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Rosaline Masson Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson. Paper dimensions roughly four and a half inches by one and a quarter. Very good. Taken from autograph album and mounted on larger piece of cream paper. Reads 'Yours very affectionately | Rosaline Masson.' |
£20.00 | |
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Sir Hugh Walpole Autographed Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. New Zealand-born English author (1884-1941), best know for his series of 'Herries Chronicles'. Paper dimensions roughly four and a half inches by five inches. Folded once (not affecting signature). Mounted on larger piece of cream paper. From Autograph album. Reads 'With the best | wishes of |... |
£23.00 | |
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William Black Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Scottish novelist (1841-98). Paper dimensions roughly four inches by one and a half. Very good. From autograph album. Mounted on larger piece of cream paper. Reads 'Yours veryy faithfully | William Black.' |
£22.00 | |
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Sir Reginald Blomfield The Touchstone of Architecture. Pages: viii + 245. No jacket. Spine somewhat grubby, but good tight copy of attractively printed book. One inch closed tear to half-title. Collection of eleven essays 'approached from the point of view of architecture', including 'State-aided Training in Art in England', 'Atavism in Art', 'The... |
£35.00 | |
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Sotheby's Wraps, illustrated, 5 June 1961, inscribed by the scholar C.E. Wright who has noted prices and purchasers beside 9 items which interested him. He also notes that Cherry-Garrard originally paid £5000 for a missal. A flick through the pages throws up Back, Bligh, Dalrymple, Scoresby for polar... |
£50.00 | |
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[TELEVISION EPHEMERA] General Electrics. An irregular rectangle of paper, roughly five inches by three and a half, with the image of a 1950's television printed on one side in light and dark brown. In good condition, with negligible glue-staining to front. The screen, roughly 1 1/2 inches by 2 inches, is cut away, with the image of a... |
£35.00 | |
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[The Manchester Guardian] The dethronement of Stalin full text of the Khrushchev speech. 33 pages, 8vo. In original printed wraps, with cartoon of Khrushchev on front wrap. In good condition, with slight spotting and staining to front wrap. Rust stains from staples and from paperclip at heads of front wrap and first leaf. Offsetting to inside of front wrap from newspaper cutting of... |
£50.00 | |
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Dr. Rudolf Urbantschitsch Psychoanalyst (1879-1965). 46 pages, 8vo. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. In original brown printed wraps. Paper browning and with some wear to first and last leaves, and some loss, wear and closed tears to wraps. |
£65.00 | |
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Golfing ephemera. All 12mo. Dulwich and Sydenham Golf Club, Rules & Regulations and List of Members (1940); ibid., Rules, etc. (1950, 1952,1962, 1977)); ibid. Directory & Fixture Diary, 1894-1994. With score cards (undated but with 50s phone numbers) from Queen's Park Golf Links (Bournemouth), Selsdon... |
£75.00 | |
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Great Britain, Act of Parliament, George II 24 pages, 16mo. In poor condition: grubby and with wear to extremities and closed tear to second leaf. Pencil marks to verso of last leaf. Stitched into grubby, worn vellum binding, bearing pencil and ink notes at front and rear. |
£50.00 |
