPalmerston, Lord Robert Manners, Herbert Taylor, ViscountGoderich, Thomas Spring Rice, Henry Goulburn, Gerard Noel,Benjamin Hall, Matthew Bell, George Pryme, Duncan Davidsonand many others. A little duplication. GEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 896HISTORICAL: Small selection of A.Ls.S., a few T.Ls.S. etc., byvarious political and military leaders including Lord Roberts VC,Francis Knollys (referring to which Governors King Edward VIIis prepared to receive, 1906), H. H. Asquith (autograph minutesigned with his initials), Arthur J. Balfour (L.S., two pages, 8vo,10 Downing Street, n.d., to Alfred, in part, 'I think you are ratherrushing the Cabinet in sending out so important a documentwithin a day or two of circulation'), Joseph Chamberlain (L.S.regarding imports of fruit, sugar, tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoaetc. from the Colonies and India), Alfred Milner (T.L.S. fromCape Town, 15th September 1900, referring to 'that arch-scoundrel Schutte') etc., also including a document bearing

rubber stamped signatures of King George VI and his motherQueen Mary. The majority of the letters are written to BernardHolland. Generally VG, 13Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 897FONCK RENE: (1894-1953) French Aviator, the top AlliedFighter Ace of World War I (75 Victories). Vintage signed sepiapostcard photograph, being a reproduction of an artist'simpression of Fonck in a head and shoulders pose wearing hisuniform and medal. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink to alight area at the base of the image and dated 1st September1926 in his hand. Rare. Some extremely light, small staining inthe upper right hand corner, otherwise VGEstimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 898GUYNEMER GEORGES: (1894-1917) French Aviator, thesecond ranking Allied Ace of World War I (54 victories). A pieceof 8 x 5 fabric from a German aircraft shot down by Guynemer,signed in bold black fountain pen ink by the Ace andadditionally annotated in his hand â€˜Debris dâ€™avion allemand abattre a Thescourt le 12 Mars 1916â€™. Autographs of Guynemerare extremely rare in any form following his tragically earlydeath at the age of 22 and the present example, directlyrelating to one of his World War I victories, is particularlydesirable. Very slightly frayed to two edges, otherwise VGEstimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 899NUNGESSER CHARLES: (1892-1927) French Aviator, thethird ranking Allied Ace of World War I (45 victories). A rival ofCharles Lindbergh, Nungesser mysteriously disappeared duringan attempt to make the first non-stop Transatlantic flight fromParis to New York in May 1927. Lindbergh successfully madethe journey from New York to Paris just a couple of weeks later.A rare vintage signed postcard photograph, the image depictingthe French hero and fighter ace Georges Guynemer andFrench fighter pilot Felix Brocard standing together in an airfieldin full length poses wearing their uniforms and medals. Signedby Nungesser in bold blue fountain pen ink with his name aloneto a light area at the head of the image and also signed in boldblue fountain pen ink by Brocard. Autographs of Nungesser areextremely rare in any form following his disappearance at theage of 35 and this signed photograph is particularly desirablefor its association with Guynemer. VGEstimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 900THENAULT GEORGES: (1887-1948) French Lieutenant-Colonel, Commander of the Lafayette Escadrille, the famedbranch of the French Air Force of World War I largelycomposed of American volunteer pilots. Dark fountain pen inksignature (â€˜sincerely yours, G. Thenaultâ€™) on a piece neatlyclipped from the conclusion of a letter. Together with ReginaldSinclaire (1893-1989) American Fighter Pilot, a member of theLafayette Escadrille. Blue ink signature, with rank and squadronbeneath, on a piece. VG, 2Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE THE: A rare vintage signedpostcard photograph by over twenty members of The LafayetteEscadrille, a squadron of the French Air Force composedlargely of American volunteer fighter pilots who served duringWorld War I, comprising Georges Thenault (Captaincommanding the Escadrille), William Thaw (6 victories), RaoulLufbery (17 victories), Charles Johnston, Dudley Hill, DidierMasson, Robert Rockwell, Robert Soubiran, Edwin Parsons (8victories), Stephen Bigelow, Harold Willis, Walter Lovell,William Dugan, Andrew Courtney Campbell, Ray Bridgman (4victories), Henri Jones, Arnoux De Maison-Rouge, DavidPeterson (3 victories), Douglas Mac-Monagle, J. R. Doolittleand W. B. Haviland. Each have signed to the verso in fountainpen inks. The image depicts most of the signatories standingand seated outdoors in two rows, each wearing their uniforms.Some slight traces of former mounting to the verso, only veryslightly affecting a few of the signatures, GEstimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 902WINSLOW ALAN: (1895-1933) American Aviator, the first USAir Service pilot to down a German plane during World War I.Vintage fountain pen ink signature ('Alan C Winslow') on a veryslightly irregularly clipped piece. Scarce. About VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 903RICKENBACKER EDDIE: (1890-1973) American Fighter Ace ofWorld War I, America's most successful Ace of the War with 26victories. Medal of Honor recipient. Signed First Day Covercommemorating the Christmas Season and featuring a colourimage of a festive wreath with the printed words Peace onEarth, Good Will to All Men above. Signed by Rickenbacker inbold black ink to a clear area and dated 1967 in his hand. EXEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 904RICKENBACKER EDDIE: (1890-1973) American Fighter Ace ofWorld War I, America's most successful Ace of the War with 26victories. Medal of Honor recipient. Signed and inscribed 8 x 10photograph of Rickenbacker seated in a half length pose at hisdesk. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink to a light area at thehead of the image and dated 1970 in his hand. About EXEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 905BROWN ARTHUR WHITTEN: (1886-1948) British Navigatorwho, along with the English pilot John Alcock, completed thefirst successful nonstop transatlantic flight, June 1919. A finevintage signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Brown seated in athree quarter length pose. Photograph by Underwood &Underwood of New York. Signed ('A. Whitten Brown') in bold,dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to the lower whiteborder. Signed photographs of Brown of this size and qualityare rare. A few slight corner creases, otherwise VGEstimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 906DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT CO. LTD: A printed 8vo menu for aDinner given by the De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd., at theCriterion Restaurant, 31st January 1923, signed to the verso by

over twenty individuals including Geoffrey de Havilland (1882-1965, British Aviation Pioneer and Aircraft Engineer), Herewardde Havilland (1894-1976, British Test Pilot, brother of Geoffrey),Alan Cobham (1894-1973, English Pioneer Aviator), W. E.Nixon (Chairman of De Havilland), A. F. Burke (ManagingDirector of De Havilland), Francis T. Hearle (1886-1965,Aeronautical Engineer), Charles C. Walker (Chief Engineer atDe Havilland), W. A. Bristow (Aeronautical Engineer), JohnBuchanan (Deputy of Aircraft Production at De Havilland),Hubert Broad (1897-1975, English Aviator of World War I, ChiefTest Pilot at De Havilland) etc. Most of the signatures are inbold pencil. Also bearing the ownership 'signature' of Arthur E.Hagg (1888-1985, British Aircraft & Boat Designer of the DH88Comet racer and Albatross etc.) to the recto. Some light agewear, about VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 907DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT CO. LTD: A printed 8vo menu for aDinner to Sefton Brancker, Alan Cobham and A. B. Elliotthosted by the management staff of the De Havilland Aircraft atKettner's, 30th March 1925, signed to the verso in pencil by tenindividuals including Sefton Brancker (1877-1930, British AirVice Marshal, a pioneer of British Civil and Military aviation),Geoffrey de Havilland (1882-1965, British Aviation Pioneer andAircraft Engineer), Alan Cobham (1894-1973, English PioneerAviator), Arthur B. Elliott (Cobham's mechanic), Arthur E. Hagg(1888-1985, British Aircraft & Boat Designer of the DH88Comet racer and Albatross etc.), W. E. Nixon (Chairman of DeHavilland), A. F. Burke (Managing Director of De Havilland),Francis T. Hearle (1886-1965, Aeronautical Engineer), CharlesC. Walker (Chief Engineer at De Havilland) etc. Some lightstaining to the verso, only very slightly affecting some of thesignatures, GEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 908COBHAM ALAN: (1894-1973) English Pioneer Aviator. D.S.,Alan J. Cobham, being a signed cheque, Guernsey, 28th May1971. The partially printed cheque, completed in another hand,is drawn on the National Westminster Bank Ltd., and is madepayable to Guernsey Gas for the sum of 65 pence. Cobhamâ€™ssignature is unaffected by the circular bank cancellation.Together with a bold dark fountain pen ink signature (â€˜Alan JCobhamâ€™) on a piece, with the additional words Keep onFlying and date 10th August 1927 in his hand beneath hissignature. G to VG, 2Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 909COBHAM ALAN: (1894-1973) English Pioneer Aviator. Smallcollection of three Ds.S., Alan J Cobham, each being signedcheques, n.p., April - June 1971. Each of the partially printedcheques are drawn on Cobham's account at the NationalWestminster Bank in Guernsey and are completed in anotherhand to Flight Refuelling Ltd., Guernsey Yacht Club and theInland Revenue for various amounts from Â£2.76 to Â£123.90. Allare signed by Cobham in blue ink, his signatures lightly affectedby a minor ink stroke as a bank cancellation. Together with anunsigned printed small 4to programme issued for a Party givenby Sir Alan and Lady Cobham at the Connaught Rooms, 1stOctober 1956, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary ofCobham's return from his flight to Australia and back, 1stOctober 1926. Some light age wear, generally VG, 4

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Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 910AVIATION: Small collection of unsigned printed ephemerarelating to various aviators and aircraft designers, each beingprinted 8vo Orders of Service for Memorial Services to LordBrabazon of Tara (at Westminster Abbey, 12th June 1964),John Lankester Parker (19th October 1965), Geoffrey DeHavilland (21st July 1965), Roy Dobson (25th July 1968) etc.Two with file holes to the left edges and some light age wear,about VG, 5Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 911AVIATION: Small selection of unsigned printed ephemera andmenus etc., relating to various famous aviators, includingComplimentary Dinner to Charles Lindbergh by the Members ofThe American Society, The American Chamber of Commerceand The American Club in London, at the Savoy Hotel, London,1st June 1927, 50th Anniversaries Dinner at Heathrow, 2ndJuly 1969, Dinner to the Survivors of the First Hundred BritishAviators and the Pioneers of British Aviation at the ConnaughtRooms, London, 12th July 1920, some with guest lists, printed4to brochure commemorating the Ross Smith flight fromEngland to Australia etc., and also including a vintage signedand inscribed 9 x 11.5 photograph by B. C. Hucks, the imageshowing an aircraft in flight and with an inset portrait of Hucks,signed to the lower photographer's mount and inscribed toaircraft manufacturer Robert Blackburn, Christmas 1912 (laiddown and with overall age wear, only FR). Generally G to VG,12Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 912JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. T.L.S.,Amy Johnson, one page, 8vo, The Aiport, Portsmouth, n.d., to[William] Leng. Johnson thanks her correspondent for his offerto show her the Driac and adds that, although she is nevercertain when she will be free, thinks that she can meet Leng atPortsmouth Sailing Club the following day, Wednesday, if it isconvenient with him, and requests that he telephone her toconfirm the appointment. With four words of holograph text.About VG William Leng, a Portsmouth yachtsman,accompanied A.G.H. McPherson, Commodore of thePortsmouth Sailing Club, in his 32-foot Bermuda rigged cutterDriac II, to various destinations around the world, includingAustralia, in the 1930s. An earlier cruiser, Driac, had beenawarded the Challenge Cup by the Royal Cruising Club in 1931after Leng and McPherson had sailed a distance of 5000 milesin her from Portsmouth to Malta.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 913JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A.L.S.,Amy Johnson, two pages, 8vo, The Airport, Portsmouth, 22ndJune 1939, to [William] Leng. Johnson announces 'Pleaseforgive my taking the unorthodox step of writing to you when Ihave never met you, but I should like to congratulate you onyour safe return & on the success of your adventurous trip' andcontinues 'I am most interested in sailing myself - knowingnothing whatever about it - and, as I am working at the airport inPortsmouth, am wondering whether you would be kind enough

to show me over your boat. I should greatly appreciate thepleasure of meeting you & hope you will forgive this direct wayof asking.' One neat split to the right edge of the central fold,only just affecting three words of text, otherwise VG WilliamLeng, a Portsmouth yachtsman, accompanied A.G.H.McPherson, Commodore of the Portsmouth Sailing Club, in his32-foot Bermuda rigged cutter Driac II, to various destinationsaround the world, including Australia, in the 1930s. An earliercruiser, Driac, had been awarded the Challenge Cup by theRoyal Cruising Club in 1931 after Leng and McPherson hadsailed a distance of 5000 miles in her from Portsmouth to Malta.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 914JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A.L.S.,Amy, two pages, 8vo, Wargrave, Berkshire, n.d. ('Monday'), toBill [Leng]. Johnson enquires as to whether or not hercorrespondent received her telegram on Saturday andapologises 'if I gave you a long wait for nothing' and explainsthe problems that she encountered. The aviatrix continues'Have you heard about all our troubles? Our company has beenforcibly disbanded, our machines requisitioned & we all havethe sack. So now I am out of a job & the prospects of gettinganother are extremely remote. I am very much tempted to clearout of the country altogether, as I simply cannot bear thethought of staying on here maybe for years doing nothing.'Some light overall creasing, two neat splits to the left and rightedges of the central fold and a small tear to the base, only veryslightly affecting the text and signature, about G William Leng, aPortsmouth yachtsman, accompanied A.G.H. McPherson,Commodore of the Portsmouth Sailing Club, in his 32-footBermuda rigged cutter Driac II, to various destinations aroundthe world, including Australia, in the 1930s. An earlier cruiser,Driac, had been awarded the Challenge Cup by the RoyalCruising Club in 1931 after Leng and McPherson had sailed adistance of 5000 miles in her from Portsmouth to Malta.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 915JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A.L.S.,Amy Johnson, two pages, 8vo, Airport, (Portsmouth), n.d., to[William] Leng. Johnson states that she managed to get theevening off and telephoned her correspondent but he wasn'tthere, remarking 'I so much want to go for that promised sail'.She continues to enquire if tomorrow would be convenientinstead, weather permitting, and asks 'I wonder if you'd be verynice & 'phone here whether you can manage it or not. Pleasedon't worry if you can't. I could get to the Sailing Club by 6 atleast if I hurried. Sorry I can't give you more notice, but I neverknow myself.' One tear to the right edge of the central fold, notaffecting any of the text, G William Leng, a Portsmouthyachtsman, accompanied A.G.H. McPherson, Commodore ofthe Portsmouth Sailing Club, in his 32-foot Bermuda riggedcutter Driac II, to various destinations around the world,including Australia, in the 1930s. An earlier cruiser, Driac, hadbeen awarded the Challenge Cup by the Royal Cruising Club in1931 after Leng and McPherson had sailed a distance of 5000miles in her from Portsmouth to Malta.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 916JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A.L.S.,Amy, one page, 4to, Heston Airport, Hounslow, Middlesex, n.d.('Friday'), to Bill [Leng]. Johnson states that she has been

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granted leave to come to Portsmouth the following day andadds that it will be nice to see her correspondent, commenting 'Iexpect I'll be arriving just before dark, but will try to be along asnear after 7.30 as possible. I want to take back my typewriter &a few books. I've no car at present, so am coming with one ofthe mechanics. I'll come straight to your house, as I'll have tocollect these things, find some digs for the night & we leavevery early the next morning as I have to be on the airport hereat 9.' In a postscript she asks Leng if he can book her a quietroom at a hotel. Some very light, minor overall creasing,otherwise VG William Leng, a Portsmouth yachtsman,accompanied A.G.H. McPherson, Commodore of thePortsmouth Sailing Club, in his 32-foot Bermuda rigged cutterDriac II, to various destinations around the world, includingAustralia, in the 1930s. An earlier cruiser, Driac, had beenawarded the Challenge Cup by the Royal Cruising Club in 1931after Leng and McPherson had sailed a distance of 5000 milesin her from Portsmouth to Malta.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 917JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A.L.S.,Amy, two pages, 8vo, Cottrell, Cardiff, n.d. ('22nd'), to Bill[Leng]. Johnson states 'I'm getting so tired of being messedabout on this leave question. I've had my leave cancelled to-day again, but am making such a fuss about it that I mightmanage to get away tomorrow about midday' and continues toadd that she will try and be in Portsmouth around 6pm,explaining 'I want to get on my way again at once as I haveabout 400 miles driving to do altogether in 2 days! FortunatelyI've got petrol coupons - if I can get the petrol'. She concludes'We'll have to leave it that I'll come if I can & if I don't manage ityou'll understand.' Some extremely light, minor age wear, VGWilliam Leng, a Portsmouth yachtsman, accompanied A.G.H.McPherson, Commodore of the Portsmouth Sailing Club, in his32-foot Bermuda rigged cutter Driac II, to various destinationsaround the world, including Australia, in the 1930s. An earliercruiser, Driac, had been awarded the Challenge Cup by theRoyal Cruising Club in 1931 after Leng and McPherson hadsailed a distance of 5000 miles in her from Portsmouth to Malta.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 918TRENCHARD VISCOUNT: (1873-1956) British Military Officer,instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force. T.L.S.,Trenchard, one page, 4to, Barnet, Hertfordshire, 28th July1931, to [Major F C] Hunter Blair. Trenchard sympathises withhis correspondent over an attack of lumbago and continues topraise a Club, 'I missed having you at the Club and being ableto tell you personally what a wonderful success you have madeof it, and what a very good club it is....I really was awfullypleased at all I saw, and also how thoroughly I enjoyed meetingso many of my old friends that I felt I could have spent hoursthere talking to them.' In concluding he remarks 'I will certainlytake the opportunity, when I next meet the Prince of Wales, oftelling him all about the Club.' Laid down to a page removedfrom an album and with some light overall age wear, GEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 919WORLD WAR II: Selection of signed First Day Covers byvarious pilots associated with World War II comprising GeorgeJohnson, Des Phillips, Hughie Evans, Colin Cole, GrantMacDonald, Rowland Smith, James Soilleux, Frederick

