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WEST MAE: (1893-1980) American Actress. An excellent vintage signed 10 x 8 photograph of West in a head and shoulders pose. The original 1933 Paramount Pictures publicity portrait dates from West's role as Lady Lou in the film She Done Him Wrong and is signed in bold black fountain pen ink to a clear area at the centre of the image, with an additional sentiment in her hand, 'Come up and see me sometime, Mae West'. VG
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'Scientific experiments ought not to have to be done under such a fierce light, but in quiet, & largely in secret' WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. A good, lengthy War date A.L.S., with his initials B. N. W., six pages, folio, White Hill House, Effingham, Surrey, 14th & 15th December 1944, to Leo D'Erlanger ('My dear Leo'). Wallis thanks his correspondent for their letter and constant support and encouragement, remarking 'It perhaps does not occur to you how intensely valuable it is to have someone who believes in one? None of the things we have ever done together has been a certainty, although they look so obvious & so easy after the event; and it is during the nerve wracking anticipatory period that your support is an essential stimulus to face the anxiety and risk for a damaging failure'. The scientist further writes 'It seems inevitable that one cannot do anything big & new without attracting attention & opposition. Scientific experiments ought not to have to be done under such a fierce light, but in quiet, & largely in secret. Perhaps I am unduly sensitive, but my unfortunate position has made the risk of failure a perfect nightmare to me during the past 3 or 4 years. Why should one be expected to be invariably successful. Even the greatest of painters is allowed to work in the privacy of his studio & it is only post hoc that the world will hail a masterpiece. If he doesn't like it he can paint it out in a few minutes & no one the wiser except himself. Scientific research is an art, depending on inspiration, just as much as any of the fine arts do. The major difference between us is that we alas, having no money of our own have to spend other people's. To that extent I agree that we must be under some external control; but to what heights might we not rise, if that control consisted solely of say 3 or 4 friendly & encouraging persons; who, having agreed on one's line of research, merely had to some public body, such as the Public Accounts Committee, once a year, that they were satisfied' and continues to reflect, 'The pure mathematician, and the physicist have an immense advantage, in that they can practise their art with relatively inexpensive apparatus. All scientists & all real engineers must be practitioners too; but alas, their 'apparatus' is anything but cheap. That is why all Professors of Physics or Mathematics, or Astronomy….are always brilliant & distinguished; they are practitioners as well as teachers. What would become of a Kubelik….if he were condemned never to play the violin, but only to teach at the Royal Academy of Music; or of a Sargent if he must never paint a single portrait but only teach, at the Slade? But that is just what our professors of Engineering Science do, because they could only practise on so large & so expensive a scale, that under our present system they can never practice at all; & so, as far as engineering of all kinds is concerned we have developed the second class academic hack; while the men who might do brilliant research drift, under the intense urge to do something, into industry, where the one thing they are not allowed to undertake is long term, & possibly unprofitable, research', also commenting 'The Royal Society, and the Royal Institution find it within their means to appoint men who have distinguished themselves as practitioners in Physics or Chemistry to professorships, which are entirely "go as you please"; men who are given the freedom of the world, to do as they please; but only because their most expensive research is really very cheap, & can be done in almost any well equipped laboratory'. Wallis also informs his correspondent about a current project concerning the design of bridges, made possible by light alloy, remarking 'And the objection to structures that are very light in relation to the moving loads that roll across them, is the feeling of give, and vibration, & the consequential sensation of springiness & insecurity. But why should not a structure be a living thing. You would not expect for instance an athlete about to perform some feat of strength, always to maintain himself in that attitude of braced rigidity which he must adopt as the great effort - is actually put forth. I could design a small bridge, almost without any research whatever; which when you stepped upon it, actually rose, instead of sagging, giving an impression of strength & uplift, however slender & light its members might be. By extension I should be able to do the same thing for a single span, over 2000 feet long. By comparison, go & look at the much vaunted modern Waterloo bridge which replaced Rennie's real masterpiece. And weep!' Wallis resumes his letter the following day, apologising for it having been written 'a propos de bottes' so far as he can see and concludes by remarking 'My paper has made no progress, altho' I have been ruminating to some purpose'. Autograph letters of Wallis are rare, and particularly so from this date and with interesting content, making the present example very desirable. One slight paperclip rust stain only very slightly affects one word of text to the final page, and not the signature, otherwise VG Sir Gerard John Regis Leo D'Erlanger (1906-1962) Airline Company Director & Financier. Chairman of BOAC 1956-60.
