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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Autograph Auction (Day 1 of 2) | |||
| Auctioneer: | IAA International Autograph Auctions Ltd | Location: | RADISSON EDWARDIAN HOTEL, HEATHROW |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)115 845 1010 Fax: +44 (0)115 845 1009 | ||
| Date: | 8th June 2013 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | VIEWING: On the day of the auction from 9.00 a.m. and will continue throughout the duration of the auction MIDLANDS VIEWING: Only in the week prior to the auction at our offices at Foxhall Business Centre |
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| Auction Lots - Page 12 | |||
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| HARGREAVES ROGER: (1935-1988) English Author & Illustrator of Children's books. An original four panel piece of colour artwork (10 x 11) by Hargreaves, unsigned, each of the panels featuring Little Miss Tiny attempting to post letters in a pillarbox. Various ink annotations and stamps in the borders indicate that the artwork was published in Jack & Jill magazine on 15th June 1985. One small tear to the right edge, not affecting the artwork, otherwise VG £80 - 100 |
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| HARGREAVES ROGER: (1935-1988) English Author & Illustrator of Children's books. An original five panel piece of colour artwork (10 x 9.5) by Hargreaves, unsigned, each of the panels featuring various characters, mainly Little Miss Magic and Mr. Nosey. Various ink annotations and stamps in the borders indicate that the artwork was published in Jack & Jill magazine on 5th September 1984. VG £80 - 100 |
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| SENDAK MAURICE: (1928-2012) American Illustrator and writer of Children's books. A.N.S., Maurice Sendak, to the verso of a colour picture postcard featuring an illustration of A Wild Thing, n.p., n.d., to an unidentified correspondent. Sendak writes, in full, 'I have no business cards - so I hope this will do.' EX £80 - 100 |
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| 554 | |||
| SENDAK MAURICE: (1928-2012) American Illustrator and writer of Children's books. Signed 5 x 7 photograph of Sendak in a head and shoulders pose. Signed ('Maurice Sendak') with his name alone in bold black ink to a clear area at the base of the image. EX £100 - 150 |
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| 555 | |||
| SEUSS DR: (1904-1991) American Writer and Cartoonist, remembered for his children's books including The Cat in the Hat. Signed 3.5 x 5 photograph of Seuss in a close-up head and shoulders pose. Signed ('Dr. Seuss') in bold black ink to the lower white border. EX £100 - 150 |
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| 556 | |||
| LANTZ WALTER: (1899-1984) American Animator. A good pair of original signed and inscribed blue pen and ink sketches of Woody Woodpecker and Oswald Rabbit on an 8vo card. Signed ('Walter Lantz') in blue ink to a clear area at the base. Together with a second signed black pen and ink sketch of Woody Woodpecker in a head and shoulders pose. Drawn and signed on a 12mo card. VG, 2 £100 - 120 |
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| 557 | |||
GROENING MATT: (1954- ) American Cartoonist, creator of The Simpsons. Signed 10 x 8 colour photograph of The Simpsons family including Bart and Homer in a three-quarter length group pose. Signed ('Matt Groening') with his name alone in bold blue ink to a clear area of the image. EX £100 - 120'make no allusion to "Lewis Carroll"' |
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| DODGSON C. L.: (1832-1898) Lewis Carroll. English Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A.L.S., C. L. Dodgson, one page, 8vo, Christ Church, Oxford, 5th November 1884, to [Thomas Gibson] Bowles. Dodgson states 'I hope you may think the enclosed worth noticing - not for the sake of the sale of it (it is sure to be a loss) but because of the importance of the subject, at this most critical time.' and concludes 'If you do, please make no allusion to "Lewis Carroll"!' Annotated in pencil to the upper left corner by Bowles, 'Noted B'. An intriguing letter incorporating both forms of Dodgson's signature. VG £2000 - 3000 Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841-1922) Founder of the magazines The Lady and Vanity Fair. Maternal Grandfather of the Mitford sisters. A series of Barrie letters relating to the Llewelyn Davies boys, more commonly known as the 'Lost Boys', who served as the inspiration for the characters of Peter Pan and the other boys of Barrie's Neverland works. |
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| 559 | |||
| BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist, created Peter Pan. A.L.S., with his initials J. M. B., one page, 8vo, Adelphi Terrace House, Strand, 4th January 1922, to 'My dear Coley' (Edward Horsman Coles). Barrie congratulates his correspondent on their award of a Companion of the Order of the Bath ('which I know has been nobly earned') and continues 'You never can know how often it comes into my head, with always the same pleasure, that you meant so much to Michael.' Barrie further mentions a visit to Brighton and remarks 'Nicholas has just gone off to the Lyttons at Knebworth for a week or so.' Some light age wear, otherwise VG £150 - 200 |
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| 560 | |||
| BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist, created Peter Pan. A.L.S., J. M. Barrie, two pages, 8vo, Stanway, Gloucestershire, 6th August 1925, to 'My dear Coley' (Edward Horsman Coles). Barrie writes a letter of condolence upon the death of Coles' wife, May, in part, 'You are much in my thoughts just now and indeed must be in the thoughts of all who loved May and the happy home you shared together....Everything there was so genuine and unpretentious and real, it was the best type of an English home. You both got so much out of it and you deserved it and (I always harp back to this) you had it for a long time. The past has not died, and will accompany you and be a solace to you in what ever lies in front....It is best at such a time to be either with some one who knows all, and failing that to be where people know nothing. Let me say what is indeed the truth that though I have seen comparatively little of you I have known few men for whom I have felt as much esteem and affection. I think you were a splendid husband. I feel too that the boys have lost in May the woman who was nearest to them and would always have done the most for them, the only person I had to consult about them.' Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Barrie. VG £200 - 300 |
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| 561 | |||
| BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist, created Peter Pan. A.L.S., with his initials J. M. B., one page, 8vo, Adelphi Terrace House, Strand, 26th July 1926, to 'My dear Coley' (Edward Horsman Coles). Barrie expresses his delight at his correspondent being able to visit him and gives instructions for travelling by train although remarks 'Yes, alas you'll miss "the Nicos"' as they go to Scourie this week....they seem to have had fine weather.' Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Barrie. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, otherwise VG £150 - 200 |
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| 562 | |||
| BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist, created Peter Pan. A.L.S., with his initials J. M. B., two pages, 8vo, Adelphi Terrace House, Strand, 19th October 1926, to 'My dear Coley' (Edward Horsman Coles). Barrie writes 'The death of that third boy was certainly about as dire a thing as could happen to two people and the Desbroughs are much to be pitied. There was never more than a grain of hope. They got the news at Bath in the middle of the night from a policeman with the warning that it was unlikely he would be alive when they reached him. Strangely enough the operation was precisely the same as the one on Julian though of course he was shot.' In concluding Barrie invites Cole to dinner on Friday or Saturday, asking him if he can persuade his brother too, and remarking 'I'll try to get Peter'. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Barrie. VG £150 - 200 |
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| 563 | |||
| BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist, created Peter Pan. A.L.S., with his initials, J. M. B., one page, 8vo, Adelphi Terrace House, Strand, 4th March 1931, to 'My dear Coley' (Edward Horsman Coles). Barrie discusses his correspondent's health, and that of his own, 'I felt rotten tho' I had a few days at Brighton which mended me wonderfully. Your case seems more troublesome.' Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Barrie. About EX £150 - 200 |
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| 564 | |||
| BLYTON ENID: (1897-1968) British Children's Writer. Blue fountain pen ink signature ('Enid Blyton') and inscription on an oblong 12mo printed slip featuring a portrait of Blyton. Neatly laid down to a page removed from an autograph album, otherwise VG £80 - 100 |
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| 565 | |||
| [BLYTON ENID]: (1897-1968) British Children's Writer. An original oblong 8vo page of artwork used for the publication of Noddy Flies a Kite, by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1956. The card features an original black pen and ink illustration, by Harmsen van der Beek, of Noddy and his car, with the printed text alongside. Accompanied by a copy of Noddy Flies a Kite, being number 3 in the Noddy Toy Station series, showing the illustration and text on page 10 (incorrectly marked as page 12 on the original artwork). G, 2 £100 - 120 |
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| 566 | |||
| ROWLING J.K.: (1965- ) British Author of the Harry Potter books. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Casual Vacancy, published by Little Brown, London, 2012. Signed by Rowling in bold black ink with her name alone to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. EX £200 - 300 |
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| 567 | |||
| CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Small selection of signed postcard photographs, 8 x 10s (2) by various writers and illustrators of Children's fiction comprising Rev. W. Awdry, Michael Bond, Quentin Blake, Jan Pienkowski (2) and Dick Bruna. VG, 6 £80 - 120 |
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| 568 | |||
