Fabulous leatherbound restaurant guest book, 10 x 8.5, containing approximately 350 signatures of celebrities of stage and screen, as well as athletes and authors, with many inscribing to noted London nightclub owner Siegi Sessler. Many pages bear multiple signatures, with most pages signed back-to-back as well. Signers include: Spencer Tracy, Rock Hudson, Otto Preminger, Edward G. Robinson (with self-portrait caricature), Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Chico Marx, Orson Welles (with self-portrait caricature), Gary Cooper, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Danny Kaye, Margot Fonteyn, Bette Davis, Bogart, Peter Lorre (adding “a friend of Humphrey Bogart”), Jayne Mansfield, Gene Kelly, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, James Mason, Frank Sinatra (annotated with a bow-tie motif), James Stewart (with self-potrait caricature), Susan Hayward, Clark Gable, Rita Hayworth, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Boris Karloff, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Sellers, Rodgers and Hammerstein, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Sidney Poitier, Bing Crosby, Joe DiMaggio, Groucho Marx (with self-portrait caricature), and Sean Connery. Click here for a more thorough list. In fine condition, with scattered wear and surface loss to covers, tape reinforcement to cover edges, and spine just a touch weak. RRAuction COA.
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