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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Autograph Auction | |||
| Auctioneer: | IAA International Autograph Auctions Ltd | Location: | Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)115 845 1010 Fax: +44 (0)115 845 1009 | ||
| Date: | 26th April 2014 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: On the day of the auction from 9am and throughout the duration of the auction |
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| Auction Lots - Page 9 | |||
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| CLASSICAL MUSIC: A slim 4to hardbound edition of the score to Handel's The Messiah - A Sacred Oratorio, edited by Ebenezer Prout and published by Novello and Company Ltd., London, 1902, individually signed to the front free endpaper and front pastedown by over fifty classical musicians and singers including Kathleen Ferrier, Eva Turner, Irene Scharrer, Alfredo Campoli, Louis Kentner, Gerald Moore, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Isobel Baillie, Heddle Nash, Arthur Casson, Joan Cross and many others. Most have signed with their names alone in fountain pen inks and a few in pencil. Some age wear to the cloth boards, otherwise about VG £100 - 150 |
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| 402 | |||
| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Collection of signed cards (most irregularly clipped and mounted beneath photographs of various sizes), some vintage signed photographs etc., by various classical musicians, composers, conductors etc., including Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Walter Susskind, Jascha Horenstein, Louis Fremaux, Antal Dorati, Louis Lane, Malcolm Sargent, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Oda Slobodskaya, Louis Kentner, Lucia Popp, Yehudi Menuhin, Hubert du Plessis etc. All are inscribed to Dr. Solly Aronowsky and most are dated in Johannesburg during the 1950s and 1960s. Extensive faults, tears, stains, creasing, pinholes etc., many affecting the signatures. Only 7 to about FR, 116 £200 - 300 Solly Aronowsky - Conductor and Musicologist, founder of the London International Orchestra. |
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| 403 | |||
| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Selection of signed 5 x 7 photographs by various Classical musicians, Conductors and Opera singers including Albert Erede, Daniel Barenboim, Edita Gruberova, Nicola Zaccaria, Rita Orlandi Malaspina, Paul Schoffler, James King, Carlo Cossuta, Aldo Protti, Jose Cura, Annette Dasch etc. Some of the images are colour and many depict the singers in costume poses. VG to EX, 12 £100 - 120 |
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| 404 | |||
| CLASSICAL MUSIC: Small selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various classical musicians and conductors comprising Lorin Maazel, Alfred Brendel, Paul Badura Skoda, Sol Gabetta, Friedrich Cerha and Truls Mork. Some of the images are colour and all are boldly signed to clear areas. VG to EX, 6 £80 - 100 |
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| 405 | |||
| CATALANI ANGELICA: (1780-1849) Italian Opera Singer. Scarce ink signature ('Ang Catalani') to the border of an attractive printed oblong 12mo admittance ticket for Madame Catalani's Extra Night at the King's Theatre, 9th July 1812. Numbered for Box No. 99. Some light overall age wear and minor creasing, G £80 - 120 |
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| 406 | |||
| FLAGSTAD KIRSTEN: (1895-1962) Norwegian Opera Singer. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Flagstad in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink across a light area at the base of the image. Together with Jane Fonda (1937- ) American Actress, Academy Award winner. Signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of the actress in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold black ink across a light area at the base of the image. VG to EX, 2 £100 - 120 |
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| 407 | |||
| BATTISTINI MATTIA: (1856-1928) Italian Baritone. Vintage signed postcard photograph of the singer seated in a half length profile pose reading a score. Signed ('Battistini') in dark fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 1925 in his hand. Together with vintage signed postcard photographs of the singers Esther Rethy and Peter Klein, each showing them in head and shoulders costume poses. VG, 3 £100 - 120 |
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| 408 | |||
| BASTIANINI ETTORE: (1922-1967) Italian Opera Singer. Rare vintage signed 5 x 7 photograph of the baritone in a head and shoulders pose in costume as Renato from Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze. Photograph by Marchiori of Florence. Signed in blue fountain pen ink across the base of the image, largely across a darker area. Autographs of Bastianini are rare as a result of his untimely death from cancer. About EX £100 - 150 |
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| 409 | |||
| WUNDERLICH FRITZ: (1930-1966) German Tenor. Rare vintage signed postcard photograph of Wunderlich in a close-up head and shoulders pose in costume from Palestrina. Photograph by Fayer of Vienna. Signed by Wunderlich with his name alone in blue ink at the base of the image, across a darker area although reasonably legible. Autographs of Wunderlich are rare as a result of a tragic accident at the age of 35. EX £200 - 300 |
