SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Typed poem signed with autograph inscription to Thomas B. Brumbaugh,
the poem is titled "Winter Landscape" and starts "Come home with white gulls waving across gray / Fields. Evening. A daffodil West. / Somewhere in clefts of rock the birds hide, breast to breast ...", four verses of three lines each, Bronxville, September
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
15458
£175
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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Printed Proof copy of his poem "Middle East" signed and with one autograph correction
taken from Literary Supplement 81, 9 verses of 4 lines each starting "One morning, between journeys, rising / From bed at an inn, I went out. / Half an hour after dawn / Already the sun had cut ...", he has changed the word "lines" to "lights" in the fourth verse, 1 side 4to., no place, no date but
Item Date:
1969
Stock No:
39772
£125
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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Autograph Letter Signed to Anna Karan
saying he remembers her well bu is “afraid I can’t be too encouraging about a memoir of Dr Bluth because we have published nothing about Aldous Huxley and various other people who have died recently. But if it was interesting as a character study by you we might be glad to use it?...”, 2 sides 8vo., Encounter headed paper, 25 Haymarket, London, no date but circa
Item Date:
1964
Stock No:
43469
£125
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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Autograph Letter Signed to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer known for her Pony Books, Leading member of International PEN) saying he is “sorry you will no longer be at PEN - though perhaps I should congratulate you as I am sure you were terribly overworked there. Anyway, I am grateful for all the times you have helped my through various engagements there. I hope you will often visit those old haunts though and that I shall be greeted by your friendly smile when I am next in Dilke St. Thank you and many good wishes for your future...”, 1 side folio, 15 Loudoun Road, NW8 6LS, 20th March
Item Date:
1994
Stock No:
43000
£125
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SPOONER
(William A., 1844-1930, Theologian & Educationalist, Originator of the 'Spoonerism')
Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Francis"
telling him that he has "to be in Winchester all tomorrow so I fear I cannot see your father ..." but offering Sunday "after University Sermons about 11.30 ..." instead, 1 side 8vo., New College, Oxford, 12th November
Item Date:
1920
Stock No:
28596
£75
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