Death Letter: Signed (96 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by author on title page.

paperback. Condition: As New. LIKE NEW, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on fly page.Ships fast with tracking. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Signed, dated, and personally inscribed by author on title. Very minor wear to crown and heel, book interior and exterior else in as new apparently unread condition. DJ has minor creasing, else crisp. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request. Please note that the buyer is responsible for any customs duties, tariffs, or import fees levied by the destination country.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 379 pages.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Hardback. Important addition to the source references on the WWII Russian campaign. This account written by a liaison Officer provides detailed accounts of life behind the German front line for civilans and members of the German Occupation forces. 224pp., ills., glossary. A few blemishes, else very good in like dustwrapper. Authors signed signature plate to tile page dated 2001. Also two letters typed and signed by author (one neatly attached to page opposite half title page, also publicitity postcard for book with author's signature to reverse. 4 Signatures of Author.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Manroot, South San Francisco, 1978. Softcover, 189 pp. 1st edition (stated). One of 1000 first edition copies. Very good with light edge wear, some rusty paperclip impressions, a few bent page corners. Ex-collection of gay activist and author Mark Thompson. A signed letter by the author presenting a new poem for publication was found inside this book and is laid in. Also included: a signed translation by the author of Jean Cocteau s poem Seul (Alone), from Appogiatures . Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Cambridge Academic Sir John Tresidder Sheppard to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Sir John Tresidder Sheppard,1881 - 1968 was a British classicist and academic, who was the first non-Etonian to become the provost of King's College, Cambridge. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Autograph letter signed to Vera Lakin, 1p. 8vo, [London] (1A Logan Studios), 27 June 1945. "Forgive me for writing - I knew your husband only well enough to like and admire him, even slight a[c]quaintance was enough for that - and yourself I know even less. There is only one thing one can wish for anyone when a thing so horrible and senseless happens and that is courage . . ." Cyril Lakin, for more than a decade the Literary Editor of The Sunday Times, was killed in a car crash in France on 23 June, aged 51. The sculptor Maurice Lambert (1901-1964) reviewed M. D. Anderson's The Medieval Carver for the paper in 1935. It was, he wrote, "a book which every student or amateur of the history of craftsmanship, or of England, should possess". Inscribed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Writer Henry Major Tomlinson to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938 Henry Major Tomlinson 1873 - 1958 was a British writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. Size is 176mm x 134mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s). …

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Charlotte Helen Bonham-Carter to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938 Charlotte Helen Bonham-Carter (née Ogilvy), 1893 - 1989. Daughter of Colonel Lewis Kinloch Ogilvy and his wife Lucy Ogilvy. Charlotte was educated in Eastbourne and Dresden and became a patron of the arts. During the First World War, she served in the War Office as a typist and then in military intelligence and was part of the Foreign Office delegation at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference. In 1925, at the age of 32, she married barrister and administrator Edgar Bonham-Carter, the son of Sibella Bonham-Carter and grandson of Lady Joanna, and they settled at Radnor Place, London. In World War Two Charlotte was a photographic interpreter at RAF Medenham, becoming an officer in 'Special Duties' until 1943. Following this, she worked at the Foreign Office in the library of the German and Austrian section. In 1946, she inherited the Binsted estates, though continued to live at Radnor Place while becoming Governor of Eggars School in Alton, Trustee of the Wickham Institute, and taking on other roles for other orientated committees. Size is 176mm x 134mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington,1885 - 1972, styled Lord Gerald Wellesley between 1900 and 1943, was an Anglo-Irish diplomat, soldier, and architect. Size is 203mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by English Society Hostess Ettie Desborough to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Ethel Anne Priscilla Grenfell, Baroness Desborough 1867 - 1952 was a British society hostess. Size is 230mm x 180mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s). …

