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)
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)
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