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Charles Williams [Charles Walter Stansby Williams] (1886-1945), poet and author, member with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien of Oxford group ‘The Inklings’ [Ruth Spalding (1913-2009), author on BBC] [Charles Williams, with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien one of the ‘Inklings’.] Typescript of Ruth Spalding’s BBC radio programme ‘Portrait of Charles Williams’, produced by Terence Tiller and featuring T. S. Eliot, Christopher Fry and others. Williams, who has an entry in the Oxford DNB, became a close friend of Spalding and her sister Anne after lodging with their parents during the Second World War. The present item is a transcription, made and printed out around the 1980s, of the 1961 radio programme, on one side each of 34...		£180.00
[Victorian London street ballad; broadsheet; handbill; death] Illustrated handbill poem, a street ballad entitled 'A New Song, entitled, Dear Peggy.' Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 230 x 90 mm. On pitted, aged paper. Text complete. Approximate 30 x 50 mm piece torn away from top right-hand corner, causing loss to small illustration at head, which appears to be a crude woodcut of a woman lying in a coffin. The poem...	Literature	£38.00
[Victorian political satire; Liberal Party; John Bright; Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, MP for Cambridge 1847-1852, 1854-1857; Sir Hugh Edward Adair of Flixton Hall, MP for Ipswich 1847-74] Handbill carrying two satirical political poems, 'A New W[h]ig Song, To a Barbarous OLD Tune.' and 'The Ballad of the Burgesses, To BOBBING ADAIR. \| Tune - "ROBIN ADAIR." ' Two pages, printed on the recto of the first leaf and verso of the second of a yellow wove-paper bifolium. Leaf dimensions 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Grubby and creased, but with text clear and complete. The first poem, 'A New W[h]ig Song', begins 'In our town there's a street, with a chapel and shop, \|...	History	£180.00
[Victorian street ballad; broadsheet; handbill; death; nineteenth-century folk song] Illustrated poem, a street ballad entitled 'The Wheel of Fortune'. On one side of a piece of thin wove paper, roughly 260 x 95 mm. Aged and creased, with internal 25 mm closed tear affecting four words of text (all of which can be completed from the context) repaired on blank reverse with archival tape. Otherwise text and illustration clear and entire. Small (...	Literature	£56.00
[Victorian street ballad; handbill poem; street ballad; broadsheet; nineteenth-century folk song] Illustrated Victorian handbill poem, a street ballad entitled 'The Golden Glove.' Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 280 x 95 mm. Aged, creased and spotted, with chipping to extremities, but with text and illustration clear and entire. Curious small (roughly 40 x 65 mm) crude illustration at head, showing dove with olive branch and acorn. Forty-line poem...	Literature	£56.00
[VINTAGE BICYCLES] [Auction catalogue by Woodhams and Son of Havelock Road, Hastings, and Stonehouse Farm, Hollington, headed 'BEXHILL, \| DE LA WARR \| CYCLING BOULEVARD. \| CLOSE OF SEASON SALE. \| CATALOGUE OF \| 63 \| High Grade New and Secondhand \| BICYCLES'.] 8vo. 4 pages, in original pink printed wraps, discoloured to light blue on the outside. In very good condition, one vertical crease from catalogue being folded on itself, and with negligible rust staining from staple. The sale comprised 'Lady's and Gentleman's Single, Tandem, Roadster and Road...		£75.00
[W?.] Parsons. Invoice to Jeffery, bookseller. One page, c.6 x 4", trimmed or part of page, edges discoloured, spike-hole, but text clear, possibly incomplete. "Mr Jeffery willl please to pay for the following Books Viz./ Plutarch's Lives £1-2/ Grose's[?] Ethics --6[s]/ F[?]uller's Thinking 4[s]/ ,Sketches?> -2[s]/ Bi[e?]ntons[sic]...	Book Trade History	£45.00
[Walter] Brandon Thomas one autograph note signed to Mrs [Elizabeth] Merivale (née Pitman), wife of the playwright Herman Charles Merivale (1839-1906), English actor, playwright, songwriter (1856-1914). One page, 12mo. "Dear Mrs. Merivale, / I enclose two stalls & hope you will enjoy a good laugh that is all I can you. / So glad to see you & Mr. Merivale looking so well today". Attached by blank verso to blank second leaf, which bears...	Music and Theatre	£20.00
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919-1979), successively headmaster of Bradfield College, Berkshire, and Fettes College, Edinburgh, alleged child sex abuser and flagellomaniac [Philip Dosse (1925-1980)]] [Anthony Chenevix-Trench, flagellomaniac headmaster of Bradfield College and Fettes College, Edinburgh.] Autograph Letter Signed to Philip Dosse of 'Books and Bookmen'. Chenevix-Trench’s entry in the Oxford DNB discusses his achievements, as well as his ‘unhealthy addiction to corporal punishment, a trait later exposed by one of his former pupils, Paul Foot, in the satirical magazine Private Eye’. At least one of his former pupils (Nicholas Fraser) alleges that...		£45.00
[White, Cochrane and Co. , booksellers [BBTI 1812; Maxted 1812-1816], publishers [see BLC] [Printed Circular with MS. additions from the "Trustees of the late Firm of White, Cochrane and Co. of Fleet Street, Booksellers" to the Rt Hon Lord Glenbervie. One page, 4to, good condition. The printed circular is a request for the "early settlement" of an outstanding bill, adding that "A Catalogue of the whole of the extensive and valuable Stock of the late Partnership, is now published; and each article will be sold, for ready money, with a Discount...	Book Trade History	£120.00