Lot 27: CRISP (QUENTIN)

Quentin Crisp's typewriter and passport, the typewriter being a black Remington 'Home Portable' (bearing the proud claim that it was 'Assembled by British Labour at the Remington Typewriter Factory, London'), with ribbon still in place, and original carrying case, a yellow label attached to the handle bearing the autograph inscription: "Crisp/ 129 Beaufort St/ London,/ England" [this being the famously squalid bed-sit, where he wrote The Naked Civil Servant and which inspired Pinter's first play, The Room ], evidence of use but overall in good condition ; the passport made out to "Mr Quentin Crisp", signed by him, and listing his occupation as "Writer", his place of birth as Carshalton, his date of birth as Christmas Day 1908, and his height as 1.68 m., the photograph showing him in studied pose wearing a polka-dot cravat, with US and Australian visa stamps, subsequent cancellation stamps and clipped corner, blue cloth cover as issued, with an accompanying 'Real Morocco' traveller's wallet , Passport Office, London, 15 September 1977