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Author, Title, Summary Price
Henry James Montague [real name Mann]

autograph letter signed and autograph note signed,

Anglo-American actor (1844-78). The letter, to W. L. Maitland, "Prince of Wales Theatre / Thursday" (no date), 2 pp, 12mo. "Every place but one or two - is taken for Saty & not even one stall is left. The only place your are at all likely to get them is at either Mitchells or in Bond Street...

£20.00
Henry Kemble

autograph note signed to the playwright and novelist Herman [Charles] Merivale (1839-1906),

Actor (1848-1907). One page, 12mo. He thanks him for sending a book. "I shall hope to read much of it on Sunday next". Two strips of paper glued to the reverse.

£20.00
Herbert Trench

typed letter signed to M[ary]. Tennyson, with stamped addressed envelope addressed in autograph,

One page, 4to. He thanks her for her "criticisms as to the hands and the lighting [...] Your appreciation was of the kind that I specially value. / On re-reading your One Act play, I think it needs alteration. The first ten or twelver [sic] pages are very good, but I am not at all sure that the...

£12.00
Herbert Waring

one autograph note signed to [?] Croker,

English actor (1857-1932). One page, 12mo, on mourning paper. "Many thanks for your kind congratulations and the enclosed "notice". With our united regards."

£15.00
Hugh Beaumont

One typed note signed to L. E. Berman,

Theatre producer (1908-1973). One page, 8vo. "Thank you very much for letting me have the script of "THE CONCERT" which I shall certainly take great care of and return to you." Not in good condition: creased, grubby and foxed.

£25.00
Irene Vanbrugh (stage name of Irene Barnes)

autograph card signed to Walter Wood,

English actress (1872-1949), made a Dame of the British Empire in 1941. Blue "letter card" with printed stamp, addressed in autograph to "Mr Walter Wood / 7 Theresa Terrace / Hammersmith". "Many thanks for your kind invitation for June 29th which I am very sorry to say we are unable to accept...

£15.00
Irene Vanbrugh (stage name of Irene Barnes)

autograph letter signed to Dorothy [?],

English actress (1872-1949), made a Dame of the British Empire in 1941. 2 pp, 8vo. "Many thanks for your kind note. I shall be delighted to come down on Sunday May 28th. & stay till Monday afternoon. I may be rather a quiet sort of guest as this part is a great tax on me - but a day in the...

£15.00
Irene Vanbrugh (stage name of Irene Barnes)

autograph letter signed to Mrs [?] Wood,

English actress (1872-1949), made a Dame of the British Empire in 1941. Headed "Wednesday" (no date), one page, 8vo. "Mr Sydney Brooks' address is / 2 Montpelier Square / S. W. / He is the cellist who is going to play at your concert. Yours in haste / Irene Vanbrugh".

£15.00
J.G. Fitch

Autograph letter signed to the Rev. W. Tuckwell.

Educationalist (1824-1903). Four pages, 8vo. He thinks a "paper detailing [his] experiences would be very generally interesting, and would deserve a wide publicity." He feels that to discuss it at a meeting of the Council of the British Association would be contrary to his campaign to have such...

£50.00
Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey dramatised

Note on front cover: "3rd draft-typed 3rd June 1986". Dramatised by Maggie Wadey, Rehearsal script, BBC2, director Giles Foster, 170pp, fol.

£100.00
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