BOLITHO
(Hector, 1898-1974, New Zealand Biographer & Travel Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Cond,
saying that he is pleased that she "liked 'Combat Report' No book I have ever written has given me more pleasure ...", 1 side 8vo, R.A.F., Northwood Middlesex, 27th September no year.,
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
5167
£15
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BOLITHO
(Hector, 1897-1974, New Zealand-born Writer & Royal Biographer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Watson Gandy,
apologizing that he "opened the enclosed letter [not present] during the morning excitement of opening my Christmas cards", 1 side 8vo, Wood Farm, Henham, Bishop's Stortford, no date circa
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
56490
£35
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER AND LIMITED PRINTING OF HIS POEMS
BOTTOMLEY
(Gordon, 1874-1948, Poet)
Fine Long Autograph Letter Signed to Lady ANDERSON
(Ava, 1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley), the the arrival of her letter “was a very real pleasure - and I will own I felt relieved. I had often wondered about the book - for its alternative fates seemed certain to be either that it had been lost in the post (which does happen sometimes now) and that is a special anxiety as one’s books run out of print, or that it had reached you, and you did not like it and were too kind to say so! The real reason is too unkind - the Fates or Parcae or Norns had done too much at you previously, and I am deeply sorry to know that they have been at work on you again, a thing which I had not conceived. It was a specially unkind hardship, too, that it should have happened so exactly in time to prevent your putting a particularly beautiful feather in your hat and making a State Entry into 11 Downing Street. But I ought to be happy, as I am, that my book helped some of the unkind days to be rather more bearable; and also that you are safe again, and growing well steadily. I should like to tell you when I reach London again, as you very kindly say I may... The night before Lady Crewe’s party last year was the first in which I had slept away from my own village since the War began - and getting away from here grows more and more difficult. I cannot, indeed, hope that Lady Crewe will have another party for poets ready... At any rate, I shall be sure to remember when my wife and I are as venturesome again. In the meantime - saying again how glad I am to hear of your recovery at the same time as your terrible illness...” with an autograph postscript saying that “these years have taken most of the vitality out of stage-shadows for me; they have been lean ones for verses, and those which I enclose are almost all I have to show. They do not contain much for days of illness, but perhaps they will a little alleviate the ‘even tenour’ of convalescence...”, 3 sides 8vo., The Sheiling, Silverdale, Carnforth headed paper, together with a printed pamphlet of his recent poems, entitled ‘Before Daybreak’ signed and inscribed Lady Anderson, reprinted from the Durham university Journals of 1942, 21st January
Item Date:
1944
Stock No:
43690
£425
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BOURGET
(Paul, 1852-1935, French Novelist, Critic and Academician)
Half-title of his book "Voyageuses", signed and inscribed
in French "Respectful homage to Miss Mildred Davey", with Bourget's card "de l'Académie Française", 1 side 8vo., Nauheim, 18th August
transparent slips in top blank margins of both
Item Date:
1898
Stock No:
14736
£40
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BOYD
(Very Revd. Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson, D.D., 1825-1899, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, 1890)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Hornby,
saying that "The Castle is Roslin Castle, on the Esk, close to Hawthornden ... I dont think it would be fair to give such a description of an imaginary place. At least ... I should feel bound to do so with literal accuracy", 1 side 8vo., 78 Great King Street, Edinburgh, 17th July n.y., c.
remains of laying down on blank fourth side
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
16812
£35
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