| MOORE THOMAS: (1779-1852) Irish Poet. Moore was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. A.L.S., Thomas Moore, two pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. ('Wednesday', 11th May 1814), to [William H.] Carpenter. Moore thanks his correspondent for a letter from Bermuda 'which was indeed of importance as it announces to me the speedy arrival of between five and six hundred pounds, my share of last years profits!' and continues 'Do you know I begin to fear that I was wrong in asking you for any of your wine, and that, tho you have not been frank enough to tell me so, you do not like to part with it and indeed if I had a little considered how attached a man naturally gets to good wine, I would not have put you to the test - but the difficulty I have found myself (in the very small orders that I can give) of procuring anything that is drinkable, led me to venture upon asking you to be my Wine Merchant, and I should have been your debtor in all that considerable balance that there is in favour of good wine against any price you could set upon it - but to bring the matter to a point, if you have really sent off the wine, I have nothing to do but pay & be grateful - or (in a more convenient order of things) be grateful and pay - but if it is not dispatched (which I rather suspect from your saying nothing about it in your last) let it remain snugly and brightly where it is and I will come and take ample usage upon it in the course of the Spring….' In concluding Moore states 'With respect to the additions for the Bag, they are not all in the Chronicle, nor are they there as I would wish to have them printed…' With integral address leaf in Moore's hand and bearing the remnants of a red wax seal. Some light overall age wear and a few small holes at the folds, only very slightly affecting a few letters of text, G £200 - 300 In 1803 Moore had been appointed registrar to the Admiralty in Bermuda. Moore's work, Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag, was written in March 1813. William H. Carpenter (1792-1866) British Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. |
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| 569 | |||
| BROWNING ROBERT: (1812-1889) English Poet. Fountain pen ink signature ('Yours cordially, Robert Browning') on a small piece clipped from the conclusion of a letter. Neatly laid down, otherwise VG £100 - 150 |
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| 570 | |||
| MASEFIELD JOHN: (1878-1967) English Poet Laureate 1930-67. A.L.S, John Masefield, three pages, oblong 8vo, Abingdon, 27th February n.y., to Miss Jessel. Masefield thanks his correspondent for writing with the sad news of the death of her mother and remarks, 'We are grieved, indeed, to hear of this and to think of your shattering sorrow. We ever think & talk of your Mother with gratitude and affection. She was a friend to us in a difficult time. None can doubt that her great qualities of spirit and character have entered in a realm where such things have and know an eternal reward.' VG £80 - 100 |
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| DOUGLAS ALFRED: (1870-1945) English Author & Poet, the intimate friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. A.L.S., Alfred Douglas, one page, 4to, Hove, Sussex, 6th December 1942, to Mr. Brooks. Douglas writes, in full, 'This is to introduce my friend Mr. Adrian Earle who is a great admirer of you & Truth. He is keen to join the "Right" press & his views are extremely sound.' One very slight, minor paperclip rust stain to the upper left corner, VG £150 - 200 |
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| 572 | |||
| DOUGLAS ALFRED: (1870-1945) English Author & Poet, the intimate friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Autograph Poem Signed, Alfred Douglas, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. The page is headed 'To one who believes (or pretends to believe) that we are fighting Germany to "Uphold the principles of the French Revolution"', adding two lines in latin 'A Sinistris me Sequestra statuens in parte dextra'. Douglas begins the two verse poem 'Not by Beelzebub is Satan cast/ Out of the mind possessed. Darkness abides/ Unexorcised by Darkness. Who that rides…' Signed at the conclusion. A small paper clip rust stain appears at the head of the page, only very slightly affecting two words of the text, otherwise VG £200 - 300 |
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| 573 | |||
| SITWELL EDITH: (1887-1964) British Poet and Critic. Autograph Manuscript Signed, Edith Sitwell, three pages, folio, n.p., n.d. On feint ruled paper Sitwell has boldly penned her poem entitled His Blood Colours My Cheek, the nine stanza, forty nine line poem beginning 'His Blood colours my cheek, Ah! Were but those Flames the tongue where with I speak'. Signed in ink at the conclusion. A small tear appears at the centre of the head of each page, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG £100 - 150 His Blood Colours My Cheek was published in a collection of Sitwell's later poetry entitled The Outcasts (1962). |
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| 574 | |||
| AUDEN W. H.: (1907-1973) Anglo-American Poet. A.L.S., W. H. Auden, one page, 8vo, Christ Church, Oxford, 7th December 1972, to Mike Fearn of the London Express News and Feature Services. Auden thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks 'You say nothing about the financial arrangements', continuing 'I am not interested in publicity, so, if I give an interview, I expect to be paid something for my time and trouble.' Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Auden and signed by him in the return address panel to the upper left corner. Together with a small series of three T.Ls.S. and one A.L.S. by various other famous individuals comprising Frederick Forsyth, Alan Ayckbourn, Michael York and Michael Crawford, all to Mike Fearn, 1974-75, and relating to their favourite dishes, Ayckbourn commenting '...it's absolutely useless asking me about food or recipes. It's just something served up on the table and always burns if I go near it. Any sure fire delicacy I dreamt up would probably poison 2/3 of your readership.' A small area of paper loss to the upper left corner of Auden's letter, only just affecting two words of the address. G to VG, 5 £150 - 200 |
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| 575 | |||
| AUDEN W. H.: (1907-1973) Anglo-American Poet. Souvenir typescript signed, W H Auden, eleven pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. The typescript is of Auden's work entitled The Quest -A Sonnet Sequence, signed at the foot of the final page beneath The Garden. VG £100 - 120 |