Sutherland, William Gordon and Frank Cardwell. Each of thecovers feature different colour designs incorporating aircraftand commemorating various operations etc., includingOperation Chastise, Operation Taxable etc. VG to EX, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 920WORLD WAR II: Selection of signed First Day Covers byvarious individuals associated with World War II and the UnitedStates Army Air Forces including Curtis Le May (2), Ira Eaker,Paul Tibbets, Francis Gabreski (2), Lucius Clay etc. VG, 8Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 921AVIATION: Selection of signed cards, pieces, signed First DayCovers etc., by various famous pilots, aviators, astronauts andcosmonauts including Francis Gary Powers (vintage signed andinscribed 4.5 x 6 photograph), Chuck Yeager (3), James Lovell,Fred Haise, Rhea Seddon, Valery Kubasov (5) etc. GenerallyVG, 14Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 922AVIATION: Small selection of signed pieces, cards, vintagesigned postcard photographs (2), signed First Day Cover (1) byvarious famous pilots and aircraft designers etc., including TomSopwith, Henri Farman (2), Alliott Verdon-Roe, S. F. Cody etc.G to about VG, 6Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 923AVIATION: Selection of signed First Day Covers etc., byvarious famous pilots, aviators and aircraft designers includingJames Mollison (signed card), Jeana Yeager & Dick Rutan(three identical signed colour 4.5 x 7 photographs), ArchibaldRussell, Harald Penrose, Sheila Scott etc. G to generally VG, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 924AVIATION: Small selection of vintage signed pieces etc., byvarious famous pilots and aviators comprising Amy Johnson,Jean Batten, Charles W. A. Scott, Tom Sopwith and DouglasBader (ink signature and date, 1967, on a page removed from avisitor's book, also bearing other signatures). Three are onpieces laid down to album pages. G to VG, 5Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 925COSMONAUTS: A good collection of vintage signed postcardphotographs and a few slightly larger by various Russiancosmonauts, all of whom flew on Vostok and Voskhod missionsduring the 1960s, comprising Gherman Titov, AndrianNikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Valery Bykovsky, ValentinaTereshkova, Vladimir Komarov (rare), Konstantin Feoktistov,Boris Yegorov, Alexei Leonov (non-vintage), Pavel Belyayev,Georgi Beregovoi, Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev,Yevgeny Khrunov, Boris Volynov, Georgi Shonin and AnatolyFilipchenko. Some of the images are colour and most show thecosmonauts in head and shoulders pose wearing theiruniforms. All are signed to clear areas of the images, most

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adding inscriptions in their hands and many dated in the 1960s.FR (1), G to generally VG, 17Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00

Lot: 926CARPENTER M. SCOTT: (1925- ) American Astronaut, oneof the seven original Project Mercury astronauts. The secondAmerican to orbit the earth. Selection of five signed 8 x 10photographs, each different images of Carpenter in hisspacesuit and one showing a rocket launch. All are boldlysigned by Carpenter in black or blue inks to clear areas of theimages, most with brief additional annotations in his handbeneath his signature. Four of the images are colour. GenerallyEX, 5Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 927ARMSTRONG NEIL: (1930-2012) American Astronaut,Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on themoon. A 4to printed brochure issued by Thermalite for aCelebration Dinner at the Ritz Hotel, London, incommemoration of Neil Armstrong's visit to London on 15thFebruary 1985 to launch the Lift Off campaign, signed byArmstrong in blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to aclear area of the verso beneath his portrait. Some light agewear and minor surface creasing, about VG Provenance:Accompanied by a letter signed by the vendor stating that hewas employed by Thermalite as a private chauffeur to theManaging Director and was requested to chauffeur NeilArmstrong to various events and receptions over three daysaround England, including the dinner at the Ritz Hotel, at whichtime he obtained Armstrong's signature on the presentbrochure.Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 928ARMSTRONG NEIL: (1930-2012) American Astronaut,Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on themoon. Signed and inscribed colour 8 x 10 photograph, theoriginal NASA image showing Armstrong standing in a threequarter length pose wearing his white spacesuit. A large imageof the moon appears in the immediate background. Signed inbold blue ink across a light area of the image. EXEstimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 929COLLINS MICHAEL: (1930- ) American Astronaut, CommandModule Pilot of Apollo XI, 1969. Signed colour 8 x 10photograph, the original NASA image showing Collins standingin a three quarter length pose wearing his white spacesuit. Alarge image of the moon appears in the immediate background.Signed ('Mike Collins') in black ink with his name alone to aclear area of the image. EXEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 930APOLLO XI: A folio edition of Life magazine dated 8th August1969, with a feature entitled Men on the Moon illustrated byphotographs taken on the Apollo XI mission, the colour frontcover with an image of the United Stars and Stripes flag on thesurface of the moon, individually signed to the cover image by

both Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) American Astronaut,Commander of Apollo XI (1969), the first man to walk on themoon, and Buzz Aldrin (1930- ) American Astronaut, LunarModule Pilot of Apollo XI (1969), the second man to walk on themoon. Both have signed with their names alone in bold blackand blue inks, Armstrong's signature with slightly weakercontrast. Some light age wear, otherwise VGEstimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 931APOLLO XI: An excellent set of three individual signed colour 8x 10 photographs by the crew members of Apollo XI comprisingNeil Armstrong (1930-2012) American Astronaut, Commanderof Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on the moon; BuzzAldrin (1930- ) American Astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot ofApollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon; andMichael Collins (1930- ) American Astronaut, CommandModule Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). All three are original NASAimages depicting the astronauts standing in half length poseswearing their white spacesuits. A large image of the moonappears in the immediate background of each image.Armstrong has signed his photograph in bold blue ink with hisname alone across a light area, and Aldrin and Collins haveboth signed their photographs with their names alone in boldblack inks to light areas. Sets of uninscribed photographs of theApollo XI crew members are both rare and desirable. A coupleof slight corner creases to Aldrin's photograph, VG to EX, 3Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00

Lot: 932APOLLO XI: An excellent vintage signed colour 15 x 19.5photograph by all three members of the Apollo XI crewindividually, Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) American Astronaut,Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on themoon; Buzz Aldrin (1930- ) American Astronaut, LunarModule Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk onthe moon; and Michael Collins (1930- ) American Astronaut,Command Module Pilot of Apollo XI, 1969. The classic imagedepicts Aldrin standing in a full length pose, wearing his whitespacesuit, on the moon's surface. Armstrong's reflection, as hecaptures the photograph, is visible in Aldrin's helmet visor.Signed by each astronaut in bold black inks with their namesalone to the lower photographer's mount, which also featuresan ink calligraphic inscription in another hand, 'To hisExcellency Pierre Vermeylen, Minister of National Education,from the Apollo 11 crew'. Framed and glazed in a gold colouredframe to an overall size of 17 x 21.5. EX Piet Vermeylen (1904-1991) Belgian Lawyer & Socialist Politician, the first BelgianMinister of Dutch Language Education.Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00

Lot: 933IRWIN JIM: (1930-1991) American Astronaut, Lunar Modulepilot of Apollo 15, the eighth man to walk on the moon. Signedand inscribed colour 10 x 8 photograph of Irwin standing in afull length pose, wearing his spacesuit, on the moon at theHadley-Apennine landing site. He salutes the United States flagand the Apollo 15 lunar module can be seen in the immediatebackground. Signed in black ink to a clear area of the image,'Dagmar, Jesus walking on Earth is more important than manwalking on Moon. His Love, Jim Irwin' and dated 24th October1989 in his hand. Together with a book signed and inscribed, ahardback edition of Destination: Moon, First Edition publishedby Multnomah, Portland, Oregon, 1989. Signed by Irwin in bold

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black ink to the half title page, 'Dagmar, Decisions DetermineDestination! Your grateful brother from the Moon, Jim Irwin' Theastronaut has added Apollo 15 and a small drawing of themoon in his hand beneath his signature. Also including a 12mocolour printed pamphlet entitled Footprints on the Moon signedand inscribed by Irwin in black ink to his colour cover portraitshowing him seated in a three quarter length pose wearing hisspacesuit. VG to EX, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 934ASTRONAUTS: Small selection of individually signed cards bythe Apollo astronauts Michael Collins, Harrison Schmitt, EdgarMitchell and Ron Evans. One is neatly annotated at the head ofthe card in the hand of the collector. Two are accompanied bythe original NASA envelopes and one by a covering letter froma secretary, 1973. Generally VG, 4Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 935WELLINGTON DUKE OF: (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish FieldMarshal & British Prime Minister 1828-30, 1834. A good A.L.S.,with the extremely rare form of his signature, Wellington, Princede Waterloo, two pages, 8vo, Walmer Castle, 9th November1839, to George Stainforth. Wellington acknowledges hiscorrespondent's letter and informs him that Monsieur Deger (?)is dead, continuing 'I have appointed another Gentleman tomanage my property in Belgium; and he has been so kind as toundertake the Charge' and further answering another of hiscorrespondent's questions regarding stock. With integral leaf(heavy traces of former mounting to the verso) andaccompanied by the original envelope hand addressed byWellington and lightly mounted to the integral leaf. Some lightstaining and age wear, GEstimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 936HARDY THOMAS MASTERMAN: (1769-1839) British Navalofficer, Flag Captain to Admiral Lord Nelson. Hardycommanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. SignedFree Front envelope panel, T. M. Hardy, to the lower left corner,addressed to Ralph Barnes in Exeter and dated London, 1stMay 1834. Countersigned by Maurice Berkeley, 1st BaronFitzHardinge (1788-1867) British Admiral. Very slightlyirregularly trimmed at the edges at with one very small area ofpaper loss to one corner, not affecting the text or signatures,otherwise VGEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 937BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British LieutenantGeneral, founder of the Scout movement. Brief A.L.S., R BadenPowell, one page, 8vo, Richmond, Yorkshire, 26th May 1909, toMr. Wilson, confirming an appointment at 8pm on Thursday, 3rdJune. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 938BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British LieutenantGeneral, founder of the Scout movement. A.L.S., R BadenPowell, one page, 8vo, Richmond, Yorkshire, 20th May n.y., to

Mr. Wilson. Baden-Powell states that he should be pleased toattend the Annual Meeting of the Rifle Club and adds that hewill be at Richmond on Wednesday 24th or the first week inJune, except Friday. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 939BURNABY FREDERICK: (1842-1885) English Soldier &Traveller. Brief A.L.S., Fred Burnaby, one page, 8vo, SouthKensington, 30th May 1889, to Lady Wolseley, accepting aninvitation for 6th June. Together with an A.L.S. by CharlotteBampton, four pages, 8vo, Dover, 13th September 1898, toMrs. Kissock. Written in response to congratulations for herrelative Kitchener's success at Omdurman, Bampton states, inpart, 'It is very sweet & kind of you & your Daughter tocongratulate me on the brilliant success of my Relation; he hasalways gone forward, & with steady advancement; all being wellplanned & cautiously accomplished. His brother, ColonelKitchener (in the West Yorkshire) has gone out to Egypt....I amsorry that the Sirdar is now suffering from his eyes inconsequence of the great glare and heat during the war....Ihave so many pleasant letters about this happy termination ofthe Battle, they are all cheering....' and also including ReginaldWingate (1861-1953) British General and Administrator inEgypt and the Sudan. An 8vo printed booklet entitled The Storyof the Gordon College and its Work, signed by Wingate to hisinside full page oval portrait in fountain pen ink with his namealone to a light area, bound in boards with gilt stamped letteringto the front cover, 'Presented by Gen. Sir. F. R. Wingate.Btâ€¦..President 7th Batt. The M/C Regt, Old ComradesAssociation, 1929'. Some light age wear, otherwise VG, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 940ROBERTS FREDERICK: (1832-1914) British Field Marshal,Victoria Cross winner for his actions at the Indian Mutiny on 2ndJanuary 1858. Two T.Ls.S., Roberts FM, each one page, 8vo,Englemere, Ascot, Berkshire, 5th & 11th December 1908, to W.T. Cosslett. In the first letter Roberts states that he is pleased tolearn of a proposal to hold an air-rifle tournament at Penarthand adds that he will be pleased to send a signed book as acompetition prize, in the second letter Roberts confirms that hehas sent the book in that day's post. Together with the bookreferred to, a hardback edition of Forty-One Years in India,published by MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1908 (reprint of the onevolume cheap reissue). Signed by Roberts in bold blackfountain pen ink to the half title page, 'Presented to....(the nameof the receipient, Wm. T. Coslett, inserted in another hand)....forproficiency in Rifle Shooting at a meeting held at Penarth, bythe author, FM Lord Roberts' and dated December 1908 in hishand. Some age wear to boards and binding a little loose.Generally G, 3Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 941BULLER REDVERS: (1839-1908) British General, VictoriaCross winner for his actions at Zululand on 28th March 1879.A.L.S., Redvers Buller, three pages, 8vo, Lowndes Square,London, 6th May 1903, to Bernard Holland. Buller thanks hiscorrespondent for their letter and states 'As for my remarksabout Delagoa Bay I have no objection to their being struck out,indeed I had grave doubts as to inserting them & I only did sobecause I thought I was bound to show that I had notoverlooked it.' further continuing 'If Lord Lansdowne put in the

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two memoranda my application to do so of course disappears,though I regret having missed the chance as I had somecorrespondence which I wished to have read when putting themin as it would have put the commissioners in touch with theactual conditions under which I wrote them.' Buller also remarks'But I have been abused and badnamed, & accused of all sortsof offences of which I believe myself to be perfectly innocent:and therefore I am perhaps rather unnecessarily anxious toprove that in a very difficult position, while I did not try tofrighten the Govt. or to drive them into war, I did offer themadvice which events proved to be a mild but accurate forecast.'Together with a selection of other A.Ls.S. by various individualsincluding Joseph Chamberlain, Gerald Balfour, Alfred Austin,Viscount Milner, William Harcourt, Viscount Knollys etc., mostalso written to Bernard Holland. VG, 14Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 942VICTORIA CROSS: Small selection of signed cards, a fewsigned postcard photographs and slightly smaller, A.Ls.S. (2)by various Victoria Cross winners including Philip Gardner, EricWilson, Gerard Norton, Ian Fraser, Keith Payne, William Reid,Tasker Watkins, David Jamieson etc. VG to EX, 9Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 943WORLD WAR I: An 8vo page removed from an autographalbum individually signed by sixteen Allied Leaders of WorldWar I comprising Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929, French FieldMarshal), Ian Hamilton (1853-1947, British General), WilliamRobertson (1860-1933, British Field Marshal), John J. Pershing(1860-1948, American General), Philippe Petain (1856-1951,French General), Douglas Haig (1861-1928, British FieldMarshal), Edmund Ironside (1880-1959, British BrigadierGeneral), Armando Diaz (1861-1928, Italian General), HenryWilson (1864-1922, British Field Marshal), Archibald Murray(1860-1945, British General), Maxime Weygand (1867-1965,French General), John French (1852-1925, British FieldMarshal), Earl Cavan (1865-1946, British Field Marshal),Charles Harington (1872-1940, British General), Henri Gouraud(1867-1946, French General) and Edmund Allenby (1861-1936,British Field Marshal). All have signed in bold, dark fountain peninks, some adding their ranks beneath their signatures. Aremarkable grouping of World War I signatures. VGEstimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 944WORLD WAR I: A small 8vo page removed from an autographalbum individually signed by ten individuals associated withWorld War I, most of them distinguished members of theAustralian Imperial Forces, comprising James C. Robertson(1878-1951, Brigadier General), Robert A. Carruthers (1862-1945, Brigadier General), Thomas A. Blamey (1884-1951, FieldMarshal, who also served in World War II), James Heane (1874-1954, Brigadier General), James C. Stewart (1884-1947,Brigadier General), Henry A. Goddard (1871-1955, BrigadierGeneral), Carl H. Jess (1884-1948 Lieutenant General), PiersW. Legh (1890-1955, Lieutenant Colonel, Equerry to the Princeof Wales 1919-36 and King George VI 1937-46, Master of theHousehold 1941-53), Max Horton (1883-1951 British Admiral ofWorld Wars I & II) and Joseph Joffre (1852-1931, FrenchMarshal). All have signed with their names alone in fountainpen ink and Joffre's signature is neatly enclosed by a red inkbox in the hand of a collector. An unusual grouping of

signatures. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 945FOCH FERDINAND: (1851-1929) French Marshal of WorldWar I. Bold, dark fountain pen ink signature ('F. Foch') on apostcard with an attractive printed colour head and shouldersportrait of Foch, in uniform, neatly affixed above the signature.Accompanied by a T.L.S. by Foch's Officier d'Ordonnance, onepage, 8vo, Paris, 3rd November 1926, to a young lady, inFrench, returning the photograph which Foch has signed forher. With blank integral leaf. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 946JOFFRE JOSEPH: (1852-1931) French General of World WarI. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Joffre standingin a three quarter length pose wearing his uniform. Signed indark fountain pen ink with his name alone to the image withreasonable contrast. A small typed caption is neatly affixed tothe lower white border. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 947LEOPOLD OF BAVARIA: (1846-1930) German Field Marshalwho commanded the German and Austro-Hungarian Forces onthe Eastern Front during World War I. A.L.S., Leopold, to theverso of sepia postcard photograph of Leopold in a half lengthpose wearing his military uniform, 14th June 1926, to ArthurRehbeim, in German. The unstranslated text consists of sixlines. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 948TODOROV GEORGI: (1858-1934) Bulgarian General of WorldWar I. Vintage signed postcard photograph of the Generalstanding in a half length pose wearing his uniform. Signed inbold dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to the image.With an A.L.S. to the verso by Todorov's Private Secertaryforwarding the signed photograph to Fritz Singer in Vienna. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 949BULOW KARL VON: (1846-1921) German Field Marshal ofWorld War I. Vintage signed colour postcard photograph ofBulow in a half length pose wearing his uniform. Signed ('vonBulow') in dark fountain pen ink, with his rank and the date 28thDecember 1916, in his hand beneath his signature, largelyacross a dark area of the image although reasonably legible.Also signed to the verso with an additional greeting in his hand.Addressed and dated, Berlin, 28th December 1916, in anotherhand to the verso. Some light age wear to the extreme edges ofthe image, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 950BULOW KARL VON: (1846-1921) German Field Marshal ofWorld War I. Brief War date A.L.S., von Bulow, on one side of aFeldpostkarte, St. Quentin, 6th January 1915, to Errvin Albrechtin Berlin, in German. Bulow writes, in full, 'Kindest regards to

