The Summer Art & Literature auction

LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and writer, remembered for his nonsensical poetry and limericks. A.L.S., Edward Lear, two pag...

PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter. Green crayon signature ('Picasso') on a 12mo white card. Matted in cream beneath a 7½ x 9½ photograph ...

MIRO JOAN: (1893-1983) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, and Ceramicist. Autograph envelope signed ('Miro', in the return address), addressed in his hand...

STEICHEN EDWARD: (1879-1973) Luxembourgish American Photographer, a pioneer of modern fashion photographer. Signed First Day Cover issued in honou...

MOORE HENRY: (1898-1986) English Sculptor and Artist. Signed colour 4 x 6 postcard, the image showing Moore's artwork entitled Atom Piece (working...

ARTISTS: Selection of A.Ls.S., a few T.Ls.S., signed pieces and letterheads etc., by various Painters and Artists including Sydney Lee, Cowan Dobs...

ART: Selection of A.Ls.S., a few T.Ls.S., signed pieces and letterheads etc., by various Sculptors, Architects and Photographers including Giles G...

ART: Selection of signed pieces, cards, compliment slips, etc., by various artists, and architects including James Butler (2), Edward Bawden, Nick...

ART: Selection of signed pieces, cards, compliment slips, an A.L.S., etc., by various artists, and architects including Anthony Eyton, Nick Park (...

CARLYLE THOMAS: (1795-1881) Scottish Philosopher, Satirical Writer, Essayist & Historian. A.Q.S., T. Carlyle, one page, 8vo, Chelsea, 11th Februar...

SITWELL SACHEVERELL: (1897-1988) English Writer & Critic. A.L.S., Sacheverell Sitwell, one page, small 4to, Weston Hall, Towcester, Northamptonshi...

SILLITOE ALAN: (1928-2010) English Writer, best known for his works Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long Distan...

SHARPE TOM: (1928-2013) English Satirical Novelist. Souvenir T.Q.S., Tom Sharpe, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. The seven line quotation commences 'Dun...

ART & LITERATURE: Selection of small slim oblong 12mo clipped pieces, multiple signed (3) by various artists, writers and a few other famous indiv...

LITERATURE: Small selection of signed pieces by various authors comprising Edna Ferber, Arthur Koestler and Athol Fugard (2; one with the epigram,...

LITERATURE: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and some smaller by various writers, novelists and poets including Germaine Greer, Fleur Adcock...

BELLOC LOUISE SWANTON: (1796-1881) French Writer and Translator. A.L.S., Louise Sw-Belloc, three pages, 8vo, Paris, 8th April 1845, to a Gentleman...

[DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN]: (1859-1930) Scottish Author, creator of Sherlock Holmes. A charming piece of original memorabilia comprising three small pie...

SIMENON GEORGES: (1903-1989) Belgian Writer, creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Signed colour 6 x 4 photograph, a close-up portrait...

TURNER JAMES ERNEST: (1909-1975) British Mystery Writer, associated with Borley Rectory, famous as 'the most haunted house in England'. Small seri...

CHANNING MARK: (1879-1943) British Author of thriller and adventure novels, many featuring the Secret Service agent Colin Gray. Series of thirteen...

BRADBURY RAY: (1920-2012) American Author & Screenwriter. Signed and inscribed 10 x 8 photograph of Bradbury standing in half-length pose at a des...

RICHARDS FRANK: (1876-1961) English Writer, creator of Billy Bunter. T.L.S., Charles Hamilton (his real name), two pages, 4to, London, 28th Septem...

RICHARDS FRANK: (1876-1961) English Writer, creator of Billy Bunter. T.L.S., Charles Hamilton (his real name), two pages, 4to, London, 16th April ...

LEE HARPER: (1926-2016) American Novelist of To Kill a Mockingbird (1961). Pulitzer Prize winner, 1961. A.L.S., Nelle, to three sides of her perso...

ORCZY EMMUSKA: (1865-1947) British Novelist. D.S., Emmuska Orczy, three pages, 4to, London, 8th October 1935. The typed document is a Memorandum o...

GRUBB DAVIS: (1919-1980) American Novelist, author of The Night of The Hunter (1953). T.L.S., Davis Grubb, two pages, 4to, n.p. (Louisiana), 26th ...

SCOTT WALTER: (1771-1832) Scottish Novelist. A.L.S., Walter Scott, one page, 8vo, Abbotsford, 1st May n.y., to a gentleman. Scott states that he i...

STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS: (1850-1894) Scottish Novelist of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Scarce A.L.S....

THACKERAY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: (1811-1863) English Novelist of Vanity Fair (1847-48). A.L.S., W M Thackeray, in his sloping hand, one page, oblong 8...

HUXLEY ALDOUS (1894-1963) English Writer. A.L.S., Aldous Huxley, two pages, 8vo, Los Angeles, California, 29th May 1959, to Mr. Carmichael. Huxley...

KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) English Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907. T.L.S., Rudyard Kipling, one page, 4to, Bateman's, Burwash, ...

SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A.N.S., G. Bernard Shaw, on one side of his correspond...

RUSSELL BERTRAND: (1872-1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician & Historian, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1950. A fine, vintage fountain pe...

BECKETT SAMUEL: (1906-1989) Irish Dramatist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1969. Brief A.L.S., Samuel Beckett, on one side of his personal pr...

SOLZHENITSYN ALEKSANDR: (1918-2008) Russian Novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1970. Book signed, a paperback edition of One Day In The ...

FEMALE WRITERS: A selection of signed cards, A.Ls.S., a T.L.S., signed photographs, 4to and one smaller, etc. by various female writers comprising...

BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish Novelist, created Peter Pan. A.L.S., J. M. Barrie, one page, 8vo, Lancaster Gate, 2nd December 1905, to Mr. Ham...

AUTHORS: LESSING DORIS (1919-2013) British Writer. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of Under My Skin, First Edition, published by Har...