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| 410 | |||
| OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs by various Opera singers etc., including Beniamino Gigli (in costume from Traviata), Placido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Kiri Te Kanawa, Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballe, Russell Watson, Katherine Jenkins, Willard White, Lesley Garrett, Charlotte Church etc. A few duplicates. Many of the images are colour and are slightly grainy reproductions. Generally VG, 19 £80 - 120 |
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| 411 | |||
| OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs, most vintage, by various opera singers including Alfred Piccaver (in costume from Madame Butterfly), Jon Vickers, Peter Klein (in costume from The Tales of Hoffmann), William Wernigk (in costume from Carmen), Dagmar Hermann, Norman Foster, Herbert Alsen (in costume from The Flying Dutchman), Reri Grist, Ingrid Bjoner, Paul Schoffler (in costume from Carmen) etc. All are boldly signed, most in fountain pen inks, to clear areas of the images or the lower borders. VG to EX, 12 £100 - 150 |
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| 412 | |||
| OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs by various opera singers including Grace Bumbry, Martha Modl, Jess Thomas, James King, Jessye Norman, Renato Bruson, Edita Gruberova, Gundula Janowitz, Anneliese Rothenberger & Rosette Anday, Teresa Zylis-Gara etc. Many of the images depict the singers in costume poses. VG, 12 £80 - 120 |
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| 413 | |||
| OPERA: Selection of signed colour 8 x 10 photographs by various opera singers including Angelika Kirchschlager, Antonietta Stella (in costume from Aida), Ruxandra Donose, Krassimira Stoyanova, Chen Reiss & Michaela Selinger, Pretty Yende, Edita Gruberova, Elena Obraztsova, Angela Denoke & Johan Botha, Zeljko Lucic etc. Most of the images are colour and many show the singers in costume poses. All are boldly signed to clear areas of the images. G (1), otherwise EX, 12 £80 - 120 |
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| 414 | |||
| PAVLOVA ANNA: (1881-1931) Russian Ballet Dancer. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('Anna Pavlova') on an 8vo page removed from an autograph album. Together with Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) French Actress. Dark fountain pen ink signature and inscription, in French, on an 8vo page removed from an autograph album, dated 1916 in her hand. Both pages are neatly annotated in pencil. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, about VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| 415 | |||
| PAVLOVA ANNA: (1881-1931) Russian Ballet Dancer. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Pavlova standing in an elegant full length pose en pointe. Signed in dark fountain pen ink with her name alone at the base of the image. Some heavy silvering, about G £100 - 150 |
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| 416 | |||
| PAVLOVA ANNA: (1881-1931) Russian Ballet Dancer. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Pavlova standing in a full length pose, en pointe, in costume from Swan Lake. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink with her name alone across a light area at the centre of the image. Some silvering and light age wear, G £100 - 150 |
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| 417 | |||
NUREYEV RUDOLF: (1938-1993) Russian Ballet Dancer. Signed colour 5 x 7 photograph of Nureyev in a candid head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone across a light area at the base of the image. EX £80 - 100ART & LITERATURE |
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| 418 | |||
| GAINSBOROUGH THOMAS: (1727-1788) English Painter. An original 9.5 x 7 pen and wash drawing by Gainsborough, Figures by a Cart in a wooded Landscape, the work in pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on varnished paper laid down to a panel. Attached to the verso of the panel is a sheet with an annotation in Gainsborough's hand, in part, 'First with towns - G.W. and 3 times with MS Var....', dated 23rd January 1769 by the artist (thus providing one of the few fixed dates relevant to a Gainsborough drawing) and with a further annotation in an unidentified hand, 'A present from Mr. Gainsborough to his friend Col. St. Paul. Much valued'. Gainsborough's own annotation is somewhat rubbed and a little indistinct, however the date remains perfectly legible. Double matted in cream with gold borders and framed and glazed in a gold coloured frame to an overall size of 26 x 21. Some age wear, G £8000 - 12000 Provenance: Presented by the artist to Colonel St. Paul; Anon Sale; Sotheby's, 23rd November 1966, Lot 250 (to Fielding and Morley-Fletcher); with the Fine Art Society, 1967; Walter Brandt. Exhibited: Ickworth, English Water-Colours of the Great Period from a Private Collection, May-June 1968 (No. 31). Dr. John Hayes, author of The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough (1970) described the present work as 'a characteristic example of Gainsborough's pen and wash drawings of the late 1760s'. |
