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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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Walter de la Mare, writer Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Two pages, c. 7 x 5", good condition. He discusses his correspondent's request (via his publishers, Constable) to include five of his poems in an anthology. "One of these, 'Tartary', is taken from a collection entitled 'Songs of Childhood, which is published by Messrs Longman Green & Co." He... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £100.00 | |
Walter Emanuel [Sir John Alexander Hammerton (1871-1949), author and editor; The London Magazine; The Manchester Guardian; Punch magazine] ACS ('Walter Emanuel') to Hammerton. Dimensions of card roughly 8.5 x 11 cm. Good, with slight creasing. Twenty lines of text. Congratulating Hammerton on his appointment as editor of the 'London Magazine'. ('Congratters on the 'London Magazine' appointment: it sounds like a nice position.') 'How do you manage it all?' Explains... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £25.00 | |
Walter G.F. Phillimore Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent Judge, jurist, and ecclesiatical lawyer (1845-1929). 3pp., 12mo, giving thanks for valuable information, describing his researches ("Rimbault's book" and correspondence), alluding to cheque books which he has inspected and others he wishes to inspect. He anticipates calling and seeing his... |
Literature | £25.00 | |
Angna Enters [Anita Enters] (1907-1989), American painter, writer, dancer and mime, partner of Michio Ito, wife of Louis Kalonyme [Louis Kantor] [W. J. MacQueen-Pope, theatre historian] Enters exhibited her artistic work - including many sketches of her own costume designs - widely in the United States and Europe, and her work is held by several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The present item is an attractive impressionistic sketch, in grey and... |
Art and Architecture, Music and Theatre | £200.00 |
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Walter George Frank Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore of Shiplake Autograph Note Signed to 'Mr. W<?>'. Judge, ecclesiastical lawyer and international jurist (1845-1929). One page, 12mo, in self-sealing stamped addressed envelope with postmark. In very good condition. 'Many many thanks for the tree-plants. They have arrived in beautiful and your directions shall be carefully followed.' Signed '... |
£25.00 | ||
Walter Koschatzky (1921-2003), German art critic Autograph Letter Signed ('Walter'), in German, to 'Mein lieber Bert!' 4to, 4 pp. Bifolium. 59 lines of text. Clear and complete. On lightly-aged paper, with 4.5 cm closed tears to the outer edge of central horizontal fold to both leaves. A large part of the letter would appear to concern washing machines, including a reference to a new one on the American market,... |
Art and Architecture | £75.00 |
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Walter Landauer (1910-1983), Austrian pianist; Maryan Rawicz (1898-1970), Polish pianist; a notable twentieth-century piano duo On a leaf from an autograph album, 11 x 17 cm. Good, on lightly aged paper. First line by Landauer. Reads 'With best wishes | [signed] Walter Landauer | [signed] Maryan Rawicz'. |
Music and Theatre | £56.00 | |
Walter Lewis Emanuel [PUNCH] Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent, an autograph-hunter. English humorist (1869-1915), a long-time contributor to 'Punch' magazine. One page, 12mo. Good on somewhat discoloured paper. Reads 'Dear Miss Manook. | No, of course I was not annoyed. I am sorry I have not a copy of any book of mine by me, and I have not time today to write one for you.'... |
£26.00 | ||
Walter Lowe Clay, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Victorian social scientist Autograph Letter Signed ('Walter L. Clay') to unnamed male correspondent. Two pages, small octavo. Good, on lightly aged paper and ruckled paper, with some staining to the verso of the blank second leaf of the bifolium. His correspondent's 'paper on the high death rate in Liverpool' was not returned to Clay after being read at Manchester, 'nor can the Secretary of the... |
Social history | £45.00 | |
Walter Runciman (1870-1949), 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, English Liberal politician Autograph Signature ('Walter Runciman'). On a piece of card roughly 9 x 11.5 cm. With embossed government crest of the Board of Education in the top left-hand corner. In fair condition, lightly-aged and with small triangular areas of discoloration to two opposing corners caused by previous mounting. Good bold signature, presumably sent... |
History | £20.00 |
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