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[Ray Davies] Photograph of Davies at Fen Farm where he was a tutor at some summer courses (song-writing)

Author: 
Ray Davies, songwriter-singer, of The Kinks
Publication details: 
Early nineties.
£75.00

ONE, c.12.5 x 18cm, col., Davies in full at doorway smiling at camera, inscribed in scrawl on reverse by him "This is not me | R Davies"

[coloured comic book] JOHN F. KENNEDY. NEW U.S. PRESIDENT.

Author: 
[John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America]
Publication details: 
[1961, United States Information Service.] Publisher not stated, but item stamped on cover 'With the Compliments of the AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER | 217, avenue Louise | BRUXELLES 5'.
£450.00
Coloured comic book. JOHN F. KENNEDY

4to (25 x 17.5 cm), 16 pages. Stapled. Colour throughout. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. An interesting piece of Kennedy ephemera, using the comic-book medium in a serious manner at the beginning of the 'Pop Art' era. Attractively and professionally drawn, and laid out in panels like a Marvel or DC Comic. Giving a positive account of Kennedy's background and political activities (for example his 'forward looking stand on U.S. domestic issues'). Caption to last panel reads 'On January 20, 1961 Kennedy and Johnson were inaugurated President and Vice President for a four year term.

Manuscript Account Book of 'Expenses at Eton and elsewhere'.

Author: 
Edward Walter Hanbury Wood (1898-1947) of Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk [Eton College]
Publication details: 
1916
£180.00

12mo. In original waxed cloth. Good, with slight wear to binding. Entries on forty-one pages. Short, informative, account of an individual who was presumably a member of 'Pop', there being several tips to servants. Begins on 20 January with expenses including 'Porters' for the 'Journey to Eton', a pocket knife, '2 Fives balls' and a copy of the Strand magazine. Other expenses include 'Tips to Armourer', a penny on motor cycling, one shilling and twopence on a 'Box of C. chocolates' and eight pence for 'Gramophone needles'. Ends 18 February 1916.

Signed printed 'Memorandum of Agreement', with typewritten additions, between the author Bill Adler and Anthony Blond Limited for 'a work provisionally entitled "LOVE LETTERS TO THE BEATLES" '.

Author: 
[THE BEATLES]
Publication details: 
25 August 1964; London.
£100.00

4 pages on 4to bifoliate. Several printed clauses deleted, and with the terms inserted in typescript. Two signatures: one is Adler's and the other, illegible, is probably Blond's. A typewritten additional clause appoints Scott Meredith Inc. of New York as his literary agents. According to the British Library catalogue 'Love Letters to the Beatles. Selected by B. Adler. Illustrated by Osborn.' was published by Blond in 1964.

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