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GUINNESS, ALEC. Group of 12 items Signed, “Alec,” to MGM publicist
Morgan Hudgins, including 6 Autograph Letters, Typed Letter, and 5 Autograph Notes,
mentioning Grace Kelly on few occasions; working in London plays; traveling to Ceylon
to film
Bridge on the River Kwai
; performing in minor films such as
Barnacle Bill
, meeting
David Niven; etc. Together 22 pages, most 8vo; many moderately dampstained affecting
signature and text.
SOLD AS IS
.
Vp, 1950-64
[500/750]
3 February 1956: “. . . I was asked to write about Grace [Kelly] & give an interview about
her. I thought it safe to write. Of course they have cut it to ribbons, altered some of it, and . . .
cut out the really nice and serious things I had to say about her as a person and actress. . . .”
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HOLLY, BUDDY; AND THE CRICKETS. Signatures (“Buddy Holly,” “Joe
Mauldin,” and “Jerry Allison”), on a slip of looseleaf notebook paper. The signatures of
Mauldin and Allison in pencil. 2x8
1
/
2
inches, ruled paper; hole punched in left margin, scat-
tered soiling, vertical folds including one touching Holly’s signature. Np, nd
[500/750]
ARRANGING FOR BURIAL A YEAR BEFORE HIS DEATH
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HOUDINI, HARRY. Typed Letter Signed, to the managers of his gravesite
(“Gentlemen”), advising them of his wishes concerning who would be permitted to be
buried in his plots at the Machpelah Cemetary in Flushing, New York, listing himself and
the names of his immediate family. Additionally signed at lower left by “witness” Julia
Sauer. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds through signature with some ink
loss but still legible, cello tape repairs to few scattered tears and separations at folds on recto
and verso affecting text, chipping at all edges and small hole middle left with minor loss to
text, newspaper clipping from 1927
New York Times
obituary for Houdini’s brother Nathan
J. Weiss mounted in margin top left.
New York, 31 May 1925
[4,000/6,000]
“
. . . I desire to restrict the use of the said cemetery plot for the burial at their respective deaths .
. . . [m]yself, my wife, Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini, my brothers, Nathan Joseph Weiss,
William Godfry Weiss, Theodore Franz Weiss known as Theodore W. Hardeen and my sister
Carrie Gladys Weiss known as Gladys Houdini and I direct that no . . . other person or per-
sons whatsoever shall be buried in the said plot without my written consent. . . .”