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| 576 | |||
| ISHERWOOD CHRISTOPHER: (1904-1986) British Novelist. Signed and inscribed postcard photograph of Isherwood in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Pat York. Signed by Isherwood across a light area of the image and dated 6th December 1972 in his hand. With an A.L.S., with his initials C I , to the verso, to Richard Norwood, stating 'If you sent me a book it wd. take months to arrive, or you'd have to send it airmail and send me an international postal order for the return postage. Life is too short! Why not just stick this picture in the book.' and continuing to refer to the image, 'It's thought to be very like me and one of the best. Taken by the wife of the actor Michael York - they are both good friends of mine.' Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Isherwood and signed ('Isherwood') by him in the return address panel. One very slight, minor corner crease, otherwise VG £100 - 150 |
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| 577 | |||
| BETJEMAN JOHN: (1906-1984) British Poet Laureate 1972-84. Collection of eight A.Ls.S. and one T.L.S., John Betjeman, seventeen pages (total), 8vo and 4to, one to the verso of a large colour picture postcard of Padstow Harbour, various places (London, Cornwall), 20th March 1961 - 7th June 1971, all to Miss. Iris Langley of King Alfred's Kitchen in Wantage. Betjeman writes a series of social letters to his correspondent, in part, 'When it shone with you, it was misty here, When it snowed with you, the sun shone….How wise you are to boil under that hot roof over King Alf's.' (20th March 1961), 'I was kept rehearsing till 7pm that evening & again every day since & now have two more - to-day & Sunday - so there was no hope of coming. I would have loved to have done so for the breath of Hampstead air….would have been a tonic - one I still need.' (7th July 1962), 'Mrs. B is away till May….Candida for ever & here I am a mess of self pity & unable to let the Mead. The Oratory School. Well don't go R.C. Wait for them to join up with the C of E. We're all Catholix. Flushing is a lovely place although it is on the S coast of Cornwall which is to us in the North, the haunt of beardies & wierdies (sic) in jeans.' (30th October 1963), 'Mrs. B is v well & is meant to be writing her book on India' (24th July 1966), 'All is well with me & mine. Candida's elder daughter Lucy is about 2 & can just talk. The other one Imogen can't speak yet but she is only about 9 months old. This letter may be hard to read as I'm writing it in the train from Portsmouth to Waterloo. Paul is teaching outside New York in an equivalent, I gather, of a "comprehensive". He never writes. So I hold to the idea that no news is good news. I write to him & the letters are not returned with "address unknown". Mrs. B. is v active & well. I wish she would write her book about India. All she does is gather facts…..The train has now stopped at Haslemere, so that I can write more clearly so that you can at least read my signature…' (31st July 1967), 'It is very kind of you to remember my birthday. In fact I'd probably forget it without your reminder….Mrs Betjeman will probably be there at The Mead on the 19th of September, and so will I. Though filming in Lincolnshire and the Isle of Wight for a film about Tennyson may detain me….Shetland is not at all like Scotland, it is more like West Norway, and the Faroes… (27th August 1968), 'I think she's rather good. She feels & puts things shortly & memorably. I like Seaside Summer best. It is painfully graphic. Tell her a poem should be its own explanation. The notes though pleasant to have, aren't really needed. That is why I like the poems. They explain themselves. As to getting them published - first try the college journal & risk the horror of rejection, then local papers, then periodicals you like, & then when enough are published - say 3 - then risk a publisher. She'll need to use a Literary Agent….- avoid printers who ask you to pay for publication. They are crooks or fools. Your niece Sally writes a good letter & her friend good verses on bicycling. It is far harder to write what rhymes and scans than to write free verse.' (7th June 1961). Two of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes hand addressed by Betjeman. Together with a further series of ten A.Ls.S. and ten T.Ls.S., mainly Penelope Betjeman, by Penelope Chetwode (1910-1986, Betjeman's wife from 1933-1951, after which they drifted apart following the poet's relationship with Lady Elizabeth Cavendish), 46 pages (total), 8vo, 4to and some on correspondence cards and picture postcards, various places (mainly The Mead, Wantage, Berkshire and some on the attractive printed stationery of The Mead Waterfowl Farm, 'Specialist in Trade Breeds of Ducks and Geese'), 30th June 1959 - 7th June 1984, also all to Miss. Iris Langley. Betjeman's wife writes a series of letters, some quite lengthy, in the first offering her correspondent a position at King Alfred's Kitchen, in part, 'My husband (John Betjeman, you may have seen him on TV!) started a Café-Restaurant cum tea rooms about three years ago and unfortunately the people he put in to run it knew little of catering so 18 months ago I undertook to run it…' (30th June 1959) and in the other earlier correspondence hoping that she will accept the position, offering advice on accommodation and the job, providing a list of the ten existing staff (marked Strictly Private, and containing Betjeman's views of their abilities and characters), continuing with social news following the sale of the