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Michael Gilbert. [Michael Gilbert, crime writer] A large collection of Typed Letters Signed. MICHAEL GILBERT, Detective Story Writer, Founder Member, sometime Membership Secretary, 21 TLSs and TNSs, total 23pp., 8vo and 4to, some with ms. additions, 1955-1960, mainly concerning the financial affairs of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), the financial consequences of publishing the... |
£250.00 | |
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Roy Vickers. ROY VICKERS, Detective Story Writer, 5TLSs, total 6pp., 4to, all 1961, jokey, gossipy letters concerning CWA affairs - Rosemary Robinson being co-opted to the general committee, German rights to an Anthology sold, an enquiry from Japan about Anthologies (leading to a discussion), subject for... |
£100.00 | |
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Josephine Bell. [Josephine Bell, crime writer] A collection of autograph letters. Detective Story Writer, sometime Chairman of the Crime Writers Association (1959/60). 14 ALSs, TLSs and TNSs, total 17pp., 8vo and 4to, 1958-1960, about CWA affairs - finances, the Dinner (with some incoming correspondence), the Japanese CWA, news from members, meetings, royalties on CWA... |
£250.00 | |
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Julian Symons. Julian Symons, Detective Story Writer and Historian of the Genre, Founder Member, sometime Chairman of CWA (1958/9), 12 TLSs, one page each, 8vo and 4to, some with ms. additions, concerning CWA affairs - news of the Anthology, financial dealings, expenses, the funeral of a member, the Exhibition... |
£150.00 | |
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[Winston Churchill; Winston Spencer Churchill] W.S. Churchill Single issue, Ninth Series, no. 55, Saturday, January 14, 1899, paginated 21-38, with printed wraps (advertisements and title), as issued, front wrap partially sunned, marked on back wrap, other very minor defects, mainly good condition. Note, p.31, 11 lines, commencing "Mr. Dallas will find... |
£400.00 | |
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Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1834–1879), English nobleman Three pages, 8vo, bifolium, small stain, otherwise good condition. He comments initially on a cutting (from a newspaper?). Singular to relate there is more truth in that cutting than you wd imagine. Before leaving London I had persuaded Miss Kellogg to come to Brighton for the race week: I got a... |
£100.00 | |
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Ellery Queen [autograph ] Two completed standard membership forms for the Crime Writers Association (of Great Britain). Detective Story Writing Team. Manfred B. Lee, typed, 16 Sept. 1957,with minor ms. additions and Frederic Dannay, handwritten, 12 Sept. 1957, both adding a note concerning co-authorship, typed and handwritten respectively. The additions and changes include excising the membership fee in sterling... |
£250.00 | |
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G.D.H. Cole [George Douglas Howard Cole] (1889 –1959), political theorist, economist, writer and historian. [G.D.H. Cole] Clipped signature "Yours sincerely | G.D.H. Cole". Clipped signature, c. 5 x 2cm, good condition. |
£25.00 | |
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Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree [Rowntree] Clipped signature from typed letter "B S Rowntree". English quaker philanthropist, son of Joseph Rowntree and author of 'Poverty, A Study of Town Life' (1901). Signed 'B S Rowntree' beneath typed 'Yours sincerely,'. Docketed in pencil in another hand, "B.S. Rowntree (chocolate)".. Fragment of around one inch by three inches. |
£23.00 | |
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Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921), French naturalist and explorer. One page, 12mo, small closed tear on fold, ow good. "Monsieur Alfred Grandidier présente ses compliments au Secrétaire de Savage Club et accepte avec plaisir l'invitation qui lui a été faite pour demain samedi à 9h1.2 [9.30]." |
£65.00 |
