Three Items Ephemera, Signed (4 results)

PB. Condition: very good, wraps (softcover). Offered as a lot are three items: 1- letter April 4, 1929, signed by Updike writing he would be pleased to design a bookplate 2- secretarial signed letter confirming printing of bookplate and sending proofs; and 3- RECOLLECTIONS OF DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE by John O. C. McCrillis - a talk given at the Redwood Library in Newport, RI in 1991. Images available on our website - ask for the link.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Very faint wrinkle and slight toning to framed letter, images pristine. 1979 Unbound. 21 1/2 x 20. Matted and framed with three images of items from the Forbes Magazine Collection of Faberge, with presentation slips from the publisher presenting the recipient William J.P. Smith III of Data General Corporation with a complimentary subscription to Forbes. This was purchased directly from Bill Smith, who worked as an advertising representative, and explained that he received this invitation as a result of his professional relationship with Forbes Magazine. Dated May 4, 1979, the full text of the letter reads: "Dear Bill: A selection of Faberge objects from the FORBES Magazine Collection is currently on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The exhibition marks the first public showing in this country of Faberge's masterpieces, the Coronation Egg and the Lilies of the Valley Egg, which have just been added to the collection. To help us celebrate this exciting event, I am writing in the hope that you and Ann will be able to join Jim Dunn, Kip Forbes, Steve Nicoll, Arnold Prives and me for dinner and a private viewing of the exhibition on Wednesday, May 23rd. Cocktails and the viewing will begin at 6:00 P.M. Dinner will be served in the Asian Galleries at 7:30 P.M. Enter the museum at the Huntington Avenue entrance. Supervised parking will be available in the museum lot on Museum Road. Yours sincerely, Malcolm S. Forbes." The second letter reads: "Dear Bill: Thank you so much for that fascinating data, and we'll probably be making reference to it in FORBES. It was a pleasure to see you at the Faberge show in Boston - the only greater joy would be in seeing you put the advertising pages of FORBES to work on occasion for Data General! Cordially, Malcolm S. Forbes. Signed by author.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. (See his entry in the Oxford DNB.) Interesting London ephemera: the plans for the Refectory Club were clearly ambitious, but there is little to be gleaned about it, and it is unclear whether it even opened. Zinkeisen and her sister Dora are the subject of a 2022 monograph by Philip Kelleway, Emma Roodhouse and Nicola Evans. The four items in good condition, lightly aged, but with rust staining from a paperclip. Folded for postage. ONE: Typed Letter to MP, signed 'D Mallett' (but with 'For Secretary' typed beneath this). 1p, 4to. Begins 'We have been informed by Mr. Nathan that you would like to become a member of our Club. We shall, of course be honoured to accept you but regret that we must ask you to apply formally for membership on the enclosed application form. After you have completed this, we should be grateful if you would forward it to Mr. Nathan for proposal.' Information regarding fees follows. TWO: Illustrated Printed stapled publicity booklet. 7pp, 16mo. With three photographs of interiors (Dining Hall, Lounge and Common Room), together with reproduction of drawing of the Dining Hall on the cover. 'The mediaeval Dining Hall is architecturally unique with its finely vaulted ceiling, supported by columns and pilasters of the utmost delicacy. / Curved wall panels provide the perfect setting for exquisite murals by Miss Anna Zinkeisen. The distinguished artist has captured the atmosphere of the period and portrayed it ith touches of subtle humour and gaiety. [.] The Lounge, pannelled in oak, with rich period furnishings, is a pleasing combination of things old and new. The old has been made to serve again in an unusual, recessed, long bar. / The pine-pannelled Common Room, dominated by a fine old refectory table, is reserved for private dinner parties. [.]' The architect is named as H. Hubbard Ford, the 'Decor' is by Dickeson & French Ltd, and the murals are by 'Miss Anna Zinkeisen'. THREE: Notice, printed in red. 1p, 12mo. Headed 'The Refectory Club. / The Club will be open to Members on and after 3rd May, 1955.' Gives details of opening hours, bar hours and restaurant hours, and of membership fees. Typed in red at foot: 'This applies to the first 500 members. For those joining later the rate will be / FIVE GUINEAS PER ANNUM'. FOUR: Printed 'Application for Membership'. On one side of a slip of paper, 1p, landscape 12mo. Not filled in.

Four scarce pieces of ephemera: no other copies of them traced on either JISC or WorldCat. See Ross's entry in the Oxford DNB. The three reports give lists of college persons, with general and particular news. Items Two to Four in good condition, lightly aged and creased; Item One as described below. ONE: 'ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD / 1917-1918'. Signed in type by 'L. L. P.' [i.e. Langford Lovell Price, retiring treasurer] and dated 31 July 1918. 7pp, 12mo. On two bifoliums of thin war-economy paper, glued together. With stamps of The Treasury, Oriel College, Oxford, and 'With the Treasurer's Compliments'. Aged, creased and worn. Begins: 'The prolongation of the War during the past academical year (1917-1918) has postponed for a while the hope of a revival of the happier, more tranquil state of normal times.' Later: 'For the moment, however, the Provost, a single Tutor, a Treasurer and less than a handful of Fellows, fourteen Undergraduates, and a small remnants of servants dwell in, or use, some of the rooms in the Front and Back Quadrangles, while a Principal, Tutors, Bursar, and students of the other sex retain in their large numbers their temporary occupation of the new and older buildings of St. Mary's Quadrangle.' Later: 'Mrs. Grundy, the wife of Dr. G. B. Grundy, Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, is, as a new experiment, undertaking the supervision of the internal housekeeping arrangements of the College.' Includes 'Military Honours', and information regarding the 'Loggan' drawing of the college by E. H. New. TWO: 'ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, / 1921-1922.' 7pp, 12mo. On two bifoliums, stitched. More expansive list than in One, with briefer accompanying text. Begins: 'The College is still very full. There were 157 Undergraduates and Bachelors of Arts in residence in Michaelmas Term, 1921, 159 in Hilary Term, 1922, and 160 in Midsummer Term, 1922. Of these 85 to 90 lived in College. About 50 have gone down since Midsummer, but about 50 freshmen are expected to come into residence in 1922-23.' THREE: 'ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, / 1922-1923.' 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Begins: 'The numbers were slightly lower than in the previous year.' Later: 'During the year various improvements in the College buildings have been carried out; several portions of St. Mary's Quadrangle have been restored, and new baths have been provided. Schemes for further improvements are under consideration.' FOUR: Handbill prospectus for 'The Provosts and Fellows of Oriel College Oxford' of Richards and Shadwell. Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Undated, but opening reference dates to 1921: 'ORIEL COLLEGE will reach its sexcentenary in five years time.' Four unpaginated pages, on bifolium of good-quality watermaked laid paper. Prospectus on second page; 'specimen page' on third page (running on to fourth), with entries for Reginald Pecock and John Henry Newman, and 'Subscription Form' at foot of fourth page. The book was published in 1922.