KIRKUP
(James, b. 1918, playwright, broadcaster and translator, President of the British Haiku Society)
Autograph Postcard Signed to Charles Rare Books,
asking for four items from a catalogue, signed "Yours Truly",1 side postcard, 92 Flemish Buildings, Corsham, Wiltshire, 7th March
Item Date:
1956
Stock No:
29376
£15
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KIRKUP
(James, b. 1923, Travel Writer, Poet, Novelist, Translator & Broadcaster)
Original autograph poem signed and dated, titled "Moonlit Cattle",
starting "Broodingly, knee-deep in the starless pools, / darker than any cow-ponds, of their own / deep shadow-making, or recumbent ...", 4 verses of 3 lines each on 1 side A4, no place, 23rd January
Item Date:
1944
Stock No:
1572
£65
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KIRKUP
(James Harold, 1918-2009, Poet, Translator and Travel Writer)
Original Autograph Poem signed and dated, titled “Travellers”
starting “At the great / termini, the Ends, the avenues / of instantaneous departure and release / the strangers come, to wish us, travellers. / farewell, and blow their unpremeditated kisses...”, followed by an eight line verse, a 5 line verse and finally “For we are lost, and their farewell / but gives the signal for their own departure...”, 1 side A4, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43761
£150
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KNICKERBOCKER
(Hubert Renfro, 1898-1949, American Journalist and Author, Pulitzer prize winner )
Postcard Photo signed
showing him three quarters length, standing in front of a wall of Estonian Newspapers, 5" x 3½", Tallinn, not dated but 12th February
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
40669
£75
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KNIGHT
(William Angus, 1836-1916, Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrews)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Anna SWANWICK , 1813-1899,
the promoter of higher education for women, saying "You have translated Torquato Tasso", by Goethe, and asking for help in identifying a quotation "which is interesting as a description of The Poet: ... 'Wherewith bestirs he the human spirit ... Is't not the stream of song, that out his bosom runs And to his heart the world back-circling brings?' .. or are they ... in any other of his poems", he rejoices "to know of your new Book ... at present, I am so busy over a Book on 'The Beautiful & the Arts' (which I hope to send you), that I am reading nothing!", 3 sides 8vo, University, St. Andrews, 11th November
Item Date:
1892
Stock No:
17262
£85
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