Christmas Note, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Sister Margaret Tournour (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4pp illustrated poem of seven stanzas. Engraving by Sister Margaret Tournour printed from the wood. Thread bound within cream card covers and issued as a greetings card for the festive season 1997. Enclosed is a handwritten note by the author. The poem and engraving were first published in Twelve Poems (Old School Press, 1994). In fine condition. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this greetings card. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 16mo. 19 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in. Inset autographed and inscribed by A R Tommasini on verso.This essay, acknowledging the important but often overlooked contributions of printers to the work of writers and publishers, first appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday, February 3, 1927. Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943; Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Tigh, square, and clean. Signed by both authors and the illustrator. No other internal markings and no defects. Cover shows the first hints of shelf wear. No jacket. Otherwise like new. Signed by Author(s).

Dated "Dec 19/31" in his difficult hand, Cunninghame Graham writes: "Many thanks for your pretty card & kind messages of greeting, I am spending Christmas at home. With kindest regards to you both Yours in friendship R. B. Cunninghame Graham." One page, in ink, on rear panel of 13.5 x 11 folded engraved holiday greeting. Fine.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Autograph correspondence card to "Dear Miss Goodenough": 2pp. 8vo, [London] (62 Albert Gate Mansions), 26 December [c1910]. The Christmas Day invitation was very kind, but it didn't arrive until the afternoon and in any case "I do not go out to tea in winter and Victoria [her younger sister] had a heavy cold". Mary sends her good wishes to "yourself and Mr Cockerell". The great-niece of Reginald Heber and aunt of Stella Benson, Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) was the author of several successful novels, beginning with the detective story The Danvers Jewels (1887). Red Pottage (1899) was a bestseller, filmed in 1918 by Meyrick Milton and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Dibley and Gerald Ames. Lucy Goodenough (1826-1915), daughter of Edmund Goodenough, sometime Headmaster of Westminster and Dean of Wells, took over the running of the household, in nearby Phillimore Gardens, of her first cousin (18 years her junior) the artist Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844-1921), after the death in 1880 of his wife, aged 23. From the collection of Jonathan Gili. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The complete Cold Comfort books. All scarce in the dust-jackets. "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons. Longmans, 1932 first UK edition first printing. Autograph note initialled from the author loosely inserted, some scattered spotting, spine faded, spine frayed at foot, extremities rubbed, first issue jacket priced at 7/6, spine ends, corners and joints neatly repaired and restored, a few neat repairs to head of panel, some light surface rubbing and some retouching; "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons.Longmans, 1940 first UK edition first printing. ink price note to front pastedown, covers and spine with light toning to head and foot, jacket spine lightly faded, fading to head of upper panel, spine ends and corners chipped, affecting author's name at head of spine, a few short nicks to head, creasing to head and foot, extremities a little rubbed, light surface soiling to lower panel, 1940; Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, jacket with price sticker to front flap, light browning to spine and lower panel, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few small chips or nicks to head and foot of panels, 1949, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo. Rare set. Signed by Author.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Single sheet, folded, inscribed, "'The last of the Wine' & youth & Age enjoying it together - I wish Cranborne & Asolo were nearer to each other! All good memories & wishes from Freya"; mounted facing, a real photograph, 104 x 157mm, of the sender on horseback, subscribed by her "Aleppo 1978". The recipients were Lord and Lady David Cecil; in the photograph Dame Freya is 85. Signed by Author(s).

FATHER ROBERT CLEMENT (b. 1925). Now retired, Clement is an openly-gay Catholic priest who founded the Church of the Beloved Disciple, the first church dedicated to serving the LGTBQ community in New York City. He later became an Archbishop.ANS. 1pg. 1972. N.p. An autograph note signed Fr. Robert (Robbie) inside a religious notecard with a Nativity scene. The full message reads Darling, A friendship that in great pain can support and strengthen, so that our churchs greater Christmas (1972) was produced in love and pride, for our people, the gay men and women of God at Beloved Disciple. Thank you ad multas anno Your beloved Fr. Robert (Robbie). In very good condition, with minor tears along the edges.

William Faulkner once said that Thomas Wolfe, who died before age 40, may have been the greatest talent of his generation for aiming higher than any other writer. His influence extends to the writings of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, and to authors Ray Bradbury and Philip Roth, among others. He was one of the first masters of autobiographical fiction, and his work was filled with details that came from his own life and his home in North Carolina, as well as that of his friends in New York.Henry Hart was an editor at Scribner?s. The two had a close and long relationship and corresponded as friends. In Christmas 1930 Wolfe wrote to Hart, with some cheeky remarks, one referencing Oscar Wilde and the other Calvin Coolidge.Christmas note signed, London, December 12, 1930, to Hart. "To wish you health and happiness at Christmas and lots of trips to Philadelphia throughout the coming year. Tom Wolfe." He writes in his own hand, "These cards are wonderful things - you buy a half dozen and just fill in what seems the most appropriate. Simple for the people you know, I sent one to Oscar Wilde wishing him 'lots of choir boys,' only I got it mixed up with the one I sent to Coolidge wishing him lots of nice perle county butter; I guess they're reading each others cards now.".