Vaughan morgan john (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Four 12" 33 1/3 rpm vinyl records. Liner notes by Dom Cerulli. Minor wear across the set from playing and handling, overall very good in a good only cardboard clamshell case with edgewear, bumping to the corners, tears to the corners of the fore edge of the front cover, a stain on the back cover, and rubbing. Includes a single-sheet-insert folded to make four pages containing notes on the recordings and two black and white illustrations. This boxset is volume two of a two volume set consisting of a total of ten records, this set is supposed to contain records six through ten but is lacking number six.…

Zustand: Very Good. Smart, expertly-bound visitor book dating 1949-1960, belonging to Conservative politician John Vaughan Morgan and his wife, Emily. SIGNATURES drawn from the world of politics and the Arts include: Gerald Yorke / Alix Liddell / Francis Egerton / Humphrey Brooke /Brinsley Ford /Sir Francis Edwin Prescott Sandilands (1913-1995) / Richard Fort / Louis Auchincloss / Edward Herbert Keeling / Charles Fletcher-Cooke / Ingmar Quartermaine (possibly Fay Compton.) BOOK: Presented in a brown slipcase. Contemporary calf binding in tan with contrasting dark blue ground for initials in gilt: 'JVM' & 'EVM.' Stamped decoration and gilt borders. Endpapers in textured paper to resemble wood graining. Plain paper, with seven pages of signatures dated 1949-1960. / JOHN KENYON VAUGHAN-MORGAN, Baron Reigate (1905Ð1995), was a British Conservative Party politician. On retirement from the Commons, he was created a life peer as Baron Reigate, of Outwood in the County of Surrey, on 2 July 1970. He served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors in 1970, and was also Chairman of the Board of Westminster Hospital from 1963 to 1974. In 1940 he married Emily Cross of New York City. Shortly after his marriage Vaughan-Morgan enlisted in the Welsh Guards, ending the war as a staff officer for the 21st Army Group. /GUESTS:Major Gerald Joseph Yorke (1901Ð1983) was an English soldier, writer, & Reuters correspondent. An early interest in an interest in the occult and mysticism led him to the circle of Aleister Crowley. / Alix Kerr Liddell OBE (1907-1981) was a British writer who contributed to the Guiding and Girl Scouting movement both in the United Kingdom and internationally. /Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Humphrey Brooke CVO (1914Ð1988) was a British civil servant and art historian. He was Deputy Director of the Tate Gallery and Secretary of the Royal Academy from 1952 to 1968./Sir Richard Brinsley Ford CBE (19081999) was a British art historian, scholar, and collector./ Richard Fort (1907Ð1959) was a British industrial chemist and Conservative Party Member of Parliament from 1950./ Louis Stanton Auchincloss (1917Ð2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. /Sir Edward Herbert Keeling, MC (1883-1954) was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament from 1935 to 1954. / Sir Charles Fletcher Fletcher-Cooke, QC (1914Ð2001) was a British politician. /Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, CBE (1894-1978) known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. In 1922 she married Leon Quartermaine, with whom she had acted in a revival of Barrie's Quality Street Very good indeed. Signedes.…