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Jonathan Mawson Denwood (born c.1853?; died c.1931?), English writer in the dialect of his native Cumbria Autograph Note Signed to unnamed male correspondent. One page, quarto. Good, on lightly aged paper. Some offsetting and smudging from Denwood's folding of letter. Reads '72 Kirkgate | Cockermouth | Aug 8 - 1931 | Jonathan. Mawson. Denwood | Dear Sir, | I send you autograph. I cannot write further At the moment I can scarcely hold a pen.' |
£30.00 | |
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Mary Williamina Findlater (1865-1963), Scottish novelist and poet Autograph Note Signed ('Mary W. Findlater') to unnamed female autograph hunter. One page, 16mo. Good, on lightly aged grey paper, with previous paper mount adhering to reverse. Reads 'I have pleasure in sending you the Autograph you desire'. |
£10.00 | |
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Mrs Constance A. Kyrle Fletcher (died 1980), wife of Ifan Kyrle Fletcher (1905-1969), bookseller One page, 12mo. Very good with light creasing. She thanks him for the list of autographs, out of which she is interested in four: those of Macready, Gordon Craig, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. '[T]he signature you could not decipher is "Alma Tadema" '. |
£30.00 | |
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Murray Kash, Canadian-born British actor, announcer and author, compere of the BBC television programmes 'It Pays To Be Ignorant', starring Michael Bentine (1957) Autograph Signature on card, addressed to autograph collector Albert Millward. One page. Dimensions of card roughly three and a half inches by four and a half. Right-hand side and bottom edge of card cropped. 'Autograph of' printed at head, and beneath this 'To Albert Millwa | With very best wi | Murray Kash'. The right-hand edges of the letter 'K' in Kash's name extend... |
£35.00 | |
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P. J. Croft [Winifred A. Myers (Autographs) Ltd] Quarto: 10 pp (paginated 236-41). Stapled. In original printed green card wraps. Good, though lightly creased. Five plates, examples of the hands of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir John Harington, Admiral Lord Nelson, together with an original and a faked Burns letter. While the offprint is undated, the... |
£45.00 | |
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Professor Dr. Eugen Wolbe (1873-1938), Studientrat [autograph collecting; autographs] Quarto: 196 + xii pp. 58 facsimiles in text, but lacking frontispiece. No dustwrapper. In original cloth binding, decorated on the front board in yellow, grey and black. Good, with spotting to edges and boards. Concentrating exclusively on German autographs. Wolbe was removed from his teaching... |
£120.00 | |
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Puttick and Simpson, London auctioneers [autographs; sale catalogues; Shakespeare; George Washington] Octavo: ii + 51 + [1] pp. Stitched and unbound. Grubby, and with loss to final leaf, affecting a couple of lots and an advertisement, from removal of label. 521 lots. Postmarked penny red postage stamp. Letters of Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Frederick the Great, Haydn, Rousseau, Voltaire. The high... |
£80.00 | |
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Ralph David Blumenfeld (1864-1948), newspaper editor Autograph Note Signed to the autograph hunter Rev. E. J. F. Davies. One page, 12mo. Very good, with light paperclip spotting. 'Certainly. I am glad to comply with your request.' |
£10.00 | |
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Richard Adams (born 1920), English novelist, best-known for 'Watership Down' (1972) Two Autograph Signature on slip of paper. On strip of paper roughly two inches by eight wide. Good. Two bold signature reads 'Yours sincerely | Richard Adams'. Presumably the collector was expected to cut the autographs off individually - for wgatever purpose. |
£30.00 | |
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Samuel J. Davey [booksellers' catalogues; George Cattermole; Charles Dickens; William Cowper; Isaac Newton; Lord Nelson] Quarto: 50 + [2] pp. Fold-out frontispiece giving eighteen examples of handwriting from items in the catalogue. In original orange printed wraps. Good, though a tad dusty, and in worn and faded wraps with some glue staining to back and wear to spine. Well printed, with lengthy extracts from most... |
£80.00 |
