DUCKWORTH
                (Robinson, 1834-1911, Canon and Sub-Dean of Westminster, associate of Lewis Carroll)
                 
                 
                Signature from an Autograph Letter Signed
                
                
                 
                 
                Item Date: 
                    0
                 
                Stock No: 
                    21449
                    
                    
                        £25
                    
                 
                 
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                DUFFY
                (Maureen, born 1933, Poet, Playwright, Novelist and non-fiction Author)
                 
                 
                Autograph Card Signed to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
                (1924-2014, Writer best known for her Pony Books) saying she is “very sorry to hear from Peter Day the other night that you’re ‘not well’ as the little. mouse said...”, 1 side card 7” x 5” folded card with a Joseph van Kessel picture of flowers and insects on the front
                
                 
                 
                Item Date: 
                    0
                 
                Stock No: 
                    43524
                    
                    
                        £35
                    
                 
                 
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                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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