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Film Directors, Authors, Actors, Poets And Others
A quantity of signed material including letters, cards and autographs sent to Sir Michael and Lady Balcon, majority circa 1950s-1970s, subjects include: autograph letters, signed, from Daphne Du Maurier, Edward Everett Horton, Jack Hulbert, Cecil Day Lewis (1 letter and 1 card), Stanley Holloway, Barbara Wootton, Richard Attenborough, Dame Anna Neagle (3 letters), Lord Evans, Alec Guinness (1 card) and Edmund Gwen; typescript letters, signed from Jack Hulbet, S.Zuckerman, Sir John Woolf, Richard Attenborough (2), Renate Müller and Bernard Miles; also a black and white portrait photograph of Vaughan Williams, signed by subject in blue ink -- 9 5/8x7 5/8in. (24.4x19.4cm.); a Royal Film Performance souvenir programme for the Ealing Studios film Where No Vultures Fly, November 7th, 1951, signed by the majority of the cast including: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Googie Withers, Van Johnson, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Peter Reynolds, John McCallum and others; a paperback autobiography signed and inscribed on the flyleaf by the subject, Alberto Cavalcanti; a printed poem by Cecil Day Lewis The Newborn written on the birth of his son Daniel, 29th April, 1957, signed by Cecil and Jill Day Lewis, numbered 13 from an edition limited to 200 copies -- 8¼x10¼in. (21x26cm.) framed; a souvenir cigarette holder sent to Balcon by Edgar Wallace printed in cream lettering Edgar Wallace Wishes You A Happy New Year -- 8in. (20.3cm.) long; and related material (a lot)
A quantity of signed material including letters, cards and autographs sent to Sir Michael and Lady Balcon, majority circa 1950s-1970s, subjects include: autograph letters, signed, from Daphne Du Maurier, Edward Everett Horton, Jack Hulbert, Cecil Day Lewis (1 letter and 1 card), Stanley Holloway, Barbara Wootton, Richard Attenborough, Dame Anna Neagle (3 letters), Lord Evans, Alec Guinness (1 card) and Edmund Gwen; typescript letters, signed from Jack Hulbet, S.Zuckerman, Sir John Woolf, Richard Attenborough (2), Renate Müller and Bernard Miles; also a black and white portrait photograph of Vaughan Williams, signed by subject in blue ink -- 9 5/8x7 5/8in. (24.4x19.4cm.); a Royal Film Performance souvenir programme for the Ealing Studios film Where No Vultures Fly, November 7th, 1951, signed by the majority of the cast including: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Googie Withers, Van Johnson, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Peter Reynolds, John McCallum and others; a paperback autobiography signed and inscribed on the flyleaf by the subject, Alberto Cavalcanti; a printed poem by Cecil Day Lewis The Newborn written on the birth of his son Daniel, 29th April, 1957, signed by Cecil and Jill Day Lewis, numbered 13 from an edition limited to 200 copies -- 8¼x10¼in. (21x26cm.) framed; a souvenir cigarette holder sent to Balcon by Edgar Wallace printed in cream lettering Edgar Wallace Wishes You A Happy New Year -- 8in. (20.3cm.) long; and related material (a lot)
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