Jack Buchanan, Signed (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition, large 8vo, 271pp, photo illustrations; very faint selotape ghosts to endpapers, nothing much o/w VG Copy in VG DJ; author's presentation copy, inscription on half title reads: To Vivian With the author's thanks and warm appreciation Michael June 1978. A further inscription on ffep reads simply: Vivian With love and admiration Michael. (The Vivian in question is Vivian Ellis, the composer of many popular musicals in the 20s and 30s, and, in later life author of several light and humourous books based around about-town London) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black & White photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. 271pp bound in publisher's scarlet cloth with gilt titles to the spine. The unclipped dustwrapper with one small closed tear and an internally dusty top-edge. This is a PRESENTATION COPY from the author "For Harry" thanking him for help with another literary project. A very good plus copy The author formerly M.P. for Arundel in the 1970's. Signed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. "To Bill - Who brings a style and elegance to the Royal Garden Party which is in the highest J.B. tradition. Yours ever, Michael. September 1978." Foreword by Fred Astaire. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Complete with non p/c pictorial dustwrapper. Overall NF/NF. 8vo. 271pp incl. Discography, Bibliography + Index.

Condition: Good. Original B&W sepia-toned photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good+. Made in Great Britain. Signed in the plate.Walter John "Jack" Buchanan (2 April 1891 - 20 October 1957) was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr., and was described by The Times as "the last of the knuts." He is best known in America for his role in the classic Hollywood musical The Band Wagon in 1953.British and Dominions Imperial Studios was a short-lived British film production company located at Imperial Place, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire that was active from 1929 to 1936, when it ceased production after the studio facilities were destroyed by fire. British and Dominions Imperial was a successor to British National Pictures, which began operations in 1925 and was taken over by British International Pictures in 1927. British and Dominion Imperial was incorporated for the purpose of physically producing sound films, and the new studio at Borehamwood was the first purpose-built sound studio in Europe. Blackmail (1929), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the first British talkie, was made at the facility by the company.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed on the front end paper by Irene Manning (dated 1949) & Robertson Hare, Jack Buchanan & three others. Gilt spine lettering: " PICTURE SHOW 1945". Fortnightly publication. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 134.3. PICTURE SHOW & FILM PICTORIAL 1945. December 30th, 1944 to December 15th 1945. Bound run of magazines with their front covers. Fortnightly publication *** Front end paper is signed by Irene Manning, Robertson Hare, Jack Buchanan. Signed by Irene Manning, Rober.

Albumblatt (1 S. kl. 8 to quer, etwas stockfleckig), mit Empfehlung eigenhändig signiert BEILAGE :Original-Filmprogramm (4 S. 8 to) zu DAS TAGEBUCH DES MISTER THOMPSON mit Jack Buchanan. (dito : Brief (1 S. ca. 4°; mit Briefkopf seiner Produktionsfirma) mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert April 1937 Euro 65,-) (dito : Frühes Großfoto (Porträt 8 to), in Tinte mit Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert Euro 65,-).

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dimensions 170mm x 210mm.pp.96. A lively mixed autograph book with photographs, clippings, sketches and coloured drawings-the autograph hunter likely to have been a pupil at W.H.S. (includes a page of signatures of the 6th form at Westcliff High School "Fide et Fortudine." )AUTOGRAPHS include: Gordon's local football teams Clapton Orient & Walthamstow Avenue F.C., 1939Ð40 season; Essex County XI, 1946; signed page from a programme for King's Rhapsody (Ivor Novello) signed by Jack Buchanan and the cast; an elegant signed photograph of Ann Todd. Rep. Theatre autographs include: The Arthur Brough Players; Bubbles Co., 1950; The Court Players, Palace Theatre, Westcliff, 1950/ 51. Sketches include landscapes of mountains or desert islands, signed by P.O.W.s; a colour drawing of a spaniel by Steve Skoyles 27.2.47. Chief Reporter "Star;" a galleon at Sea by Charles Weston, Nov1947. Several poems and rhymes: signed E.Butcher 1939, E.E. Brown, Suzanna Legland Aug'37, Quintin David 21 December 1947. BOOK:Original publisherÕs watered silk binding in green, lettered gilt. Marbled brown endpapers. Neat name on front end paper of the autograph Hunter Gordon D. Shore, with return address label for Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Remnants of brown paper wrapping stuck to endpapers. Near very good. Slightly browned.Covers slightly marked and creased. Signedes.

Condition: Very Good. Original autograph book of Fred Bason. Dimensions 195mm x 150mm. Original leather binding in green with gilt fore edge and decorative endpapers in pink. Covered in brown paper with inscription: 'Owner Fred Bason Album of Autographs.' Pages in pastel colours; many pages unused. Autographs 1912-1951 clearly written in ink. with neat minutely-written notes giving background detail on each and occasional comment. Signatures include: Naunton Wayne (+ photo) Yves Montard (+ photo clipping) Graciela Riviera (+ photo) "a very wonderful singer," Cornelia Otis Skinner (+ photo) Peter Brough (+ photo) Jeannie Tourel (Carnegie Hall clipping) Dave Crowley (+ photo) Gilbert Vernon, Raymond Hartley (+ photo) Freddie Mills (+ photo clipping) Dale Carnegie (+ message) Jimmy Moore, Jacklin Potts, Jack Buchanan (+ photo) Jack Carrick, Jim Brady (+ clipping) Syd Worgan, Jack London (+ clipping) Freddie Mills (+ clipping) Jock McAvoy (+ clipping - a boxer g) Billy Stevens, Jackie Patterson, Michael Sadleir, Hazel Dwes signed photocard 1912, Gilbert Odd, E. H. Sergeant. Loosely inserted 3 x stamped addressed envelopes to Fred Bason Esq./Fred Bason (1907-1973) was An English Bookseller, Writer And Broadcaster Most Famously Known For His Collection Of Diaries That Were Published In Four Volumes In The Early 1950s. Very good. Very slight wear. Covers protected by brown paper wrapping. Signedes.

Briefbogen (1 S. 8 to, gefaltet, Gebrauchsspuren, mit farbiger Abbildung des Schiffes R.M.S. QUEEN MARY, Cunard White Star Line), in Tinte von beiden Schauspielern / Passagieren eigenhändig signiert, mit Empfehlung, Jahr 1936.