ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942-2016) American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion. Book signed, being a hardback edition of The Greatest - My Own Story, First ...

CLAIR RENE: (1898-1981) French Film Director. A.L.S., René Clair, one page, 4to, Paris, 17th November 1970, to Stanley Appelbaum, Over Publication...

LUBITSCH ERNST: (1892-1947) German-born American film director, an Honorary Academy Award recipient. An excellent T.L.S., Ernst, three pages, 4to,...

RIEFENSTAHL LENI: (1902-2003) German film director. A significant and interesting correspondence collection comprising two A.Ls.S. and nine T.Ls.S...

FILM DIRECTORS: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and smaller (1) by various film directors comprising Milcho Manchevski (on the set of Befor...

COWARD NOEL: (1899-1973) English actor, director and playwright, Academy Award winner. T.L.S., Noel, one page, 8vo, Les Avants sur Montreux, 12th ...

55 DAYS AT PEKING: Signed 10 x 8 photograph by David Niven (Sir Arthur Robertson), Elizabeth Sellars (Lady Sarah Robertson) and Robert Helpmann (P...

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN: Gene Kelly (1912-1996) American actor and dancer, the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award. Kelly starred in (and co-direct...

FINNEY ALBERT: (1936-2019) English actor. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Finney seated in a half-length pose, reading from a menu, in costume as Agat...

SLEEPING MURDER: Signed 8 x 6 photograph by both Joan Hickson (Miss Marple) and Jack Watson (Mr. Foster) individually, the image depicting the act...

BISSET JACQUELINE: (1944-     ) British actress. Small selection of five signed 8 x 10 photographs, each of them different images of the actress, ...

DE FUNES LOUIS: (1914-1983) French actor and comedian. An unusual set of eight folio pages (two bifolium) neatly removed from a scrapbook dedicate...

BELMONDO JEAN-PAUL: (1933-2021) French actor. Blue ink signature ('J P Belmondo') and three additional words in his hand, in French, on an 8vo pag...

CAGNEY JAMES: (1899-1986) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1942 for his role as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Sign...

BERGMAN INGRID: (1915-1982) Swedish actress, Academy Award winner. D.S., Ingrid Bergman, four pages, 4to, n.p. (New York), 10th April 1970. The pa...

LEWIS JERRY LEE: (1935-2022) American rock 'n' roll singer. D.S., Jerry Lee Lewis, one page, 4to, Memphis, Tennessee, 18th November 1966. The part...

BERLIOZ HECTOR: (1803-1869) French Composer. A good A.L.S., `H. Berlioz´, two pages, 12mo, Paris, 9th January 1851, to Philarete Chasles, in Frenc...

BIZET GEORGES: (1838-1875) French Composer. A rare and very fine A.L.S., Georges Bizet, three pages, 8vo, n.p. [Saint Gratien], n.d. [summer 1869]...

DELIBES LEO: (1836-1891) French Romantic composer, best known for his operas and ballets. A.L.S., Leo Delibes, one page, 8vo, Paris, n.d. ('Mercre...

MEYERBEER GIACOMO: (1791-1864) German Composer. A.L.S., `G. Meyerbeer´, one page, 8vo, n.p., 2nd August 1842, in French. Meyerbeer states `I deepl...

WAGNER RICHARD: (1813-1883) German Composer. A.N.S., `Rich. Wagner´, one page, 12mo, n.p., n.d., in French. Wagner sends an urgent and important m...

STRAUSS RICHARD: (1864-1949) German Composer. A.L.S., Richard Strauss, in German, to a postcard photograph, Garmisch, 23rd December 1908, to Filip...

CHERUBINI LUIGI: (1760-1842) Italian Composer. L.S., L. Cherubini, two pages, 4to, Paris., 29th May 1828, to Monsieur Sauvage, in French. Cherubin...

VERDI GIUSEPPE: (1813-1901) Italian Composer. A very good A.L.S., `G. Verdi´, one page, 8vo, Genova, 6th February 1891, to Giulio Ricordi, in Ital...

PUCCINI GIACOMO: (1858-1924) Italian Composer. A.L.S, G. Puccini, one page, 4to, Milan, n.d. [1906], to Carlo Clausetti, at Ricordi offices in Nap...

CUI CESAR: (1835-1918) Russian composer. A fine signed and inscribed hardback bound copy of the score to Le Flibustier, First edition for piano an...