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by English writer Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington 1889 - 1956 was an English author, poet, literary editor and socialite. Size is 230mm x 180mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Writer Alida Klemantaski (Monro) to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938 Alida Klemantaski 1892-1969, later Alida Monro, was a writer, editor and co-runner of the Poetry Bookshop with her husband Harold Monro. She is mostly remembered as a friend and champion of the poet Charlotte Mew, contributing a memoir to the 1953 edition of Mew's Collected Poems. Size is 200mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Anglo-Irish poet Sylvia Lynd to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Sylvia Lynd 1888 - 1952 was an Anglo-Irish poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist. Size is 205mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. "Done into English Verse with an Introduction by F. E. Halliday." Scholarly Introduction with the Theatre Plans and Stage Directions of the Plays, throwing an important light on the early Elizabethan and Shakespearean Stage. SIGNED Letter from the AUTHOR TO Professor Charles Thomas attached to Endpaper. Green cloth cover with Gilt Lettering to spine. 141 Pages, 230g, 7 1/2" Tall. Attractive illustrated Bookplate on ffep. No inscriptions. Jacket has small spots of light foxing Unclipped, original price 8s. 6d. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall. Signed by Author(s). …

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by German fashion designer and professor Otto Haas-Heye to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye 1879 - 1959 was a German fashion designer, professor at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin and owner of the publishing company Graphik-Verlag. Haas-Heye headed the fashion department of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8. He was editor at the Graphische Modeblätter. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Writer Edward Thompson to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938 Edward Thompson 1886 -1946 was a British scholar, novelist, historian and translator. He is remembered for his translations from Bengali into English and his association with Rabindranath Tagore, on whom he wrote two books including a critical biography. Size is 176mm x 134mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by British Astronomer Robert Hinks to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Arthur Robert Hinks 1873 - 1945 was a British astronomer and geographer. As an astronomer, he is best known for his work in determining the distance from the Sun to the Earth (the astronomical unit) from 1900 to 1909: for this achievement, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. His later professional career was in surveying and cartography, an extension of his astronomical interests. Size is 203mm x 128mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s). …

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter from Sir Thomas Plumer to Major General Needham and Henry Vernon in relation to a death sentence. The letter concerns an application for William Langley as sought by the Grand Jury of Berkshire, in place of the death sentence. Monmouth 15th March 1795. Sir Thomas Plumer 1753 - 1824 was a British judge and politician, the first Vice-Chancellor of England and later Master of the Rolls. Size is 78mm x 65mm. In good condition. Ref 19048. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by British polymath Sir Edward Howard Marsh to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Sir Edward Howard Marsh 1872 - 1953 was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as private secretary to a succession of the United Kingdom's most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill. He was a discreet but influential figure within Britain's homosexual community. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s). …