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| 419 | |||
| LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet. Black ink signature ('Believe me, yours very truly, Edward Lear') on a small piece, matted in white beneath an image of Lear in a head and shoulders pose. Framed and glazed in a gold coloured frame to an overall size of 11 x 17. VG £100 - 120 |
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| 420 | |||
| LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet. A.L.S., Edward Lear, four pages, 8vo, Villa Emily, Sanremo, 4th July 1875, to Constance. Lear expresses his desire to be informed about his correspondent and receive 'a general account of all of you, particularly of your Uncle Arthur, whose state of health when I left England was, tho' not worse, yet not satisfactory. I hope your Mama & Papa are well - & Uncles Will & Christopher, & Aunt & Uncle Palmer' and further continues 'Knowing your love of Autographs, I have just hit on an idea, which if carried out will confirm you as a devoted worshipper of this child to the end of his life:- namely - all the subscribers - (I think from 600 - 800) to my "Corsica", sent me their names in writing, & I mean to leave the whole Budget to you in my Will - there being among them some of interest & value. But if Mama & you will come here next winter, I hereby declare I will give the whole lot to you myself, without waiting for dissolution. Meanwhile I find one of gt. interest, - namely that of Prosper Merimee - (which alas is connected with Corsica - of which land he wrote one of his very best tales "Colomba"?) so you can commence your Corsican series with this. (I declare I feel inclined to say you shall only have the great mass of Autographs if you Lear again writes of mutual friends and his correspondent's family and in a postscript adds 'As you may not have known much of M. Prosper Merimee, I may add that he was always considered one of the most influential & important persons about the late Emperor Napoleon's court - (he had always rooms there as one of the family) besides being a senator, & one of the best known Literati of France.' A letter of good content. Some light overall age wear and creasing, the edges of the letter a little worn and with some small tears, only very slightly affecting the text, but not the signature, G £800 - 1000 |
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| 421 | |||
| LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet. A.L.S., Edward Lear, four pages, 8vo, Villa Emily, Sanremo, 22nd October 1876, to 'My dear Constance'. Lear states that he should have replied to his correspondent's letter earlier although 'I saw the terrible calamity at Bangor announced in the papers, & I thought you would all have more than enough to think of without worrying over letters from this child' and continues to enquire if it was the eldest son of a mutual friend who perished, commenting 'Somehow, in our inconsistent & vague ways of thought, it seems a slight comfort that his poor Father was removed before this happened. But, coming so soon after Arthur's death, the blow to his poor widow must have been most hard to bear. If you can tell me anything about them you will do me a kindness'. He further discusses the health of his correspondent's mother and father before remarking 'No, Miss: English air would not do me no good: no, not at all. English smoke, English Eastwind, English climate of any sort - far be it from me during the now short time I have to live! I say short - for I am 65 next May - & 70 is the universal doom'. Lear also makes reference to a collection of signatures, 'And now - about the Autographs - I have heard that a family of "Hooks" are coming here this winter, & "someone said" they are Dean Hooks people. If this be so, could they carry back the 800 autographs? Though I would far rather your mother & you & any amount of you would come & fetch them' and continues to write of his garden and house and present condition, 'I weary exceedingly of living so much alone - tho' I don't see how it is to be helped, - & after all.....it seems to me that patience & waiting are what we ought most particularly to cultivate. Just now I am not especially lively, as my dear good old servant, who for 21 years has been so faithful always, - is far from well. He has never got over the dreadful blow of his wife, mother's and brother's deaths nearly at once: - & he changes much. I have let him have his 2nd son here - since all those distresses happened & that helps him: little enough for me to do to so long tried & good a man. (I say long tried advisedly:- for my temper was always abominable, though I hope less so than formerly.' Some light overall age wear and creasing, the edges of the letter a little worn and with some small tears, only very slightly affecting the text, but not the signature, G £800 - 1000 |
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| 422 | |||
