Authors Autographs
Literary autographs for sale at Autograph Collection - collecting autographs of famous authors has been a popular pastime since the Victorian period. Many of these signatures were mistakenly cut from the end of letters or documents at the time yet have been retained to the present. There is something particularly special about owning the signature of someone whose literary work you have read, studied and admired – signatures of classic British authors Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Graham Greene and George Orwell are particularly sought after. In addition the autographs of famous crime writers – Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie – are eternally popular as well as those of children’s writers such as AA Milne, Roald Dahl and JK Rowling. The Autograph Collection also sells a small selection of letters written by famous authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century
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£135.00
John Buchan Autograph Signed Display - black ink signature of Scottish author and politician John Buchan who is best known for the adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps
£125.00
Leslie Charteris Autograph Signed Display - black ink signature of novelist Leslie Charteris who is best known for creating Simon Templar alias The Saint. The signature has been attached to black card
£175.00
Enid Blyton Autograph Display - vintage blue ink autograph of Enid Blyton who is one of the most successful children's authors of all time with her stories about Noddy, the Famous Five and the Secret Seven. The signature has been attached to black card
£220.00
J M Barrie Autograph Display - rare black ink autograph of Scottish author and dramatist J M Barrie who is best remembered for the classic children's novel Peter Pan. The story was originally written in the form of a play in 1904 and then published as a novel in 1911. Barrie dates the signature 7-6-30
£95.00
Cecil Day Lewis Autograph Letter Signed - a letter handwritten and signed by Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis dating to February 1946. The letter is on Orion headed notepaper and relates to a query made by a poet about some lost poems
£70.00
Rose Macaulay Autograph Signed Display - blue ink autograph of English novelist Rose Macaulay who is best known for her novel The Towers of Trebizond
£200.00
Robert Frost Autograph Signed Display - rare blue ink autograph of renowned American poet Robert Frost who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on four occasions
£125.00
John Betjeman Autograph Signed Display - black ink autograph of popular English poet John Betjeman who was the Poet Laureate from 1972-1984. The signature was obtained at a poetry reading in Stratford Town Hall in 1966
£185.00
Margery Allingham Autograph Signed Display - rare black ink autograph of Margery Allingham the renowned English novelist. Allingham is best remembered for her gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. The signature has been attached to black card
£85.00
Anne Rice Autograph Signed Photo - black ink autograph of American author Anne Rice who is best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles
£70.00
Malcolm Bradbury Autograph Letter Signed - a letter handwritten and signed by renowned English author Malcolm Bradbury who is best remembered for the 1975 novel The History Man. The letter is on University of East Anglia headed paper and dates to 7 November 1975
£40.00
Leon Uris Autograph Signed Display - black ink autograph of American author Leon Uris who wrote numerous bestselling books including Exodus, Topaz and Trinity
£70.00
Upton Sinclair Autograph Signed Display - black ink autograph of American author Upton Sinclair who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943
£85.00
Quentin Crisp Autograph Signed Display- black ink autograph of Quentin Crisp who became a gay icon in the 1970's after the publication of his memoir The Naked Civil Servant
£90.00
W Somerset Maugham Autograph Display - blue ink autograph of renowned British playwright, novelist and short story writer W. Somerset Maugham mounted with a black and white portrait
£85.00
John Updike Autograph - black ink autograph of renowned American author John Updike who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on two occasions
£75.00
Kingsley Amis Autograph Letter Signed - ALS of English writer Kingsley Amis who is best known for his novels Lucky Jim and The Old Devils. The letter on Gardnor House headed paper is dated 14 February 1977 and reads in full "Dear Mr Curtis, Would it suit you to come round on Saturday morning (19th) about 12-0? If I don't hear from you I'll expect you. Yours sincerely,"
£65.00
Mickey Spillane Autograph Signed - black ink autograph of American author Mickey Spillane who is best known for his detective character Mike Hammer
£70.00
Elie Wiesel Autograph Signed - blue ink autograph of Romanian born writer Elie Wiesel whose best known work Night is best upon his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald
£95.00
Noel Coward Autograph Signed - vintage blue ink autograph of Noel Coward the renowned playwright, actor, composer and entertainer
£125.00
Arthur Miller Autograph - blue ink autograph of highly acclaimed American playwright Arthur Miller mounted with a photo from his marriage to Marilyn Monroe
£60.00
Authentic black ink autograph of best-selling British author Dennis Wheatley who is best known for the occult classic The Devil Rides Out
£85.00
A brief note hand written and signed by Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, mounted with a colour portrait. The note reads: "I hope you received your MS safely. I shall keep your pamphlet with my other cooperative literature. I am much obliged for it." The note has been irregularly trimmed and laid down on to another page