establishment ('….it was the best of the only three offers we had and Mr. Betjeman is angelically letting me have all the money so I HOPE to be able to go to India…and possibly take Candida'), and Langley's departure after two years employment, also writing about her books and travel plans ('I am going to Spain for the whole month of October while Mr. B goes to Cornwall with John Piper to revise their Cornish Guide') and further making several references to her children and husband, 'But anyway I do not think it will ever get as far as a book. Mr. B. is much too optimistic' (23rd March 1962), '…Mr. B. is in such a passion because I have not finished typing out my diary yet that I dare not be sidetracked by any more articles or lectures!' (8th April 1962), 'It was sweet of you to write about Candida: she has picked a divine young man and I am as usual madly in love with him myself. He is like the Prince in a fairy tale: very handsome with a marvellous figure and lovely clothes…He is not an intellectual which I think is probably best for her as she has both sides and I think will write and it is a great risk for 2 writers to marry. I think it is pretty safe for me now to turn out a book because John's fame is well established! But had I written earlier on it would not have been wise as I have seen it so often among both artists and writers: it is only natural for the husband to be jealous if his wife practices the same art as he does.' (21st January 1963) and in the final letter (unsigned) referring to Betjeman's death, 'HOW DARE you call me "Lady Betjeman"!? In case you didn't see the notice in the papers today I enclose a notice about how to get a ticket for the memorial service in W. Abbey if you will be free to come…It was lovely for him to die peacefully in his beloved Cornwall & not to be rushed again to hospital with yet more strokes. His last years were so sad with horrible Parkinson's disease….But John always said he was never in pain (apart from the nasty strokes) but he couldn't read or write or feed himself but he sometimes smiled if you talked about Archie.' (7th June 1984). Further including a Christmas greetings card signed by both John and Penelope Betjeman individually, and a small selection of photographs of and printed ephemera relating to Betjeman including an image of him at Princess Margaret's wedding (along with Betjeman's invitation, Order of Service etc. to the wedding, 6th May 1960) and another at Buckingham Palace following the award of his CBE, a programme for a Charity Recital at the Royal Festival Hall, 26th January 1961, an invitation to the wedding of Candida Betjeman to Rupert Lycett Green (signed by Penelope Betjeman to the verso with a brief note in her hand) and a lengthy A.L.S. from Iris Langley, seventeen pages, 8vo, Wantage, Berkshire, 17th March 1960, to her mother, with fascinating content recounting her visit to Buckingham Palace with the Betjemans on the occasion of John Betjeman receiving his Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the day's subsequent events following the ceremonial. Generally VG, 41 £600 - 800 |
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| 578 | |||
| HUGHES LANGSTON: (1902-1967) American Poet. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 5 x 7 photograph of Hughes seated in a three quarter length pose behind his desk upon which appears a typewriter. Signed in blue ink across a light area of the image. VG £100 - 150 |
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| 579 | |||
| SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Shaw in a semi-profile head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Russell. Signed ('G. Bernard Shaw') in fountain pen ink, to the verso, and dated 1929 in his hand. A brief note in an unidentified hand to the verso confirms Shaw's signature. Together with an A.N.S., G. Bernard Shaw, on one side of his printed correspondence card, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 18th April 1950, to Hugh Rees Ltd. Beneath a newspaper advertisement for The Times Guide to The House of Commons Shaw has penned a brief note, 'Please send me this; and charge to my a/c.' Hand addressed by Shaw to the verso. Some silvering to the image of the postcard, G to about VG, 2 £150 - 200 |
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| 580 | |||
| SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, in the hand of Shaw's wife, Charlotte Payne-Townshend (1857-1943) Irish Political Activist, a member of the Fabian Society, three pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1918), with several holograph corrections and additions by George Bernard Shaw. The manuscript comprises twenty three statements or quotations, each numbered to the left column with a reference to the page number of a book, evidently from where the statements were extracted, and two have additional remarks by George Bernard Shaw, in part, (George Bernard Shaw's holograph remarks indicated in bold text), 'The long duration of this war has resulted less from its hitherto undreamed of military machinery, less from the even more unprecedented wholesale fabrication of public opinion, than from the spiritual mechanism of errors and myths which the vastness, the identity of this war's dangers & sacrifices automatically set up in the minds of all the warring peoples. (The word long should now be omitted as the war is now seen to have been, in fact, an amazingly short one)........What was the name of that retired Admiral who went about the country sowing acorns in order that England might never lack for oaken timbers, just at the very moment when the first iron ships were on the stocks. We are like that old gentleman; only, instead of acorns, we are sowing hatred, injustice, and folly. (Collingwood. But where is the first iron ship? Nothing of the kind is visible so far except a coffin ship with League of Nations painted on it, and a black flag on its locker. Perhaps something better may come out of the Russian dockyard).' The three pages are neatly bound together at the left edge. Some light foxing and minor age wear, otherwise VG £300 - 400 |