PROKOFIEV SERGEI: (1891-1953) Russian Composer. T.L.S., Serge Prokofieff, one page, 4to, Moscow, 24th September 1936, to Irving Schwerke in Paris,...

Grieg reacts to being misquoted on Mozart – ‘Where and when have I said this?  It’s simply a lie…..I’d have to be crazy to suggest something like...

HOME! SWEET HOME!: Henry Bishop (1787-1855) English composer of the early Romantic period, famous for the song Home! Sweet Home! A.L.S., Henry R B...

CAGE JOHN: (1912-1992) American avant-garde composer who was also instrumental in the development of modern dance through his association with the...

‘Please understand that this is a very valuable letter that I am sending you’   JOACHIM JOSEPH: (1831-1907) Hungarian violinist, conductor and com...

OISTRAKH DAVID: (1908-1974) Russian Violinist and Conductor. One of the most important violinists of the 20th century, who was the dedicatee of wo...

OPERA: Selection of A.Ls.S., a few T.Ls.S. etc. by various opera singers, and a few musicians, including Adelina Patti (A.Q.S., 'A beautiful voice...

OPERA: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs and a few slightly larger by various male opera singers including Richard Tauber, Set Svan...

OPERA: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs and a few slightly larger by various male opera singers including David Bispham, Harold Wi...

OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc., by various male opera singers including Robert Tear, Richard Va...

OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10s etc., by various male opera singers including Richard Van Allan, Ryla...

[PIUS II]: (1405-1464) Pope of the Catholic Church 1458-64. Document issued in the name of Pius II, being a Papal Bull, one page (vellum), oblong ...

[PAUL II]: (1417-1471) Pope of the Catholic Church 1464-71. Document issued in the name of Paul II, being a Papal Bull, one page (vellum), large o...

[INNOCENT VIII]: (1432-1492) Pope of the Catholic Church 1484-92. Document issued in the name of Innocent VIII, being a Papal Bull, one page (vell...

GREGORY XIV: (1535-1591) Pope of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States 1590-1591. During his brief pontificate which lasted only ten m...

PIUS VIII: (1761-1830) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Ruler of the Papal States 1829-30. A very short pontificate of one year and ten days....

‘I allow myself to draw your attention to the fact that this letter and all the correspondence, to which it gives rise, form the object of the s...

JOHN PAUL II: (1920-2005) Pope of the Catholic Church 1978-2005, later canonised as Pope Saint John Paul II in 2014. A printed card of greetings s...

JOHN PAUL II: (1920-2005) Pope of the Catholic Church 1978-2005. Canonized in 2014. T.L.S., Jan Pavel II, one page, 8vo, Apostolic Palace of Caste...

FRANCIS DE SALES: (1567-1622) Saint of the Catholic Church. Bishop of Geneva. Known for his writings such as the Introduction to the Devout Life a...

POLE REGINALD: (1500-1558) English cardinal of the Catholic Church, the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury 1556-58 during the Counter Reformat...

[SLAVERY]: A very interesting document, one page, large 17 x 12 folio, given at Matanzas, Cuba, n.d., in Spanish. The partially printed document, ...

FURNESS WILLIAM HENRY: (1802-1896) American Clergyman, Theologian & Abolitionist. A.L.S., W H Furness, two pages, 8vo, Pine Street, [Philadelphia]...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. CARTER MARTHA JOYCE (c.1836-19...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. A.L.S., el Rais Ahmed Kirgar (...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. ALBA DUKE OF (1878-1953) Jacob...

[EGYPTOLOGY]: MASPERO GASTON (1846-1916) French Egyptologist. A good collection of Ls.S., T.Ls.S., some signed documents etc. by Maspero, forty-ni...

[EGYPTOLOGY]: Collection of A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S., memoranda etc. by various Egyptologists and other individuals, most addressed to the Director Gen...

CAVENDISH GEORGIANA: (1757-1806) Duchess of Devonshire. English Aristocrat, a famed beauty and leader of fashionable style who was notorious for h...

MICHEL LOUISE: (1830-1905) French Anarchist and medical Worker, a leading figure in the Paris Commune. She used the pseudonym ''Clémence'' and was...

PURVIS MELVIN: (1903-1960) American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who captured more designated public e...

FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: An unusual and interesting selection of A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., various signed maxims etc., by a variety of famous men and women, th...

FRISCH OTTO ROBERT: (1904-1979) Austrian Physicist. Designer of the first mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb. A key figure in the firs...

CARON GEORGE: (1919-1995) American pilot, Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay during the historic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, 6th August 1945. Book sign...