| FLINT WILLIAM RUSSELL: (1880-1969) Scottish Artist and Illustrator. A good series of eleven A.Ls.S., Willie, and one signed in full, seventeen pages (total), 8vo and 4to, Peel Street, Campden Hill, and one from Perthshire, 5th January 1945 - 20th January 1958, all to Jack Cardiff. Flint writes a series of largely social letters to his friend, although also comments on both his own work and that of Cardiff, in part, 'I'd have loved taking you to the R.A. though I would have been "all of a tremble" until I had your approval of V[ivien] L[eigh] as Cleopatra! One of the Denham Publicity people (I forget his name) told me you were fixed up in a splendid contract for a long new film. I do hope it is true & that you are in for a very successful & happy job o'work. You know that is my truest wish for you....I'm now, after 3 days of complete illness, hoping to get some small watercolour landscapes. The greens, however, are of terrific crudity' (Perthshire, 14th May 1945), 'How cruel to have the Italian film called off. Just like the Italians, one never trusts them. You have had adventures, all of you....although you haven't been to Capri, you've been to Rome & Florence. During our seven months stay in Rome years & years ago Sibylle & I got to know it pretty well but we've always found Florence a most exhausting city.....I'm not sure, but I have a strong belief that your loved Verrocchio's boy & dolphin fountain is represented in the V & A by a full size cast. I may be wrong, however, so don't cancel your photographs. It is a delicious thing.....Jack, old lad, don't worry about your "Fountain Figure". It is yours, safe & sound. It was sheer bad luck John Moore taking such a fancy to it but I've soothed him with a rough "make ready" print of it.....I hope you get a little film about Montmartre. How I wish I could be with you! I'm very busy with all sorts of jobs, R.A. (on the council again: on the Finance committee & in charge of "RA Illustrated")....' (9th January 1949), 'I'm so pleased you are happy in Rome. I long to fly out & see you & stay a fortnight & paint a bit. It would be lovely to see you both in your Roman surroundings.....Good luck to the film, Jack, old lad, it's a joy to think of you directing' (15th February 1953), 'It was a great pleasure to see you both so well & in such a beautiful home. You have made it a most swagger place - one to be proud of.....I positively envied some of your possessions!! You have arranged everything (including your Cardiffian Old Masters) very effectively. They are a joy to the eye.' (30th November 1956). One of the letters includes a page of text in the hand of Flint's wife, Sibylle. Together with a partially printed 12mo invitation card, completed and signed by Flint in the third person and inviting Cardiff and his wife to an evening of 'Sheery & pictures', an unsigned 6.5 x 5 photograph of Flint and Cardiff standing together admiring a watercolour, and also including a signed and inscribed hardback edition of Modern Masters of Etching by Flint, with an introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman, Number 27, published by The Studio Ltd., London, 1931. Featuring twelve illustrated plates tipped in and bound in the original boards with printed paper labels. Signed by Flint to the title page, 'This copy is for Julie & Jack Cardiff with best wishes from W. Russell Flint' and dated 3rd December 1944 in his hand. Some light foxing and age wear and some tears to the spine. One of the letters with some staining, the others with light age wear and a few minor tears at the edges, G to generally about VG, 14 £600 - 800 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) British Cinematographer, Director & Photographer, Academy Award winner. Cardiff is remembered for his collaborations with directors including Powell and Pressburger, as well as Hitchcock and Huston. |
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| 423 | |||
| EPSTEIN JACOB: (1880-1959) British Sculptor. A.L.S., Jacob Epstein, two pages, 8vo, Kensington, 26th April 1957, to Mr. Kaye. The sculptor announces 'I am sending to you the bronze bust of "Kathleen" which has been cast. It will be forwarded to you at 424 E. 52nd St. N.Y. & I hope it arrives all right' and politely asks that the balance of the fee be sent. Epstein further writes 'I am very fully engaged at the moment on my large work for Coventry Cathedral which will take the form of St. Michael'. VG £100 - 120 Epstein refers to a bust of his longtime mistress and eventual second wife, Kathleen Garman (1901-1979). |
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| 424 | |||
| HOCKNEY DAVID: (1937- ) British Artist. Signed colour 11 x 8.5 printed paper photograph, the image depicting Hockney lying in a head and shoulders pose with a small dog affectionately lying on his face. Signed by Hockney in black ink with his name alone to a clear area at the base of the image. EX £100 - 120 |
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| 425 | |||
| HIRST DAMIEN: (1965- ) English Artist. An original colour 6 x 4 photograph of a fully peeled banana, neatly cornermounted to an oblong 4to sheet of white paper bearing the printed caption 'Mother's love and hate as they are reflected in the appearance of a circumcised penis' by Damien Hirst at the head, and a further printed caption below, 'A Derby brand fully peeled banana from Ecuador of an average size in a room in which I cried last night because of matters related to love on a white plastic windowsill' on a photograph. Signed by Hirst in gold ink with his name alone to the lower right corner. Matted in ivory and framed and glazed in a gold coloured frame to an overall size of 17 x 14. VG £400 - 600 |
