Search Results Literature
Click on the name to see a longer item description and more images
click on the small image to see a larger version
| Kingsmill, Hugh (1889-1949) |
|
 |
Fine British writer and journalist, author of novels, excellent biographies, short stories, travel books, anthologies and literary essays.
Two fine personal letters, handwritten in black ink, both to "My dear Daisy" on Author's Club, 2 Whitehall Court S.W.1 letterheaded paper, both dated July 1929. The content is excellent. View Details |
ref:1586
£40.00 |
|
| Kneale, Nigel (1922-2006) |
|
 |
British television and screen writer, best known for his cult Quatermass television series in the 1950s. A fine signature in black ink on a 6" x 4" white card. The signature was obtained "in person". VERY RARE. View Details |
ref:4411
£100.00 |
|
| Larkin, Philip (1922-1985) |
|
 |
English poet, librarian and jazz critic. An extraordinary Larkin rarity - a hardback copy of Kenneth Grahame, Life, Letters and Unpublished Work by Patrick Chalmers (Methuen & Co., London, 1933), with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. What is remarkable is that Larkin has added the date, 16th April 1935, making him just 12 years and 8 months old at the time! View Details |
ref:3625
£495.00 |
|
| le Carre, John (1931- ) |
|
 |
English writer of espionage stories. A very fine signature and date (Cornwall, 29 Sep '95) in black fountain pen ink on a 8" x 10" sheet of headed cartridge paper. View Details |
ref:5165
£20.00 |
|
| Lessing, Doris (1919- ) |
|
 |
British writer, born in Iran; winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. A fine signature in blue ink on a yellow bookplate (unused), measuring 4" x 2.5". View Details |
ref:3257
£10.00 |
|
| Logue, Christopher (1926-2011) |
|
 |
English poet, writer and contributor to Private Eye, a genuine eccentric. A fine signature in blue ink in his usual tiny handwriting on a very fine white card. The signature was obtained in person at the National Theatre in October 1991 View Details |
ref:3818
£15.00 |
|
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859) |
|
 |
British poet, historian and Whig politician, probably most famous for his famous Lays of Ancient Rome. A fine ink signature cut from the bottom of a letter (the piece measures approximately 3" x 1.5") View Details |
ref:317
£10.00 |
|
| Mailer, Norman (1923-20070 |
|
 |
American novelist and journalist, whose first novel, The Naked and The Dead
(1948) was a runaway bestseller, making him internationally famous. A fine signature in black ink on a white card (approximately 5" x 3"). View Details |
ref:2511
£18.00 |
|
| Miller, Arthur (1915-2005) |
|
 |
Great American playwright and screenwriter, husband of Marilyn Monroe from 1956 to 1961. A very fine paperback copy of his 1984 book of plays, Two-Way Mirror (Methuen), boldly signed in blue ink to the first title page. View Details |
ref:1222
£30.00 |
|
| Monsarrat, Nicholas (1910-1979) |
|
 |
English novelist, author of The Cruel Sea (1951). A fine First Day Cover, with franked Maltese and Jersey stamps, commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the First Naval Air Unit (26th February 1976). The cover features a Nimrod reconnaissance aircarft flying between RAF Gibraltar and RAF Luqa in Malta. Nicholas Monsarrat has added a fine signature in black ink across a clear area of the panel. (This is a nice assocation piece - Montsarrat served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and lived on Malta in later life) View Details |
ref:4272
£20.00 |
|
| Naughton, Bill (1910-1992) |
|
 |
Oscar-nominated Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter, most famous for Alfie, made into a film in 1966. A fine handwritten letter (17th March 1967) on a sheet of blue headed paper. View Details |
ref:309
£10.00 |
|
| Pinter, Harold (1930-2008) |
|
 |
Great British playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor. director and political activist. A very fine programme for a production of Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land, starring Paul Eddington, at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1993. Pinter has added a good signature in blue fountain pen ink to an inner photo page. View Details |
ref:4980
£30.00 |
|
| Pinter, Harold (1930-2008) |
|
 |
Great British playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor. director and political activist. A very fine black and white photograph (5.5" x 3.5"), boldly signed in black ink to the lower white margin. View Details |
ref:5509
£30.00 |
|
| Rice, Anne (1941- ) |
|
 |
Best-selling American
author of gothic and later religious themed books, author of Interview with the Vampire (1976). A very fine (and unusual) set of THREE signed 4" x 3.5" self-adhesive bookplates, each featuring different Rice properties in New Orleans - 1239 First Street, 2524 St Charles Avenue and St Elizabeth's. View Details |
ref:1112
£30.00 |
|
| Rice, Anne (1941- ) |
|
 |
Best-selling American
author of gothic and later religious themed books, author of Interview with the Vampire (1976). A very fine 4" x 3.5" self-adhesive bookplate, featuring Rice's house in New Orleans on 1239 First Street and signed in black ink. View Details |
ref:2783
£10.00 |
|
| Shute, Nevil (1899-1960) |
|
 |
Great British-born Australian novelist and aeronautical engineer. A fine handwritten letter (Pond Head, Hayling Island, Hants, October 8th 1944) in which Shute responds to a fan letter about his novel of that year, Pastoral (love at an airbase in rural surroundings in wartime England). View Details |
ref:5051
£85.00 |
|
| Sillitoe, Alan (1928-2010) |
|
 |
British novelist and screenwriter. A very fine signature in black ink on a 6" x 4" white card (signed in person at Hatchards on the 30th November 1995). View Details |
ref:5367
£15.00 |
|
| Spender, Stephen (1909-1995) |
|
 |
Distinguished British poet, A fine signature in black ink on a 6" x 4" white card, obtained in person at the BBC in 1994  View Details |
ref:311
£15.00 |
|
| Spender, Stephen (1909-1995) |
|
 |
Distinguished British poet. A superb black and white 8" x 10" photograph, nicely signed in blue fountain pen ink across the image.RARE. View Details |
ref:3692
£75.00 |
|
| Storey, David (1933- ) |
|
 |
British playwright and novelist, best known for his novel This Sporting Life (1960), filmed in 1963. An unusual item - an 8" x 3.25" piece cut from a contract licensing the production of one of his plays, signed in ink by David Storey, the licensee for the Melbourne Theatre Company and two witnesses. View Details |
ref:1867
£15.00 |
|