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you from the front, and many thanks for your good wishes forthe New Year.' Some light indentations caused by a postalcancellation, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 951MACKENSEN AUGUST VON: (1849-1945) German FieldMarshal of World War I. D.S., Mackensen, one page, smalloblong 8vo, n.p., (Falkenwalde, Stettin), 26th November 1937.The partially printed document, in German, is an official PostOffice certificate, in the form of a postcard, relating to apackage sent to Mackensen by Hermann Wilke, presumablysigned by Mackensen upon receipt. The Field Marshal'ssignature appears in bold black ink at the base of the card,above which he has added the date in his hand. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 952LETTOW-VORBECK PAUL VON: (1870-1964) GermanGeneral, the only German Commander to successfully invadeImperial British soil during World War I. Vintage signed 4 x 6postcard photograph of the General in a profile half length posewearing his uniform. Signed ('v. Lettow-Vorbeck') in bluefountain pen ink with his name alone to the lower white border.With a brief A.L.S., Paul v. Lettow, to the verso, 10th July 1961,to Gertrud Koscielniak, in German. A few heavy surfacecreases, just affecting the image but not the signature, about GEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 953TIRPITZ ALFRED VON: (1849-1930) German Grand Admiral ofWorld War I. T.L.S., v. Tirpitz, with two lines of holograph text,one page, 4to, Berlin, 30th November 1926, to Herr vonSchack, Master of the Horse, Estates Manager to the Prince ofSaxe-Coburg and Gotha, in German. Tirpitz explains the delayin replying to his correspondent's letter, as he was moving toBerlin, and asks for his respectful thanks be given to his RoyalHighness for their kind invitation to Coburg on 18th January1927, commenting 'Since I cannot at the moment foresee how Ishall be placed, I should like to be allowed one or two weeksbefore giving a definite promise.' Accompanied by a goodvintage unsigned cabinet photograph of Tirpitz in a half lengthpose wearing his uniform. Photograph by Nicola Perscheid ofBerlin. VG, 2Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 954LUCKNER FELIX GRAF VON: (1881-1966) German Navalofficer of World War I. Signed and inscribed 4 x 6 postcardphotograph of Luckner in a head and shoulders pose wearinghis naval cap and smoking a pipe. Signed in blue ink to thelower white border with a lengthy inscription and dated 17thSeptember 1964 in his hand. Accompanied by the originalenvelope. About EXEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 955PERSHING JOHN J.: (1860-1948) American General of WorldWar I. War date A.L.S., John J. Pershing, two pages, 8vo,Office of the Commander-in-Chief, 27th July 1918, to LadyMary Paget, on the printed stationery of the American

Expeditionary Forces. Pershing thanks his correspondent forher congratulations and continues 'The interest in our soldierswhich is manifested by such persons as yourself gives to themand to me an encouragement which I am sure you wouldunderestimate.' In concluding the General recall's Paget'shospitality at Warren House and hopes to see her there againin the near future. Accompanied by the original envelope. VGLady Mary Paget (1853-1919) American Heiress and SocietyHostess, noted for her jewels. Wife of General Sir Arthur Paget(1851-1928) Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 956PERSHING JOHN J.: (1860-1948) American General of WorldWar I. T.L.S., John J, Pershing, one page, 4to, Washington,19th September 1939, to Ralph A. Curtin. Pershing states 'Thegood wishes of the Curtin family which came to me on mybirthday were deeply appreciated' and continues to thank hiscorrespondent and family for their kind thoughts. VGEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 957WORLD WAR II: An original Secret Cipher Telegram, onepage, folio, War Office, 1st September 1939, to the Governorsand Commanders-in-Chief in the Middle East, Bermuda,Gibraltar, Malta, Malaya and other Commonwealth countries,marked Most Immediate. The telegram reads, in full, 'Warningtelegram. Take all defence precautions to meet the likelihood ofwar against Germany and Italy. Italy's position has not yet beendeclared publicly and with reference to paragraph 3 of W.O.telegram 56455 Cipher M.O.1. 30/8 it is most important that noaction should be taken which can be considered provocative byItaly.' Small pinholes and tears to the upper left corner andsome light age wear, not affecting the text, about VG Thepresent telegram is dated the same day that Germany invadedPoland which resulted, on 3rd September 1939, in Britain andFrance, followed by the Dominions of the BritishCommonwealth, declaring war on Germany. Italy joinedGermany and Japan to form the Axis Powers in September1940.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 958WORLD WAR II: An original Secret Cipher Telegram, onepage, folio, War Office, 1st September 1939, to the Governorsand Commanders-in-Chief in the Middle East, Bermuda,Gibraltar, Malta, Malaya and other Commonwealth countries,marked Immediate. The telegram reads, in full, 'GeneralMobilisation has been ordered. First day of Mobilisation 2ndSeptember.' Small pinholes and tears to the upper left cornerand some light age wear, not affecting the text, about VG Thepresent telegram is dated the same day that Germany invadedPoland which resulted, on 3rd September 1939, in Britain andFrance, followed by the Dominions of the BritishCommonwealth, declaring war on Germany.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 959WORLD WAR II: An original Secret Cipher Telegram, onepage, folio, War Office, 10th June 1940, to the Governors andCommanders-in-Chief in the Middle East, Malta, Gibraltar,Bermuda, Hong Kong, Malaya, Burma, Ceylon etc., marked

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Most Immediate. Despatched at 19.50 the telegram simplyannounces 'War has broken out with Italy'. Two file holes to theright edge and a few small tears and light age wear, about VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 960WORLD WAR II: An original Secret Cipher Telegram, onepage, folio, sent by General Clive Gerard Liddell, Governor andCommander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, to the War Office, 23rd June1940, marked Immediate. The text of Liddell's telegram reads,in part, 'I realise fully difficulty in equipping and sending a largeE.F. to French North Africa now, but I would point out that apromise of material help in the shape of forces and the sendingnow of a detachment, even of a division with some tanks wouldhave greater effect in rallying the French Colonial Forces thanpromises of maintaining integrity and economic stability. It mustbe remembered that we are dealing with a Colonial Empire,many of whom have never seen a British soldier, and amongstwhom there is a feeling, due to propaganda, that the cause ofthe debacle is due to our lack of sufficient materialsupportâ€¦.The presence of a few British and Dominion troopswould no doubt create an impression on French and Moors thatmay turn the scale in our favour. The adjacent Italian andSpanish Colonies are hated and despised by the FrenchColonies and feelings are different from those in France, butthey have had a severe shock and require to be propped up bya display of force. If North Africa is lost we can no longerblockade Germany effectivelyâ€¦' Annotated by Anthony Eden inblue indelible pencil at the head of the page, 'C.I.G.S. Pleasespeak' and signed by him with his initials. Together with asecond Secret Cipher Telegram, one page, folio, War Office,23rd November 1938, to the General Officer CommandingPalestine and Transjordan, marked Important. The telegramreads, in full, 'Matter has been taken up with War Office byBritish Paramount News whose representative is to discuss ithere on 25/11. We therefore require fuller details by wire. Inparticular details of instructions issued to Mr. Morris [sic] Ford,first before he went to Bethlehem and second after his arrivalthere. By whom and in what form were these instructionsissued and are there other general instructions as to hismovements of which he had previously been informed. It isassumed that instructions given to Mr. Ford at Bethlehem byBattalion Commander were to ensure his personal safety. Whatis the extent of injury to his hand and have you any medicalreport thereon.' Some very light age wear, otherwise VG, 2General Sir Clive Gerard Liddell (1883-1956) British Adjutant-General to the Forces of the British Army. Governor andCommander-in-Chief of Gibraltar 1939-41. Anthony Eden (1897-1977) British Politician, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs1939-40, Secretary of State for War 1940 & Foreign Secretary1940-45. Later Prime Minister 1955-57. The present telegram isdated just one day after France had signed an Armistice withGermany. Maurice Ford (1910- ) British Cameraman withBritish Paramount News, who had been held prisoner inOctober 1938 by Arab insurgents in Jerusalem who consideredtheir British captive as much their enemy as the Jews. Fordmanaged to save his own life by pointing out that the camerahe was using was American, thereby proving that he was anAmerican. Some Arab leaders demanded he be shot anyway,although ultimately he was released following a councilmeeting. However, as Ford drove through the gates of theinsurgent headquarters he was again confronted by an armedguard although this time sped through the barbed wire fenceand beat the Arabs to the border of the British police patrolledterritory.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 961WORLD WAR II: An original Cypher Telegram, one page, 8vo,n.p. (London), 23rd September 1940, addressed to the UnitedKingdom High Commissioner in the Union of South Africa,marked Most Secret and Personal. The telegram reads, in full,'Please give General Smuts following most secret and personalmessage from Prime Minister begins. I have this morning re-read your message contained in High Commissioner's telegramNo. 533 of August 15, and wish to tell you how fully I agree withit. We are asking Australia to send the Seventh Division to theMiddle East for training, and I hope New Zealand will presentlydo the same about the Brigade in Fiji. Difficulty is equipmentrather than men. Ends.' Stamped in red to one corner, 'Seen byC.I.G.S.' and annotated by Anthony Eden in blue indeliblepencil at the base, 'CIGS I had not heard of this - Is it wise?'and signed by him with his initials A E. Stapled to the upper leftcorner is a smaller typed sheet indicating the various officesand individuals to whom the telegram was distributed, includingthe Prime Minister's Private Secretary, Sir Edward Bridges,Hastings Ismay etc., again initialled A E by Eden in blueindelible pencil and also initialled by John Dill in green indeliblepencil. Two small file holes to the upper left corner and somevery light age wear, otherwise VG Jan Smuts (1870-1950)Prime Minister of South Africa 1919-24, 1939-48. Smuts, whoenjoyed a close relationship with Winston Churchill, was invitedto be a member of the Imperial War Cabinet in 1939 as themost senior South African in favour of War. Anthony Eden(1897-1977) British Politician, Secretary of State for DominionAffairs 1939-40, Secretary of State for War 1940 & ForeignSecretary 1940-45. Later Prime Minister 1955-57. John Dill(1881-1944) British Field Marshal of World War II, Chief of theImperial General Staff (C.I.G.S.) from May 1940 - December1941.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 962WORLD WAR II: An original Secret Cipher Telegram, onepage, folio, War Office, 4th July 1940, to the Governors andCommanders-in-Chief in India, the Middle East, Malta,Gibraltar, Bermuda, Palestine and Transjordan, Hong Kong,Burma, Ceylon etc., marked Secret. The telegram reads, in full,'British Naval forces morning 3rd July took up station outsideOran and asked the French Naval authorities to take certainsteps to prevent a number of important French Naval units atthis port from falling into German hands undamaged. TheFrench declined to take these steps. Heavy action ensuedbetween British and French Naval forces with great and muchregretted loss to the French. We cannot tell what theconsequences may be, but every precaution should be taken incase the French declare war against us. Further particularslater.' Some very light age wear, otherwise VG The presenttelegram relates to Operation Catapult - also known as theBattle of Mers-el-KÃ©bir, was a British Navy bombardment of theFrench Navy at its base at Mers-el-Kebir on the coast of whatwas then French Algeria on 3 July 1940. A British naval taskforce attacked the French fleet, which was at anchor and notexpecting an assault from the United Kingdom, France's formerally. The attack resulted in the deaths of 1,297 Frenchservicemen, the sinking of a battleship and the damaging of fiveother ships. France and the United Kingdom were not at warbut France had surrendered to Germany, and the UK feared theFrench fleet would end up as a part of the German Navy, a fatethat would greatly increase the Kriegsmarine's size and combatability. The attack remains controversial to this day, and createdmuch rancour between the United Kingdom and France, but italso demonstrated to the world and to the United States in

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particular, Britain's commitment to continue the war withGermany at all costs and without allies if need be.Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 963CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953.T.L.S., Winston S. Churchill, one page, 8vo, Chartwell,Westerham, Kent, 3rd January 1958, to A. L. Ball ('My dearBall'). Churchill thanks his correspondent for their letter of the31st December 'and for your good wishes for the New Year,which I warmly reciprocate'. With a feint square received stampto a clear area at the base of the letter and a single file hole tothe upper left corner, not affecting the text or signature. Mattedin red and cream above a 4 x 6 photograph of Churchill andalongside an attractive 4to printed copy of one of Churchill'sspeeches beginning 'We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on tothe end...'. Framed and glazed in a black and gold colouredframe to an overall size of 19.5 x 21 and with the originalprinted description of the letter by The Kenneth W. RendellGallery neatly pasted to the verso. VG A. L. Ball was amanager of Lloyd's Bank.Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 964CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Wardate bold dark fountain pen ink signature ('W S Churchill') on a12mo card, the verso of which bears a printed request by theScottish collector Leslie M. Whitton, dated 10th September1939. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 965CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Wardate dark fountain pen ink signature ('Winston S. Churchill') onan oblong 12mo piece neatly removed from the foot of anofficial document, with the typed date 17th June 1940 at thebase. With blank integral leaf. VG The present signature wasmade less than a month before the Battle of Britain.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 966CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Wardate dark fountain pen ink signature ('Winston S. Churchill') onan oblong 12mo piece neatly removed from the foot of anofficial document, with the typed date 26th November 1941 atthe base. With blank integral leaf. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 967CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Anexcellent T.L.S., Winston S. Churchill, with holograph salutationand subscription, two pages, 4to, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall,17th March 1955, to John E. Harvey ('My dear Harvey'), on theprinted stationery of the Prime Minister. Churchill sends hiswarmest greetings to the Woodford Division ConservativeAssociation on the occasion of its Annual General Meeting and

continues 'As we look back over the three and a half years thathave passed since the last election, we can all take pride inwhat has been achieved under Conservative leadership. On thefirm basis of restored solvency we have achieved greaterprosperity. Production has risen in our factories and on ourfarms, more people than ever before are at work and the nationis enjoying both a new freedom and rising standards of living.Abroad our tireless efforts to lessen tension have beenrewarded with some success. We shall certainly persevere inworking for peace in the world.' Churchill concludes 'Let noConservative, however feel that this is a time to relax effort. Itwill call for continued exertions on the part of all our members ifwe are to keep the country moving forward along the rightroad.' A wonderfully stirring and patriotic letter. Two small fileholes to the upper left corners, not affecting the text orsignature, VG John E. Harvey (1920-2008) British Politician andChairman of the Woodford Conservative Association 1954-56.Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 968MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal ofWorld War II. A good vintage signed 4 x 4 photograph ofMontgomery in a semi-profile head and shoulders pose wearinghis military uniform and beret. Signed ('B. L. Montgomery,General, Eighth Army') in bold blue fountain pen ink to a cleararea at the head of the image. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 969MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal ofWorld War II. Vintage signed 5.5 x 3.5 photograph ofMontgomery, wearing his beret, standing in a three quarterlength profile pose, engaged in conversation with BrianHorrocks and Viscount Alanbrooke. Signed ('B. L. Montgomery,Field-Marshal') in bold black fountain pen ink to a largely cleararea at the base of the image. The official War Officephotograph is dated 27th February 1945 to the verso. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 970MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal ofWorld War II. Vintage signed 5.5 x 3.5 photograph depictingMontgomery, wearing his beret, standing in a three quarterlength pose alongside Brian Horrocks. Signed ('B. L.Montgomery, Field-Marshal') in bold black fountain pen ink to alight area at the base of the image. The official War Officephotograph is dated 27th February 1945 to the verso and isfurther annotated in ink to the verso indicating that the imagewas captured in the Reich Wald and that one of the men in thebackground is Montgomery's ADC. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 971MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal ofWorld War II. Vintage signed 5.5. x 3.5 photograph showingMontgomery, wearing his beret, standing in the back of a jeepon a Bailey Bridge. The Field Marshal is engaged inconversation with a soldier of the 30 Corps Troops. Signed ('B.L. Montgomery, Field-Marshal') in bold black fountain pen inkacross a clear area of the image. The official War Officephotograph is dated 27th February 1945 to the verso. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

