JOAD
(Cyril Edward Mitchinson, 1891-1953, Philosopher and Broadcaster)
Portrait photo from a magazine,
showing him head and shoulders, three quarter face, his beard and features strongly lit, with a slip below signed and inscribed "Certainly. Here you are!", 6½" x 4", no date. but 17th July
laid down on card
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
52205
£20
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JOHNSTONE
(Christine Isabel, 1781-1857, Novelist and Journalist)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Mrs Greaves
telling her "that she has ceased to have any connection with Tait's magazine" and has forwarded Mrs Greaves' letter to the editor, Mr. George Troup, 1 side 8vo., 12 Comely Bank, Edinburgh, 22nd September
formerly neatly mounted by corners on verso
Item Date:
1847
Stock No:
12720
£30
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JONES
(Henry Arthur, 1851-1929, Founder with Pinero of 'Realist Problem' Drama in Britain)
Autograph Quotation signed,
"I always wear a mask over my heart. I never dare look into it", from 'The Masqueraders', Act II, 1 side oblong 8vo., Townshend House, North Gate, Regent's Park, no date, c.
traces of glue on verso
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
12721
£25
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KAYE-SMITH
(Sheila, Mrs. T.P. Fry, 1887-1956, Novelist of Fate and Sussex Soil)
Fine signature and "all good wishes from" on a piece of headed paper, 1 side 8vo., 3 Hereford Square, 20th August n.y.
neat filing holes in each
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
15600
£15
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KEATING
(Henry Reymond Fitzwalter, 1926-2011, Crime Fiction Writer best know for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID)
Long Autograph Letter Signed ‘Harry’ to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer best known for her Pony Books) saying “what a delightful book it is... especially appropriate too, since it echoes all sorts of things from the first years of my seventy. Your mother reading GKC’s The Donkey: I won an ‘elocution’ prize reciting that... let alone much later on a horse-drawn caravan holiday in Ireland (didn’t, sorry, get on very well with the horse) actually seeing the lake Isle and setting off to swim to it, only to realise suddenly that all the children would be left orphans on the bank if in the chill water we got into difficulties. So a thousand thanks for recalling my life in yours and your sisters... you’re the best writer by a wide margin...”, 2 sides A4, 35 Northumberland Place with his letterhead of a. magnifying glass and a fingerprint, 8th November
Item Date:
1996
Stock No:
43536
£145
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