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| 426 | |||
| ROUAULT GEORGES: (1871-1958) French Painter. Vintage signed postcard photograph of the artist in a semi-profile head and shoulders pose. Signed to the verso in blue ink with his name alone. VG £100 - 120 |
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| 427 | |||
| TOUCHAGUES LOUIS: (1893-1974) French Painter, Illustrator and Designer. A good original signed pen and ink drawing by Touchagues, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. The image depicts a shapely young lady standing in a full length pose with her long tongue protruding from her mouth. Signed ('Touchagues') with his name alone at the base. Together with Ludmilla Tcherina (1924-2004) French Ballerina, Sculptor & Painter. An original signed pencil drawing by Tcherina, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. The image shows a fashionable female in a head and shoulders pose. Signed with her name alone in pencil at the base of the image. VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| 428 | |||
| [PICASSO PABLO]: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter. An unusual hand carved light coloured wooden walking cane, 35" in length, the carved handle (approximately 4 x 8 inches) featuring two faces at either end attributed to Pablo Picasso and apparently presented by him to the American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. as a birthday gift. Rare and unusual. Some light age wear, otherwise VG £2000 - 3000 Provenance: The vendor obtained the cane indirectly from Sy Marsh, Sammy Davis Jr's personal manager for over twenty years, and it was originally accompanied by a necktie and pair of shoes also belonging to Davis Jr. A colour image of the present cane displayed in a frame alongside the necktie and shoes is included in the lot, as is a copy of a letter of authenticity signed by Marsh relating to the shoes. Also included in the lot is a printed 8vo edition of Jet magazine, 4th June 1990, featuring a tribute to Davis Jr. and making reference to Picasso, who had painted a portrait of him, and his relationship with the entertainer whose own extensive art collection included works by Picasso ('Among the outstanding works contained in the world's greatest performer's collection, a profile head-and-shoulder painting of Davis by Pablo Picasso') |
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| 429 | |||
| WARHOL ANDY: (1928-1987) American Pop Artist. Bold black ink signature ('Andy Warhol') on an oblong 12mo stiff white card. EX £100 - 150 |
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| 430 | |||
| WARHOL ANDY: (1928-1987) American Pop Artist. Signed and inscribed printed 8vo invitation card to a reception in honour of Warhol at the Bischofberger Gallery at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, 14th February 1976, on the occasion of the opening of his exhibition entitled Ladies and Gentlemen, the front cover featuring a colour image of one of the works from his Ladies and Gentlemen series (1975) which depicted various drag queens, transvestites and prostitutes. Signed by Warhol to the front cover, his first name to the lower white border beneath the image and his surname running across the base of the image with slightly weaker contrast. VG £200 - 300 |
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| 431 | |||
| TWOMBLY CY: (1928-2011) American Painter. Signed colour 4 x 6 postcard, being an image of one of the artist's Untitled sculptures from 2002. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone to a light area of the image. Together with Gottfried Helnwein (1948- ) Austrian-Irish Artist. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of the artist standing in a three quarter length pose with a large image of Marilyn Manson in the immediate background. Signed by Helnwein with his name alone in blue ink to the image. EX, 2 £100 - 120 |
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| 432 | |||
| NEWTON HELMUT: (1920-2004) German-Australian Fashion Photographer. Signed 4 x 6 postcard, being an image of his photograph entitled Suzy, Paris (1974), one of his White Woman series depicting a naked model. Signed with his name alone in bold black ink to a clear area of the image. EX. £100 - 120 |
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| GILES CARL: (1916-1995) British Cartoonist. Signed and inscribed Christmas greetings card by Giles, the oblong 4to folding card featuring a colour illustration to the cover, being a reproduction of an amusing cartoon by Giles depicting a policeman inspecting Santa Claus's sleigh, pulled by two reindeers, and discovering several pheasants hidden within a red sack. Santa Claus can be seen hiding behind a tree within the forest, angrily observing the policeman and holding a shooting rifle in his hands. Signed by Giles in bold black ink to the inside, 'To H.R.H. Prince Charles….from Giles', alongside a printed greeting. A good association. VG £80 - 100 Prince Charles (1948- ) Prince of Wales, eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. |
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| 434 | |||
