Collectibles & Ephemera from Ripping Yarns

Unframed poster for Puppetcraft's production of 'Perseus and the Gorgon's Head' by Adrian Mitchell. 16½ x 11½ inches. Wonderful colour drawing of Perseus holding aloft the Gorgon's head. Signed in ink 'Ralph Steadman 2006'.. Signed by Illustrator. Very Good-. Illus. by Ralph Steadman.

Royal Mail. Good+. Stiff card covers. Fold-out alphabet book with pictures on one side and text on the other. 6½ x 4½ inches. Edges rubbed.

Ministry of Supply, 1949. Paper covers, 16pp. Pamphlet, text appears to be hand typed. Staples at spine are rusting slightly, externally a little grubby otherwise good tight copy.

Paperback. Fair+. Film scrap book. Red covers with two dogs on the front. Dark spine. Edges are slightly battered. Some chips and closed tears to edges and to spine. Contains pictures cut from Picture Goer, Picture Show and other film magazines from 1939 onwards. List of actors/actresses written to paper at the front of the book. Pages are… Read more about this item

London, 1989. Paperback. Good+. Corners and spine a little bumped. Size: 12 x 10 Inches Approx

London. Paper Covers. Original paper covers, unpaginated. B&w maps to inside front and rear covers. No date but illustrations obviously date it as learly 20th century. A list of towns and their statistics is reaslly an excuse to advertise the benefits and case studies of Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, Dinner Pills and Ointment. Fascinating piece of ephemera and social… Read more about this item

UK, 1966. Programme for show featuring Orbison, Walker Brothers and Lulu, compered by Ray Cameron. No date but within is announced the release of 'Twinkle Toes' dating it as 1966/7. Also on the programme : Lulu, The Marionettes, Kim D and the Del 5 and The Quotations. B&w photos and performer biographies. Slightly creased throughout and covers scuffed; back… Read more about this item

London, 1960. Paperback. Good. 'first performance Wednesday 28th September 1960.' Presenting Jon Gielgud, Ralph Rochardson, Anna assey, Robert Flemyng and Ernest Thesiger. Directed by Glen Byam Shaw. Theatre programme. Corners and spine bumped. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London, 1959. Paperback. Good. '1959' written to front of programme. Royal Court Theatre The English Stage Company present 'Serjeant Musgrave's Dance' by John Arden. Theatre programme. Corners and spine bumped. Edges rubbed. Freda Jackson and Ian Bannen. Contains one page leaflet on 'The Struggle for Survival' by Arts Council. Size: 6 x 4 Inches

Manchester, 1910. Paper Covers. Good/No Dustwrapper. Paper covers 128 pp plus central insert Programme of Music by the Original Blue Hungarian Band. List of exhibitors and their details with b&w adverts and illustrations. Covers slightly scuffed at spine and edges but a good+ tight copy. Size: 8 x 5.5 Inches

Manorville, USA/London: Visual Imagination Ltd. Very Good. Magazine of film and TV horror entertainment. Front cover features pic of Lon Chaney as The Wolf Man. Features include werewolf feauture, Denholm Elliott as dracula, Brett Leonard on 'Virtuosity', X-Files quotes poster, analysis of 1970s versions of Dracula, updates on the X-Files etc. very good.

Philadelphia: Central Publications, 1963. February 1963 issue of this US film magazine, including special foto feature on 'The Bride of Frankenstein', 1st instalment of 'Son of Kong' about Ray Harryhausen, preview of forthcoming monster movies etc. Cover pic of Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff. 98 pp. Lacking rear cover; front detached; bottom left corner of front cover has been… Read more about this item

London: Victoria Palace Theatre, 1956. Good+. 10 page programme from Victoria Palace Theatre to accompany Jack Hylton production 'These Foolish Kings' featuring The Crazy Gang - Nervo & Knox, Bud Flanagan, Naughton & Gold wiht 'Monsewer' Eddie Gray. Illustrated cover features The Crazy Gang as Kings straddling each others' shoulders. Back cover features pictorial Schweppes and Booth's Gin… Read more about this item

London: Coliseum Theatre. Good+. 6 page programme from the Coliseum Theatre, Charing Cross. Variety programme for four weeks commencing April 14th, including turns from Elsie and Doris Waters as "Gert & Daisy" and Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy. Illustrated cover features a lively scene of musicians, Can-Can girls etc with the title 'Variety: Full of Life & Laughter!'.… Read more about this item

London. Third Edition. . Cloth. Very Good. Very rare title. Pictorial red boards, with gilt lettering and illustratons on front and spine; all edges gilt. 8 x 5 inches. 344 pp. Illustration on front shows a sail-ship behind a Roman garrison holding a sword and a lance. B&w frontispiece shows Caesonia pouring a love potion. Small b&w illustrations… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1976. 1st Edition. . Very Good/Very Good. Maroon textured-paper-covered boards, silver lettering to spine, with photographic dustwrapper, 5 x 8 inches. 192 pp. Dedicated on title page ' To Mara and Rose, with best wishes 1976 George Mikes.' Comic political novel. Very good in very good unclipped dustwrapper.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. Very Good-/Very Good-. Blue cloth boards, 6 x 9 inches, silver title to spine, with pictorial dustwrapper. Boards slightly bumped at base of spine, otherwise very good. Signed by author on title page. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed at edges, small very faint smudges to front. Not price-clipped.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. VG/G-. Green cloth. Dustwrapper, 207 pp. Dedication on ffep 'To Rose and Mara, with love and best wishes, 1963, George Mikes'. Dustwrapper creased with tears and some loss to edges; price-clipped - now protected in removable clear plastic sleeve.

1976. Programme for Stefan Askenase piano recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 16th December 1976. Signed by Stefan Askenase on front. Erratum slip stapled to one page. Very good condition.