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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- 'AUTHORS AS COPYWRITERS'; the refusal of Bennett, Wells and Shaw to write advertisement copy for Harrods. A collection of six letters, from H.G. WELLS (1866-1946), 2 autograph letters signed to C.E. Wiles and 'Messrs. Harrods', Easton Glebe, Dunmow, 21 & 25 October 1928, 4 pages, 4to, with envelope; Arnold BENNETT (1867-1931), 2 typed letters, one signed, to C.E. Wiles and to Harrods, 75, Cadogan Square, 22 June 1928 and n.d., 4½ pages, 4to; George Bernard SHAW (1856-1950), typed letter signed, with autograph corrections, to Harrods, 4 Whitehall Court, 15 November 1928, 4½ pages, 4to; and a collection of related press clippings (letters held by paperclips, some leaving rust marks).
'The very impressive phenomenon of the big departmental store, regarded either as a picturesque spectacle, or as a living organism, or as a sociological portent' (Bennett). The original letters written to Harrods, as they appeared in print in 1929, with additional letters from Wells and Bennett. (6)
'The very impressive phenomenon of the big departmental store, regarded either as a picturesque spectacle, or as a living organism, or as a sociological portent' (Bennett). The original letters written to Harrods, as they appeared in print in 1929, with additional letters from Wells and Bennett. (6)
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