Autographs
Signed photograph
No Binding. Signed portrait photograph, "Stewart Granger". 14 x 9 cm. Postcard size. Granger (1913-1993) was a British actor particularly active in the 1940s to the 60s, in heroic and romantic leading roles. More
Signed photograph
No Binding. Signed portrait photograph, "Best wishes, Peter Graves". 15 x 10 cm. Postcard size. Harrison (1926-2010) was an American actor in film and TV notable for starring in the original series of Mission Impossible and the Airplane films. More
Love Respect
London: Cassell, 1965. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. No. 21 of 250 signed copies of an edition of 33 new poems, signed in black ink by Graves. Original cloth boards in black an grey with very good original dust wrapper which has some light staining. Offsetting stain on endpapers. More
Signed portrait photograph
No Binding. Photographic card signed"Charlotte Greenwood, Winkie". Postcard size 11 x 16 cm. Greenwood (1890-1977) was an American actress and dancer, starring in vaudeville, films and radio. More
Signature of Sir George Grey
No Binding. Signed slip, "G Grey". Grey was a leading politician writer and collector from the mid 19th C through to his death in 1898, holding positions as Governor and Prime Minister. Together with newspaper clipping of a biography. 8 x .5 cm. More
Hand-written letter
1886. No Binding. 2 sides, notepaper, 18.5 x 12 cm. Hand-written signed letter headed 14 Eaton Place, March 29, (1896?). Written in the third person, as was the custom of the day. "Sir George Grey presents his compliments to Captain Ross & begs to thank him for his obliging offer..... More
Signed hand-written letter
No Binding. ALS arranging her fee for entertaining at a 'tea party.' Written in French, 4 sides. Headed notepaper, Paris, 23 Boulevard Berthier Maxivet, Paris. Guilbert )c1869-1944) was a French singer and comedienne famed for her songs and sketches of Parisian life and revivals of old French ballads. 18 x...... More
Crispus
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1891. 1st Edition. Sm 8vo. Hardcover. pp. , 116. Original red cloth, gilt title. Includes newspaper clipping from 1959 on Guthrie-Smith. Excellent copy of this unusual item, a play about Crispus, son of the Byzantium emperor, Constantine. Inscription from the author to the notable mountaineer..... More
Hand-written postcard
1927. No Binding. Hand-written card:(to his close friend Lady Wavertree) 'My little wife died last night. We kept off the pain and depression to the very end. Five months of it! Yours, H.G.Wells.' Well's wife Jane died on 6 October, 1927 at Dunmow. The card is a photograph of their..... More
Signed photo postcard
No Binding. Signed photo postcard, showing Binnie Hale in full 18th C costume. Hale (1899 -1984), was a successful singer and actress reknown for her roles in operettas and musicals (including No, No, Nanette) and on screeen. 13.5 cm x 9 cm. More
ALS from Mark Hambourg, concert pianist
1920. No Binding. ALS on paper, 2-sided, headed Mark Hambourg Concert at the London Coliseum, Sunday, May 16th at 2.30 pm. Dated April 18, 1920. Addressed to the prominent socialite Lady Wavertree, advising her of a forthcoming benefit concert, asking her support in a campaign to save the London Fever..... More
Harry Holland
1925. No Binding. Westland Racing Club ticket, signed "H.E. Holland, Esq. M.P." For Midsummer Meeting, Dec. 26th, 1925. 4 x 7.5 cm. Henry Holland (1868-1933) was a trade unionist and the second leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. More
Signature on slip
No Binding. Signed slip "Sidney Herbert". The Rt Hon Sidney Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of Lea), MP for South Wiltshire, was Secretary of War at various times in the administrations of Robert Peel in 1845, then during the Crimean War in 1852-1854, and again in 1859 until retiring from..... More
Signature on slip
1936. No Binding. Signed slip 'Helen Hicks'. Plus a press cutting of a photograph from 7 August 1936 with Hicks and the other notable golfers Gene Sarazen and James Ferrier. Hicks (1911-1974) was a notable American golfer in the 1930s and 40s, and cofounder of the LGPA in 1950. 13..... More
Typed signed letter
1904. No Binding. TLS, letter dated October 4, 1904, single page 12 x 22 cm. Headed Vaudeville Theatre, and addressed to Miss Nathan in response to her request for an autograph. Hicks (1871-1949) was an English manager-actor, particularly acting in light comedies. He was later knighted. More
Signature of Jack Hobbs
No Binding. Signature on slip. John (Jack) Hobbs (1882-1963) was a noted cricketer, playing for Surrey from 1905 to 1935, and in some 60 test matches for England, becoming one of the most prolific run scorers of all time. He was later, in 1953, the first cricketer to be knighted..... More
Signed photograph
No Binding. Signed portrait photograph of the noted English actor and comedian. 13.5 x 8.5 cm. More
Types signed letter
No Binding. TLS to Lady Wavertree updating her with news of his work ("I am going to play a Pantomime season at the Prince Edward Theatre. This will be the first stage appearance I have made for nearly four years.") and Holloway's hopes to travel to Australia and New Zealand..... More
Signed photograph
No Binding. Signed portrait photograph, "Sincerely Sterling Holloway". 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Sterling (1905-1992) had a 50-year career in film, radio and television, notable with Disney, doing numerous voices for Disney films. More
Signed photograph postcard
No Binding. Signed photographic postcard, "Best wishes Victoria Hopper". 14 x 9 cm. Hopper (1909-2007) was a Candian-born British stage actress and singer. More
Signed photograph
No Binding. Signed portrait photograph, "Yours sincerely, Donald Houston". 14 x 8.5 cm. Houston (1923-19917) was a Welsh actor, notably in films in the 1960s. More
A Vakatusa Ni Lotu: o Koya Oqo Nai Vakadinadina, Kei Nai Vakavuvuli, Kei Na Cakacaka Dodonu Ni Lotu; Kei Na Valval e So e Na Lsia Ko Jisu Me La Tiko e Na Nona Lotu
Viwa, Fiji: Sa Tabaki Mai Viwa, 1850. 12mo. Orig. Cloth. pp.184. In the Fijian Language. (Evidence of Christianity). Original Cloth. Copy inscribed to "Seymour Thorne George, from Sir Geo Grey, Kawau N.Z. 23rd Nov 1872". Includes pencil note from the Grey catalogue. An extremely rare early Fiji imprint, especially important..... More