Theatre & Music. A collection of autographs and ephemera...

Hammer

£60

Theatre & Music. A collection of autographs and ephemera, late Victorian and later, including 11 b/w postcards from 'His House In Order' with Irene Vanbrugh (1872-1949) and/or George Alexander (1858-1918), one of which is autographed by the actress, further autographs, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), Sir John Martin Harvey (1863-1944), R.A. Roberts (d. 1915), Whit Cunliffe (1876-1966), Donald Peers (1908-1973), Wilkie Bard (1874-1944) & Neil Kenyon (1873-1946), an album of 28 postcards of English regional theatres, early 20th c and later, mostly b/w with some colour, including the two states of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, approx. 25 English regional theatre programmes, c. 1880-1934, architectural and pictorial, including an Aesthetic Movement design for The Manchester Place of Varieties, Henry Irving as Richard III at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, a 1pp ALS from Eric James (1913-2006), musical collaborator of Charlie Chaplin, n.d., musical notation headed writing-paper, a b/w publicity photograph of Eric and his wife & fellow musician Phyllis O'Reilly, a photographic print of James with an elderly Chaplin, 1953 sheet music for Eternally, Based on the Theme from Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight", original wrappers, 4to, two bills for Count Basie and His Orchestra at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, 26th May, [1975], autograph of Jazz guitarist Freddie Green (1911-1987) on a Count Basie publication, for whom Green played rhythm guitar in his orchestra, three sets of Beatles sheet music, She Loves You and two copies of All My Loving, Northern Songs Ltd, 1963, original wrappers, 4to, two theatre bills for ABC, Wigan, 11th November, [1965], including Gene Pitney, Lulu and the Luvvers, others, a leaflet for Sammy David Jr. at the Empire Liverpool, further ephemera