Entertainment Memorabilia Wednesday 18 December 2013 Knightsbridge, London Entertainment Memorabilia Wednesday 18 December 2013 at 12noon Knightsbridge, London Bonhams Enquiries Customer Services The following symbol is used Montpelier Street Director Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm to denote that VAT is due on the hammer price and buyer’s Knightsbridge Stephanie Connell +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 premium London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3844 www.bonhams.com [email protected] Please see back of catalogue † VAT 20% on hammer price for important notice to bidders and buyer’s premium Viewing Senior Specialist Sunday 15 December Katherine Schofield née Williams Illustrations * VAT on imported items at 11am to 3pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3871 Front cover: Everett Collection/ a preferential rate of 5% on Monday 16 December [email protected] Rex Features, Dr. Who and the hammer price and the prevailing 9am to 4.30pm Daleks, 1965 rate on buyer’s premium Consultant Specialist Back cover: Lot 331 Tuesday 17 December W These lots will be removed to Stephen Maycock Inside front cover: Lot 360 9am to 4.30pm Bonhams Park Royal Warehouse Wednesday 18 December +44 (0) 20 7393 3844 Inside back cover: Lot 94 after the sale. 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Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Central Sale Information Middlesex Hospital Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V Bids Collection and Storage Handling and storage Payment in advance +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 after sale West Acton charges Tel: Horn+44 Lane (0) 20 7393 3912/3913 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Sold lots marked with a specialStation Transfer and storage charges to ascertain amount due by: cash, [email protected] symbol W will be only retained for all items will commence on cheque with banker’s card, credit www.bonhams.com at Bonhams Knightsbridge until Tuesday 21 January 2014 and will card, bank draft or traveller’s 5pm on Thursday 9 January 2014. be applicable for each working cheque. Payments Lots not collected by then will be day. 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The third party must present a photographic form of ID when collecting. Film and Television Lot 46 1 2 Vintage Film Posters & Film Memorabilia 1 3 Harry Houdini: A promotional poster Buried Silent Cinema: An autograph book Alive! Master Mystifier, Houdini, containing signatures of Douglas Fairbanks, circa 1927, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Ivor 3 (part) a U.S. poster, lithograph in colours, printed by Novello and Stanley Baldwin, Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland - mid-1920s, 106 x 81 inches (270x206cm.) Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks signed £3,000 - 5,000 together, dated 1924, in black ink, Valentino €3,600 - 6,000 inscribed in black ink ‘Sincerely Valentino’, the US$4,800 - 8,000 book 4 x 3 inches (10x7.5cm) £500 - 700 2 €600 - 840 Harry Houdini: A publicity postcard signed US$800 - 1,100 by Harry Houdini, the black and white portrait image signed in 4 black ink ‘Houdini’ - 3½ x 5½ inches (9x14cm.) Metropolis by HARBOU (THEA VON), £400 - 600 1927, €480 - 720 early issue of the English edition, publisher’s US$640 - 960 maroon decorative cloth gilt, pictorial dust- jacket designed by Aubrey Hammond, with “UFA Wardour Films Limited” (torn with some loss to spine), 8vo, Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd, [1927] £300 - 500 €360 - 600 US$480 - 800 4 4 | Bonhams 5 6 8 5 7 Wages of Conscience, Paramount Pictures: An original Exhibitors Superlative Pictures, 1927, Desk Diary, British three-sheet, Japanese conservation 1927-8, containing example advertisements paper-backed, top and bottom portions and order forms, missing, 40 x 120 inches (102x306cm) in hardcover featuring ‘Paramount Building’ £400 - 600 New York design, with introduction from €480 - 720 Adolph Zukor, featuring a number of example US$640 - 960 advertisements including New York, The Potters (W.C.Fields) and It (Clara Bow) 9½ x 6½ inches 6 (23.5x16cm) Flappers In Khaki (Riley Of The Rainbow £200 - 300 Division), €240 - 360 Western Import Co., 1928, US$320 - 480 British three-sheet, Japanese conservation paper and linen backed, 41 x 81 inches 8 (104x206cm) The Thoroughbred, £600 - 800 Gaumont Films, 1928, €720 - 960 British three-sheet poster, Japanese US$960 - 1,300 conservation paper and linen backed, 40 x 120 inches (102x306cm) £600 - 800 €720 - 960 US$960 - 1,300 7 Entertainment Memorabilia | 5 10 (part) 10 (part) 10 (part) 9 (page) 11 The Second Mate, Pioneer Pictures, 1929 and Under The Black Eagle, M.G.M, 1928, The Second Mate being a British 3-sheet, lower 13 11 portion of poster missing, together with Under The Black Eagle, part British three-sheet (text 9 10 only) both Japanese paper and linen-backed, Marlene Dietrich: An early autographed Early Hollywood Cinema: A collection 40 x 120 inches (102x306cm) and 29 x 40 theatre programme, of forty-four glass advertising slides for inches (74x102cm) (2) Berlin 1928, forthcoming attractions, £150 - 300 signed in blue ink to internal page alongside 1929-1931, €180 - 360 her machine print image, the programme titles including: We Three; Top Speed(Joe E. US$240 - 480 for ‘Es liegt in der Luft’ (It’s In The Air) at Die Brown); Man Of The World (William Powell, Komodie, Blatter Des Deutschen Theaters, Carole Lombard); The Lost Zeppelin; The 12 Herausgegeben Von Deutschen Theater, 9½ x Mad Genius (John Barrymore); Big Business Walt Disney/ Mickey Mouse: A flicker book, 6 inches (24x15cm) Girl (Loretta Young); Tarnished Lady (Tallulah circa 1930s, produced by ‘Flicker Productions £300 - 500 Bankhead, Director George Cukor); Ltd., 113b Earl’s Court Road, London’ €360 - 600 I Like Your Nerve (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta titled; “Flicker” book, No.