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| 581 | |||
| BECKETT SAMUEL: (1906-1989) Irish Dramatist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1969. A.L.S., S Beckett, on one side of a plain white correspondence card, Paris, 20th February 1982, to [Mark] Axelrod. Beckett thanks his correspondent for their letter and explains 'I can't make appointments more than a few days in advance. Let me know when & where you'll be in Paris. If I'm here I'll contact you.' EX £200 - 300 |
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| MILLER ARTHUR: (1915-2005) American Playwright. Signed 9 x 12 photograph of Miller standing in a three quarter length pose. Signed with his name alone in bold blue fountain pen ink to the lower white border. EX £80 - 100 |
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| ANOUILH JEAN: (1910-1987) French Dramatist. A.L.S., Jean Anouilh, one page, 4to, Avenue Trudaine, n.d., to a gentleman, in French. Anouilh encloses a paper (no longer present) on Franck as promised, continuing 'With my thanks in anticipation - and a second thank you, should you be kind enough to write and let me know when it is published.' Originally from the noted collection of Ray Rawlins, the signature from the letter being the one used in his book The Guinness Book of World Autographs. One tear at the base, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG £80 - 100 |
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| SCOTT WALTER: (1771-1832) Scottish Novelist. A.L.S., Walter Scott, one page, 4to, Edinburgh, 30th December 1804, to [William Smith at Kelso]. Scott writes, in part, 'I received your letter covering a bill for £800 indorsed to me being the price of the Outfield park received from Mr. Nichol which I shall immediately place in the hands of Sir William Forbes &C for the purchase of stock in the name of the Trustees....' Matted in white and framed and glazed in a plain wooden frame to an overall size of 11.5 x 13.5. A few light circular stains, only very slightly affecting a few letters of text and not the signature. About VG £200 - 300 Attached to the verso of the frame is an original catalogue description of the letter by Goodspeed's of Boston, Massachusetts, in which they state that the letter bears the integral address leaf. |
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| 585 | |||
| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. Blue ink signature ('Faithfully yours always, Charles Dickens') on a small piece, matted in white beneath a 5.5 x 7 image of Dickens in a three-quarter length pose seated on a chair. Framed and glazed in a gold coloured frame to an overall size of 10 x 13. Some light age wear, otherwise VG £200 - 300 |
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| 586 | |||
| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. Ink signature ('Charles Dickens', with paraph) and four additional words in his hand on a piece removed from the conclusion of a letter. Matted in black and white beneath a reproduction photograph of Dickens and framed and glazed in a modern plain black frame to an overall size of 10 x 15.5. About VG £200 - 300 |
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| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. Autograph envelope signed, Charles Dickens, addressed in his hand to Dr. Southwood Smith at 38 Finsbury Square. Post marked 1844. Signed in bold ink to the lower left corner. Neatly inlaid and with a red wax seal to the verso. Some light age wear, otherwise VG £200 - 300 Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) English Physician & Sanitary Reformer. In 1837, Thomas Southwood Smith issued his Report on the Physical Causes of Sickness and Mortaliy to which the poor are regularly exposed and which are preventable by Sanitary Measures. As a result Southwood Smith escorted Dickens to see the poor conditions described in the report, which prompted the novelist to write Bleak House and Oliver Twist |
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| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. Autograph envelope signed, Charles Dickens, addressed in his hand to Dr. Southwood Smith at 38 Finsbury Square. Annotated by Dickens to the upper edge 'With Two Books'. Neatly inlaid and with the red wax seal neatly cut away. Some light age wear and a few light pencil annotations in an unidentified hand, otherwise VG £200 - 300 Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) English Physician & Sanitary Reformer. In 1837, Thomas Southwood Smith issued his Report on the Physical Causes of Sickness and Mortaliy to which the poor are regularly exposed and which are preventable by Sanitary Measures. As a result Southwood Smith escorted Dickens to see the poor conditions described in the report, which prompted the novelist to write Bleak House and Oliver Twist |