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Lot: 972MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal ofWorld War II. An oblong folio photograph album containing over80 original vintage unsigned photographs of various sizes (6.5 x8.5 and smaller), most of them relating to Lieutenant-GeneralBrian Horrocks and his military service during World War II,other subjects include B. L. Montgomery, Miles Dempsey, JohnHarding, King George VI, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden,Dwight Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, JosephGoebbels etc., most neatly laid down to pages of the album,also including various newspaper clippings and images relatingto Horrocks, some of the pages neatly annotated in white ink inthe hand of the previous owner, evidently a member ofHorrocks's staff. Also included is a printed 4to PersonalMessage from the Army Commander issued by Montgomery inItaly, 23rd October 1943, to be read out to all troops on theoccasion of the anniversary of Alamein, signed by Montgomery('B. L. Montgomery, General, Eighth Army') at the head.Partially laid down to the inside cover of the album althoughwith some tears and minor areas of paper loss at the corners,only very slightly affecting the signature. FR to generally GEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 973MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal ofWorld War II. Manuscript Document, unsigned, one page, folio,n.p. (Isington Mill, Alton, Hampshire), n.d. (c.1950s). Thedocument, penned in bold red fountain pen ink, comprises a listof five tasks for Montgomery's chauffeur, Sergeant CedricParker, and is headed 'Notes for Parker', requiring him to watchthe sewage system, to 'Impress on Mrs. Hunt and the girls thatthe moment anything goes wrong in the house they must atonce telephone you. If your telephone, or our telephone, is outof action, they must get the Police to contact you', giving datesof when the bins will be emptied and also providing varioustelephone numbers including Alton, Farnham and CamberleyPolice stations and for reporting gas, electrical or water faults.Together with a 12mo pocket diary kept by Sergeant Parker forthe year 1952 and bearing numerous pencil entries relating toengagements that he was to chauffeur Montgomery to,including meetings at Chequers, Chartwell, Biggin Hill, theHouse of Lords and other venues in London, and also notingmeetings with various individuals including General Harding,General Dempsey, General Ridgway, Anthony Eden etc., somesporting events at Wembley and the Oval etc., also including asmall selection of printed ephemera and original vintagephotographs relating to Montgomery, one showing him at awedding, another depicting Parker standing alongsideMontgomery's 1937 Phantom III Rolls Royce with theregistration plate DUV 553, etc. FR to generally G, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 974ARNHEM BATTLE OF: An unusual collection of A.Ls.S. andother signed items relating to the Battle of Arnhem, 17th - 26thSeptember 1944, including a colour First Edition 24 x 18.5 printby artist Alan Fearnley entitled The Bridge at Arnhem signed inpencil to the lower border by Major General John Frost, a large20 x 15 white card bearing a black and white reproduction of anartist's impression of the fighting at Arnhem Bridge, individuallysigned by over sixty allied veterans of Operation Market Gardenincluding John Frost, John Hackett, many British glider pilots,parachutists, Polish veterans etc., a selection of signed pieces,letters, a few photos etc., by various glider pilots, parachutistsand other individuals who were involved in or associated with

Operation Market Garden, including Arthur Mills, MontyFaulkner, Albert Cook, John Romp, Herbert Grant, RonaldAdams, Bert Orrell etc., the letters all written to collector RoyDeeley and most with interesting content, also some unsignedprinted ephemera, photographs and artefacts includingpatches, fabric etc., and also including a signed 10 x 7photograph by both Sean Connery and Colin Farrellindividually, showing them standing together in three quarterlength poses in costume on the set of A Bridge Too Far, eitherside of Major General R. E. Urquhart, signed by Connery inbold black ink, 'To the original Hancock, Best Wishes, SeanConnery', and signed by Farrell with his name alone in blackink. Inscribed to Urquhart's Batman Frank Hancock, thephotograph also referred to by John Baynes in his bookUrquhart of Arnhem, quoting Urquhart, 'As a spin off, I got themto photograph the actor who represents Hancock, my batman,alongside Sean Connery and myself. They both signed thispicture which I sent to Hancock. He was delighted' (p.246), thelot also including a signed and inscribed copy of the book byBaynes, and a hardback edition of The Grey Goose of Arnhemby Leo Heaps, signed and inscribed by Heaps to the subject ofthe book, Gerald Lathbury (1906-1978) British General,Commander of the 1st Parachute Brigade at the Battle ofArnhem. Generally G to about VG, 43Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 975ALANBROOKE VISCOUNT: (1883-1963) British Field Marshalof World War II. Vintage signed 6 x 10 photograph ofAlanbrooke seated in a three quarter length pose in uniform.Photograph by Howard Coster of London. Signed ('AlanbrookeFM') in green fountain pen ink to the lower white border. Onevery small circular stain just touches one letter of the signature,about VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 976GIBSON GUY: (1918-1944) British Airman of World War II,Wing Commander of 617 Squadron. Victoria Cross winner forhis actions during Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid)on the Mohne and Eder Dams in Germany, 16th May 1943.Fountain pen ink signature ('Guy Gibson') on a small 4to pageremoved from an RAF Flying Log Book. The partially printedpage, completed in the hand of an unidentified pilot attached toNo. 51. O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit), is dated January -February 1942 and lists various flights in Blenheim aircraft.Signed by Gibson to a clear area of the page andcountersigned by two others. Rare. About VGEstimate: £600.00 - £900.00

Lot: 977WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor ofthe bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (TheDambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Signed First Day Covercommemorating The Dambusters and 617 Squadron andfeaturing a colour image of an Avro Lancaster in flight. Postmarked 3rd December 1970. Signed by Wallis in bold bluefountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area. Togetherwith a 10 x 8 photograph of the Mohne Dam being breachedduring the Dambusters Raid individually signed by 617Squadron members George 'Johnny' Johnson and RayGrayston and actor Richard Todd who portrayed Guy Gibson inthe film The Dam Busters (1955). Each have signed in boldblack and blue inks to a clear area of the image. VG to EX, 2

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Lot: 978DAMBUSTERS THE: Selection of signed First Day Covers byvarious pilots who served with 617 Squadron during World WarII comprising Leonard Rooke, Gerry Hobbs, Colin Cole,Rowland Smith, Arthur Poore (2), Tony Iveson, William Burnettand James Soilleux. Multiple signed (2). Each of the coversfeature an identical colour design incorporating images of GuyGibson, Barnes Wallis and Roy Chadwick and commemoratingthe formation of 617 Squadron, 21st March 1943. VG to EX, 7Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 979DAMBUSTERS THE: Signed colour 32 x 17 print entitledDambusters - The Impossible Mission by artist Robert Taylor,the image depicting Dinghy Young despatching a bouncingbomb from his Lancaster aircraft to make a direct hit on theMohne Dam, 16th/17th May 1943, signed in bold pencil to thelower border by six members of 617 Squadron comprising FredSutherland, George 'Johnny' Johnson, Les Munro, Ken Lucas,Grant McDonald and Ray Grayston. Also signed in bold pencilby singer Vera Lynn and artist Robert Taylor to the lowerborder. Limited Edition number 65 of 400. Matted in cream,pale blue and green above cloth embroidered RAF wings andframed and glazed in a wooden frame to an overall size of 41 x28. Together with two different colour 16 x 11.5 photographsrelating to 617 Squadron and The Dambusters Raid, the firstsigned by George 'Johnny' Johnson and the second multiplesigned by Les Munro, Ray Grayston, Ken Lucas and George'Johnny' Johnson individually and a numbered limited edition 1of 200. Each double matted in cream and individually framedand glazed in silver colour frames to overall sizes of 21.5 x 17.5each. VG to EX, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 980JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. Vintagesigned Christmas greetings card, the oblong 12mo stiff creamfolding card features a photograph to the cover of an AirspeedCourier AS5 in flight, with the printed caption National AirCommunications 1939/40 beneath. Signed ('Amy') in darkfountain pen ink with her first name only to the inside beneath aprinted greeting and the address of Portsmouth, Southsea andIsle of Wight Aviation at Cardiff Airport. VG At the start of WorldWar II Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation(PSIOWA) were ordered to stop their flying services in order toconcentrate on the manufacture and repair side of thebusiness. PSIOWA planes and pilots, including Amy Johnson,were sent to serve as part of the National Air CommunicationsScheme while the site and skills at the Portsmouth Airport sitewere used to repair and modify several thousand militaryaircraft for return to service.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 981JOHNSON AMY: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A.L.S.,Amy, two pages, 4to, Cardiff, 12th November n.y., to Bill [Leng].Johnson states that she is pleased that her correspondent hasa job with Airspeeds and remarks 'I tried some while ago to geta testing job there, but there's too much prejudice againstwomen to give it to me. It does get my back up badly

sometimes!' She continues 'The only thing to do when this waris over is to clear out till life here has a chance to settle down. Ioften think of the â€œDriacâ€• as a sort of escape ship, so don'tyou dare go off without me' and further adds 'I don't think it'svery likely I'll get down your way as I can't get enough petrol.We still haven't much work to do, but I went to Bristol to see theâ€œbloke at the topâ€• & I think I've stirred things up a bitâ€¦.I dowish there was more work to do.' Johnson concludes 'Do dropme a line occasionally, just to show you haven't forgotten me, &don't forget your next crew for the Driac is fixed up!' and in apostscript remarks 'I sometimes see Donal Dunne here, butbetween you & me he's awful dumb!' Some light overallcreasing and some small, neat tears at the edges of each of thefolds, only very slightly affecting the text but not the signature,about G William Leng, a Portsmouth yachtsman, accompaniedA.G.H. McPherson, Commodore of the Portsmouth SailingClub, in his 32-foot Bermuda rigged cutter Driac II, to variousdestinations around the world, including Australia, in the 1930s.An earlier cruiser, Driac, had been awarded the Challenge Cupby the Royal Cruising Club in 1931 after Leng and McPhersonhad sailed a distance of 5000 miles in her from Portsmouth toMalta.Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 982BADER DOUGLAS: (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5victories), recognised for his important role during the Battle ofBritain. Signed and inscribed 6 x 8 photograph of Bader in ahead and shoulders pose, in later years. Signed in bold blackink across a clear area of the image and dated 15th March1982 in his hand. Some light surface creasing, otherwise aboutVGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 983BADER DOUGLAS: (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5victories), recognised for his important role during the Battle ofBritain. A printed 4to programme for The Battle of Britain Ball atGrosvenor House, London, 28th September 1979, signed inblue ink by Bader with his name alone to a clear area of thefront cover. Also signed to an inside page by Augustus Walker(1912-1986) Air Chief Marshal and bomber pilot of World WarII. Signed ('Gus Walker') in black ink, with an additional note inhis hand, 'Your father-in-law and I had many happy hourstogether - on & off the rugby field (long time ago)' Two ticketstubs to the Ball are neatly stapled to the top of the insidecover. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 984WORLD WAR II: A colour 24 x 20 print by artist Robert Taylorentitled Spitfire (1979) depicting two Spitfire aircraft in flightabove a coast line. The First Edition print has been signed byboth Douglas Bader (1910-1982, British World War II Ace, 22.5victories, recognised for his important role during the Battle ofBritain) and Johnnie Johnson (1915-2001, British RAF FighterPilot of World War II) individually. Both have signed with theirnames alone in bold pencil to the lower border beneath theimage. Matted in blue with a window cut for the signaturesbeneath and framed and glazed in a wooden frame to anoverall size of 25.5 x 21.5. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

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Lot: 985BATTLE OF BRITAIN: A colour 24 x 20 print by artist RobertTaylor entitled Duel of Eagles depicting Douglas Bader andAdolf Galland in flight over Northern France in 1941, issued tocommemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain,1940-1980. Signed by both Douglas Bader (1910-1982, BritishWorld War II Ace, 22.5 victories, recognised for his importantrole during the Battle of Britain) and Adolf Galland (1912-1996,German Fighter Pilot of World War II, Commander ofGermany's fighter force 1941-45) individually. Both have signedwith their names alone to the lower border beneath the image.Matted in pale blue with a window cut for the signaturesbeneath and framed and glazed in a wooden frame to anoverall size of 25.5 x 21.5. Both signatures are slightly fadedalthough legible. About VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 986CHESHIRE LEONARD (1917-1992) British RAF Pilot of WorldWar II, Victoria Cross Winner. A colour 23.5 x 20 first editionprint entitled Lancaster by artist Robert Taylor, signed byLeonard Cheshire VC with his name alone in bold pencil to thelower border. Together with a colour 25 x 19.5 print entitled TheHunters by artist Geoff Nutkins, individually signed in boldpencil to the lower white border by the Knight's Cross winnersFritz Karch, Julius Meimberg, Gunter Seeger and Bruno Stolle,and also signed in pencil by the artist. Limited Edition number39 of 200; a third aviation print bearing facsimile signatures,and also including a small selection of signed First Day Coversetc., by Leonard Cheshire VC, Richard Todd, Roy Plomley(A.L.S. stating that he remembers well a broadcast with GuyGibson), J. Enoch Powell (referring to the Race Relations Act)etc. Both of the letters are accompanied by the originalenvelopes. Each of the prints are rolled. A few minor faults,generally VG, 8Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 987AVIATION: Selection of signed colour prints by various pilots ofWorld War II comprising Memorial Flight by artist Robert Taylorindividually signed by Leonard Cheshire VC, Johnnie Johnsonand Peter Townsend; The Dambusters by artist Robert Taylorsigned by Mick Martin; Hurricane by artist Robert Taylor signedby Robert Stanford Tuck; Eagle Day by artist Geoff Nutkinssigned by Ron Brown, Sandy Johnstone, Desmond Hughes,the artist and one other; and Squadron Scramble by artistNicolas Trudigan signed by Frank Carey and the artist. All aresigned in bold pencil to the lower white borders. Each areindividually framed and glazed, most with windows cut for thesignatures beneath. G to generally VG, 5Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 988WORLD WAR II: Selection of signed First Day Covers, a fewsigned photographs of various sizes etc., by individualsassociated with World War II including Les Munro, TerenceOtway, Jim Wallwork, Vera Lynn, Richard Todd, Len Sumpter,Bill Reid VC, Peter Squire, George 'Johnny' Johnson, HugoBroch, Gunther Rall etc. Most are multiple signed. VG, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 989

WORLD WAR II: Selection of signed First Day Covers byvarious individuals associated with World War II (mainly RoyalAir Force) including William F. Dickson, Harry Broadhurst, BillBedford, Laddie Lucas, Basil Embry, Roland Beamont, BaronPenney, Henry Leach, John Fieldhouse etc. VG, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 990WORLD WAR II: Small selection of signed First Day Covers byvarious individuals associated with World War II includingNancy Wake & Henri Tardivat, David Stirling, P. R. Reid, AllanAdair, Hugh Stockwell, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Peter Hunt etc.VG, 7Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 991WORLD WAR II: An unusual vintage postcard featuring areproduction of a sketch by Captain Peter McIntyre entitledDressing Station - Maleme, individually signed to the verso byB. L. Montgomery (1887-1976) British Field Marshal of WorldWar II, â€˜Montgomery of Alamein, Field-Marshalâ€™, adding thedate 20th July 1947 in his hand, Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) British Admiral of World War II, â€˜Louis Mountbattenâ€™,and Bernard Freyberg (1889-1963) British-born New ZealandLieutenant General of World War II, Victoria Cross winner forhis actions at Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France, on 13th November1916. All have signed in bold fountain pen inks. Accompaniedby a copy of a T.L.S. by S/Sgt. W. Thomas of the 2 NZDivisional Signals, one page, 4to, Auckland, New Zealand, 7thJuly 1947, to Freyberg, which originally accompanied thesigned card, requesting Freyberg and Montgomeryâ€™ssignatures on the card, which already bore the signature ofMountbatten, and explaining that he wished to obtain them â€˜forsentimental reasons and the desire to retain the association ofyour excellency as my Divisional Commander and of ViscountMontgomery as my Army Commander.â€™ Some light surfacecreasing and age wear and a small tear to the upper edge, notaffecting the signatures, about VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 992WORLD WAR II: An unusual vintage postcard featuring areproduction of a sketch by Captain Peter McIntyre entitledKiwi, individually signed to the verso by B. L. Montgomery(1887-1976) British Field Marshal of World War II, 'Montgomeryof Alamein', Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) British Admiral ofWorld War II, 'Louis Mountbatten', his wife Edwina Mountbatten(1901-1960) and Bernard Freyberg (1889-1963) British-bornNew Zealand Lieutenant General of World War II, VictoriaCross winner for his actions at Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France, on13th November 1916. All have signed in bold fountain pen inks.Accompanied by a T.L.S. by S/Sgt. W. Thomas of the 2 NZDivisional Signals, one page, 4to, Auckland, New Zealand, 7thJuly 1947, to Freyberg, which originally accompanied thesigned card, requesting Freyberg and Montgomery's signatureson the card, which already bore the signature of Mountbattenand his wife, and explaining that he wished to obtain them 'forsentimental reasons and the desire to retain the association ofyour excellency as my Divisional Commander and of ViscountMontgomery as my Army Commander.' Some light age wear, Gto VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

