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Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977), immensely popular author of thrillers and occult novels [Frank C. Papé [Francis Cheyne Papé] (1878-1972), artist; G. Eric Gordon Tombe (murdered in 1923)] See Wheatley's entry in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged. The aquatint bookplate, in black and white, is 10.5 x 14.5 cm (plate dimensions 9 x 12.5 cm). It was designed by Wheatley himself, and is everything you would hope from a writer in his field. A naked Wheatley, with slicked-... |
£75.00 | |
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Cecil Day-Lewis [C. Day-Lewis] (1904-1972), Anglo-Irish poet and British Poet Laureate who wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake [D. Kilham Roberts, Society of Authors, London] See his entry in the Oxford DNB. An unillustrated post card, apart from the letterhead. Addressed, with stamp and Paddington postmark, to ‘Dr William Roberts / Briarlea / Mortimer / Berks.’ The message reads: ‘I vote for Osbert S. [i.e. Osbert Sitwell] as next chairman Soc. Authors [etc?] / Yrs... |
£50.00 | |
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Compton Mackenzie [Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie] (1883-1972), Anglo-Scottish writer See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items are in good condition, each with his firm signature ‘Compton Mackenzie’. Each is 1p, 4to, in good condition, folded for postage.Despite being scored through, one can see that the first and last salutation are addressed to ‘Mrs Raymont’, and the... |
£120.00 | |
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Cecil Day-Lewis [C. Day-Lewis] (1904-1972), Anglo-Irish poet and British Poet Laureate who also wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake [Geoffrey Parsons (1910-1987), poet] See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient is presumably the lyricist Peter Claremont Parsons. Plain postcard, apart from letterhead. In good condition, lightly aged. Image on request.Postmarked (from Paddington), stamped and addressed to ‘Geoffrey Parsons esq. / 22 Westbourne Park Road / W.... |
£80.00 | |
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Auberon Waugh (‘Bron’, 1939-2001), journalist and novelist, son of Evelyn Waugh [A. K. Chesterton (1899-1973), editor of ‘Candour’, founder of League of Empire Loyalists] See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. If, as Geoffrey Wheatcroft states in Waugh’s, he ‘liked to play the reactionary’, these two letters show that he started playing the game during his schooldays. They are both in good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Both carry two punch... |
£90.00 | |
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Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), RA, Victorian Gothic Revival architect of Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum,[Rev. Herbert William Sneyd-Kynnersley, headmaster of St George's, Ascot] See his entry in the Oxford DNB. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Sneyd-Kinnersley is the headmaster who is alleged to have subjected a naked seven-year-old Winston Churchill to repeated beatings. 3pp, 12mo. With mourning border. Letterhead (no doubt designed by Waterhouse himself) in... |
£65.00 | |
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‘F. Anstey’, pseudonym of the English humorist Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) [John Gideon Wilson (1876-1963), proprietor of the prestigious London booksellers J. & E. Bumpus.] See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, on the first leaf of bifolium. (There are extensive pencil annotations in a later hand on the second leaf.) Very neatly written. Addressed to ‘J. G. Wilson Esqre.’ and signed ‘Anstey Guthrie’. He has ‘much pleasure’ in answering... |
£80.00 | |
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Winston S. Churchill [and] Earnan de Blaghd [8]pp., 8vo, stapled and unbound as issued, staple rusty, edges sunned and worn, text complete. Not known if it originally had wraps (see note on no other copy found). It commences, For some time past a campaign of deliberate misrepresentation has been carried on by the enemies of the State in... |
£350.00 | |
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The Peace with Ireland Council, London, founded by Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck, with Basil Williams as treasurer and Margaret Buckmaster as honorary secretary The Peace with Ireland Council was founded in November 1920 by Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck, following a meeting at the House of Commons by a group concerned at the deteriorating situation in Ireland following the introduction of the Black and Tans, and spurred on by the treatment of former MP... |
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T. S. Frank Battersby [Thomas Stephenson Francis Battersby (1855-1933)], M.A., K.C., author; with preface by Sir Edward H. Carson, M.P.; Unionist Associations of Ireland, Dublin and Belfast From the Sylvia and Robert Lynd papers. Scarce: three copies on JISC and in NLI. The Lynd copies of the first and third editions of the work to which this is a response are offered separately. 76pp (vi + 66 + [4]), 12mo. Stapled. In printed card wraps with vertical red, white and blue bands on... |
£80.00 |
