Asta Bidspirit | ASTAIRE FRED: (1899-1987)

ASTAIRE FRED: (1899-1987) - ASTAIRE FRED: (1899-1987) American dancer and actor, Academy Award winner. Signed and inscribed Christmas greetings card, the folding small oblong 8vo card featuring a colour image to the cover of a painting of Lough Leane, Killarney, Kerry, by Peter Ellenshaw, signed by Astaire in bold black ink to the blank inside, 'Hi Pete and Family, Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Fred A - (Trapped in Ireland over the holidays - delay on picture)' . Together with a brief A.L.S., Fred A , one page, small 8vo, n.p., (Beverly Hills, California), n.d. ( 'Sunday 29 th ' ; June 1975), to Peter Moore in London, on Astaire's personal printed memorandum stationery. Astaire confirms that he has received the second cassette and that 'it seems O.K. to me' , and in a postscript writing 'I take it that covers the Crosby album' . Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Astaire and signed by him with his initials ( 'F.A.' ) above the printed return address to the verso. Some very light, minor age wear, about VG, 2