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Michael Winner (1935 – 2013) filmmaker, writer, and media personality

[Michael Winner (1935 – 2013) filmmaker, writer, and media personality] Autograph Card Signed Michael to Hunter [Davies], journalist etc.

Card, 15.5 x 9cms, verso blank, good condition. Text: Thank you for the book. It is published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Are you trying to tell me something? | Good to see you again [...] Image on request.

 £25.00
Joan Sutherland, 'Australian dramatic coloratura soprano' [Wiipedia]

[Joan Sutherland; Opera; Soprano] Titlepage (?) only extracted from the book, Edward Greenfield, Joan Sutherland, inscribed by her Best wishes | Joan Sutherland.

17 x 21cms, good condition. Photo of Sutherland central. See Image.

 £25.00
J.W. Croker, Statesman and miscellaneous writer, first secretary to the Admiralty

[J.W. Croker, Statesman and miscellaneous writer, first secretary to the Admiralty] Part of Autograph Letter Signed to Your Royal Highness [unidentified]

Subscription cut from letter, 18 x 7cms, aging but good condition with clear text, as follows: [com]pany to dinner on Saturday [words lost in cut] of March | I have the honor to be | Sir | Your Royal Highness's | Most faithful humble & obliged | Servant | Admiralty | Feb 7th 1823 JWCroker...

£45.00
Jilly Cooper, popular novelist

[Jilly Cooper, popular novelist] Autograph Postcard Signed Jilly Cooper to Hunter [Davies], journalist and author responding to something he's written about her.

Postcard, 15 x 10.5cms, very good condition. Picture of V2 (flying bomb) recto. Verso Addressed to Hunter Davies's full address. Her message (beginning in different ink from second half) as follows: Darling Darling | Hunter | I've just read December 17 . Punch, What more can I say But thank you...

£75.00
Margaret [Forster] & Hunter Davies, the former novelist & biographer, the latter journalist and author,.

[Hunter Davies, journalist and author; the Illuminati of Camden Town; social gathering] Presumably a Circular sent to distinguished people in the Camden Region suggesting social gatherings, with two documents signed by distinguished attendees

Three Pages, folio. Page One: Hunter Davies discusses his idea of local writers attending a regular lunch, to commence on 30 March [1983 presumably]. He concludes with a list of possible lunchers (from Margaret Drabble to David Cornwall [John Le Carre] to Salman Rushdie, and so on. SEE Image....

£500.00
[John Waynflete Carter (1905 ? 1975) writer, diplomat, bibliographer, book-collector, antiquarian bookseller ] Percy Muir and David Randall, Editors

[Muir and Randall; John Carter] Bibliographical Notes and Queries, Vol.lI. No.12. May 1939 (one issue).

One issue of Bibliographical Notes and Queries, [12] pages, 8vo, unbound. minor staining and wear ro 'spine', fold mark, good condition. It concludes with a two-page article by John Carter, headed BIBLIOGRAPHY AT OXFORD (with references to Dr Chapman and Mr Hazen etc..

 £65.00
[Military Appointment; General George Anson, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies.]

[George Anson, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies; printed with MS adds] Appointment to the rank of Lieutenant [East India Company] of Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart

Document (Vellum?] 44 x 25cms, text clear and complete, fold marks. With Seal. SIGNED by General George Anson, Commander-in-Chief in India and Military Secretary, East Indies (signature illegible). See Image.

 £220.00
[Military Appointment; General Sir Charles James Napier, Commander-in-Chief in India.]

[ Napier, Commander-in-Chief in India; printed with MS adds] Appointment to the rank of Ensign [East India Company] of Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart

Vellum Document, 40 x 25cms, bottom edge sl. crumpled , faint water stin lright margin, text clear and complete. With Seal. SIGNED by General Sir Charles James Napier, Commander-in-Chief in India and J.P. Kennedy [John Pitt Kennedy], Military Secretary, East Indies (see Wikipedia entry [ a...

£280.00
Diana Dors, actress and singer, blonde bombshell

[Diana Dors, actress and singer, blonde bombshell] Lengthy Typed Letter Signed Diana, about 'improvements' to her bedroom to Joe, presumably someone doing work on her bedroom.

Substantial Typed Letter Signed (26 lines), 4to, 20 x 25cms, tiny closed tears, fold marks, aging, basically good condition. She gives her wishes on patterns and materials, colours and placements, etc. See Image for full text.

 £60.00
Edmund Kean, Shakespearian Actor

[Edmund Kean, Shakespearian Actor] Printed theatre ticket Signed by Edmind Kean, admitting two to the boxes for a production of Howard Payne's Brutus

Ticket for Drury Lane, 8.5 x 4, laid down on larger card. See Image.

 £100.00
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