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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph signatures of scientists, writers, explorers, politicians and others, approximately 1912-1953, including the signatures of Albert EINSTEIN ('Albert Einstein 15 Juni 1921'), Sir Ernest SHACKLETON ('E.H. Shackleton', on a leaf with a signature of Frank WILD and two others), Sir Edmund Hillary ('Everest 1953'), writers including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1915), George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling (1924), J.M. Barrie (1925), Walter de la Mare (1925, with an autograph quotation: 'Look thy last on all things lovely Every hour ...'), G.K. Chesterton (1925), Enid Blyton (1951), Vita Sackville-West and others, politicians including Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald (1925), Austen Chamberlain and others; in three albums. Provenance: ownership inscriptions of Herbert W. Mansfield. (3)
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