| RYAN JOHN: (1921-2009) British Animator & Cartoonist, creator of Captain Pugwash. Selection of six original pen and ink drawings by Ryan, each on 12mo white cards, n.p., October 2006. In blue and black inks Ryan has drawn sketches of some of his most famous characters etc. including Captain Pugwash, Cut-throat Jake (2), The Black Pig and Harris Tweed. All are signed, dated and titled by Ryan and one has a brief A.N.S. to the verso. VG to EX, 6 £100 - 150 |
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| 435 | |||
| KANE BOB: (1915-1998) American Comic Book Artist, creator of the superhero Batman. An 8 x 4.5 oval gold and black foil sticker featuring the familiar Batman logo, signed in bold gold ink by Kane with his name alone. EX £80 - 100 |
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| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. Autograph Envelope signed, addressed in his hand to Leigh Hunt at Edwards Square, Kensington. Signed ('Charles Dickens') to the lower left corner. The envelope bears a Penny Black postage stamp and several partial and illegible post marks. Neatly cornermounted to card and matted beneath a small reproduction photograph of Dickens and framed and glazed in a dark wooden frame to an overall size of 10 x 16.5. Some light age wear, otherwise VG £300 - 400 Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) English Critic, Essayist, Poet & Writer. Hunt is believed to have been the inspiration behind the character Harold Skimpole in Dickens's Bleak House (1852-53). |
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| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A fine D.S., Charles Dickens (a good, bold blue ink example with paraph), being a signed cheque, London, 9th September 1861. The partially printed cheque, completed entirely by Dickens, is drawn on Messrs. Coutts & Compy., and made payable to H. M. S. Britannia for the sum of £10.0.0, and crossed by Dickens with two diagonal lines in his hand. A bank cancellation only very lightly touches the signature. Matted in black and framed and glazed to an overall size of 12 x 8. One very small file hole, not affecting the text or signature, and some light, minor age wear, VG £400 - 600 Dickens had sailed in the Britannia on his voyage to America in 1842, detailing the trip in his travelogue American Notes for General Circulation (October 1842). |
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| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S., Charles Dickens, with paraph, one page, 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, 30th April 1844, to Dr. [Thomas] Southwood Smith. Dickens informs his correspondent 'I feel, on second thoughts, the delicacy of chairmanship so strong….that I would rather leave Lords Normanby and Seymour to be written to, by the man of business' and concludes 'All the other people we spoke of this morning I have faithfully written to already.' With blank integral leaf. VG £600 - 900 Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) English Physician & Sanitary Reformer. In 1837, Thomas Southwood Smith issued his Report on the Physical Causes of Sickness and Mortaliy to which the poor are regularly exposed and which are preventable by Sanitary Measures. As a result Southwood Smith escorted Dickens to see the poor conditions described in the report, which prompted the novelist to write Bleak House and Oliver Twist. |
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| COLLINS WILKIE: (1824-1889) English Novelist. Autograph address panel signed ('Wilkie Collins'), the oblong 12mo panel neatly trimmed from a larger envelope, addressed by Collins in bold, dark fountain pen ink to Edward Lear at Villa Tennyson, San Remo, Italy and additionally marked in his hand 'By Book Post, Registered' and dated 25th August 1883. Bearing a four pence postage stamp and two Registered postal cancellations. Signed by Collins at the base with his return address at 90 Gloucester Place, London, in his hand. An interesting association. Some light age wear, otherwise VG £100 - 150 Edward Lear (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet. |
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| [DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN]: (1859-1930) Scottish Author, creator of Sherlock Holmes. DOYLE ADRIAN CONAN (1910-1970) Youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle and founder of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Foundation in 1965. Doyle also served as his father's literary executor following the death of his mother in 1940. Early A.L.S., Malcolm, one page, folio, Eastbourne, 3rd October 1927, to his father ('Dearest Pop'). Doyle thanks his father for his letter ('It was most cheering and welcome') and continues to refer to his elder brother Denis and his studies, 'I absolutely understand about dear old Den being at home, and I'm jolly glad he is and I hope he has a good time. I have now got used to the work again and I am doing my best to pick up lost ground.' Doyle further writes 'As for my own small troubles, these things will happen and they are good training for life. I hope that, in the near future, things may take on a brighter outlook. It is very pleasant now at Barrow as the English number seven and the foreigners only four' before again referring to his brother, 'Denis is very much missed. Will you tell Den that we have now at Barrow a powerful 3 litre Sunbeam'. He concludes 'I'm looking forward frightfully to seeing you both again and Denis. I greatly appreciate your letter, dearest of pops, as I know how awfully busy you are. It was ripping of you. Au revoir, now, dear Daddy, heaps of love to you both'. A letter of good association. One very small, extremely minor and neat split to a fold at the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG £100 - 120 |
