Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers
Lot 243
Harry Hemsley (1877-1951). An archive of original cartoons & presentation copies for Betty Christmas [Hemsley's accompanist on piano], comprising: four humorous pencil cartoons, one signed with initials, 23cm x 18cm; Imagination, inscribed & signed (22 November 1939), 8vo, publisher's worn yellow cloth, London: Lutterworth Press, 1939; All About Horace, presentation copy, inscribed & signed (Christmas 1944), small 4to, green cloth, London: Hutchinson's, n.d., [1944]; 16 Recitations for Children, inscribed & signed (1941), 8vo, illustrated wrappers, dampstained, London: Reynolds & Co., [1941]; three theatre programmes starring Hemsley, one signed with press cuttings (17 May 1938); a signed photographic portrait, 21cm X 16cm; a tablecloth decorated with embroidered autographs associated with Maskelyne's Christmas Magic at The Westminster Theatre, 82cm x 82cm, plus a programme for the same, 1947. Condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults