Edwin Cordery - Finger Print and Autograph Album - First Edition

[CORDERY, Edwin, editor].

Finger Print and Autograph Album.

Southall: Quaker Oats Limited, 1936.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.48. Publisher's printed card wraps, stapled.

First blank page partially filled in by hand, some toning to covers, staples rusted. An odd thing, uncommon. Very good.

A promotional booklet featuring photographs and short biographies of various celebrities, each accompanied by a reproduction of their thumbprints and their signatures followed by blank pages for the owner to fill in. Subjects include: George Allison, Cliff Bastin, George Black, Billie Carlyle, Peter Croft, Claude Dampier, Bebe Daniels, "Schnozzle" Durante, A. C. Grosse, Henry Hall, Jack Hobbs, Alex James, Anna Lee, Maurice Leyland, Ben Lyon, Mrs. Jack Payne, Jack Payne, George Robey, C. W. A. Scott, Herbert Sutcliffe, Maurice Tate, Gladys Tudor-Owen, Hedley Verity, and Trevor Wignall.