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Typed and Signed Letter by the Wife of Trichinopoly Rayalu Arakiaswamy Thumboo Chetty, Rajamma Thumboo Chetty and their daughters Philomena and Josephine Thumboochetty to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Rajamma Thumboo Chetty. Trichinopoly Rayalu Arakiaswamy Thumboo Chetty (April 1837 - 19 June 1907) was an Indian lawyer, administrator, and statesman who was the acting dewan of Mysore and later the first Indian-born chief judge of the Chief Court of Mysore. Philomena Rukmavathy Thumboochetty 1913 - 2000 was an Indian violinist. She was the first Indian musician admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris. Size is 200mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Wonderful Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Basiswar "Boshi" Sen to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Basiswar "Boshi" Sen 1887 - 1971 was an Indian agricultural scientist. He was a pioneer of the Green Revolution movement that changed the food landscape of India by growing abundant food grains, thereby reducing the possibility of any famine in the country. His wife was Gertrude Emerson Sen, an American author and specialist on Asia. He founded the Vivekananda Laboratory in the Almora region of the Himalayas. He was a friend of many notable people, such as Indian Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, poet Rabindranath Tagore, Julian Huxley, and D. H. Lawrence. Sen was also associated with the Ramakrishna Order and the Ramakrishna Vivekananda movement, as well as with Jagadish Chandra Bose, the Indian scientist, and Sister Nivedita, the writer, orator, freedom fighter and direct disciple of Swami Vivekananda. The Government of India awarded him the third-highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1957. Size is 178mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter from Composer Frank Mori to His father Violinist Nicolas Mori Discussing Giovanni Pacini and the death of Maria Malibran. Dated 1836. Frank Mori 1820-1873 was English conductor and composer, son of Nicolas Mori and born in London. He was educated by his father Nicolas Mori. He wrote light music, his operetta The River-Sprite (London, Feb. 9, 1865) being fairly successful. He supported Franz Liszt 1811-86. Between 1840 and 1840 Liszt made two tours of Britain. These were arranged by the musician and conductor Lewis Henry Lavenu, and Liszt was accompanied by Lavenu's half-brother Frank Mori, two unnamed female singers and the musician, singer, entertainer and diarist, John Orlando Parry. Nicolas Mori 1796 - 1839 was an Anglo-Italian violinist, music publisher and conductor. Once regarded as the finest violinist in Europe, Mori was somewhat overshadowed by the rise of Paganini. Size is 210mm x 170mm. In good condition. Folding creases. Age toning. Seal opening loss to rear. Light repairs to odd areas. Ref 18812. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. *** IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UK YOU MUST CHOOSE PRIORITY MAIL AT CHECKOUT SO I CAN SEND THE BOOK TRACKED AND INSURED. IF YOU DO NOT CHOOSE PRIORITY MAIL YOUR ORDER WILL BE REFUSED. *** This is a LETTERED EDITION of this title, published by James Cahill in 2002 in a print run of 52 lettered copies. The book is issued in pictorial boards without jacket in a slip case - see photos. It is in Very Fine condition without fault. The book is Very Fine with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends. The book IS SIGNED BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND CO-AUTHOR PAUL KEMPRECOS. This is letter N. Signed by Author(s). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [GLADSTONE, William Ewart]; CAMPBELL, George 8th DUKE OF ARGYLL (1823-1900). Autograph letter signed about Prime Minister William Gladstone.  2pp on his embossed Inveraray Castle stationery. May 16, 1898. 180 × 115 mm. Light creasing and a few spots but a very good example. In this short letter, Argyll writes in reply to decline a request to write publicly about William Ewart Gladstone, then close to death: "Sir, I regret that I am unable to comply with your request. My relations with Mr Gladstone were far too personal and intimate to enable me at this sad time, to write about him." Gladstone was gravely ill at Hawarden Castle, surrounded by his family, and died four days after this letter was written. Campbell had been one of Gladstone's most loyal Liberal colleagues in government serving as his Secretary of State for India. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. STREET, George Edmund (1824-1881). Autograph letter signed to Mrs Pepys Cockerell following the sudden death of her husband Frederick. 14, Cavendish Place. November 21st, 1878. Single sheet folded, approximately 180 x 115 mm. Four pages written in a clear hand on printed 14 Cavendish Place, Cavendish Square headed paper, dated 21 November 1878. Old horizontal and vertical folds, a little light marking, along with mounting residue to the final side, otherwise very good. Written just weeks after the unexpected death in Paris of the architect Frederick Pepys Cockerell (1833-1878). George Edmund Street, one of the leading figures of the Victorian Gothic Revival and architect of the Royal Courts of Justice, offers heartfelt condolences to Cockerell's widow, and gives his admiration for her husband's character and professional abilities. Street then records: "Perhaps I was the last or at any rate nearly the last English architect who has seen him. I spent a short time with him at the Exhibition on October 28th.", recalling that his conversation on the artistic objects before them remained full of his "usual knowledge & taste". An uncommon letter. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Irish Writer Bryan Walter Guinness to Philip Morrell Regarding the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, 1905 - 1992 was a British peer, poet, novelist and socialite. He was an heir to part of the Guinness family brewing fortune, and briefly married to Diana Mitford, one of the Mitford sisters. Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (née Cavendish-Bentinck; 1873 - 1938 was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer. Size is 255mm x 200mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s). …

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Writer S S Koteliansky to Philip Morrell Regarding the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky 1880 - 1955 was a Ukrainian translator of Russian literature into English. He made the transition from his origins in a small Jewish shtetl to distinction in the rarefied world of English letters. Although he was not a creative writer himself, he befriended, corresponded with, helped publish, and otherwise served as intermediary between some of the most prominent people in English literary life in the early twentieth century including Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence. Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (née Cavendish-Bentinck; 1873 - 1938 was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer. Size is 255mm x 200mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A Tremendous Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by American Writer Djuna Barnes to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Letters by Barnes are very uncommon. Djuna Barnes 1892 - 1982 was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. Size is 305mm x 205mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19334. Signed by Author(s).…

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Writer E M Forster to Philip Morrell regarding and discussing the Death of His Wife and Friend Lady Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1938. Edward Morgan Forster 1879 - 1970 was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. Size is 177mm x 114mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Ref19335. Signed by Author(s).…