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Autograph Letter Signed ('Gerald Kelly') to unnamed male autograph hunter.

Author: 
Sir Gerald Kelly (1879-1972), portrait painter, Aleister Crowley's brother-in-law
Publication details: 
29 September 1935; on letterhead '65, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W.1.'
£30.00

One page, 12mo. On ruckled paper with damage on reverse due to removal from mount. Text clear and entire. The autograph wasn't sent because Kelly was away. 'Why you want it I can't understand but since you ask for it: - here it is: -'.

The Grand Trouvaille. A Legend of Pentonville.

Author: 
Arthur Machen
Publication details: 
Privately Printed for Subscribers only. The First Edition Bookshop (R. Townley Searle), 39, Wardour Street (Leicester Square), London, W.1 [1923].
£220.00

8 pp., 4to, self-wrappers., edges sunned, mainly very good, illustrated with woodcuts. Limited Edition SIGNED by Arthur Machen, limited to 250 copies of which this is number 179.

Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Watney [wife of Sir Frank Watney], together historical notes, two tracings and two small photographs.

Author: 
William Byam Lane
Publication details: 
20 July 1937; 39 Eton College Road, Chalk Farm.
£125.00

English writer (1866-1945). The letter is 2 pages, 8vo, and the notes are 9 pages octavo. Neatly written on one side each of eleven matching leaves, all ruled with blue lines. In good condition overall, but with the paper somewhat discoloured, creased and ruckled, and with some rust stains from a paper clip and closed tears. He is sending as promised 'the evidence of the bishop's mitre having come down to us from very ancient times'.

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