WIGHT
(Robert James Martin, 1913-1972, Historian and Pacifist)
Autograph letter signed 'Martin Wight' to Geoffrey F.A. Best, b. 1928,
Professor of History, Edinburgh University, 1966-1974, and later at Sussex, saying he is "delighted you can join us this weekend, and hope you will find it worth it. As Donald Mackinnon may have told you, we are an odd, chancy group ... never quite sure who will turn up, nor who will have provided papers for discussion", and looking forward "with keen pleasure to meeting you at John's on Friday evening", 2 sides 6¾" x 4½", Harwarton, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells, 25th March
Item Date:
1971
Stock No:
53543
£30
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WILDE
(Oscar, 1854-1900, Irish Poet & Dramatist)
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
later Edition of the First Edition (7th printing of June 1899), 31 pages, original hardcover, quarter vellum with mustard boards, Leonard Smithers
very slight fraying on spine but tight copy in very good condition
Item Date:
1899
Stock No:
39285
£475
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WILDER
(Thornton, 1897-1976, American Author & Playwright)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Herr Intendant’
saying that he had received “a letter from - I think - The Dramaturg of the Landesbühnea. As so often with foreign signatures I was unable to read the full name of the writer - Reinhold R....gen. Could you kindly convey to him my thanks for his kind message and for the program he enclosed. It gives me great pleasure tht my play found so many friends in Hannover. Excuse me thus taking up your time...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope which has been re-directed, 50 Deepwood Drive, Connecticut, 12th April
Item Date:
1959
Stock No:
42232
£375
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WILLIAMS
(Charles, 1838-1904, Journalist and War Correspondent)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Sirs',
sending "the paragraph you wished", 1 side 8vo., Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue, 2nd March
Item Date:
1892
Stock No:
19023
£15
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WILLIAMSON GIVES ADVICE TO AN ASPIRING AUTHOR
WILLIAMSON
(Henry, 1895-1977, Author of ‘Tarka the Otter’ & Journalist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in full in blue ink, to Mr Humber
telling him that he “ought to write your book of autobiography, forgetting all local papers, local attitudes, local prejudices, local mannerisms; write it simple & straight, & make the scenes live for us by re-creating them out of Time. Do not read or show the chapters, as you do them, to anyone. Keep it secret & growing within yourself; guard it as a mistery [sic] or urge or inspiration. Describe the fells & mosses, make pictures of them. Make a picture of your excellent inn & characters. Tell us the story of your life & doings in the places you love & relish. Write it for yourself, in secret, easily, stealthily, say 500 words daily, regularly; & soon we’ll have a transcription of life. Put in the good manners & the bad manners, the uncouth keeper & the snooty person, the cadgers who ‘sir’ for a drink off a stranger & the poachers & the decent chaps & the fast-car ones (?) who make the car itself live, the engineers who care & have passion for perfection, the engine & the chassis, the roads, the lanes, the birds, the cider, the life you’ve flown along & loved & dreaded & dreamt of. Put it all in as a flowing sequence, with the ‘I’ of yourself as thread & mainspring, & you’ll write a book which everyman will want to read & adventure with you & above all, don’t feel ‘Oh, this will be too dull’ for it is the ‘dull’ things that make a book nice & authentic. Don’t write for locals; forget them; write it for your secret self, & when done, get it typed & send it to me & I’ll see if I can get it published in London...”, 2 sides oblong 8vo., with original autograph envelope (somewhat faded), Stiffkey, Norfolk, 28th November
Item Date:
1943
Stock No:
41927
£475
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