DELVES-BROUGHTON
(Josephine, b. 1916, the novelist 'John Bryan')
Autograph Letter Signed on postcard to Eileen Cond,
saying she has "been in Switzerland in this beautiful place for the past few months ... If you send 'Andria' here, please send it as printed matter ... with open ends ... then it won't take longer than 4 or 5 days, and we shall not have to pay duty on it", she returns to England in February, 1 side 8vo, vignette photo of Bad Ragaz on verso, c/o H.E. Minister Danielsson, Nova Casa, Locarno, Switzerland, 14th January
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
17047
£15
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DENT
(Alan, 1905-1978, Drama Critic)
Waspish Typed Letter Signed and Subscribed to John M. Gwynne Hughes,
saying he was "enthralled by your experiences" but "most of all ...overwhelmed by the honour of being added" to his collection of autographs, though Dent "cannot forbear adding a superfluous 'l' to my first name, since you do the same to T.S. Eliot and Dame Madge Kendal ...", ending in his own hand "therefore I feel bound to sign myself Allan Dent instead of Alan Dent", 1 side 8vo, 33 King Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2., 14th May
tiny closed tear in one blank edge
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
56491
£65
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DICKENS HOPES HIS GODSON WILL SAY “OH WHAT A JOLLY OLD GODFATHER!”
DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)
Superb Unpublished Autograph Letter signed with fine full signature to his Godson
most probably Charles Dickens Kneller BURNETT (1841-1881, the son of his elder sister Fanny) sending him “the desk I told you about. I hope you will like it, and find everything you want inside. Also there are three books that I think very pretty to read. Perhaps. you may not be quite old enough yet, to read them. Never mind. You will soon grow out of that, for I never knew a boy yet, who stood still in his age, or got younger. I hope you will think of me sometimes when you use the desk or read the books, and will say ‘Oh what a jolly old Godfather!’...” with a postscript under his signature “There’s a flourish for you!”, 2 sides 8vo., Devonshire Terrace, 21st June
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
41823
£5250
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[DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)]
Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by Mason & Co
showing him three quarters length seated at a table with heavily carved legs, he is leaning back reading a book, his head is resting on his hand and he is wearing an overcoat, 4" x 2½", London, no date, circa
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
39347
£150
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DICKENS AT THE TIME WHEN ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ WAS JUST COMING OUT
DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter in his characteristic blue ink, with his embellished monogram ‘C.D.’ to Frederic CHAPMAN
(1823-1895, Publisher and partner in Chapman and Hall) sending “another little job for Clowes’s. It is a very short one. I have written all needful instructions fro the printer. Will you let them have a few sheets of the same paper as before, and direct them to pull three piles [?] for me (when revised) as in the other instances, and then to distribute. Speed will be a great convenience to m, as my Reading time is fast drawing on and I want the book by me any hour...” 1 side 8vo., Gads Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, Saturday Night, 1st September
Item Date:
1861
Stock No:
42430
£4250
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