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POETS - WOMEN - NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY

8 May 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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POETS - WOMEN - NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY

COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH POETICAL MANUSCRIPTS etc., by Mary Russell Mitford ('Bridal Song'), Ruth Fainlight (3), Mary Webb (draft from the Library of Bradley Martin), Eleanor Farjeon ('Life in Death'), Ruth Pitter, Sylvia Townsend Walker, Margaret Barber (i.e. 'Michael Fairless', marked by a printer), Jenny Lind-Goldsmith, Lady Charlotte Bury, Mary Cowden-Clarke, Anne Grant (with a letter), Ann Gilbert (2, with a letter and 6 line poem by Joseph Gilbert), Eliza Cook (2, with a letter and a signed text of 'The Gallant English Tar'), Princess Mary Adelaide (for her brother George, 1854), Joanna Baillie, Margaret Oliphant, Amelia Opie (3), Harriet Martineau, Olivia Serres ('Songs written by the Princess of Cumberland'), Mary Hewitt, Caroline Wilson, Louise Moulton, Jane Porter, Lady Louisa Stuart, Barbara Hofland, Anne Bannerman ('The Penitent's Confession'), Mary Coleridge, Jean Ingelow (2), Letitia Landon (printer's manuscript), Maria Hack and Agnes Strickland

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A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.

CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. 1850-1904. [Japanese Fairy Tales.] Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, [But Tokyo: T. Hasegawa,] [c.1931].

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, translator. Kiki's Memoirs. Paris: Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.