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149 SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE, BOMBING OF THE RUHR VALLEY, SECOND WORLD WAR Autograph Letter Signed by 'Handley' 2 pages, 8vo, both with Royal Air Force letterhead bearing the motto 'PER ARDUA AD ASTRA'. Not in good condition - creased, frayed, torn and discoloured - but a marvellous and immediate piece of history, regarding what one authority describes as the 'strategic bombing [...] principally against... |
Military and Naval History | £50.00 | |
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A Member of the Bibliographical Society The Colonel Mark Wilks and Sir Tollemache Sinclair Napoleon Collection Privately Printed. 50pp., 4to, grey wraps, sl. sunned, mainly vg. |
Book Trade History | £45.00 | |
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A member of the crew of H.M.S. Mindful, destroyer. Manuscript Itinerary headed "H.M.S. Mindful" at Buncrana June 1918. Manuscript, 8 pages, 4to, chipped (with minor textual loss) and slightly stained, text clear. Convoy and anti-submarine activity. Usually one line description per day but there is a long description of action involved while on convoy duty, encounters with submarines, reinforcements, damaged... |
Military and Naval History | £400.00 | |
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A member of the Farjeon Family, prob. Joan Jefferson Farjeon, later a set designer. Family (holiday) newspaper, typescript, "The Frinton Some-times". And another item. Three issues, 12-8-1928, 13-8-1928 and 4-9-1928 (incomplete), 12 pp., 4to, not bound, loose pages as issued (with paper clip), marked by paper-clip rust, mainly good. The first two are also headed "Final Edition", and are vil. 1, nos.1,2. The third has only a title. Much of it is spoof with the... |
Literature | £225.00 | |
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[ Barrie Pitt (1918-2006), military historian and editor, 'Purnell's History of the Second World War'; General Giuseppe Mancinelli (1895-1976); H. Fields, translator ] Despite the name, the series was published by was published by Phoebus Publishing Ltd, in co-operation with the Imperial War Museum, from 1966. Sir Basil Liddell-Hart was first editor-in-chief, followed after his death by A. J. P. Taylor. The items in this collection are loosely inserted in a... |
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Sir Varyl Begg [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Cargill Begg] (1908-1995), First Sea Lord 1966-1968; Governor of Gibraltar 1968-1973; served with distinction in Second World War [Royal Navy] See his entry in the Oxford DNB. See David Owen, who was minister for the navy when Begg was appointed Admiral of the Fleet in 1968, commented on his death that Begg was 'an Admiral with salt both in his ears and his tongue', who 'did not suffer fools gladly' (The Independent, 15 July 1995). 2pp... |
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A. E. Foote, editor (natural history bookseller of Philadelphia [geological reports] Nos. 85, 106 and 108 of 'The Naturalists' Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin.' Each catalogue 8vo, 32 pp. Stapled and unbound. The text of all three items clear and complete. On aged and spotted paper. Each issue carries an editorial introduction, with that of October 1884 (no. 85) eight pages long, and boasting that it is 'the most complete catalogue of American Official... |
Natural History | £185.00 |
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A. Edward Newton, American book collector of 'Oak Knoll', Daylesford, Pennsylvania I Want! I Want! Printed, not Published, for the Friends of A. Edward Newton. 12mo: [ii] + 14 pp. Unpaginated. Frontispiece of Blake's celebrated print. Internally tight on lightly-aged and grubby paper, and with the reverse of the frontispiece slightly discoloured. Staples a little rusty. In grubby white wraps. A signed presentation copy. Boldly written on the front wrap... |
Book Trade History | £45.00 |
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John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate and author [John Masefield, Poet Laureate.] Autograph Card, ordering a book from a booksellers’ list. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged. In the following transcript, the parts in Masefield’s autograph are in square brackets, and the first printed sentence (‘I [...] letter.’) has been scored through: ‘PINBURY PARK, / CIRENCESTER. / Dear [Sirs,] / I thank you for you... |
Literature | £80.00 |
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Leatrice Joy [Leatrice Johanna Zeidler] (1893-1985), Hollywood star of the silent movie era 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with rust stain from paperclip to one margin. The letterhead consists of a stylized vertical arrangement of the letters in the name ‘JOY’ at top left. The ‘signature’ is an extremely good facsimile in black ink. Begins: ‘Dear Friend: / Your... |
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