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Bloomsbury Auctions: Cinema, Entertainment and Music Memorabilia

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Auction Name Cinema, Entertainment and Music Memorabilia Total Sales (GBP) 71,105.00
Auction Date November 09, 2017 - November 09, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 51,760.00
Sale Number #19216 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 70,870.00
Total Lots 249
Sold Lots 131 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 78,410.00
% of Lots Sold 52.61% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 108,200.00
Unsold Lots 118 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 65.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
115 Monroe, Marilyn & others

Commemorative programme from the New York Birthday Salute event celebrating the birthday of John F. Kennedy on may 19

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 7,440.00
177 Beatles

An early Parlophone publicity postcard signed and inscribed on the verso "Love to Joan

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,968.00
208 McCartney, Paul

Autograph letter signed ('Paul') to a recipient named Linda

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,968.00
106 Lee, Bruce

A 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book containing annotations

1960s GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 3,720.00
202 Lennon, John

Back cover of the 1963 Beatles first LP release on Parlophone Records 'Please Please Me'

1963 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,720.00
203 Lennon, John

With The Beatles

1964 GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,224.00
222 Shostakovich, Dimitri

Autograph music quotation signed ('D.Shostakovich')

1974 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,108.00
237 Violinists

Large collection of letters and clipped signatures by prominent violinists and conductors. Including: Jan Kubelik (autograph letter signed in German to an admirer

1901 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,108.00
34 Houdini, Harry

A green

1915 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,860.00
249 1966 World Cup Winning Squad

Vintage Union Jack pole flag signed by sixteen of the 1966 FIFA World Cup winning England football squad

1966 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,736.00
215 Presley, Elvis

The King's second studio album signed by Elvis himself in white ink on the RCA Victor label

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,612.00
114 Monroe, Marilyn

Cheque signed ('Marilyn Monroe') for the sum of $108.60 payable to the New York Telephone Company

1959 GBP 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 GBP 1,488.00
141 Wizard of Oz

Colour landscape photograph of Dorothy

1939 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,240.00
204 Lennon, John

Off-white album page signed and inscribed "Good luck! This is the best I could do! John Lennon!!!! 1965" in blue biro pen ink

1965 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,178.00
213

Photograph Collections

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 992.00
5

Autograph Album - Incl. Damien Hirst

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 930.00
216 Presley, Elvis

Holiday on ice' Musical Memories Record Card signed by Elvis Presley in blue ballpoint pen ink

1959 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 930.00
15

Autograph Collection - Hollywood Stars

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 806.00
167 Sullivan, Arthur

Autograph music quotation signed ('Arthur S. Sullivan')

GBP 700.00 - 800.00 GBP 744.00
176 Beach Boys

Large, full length colour magazine photograph of the Beach Boys

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 682.00
29 Newman, Arnold

Man Ray

1948 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 620.00
184

Collection - Musicians

1927 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 620.00
189 Du Pre, Jacqueline & Daniel Barenboim

Souvenir programme of a concert held at the Royal Festival Hall on April 7th

1964 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 620.00
226 Springsteen, Bruce

Born to Run,

2016 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 620.00
67 Chaplin, Charles

Black and white photograph of Charlie Chaplin from 'The Vagabond

1916 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 558.00
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
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    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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