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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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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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A. Moncrieff, colonel and engineer Moncrieff, Sir Alexander 1829-1906, colonel and engineer (DNB). Bold signature and date on part of headed notepaper (Royal United Service Institution), paper, c.4 x 4", slightly stained from having been laid down but clear. |
Military and Naval History | £25.00 | |
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A. Nicholls, London printseller ('Upwards of 25 years Assistant to Messrs. Evans of 1, Great Queen Street, and 403, Strand.') [prints; engravings] Octavo: 16 pp. Stitched and unbound. Grubby and a tad creased. Items, in alphabetical order from H (beginning with the Earl of Hardwick) to J (ending with Dorothy Jordan), with a few miscellaneous items on the last page, numbered 3002 to 3837. Interesting for the information it provides about... |
Art and Architecture | £85.00 | |
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A. Penniall and others. The Croydon Advertiser: Guardbook of some illustrations. Album, half-leather, worn, folio. The Guardbook of black and white illustrations from the Croydon Advertiser, c. 50 items, most c. 8 x 10", some folding, mainly Croydon subjects and neighbourhood, clear images in good condition, some by A. Penniall. |
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A. Rutledge Crouch, English designer and illustrator Four Autograph Letters Signed (all 'A. Rutledge Crouch') to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. The first three items are 4to, with the first two of two pages and the last of one page, all with a brown border. The fourth item is 12mo, 1 p. The quarto items have some creasing and discoloration to the extremities, and a few closed tears. The 12mo item is good. Text of all four letters clear... |
Art and Architecture | £120.00 | |
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A. S. [minor Victorian poetry; nineteenth-century devotional verse] Short Poems and Sacred Verses. Third Series. 12mo: iv + 164 pp. In original green cloth, with the title in gilt on the front cover. All edges gilt. Slightly foxed. Good and tight, in lightly worn cloth. A curious collection, with the index of first lines containing such entries as 'Sweet Edgbaston bells' [this poem dated 1844], 'Dear... |
Literature | £100.00 |
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A. Webley, bookseller, at the Bible and Crown in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane Advertisement leaf containing list of architectural books. Dimensions roughly eight inches by five and a half. Very good on aged paper. All but top edge rough. One page, blank reverse. Announces that Webley sells 'BOOKS in all FACULTIES and SCIENCES, Containing upwards of Twelve Thousand Volumes, in Various Languages, and in every Branch of Literature,... |
Book Trade History | £200.00 |