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Lot #756
Entertainers

Sought-after autograph collection featuring Holiday, Hitchcock, and Karloff

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Sought-after autograph collection featuring Holiday, Hitchcock, and Karloff

Outstanding quartet of leather-bound autograph books, each approximately 6 x 4.75, signed inside in ink or fountain pen by hundreds of vintage stars of music, sport, and entertainment. Highlights include: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Alfred Hitchcock, Boris Karloff, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Ted Williams, Cecil B. DeMille, Burgess Meredith, Joe Louis, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Russell, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Gregory Peck, Olivia de Havilland, John Garfield, Dean Martin, Henry Fonda, Janet Leigh, Irving Berlin, Cab Calloway, Buddy Rich, Ed Sullivan, Mel Torme, Hoagy Carmichael, Ginger Rogers, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers, Ray Bolger, Maureen O'Hara, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Paul Lukas, Joe Cronin, Artie Shaw, and many more. In overall very good condition, with many of the pages having clipped photos affixed, and/or toning from clipped photos of facing pages.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
  • Dates: #537 - Ended October 10, 2018