Cooper Gladys, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Inscribed by Gladys L. Cooper on the half title page. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Vintage Album Page - - SIGNED by actress Gladys Cooper (signature only in pencil). On obverse side was SIGNED by actor Donald Woods (also in pencil and signatire only). age-toning to the page. AUTOGRAPH SIGNED.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Signed sentiment. Cardstock measuring 4½" x 3½". Recto tanned at one edge and blank verso with residue at the four corners where once tipped-in, very good. Signed "Good wishes Gladys Cooper 1935." Although not so marked, from the library of Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes, who was friends with Cooper.

The six items in fair condition, with light signs of age and wear. The four letters all with Morley's expansive signature ('Sheridan Morley'). The first letter (9 March 1970) begins: 'It seems a long time (indeed it is) since I used to buy books from your shop in St Martin's Court; but I thought I'd try to re-establish contact with you because I have started - in a very small way - to sell theatre and film books myself in the basement of James and Pauline Scudamore's secondhand bookshop in the Earl's Court Road.' In a long letter (2pp., 8vo) on 16 May he writes that he would be 'delighted to take over as much of your remaining stock as I can afford, and you want to dispose of', but 'with a son of 2 and another baby imminent' he can 'only afford to make the bookselling a part-time career; most of my work is done as an interviewer for BBC television, and the arrangement I have with the Scudamores is an ideal one for me in that I have one room of their shop to call my own, but when I am not there (ie about 3 days of the week) they "caretake" it for me and people buying books pay for them at their desk upstairs'. He continues with an explanation of the arrangements. Morley ends the letter with a promise to 'pass on yours to Pauline, James and my godfather Sewell'. In the third letter (15 May) he explains that he has been 'out of London filming for the BBC', but that he would be interested in the items Duncan offers, but will have difficulty raising the £80 cost ('not that I question your valuation, merely that we are under-capitalised'). He offers to visit Duncan in Southampton to discuss the matter further. The telegram (28 May) attempts to change the date of the visit. The last letter (1 June) regards payment through a money order. The carbon copy of Duncan's letter (2pp., 4to) is dated 14 March 1970, is signed, and discusses Morley's proposal in detail.

Früher Fotoporträtdruck (jung, in 3/4-Figur, Ph. Bertram Park), in Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A small collection of photographs and Christmas cards Inscribed by Gladys Cooper to Marian Seldes. Both Inscribed photographs measure 3½" x 5½", three cards measure 5¼" x 4" closed, and one is a sheet of cardstock with a photo of Cooper's house laid down, the cardstock measuring 7" x 5". An occasional bit of toning, one portrait with a light crease and a bit of loss to the glossy coating in the margins only, about fine. A nice collection of photos and photographically illustrated Christmas Cards (one featuring a photograph of Cooper's painted portrait by Sir William Orpen) from actress Gladys Cooper to actress Marian Seldes. Most feature brief holiday sentiments, but one states "Thank you dear Marian + Julian [Claman] for having us to your goodly party!" (Signed recto), and Cooper writes in a 1963 Christmas card: "A FAIR? LADY? in her CHALK? GARDEN." (Cooper starred in the US premiere of Edith Bagnold's *The Chalk Garden*). A nice association between two important actresses: Gladys Cooper's career spanned seven decades, and Seldes received a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010. Signed.