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by tomthebookguy
Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:35 pm
Forum: Collectors' and Traders' Corner
Topic: Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?
Replies: 12
Views: 8972

Re: Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?

Here's what Sylvie Simmons said in reply on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sylviesimmons/statu ... 5395350528

So... nothing promising. Maybe it's the guy from Northampton :) Might just have to stow it away somewhere as a curiosity, anyway.

Thanks again, everyone!
by tomthebookguy
Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:04 am
Forum: Collectors' and Traders' Corner
Topic: Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?
Replies: 12
Views: 8972

Re: Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?

Contacted Sylvie Simmons, via Twitter. We'll see if she has insights... Boys IAC can perhaps mean members of a team of Interstate Athletics Conference. What I understand of Wikipedia is that this a high school sport league made up of 6 private schools in the Washington DC area. That would not fit “o...
by tomthebookguy
Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:35 pm
Forum: Collectors' and Traders' Corner
Topic: Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?
Replies: 12
Views: 8972

Re: Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?

Thanks everyone for the replies! I always approach a signature with caution - I once came across an Albert Camus signature with an inscription in English. With a minute of research I determined it was super fake, and with one thing or another I figured it was probably a joke between friends! :) And ...
by tomthebookguy
Wed Nov 29, 2017 10:16 pm
Forum: Collectors' and Traders' Corner
Topic: Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?
Replies: 12
Views: 8972

Can anyone confirm a 1940s school kid signature of LC?

I posted this on the Leonard Cohen sub-reddit the other day, and was directed here. And from what I've seen, it's definitely the place to ask! I discovered this signature in W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge", published 1944. There's nothing special about the book, except that on the...

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