KINGSLEY
(Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)
Unsigned Autograph postscript, not signed,
asking to be allowed "one word more? I should earnestly warn him against those anapestic metres", the next sentence is written with the metre displayed "I love / to gaze / on the trackless deep /", continuing "which in our language must by filled up with iambic instead of spondees, and so go lilting on three legs, like a yankee trotting mare, to the destruction of all grace & dignity. The small ... of the day all affect them - pray save him from the infection, & keep hin to iambs, dactyls, & above all to trockees ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, no date
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0
Stock No:
39505
£125
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KINGSLEY
(Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)
Autograph letter signed to an unnamed corrrespondent
headed at the top “Nat. Loan Port Ex” asking “has Ld Willoughby deEresby been asked for pictures from Grimsthorpe Castle? There is one there which we ought to have. A very beautiful portrait of Ld Clinton, High Admiral...”, 2 sides 8vo., Eversley Rectory, 18th December
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
42845
£125
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KIPLING
(Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)
Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Trotter
regretting that he does “not see the least chance of being able to come up to London in time for your meeting, but I do not think it is necessary to assure you of my very keen interest in the object of it. Nobody who has travelled even up and down the line from the colony to Pretoria can fail to see the enormous amount of work that there is to be done, and of course away from the line that work is even more urgent...”, 1 side A4, Bateman’s, Burwash, 6th June
Item Date:
1903
Stock No:
42265
£675
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[KIPLING
(Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)]
Facsimile Autograph of his Poem 'The Absent-minded Beggar',
as a folding triptych, with a photo of the author by Collier on the title page, a full-page reproduction of "A gentleman in kharki", by R. Caton Woodville, 1899, in the centre, showing a 'Tommy', his head bandaged but defiantly drawing the bolt of his rifle, framed by 2 verses each on the pages on either side, together 48 lines, publisher's note on side 5, printed on cream paper by Eyre & Spottiswoode as Queen's Printers showing the Royal Arms, the lettering in green, the two illustrations in reddish-brown, "Copyright in England and the United States by the Daily Mail Publishing Co.", 6 sides 12½" x 8",
several light creases, very lightly dusty on side 1, small split in part of one vertical fold but otherwise a pleasing copy
Item Date:
1899
Stock No:
56354
£85
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KIPLING
(Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)
"Supplication of the Black Aberdeen",
1st American Edition. paperback, in very good condition, 8vo., Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York
detached at spine but contents fine
Item Date:
1929
Stock No:
39281
£75
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