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Lot: 993MOUNTBATTEN LOUIS: (1900-1979) British Admiral of WorldWar II. Vintage War time signed 8 x 12 photograph depictingMountbatten standing in a formal half length pose wearing hisnaval uniform. Signed ('Dickie Mountbatten') in bold greenfountain pen ink to the lower white border, adding '1943 -XXXIII Corps - XII Army - AFNEI - ALFSEA - 1946 SACSEA!' inhis hand beneath his signature. Some light overall dampstaining affecting the image and a small, stray dark ink markjust affecting one letter of the signature, GEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 994WORLD WAR II: Small selection of vintage signed 5 x 7photographs and larger by various military and naval leadersassociated with World War II comprising Oliver Leese, GeorgeCreasy (signed to the verso), Edward Parry, John Cunninghamand William Slim. Each of the images depict the subjects intheir uniforms. G to generally VG, 5Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 995DE GAULLE CHARLES: (1890-1970) French General of WorldWar II. Later President of the French Republic 1959-69. Wardate blue fountain pen ink signature ('C. de Gaulle') on a 12mocard, the verso of which bears a printed request by the Scottish'amateur collector of modern autographs' Leslie M. Whitton.Dated 19th July 1940 in De Gaulle's hand. VGâ€˜From oneSkeeter to anotherâ€™Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 996PATTON GEORGE S.: (1885-1945) American General ofWorld War II. An excellent vintage signed 6.5 x 8.5 photographof Patton in a half length pose wearing his General's uniformand helmet and holding a pair of binoculars in his hands. Amilitary vehicle can be seen in the immediate background.Signed by Patton in dark fountain pen ink with an intriguinggreeting, 'From one Skeeter to another, G S Patton Jr.' A rareand unusual signed photograph. One extremely light, veryminor surface crease, otherwise EX The present photographwas, apparently, presented by Patton to Courtney Hodges(1887-1966) American General of World War II who served withPatton in Mexico and preceded him as Commanding General ofthe Third United States Army. Skeeter is North American slangfor a blood-sucking mosquito, and is most likely also areference by Patton to his own nickname of 'Old Blood andGuts' which he acquired during World War II.Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00

Lot: 997MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator ofWorld War II. Bold dark fountain pen ink signature ('Mussolini')and four additional words in his hand, in German, ('â€¦.machendie Geschichte!') on a 12mo sheet of notepaper, dated Berlin,1937 in his hand. Lightly mounted at the top edge to an oblong4to card featuring a vintage photograph of Mussolini and Hitlerriding together in an open top car and alongside an original penand ink drawing of a Nazi Eagle and Swastika which is neatlylaid down beneath the signed notepaper. About VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 998

MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator ofWorld War II. An excellent signed 7.5 x 10 photograph showingIl Duce standing in a half length pose holding a document in hishands. Photograph by Alinari of Florence and bearing theirblindstamp in the lower right corner. Signed ('Benito Mussolini')in bold black fountain pen ink across a light area at the head ofthe image and dated Rome, March 1928 in his hand. Animpressive signed portrait with an excellent signature. VGEstimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 999ZHUKOV GEORGI: (1896-1974) Soviet Military Leader ofWorld War II, Chief of the Staff of the Red Army, 1941. D.S., G.Zhukov, two pages, 4to, 26th October 1952, in Russian. Thepartially printed and typed document relates to LieutenantColonel Alexey Vasilyevich Netreba, providing certainbiographical details and with a small photograph of him inuniform attached to the upper right corner, furtherrecommending that he is promoted from Lieutenant-Colonel toColonel of the 196th Separate Infantry Battalion of the 23rdSeparate Infantry Brigade. The document bears various officialstamps and countersignatures and is signed by Zhukov at thefoot of the second page, adding the comment 'Agreed' in hishand. A few very small file holes to the left edge, not affectingthe text or signature, and some light age wear, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1000STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet Dictator, GeneralSecretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1922-53,Premier of the Soviet Union 1941-53. Vintage signed 6 x 9.5magazine photograph showing Stalin in a close-up head andshoulders portrait. Signed with his name alone in blue fountainpen ink across a light area of the image. Professionally doublematted in pale brown suede with decorative metal bordersabove a silver coloured metal engraved plaque featuring abiography. Framed and glazed in a large, imposing silvercoloured and dark wooden frame to an overall size of 25.5 x33.5. Signed images of Stalin are extremely rare. Some lightstaining and very minor age wear, otherwise VGEstimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00

Lot: 1001[HITLER ADOLF]: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. Facsimile T.L.S., A Hitler, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d., intendedfor an unidentified recipient, on the printed stationery of DerFuhrer und Reichskanzler. The printed text, in German, sendsthanks for the good wishes received by Hitler on his birthday.With a blue facsimile signature at the conclusion. Some lightcreasing, staining and age wear. Together with a quantity ofunused oblong 8vo printed stationery bearing the printedheadings Adjutantur des Reichsmarschalls desGrossdeutschen Reiches and address at Berlin (12), DerReichsmarschall des Grossdeutschen Reiches and address atBerlin (16) and three standard acknowledgement forms(incomplete) on printed stationery of Kanzlei des Fuhrers derNSDAP at Berlin, May 1939. One of the pieces of stationerybears a typed note by a H.S. Hunt detailing his acquisition ofthe notepaper, in part, 'I was among the first British troops toenter Berlin at the conclusion of hostilities. In my capacity as anIntelligence officer I visited the Chancellery and Air Ministry.The fileâ€¦.came from the offices marked 'Adjutantur'â€¦.thedocuments [were not] considered to contain matter of interest tomilitary intelligence.' Some light age wear, G to generally VG, 32

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Lot: 1002HITLER ADOLF: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. A.N.S., Adolf Hitler, on one side of his oblong 8vo personalprinted correspondence card, featuring a gold embossed Nazieagle and swastika, Berlin, 5th April 1940, to an unidentifiedcorrespondent, in German. Penned in bold black fountain penink, Hitler sends his congratulations, 'Herzlichen GlÃ¼ck = undGenesungswunsch! Ergebenst Ihr Adolf Hitler' Holograph notesby Hitler are rare. VGEstimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 1003HITLER ADOLF: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. D.S., A Hitler, one page, folio, Berchtesgaden, 23rd July1935. The attractive partially printed document, in German,appoints Dr. Fritz Freiherrn von Massenbach, Ministerialadviser at the Finance department, to be a Director of theFinance Department of the German Reichs. Signed by Hitler atthe foot alongside a blind embossed seal and countersigned byLutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887-1977) German Ministerof Finance 1932-45 and Foreign Minister May 1945. With blankintegral leaf. About EXEstimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 1004HIMMLER HEINRICH: (1900-1945) German Nazi official ofWorld War II, Reichsfuhrer of the SS. D.S., H. Himmler, onepage, 4to, Berlin, 1st January 1945, on the printed stationery ofDer Reichsfuhrer - SS, in German, stamped Geheiml ('Secret').The typed document is a general order concerning theformation of a rifle division and comprising three points, '1. Iorder the formation of a second Hungarian rifle division. 2. Thesecond Hungarian rifle division carries the designation "26.Armed Rifle Division of the SS (Hungarian Number 2)" 3.Classification: as Infantry Division 45.' Boldly signed byHimmler at the conclusion. Two file holes to the left edge and asmall neat tear to the right edge, none of which affect the textor signature, otherwise VG Less than a month before thepresent document was signed, on 10th December 1944, AdolfHitler had appointed Himmler Commander of Army GroupUpper Rhine and the Fuhrer gave Himmler orders to createspecial army units known as the Volkssturm. On 1st January1945, the same date as the present document, Hitler and hisgenerals launched Operation North Wind ('UnternehmenNordwind') with the objective of breaking through the lines ofthe US 7th Army and French 1st Army to support the southernthrust in the Ardennes offensive, known as the Battle of theBulge, the final major German offensive of World War II. Afterlimited gains by the Germans, the Americans halted theoffensive and by 25th January Operation North Wind hadofficially ended.Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00

Lot: 1005NAZI GERMANY: An unusual vintage signed 7 x 5 photographby sixteen individuals, all associated with Nazi Germany (alsofilm actors, Austrian and German Olympic medallists of 1932 &1936 etc.), the image depicting a large group of men (mostly inuniform) and women standing together in full length poses onthe steps before the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam following the

unification of Germany and Austria. Signatures include HeinrichHimmler (1900-1945) German Nazi official of World War II,Reichsfuhrer of the SS, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) GermanPolitician, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany 1933-45, Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892-1946) Chancellor of Austria 11-13th March 1938, Reichskommissar of the occupied Dutchterritories 1940-45, Max Schmeling (1905-2005) GermanBoxer, World Heavyweight Champion 1930-32, Gisela Arendt(1918-1969) German Swimmer, Silver & Bronze medallist at the1936 Olympic Games, Ruth Halbsguth (1916-2003) GermanSwimmer, Silver medallist at the 1936 Olympic Games, Erik(1920-1997) and Ilse Pausin (1919-1999) Austrian Pair Skaters,the siblings Silver medallists at the 1936 Winter OlympicGames, Ellen Preis (1912-2007) Austrian Foil Fencer, Bronzemedallist at the 1936 Olympic Games, and a Gold medallist atthe 1932 Olympic Games, Karl Schafer (1909-1976) AustrianFigure Skater and Swimmer, Gold medallist at the 1932 & 1936Winter Olympic Games, Lida Baarova (1914-2000) CzechActress, mistress of Goebbels, Brigitte Horney (1911-1988)German Actress, Marianne Hoppe (1909-2002) GermanActress, Hilde Korber (1906-1969) Austrian Actress, etc. Allhave signed with their names alone in bold fountain pen ink orpencil to the verso which also bears the small credit stamp ofthe photographer Erich Schwager of Potsdam. Some lightsurface and corner creasing and minor age wear, about VGEstimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 1006RAEDER ERICH: (1876-1960) German Grand Admiral of WorldWar II. Historic D.S., Raeder, two pages, 4to, Nuremberg, 31stAugust 1946, in German. The typed document is Raeder's finalstatement ('Schlusswort') presented at the Nuremberg Trialsand reads, in part, 'This trial, now the evidence has beenconcluded, has had a beneficial result for the German nation,but an unexpected one for the Prosecution. Unimpeachabletestimony has cleared the German people, and with them allthe persons in the same situation as myself, of the most seriouscharge, the charge that they had known of the killing of millionsof Jews and other people, even if they had not actuallyparticipated in it. The attempt of the prosecution who throughearlier interrogations had known the truth for a long time, andwho nevertheless continued and repeated its accusations - withthe raised finger of the preacher of morals - in the trial brief andduring cross-examinations. This attempt to defame the entirepeople has collapsed.....The German Navy stands before thiscourt and before the world with a clean shield and an unstainedflag. With a clear conscience we can most emphatically refuteShawcross's attempts in his final speech to place thesubmarine warfare on the same level as atrocities, becauseaccording to the clear results of the evidence they areuntenable. In particular, the charge that the Germany Navy"Never had the intention to observe the laws of naval warfare",as Shawcross said, has been completely invalidated. It haslikewise been proved that the Naval Command staff and itsChief never showed "Contempt for International Law" but on thecontrary made an honest endeavour from the first to the verylast moment to bring the conduct of modern naval warfare intoharmony with the requirements of International Law andhumanity - on the same basis as our opponents. I regret thatthe prosecution tried again and again to defame the GermanNavy and myself....It is also my conviction the the British andAmerican prosecution have rendered ill service to their ownnavies by morally depreciating and characterising as inferior theopponent against whom the allies Naval forces waged a years-long, serious and honourable naval war. I am convinced thatthe admiralties of the allied powers understand me and that

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they know that they have not fought against a criminal....Tosum up; I have done my duty as an Officer because it was myconviction that this was the best way for me to serve theGerman people and the Fatherland, for which I have lived andfor which I am prepared to die at any moment. If I have incurredguilt in any way, then this was chiefly in the sense that, in spiteof my purely Naval position, I should perhaps have been notonly an Officer, but also up to a certain point even apolitician....This would have been a guilt, a moral guilt, towardsthe German people but could never at any time brand me as awar criminal. It would not have been guilt before a humancriminal court, but rather guilt before God.' Signed in bold pencilat the conclusion. Two file holes to the left edge, not affectingthe text or signature. Some extremely minor, light age wear,otherwise VG On 1 October 1946, a little over a month aftersigning the present document, Raeder was found guilty ofconspiracy against the peace, conspiracy to commitaggression, and war crimes and sentenced to lifeimprisonment. Raeder had expected a death sentence, andwas deeply shocked when he received life imprisonment, whichhe regarded as a worse punishment than execution. Raederformally asked the International Military Tribunal to be executedby firing squad instead, only to be informed that the Tribunal didnot have the powers to change its sentence. The sentence waslater reduced and, owing to ill health, he was released fromSpandau Prison on 26 September 1955.Estimate: £600.00 - £900.00

Lot: 1007SPEER ALBERT: (1905-1981) Nazi Politician & Hitler's ChiefArchitect. Two T.Ls.S., Speer, each one page, 8vo and 4to,Heidelberg, 25th February & 5th July 1975, both to Scott Knill,in German (untranslated). Speer makes reference to bookspublished by Macmillan and Collins. Both letters areaccompanied by the original envelopes. VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1008KNIGHT'S CROSS: Selection of signed postcard photographsand slightly smaller by various Knight's Cross winners includingErich Topp, Erich Rudorffer, Siegfried Fischer, Karl HeinzOesterwitz, Gerhard Schopfel, Heinz Nowotnik, Rudolf vonRibbentrop, Bruno Kahl, Heinz Jurgens etc. Each of the imagesdepict the subjects in uniform poses wearimg their Knight'sCross. VG to EX, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1009WORLD WAR II: Selection of signed First Day Covers, signedcard (1), T.L.S. (1) by various individuals associated with NaziGermany and World War II including Werner von Fritsch, ErichWarsitz, Karlheinz Kindermann, Gerhard Nitschke, AdolfGalland, Erich Hartmann, Theodor Busse (T.L.S.) etc.Generally VG, 7Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1010WORLD WAR II: A small 4to page most likely removed from aVisitor's book individually signed in bold fountain pen inks byHermann Goering (1893-1946) German Political & MilitaryLeader, President of the Reichstag 1932-45 and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe 1935-45 & Emmy Goering (1893-1973)

German Actress, second wife of Hermann Goering and KarlDonitz (1891-1980) German Naval Commander of World WarII, President of Germany April- May 1945 following the death ofAdolf Hitler. Donitz's signature ('Karl Donitz') is dated 12thMarch 1936 in his hand. About VGEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 1011HOUDINI HARRY: (1874-1926) Hungarian-American Magician& Escapologist. Book signed, a hardback edition of TheUnmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini, First Editionpublished by The Publishers Printing Co., New York, 1908.Signed ('Harry Houdini') in fountain pen ink to the front freeendpaper with his name alone. Light brown cloth with whitelettering and pictorial design to front cover in black and white.Portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature of Houdini beneathand other illustrations throughout. some light overall age wear,GEstimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 1012ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, WorldHeavyweight Champion. Book signed, a hardback edition ofThe Greatest - My Own Story by Muhammad Ali, published byHart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd., London, 1976 (SecondImpression). Signed ('Muhammad Ali') in bold blue ink with hisname alone to the front free endpaper. Accompanied by thedust jacket (some light age wear). VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1013BEST GEORGE: (1946-2005) Northern Ireland & ManchesterUnited Footballer. Book signed, a hardback edition of Scoringat Half-Time - Adventures On and Off the Pitch, First Editionpublished by Ebury Press, London, 2003. Signed by Best inblack ink with his name alone to the title page. Accompanied bythe dust jacket. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1014BECKHAM DAVID: (1975- ) English Footballer. Book signed,a hardback edition of My World, First Edition published byHodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 2000. Signed by Beckhamin black ink with his name alone to the limitations page,numbered 771 of 1500. With two loosely inserted colour 9.5 x7.5 photographs of Beckham in different poses, as issued, withfacsimile signatures of Beckham although each signed in blackink by the photographer Dean Freeman to the verso.Accompanied by the dust jacket. Housed in a clear hard plasticslipcase and contained in the original shipping box, alsobearing Hodder and Stoughton's limited edition numbering. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1015BECKHAM DAVID: (1975- ) English Footballer. Book signed,a hardback edition of My World, First Edition published byHodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 2000. Signed by Beckhamin black ink with his name alone to the limitations page,numbered 510 of 1500. With two loosely inserted colour 9.5 x7.5 photographs of Beckham in different poses, as issued, withfacsimile signatures of Beckham although each signed in black

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ink by the photographer Dean Freeman to the verso.Accompanied by the dust jacket and housed in a clear hardplastic slipcase and contained in the original shipping box, alsobearing Hodder and Stoughton's limited edition numbering. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1016FOOTBALL: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (4)editions by various football players and other individualsassociated with the sport, including The Autobiography by JoeRoyle, Hail Cesar - The Autobiography by Billy McNeill,Reluctant Hero - The Autobiography of a Manchester City andEngland Legend by Colin Bell, Sharpy - My Story by GraemeSharp, Motson's FA Cup Odyssey by John Motson, Lion Heartby Tommy Gemmell, Big Joe by Joe Corrigan, Both Sides ofthe Border - My Autobiography by Archie Gemmill, Seeing Redby Graham Poll, Biting Talk - My Autobiography by NormanHunter etc. All of the hardback editions are First Editions and allare accompanied by the dust jackets. VG to EX, 24Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1017FOOTBALL: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (3)books by various football players and managers comprisingClough The Autobiography by Brian Clough, Jack Charlton TheAutobiography by Jack Charlton, Bestie - A Portrait of a Legendand Reliving the Dream by George Best, 1966 and All That byGeoff Hurst, and Managing My Life - My Autobiography by AlexFerguson. Three are accompanied by the dust jackets. VG toEX, 6Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1018SPORT: Selection of signed hardback books by a variety ofsportsmen and personalities, comprising All My Races byStirling Moss & Alan Henry (2), My Life in Football by BobbyCharlton, Banks vs. Pele: The save that shook the world byTerry Baker (signed by Gordon Banks), 1966 and All That byGeoff Hurst (2; one also signed by Gordon Banks, GeorgeCohen and Roger Hunt), After the Ball by Nobby Stiles,Priceless by Rodney Marsh, As It Was - The Memoirs of FredTrueman by Fred Trueman and Lester's Derbys by LesterPiggott. All are accompanied by their dust jackets. VG to EX, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1019SPORT: Small selection of signed hardback and paperback (1)editions by various footballers and cricketers including Clough -The Autobiography by Brian Clough, Greavsie - TheAutobiography by Jimmy Greaves, Return of the Clown Princeby Len Shackleton, The Gentle Giant by John Charles, AllRound View by Imran Khan, As It Was by Fred Trueman etc. Allof the hardback editions are first editions and are accompaniedby the dustjackets. Generally VG to EX, 8Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1020DRESSLER MARIE: (1868-1934) Canadian-American Actress,Academy Award winner. Book signed and inscribed, ahardback edition of The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling - AnAutobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts by Marie Dressler,