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| MASEFIELD JOHN: (1878-1967) British Poet Laureate 1930-67. Collection of nine A.Ls.S., John Masefield, and seven with his first name only, fourteen pages (total), oblong 8vo, Burcote Brook, Abingdon and n.p., n.d., each to Ruth [Robinson]. Masefield writes a series of social letters to his friend, thanking her for gifts, and for the years of friendship ('since the famous rendering of Medea when your speaking first delighted me') and also sending his own good wishes to her for Christmas and Birthdays ('Now it is for me to write for your Birthday, to wish you a sunny day, & many happy years to come to you; & to thank you for so many long years of friendship & poetry'), and in one letter wishing her good luck with a production and remarking 'I will read the play afresh & send you some thing about it during the week: probably late in the week: for the book is astray somewhere'. Together with a typed letter, unsigned, two pages, oblong 8vo, n.p., n.d., encouraging his correspondent to write about the production of a Greek play. FR (1), otherwise generally VG, 10 £100 - 150 |
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| SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. Dark fountain pen ink signature and inscription, 'To Gladys Evelyn Potter, whose brother is a good friend to me, G. Bernard Shaw', on an 8vo page removed from an autograph album. Dated Ayot Saint Lawrence, 21st November 1946, in his hand. VG £80 - 100 |
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| SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. Bold, dark fountain pen ink signature and inscription, 'To Alice Laden for my kind friend Cyril Albert Potter. G. Bernard Shaw', on a slim oblong 12mo piece, very neatly affixed (creating the impression of a signed photograph) to the lower border of a vintage 7.5 x 11 photograph of Shaw seated in a half length pose with his arms folded. VG £100 - 150 |
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| SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. T.L.S., G. Bernard Shaw, one page, 4to, Ayot Saint Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 23rd June 1949, to C[yril] A[lbert] Potter. Shaw announces 'I have just been comparing notes with one who was once the richest country gentleman in England, and a Cabinet Minister' and continues 'His famous mansion, park, and farm lands, now belong to the National Trust, leaving him only a life interest. When he has paid his surtax and all the other taxes he can just afford to live plainly like any manager….and he is comfortable, but nothing more. He does not complain, having worked politically all his public life for a more equitable distribution of wealth.' He further adds 'My own position comes to the same. I am comfortable in my ten roomed villa and two acres of garden; but I have not a penny to spare' and concludes 'My housekeeper will not tolerate a rival to the teapot. She declares that it is wonderful, that there is nothing like it on earth and could not be bettered. For her le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. Better leave well alone'. With two holograph corrections. Some light age wear at the folds, causing two small holes at the centre and some slight, neat splitting to the lower edge, not affecting the text or signature. G £200 - 300 |
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| ELIOT T. S.: (1888-1965) American-born English Poet & Dramatist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1948. A fine, bold dark blue fountain pen ink signature ('T. S. Eliot') and date, 29th November 1955, in his hand on an oblong 12mo stiff white card. Together with Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) Anglo-Irish Poet, Poet Laureate 1968-72. Dark fountain pen ink signature and inscription on an oblong 12mo stiff white card. One extremely minor ink blot and smudge only very slightly affecting the signature. EX, 2 £100 - 120 |
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| WILDER THORNTON: (1897-1975) American Playwright & Novelist. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Heaven's My Destination, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1935. Signed by Wilder in blue fountain pen ink to the title page, 'Countess Dagmar Alvarez de Toledo, with the regards of - and expectation of many congenial hours conversation, Cordially, Thornton Wilder' and dated Hamden, Connecticut, November 1958 in his hand. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title and decoartion etc. to spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Together with Harold Acton (1904-1994) British Writer & Scholar. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Memoirs of an Aesthete, First Edition published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1948. Signed by Acton in bold blue fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper, 'To Dagmar Alvarez de Toledo y de Avella, with happy memories of both and all best wishes from Harold Acton'. Bound in pale blue cloth. Lacking the dust jacket. Generally VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| WILDER THORNTON: (1897-1975) American Playwright & Novelist. A.L.S., Thornton Wilder, two pages, 8vo, Naples, n.d. (December), to 'Chere Comtesse'. Wilder refers to having been in Zurich and Milan and explains 'Now I am "hanging around" Naples until my boat sails for Venezuela on the 21st' and further adds that he would have liked to have seen his correspondent, 'Just a year ago I was in Naples and I called at the Excelsior to be told that you were away - and I would have called there again last week (I always stop in for their martini cocktails, anyway) but that I now know you were in Lausanne'. He continues, 'I have always loved Naples intensely - even in the days when I was an officer at Caserta '44 and '45 and all those fascinating streets off the Via Tole were "out of bounds". The San Carlo has been giving operas that I could not sit through (Adriana Lecouvreur and Thais) but I always go to the Teatro San Ferdinando. I am afraid the wonderful Eduardo made a mistake in rebuilding that theatre in that district. The plays of Scarpetta no longer mean much to the "people". Even in the working classes in that part of town the people are sitting all evening before their television screens'. Together with a book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of A Thornton Wilder Trio, published by Criterion Books, New York, 1956. Signed by Wilder in bold dark blue fountain pen ink to the title page, 'For Dagmar Alvarez de Toledo - with the regards and friendship of Thornton Wilder', and dated Hamden, Connecticut, May 1960 in his hand. Bound in grey and red cloth boards. Lacking the dust jacket. A few light, minor creases to the base of the letter, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG, 2 £100 - 150 |
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| WREN P.C.: (1875-1941) British Writer of Adventure fiction, including Beau Geste (1924). A good A.L.S., Percy, four pages, 4to, Parkstone, Dorset, 9th October 1925, to Lorna, a relative. Wren announces 'I am just off to America in search of gold. Not so much in the Klondyke region as in those of New York & Hollywood' and continues to explain 'I am invited to lecture in America (!) & expect to bring off a satisfactory deal over the film rights of "Beau Geste" & its successor "Who Rideth Alone". With the invincible modesty that has hindered me throughout my brief life I am asking £5000 for each. Probably I shall then perish in Los Angeles of malaria, & they will get there money back & give me a nice funeral'. Wren further adds that he would like to accept his correspondent's invitation and come to Sheffield ('though I have heard that the town itself does not compare with Los Angeles, Rome, Florence, nor Naples for beauty') and asking if he may come when he returns to England. The novelist further refers to his regret at missing the opportunity to see his relations, including 'the two younger ladies who are growing up to carry on the tradition of their mother's beauty, their father's cleverness & their grandfather's literary ability & fame (to come).' A letter of interesting content. About VG £100 - 150 |
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| WREN P.C.: (1875-1941) British Writer of Adventure fiction, including Beau Geste (1924). T.L.S., Percy, one page, 4to, Bournemouth, 30th March n.y., to a relation, 'My dear Cyril', on the printed stationery of the E.I. United Service Club in London. Wren thanks his correspondent for their letter concerning the good news about a young lady, remarking 'May she have her father's brains and her mother's beauty and the best of good luck through life.' Wren continues to report 'I have been having a rather thin time. I do hope you'll both see the Beau Geste film for it's a really good one and would give Lorna a lovely cry for her money' and in concluding thanks his correspondent for an invitation and send his congratulations and good wishes 'to you, Lorna, and my step-great-niece-in-law, name unknown'. About VG £80 - 100 |
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| SMITH DODIE: (1896-1990) English Novelist & Playwright of The Hundred and One Dalmatians. A.L.S., Dodie Smith, two pages, small 4to, Finchingfield, Essex, 16th February 1975, to Mrs. Stanesby. Smith thanks her correspondent for her letter and remarks 'I am so glad to know that "Look Back With Love" [:a Manchester Childhood] gave you pleasure - which your letter certainly gave me.' She continues 'I can well imagine how changed Whalley Range must be but I suspect that you have accepted the changes much as one accepts the ageing of one's friends faces, and affection persists. But I'm glad I can look back on the old houses and gardens and wide, tree-lined roads' and further informs her correspondent that 'My husband and I are now working on...the second volume of my autobiography. There is quite a lot about St. Paul's Girls School, London. Though the teaching was admirable I never feel it had, on the whole, the class of Whalley Range High School.' VG £80 - 100 Look Back With Love: a Manchester Childhood was the first of four volumes of Smith's autobiography, published between 1974 - 85. Sold on behalf of the charity Oxfam. |
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