Latest additions

Author, Title, Summary	Price
Dannie Abse, poet (1923-2014) [Dannie Abse, poet and physician] Typewritten text of his poem The Wife of Columbus with Autograph Note Signed Dannie toHunter [Hunter Davies, author and journalist] referring to the poem. One page, sm. fol., fold marks, minor staining, mainly good condition. Text of poem as published version. Note as follows, after address, Dear Hunter, my doubts about this poem have increased even further since our chat. \| Best, Dannie.	£50.00
John Betjeman (1906-1984), English Poet Laureate [John Betjeman, Poet] Postcard with Typed Note UNSIGNED, with manuscript additions in Betjeman's hand. to Hunter Davies, author and journalist. Postcard, good condition. Typed text with MS adds in square brackets: 7 unrecognised wonders of London are the interior of Holy Trinity [Somerset House], Sloane Sreet (locked). St.Erkenwald's Church, Southend-on-Sea [deleted]; the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. I...	£75.00
[Photograph; Egyptian Army Sports 1906] [Photograph; Egyptian Army Sports 1906] Panoramic Photograph Entitled Egyptian Army Sports at Abbassia Cairo - Ap[ril 1906 Panoramic Photograph entitled Egyptian Army Sports at Abbassia Cairo - April 1906, 28.5 x 15.7cms, partly laid down on somewhat grubby album leaf, 28 x 25cms. See Image for details.	£200.00
[John Thelwall, radical] Charles Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons. [Charles Kemble, actor; John Thelwall, radical] Autograph Letter in the Third Person to Mr Thelwall, gently declining an Address (no doubt political) by Thelwall. Two pages (one leaf),18.5 x 14cms, left edge showing signs of being tipped on to something, text mainly clear and apparently complete, as follows: Mr Charles Kemble begs to return the best Thanks of the Committee of Management to Mr Thelwall for the kind offer of the occasional Address, which...	£220.00
[Beverley Sisters; Billy Wright, footballer] Joy Beverley (Wright) [Beverley Sisters; Billy Wright, footballer] Substantial Autograph Ltter Signed Joy Beverley Wright to Hunter Davies, author and journalist, castigating him for false but amusing/interesting statements in his interview with her. Two pages, cr.8vo, fold marks, good condition, clear handwriting. Thanks you for having the courtesy to write. However, I just cannot allow you to think for a moment that I accept your explanation for misquoting me throughout the piece. You even deceive yourself [dotted line under] into...	£120.00
[Max Beerbohm] John Drinkwater, Poet and Dramatist [[Max Beerbohm] John Drinkwater, Poet and Dramatist] Apparently Unpublished humorous verse reported by Drinkwater as by Max Beerbohm about contemporaneous writers (Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie, Sims, Clement Shorter) and others. One page, 26 x 20cm, pronounced fold marks, small hole not affecting the text, card backing half the page, top edge stained with remnants of backing[?], text clear and complete. Entitled Lines Written in Depreciation, Commences: Just as a play by Aeschylus or Ibsen \| Doesn't inspire one to...	£950.00
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist, comparative anatomist, paleontologist, first Director of Natural History Museum, opponent of Charles Darwin [Richard Owen, palaeontologist who coined the term ?Dinosaur?] UNSIGNED Draft Autograph Letter to your Lordship (prob. Lord John Russell (see note below; a covering letter), apparently about a controversial YMCA lecture. About his Lecture On Some Instances of the Power of God manifested in his Animal Creation which was perhaps a side-swipe at Darwin?. Two pages, 12mo, some staining and edged with sellotape, but text is a scrawl and occasionally hard to interpret, including the loss of a couple of words under a...	£650.00
[Malcolm Campbell, racing motorist and motoring journalist] General Rubber Company Ltd and the Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Ltd [Malcolm Campbell's signature; Printed with MS. additions] An Agreement [...] Between the General Rubber Company Limited and the Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Limited [8]pp., fol., one blank leaf, fold mark down middle, good condition. The document gives the terms of the agreement, including (1a) the sale of The shares and interests of the Vendors of and in the Companies set out in the Schedule [...] and/or other interests of the Vendors in all other foreign...	£120.00
Queen Victoria [Military Rank; Land Forces] [Queen Victoria [Military Rank; Land Forces]] Document Signed Victoria RI appointing Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart as an officer (2nd Lieut.) in the Land Forces. Document, one leaf, fold marks, good condition, 40 x 30cm. See Image. Certificates illustrating Urquhart's military career in Inda are also available.	£250.00
[Edmond Becquerel & others; International Congress on Weights, Measures and Coins June 1867 [Becquerel & others; Weights, Measures and Coins] 36 Signatures of attendees at the International Conference of Weights, Measures and Coins One page from an Album, 28 x 23cm, edges frayed, some staining but signatures clear. A vandal has however cut out and detached the signature of the President, Prince Napoleon and Mathiew[?], President of Committee, so lost. Thirty six distinguished signatories survive, led by Edmond Becquerel...	£420.00

Advanced Search

Email enquiry

View your shopping cart.

Newsletters

Email updates