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C.L. Graves. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Writer. Piece of paper, c.6 x 4", good condition. He is presumably reponding to a request for an autograph: "Your flattering request / My prompt attention craves. / (signed) yours sincerely, with the best of wishes / C.L. Graves." |
£18.00 | |
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Cosmo Hamilton. Autograph Note Signed to "Miss[?] Graham". Author and dramatist. One page, 8vo, good condition, some corrections in Hamilton's hand. "This story is so good & rings so true a note that the title jars a little. May I ask you to be so kind as to give it another one & to call your characters by more ordinary names?" |
£34.00 | |
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E.G.A. Holmes [Edmond Holmes] Autograph Note Signed "E.G.A. Holmes" to E.J.T. Davis, autograph-hunter. WITH manuscript poem. Educational pioneer and poet. (Letter) one page, 8vo, good condition. "If you think my autograph worth possessing you are heartily welcome to a specimen of it. I have copied out and signed a sonnet which I wrote many years ago. Here it is. [PRESENT] / The lines which you quote in your letter... |
£180.00 | |
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John Burns [Michael Davitt] The Liverpool Congress (Speech delivered by John Burns). 32pp., 8vo, original wraps, soiled, in workmanlike buckram binding. Michael Davitt had the chair and introduced the speaker. Enclosed: autograph note signed by John Burns to "Mr Lane", Battersea, 6 August 1937, on epage, chipped, fold marks, text clear. He declines an invitation. |
£45.00 | |
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Maurice Hewlett. Autograph Note Signed to "Miss [Jessica] Gordon" See DNB: novelist, poet, and essayist. One page, some marking, mainly good condition. "I and glad that you like my books, but you mustn't expect my handwriting to be good because what it does pleases you. Those [things?] ought to go together, and once they did; but they seldom do it now. The... |
£28.00 | |
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Philip Gibbs. Novelist. Piece of paper c.4 x 3" laid down on larger card with biographical detail written on it. Text clear, as follows: "93 Cadogan Gardens S.W. / With kind regards / from / Philip Gibbs." |
£15.00 | |
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Sheila Kaye-Smith. Novelist. Piece of paper, c.5 x 3", prob. torn from larger page, attractive sentiment and signature dated: ""With best wishes - / Sheila Kaye-Smith. / Aug. 11. 1931." |
£18.00 | |
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Alexander Campbell Fraser. Autograph Letter Signed "A C Fraser" to an unnamed correspondent. Philosopher (see DNB). Two pages, 8vo, some spotting, mainly good condition. "I thank you for the profound & yet widely entertaining & [?] volume on "Moral Sensation" which you were so good as to send to me some weeks ago. I have read it with much asent to its main doctrine, &... |
£75.00 | |
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Sir George W. Cox. Autograph Letter Signed "George W. Cox" to "Miss Goddard". Historical writer (see DNB). Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He says that he has read her "Wonderful Norse Tales" to his children with great pleasure. He is grateful for her remebering him and apologises for the effects of a paralysed right arm. "The work of writing, which was one of my greatest... |
£36.00 | |
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E.V. Lucas One autograph letter signed and one autograph note signed to Clement Shorter, editor Total three pages, 8vo. He is sorry to have missed him, congratulates him on his baby and anticipates his contributions. Two items, |
£50.00 |
