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George Bernard Shaw [Alec Clunes; Arts Theatre Club, London; May Hemery Ltd] From the collection of Alec Clunes, who performed as Don Juan in this excerpt from 'Man and Superman' ('Don Juan in Hell') at the Arts Theatre Club in 1946. Carbon copy of typescript by May Hemery Ltd, paginated 1 to 60, on the rectos of sixty leaves, preceded by title leaf ('Excerpt from Act... |
Literature, Music and Theatre | £125.00 | |
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[Thomas Cook, travel agency] [Pamphlet] Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. Facsimile Specimen Signatures February 1st, 1949. 16 pages, 4to, original grey/blue wraps, dusted and some foxing, mainly good. List No.1 of Signatures authorised for signing Letters of Credit, Letters of Indication in conjunction therewith, and Drafts, 4pp. (56 signatures), and Supplementary List of Signatures authorised for signing drafts... |
Social history, Travel and Topography | £65.00 |
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GEORGE BOOTH HEMING [Goldsmiths' Company; Daily Graphic] Autograph Letter Signed, Autograph Note, and newspaper article. Mayor of Westminster (1858-1938), and prominent member of the Goldsmiths' Company, for whom he established an annual competition for craftsmen and schools in London. All items very good. Both manuscript items bearing the Society's stamp and the note also docketed. THE LETTER (one page, 12mo): 'I... |
Economics | £28.00 | |
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George Bubb Dodington Autograph Signature on receipt. English politician and wit (1691-1762). Some minor staining but in very good condition overall. Dimensions approximately 2 1/2 inches by 7 1/2. Signed 'Geo: Dodington' beneath, in another hand, 'Recd. 26 March 1747 the full Contents of this ordre.' On the reverse of a slip cut from a printed... |
History | £65.00 | |
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George Bubb Dodington [Baron Melcombe of Melcombe Regis], Sir George Oxenden, Sir William Yonge Autograph Signature on fragment of printed document. Dodington (1691-1762); Oxenden (1694-1775) and Yonge (1693-1755) were Whig politicians and allies of Sir Robert Walpole. The document would appear to relate to their positions as Commissioners of the Treasury. Dimensions 3 1/2 inches by 4 inches. Somewhat discoloured with age, but in good... |
History | £45.00 | |
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George Bubb Dodington. Document Signed "Geo. Dodington". Dodington, George Bubb, Baron Melcombe 1691-1762, a Lord of the Treasury, Pope's "Bufo". One page, folio, fold mark, tear, loss of text (including the full signatures formerly below Dodington's), rest of official countersigning, etc. surviving. An order (8 March 1736) to pay £300 from His... |
Economics | £200.00 | |
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George Burbage (died 1807), eighteenth-century Nottingham printer, bookseller and stationer Fragment of printed advertisement. One page. On leaf roughly nine and a half inches by seven wide. Aged, with frayed edges, and with slight loss to head, affecting decorative border, and extensive loss at foot, involving several lines of text. Begins 'G. BURBAGE, PRINTER, BOOKSELLER and STATIONER; ON THE LONG ROW, NOTTINGHAM,... |
Book Trade History | £50.00 | |
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George Byrom Whittaker. Autograph Letter Signed to "M. Holl" George Byrom Whittaker (DNB), bookseller and publisher (BBTI). In the papers of J.T.J. Hewlett (described below). "I cannot acquiesce in your wish of sending copies of Books on Sale, it being contrary to our custom." Originally from a larger archive, the residue of which is described in #3157 (... |
Book Trade History | £40.00 | |
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George Cadbury Typed Letter with cyclostyle signature to A. D. Snow of St Leonards-on-Sea. Quaker confectioner, social reformer and philanthropist (1839-1922). 1 page, 8vo. A little grubby and creased but in good condition overall, with the blank reverse attached to remains of another piece of paper. He thanks his correspondent for his letter and states that 'The Friends' Meeting... |
Social history | £45.00 | |
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Anne de Vere Chamberlain [née Cole] (1883-1967) wife of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), proponent of Appeasement of Nazi Germany [Collin Brooks (), journalist] Anne Chamberlain stood before the crowds on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with her husband and the members of the royal family, following his return with the 'piece of paper', 30 September 1938. 1p., 12mo. On blue paper. In fair condition, worn and lightly-creased, with a couple of staple-... |
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