First Edition published by Robert M. McBride, New York, 1924.Signed in fountain pen ink to the half title page, 'To the father ofmy Ducklings, I send my love, Gratefully, Marie Dressler' anddated 18th November 1924 in her hand. The front freeendpaper and half title page are neatly detached and the frontboard a little loose, GEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1021LEIGH VIVIEN: (1913-1967) English Actress, Academy Awardwinner. Book signed, a hardback edition of Meeting at TheSphinx by Marjorie Deans, being a behind-the-screen story ofGabriel Pascal's Film Production of Bernard Shaw's Caesarand Cleopatra, Published by MacDonald & Co. Ltd., London,n.d. (1946), with various colour and black and white illustrationsof stills from the film. Signed by Vivien Leigh in blue fountainpen ink with her name alone to the front free endpaper. Alsowith a small ownership signature and date, 1946, at the head ofthe page. Accompanied by the dust jacket (price clipped andwith tears, small areas of paper loss and age wear). Togetherwith a loosely inserted black ink signature of Oscar winning filmactor Anthony Hopkins on a 12mo printed page removed from a1974 poscket diary. Some light age wear to the front freeendpaper, G, 2 Vivien Leigh portrayed Cleopatra in the filmversion of Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) andalso in a stage production of the play in May 1951.Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1022HEPBURN KATHARINE: (1907-2003) American Actress,Academy Award winner. Book signed and inscribed, being ahardback edition of Me - Stories of My Life, First Editionpublished by Viking, 1991. Signed by Hepburn in bold black inkto the front free endpaper. Accompanied by the dust jacket.Together with a loosely inserted T.L.S. by Hepburn's secretary,one page, 8vo, 26th September 1991, to Alan, stating 'Wellhere is your book' and apologising for a mixup. A little, minorage wear to the dust jacket, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1023HEPBURN KATHARINE (1907-2003) American Actress,Academy Award winner & HELPMANN ROBERT (1909-1986)Australian Ballet Dancer & Actor. Book signed and inscribed, ahardback edition of Helpmann - The Authorised Biography ofSir Robert Helpmann, CBE by Elizabeth Salter, First Editionpublished by Angus and Robertson Ltd., Brighton, 1978.Signed and inscribed by Katharine Hepburn (who wrote theforeword) in bold black ink to the title page. The front freeendpaper bears an album page boldly signed by RobertHelpmann, neatly laid down above a printed invitation card tothe Service of Thanksgiving for Helpmann at St. Paul's Church,Covent Garden, 25th November 1986. Also signed andinscribed to the half title page by Helpmann's sister, Sheila, andsigned to the verso by actor Keith Michell, composer MalcolmWilliamson and ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn, each with theirnames alone in fountain pen inks. Accompanied by the dustjacket. Together with a loosely inserted A.L.S., Bobby, byRobert Helpmann, one page, 4to, Eaton Square, London, n.d.('Wed'), to Alan [Sievewright]. Helpmann announces 'I felt a bit"queer" during the afternoon and by the second interval of "Lac"I just had to come home, so now I am in bed with the Doctor soto speak and a nice attack of gastric flu' and continues 'I was somad with rage to miss your party....Please forgive me. I hope

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your eyes stuck up, or something did.' About VG Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1023AONLY TWO CAN PLAY: A hardback edition of That UncertainFeeling by Kingsley Amis, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.,London, September 1955 (fourth impression), individuallysigned to the front free endpaper and half title page by ten castand crew members of the film Only Two Can Play (1962, basedon the novel That Uncertain Feeling) including Peter Sellers(John Lewis), Mai Zetterling (Liz), Virginia Maskell (Jean),Kenneth Griffith (Jenkins), Raymond Huntley (Vernon), MaudieEdwards (Mrs. Davies), John Le Mesurier (Salter), SidneyGilliat (director), Leslie Gilliat (producer) and one other. Mosthave signed in bold blue fountain pen inks with their namesalone, a few adding inscriptions in their hands. Also signed byKingsley Amis with his name alone to the title page. Lacking thedust jacket. Some light overall foxing and age wear, the spinefaded, GEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1024WILLIAMS KENNETH: (1926-1988) English Comic Actor, starof Carry On films. Signed book, a hardback edition of AcidDrops, First Edition published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd,London, 1980. Signed by Williams in bold blue fountain pen inkwith his name alone at the base of the half title page.Accompanied by the dust jacket, some minor tears, notaffecting the signature. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1025ACTORS: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (1)books by a variety of actors, comprising A Particular Friendship,Snakes and Ladders and Cleared For Take-Off by DirkBogarde, The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry, Looking Back onLife by George Robey (featuring a self caricature), Frank MuirGoes Intoâ€¦ by Frank Muir, Double Feature by Terence Stamp,I Remember It Well by Maurice Chevalier, Dance with the Devilby Kirk Douglas, The Actor's Life by Charlton Heston, My Wordis My Bond by Roger Moore, Still Memories by John Mills,What's It All About by Michael Caine, Early Stages by JohnGielgud, Loitering With Intent by Peter O'Toole and Laughter inthe Second Act by Donald Sinden. Most are accompanied bythe dust jackets. Generally VG, 16Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1026ACTORS: Selection of signed hardback books by variousactors etc., including Before I Forget by Albert Chevalier, MyRussia by Peter Ustinov, Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly byDavid Niven, The Looney - An Irish Fantasy by Spike Milligan,The Ragman's Son - An Autobiography by Kirk Douglas, AShort Walk from Harrods by Dirk Bogarde, My Word is My Bondby Roger Moore, The Autobiography by Tony Curtis, Sparks FlyUpward by Stewart Granger, More or Less by Kenneth More,Tall, Dark & Gruesome by Christopher Lee, The Salad Days byDouglas Fairbanks Jr., Rex - An Autobiography by RexHarrison (loosely inserted signed page), My Name Escapes Me- The Diary of a Retiring Actor by Alec Guinness etc. Most areaccompanied by the dust jackets. Generally G to VG, 20Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1027ACTRESSES: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (1)books by a variety of actresses comprising My Own UnaidedWork by Hermione Gingold, For Adults Only Diana Dors, SandIn My Mink by Yolande Donlan, Prime Time by Joan Collins,Child Star by Shirley Temple Black, Sing As We Go by GraceFields (2), The Cat's Whiskers by Beryl Reid. The Eighth Veilby Ann Todd (loosely inserted signed album page) and Boo ToMy Friends by Evelyn Laye. Most are accompanied by the dustjackets. Generally G to VG, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1028ACTRESSES: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackbooks by various film actresses etc., including Choices by LivUllmann, My Life So Far by Jane Fonda, Love and Desire andHate by Joan Collins, By Myself by Lauren Bacall, Leaving aDoll's House by Claire Bloom, Swanson on Swanson - AnAutobiography by Gloria Swanson, No Turn Unstoned by DianaRigg etc. All are accompanied by the dust jackets. GenerallyVG, 11Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1029CINEMA: Selection of signed hardback books by various actorsand actresses etc., including Sophia - Living and Loving - HerOwn Story by A. E. Hotchner (signed by Sophia Loren),Limelight and After and Leaving a Doll's House by ClaireBloom, Bolt from the Blue, A Right Royal Bastard and ServesMe Right by Sarah Miles, Loitering With Intent and LoiteringWith Intent: The Apprentice by Peter O'Toole, A Positively FinalAppearance and Blessing in Disguise by Alec Guinness, HighSpirits by Joan Sims etc. All are accompanied by the dustjackets. VG to EX, 14Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1030CINEMA: Selection of signed hardback books by a variety offilm actors and directors, including Winner Takes All - A Life ofSorts by Michael Winner, Rich - The Life of Richard Burton byMelvyn Bragg, Notes for a Life by Bryan Forbes, Take One - AnAutobiography by Mervyn LeRoy, Zeffirelli by Franco Zeffirelliand A Life in Movies - An Autobiography by Michael Powell etc.All are accompanied by the dust jackets. Generally VG to EX, 7Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1031CINEMA: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (8)books by various film and television directors, actors etc.,including At Your Own Risk by Derek Jarman, The Actors'Director - Richard Attenborough Behind The Camera by AndyDougan (signed by Richard Attenborough), 100 Allegories ToRepresent The World by Pete Greenaway, Jane Austen'sSense & Sensibility - The Screenplay & Diaries by EmmaThompson, William Shakespeare's Richard III by Ian McKellen(screenplay), Wilde by Stephen Fry, Brian Gilbert & JulianMitchell (screenplay), Gilliam on Gilliam edited by Ian Christie(signed by Christie and Terry Gilliam), The Undeclared War -The Struggle for Control of the World's Film Industry by DavidPuttnam, With Nails by Richard E. Grant, Henry V by KennethBranagh (screen adaptation), and Withnail and I by BruceRobinson (two different editions of the screenplay, one also

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signed by Richard E. Grant) etc. Each of the hardback editionsare accompanied by the dust jackets. VG to EX, 14Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1032ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed hardback andpaperback (5) books by a variety of actors, actresses andentertainers, including Am I Bovvered? - The Catherine TateShow Scripts by Catherine Tate, Behind the Scenes of Psychoby Janet Leigh (also adding her character name beneath hersignature), Thank Heaven... by Leslie Caron, Hello Darlin'- Tall(and Absolutely True Tales About My Life) by Larry Hagman(also signed by Linda Gray and Charlene Tilton), Tall, Dark andGruesome by Christopher Lee, Hollywood Monster - A WalkDown Elm Street with The Man of Your Dreams by RobertEnglund (with original ink caricature), Kiss Me Like a Stranger -My Search for Love and Art by Gene Wilder (2), No Room forSecrets by Joanna Lumley, The Demi-Widow by Mary Pickford,'Tis Herself - A Memoir by Maureen O'Hara, Ginger - My Storyby Ginger Rogers, The Greedy Bastard Diary - A Comic Tour ofAmerica by Eric Idle etc. Most of the hardback editions areaccompanied by the dust jackets. Unsigned (1). VG to EX, 16Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1033HARRISON GEORGE: (1943-2001) English Guitarist, amember of The Beatles. Book signed, a hardback edition ofAutobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, TwelfthEdition published by the Self-Realization Fellowship, 1981.Signed by Harrison in bold black ink to the front free endpaper,adding two symbols in his hand beneath his signature. About EXEstimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 1034STARR RINGO: (1940- ) English Musician, Drummer with TheBeatles. Book signed, an excellent hardback edition ofPostcards From The Boys, Limited Edition published byGenesis Publications, 2003. The deluxe edition, bound inNubuk leather, with a blindstamped title to the spine, features53 facsimiles of postcards sent by John Lennon, PaulMcCartney and George Harrison to Ringo Starr, the recto andverso of each postcard neatly pasted to the heavyweight blackphoto album paper, with commentary text printed in silver.Signed ('Ringo') by Starr in bold blue ink to the limitations page,numbered 1831 of 2500. With a loosely inserted sheet of 54stamps and bearing three additional postcards neatly laid downto the front free endpapers. Apparently lacking the uniquepostage stamp that was attached to the title page of othercopies within this edition. Housed in an aluminium facedsolander box in the style of a red postbox, with an interior blacktie for removing the book. A few extremely minor, light scuffs tothe leather binding, VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1035POPULAR MUSIC: Selection of signed hardback books byvarious popular musicians and vocalists etc., comprising PetShop Boys, Literally by Chris Heath, Chris Lowe and NeilTennant, Who's Crazee Now? by Noddy Holder, Stoned byAndrew Loog Oldham, To Cut A Long Story Short by TonyHadley, To Hell and Back by Meat Loaf, Waterloo Sunset and X-Ray by Ray Davies, Just For The Record: An Autobiography by

Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, Notes from a Small Soprano byLesley Garrett, and If Only by Geri Halliwell. All areaccompanied by the dust jackets. VG to EX, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1036POPULAR MUSIC: Selection of signed hardback andpaperback (1) books by a variety of popular musicians, singersetc., comprising Some Sunny Day - My Autobiography by VeraLynn, Walking Back to Happiness by Helen Shapiro, A ShirtBox Full of Songs - The Autobiography by Barbara Dickson, IAm Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne, Blue Odyssey - A Journey toMusic's Heart & Soul by Bill Wyman and Musical Version ofThe War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne (Collector's edition). Mostare accompanied by the dust jackets. VG to EX, 6Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1037PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter. Book signed,a folio hardback edition of Picasso Theatre by Douglas Cooper,First American Edition published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., NewYork, 1968. Illustrated on heavy paper with 447 illustrations inblack & white and colour, ten tipped in colour plates etc.,representing Picasso's set designs, programme covers andother artwork associated with the theatre. Signed ('Picasso') inbold blue crayon with a large signature to the half title page.Accompanied by the acetate dustjacket (FR). Some light overallage wear and minor staining, GEstimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 1038ARDIZZONE EDWARD: (1900-1979) English Artist andIllustrator. Book signed, a hardback edition of Saint Luke's Lifeof Christ, translated by J. B. Phillips and with illustrations byEdward Ardizzone, First Edition published by Collins, London,1956. Limited Edition number 83 of 150. Bound in gilt blockedleather over cloth backed boards. Signed by both Phillips andArdizzone in fountain pen inks with their names alone to thelimitations page. Contained in the original decorative printedslipcase. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1039HOPPER EDWARD: (1882-1967) American Painter. Booksigned and inscribed, a small 8vo hardback edition of EdwardHopper, published by the American Artists Group, New York,1945, (illustrated monograph number 8). The book featuresmany black and white illustrations of Hopper's works includingNight-Hawks. Signed by Hopper in bold blue fountain pen ink tothe front pastedown which features, along with the front freeendpaper, a colour reproduction of Hopper's painting TheMartha McKeen of Wellfleet. Rare. Some light age wear, GEstimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 1040WARHOL ANDY: (1928-1987) American Pop Artist. Booksigned, a hardback edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol(From A to B & Back Again) by Andy Warhol, First AmericanEdition published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975. Signedtwice by Warhol to the half title page, once with his fullsignature and again with his initials, in bold black ink. Warhol

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has further added an original drawing in his hand to the half titlepage, a simple drawing comprising four slightly curved lines.Accompanied by the dustjacket. About EXEstimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 1041HANSON DUANE: (1925-1996) American Artist & Sculptor,associated with Pop Art. Book signed and inscribed, apaperback edition of Duane Hanson by Martin H. Bush,published by the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas, 1976,as a monograph to the first major exhibition of Hanson's workstaged in America. With various black and white and colourillustrations. Signed by Hanson to the front free endpaper inblack ink, 'To Phyllis, Very best wishes, sell lots of books, fromDuane Hanson' and dated New York City, 8th February 1978 inhis hand. Accompanied by the dust wrapper. About VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1042HIRST DAMIEN: (1965- ) English Artist. Book signed, anoblong folio hardback edition of From the Cradle to the Grave,Limited Edition published by Other Criteria, London, 2004, inassociation with The British Council on the occasion of Hirst'sexhibition of selected drawings. Profusely illustrated and withan essay by Annushka Shani. All edges gilt. Signed by Hirst inbold pencil to the limitations page and numbered 1261 of 1500in his hand. No dustjacket (as issued). Contained in the originalprinted cardboard solander box (some slight corner knocks).VG to about EXEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1043HIRST DAMIEN: (1965- ) English Artist. Book signed, a foliohardback edition of I Want to Spend the Rest of My LifeEverywhere, With Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever,Now, First Edition published by Booth-Clibborn, London, 1997.Signed by Hirst in bold black ink with his name alone to the halftitle page. Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook for Hirst, the bookis lavishly and innovatively illustrated with an eclecticcompilation of photographs, graphic design, pop-ups,transparencies, moveable plates, fold-outs, inserts, die-cutsand a loosely inserted folded poster. Hirst's first, andexperimental, work includes biographical text, interviews,quotations, a chronology of Hirstâ€™s work, articles on the artist,and an essay by novelist Gordon Burn. Bound in the originalred cloth, the titles to the upper board blindstamped and in gilt,and the titles to the spine in black. Accompanied by thedustjacket. About EXEstimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 1044HIRST DAMIEN: (1965- ) English Artist. Book signed, a foliohardback edition of Superstition, First Edition published by theGagosian Gallery and Other Criteria, London, 2007, for Hirst'sexhibitions in Beverly Hills and London, 22nd February - 5thApril 2007. With many colour illustrations. Signed in bold blackink by Hirst to the half title page with an original pen and inkdrawing of a butterfly in his hand. EXEstimate: £400.00 - £500.00

