VANSITTART
(Jane, Mrs Moorham, Novelist and Biographer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
saying "I have signed your pretty bookplate ... It took me over 2 years to write", often turning "the letters, journal & diaries ... into conversation ... really a biography, written as a novel ... I wish you could see Stones' Bookshop window in Rolle St: here. It has pictures of Henry, Honoria, John, & a letter from Henry written to my grandfather", she edited 'Katharine Fry's Book' from "her (Elizabeth Fry's daughter) wonderfully illustrated journal ... She went to George IV's coronation - very little different from present day standards ... I am so glad you like the cover of 'The So Beloved' ... almost allegorical", 2 sides 8vo., Doneraile, Salterton Road, Exmouth, Devon, 23rd February
Item Date:
1967
Stock No:
19096
£30
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[VERNE
(Jules, 1828-1905, French Science Fiction Writer)
Fine Unsigned cabinet Portrait Photograph, by Wesenberg & Co.
of St Petersburg, showing him head and shoulders, three quarter face to the viewer's right, with a commanding expression, 6½" x 4½", [St Petersburg], no date, circa
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
41224
£775
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NOT SO LAZY
VERSES - 1827
Rhyming couplets signed 'Fanny',
as if in farewell, beginning "Time beckons on the hours, th'expiring year Already feels cold winter's icy breath", spring will bring "the hour of parting" from "the harbour where my heart Sometime had found a peaceful resting place ... Tis true I leave no void, the happy home To which you welcomed me will be as gay", yet "Perchance my name will be pronounced again ... Think of me then; nor break kind mem'rys spell By reason's censure coldly o'er me cast Think only that I loved ye passing well And let my follies slumber with the past", 28 lines on 2 sides 4to. with conjugate blank, no place, no date, watermark
Item Date:
1827
Stock No:
51729
£95
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VESEY-FITZGERALD
(Brian, 1900-1981, writer on the country, editor-in-chief of The Field 1938-1946)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
saying "Authors never make fortunes. They stagger from crisis to crisis like the British Empire ... because the Conds (and others) say 'I believe you had a new book out recently, but I am not sure' ", he hopes her investment in her new Gift Shop "keeps you out of mischief", and talks about budgerigars chatting, "once they start, they really go to town", 1 side 8vo., Murrayfield, Farnham, Surrey, 3rd December
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
19003
£20
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WAIN
(John, b. 1925, Novelist and Poet)
Autograph Letter Signed to Basil Dowling,
saying he is "so sorry to hear about your accident. Of course whenever one is hurt there are always doctors about to tell one how 'lucky' one was not to be hurt worse or killed, but it is an inside-out sort of luck at best", he is very disappointed, "and so is everyone here that you won't be with us for the Festival; it isn't likely to be an annual event, but it may be repeated at intervals, and you certainly won't be forgotten", 2 sides 4to., printed heading 'Poetry at the Mermaid 16-23 July 1961 Director John Wain', The Poetry Book Society Ltd., 4 St. James's Square, London S.W.1, 28th June
Item Date:
1961
Stock No:
16438
£50
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