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Scott Goddard (c.1895-1965), British musicologist The collection as a whole is in good condition on aged paper. ITEM ONE: 90-page typescript headed 'II | ANTECEDENT', beginnning 'It has become a commonplace of musicology, at least in this country, that the first two decades of the Twentieth Century show an immense increase of creative activity... |
Music and Theatre | £400.00 | |
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Sebastian Carter, printer and typographer (born 1941) LETTER: One page, quarto. Somewhat aged and creased. An attractive item in Carter's disciplined calligraphic hand. A damning assessment of Craig's son Edward Anthony Craig ('Edward Carrick', 1905-98). '[...] If you know him, you presumably also know what you are taking on! We had some dealings... |
Book Trade History, Music and Theatre, Printing History | £60.00 | |
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Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti British scientist (1864-1930); patented the Ferranti alternator, 1882; chief electrician to the London Electric Supply Corporation. Both items one page, quarto. Both very good, though dusty; one with small pinholes in one corner. Both bearing the R.S.A. stamp, and one docketed. ITEM ONE: He has... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £95.00 | |
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Seiji Ozawa (born 1935), Japanese conductor Good, in felt-tip pen on piece of blue paper, roughly 8 x 13 cms, with the slightest discoloration at extremities. |
Music and Theatre | £23.00 | |
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Frances Anne Walker Dunlop (1730–1815), of Dunlop, friend of Robert Burns [ Frances Dunlop, friend of Burns ] Autograph Letter Signed to a Charles Macintosh of Glasgow Two pages, 4to, bifolium, staining and aging, but text clear and complete, discussing friendship and familial relationships at length, commiserating on the sufferings and death of "Nanny", and asserting the importance of their relationship and friendship. Note: A. Macintosh is possibly the... |
Literature, Miscellaneous | £150.00 | |
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J.F. W. Herschel [ Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (1792–1871), mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer ] One page, 12mo, good condition. A difficult hand. "I send by book post some more Copy for Part 1 of 'Light' in Good Words & to morrow or next day you shall have the rest - which [will make?] somewhere about 12 or 13 more Columns more of letterpress. | The figures are [?][open?] so that they... |
£300.00 | ||
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[Anne Cobden-Sanderson; suffragette; Hammersmith Publishing Company] Obl.12mo, 20 x 13cm, foxing but text legible. Dated 6 Oct 1903 with details in Anne Cobden-Sanderson's hand (as other handwritten detail) of two items purchased by Barker, both by J.W. Mackail and printed at the Chiswick Press: Socialism & Politics and Parting of the Ways. I've found no... |
Book Trade History | £180.00 |
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Serge Leslie. Autograph Letter Signed to Ifan Kyrle Fletcher. Ballet. Fletcher was a bookseller specialising in Performing Arts and founder of the Society for Theatre Research. One page, 4to, chipped, four small tears, fold mark, punch-holes, small hole in centre, but complete and legible. He thanks Fletcher for submitting a print to "us" (Leslie and Niles... |
Book Trade History, Music and Theatre | £120.00 | |
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Seumas O'Kelly Original brown wraps, chipped, dusted and soiled, titlepage partly soiled and dusted, otherwise good. Scarce: COPAC lists copies at BL, NLS, Oxford, and NLW. AddAll only lists the 1971 reprint. |
Literature, Music and Theatre | £200.00 | |
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Seumas O'Sullivan Original mauve wraps, sunned and creased, endpapers soiled, contents slightly marked but mainly good. INSCRIBED by Robert Lynd, author and nationalist, in Irish, Riobard ua Flynn. Scarce: COPAC lists copies at NLS, Cambridge, BL. |
Literature, Music and Theatre | £100.00 |