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[Robert Buchanan, Edinburgh Bookseller] 4pp., 8vo, disbound, edges sl. frayed, mainly good. It has a selective list from the Catalogue, commences by offering Price 1s. 6d. allowed on First Purchase, giving selling and discounted price (R.B.'s Price) for c.150 titles. COPAC records the NLS copy. |
Book Trade History | £28.00 |
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[The British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC] 17 items, as follows: three photographs, 10 x 9, 16 x 11, 22 x 16cm (i. 14 members of staff captioned News and Newsreel, 40s?; ii. circa 30 people who attended the BBC Staff Dance in 1942; iii. Photo. with stain, Studio view from above, cameras , gantry, sets, and schoolboys posturing in front... |
Social history | £225.00 |
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Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey (1787-1880) Total 12pp., 8vo, remnants of laying down obscuring some letters, mainly clear and legible. Subjects: [1874] Gratitude to correspondent and a woman; two bad falls; Lady Newry setting fire to herself; compliments on his sketches; their fruit continues to abound; notes on happinesss then a cause... |
History | £180.00 |
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Joseph Craven of the Middle Temple, and of the North-Eastern Circuit Barrister-at-Law. A Handbook for High Bailiffs & Bailiffs of County Courts pp.xviii, 102, red cloth gt, minor rubbing, staining of endpapers, mainly good condition+ COPAC lists copies at Oxford and the NLS. |
Law | £56.00 |
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Albert Coates (1882-1953), English classical conductor and composer, born in St Petersburg Autograph Signature of the English classical conductor and composer Albert Coates. On rectangle removed from autograph album. In good condition. Reads 'Albert Coates | 1929'. |
£12.00 | ||
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Bernard Rackham, sometime Keeper of the Dept of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum i Two Autograph Letters Signed Bernard Rackham, ceramics expert, to Roderick D. Mackenzie. Total 5pp., 12mo, minimal marking, good condition. [Letter One, 22nd] He discusses his correspondent's offer of a gift through the [National Art Collection] Fund three Chinese ridge-tiles of the Ming Dynasty. He says that they would like to examine the tiles before formal acceptance and would... |
Art and Architecture | £56.00 |
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B.L. Farjeon, novelist Autograph Note Signed "B/L/ Farjeon", novelist, to A. Williams of the "Liverpool Mercury". One page, 12mo, good condition, saying that illness and the consequences of an accident have prevented him responding courteously to the "notice of my Xmas story in Liverpool Mercury". |
£35.00 | ||
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Charles Coborn [Charles Whitton McCallum] (1852-1945), Anglo-Scottish musical hall star Black and white studio photograph, postcard format (13 x 8.5 cm). On leaf removed from autograph album. Good, on shiny photographic paper, with margin making dimensions of image 12 x 8 cm, captioned in bottom right-hand corner 'PHOTO | LAIRD | ABERDEEN'. Showing a kindly-looking Coborn seated in... |
£25.00 | ||
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Dame Anna Neagle (1904-1986), English singer and stage and screen actress Autograph Signature of the English actress Anna Neagle. On rectangle of paper, laid down on leaf removed from autograph album. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. Reads 'Good wishes | Anna Neagle.' With two newspaper cuttings carrying photographic portraits, one loose and one laid down to the left of the signature. |
£15.00 | ||
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'John William Calcraft' [stage name of John William Cole (c.1793-1870)], actor, dramatist and lessee of the Theatre Royal, Dublin Both letters 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Cole's handwriting is difficult. The recipient is not named. The first letter, 34 lines long, concerns a bill which Cole has drawn on the recipient of the letter. It is coming due, and he is uncertain whether it is for £90 or £100. He asks... |
£45.00 |