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DOUGLAS ALFRED: (1870-1945) English Author & Poet, theintimate friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Book signed, ahardback edition of In Excelsis, First Edition published byMartin Secker, London, 1924. Signed ('Alfred Bruce Douglas')in purple fountain pen ink with his name alone to the limitationspage and numbered 40 of 100. Bound in the original yellowcloth, with gilt stamped title and top edge gilt, the others uncut.With an ink ownership signature and address to the front freeendpaper. Some light age wear, about VG Douglas's sonnetsequence was written while he was imprisoned at WormwoodScrubs for libelling Winston S. Churchill.Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1046DE LA MARE WALTER: (1873-1956) English Poet & Novelist.Book signed, a hardback edition of A Child's Day, published byConstable and Company Ltd, London, 1920 (reset and reprintof the First Edition of 1912). With illustrations by Carine & WillCadby. Signed by De La Mare in fountain pen ink to the halftitle page and dated November 1920 in his hand. Also bearingan ink inscription in an unidentified hand to the frontpastedown. Illustrated boards and lacking the spine. Someoverall age wear, about GEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1047ELIOT T.S.: (1888-1965) American-born English Poet &Dramatist. Book signed, a hardback edition of The SacredWood - Essays on Poetry and Critcism, First Edition publishedby Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1920. Signed by Eliot with hisname alone in dark fountain pen ink to the title page.Publisher's blue cloth boards with the title blindstamped to thefront cover and gilt stamped title and publisher's name to thespine, the latter approximately 3mm high (and hence a firststate edition; Gallup A5). Lacking the dust jacket. Scarce in thisform. Some light age wear to the endpapers, otherwise aboutVGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1048BETJEMAN JOHN: (1906-1984) British Poet Laureate 1972-84.Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Summonedby Bells, First Edition published by John Murray, London, 1960,with illustrations by Michael Tree. Signed by Betjeman in boldgreen ink to the half title page, 'Miss Iris Langley, gratefully fromJohn Betjeman' and dated Wantage, 1960 in his hand.Betjeman has further drawn an ink sketch of a church windowwith Gothic arch which encases his inscription. Green cloth withgilt title to the spine and accompanied by the dust jacketlettered in black and red and with illustrations of bells. A goodpresentation copy. Some light age wear to the dust jacket,otherwise VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1049BETJEMAN JOHN: (1906-1984) British Poet Laureate 1972-84.Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of JohnBetjeman's Collected Poems, compiled with an introduction byLord Birkenhead, published by John Murray, London,September 1959. Signed by Betjeman in bold black fountainpen ink to the front free endpaper, 'INSCRIBED FOR MissLangley, The Able Manageress of King Alfred's Kitchen,

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Wantage, by her disable admirer John Betjeman' and dated1960 in his hand. Immediately beneath the poet has drawn apen and ink sketch of a birthday cake and candles, adding thelines 'Oh Mary come - call the cattle home Across the Sands ofDee' below. Accompanied by the dust jacket. A goodpresentation copy. VG Betjeman's lines at the foot of theinscription are taken from Charles Kingsley's poem The Sandsof Dee (1849).Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1050HUGHES TED: (1930-1998) English Poet & Children's Writer,Poet Laureate 1984-98. Book signed and inscribed, apaperback edition of Seneca's Oedipus, adapted by TedHughes, published by Faber & Faber, London, 1969, and firstperformed at The Old Vic theatre by the National TheatreCompany on 19th March 1968. Signed by Hughes in bold blackink to the half title page, 'To Mathew - Partly responsible, Fornot defending Seneca better from the collapse of The Empire,from Ted' and dated Christmas 1970 in his hand. Accompaniedby the dust jacket (a few small tears). Together with a printed12mo card featuring the poem Under The Winter Sky by JanosPilinszky, translated from the Hungarian by Hughes and JanosCzokits, published by The Menard Press, signed ('Ted & Carol')by Hughes in black ink to the verso, also on behalf of hissecond wife Carol Orchard, and with nine digits in his handbeneath his signature, most likely a telephone number. Lighthorizontal central fold. G to VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1051POETRY: A hardback edition of Poetry in the Making, being aCatalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in The BritishMuseum, April - June 1967, by Jenny Lewis, published byTurret Books for the Arts Council of Great Britain & The BritishMuseum, 1967, individually signed by Jenny Lewis and threecontributors, Philip Larkin, C. Day Lewis and T. C. Skeat.Limited Edition number 89 of 126. With the dust jacket. VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1052MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET: (1874-1965) English Playwright &Novelist. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition ofPurely For My Pleasure, First Edition published by Heinemann,London 1962. Signed by Maugham in bold blue fountain penink to the front free endpaper and dated 24th March 1963 in hishand. Illustrated with 31 plates (sixteen in colour) of paintingscollected by Maugham, with accompanying printed textdescribing the circumstances under which they were acquired.Bound in publisher's black boards with a gilt stamp decorationto the front and with the unclipped dark green dust jacketfeaturing a colour plate mounted to the front of the jacket.Some light age wear and a minor area of discoloration to thefront free endpaper, only very slightly affecting the signature,about VGEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1053BENNETT ALAN: (1934- ) English Playwright. Two paperbackbooks signed and inscribed, being Talking Heads, published byBBC Books, London, 1991, and Objects of Affection and otherplays for television, published by the BBC, London, 1984

(revised and corrected). Both are signed by Bennett in blackink, the latter book with an original self caricature by Bennett,drawn in pencil and coloured crayons to the title page alongsidehis signature and dated May 1986 in his hand. This edition alsosigned to individual inside pages by Alan Bates, StephenFrears, Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Elizabeth Spriggs, JulieWalters and Maureen Lipman. Together with three signed andinscribed paperback and hardback (1) books by the playwrightDavid Hare comprising Plenty, Acting Up and Paris By Night.Generally VG, 5Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1054WELLS H. G.: (1866-1946) English Writer of Science Fictionnovels. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of TheShape of Things to Come, First American Edition published byThe Macmillan Company, New York, September 1933. Signedand inscribed by Wells in dark fountain pen ink to the half titlepage, 'To Douglas Fairbanks II from H. G. Wells'. Blue clothboards with gilt title stamped to the cover and spine. A goodassociation copy, also bearing Fairbanks' blind embossedname stamp to the front free endpaper. Spine faded and withgeneral age wear, some foxing throughout. About G DouglasFairbanks Jr. (1909-2000) American Actor, son of DouglasFairbanksEstimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 1055LITERATURE: Selection of signed hardback books by variouswriters and novelists etc., comprising Wolf Brother by MichellePaver, The Know by Martina Cole, Cold Mountain by CharlesFrazier, The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie,Lisey's Story by Stephen King, The Summons by John Grishamand Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. All are accompanied bytheir dust jackets. VG to EX, 7Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1056[DEIGHTON LEN]: (1929- ) British Writer and MilitaryHistorian. A small 8vo facsimile of one of Deighton's tancoloured notebooks, issued by the publishers Jonathan Capeas an advance piece of promotional ephemera for Deighton'sbook Billion Dollar Brain (1966), the replica notebook containingthe authors drawings and notes relating to the novel as well asa facsimile ticket to Verdi's Otello at Leningrad's Maly Operahouse, a Finnish ferry ticket, original loosely inserted penciletc., together with a facsimile T.L.S. from Deighton, one page,small 4to, Helsinki, 4th February 1966, forwarding thenotebook. Accompanied by the original envelope (only FR)addressed to the Literary Editor of The Isis in Oxford. Scarce.Generally VG, 2 In his Len Deighton: An AnnotatedBibliography 1954-1985 Edward Milward-Oliver comments onthe promotional notebook, remarking that some bookshopowners and other recipients found them so convincing that theyreturned their copies to the publisher with a note of thanks toDeighton for lending it to them.Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1057BERNARD JEFFREY: (1932-1997) British Journalist, known forhis weekly Low Life column in The Spectator. Laterimmortalised in the play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith

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Waterhouse. Book signed, a paperback edition of More LowLife by Jeffrey Bernard, First Edition published by Pan BooksLtd., London, 1989. Signed by Bernard in blue ink to the halftitle page with his name alone and also signed by actor PeterO'Toole (1932- ) who portrayed Bernard in Waterhouse's playin 1989, 1991 & 1999, also with his name alone in black ink tothe half title page. Together with an unsigned printed 8voFoyles Luncheon seating plan for A Tribute to Mr Peter O'Tooleat Grosvenor House, Park Lane, 7th February 1990, attendedby Bernard and presumably where the two signatures wereobtained, and two related newspaper articles. VG Sold onbehalf of OxfamEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1058WALTON WILLIAM: (1902-1983) British Composer. Booksigned, a paperback edition of the libretto for Trolius andCressida, an opera in three acts by William Walton and with alibretto by Christopher Hassall, published by the OxfordUniversity Press, London, 1954, and first performed at TheRoyal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 3rd December1954. Signed by Walton to the front free endpaper in bold bluefountain pen ink, with an A.M.Q.S. of two bars marked Adagioand dated 1st March 1955 in his hand. Also signed andinscribed immediately beneath by Christopher Hassall (1912-1963) English Actor, Dramatist & Librettist, in blue ink, with anA.Q.S. in his hand, being three lines of text headed Cressida,and dated Lowndes College, 1st March 1955. Scarce in thisform. VGEstimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1059NUREYEV RUDOLF: (1938-1993) Russian Ballet Dancer. Booksigned, a hardback edition of Great Male Dancers by CyrilSwinson, First Edition published by Adam and Charles Black,London, 1964. Signed by Nureyev in bold black ink with hisname alone to the lower white border of an inside pagefeaturing an image of the dancer in a half length costume posewith Margot Fonteyn from Marguerite and Armand.Accompanied by the dust jacket. Together with a printed 4tosouvenir brochure for Tribute, a Gala Night of Ballet tocelebrate the life of Rudolf Nureyev at the London Coliseum,13th March 1994, signed to the half title page by over thirtyvarious ballet dancers and actors who participated in orattended the event, including Natalia Makarova, Beryl Grey,Lynn Seymour, Darcey Bussell, Stephen Fry, John Schlesinger,Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Bates, Vanessa Redgrave, LizRobertson, Marta Barahona, Yat Sen Chang, Agnes Oaks,Ambra Vallo, Carole Stewart etc. All have signed with theirnames alone in bold blue or black inks. G to VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1060BALLET: A hardback edition of Studies of The Sadlers WellsBallet Company at Covent Garden by Gordon Anthony, FirstEdition published by Home & Van Thal, London, 1947,containing 64 black and white plates by the photographer,eleven of which are signed by the subjects including MargotFonteyn, Julia Farron, John Hart, Alexis Rassine, MichaelSomes, Harold Turner, Alexander Grant etc. Together with afine vintage 11 x 13 photograph of Margot Fonteyn standing ina full length costume pose, en pointe, the photograph by FelixFonteyn, Margot Fonteyn's brother, and signed by him in darkfountain pen ink to a clear area at the lower right corner.

Framed and glazed to an overall size of 12.5 x 14.5. VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1061HILLARY EDMUND: (1919-2008) New Zealand Mountaineer,the first man, with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit ofMount Everest, 1953 & FUCHS VIVIAN (1908-1999) EnglishExplorer, whose team completed the first overland crossing inAntarctica in 1958. Book signed by both Hillary and Fuchsindividually, a hardback edition of The Crossing of Antarctica,First Edition published by Cassell & Company Ltd., London,1958. Signed by Hillary in blue fountain pen ink with his namealone to the front free endpaper and signed by Fuchs in darkfountain pen ink to the half title page, adding the date 1958 inhis hand. Together with a signed hardback edition of View FromThe Summit by Edmund Hillary, First Edition published byDoubleday, London 1999. Signed with his name alone in boldblack ink to the title page. Both are accompanied by the dustjackets. Some light age wear, G to VG, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1062KEELER CHRISTINE: (1942- ) English Model and Showgirl, acentral figure in the Profumo Scandal of 1963. Book signed andinscribed, a hardback edition of The Truth at Last - My Story,First Edition published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2001.Signed in bold blue ink to the title page. Accompanied by thedust jacket. About EXEstimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1063FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed hardback andpaperback (1) books by a variety of famous men and women,including Paul, Envoy Extraordinary by Malcolm Muggeridgeand Alec Vidler, Music - A Joy for Life by Edward Heath, TheMusic of Man by Yehudi Menuhin, Contrasts by Koo Stark,Hotfoot to Zabriskie Point by Jilly Cooper and Patrick Lichfield,Talking Pictures - The Story of Hollywood by Barry Norman etc.Most of the hardback editions are accompanied by the dustjackets. G to generally VG, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1064FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed hardback andpaperback (1) books by a variety of famous men and women,including Dam Busters Failed to Return by Les Munro, GeorgeJohnson etc., The Dam Busters - Breaking the Great Dams ofWestern Germany 16-17 May 1943 by Fred Sutherland, KenLucas, Grant McDonald, Ray Grayston etc., A Journey by TonyBlair, Patrick Moore on the Moon by Patrick Moore,Autobiography by Mary Quant, Sarah - HRH the Duchess ofYork - A Biography by Ingrid Seward, Keeping It Real - MyAutobiography by Jodie Marsh, Being Jordan - MyAutobiography by Katie Price, Stripteese by Dita Von Teese,Leona Lewis by Leona Lewis (Dreams Limited Edition),Wonderful Today The Autobiography by Pattie Boyd and PennyJunor, Dirty Blonde The Diaries of Courtney Love edited byAva Stander (signed by Courtney Love) etc. All of the hardbackeditions are accompanied by their dust jackets. Unsigned (1).VG to EX, 14Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

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VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom GreatBritain & Ireland 1837-1901. Book signed and inscribed, ahardback edition of Leaves from The Journal of Our Life in TheHighlands from 1848 to 1861. To Which are Prefixed andAdded Extracts from the Same Journal Giving an Account ofEarlier Visits to Scotland and Tours in England and Ireland andYachting Excursions, edited by Arthur Helps, published bySmith, Elder & Co., London, 1868, being a 4to illustrated editionfeaturing eight full page steel engravings, two full page chromo-lithographs after paintings by J. Roberts and numerousvignettes of wood engravings by James D. Cooper illustratedthroughout the text. Signed and inscribed by Queen Victoria tothe head of the half title page, 'To Arnold Royle Esq. fromVictoria R.I.' and dated Balmoral, 30th September 1880 in herhand. Bound in the original decorative gilt and black red cloth,with a similarly decorated spine and with all edges gilt. Bindinga little loose, particularly to the back board, and some lightfoxing and a few pages with minor water staining, not affectingthe signature or inscription. Generally about VGEstimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 1066EDWARD VIII: (1894-1972) King of the United KingdomJanuary - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. Booksigned, as King, a hardback edition of Edward The Eighth - OurKing by Arthur Groom, with a foreword by Howard Marshall,published by Allied Newspapers Ltd., n.d. (1936). With manyillustrations. Signed ('Edward R I') in bold black fountain pen inkto a clear area in the upper margin of the first page of chapterone. Rare in this form. Lacking the dust jacket. VGEstimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 1067WALLIS WINDSOR: (1895-1986) American Socialite, wife ofEdward, Duke of Windsor. Book signed, a hardback edition ofThe Heart Has Its Reasons, First Edition published by MichaelJoseph, London, 1956. Signed ('Wallis, Duchess of Windsor') inbold blue ink to the half title page. Accompanied by the dustjacket (small tears and areas of paper loss at the edges). Somevery slight, minor foxing, about VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1068THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Book signed, a hardback edition of The DowningStreet Years, First Edition published by Harper Collins, London,1993. Signed in blue fountain pen ink with her name alone tothe front free endpaper. Together with a signed hardbackedition of The Path to Power, First Edition published by HarperCollins, London, 1995. Signed by Thatcher in bold blue ink withher name alone to the front free endpaper. Both areaccompanied by the dust jackets. VG to EX, 2Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1069THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister1979-90. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition ofMargaret Thatcher - From Childhood to Leadership by GeorgeGardiner M.P., First Edition published by William Kimber & Co.Ltd., London, 1975. Signed by Thatcher in bold black ink to thehalf title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Some light agewear and a couple of minor, light stains to the front free

endpaper, otherwise VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1070NIXON RICHARD: (1913-1994) American President 1969-74.Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of The Memoirsof Richard Nixon, published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York,third printing, 1978. Signed by Nixon ('Robert Jackson, withbest wishes for the years ahead from Richard Nixon' and dated22nd October 1978 in his hand) to a custom bookplate neatlyaffixed to the front free endpaper. Accompanied by the dustjacket. Apparently presented to the British politician RobertJackson. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1071GORBACHEV MIKHAIL: (1931- ) Soviet Statesman, GeneralSecretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1985-91and Head of the Soviet Union 1988-91. Nobel Peace Prizewinner, 1990. Book signed, a hardback edition of Memoirs, FirstEdition published by Doubleday, London, 1996. Signed byGorbachev in bold blue ink with his name alone to a Doubledaybookplate neatly laid down to the title page. Accompanied bythe dust jacket. About EXEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1072POLITICS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardback booksby a variety of British Prime Ministers and politicians etc.,including The Way the Wind Blows by Lord Home, GrandInquisitor by Robin Day, Exploits of a Politician by GeraldNabarro, The Enemies Within by Ian MacGregor, A Life inPictures by Harold Macmillan, A Prime Minister on PrimeMinisters by Harold Wilson, The Course of my Life by EdwardHeath, Hard Labour by Robert Kilroy-Silk etc. All areaccompanied by the dust jackets. Generally G to VG, 10Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1073ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Lunar ModulePilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon.Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Encounterwith Tiber, First Edition published by Warner Books, New York,July 1996. Signed in blue ink to the title page, 'To Helen,Thanks for supporting the space program, Buzz Aldrin'.Accompanied by the dust jacket. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1074ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Lunar ModulePilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon.Book signed, a hardback edition of The Return, First Editionpublished by Forge Books, New York, May 2000. With a printedBorders bookstore bookplate signed by Aldrin with his namealone in blue ink neatly affixed to the half title page.Accompanied by the dust jacket. VGEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1075MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal of

