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Murray Kash, Canadian-born British actor, announcer and author, compere of the BBC television programmes 'It Pays To Be Ignorant', starring Michael Bentine (1957) Autograph Signature on card, addressed to autograph collector Albert Millward. One page. Dimensions of card roughly three and a half inches by four and a half. Right-hand side and bottom edge of card cropped. 'Autograph of' printed at head, and beneath this 'To Albert Millwa | With very best wi | Murray Kash'. The right-hand edges of the letter 'K' in Kash's name extend... |
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Nana Sir Ofori Atta (1881-1943), Member of Executive Council of Gold Coast (Ghana) Autograph Letter Signed ('Ofori /') to 'Mr. Parsons'. Written in green ink on one side of a piece of watermarked paper roughly 20 x 12.5 cm. Nineteen lines of text. Fair, on lightly-aged paper with a couple of pin holes. Heavily stylised signature with long gap between the 'O' and 'f' of 'Ofori'. He thanks him for the letter, and is 'very pleased... |
Travel and Topography | £35.00 |
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Nicolas Bentley Autograph Postcard Signed to Kenneth Bredon, of Bredon's Bookshop in Brighton. One page, very good. Postcard illustration of Marie Taglioni. In Bentley's distinctive neat hand. 'If & when Angus & Robertson's traveller shows you a book called Dead Funny, illus. by Bill Tidy, pubs. Ask & Grant, I hope you'll feel compelled to place a huge order: The Grant is... |
Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Literature | £35.00 | |
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Noel Coward (Sir Noel Pierce Coward, 1899-1973), English actor, playwright and song writer On leaf of light blue paper, 8.5 x 12 cm, removed from an autograph album. Very good. |
Music and Theatre | £35.00 | |
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Oliver Armstrong Fry (b.c.1855), editor of 'Vanity Fair' from 1889 to 1904 Autograph Letter Signed ('Oliver A. Fry') to unnamed male correspondent. 12mo, 1 p. On first leaf of a bifolium. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. In reply to the recipient's note, by which he is 'much worried', Fry does not know that he can offer him 'any more than the few short notes <?> for us in "Men & Women of the Times". Little is known... |
Book Trade History | £35.00 | |
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P. H. Lulham, poet Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed collector. 2pp., 8vo, good condition. "I am very sorry to hear that you think the book has gone wrong - I certainly posted a copy to the address you gave me, specially remembering the fact - because I unfortunately forgot to autograph the book as you had asked me to do." He asks him to make enquiries and... |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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P. Wytsman, science bookseller, Brussels [entomology] Wytsman's catalogue no. 9, in French, titled 'Entomologie'. 8vo, 8 pp. Unbound. An unopened leaf, folded twice to make four leaves. Text clear and complete. On aged and worn paper. |
Natural History | £35.00 |
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Patagonia Long cutting from unnamed newspaper headed 'THE PATAGONIAN MISSION'. The piece relates to 'the death by starvation of Commander A. Gardiner and the whole of the party sent out by the Patagonian Missionary Society in September 1850, to Picton Island, the southern extremity of America'. '3 columns, each 13½ inches by 2¾, attached to a piece of grey paper, and a... |
Travel and Topography | £35.00 | |
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Pierre-François Eugène Cortambert (1805-1881), French geographer, Conservator of the Geographic Section of the Bibliothèque Nationale 12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium, addressed, with circular postmark in black ink, on otherwise-blank second leaf of bifolium. Correcting 'une petite erreur' which he committed in 'le Comte rendu de la dernière Séance de la Société de Géographie', and which he wishes changed in the report which will be... |
French, Travel and Topography | £35.00 | |
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Prince Adolphus Frederick (1774-1850), Duke of Cambridge, son of King George III [St Mary's Hospital, Paddington] Autograph Letter Signed ('Adolphus') concerning the newly-completed St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. 12mo, 3 pp. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with a little damage to the four corners of the second leaf caused by removal from mount. Thirty-five lines of text. Clear and complete. He has been afforded 'very great satisfaction' by the announcement that the Hospital 'is now so nearly completed' that... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £35.00 |
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