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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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Byron Webber, novelist One page, 12mo, good condition.He has received an unwelcome letter which prevents him dining with the Drapers, for which he apologises prufusely. |
Literature | £28.00 | |
Paul Bowles [sheet music] Six Preludes for Piano. 4to, 12 pp. On six loose bifoliums. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor spotting on reverse of last leaf (page of advertisements). |
Literature | £28.00 | |
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly (1802-1874), English judge, the last Master of the Rolls to sit in Parliament On slip, 5 x 9.5 cm, cut from the head of a letter. Fair, on lightly-discoloured grey paper. The reverse reads '14 Hyde Park Terrace | 4 Aug 1868 | Sir | I regret that my engagements at the end of September & the beginning <...>', and the reverse reads 'the promotion of Social Service... |
History, Social history | £28.00 | |
R Booker, Sexton, St. John the Evangelist, Waterloo Road, Lambeth On one side of a slip of laid paper, roughly 21 x 8 cm. Printed form for burial in the 'SECOND GROUND.' (amended in manuscript to 'Third'). Gardiner is said to be 'Above [amended from 'Under'] the Age of 10 Years.' Printed charges are for Ground and Bell, Rector, Clerk, Sexton, and Registrar';... |
History, Social history | £28.00 | |
C. H. F. Barrett [Town Clerk, Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras, London] [King George V and Queen Mary] 4to, 1 p. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with chipping and closed tears to extremities. Specifically addressed to the 'District Committee for Ward 6. Comprising the Oakley Square and Ossulston Districts'. Summoning the recipient to the town hall, to deal with an 'Agenda' of six... |
History, Royalty | £28.00 | |
[Edwardian photographs of harbour and lifeboat at New Quay, North Cornwall] The slides, apparently from a newspaper library, are both bound in 8 cm glass squares, with the black and white images themselves in good condition and unfaded. Each carries a manuscript caption in white ink on the black mount. The first slide - 'Harbour, New Quay' - shows a view down into the... |
£28.00 | ||
Milton Rosmer (1881-1971), British actor, film director and screenwriter [Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Ltd] 4to, 1 p. 15 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. In green ink. He is pleased that her 'footsteps are treading in high places', and hopes that this 'leads to as much golden reward as it seems to suggest'. He will see her friend 'Mr. Kennerley', but he cannot be 'encouraging' as... |
Music and Theatre | £28.00 | |
Captain George Lamb (1869-1911), M.D., I.M.S. [Printed paper] Snake-Venoms in relation to Haemolysis. By Captain George Lamb, M.D., I.M.S. 4to, ii + 15 pp. In original printed boards. Text complete and clear. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and spotted boards. Bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, and light stamp of same on front board. Scarce: the only copies on COPAC at the British... |
£28.00 | ||
D. C. Lowber [originally of New Orleans], Liverpool Merchant [American Blackberries, Kittatinny Variety; botanical ephemera] 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Attractive engraving of a blackberry cutting. The second page is headed 'THE AMERICAN BLACKBERRY', and begins 'There is scarcely a more wholesome fruit than this, and one that has been more improved by judicious cultivation on the American side... |
Natural History | £28.00 | |
Captain F. W. Cragg [Francis William Cragg (1882-1924)], M.B., I.M.S. 4to, [ii] + 3 + 56 pp + 4 plates, each with facing page of explanatory text. In original printed boards. Complete and clear. Bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, and light stamp of same on front board. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and spotted boards... |
£28.00 |