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World War II. Book signed, a hardback edition of Trafalgar andAlamein by Arthur Bryant, Edward Shanks and Montgomery,First Edition published by the Daily Graphic, 1948. The bookfeatures articles (originally published in the Daily Graphic,October & November 1948), poems and a speech made byMontgomery relating to two significant British battles, fordistribution to the libraries of British Public and SecondarySchools. Signed by Montgomery 'To: The Pugh family, inmemory of their visit to me at Islington Mill on 27th April 1949.With my best wishes. Montgomery of Alamein, Field-Marshal' in bold blue fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper and alsodated 27th April 1949 again in his hand. To a blank inside pageof the book appears a holograph poem, in pencil, entitledAlamein Day 1949, signed at the base with the initials J. E.P[ugh] and dated April 1949. Bound in green cloth with a bluepaper title-piece neatly affixed to the front board. Accompaniedby two unsigned vintage 4.5 x 6 photographs of Montgomerystanding outdoors in full length poses at Islington Mill, oneshowing him with a lawn mower. Some light age wear andminor foxing to the signed front free endpaper. G, 3Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1076BADER DOUGLAS (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5victories), recognised for his important role during the Battle ofBritain & LUCAS LADDIE (1915-1998) British RAF Fighter Pilotof World War II. Book signed by both Bader and Lucasindividually, a hardback edition of Flying Colours - The EpicStory of Douglas Bader by Lucas, published by Hutchinson,1982 (reprint). Signed by both Bader and Lucas in blue inks tothe title page, Bader adding the date 18th March 1982 in hishand. Accompanied by the dust jacket. About EX Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1077SIGNED BOOKS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackbooks by a variety of famous men and women, comprisingCivilisation - A Personal View, The Other-Half - A Self Portraitand Another Part of the Wood - A Self Portrait by KennethClark, Crowned in a Far Country - Portraits of Eight RoyalBrides by Princess Michael of Kent (2), Minus Millionaires - Or,How to Blow a Fortune by Jeffrey Robinson, Wild Swans -Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, Nice Work by DavidLodge, The Spy Wore Red by Aline, Countess of Romanones,In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon, On My Way to theClub by Ludovic Kennedy, Skating For Gold by Robin Cousins,Natural Break by Dennis Taylor, Winning Is Not Enough byJackie Stewart, In the Office of Constable by Robert Mark,Monica's Story by Andrew Morton (bookplate signed in full byMonica Lewinsky neatly affixed to title page), Six Men byAlistair Cooke, I Seek the Miraculous by Barbara Cartland etc.Most are accompanied by the dust jackets. Generally VG, 21Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1078SIGNED BOOKS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackbooks by a variety of famous war, thriller and political novelistsetc., comprising Closing Time by Joseph Heller, Elephant Songby Wilbur Smith, The Eagle has Flown, On Dangerous Ground,Night of the Fox and Exocet by Jack Higgins, Condition Blackand The Heart of Danger by Gerald Seymour, The RussiaHouse by John Le Carre, The Spy in Question by TimSebastian, The Innocent by Ian McEwan, A Shock to theSystem by Simon Brett and The Fist of God by Frederick

Forsyth. All are accompanied by the dust jackets. GenerallyVG, 13Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1079SIGNED BOOKS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackbooks by a variety of famous Playwrights and theatricalpersonalities etc., including Still Dancing by Lew Grade, DearMe by Peter Ustinov, Some of These Days by Sophie Tucker,The Actor & His World by Dulcie Gray & Michael Denison(apparently inscribed to J. B. Priestley, 'Jack, with our love andthanks for letting us quote you - Dulcie & Michael'), Old VicSaga by Harcourt Williams, Timebends - A Life by Arthur Miller,Seven Ages - An Autobiography 1888-1927 by Basil Dean(loosely inserted signed card), Bernard Shaw - The Search forLove 1856-1898 and The Pursuit of Power 1898-1918 byMichael Holroyd, A Better Class of Person - An Autobiography1929-1956 by John Osborne etc. Most are accompanied by thedust jackets. Generally VG, 14Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1080SIGNED BOOKS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackbooks by a variety of writers, some of them crime, thriller andespionage novelists, including The Ghost by Robert Harris, TheRelic by Evelyn Anthony, The Porcupine by Julian Barnes, TheCavalier Case by Antonia Fraser, Devices and Desires by P.D.James, Field of 13 by Dick Francis, A Natural Curiosity byMargaret Drabble, The Message to The Planet by Iris Murdoch,The Kingdom of The Wicked and Any Old Iron by AnthonyBurgess, A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Nobel Prize winner forLiterature, 1993), My Secret History by Paul Theroux etc. Allare accompanied by the dust jackets. VG to EX, 13Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1081SIGNED BOOKS: Small selection of signed hardback editionscomprising The Films of Merchant Ivory by Robert Emmet Long(published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1991) andMerchant Ivory's English Landscape - Rooms, Views, andAnglo Saxon Attitudes by John Pym (First Edition published byPavilion, London, 1995) both signed by James Ivory and IsmailMerchant individually, and also including a hardback edition ofDecorating signed by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (First Editionpublished by Quadrille, London, 2010). Two are accompaniedby the dustjackets. VG, 3Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1082SIGNED BOOKS: Selection of signed hardback and paperback(1) editions by various thriller, mystery and action adventurewriters comprising Portrait of a Killer - Jack the Ripper - CaseClosed, Point of Origin, Isle of Dogs and Trace by PatriciaCornwell, The Bridesmaid, Harm Done, Adam and Eve andPinch Me and Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell, Avenger (2, onepaperback) and one other by Frederick Forsyth, ImmediateAction and Crisis Four by Andy McNabb, and Four Blind Miceand 2nd Chance by James Patterson. Some are First Editionsand many bear signed pieces neatly affixed to the title pages.Most of the hardback editions are accompanied by thedustjackets. Generally VG, 15Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

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Lot: 1083SIGNED BOOKS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackand paperback (3) books by a variety of famous individualsincluding Foggy On Bikes by Carl Fogarty, Peter Ustinov - TheGift of Laughter by John Miller (signed by both Miller andUstinov), Between the Lines - My Story Uncut by JasonDonovan, How to be Good by Nick Hornby, Not A Penny More,Not A Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer, The Man Who LovesGiants by David Shepherd, The Everest Years - A Climber'sLife by Chris Bonington, Blast From the Past by Ben Elton,James Herriot's Yorkshire by James Herriot, Unless I'm VeryMuch Mistaken by Murray Walker, Monica's Story by AndrewMorton (signed in full by Monica Lewinsky) etc. Many are FirstEditions and most of the hardback editions are accompanied bythe dustjackets. A few FR, generally G to VG, 18Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1084SIGNED BOOKS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackand paperback (4) books by various famous individualscomprising Dare to Be a Daniel - Then and Now and Free AtLast! Diaries 1991-2001 by Tony Benn, Borrowed Time by RoyHattersley, Telling Tales, Untold Stories, Writing Home, TheLaying on of Hands and three other titles by Alan Bennett. Mostof the hardback editions are first editions and all areaccompanied by the dust jackets. Generally VG, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1085SIGNED BOOKS: Miscellaneous selection of signed hardbackbooks by a variety of famous writers and novelists includingThe Complete Short Stories by V.S. Pritchett, The Day ofCreation by J.G. Ballard, Passing On by Penelope Lively,Winter of The White Seal by Marie Herbert, London Fields byMartin Amis, My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer, Summer'sLease by John Mortimer, Difficulties with Girls and The Folksthat Live on The Hill by Kingsley Amis, Twice over Lightly byHelen Hayes and Anita Loos, Fire Down Below by WilliamGolding, First Light by Peter Ackroyd, Adrian Mole: TheWilderness Years by Sue Townsend, Orlando (The MarmaladeCat) Keeps a Dog and Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) ACamping Holiday by Kathleen Hale, Collected Poems 1928-1985 by Stephen Spender etc. Most are accompanied by thedust jackets. Generally VG to EX, 22Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1086AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS: Two autograph albums containing avariety of signatures by various cricketers and other famousindividuals etc., including C. B. Fry, New Zealand cricket team(15 signatures including Hadlee, Burke, Connelly, Wallace,Scott, Reid etc.), Surrey CCC (12 signatures including Alec &Eric Bedser, Laurie Fishlock, W. Stuart Surridge etc.), WilfredRhodes, Len Hutton, Maurice Leyland, Ellis Robinson, F. R.Brown, B. H. Valentine, Keith Miller, Neil Harvey, RichieBenaud, Eddie Gray, Jasper Maskelyne, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Alfred Gregory (with an original ink sketch of MountEverest in his hand) etc., also including individual vintagesigned and inscribed 6 x 4.5 photographs by Virginia McKennaand Bill Travers. Some signatures are in pencil, many pagesare multiple signed, and some are on pieces laid down topages. FR to VG, 2 albums + 2 photos.Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1087AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing oversignatures by various bandleaders, musicians, entertainers,actors etc., including Al Bowlly, James Cagney, Max Bygraves,Joe Loss, Roy Fox, cricketer Brian Close, golfer PeterOosterhuis and a few other sportsmen etc. Many of thesignatures are in pencil and most pages are multiple signed.Together with a small selection of other miscellaneousautographs including Roger Bannister (signed programme)Marty Wilde, Ben E. King, Freddie Garrity, Vera Lynn and othermusicians and entertainers together on a page removed from avisitor's book, Edward Heath (signed and inscribed Christmasgreetings card) etc. FR to G, 5 + albumEstimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1088AUTOGRAPHS: Selection of small irregularly clipped signedpieces (45 of which are laid down to two 4to sheets of paper) byvarious sportsmen and entertainers including Alf Ramsey, MattBusby, Geoff Hurst (2), Bobby Robson, Harry Redknapp, MartinChivers, Jimmy Greaves, Gary Sobers, Ray Illingworth, BasharHassan, Keith Fletcher, John Lever, Basil Dâ€™Olivera, GrahamMcKenzie, Tom Graveney, Van Burn Holder, Glenn Turner,Bruce Francis, Cliff Richard (signed and inscribed colour 8 x 10photograph), Mike & Bernie Winters, Freddie Garrity, MaryHopkin, Max Bygraves, Lonnie Donegan,Hughie Green etc.Most have tape stains to the edges, just affecting thesignatures. P to FR, 16 + 2 sheetsEstimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1089AUTOGRAPHS: Small selection of signed cards and albumpages by various actors and sportsmen including JohnnyWeissmuller, Fay Compton, Mario Kempes, Greg Norman etc.Each individually matted in various colours beneathphotographs to an overall size of 11.5 x 19 each. Rubberstamped (1). Generally VG, 6Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1090AUTOGRAPHS: A miscellaneous selection of signed clippedpieces, cards, a few A.Ls.S. etc., by a wide variety of famousindividuals including George Cruikshank (an excellent, large,bold ink signature an inscription, 9th August 1866), EmilCooper, John Barrow, Jennifer Jones, Robert Baden Powell, W.P. Frith, Briton Riviere, Marie Corelli, Jean Richepin (A.Q.S.),Thomas Knox Holmes (personally delivered the news of victoryat Waterloo and the capture of Napoleon to King George III)etc. Most are neatly laid down. Generally G, 13Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00

Lot: 1091CENTENARIANS: Small selection of signed pieces and albumpages by various Centenarians including Robert Gilbert, SarahAnn Palmer, Isabella Shepherd, Mary Hartley & ElizabethWebster, Thomas Bridson, Elizabeth Whitehead, LorenzoFoster Barnes etc. Each of the pages are annotated andnumbered in ink in the hand of the collector and have tapestains to one edge, some of which slightly affect the signatures.FR to generally G, 13Estimate: £40.00 - £50.00

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AUTOGRAPHS: Selection of signed pieces, letterheads, a fewA.Ls.S. etc., by various politicians, thespians etc., includingAdelaide Ristori, Ellen Terry, Johnston Forbes Robertson, JuliaNeilson, J. L. Toole, Austen Chamberlain, Gerald Balfour etc.Some light age wear, generally VG, 10Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1093AUTOGRAPHS: Miscellaneous selection of signedphotographs of various sizes etc., by a variety of famous menand women (writers, ballet dancers, opera singers, sportsmenetc.) including Sue Townsend, Germaine Greer, AuberonWaugh, Terence Brady, Glenda Jackson, Edna O'Brien, JamesRoosevelt (signed American Embassy notepaper, April 1939),Joanna Trollope, Barbara Cartland, Jackie Collins, LinfordChristie, Alain Prost, Alan Shearer, Dwight Yorke, DonaldSoper, Anthony Dowell, Richard Van Allan, Thomas Allen etc.Generally VG to EX, 35Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1094AUTOGRAPHS: An interesting collection of A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S.,some signed notes etc., by a variety of famous individuals, allwritten to Patrick Dickinson in response to his request for theirmemories of school reports for compilation in a book he wasediting to raise funds for charity, including Brian Clough, JimmyEdwards, Harry Carpenter, John Bratby, David Bailey, BarryAppleby, Julian Bream, Edward Fox, John Craven, RichardBaker, Ron Greenwood, Jimmy Hill, Glenda Jackson, TonyJacklin, Deborah Kerr, David Langdon, Norris McWhirter,Charles Mackerras, John Mortimer, Geraldine McEwan, RoyPlomley, Marjorie Proops, Mary Peters, Magnus Pyke, PatPhoenix, Claire Rayner, Rosemary Sutcliff, Sandy Wilson,Shirley Williams, Anna Ford, Brendan Foster, Clement Freud,Bryan Forbes, Colin Davis, Antonia Fraser, Hammond Innes,Robin Knox-Johnston, P. D. James, Frederick Forsyth, GordonRichards, Ben Spock, Leonard Cheshire, Dennis Lillee, DonaldSoper etc. Some of the letters stating that they have not kepttheir reports and have little recollection of school life, althoughmany with interesting content. A few FR, generally G to VG, 101Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00

Lot: 1095FIRST DAY COVERS: Selection of signed First Day Covers bya miscellaneous selection of famous individuals, mainlypoliticians, including Tony Benn, Emma Bunton, David Owen,Margaret Beckett, Neil Kinnock, Geoff Hoon, Jeffrey Archer,John Prescott, Glenda Jackson, David Steel, David Trimble,Geoffrey Howe, Betty Boothroyd, Leon Brittan, SandyWoodward etc. Some are multiple signed. Generally VG, 40Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1096AUTOGRAPHS: Collection of vintage signed cards, a fewpieces and signed postcard photographs and A.Ls.S. etc., byvarious German and continental European writers, artists,singers, actors etc., including Lina Morgenstern, Marcell Salzer,Gertrud Foerstel, Danny Gurtler and others. Also including aselection of vintage unsigned postcard photographs (22) andmagazine photographs (37) etc., subjects include RamonNovarro (3; in costume from Ben Hur), Paul Hartmann, FelixWeingartner, Albert Bassermann, Giacomo Puccini, Max

Pallenberg etc. G to generally VG, 112Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 1097AUTOGRAPHS: A miscellaneous selection of signed pieces,A.Ls.S., a few signed photographs and magazine photographs,unsigned printed ephemera etc., by a variety of individuals,including Frederick Temple (as Bishop of Exeter), RichardChenevix Trench (as Archbishop of Dublin), Wilbur Smith,Emile Ford, original unsigned sepia carte-de-visite photographof the Earl of Lucan by Maull & Co. of London, various printedActs of Parliament from the reigns of Queen Anne, King GeorgeII & King George III etc. FR to generally G, 15 Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00

Lot: 1098AUTOGRAPHS: A miscellaneous selection of signed pieces,cards, A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S. etc., by a wide variety of famousindividuals including Mark W. Clark, Viscount Trenchard, JohnSimon, Earl Halifax, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Kingsley Wood,Samuel Hoare, George Lowe, Rex Harrison (signed cheque),Severiano Ballesteros, Andre Maurois, William Gladstone(requesting half a dozen copies of the Hook Lecture), PierreDevaux, Robert Hardy, Anne Haddy, Clement Freud, JoanCrawford, Cecil Beaton etc. A few FR, generally G to VG, 37Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1099VISITORS BOOK: The large 4to Visitor's Book of the OakleyCourt Hotel restaurant, Windsor, 1984-86, containing varioussignatures by a wide variety of famous individuals includingSeveriano Ballesteros, Manuel Pinero, Quentin Crisp, PatrickMacnee, Ian Botham, Donovan, Lionel Stander, F. M. F. WestVC, Elkie Brooks, John Blashford Snell, Charles Bronson, JillIreland, Manchester United (various members of the FA Cupwinning team of 1985 including Norman Whiteside, Gary Bailey,Mark Hughes, Frank Stapleton, Jesper Olsen, Arthur Albistonetc.), Neil Sedaka, Robert Morley, Stefanie Powers, PhilCollins, Eric Clapton etc. Most neatly annotated by a member ofstaff at the hotel. The book also contains many signatures ofless illustrious guests (many Americans, Japanese etc.) andmost of the multiple signed pages are accompanied bycomments and remarks on the food and service etc. Lackingthe covers, otherwise about VGEstimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 1100AUTOGRAPHS: A miscellaneous selection of signed cards, 8 x10 photographs, signed CDs, programmes, calendars etc., by avariety of famous individuals, mainly sportsmen andentertainers, including Bobby Charlton (3), Jack Charlton (2),Alan Ball, Jason Leonard, Lawrence Dallaglio, Vinnie Jones,Frank Lampard, Tony Adams, Teddy Sheringham, GeorgeLazenby (in costume as James Bond), Denzel Washington (incostume as Malcolm X), Tom Cruise & Demi Moore (together ina scene from A Few Good Men), David Copperfield, Kiri TeKanawa, Jose Carreras, Jo Guest, Nell McAndrew, MartineMcCutcheon, John Major, Travis, Blue (5) etc., also includingsome unsigned printed ephemera etc. Some are individuallymatted and framed and glazed. Generally G to VG, 48Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

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