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Click here to subscribeBarbie and Others - Three boxed Barbie dolls and toys including a boxed Barbie Typewriter, Barbie Drawing Projector, a Mattel Gabby doll and similar. Together with a good collection of vintage dolls to include a Sergeant at Arms soldier doll, a Sunny Jim Force Wheat Flakes doll and others. All items are in Playworn condition. (6) This lot must be paid for and removed no later than close of business on Friday.
GRUBB DAVIS: (1919-1980) American Novelist, author of The Night of The Hunter (1953). T.L.S., Davis Grubb, two pages, 4to, n.p. (Louisiana), 26th January 1976, to Barrie Rawson in Australia. Grubb informs his correspondent 'No book has appeared since The Barefoot Man and I am just getting into another one, the tentative title of which is Let The Clocks Run Down. It is (a switch) about a Conspiracy to Prevent the President from Being Assassinated and that's all I am going to tell you about it (I don't really know much more) save to say that, as I now envision it, it will have all and more of the suspense and excitement of The Night of The Hunter or The Watchman' and continues 'I begin a book with a desparate (sic) idea in which I half-believe, force myself to continue, and soon become so hooked with the idea that I am forced to complete it out of curiosity to see how it will all come out. Much of the same motive works in reading a book, I suppose.' He further writes 'one of the strongest literary influences in my life as a writing man has always been that brave, tragic New Zealand genius Katherine Mansfield. She and Kipling and Stevenson just about complete that pattern and the other two have associations not too remote from Australia' and also refers to several of his books, recommending that his correspondent tries and locates a copy of A Tree Full of Stars at the Gotham Book Mart in New York. In concluding Grubb reflects 'The kinship which art establishes for a writer is of a most delicate and yet substantial nature. Letters from far corners of the earth don't come often but when they do they are like the warm breath of exotic breezes against one's weary brow. A writer wonders -- at least I do -- when he sits down amid the solitudes and begins the first picking at his typewriter who (if anyone) is going to be hearing his small, lost voice....' Beneath his signature Grubb has added a small original drawing of a flower. A letter of interesting content. Some very light creasing and minor age wear, otherwise VG
A BOXED METTOY ELEGANT LITHOGRAPHED TINPLATE TOY TYPEWRITER, with a boxed Dubreq New Sound Stylophone, boxed De Jay 'Swinger' Portable Cassette Player/Radio, H-510, boxed Prinztronic Tournament Mini Electronic TV Game, boxed PMS 'Dancin Dudes' figure and boxed Tempest radio, not tested/contents not checked
Collection of Interesting Vintage Items including a vintage Bush wooden cased radio with integral speakers, Type ACII, measures 20'' wide x 15'' tall x 7'' depth, housed in handsome wooden case; vintage Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter in brown carry case. This is a portable mechanical typewriter designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1949 or, according to the company's current owner Telecom Italia, 1950. This typewriter was very popular in Italy, and it still has many fans. It was awarded the Compasso d'oro prize in 1954; a tall black metal vintage reading lamp; and a vintage shooting stick/seat. An interesting collection of social history, please see accompanying images.
Silver charm bracelet with 22 charms incl. Poodle, tankard, enamel Jersey shield, revolver, typewriter, Daschund, Reindeer, Keys, shell etc, three piece silver-plated tea set, paste set brooch, other dress brooches, boxed Festival of Britain 1951 crown, Japanese tea bowl & saucer, sugar sifters etc Condition Report 53gm gross
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