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| DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S., Charles Dickens, with paraph, one page, 8vo, Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, 6th September 1866, to Messrs. Essell Knight and Arnold. Dickens thanks his correspondent's for their letter of the previous day and continues 'The lime trees will probably be planted about a month hence. I will take care that Mr. Langford has good notice of my gardener's being ready for the work.' With blank integral leaf. About EX £1000 - 1500 The present letter is unpublished and does not appear in the Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens. However, two letters by Dickens written on the 4th September 1866 are recorded, the first also to Messrs. Essell Knight and Arnold, Solicitors and Clerks to the Rochester Magistrates, forwarding a letter to be laid before the Board at their meeting at Gravesend on 5th September, and the second being the letter to the Board of Commissioners or Trustees of Roads in which Dickens requests permission to plant a row of lime trees on the side of the high road along the whole wall frontage of his property at Gad's Hill, stating 'I trust you may be of opinion that the road could sustain no damage from being so ornamented, and that the appearance of the trees would be refreshing and pleasant to passers by.' It is evident from the present letter that the request by Dickens was approved. |
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| HARDY THOMAS: (1840-1928) English Novelist. An excellent and unusual vintage signed postcard photograph, the image depicting a bust of Hardy by the sculptor Serge Yourievitch, executed at Max Gate, Dorchester in 1924. Signed ('Th: Hardy') by Hardy with his name alone in bold black fountain pen ink to a light area of the image. EX £400 - 500 |
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| KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) English Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907. T.L.S., Rudyard Kipling, one page, 4to, Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex, 4th January 1923, to The Hon. Secretary of the Anglo-Swedish Society, marked Private. Kipling states 'I am very sensible of the honour that the Anglo-Swedish Society does me in proposing that I visit Sweden to deliver a lecture to your members. I should very greatly like to avail myself of the opportunity of revisiting Sweden' although declining the invitation due to his ill health and his doctors insistence that he should travel 'to a warmer climate than England'. VG £100 - 150 |
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| CHESTERTON G. K.: (1874-1936) English Writer. A good original black pen and ink drawing by Chesterton, unsigned, depicting two Regency gentlemen in full length poses exchanging punches, with a third man looking on in horror. Drawn on a 4to sheet of notepaper with the printed address of Top Meadow, Beaconsfield. Annotated in ink in an unidentified hand to the verso, 'G. K. Chesterton. About 1923'. VG £100 - 150 |
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| BELL CLIVE: (1881-1964) English Art Critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group. A.L.S., Clive Bell, two pages, 8vo, Charleston, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex (although on the printed stationery of Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, the address of which Bell has drawn two lines through), 1st October n.y., to a friend [Youra Guller], in French. Bell states that he will be seeing his correspondent play at the Queen's Hall on Friday night and remarks 'This time you will not leave without me', inviting her to supper in Bloomsbury after the concert with two or three friends. Bell explains that he will collect her from the Queen's Hall after the performance he wishes to listen to has ended. One very small paperclip rust stain appears to the upper right corner of the second page, otherwise VG £100 - 120 Youra Guller (1895-1980) French Pianist |
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| GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) English Novelist. A rare vintage signed and inscribed 5.5 x 7 photograph of Greene seated outdoors in a three quarter length pose. Signed in dark fountain pen ink to a light area at the head of the image, 'For Dr. Jacob Schwartz, with all good wishes from Graham Greene'. Matted to an overall size of 8 x 10. VG £200 - 300 |
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| CHRISTIE AGATHA: (1890-1976) English Crime Writer. A.L.S., Agatha Christie, one page, 8vo, Churston Ferrers, South Devon, 5th October 1964, to Mrs. B. Reid in Sydney, Australia. Christie thanks her correspondent for their letter and continues 'I am proud to know that my books have given real enjoyment and alleviation in a lonely time.' Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Christie. VG £200 - 300 |
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| DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. A.L.S., Daphne du Maurier, to the verso of a colour picture postcard of her house at Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 24th May 1978, to Anne Lipscombe. Du Maurier thanks her correspondent for their letter and continues 'Here is a P.C. of Kilmarth which figures so much in The House on the Strand that you read. I am so glad you enjoyed it.' A couple of very light, minor stains, only very slightly affecting the text, otherwise VG £80 - 100 The House on the Strand, one of Du Maurier's later works, was first published in 1969. |
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| DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne du Maurier, one page, 8vo, Kilmarth, Par, Cornwall, 7th October 1974, to Denys Val Baker. The novelist announces bad news and remarks 'Why the hell can't they spend less on car parks and amusements, and let the Arts in Cornwall have more?', further continuing 'I do see your point of feeling you cannot cope any further, but can't you have a last bash around for local support? And ask contributors to send in "for free" for just once? The publicity could be glory enough for one issue.' A couple of very light, extremely minor creases, VG £100 - 120 |
