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[WWI/Wouk/Misc.] 15 Items. ++ Kaiser Wilhelm II. Postcard signed in purple ink, in lower portion of image. Printed below upper edge: “S. M. der Kaiser.” Considerable staining, mostly to central portions of postcard. ++ Field Marshal Sir William Robertson. Signed menu. Dated “15 Janvier 1917.” Menu mounted on thick paper. ++ Thomas Yates. Signed verse. 1927. On same sheet as the signature of J. Ernst James, March 12, 1929. ++ Cyril Falls. TLS to Captain S. H. W. Eames. 11th November 1936. 4to, w/ orig envelope. Foxed. ++ Gen. Sir Percy Cose. ALS. Dec. 16, 1933. ++ Brig.-Gen. Henry Haggard. Cut signature. Wounded at Silva Bay. ++ Carmichael C. Monro. ALS (4pp). ++ J. Talbot Hobbs, Major General. Signature card. ++ Arthur Henry McMahon. Cut signature. ++ Gen. Sir Hubert Gough. Card, inscribed: “A winsome baby With blue eyes & chubby fists./ Hubert Gough/ General. British Army/ 31st May 1921.” With envelope. ++ Richard Harding Davis. Signature, on a slip of paper. With leaf from a book carrying an illustration of Davis ++ John Lawrence, Baron of Lucknow. Signed inscription, mounted to thin cardboard. 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. ++ FDC signed by Chuck Yeager, Joe Foss, and Edward Teller. FDC commemorates 10th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Postmarked twice: “Kennedy Space Center/ FL/ Jul 20 PM/ 1979” and “Dover, NJ/ Jul 20/ 1989/ USPO.” Yeager was the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound. ++ 2 Herman Wouk signatures, clipped from books’ djs. ++ Peter Townsend. Signature in the blank area of a blurb clipped from a dj.
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