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William Archer Autograph letter signed to Sybil Rosenfeld, Scotch critic and playwright (1856-1924), the Mr Gunn of G. B. Shaw's "Fanny's First Play". One page, 12mo, on the inside of a self-sealing stamped printed envelope addressed in autograph. "Dear Miss Rosenfeld / As I have had no answer to a letter I wrote to Mr Allardyce Nicoll [theatre... |
Music and Theatre | £50.00 | |
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William Archer Autograph Note Signed to (Walter) Jerrold Theatre critic. One page, 8vo, small piece of signature torn off with loss of "illi" of William. Concerning a "summons" (to a Fireside Club" dinner) which he could not obey being in Edinburgh on "postal censorship business". With: a printed card announcing the next Fireside Club dinner, Oct. 191... |
Music and Theatre | £35.00 | |
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Rev. John Yonge Pamphlet, 31pp., 8vo, pink front cover only, disbound, library shelfmark base of front cover, some staining, mainly good condition. No other copy traced. None on COPAC/WorldCat. |
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William Arthur Bone [THE COAL INDUSTRY] English scientist (1871-1938), Professor of Chemical Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. All items quarto and very good, though lightly grubby, creased and stained in places. All five docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. LETTER ONE (one page): He will be happy to... |
Social history | £80.00 | |
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William Aylmer Gowing ["Walter Gordon"] autograph letters signed (x 2) to Mr [?] Brailsford, Playwright under the name Walter Gordon. The first, 4 pp, 12mo, on mourning paper, 24 August 1887, c/o Mrs H. E. Rose, Buxton on the Water, Glos. "I went to Town yesterday to attend the Funeral of my old friend [John] Palgrave Simpson [dramatist and novelist, 1807-1887, DNB], returning here... |
Music and Theatre | £25.00 | |
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William Aylmer Gowing ["Walter Gordon"] autograph note signed to [?] Croker, Playwright under the name Walter Gordon. One page, 16mo, on mourning paper. "My dear Croker / Monday is reserved for you - I enclose one more autograph and one of the three you want - / Yours very sincerely / William Gowing" Docketed in pencil "of the Olympic Theatre". Negligible traces of mount... |
£15.00 | ||
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William B. MacCabe. Autograph Letter Signed to "S. Scott". Irish author and historian (1801-1891). 2pp., 8vo, good. He intended to deliver his book personally as an expression of his feelings of friendship and admiration for his correspondent. He recollects Scott’s “kindness to the family of poor Lemaitre . . .” and to himself. He asks Scott to accept... |
Literature | £45.00 | |
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William Ball Four Autograph Letters Signed to Edward Draper. According to Frederic Boase's Modern English Biography William Ball (1785-1869) was the composer of 'hundreds of comic and sentimental songs', the most famous of which, 'Jack's lament for the loss of his tail', being 'one of the most popular songs of the day ever written'. All four letters 16mo... |
Literature, Music and Theatre | £200.00 | |
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William Barnes [Dorset dialect poetry] Poems of Rural Life in Common English. First edition. 8vo: xii + 200 + [iv] pp. (the last four pages an unpaginated publisher's catalogue). In original blue cloth, gilt. Fair, tight copy, on lightly-aged paper, with some spotting to endpapers. Binding with dulled spine and minor spotting. Bookplate of the Rev. English Crooks. Binders... |
Literature | £65.00 |
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William Beattie (1793-1875), M.D., poet and biographer Autograph Letter Signed ('W Beattie') to R. Hepburn. One page, 12mo. Black bordered. Very good and with the verso of the blank second leaf of the bifolium laid down on a leaf detached from an autograph album. Nine lines. He thanks him for 'a brace of splendid grouse - which are now so rare as not to be had for money. It was therefore doubly... |
Literature | £35.00 |