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CAMPBELL DONALD: (1921-1967) British Car & Motorboat Racer, World Land and Water Speed Record Holder in the 1950s and 1960s. Vintage signed postcard photograph, the image depicting Campbell driving the Bluebird at speed, and with a small inset head and shoulders portrait of Campbell. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. Printed text to the verso details the specifications of the Bluebird and the world record speed of 216.2 mph achieved on 16th November 1955. Together with an unsigned blue printed 12mo card featuring an image of a bird in flight and the words 'With most Grateful Thanks for your Kind Thought Donald Campbell'. VG, 2
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LITERATURE: Small miscellaneous selection of A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S. etc., by various writers, poets and novelists etc., including Eugene Ionesco, Richard Eberhart (signed typed souvenir copy of his poem Spite Fence), Aleksandr Chakovsky (two pages of typed and holograph manuscript, in cyrillic, from The Unfinished Portrait, accompanied by an A.L.S. sending the manuscript and commenting that it is from his novel about the life and death of Franklin Roosevelt, published in 1985), Havelock Ellis (3 x 4.5 photograph, signed to the verso), John Galsworthy, George MacDonald Fraser etc. G to VG, 10
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BEATLES THE: Selection of unsigned printed ephemera and memorabilia (some vintage) relating to The Beatles including official Beatles Fan Club national newsletter No. 5, Summer 1965, printed 4to programme for The Beatles Christmas Show at the Hammersmith Odeon 1964/65, 45rpm singles (7) for Long Tall Sally, Twist and Shout etc., original printed 4to sheet music for various songs by The Beatles including This Boy, When I'm Sixty Four, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Eleanor Rigby, All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love, A Hard Day's Night, The Fool on the Hill, She Loves You, Please Please Me, Paperback Writer etc., also including some solo songs by Lennon, McCartney (and Wings) and Harrison, a few Lennon & McCartney songs recorded by other artists including Billy J. Kramer, The 3rd Fabulous Beatles Souvenir Song Album (1965), Record Song Book featuring image of The Beatles to the front cover; four individual small fragments of white bed linen from the beds slept in by The Beatles at the Whittier Hotel in Detroit, 1964, each mounted to certificates and with supporting provenance etc., boxed set of 220 trade cards entitled The Beatles Collection published in 1993, small selection of 1980s posters of The Beatles (rolled and with some tears and surface creasing etc.), various pin badges etc., and a Beatles jewellery brooch in the shape of a guitar and featuring a portrait of McCartney, affixed to the original card backing, produced by Invicta, etc. A few FR, generally G to about VG, 81
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TENNIEL JOHN: (1820-1914) English Illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Series of nine A.Ls.S., John Tenniel, fourteen pages (total), 8vo, Portsdown Road, Maida Hill, 1882-1892, all to Mrs. Skirrow. Tenniel writes a largely genial series of letters to his correspondent, thanking her for various gifts on his birthday and at Christmas, accepting and declining invitations etc., in part, 'How good of you to remember my poor old birthday, & how kind of you to send me such a “sweet” little present, but you are always good & kind in everything & I really do not know how sufficiently to thank you, words being indeed too weak to express my very grateful acknowledgements. Failing utterly in that direction, it only remains to me to request you to add to the obligation & therefore in begging the favour of your kind acceptance of the accompanying portrait (no longer present) - the latest taken - I am sure I need hardly assure you that it would make me very happy & very proud to be allowed a little corner in your “Gallery” of friends. The likeness is supposed to be a very good one, inclusive of the fact that it is about twenty five years younger than the original!' (2nd March 1886), 'How can I thank you sufficiently for your kind remembrance of my