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Auction No 406, Category: Autographs

3 Lots (displaying 1 - 3)

Mark Twain "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and other New Stories", Chatto & Windus, 1893, ink signed on the title page "S.L. Clemens. Mark Twain";

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £600 - £800
SOLD £740
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Mark Twain The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and other New Stories, Chatto & Windus, 1893, ink signed on the title page S.L. Clemens. Mark Twain; original gilt cloth, spine rolled, bumped corners; numbered annotation at foot of title page o/w free of other inscriptions with good clean text and endpapers. Advertising leaf as second front endpaper and 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear. An excellent example of Clemens' autograph together with his pseudonym.

Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery: a signed 1969 philatelic cover commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Arnhem, autographed "Montgomery of Alamein,

Lot: 35

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
UNSOLD
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Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery: a signed 1969 philatelic cover commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Arnhem, autographed Montgomery of Alamein, F.M. A note as to the authenticity of the item has been affixed to the reverse.

Alan Turing signed pamphlet: Turing’s personal copy of Leventhal & Salkind’s "Spherical Trigonometry", Globe Book Co., New York, 1943;

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 12th Jan 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £3000 - £4000
SOLD £1250
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Alan Turing signed pamphlet: Turing's personal copy of Leventhal & Salkind's Spherical Trigonometry, Globe Book Co., New York, 1943; signed Alan Turing in red ink on title page, the second ‘a' of ‘Alan' a little blotchy o/w a fine example of his signature and rarely offered. The 53pp pamphlet shows some slight toning to the front cover but is o/w fine and clean internally. The pamphlet focuses on the use of Spherical Trigonometry to pilots and aviators.