Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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June 01
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1878 John Masefield, English author and poet was born. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. In 1943 Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer died. He is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWING OF A SHIP MASEFIELD (John, 1878-1967, O.M., Poet Laureate) ‘Philip the King’ signed and inscribed “For Martha Hodgkiss” and dated on the front free endpaper above a detailed pen and ink drawing of a ship in full sail, together with a typed copy of a couplet of poetry, ‘The luck will alter and the star will rise/ The days that make us happy make us wise ..’, the book published Heinemann, 1930, the inscription dated 20th April 1961 37137
HOWARD (Leslie, 1893-1943, Actor & Film Director) Fine Signed Portrait Photograph, showing him head and shoulders, almost full face, with his sensitive but penetrating look, 4½” x 3¾”, no date, circa 1941, a trifle silvered in places 55735
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