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Gabrielle Enthoven (1868 -1950), playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage. [Gabrielle Enthoven, playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist etc] Typed Note Signed boldly Gabrielle Enthoven to Frank Gielgud, father of John Gielgud, overrated actor, praising a book he had presented to her collection. One page, 4to, fold mark, good condition. Text: Thank you so very much for the really adorable little book 'Theatrical Ashes' bound with the wood from the burnt Covent Garden Stage which you have presented to my collection. \| It is a most valuable little memento and I shall show it in the Covent...		£100.00
Thomas William Jex-Blake (1832?1915) Anglican priest and educationalist {Rugby School]. [Thomas William Jex-Blake, Anglican priest and educationalist; Rugby School] Autograph Letter Signed T.W, Jex Blake to My dear Salt [Thomas Salt, banker and Conservative politician.] concerning Rugby School chapel. Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, minor staining, good condition. Text: Rugby School Chapel was consecrated. Testes adsunt [witnesses] Anstey & Buckett. \| The offertory money is given \| 1. (and mainly) to the Parish Clegy \| 2. To Birmingham Hospital \| 3. To local medical men for Sick Poor. \| It...		£50.00
Charles Earle Raven (1885-1964), Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, and Master of Christ's College [ Canon John Charles Fulton Hood (1884-1964), Rector of Keighley ] [ Charles Earle Raven, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. ] Two Autograph Letters Signed (the first 'C. E. Raven' and the second 'Charles E. Raven') to Canon J. C. F. Hood, on 'the vacancy at Kegworth' following E. R. P. Devereux's death. Each letter 1p., 4to. Both in good condition, lightly-aged. The first letter begins: 'The Livings Committee of this College has been considering how best to fill the vacancy at Kegworth caused by the death of Canon Devereux [Edward Robert Price Devereux (d.1941), Canon of Winchester Cathedral]....		£80.00
[Married Women's Property Committee] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism] Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Proof Copy of Tenth Annual Report of the Married Women's Property Committee, presented at the Annual Meeting, February 4th, 1880. [1] + 16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy of this proof on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. Three copies of the report on OCLC WorldCat, and none on COPAC or at the British Library.		£250.00
Jack Pulman (1925-1979), British screenwriter [ Ronald Duncan (1914-1982), author; Jack Cardiff (1914-2009), film director; The Writers' Guild of Great Britain; 'The Girl on a Motorcycle' ] [ 'The Girl on a Motorcycle', 1968 film starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull. ] Material relating to arbitration by Jack Pulman, for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, of dispute over credits between Jack Cardiff and Ronald Duncan. Six items relating to Pulman's arbitration, including 'a careful breakdown [by him] of scene continuity of the Bourguignon script, the Duncan script and the final shooting script', these three breakdowns (Items Two to Four below) totalling 8pp. In his four-page arbitration, Pulman gives a...	Social history	£250.00
Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels [ Pamphlet ] Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels. The following reports, papers, plans &c may be obtained at the Office, 7 Whitehall, London. [ With related material, total 3 items ] ITEM ONE: Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels, Pamphlet, 4pp. 12mo, fold marks, good condition, unbound, listing reports, papers, plans &c to be found at the Office, 7, Whitehall, London; ITEM 2: The Co-operative Society (instituted. A.D...		£80.00
Edward Walford [ (1823–1897), magazine editor and a compiler of educational, biographical, genealogical and touristic works] [Edward Walford, writer etc; Buckle of 'The Times'] Autograph Note Signed E Walford to [G.E. Buckle, editor of 'The Times'] about Mill Hill and Harrow Speech Days. WITH: Buckle's Autograph Note Signed G.E.Buckle, responding. One page, 12mo, dusted but text clear and complete. Walford asks May I represent you, as hitherto, at the Speech Day [underlined] at Harrow on the 6th of July [underlined from 'Harrow'] and also at Mill Hill School on the Prize Day, the 28th inst. [underlined from 'day'], when the prizes are to...		£56.00
Charles Thomas Courtney Lewis [ C. T. Courtney Lewis ] (b.1856), English writer on art [Le Blond & Co., London fine art publishers] [Charles Thomas Courtney Lewis.] Autograph Letter Signed ('C. T Courtney Lewis') to an unnamed recipient, regarding his two books on the publishers Le Blond & Co. 1p., narrow 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. He explains that he has 'not written since my Vol in 1920 any Book on Le Blond except the one just published of which I enclose the Prospectus & do not contemplate any other'. He points out the differences between the two volumes...		£80.00
'Richard Rowley' [pseudonym of the Ulster poet Richard Valentine Williams (1877-1947), proprietor of the Mourne Press]; Lady Mabel Annesley (1881-1959), illustrator and artist R. V. Williams and the Mourne Press.] Signed ('Richard Rowley.') and inscribed ('R. V. Williams') copy of 'The Big Grey Man \| A Legend of Mourne', with 'Illustrations after woodcuts by Lady Mabel Annesley'. [12]pp, landscape folio. Sewn with red thread. The words 'The Big Grey Man' on cover and title-page in red ink, rest of pamphlet in black ink. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. A 48-line poem, in eight six-line stanzas, spread over three rectos, signed at end 'Richard Rowley.' Inscribed...		£320.00
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), English poet [Alfred Noyes, English poet.] Autograph Card Signed to 'Miss Meugens', granting permission to make a version for the blind of his 'Torch-Bearers'. In good condition, lightly-aged, with thin strip from stub to one edge of address side of card. Message reads: 'It will give me great pleasure for you to copy the 2nd. volume of the Torch-Bearers, as you suggest, for the Blind. \| With my best wishes, \| Alfred Noyes.'		£35.00