Bloomsbury Auctions

218. Drinkwater (John, poet and playwright, 1882-1937).- th i S
Ca l e n d a r & di a ry [bi rt h d ay bo o K in a Cu r w e n pr e S S di a ry],
signatures, including: Ja m e S Jo y C e, ol i v e r St. Jo h n go g a rt y,
p.g. wo d e h o u S e, Ja C K b. ye at S, th o m a S ha r d y, e.m. fo r S t e r,
au g u S t u S Jo h n, a.a. mi l n e, ge o r g e be r n a r d Sh aw , Ch a r l o t t e
f. Sh aw , iS r a e l za n g w i l l, ly t t o n St r a C h e y, vi ta ni C o l S o n,
a.e. ho u S m a n, ed w i n lu t y e n S, dav i d lo w, Jo h n na S h, th o m a S
be e C h a m, Jo a n Su t h e r l a n d, pa u l na S h, g.K. Ch e S t e rto n, he n ry
ne w b o lt , Jo h n dr i n K wat e r, da i S y Ke n n e d y, Sy d n e y Co C K e r e l l,
ma x be e r b o h m, gu S t av ho l S t, St e fa n zw e i g, Padraic Colum,
Rebecca West, Peggy Ashcroft, Cyril Harcourt, Holbrook Jackson,
Lascelles Abercrombie, Harold Knight, William Rothenstein,
Seymour Hicks, Anthony Hope-Hawkins, Clemence Dane, Francos
Cornford, Hugh Walpole, Harold Monro, Algernon Blackwood,
Gerald Du Maurier, Rabindrath Tagore, Lilian Bayliss, A.E.W.
Mason, E.V. Rue, Squires Bancroft, Humbert Wolfe, Henry
Newbolt, E.V. Lucas, Julian Huxley, Alec Waugh, H.M. Brock,
A.J. Cronin, Laura Knight, Lawrence Binyon, J.B. Priestley, Alfred
Noyes, Edmund Gosse, Herbert F. Wade, Shane Leslie, Wilfrid
Gibson, Alfred Munnings, Bernard Partridge, Austen Chamberlain,
Sybil Thorndike, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Harley Granville Barker
and others, 53pp. of signatures, colour printed illustrations by
Albert Rutherston, browned, pencil inscription by Drinkwater on
front free endpaper, original holland boards, rubbed, corners and
edges worn, original printed paper label on upper cover, rubbed,
130 x 86mm., preserved in a full blue morocco box, gilt, initials
J.D. on spine, 1920s - 30s. £2,000 - £2,500
*** a r o l l C a l l o f n a m e S f r o m t h e l i t e r a ry a n d a rt w o r l d o f t h e
1920S a n d 30S.
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219. Thomas Hardy.- Drinkwater (John, poet and playwright,
1882-1937) th e may o r o f Ca S t e r b r i d g e dr a m at i z e d f r o m
th o m a S ha r d y’S no v e l..., 2 vol., a u t o g r a p h m a n u S C r i p t S i g n e d
b y t h e a u t h o r, title and 145pp. excluding blanks, lined paper, in
two notebooks, vol. I original cloth-backed boards, vol. II original
rexine, in a modern box, paper labels on spines, sm. 4to, 44 Evelyn
Gardens London SW7, [1926]. £600 - £800
*** un p u b l i S h e d.
Thomas Hardy came to see the production at Weymouth and
approved of it.
Inscription on title reads: “Given to me by J.D. at this address after
the first night at the Barnes Theatre (Lyn Harding as Henchard)
D.D.”
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