18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2053
 

2053

Political autographs including Denis Healey, Harold Wilson, Sir Keith Joseph, H. H. Asquith, etc.

Political autographs, comprising:
1) Six typed letters signed from members of parliament Denis Healey (2 letters), Sir Keith Joseph (2 letters), Merlyn Rees, and Charles Pannell, all to J. R. Leeming of the Land Commission, Leeds, 1970-1, concerning the commission’s closure, together with two related typed letters signed from George, Earl Jellicoe as Lord Privy Seal to Denis Healey and Sir Keith Joseph (the latter attached to one of Joseph's letters to Leeming), a later typed letter signed from member of parliament Derek Fatchett to Elaine Leeming, daughter of J. R. Leeming (dated 1985), and a printed 21 Army Group farewell message on card with apparently autograph signature of Field Marshal Montgomery,
2) Autograph book containing an original pen-and-ink self-portrait by Denis Healey signed ‘To Elaine Leeming from Denis Healey MP’, and the autographs of Harold Wilson, Edna Healey, Alice Bacon and others,
3) Album with manuscript cover-title ‘Press Notices, Sir Francis Trippel’s Knighthood’, containing a typed letter signed from H. H. Asquith as prime minister, 1909, similar letters and numerous press cuttings,
4) Typed letter signed from Vera Brittain (author of Testament of Youth) to J. R. Leeming, 1962, concerning poetry written by Leeming in response to her first book The Dark Tide (qty)

Sold for £110
Estimated at £50 - £100


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022

Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.

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