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| DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 6th April n.y., to 'My Dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier writes a social letter and proposes meeting for lunch 'and a gossip', explaining that her husband could fetch her correspondent by car and later drive them to Lantyan so that they can walk the dog. Du Maurier concludes 'One non-committal review from The Times yesterday. We may get blasts in the Sunday papers, but I doubt it. I think little polite mentions, not much more. I enclose my "piece" for last Sunday's Sunday Telegraph, in case you do not take it.' VG £100 - 120 Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. |
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| DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 29th July n.y., to 'My Dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier makes two requests of her correspondent 'I wonder if you could do two commissions for me, when you are in Cambridge. First, regarding the enclosed (no longer present) This original is in Munich, but there is a plaster copy in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Little St. Mary's Lane, Cambridge, and I am very anxious to get a photograph of it, as this is torn, naughtily, from a book. The Museum may have a photograph, or might know where I could get one. The Fitzwilliam and the British Museum do not possess copies or photographs. My interest is because I am very sure that the numerous Christian statues of Madonna (sic) and Child only came about after the sculptors of those days had gazed upon the pagan originals! Put a halo round this enclosure, and you have the perfect type, but being a Greco-phobe I find it more noble than the beatified Catholic equivalents! Second demand, could you ask at a good bookshop whether they have a copy…of Jane Harrison's " Prologemena To The Study of Greek Religion", first published in 1903 by the Cambridge University Press. I have just had this from the London Library, but it is such a good research book that it would be invaluable to possess a copy. I gather she was the authority on Greek mythology and religion at the start of the century, and probably still is to this day.' VG £100 - 120 Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. |
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| DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 16th December 1963, to 'My Dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier announces 'I wanted you to hear from me, and no one else if possible, that the Guardsman [her husband, Frederick Browning] is in trouble… Last Tuesday of last week, he went off to a Civil Defence Meeting, at Camborne, for the day in good heart and quite well. Said he would be home for late tea around 5.15. There was still no sign of him at dinner time (8) and I became seriously alarmed.' Du Maurier adds 'Rang various places, no news. Finally rang nice Captain Maxwell-Hyslop at Prideaux, who always goes to these Meetings. He said Tommy left at the same time he did and should have been home by 5.30. He told me to ring off, and he would telephone the police. At 8.15 he rang back, and said he had bad news. The G'sman had been picked up by the police cars at Hewas Water, as being in an unfit state to drive. There had been some accident, and two people taken to hospital. He (Maxwell Hyslop) said he was going at once to Truro Police Station to fetch G'sman, who was apparently unhurt. They arrived back about ΒΌ to 10. G'sman very white, and shaken, who said he had drunk some whisky after leaving the Meeting (4.30) and could remember nothing afterwards, until the police cars stopped him at the Hewas Water…' She continues 'He has been served with a Charge (Unfit to drive through drink) to appear at Truro Magistrates Court on December 23[r]d… He had drunk the whisky, he must have "blacked-out" through this, but its no mitigation. Thank God no one has been seriously hurt, but we still don't fully know what happened on the road. He must have swerved a lot and caused other cars to take avoiding action… The agony of remorse is too frightful, and whether he will avoid a nervous breakdown I don't know' and further adds 'Of course the sentence will be to lose his driving licence for a twelve month if not more, and this is one of the worst aspects because he has so little nowadays to keep him going, but things like driving the car into Fowey, etc. As you know, I don't drive. He will also have to resign from all his various activities, Civil Defence, Deputy Lord Lieut. Extra Equerry, etc..' before concluding 'I can only repeat, thank God no one has been killed.' and remarking in a postscript 'Nothing much in papers to date, except he had been involved in an accident. But I fear on Monday, after the hearing, it will be in.' Two small tape stains to the head of the first and final pages, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG £150 - 200 Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. Some years previously the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. Frederick Browning (1896-1965) British Army Officer of World War II and husband of Daphne Du Maurier. Browning caused a scandal in 1963 when, under the influence of prescription drugs and alcohol, he was involved in an automobile accident in which two people were injured. He was fined £50 and forced to pay court and medical costs |
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| Auctioneer: | IAA International Autograph Auctions Ltd | Location: | RADISSON EDWARDIAN HOTEL, HEATHROW |
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| Date: | 8th June 2013 | Time: | 11:00AM |
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