DUKES
(Sir Paul, 1889-1967, Writer & Originator of the Secret Service)
Visiting Card with Autograph note
saying "Sorry no copy of 'The Unending Quest' available ...", 3" x 1½", Royal Societies Club, no date
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
39683
£75
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DUMAS
(Alexandre, 1824-1895, fils, French Novelist, Playwright and Writer on Morals and Society)
Substantial autograph Manuscript Fragment, unsigned, in French, with translation
and transcription, of an unused portion of his comedy 'L'Ami des Femmes', first produced in 1860, a dialogue between J[ane de Simerose] and de M[ontègre], with many corrections in the text, between the lines, or in the margin, made at the time of writing, Dumas explores as many as four versions of a sentence before continuing, Jane passionately asks Montègre whether, if her husband has broken his word, that is a reason to break hers, "So long as I am to keep his name, I must respect it", if a wife gave herself to another, "each of the two would have this right to despise her, for you would despise me in spite of yourself if I were to believe you ... Who do you take me for ? To put me in a web of lies, terrors, insults, adulteries ... to lower myself in the esteem of others and my own - Never", 2 sides folio on blue paper, old identification of the handwriting in French, no place, no date but watermark 'Towgood's Extra Super' dated
very light mending of short side tears
Item Date:
1857
Stock No:
51542
£575
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[DUMAS
(Alexandre,Père, 1802-1870, French novelist and dramatist)]
Large original unsigned photo by Goupil & Co, from the Cliche Carjat in the Gallerie Contemporaire
showing him half length seated, 9" x 7¼" on page 13½" x 10", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
38458
£275
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[DUMAS
(Alexandre, père, 1802-1870, French novelist and dramatist, Author of The Three Musketeers) and Adah Isaacs MENKEN (1835-1868, American Actress, Painter and Poet)
Unsigned carte de visite photo
showing him seated in a chair, with her draped lovingly over his shoulders, 4" x 2½", no place, no date but
Item Date:
1866
Stock No:
38417
£275
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[DUMAS
(Alexandre, père, 1802-1870, French novelist and dramatist, Author of The Three Musketeers)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Nadar
showing him three quarters length, sitting backwards on a chair, 4¼" x 2½", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
38425
£225
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