birthday? - a very old birthday now! - & for the “dainty” little present…' (28th February 1887), 'How good of you to send me such a nice little Christmas “remembrance”' (1st January 1889), 'Pray forgive this hurried note, being as I am, in the annual agonies of the “Punch Alamanck” which naturally becomes more & more difficult & troublesome as the years roll by.' (27th October 1892), 'I am very proud in sending you my new portrait (no longer present) to replace the older one - which is also the younger one (!) - a paradox of previous years. This - the latest - was taken only last year' (9th November 1892). Some of the letters with blank integral leaves. Generally VG, 9
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CAMPBELL MALCOLM: (1885-1948) British Land & Water Speed Record Holder. T.L.S., M. Campbell, one page, 8vo, Old Bond Street, London, 17th May 1933, to Mr. H. Cantor. Campbell states that he has pleasure in sending his correspondent his autograph. Together with a vintage signed 2 x 3 magazine portrait of Campbell in a head and shoulders pose, wearing his helmet and goggles. Signed ('Malcolm Campbell') in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. Neatly cornermounted to the lower left corner of the letter. VG
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SITWELL SACHEVERELL: (1897-1988) English Writer & Critic. A.L.S., Sacheverell Sitwell, one page, small 4to, Weston Hall, Towcester, Northamptonshire, 18th December 1940, to Graham Green (sic; presumably Graham Greene). Sitwell thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks 'I would much sooner - if it is convenient to you - write a notice for you of Steegman's book on Cambridge - also just published by Batsford's', further explaining 'This is because I have just been there for the first time! unlikely as it may seem; and can, therefore, see its buildings with an unprejudiced eye'. Together with a T.L.S., Sacheverell Sitwell, one page, oblong 8vo, Weston Hall, Towcester, Northamptonshire, 8th January 1951, to Mrs. Green (although apparently unrelated to Sitwell's other correspondent). Sitwell announces 'How interesting that you should have found the Leech oil painting of "The Sea Shore at Scarborough"', adding that he would very much like to have a photograph of it 'as it is just the sort of thing to interest me, having been born at Scarborough myself, and, more or less, brought up on the sands'. Sitwell further comments 'I have always understood that the little jockey-carriages to be seen in some of Leech's Scarborough drawings, and which I well remember myself, were the invention of my grandfather' and also refers to some works by Richard Dadd. VG, 2 Graham Greene (1904-1991) English Novelist who worked as a literary editor and film critic for The Spectator from 1929-40. John Steegman (1899-1966) British Author, employed at the National Portrait Gallery 1929-45
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SMUTS JAN C.: (1870-1950) South African Prime Minister 1919-24, 1939-48. Vintage signed 4 x 6.5 photograph of Smuts in a formal head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. Neatly mounted within the original photographer's presentation folder. Together with an 8vo printed pamphlet published by Hodder and Stoughton, being the text of a speech made by Smuts to the Houses of Parliament on the subject of the British Commonwealth of Nations, 15th May 1917, signed by Smuts in bold fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the front cover alongside his oval portrait. Some heavy traces of former mounting to the back cover. G to VG, 2
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WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Signed First Day Cover issued in honour of Wallis and featuring a colour image of the R100 arriving at RAF Cardington in December 1929, with a colour inset portrait of the scientist, post marked 15th June 1976. Signed ('Barnes Wallis') in bold blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the cover. Together with a First Day Cover issued to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force, 1918-1998, individually signed by three members of The Dambusters crew comprising George Johnson, George Chalmers and Edward Johnson. VG, 2
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