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Leon Trotsky [Trotskyite; W.I.R. Publications; British Communism Party; Communist] Mimeographed and stapled. [i] + iii + 17 pp. Printed on eleven leaves, the first two and last two 26 x 21 cm, and the middle seven leaves 25.5 x 20 cm. Fair, on foxed paper with wear to extremities. It would appear that the leaves of the two articles had been printed previously, and were newly... |
History | £125.00 |
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Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American composer, pianist and conductor Autograph Signature and two black and white Photographs. All three items in very good condition. Clear, bold signature, on a cropped piece of paper three inches by five wide, reading 'Leonard Bernstein | Edinburgh | <'73>'. The first photograph (six and a half inches by eight wide, and with the stamp of the Scottish Tourist Board on the reverse... |
Music and Theatre | £120.00 | |
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Leonard Darwin Typed Letter Signed to [Mary] Scharlieb, 149 Harley Street. Soldier, policitician, economist, eugenicist (1850-1943) and son of Charles Darwin. The recipient Dame Mary Scharlieb (1845-1931) was an early woman doctor. Two pages, quarto. Good, but on slightly discoloured and lightly creased paper, with staple stains to both top left-hand corners. An... |
£120.00 | ||
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Leonard Huxley Autograph Letter Signed to Lewis S. Benjamin. English writer and editor (DNB), son of the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley and father of the novelist Aldous Huxley. One page, 8vo, in good condition. Docketed 'not acknowledged'. 'Having secured a clear evening on May 10th I look forward to attending the dinner of the Titmarsh Club, & beg to... |
Literature | £25.00 | |
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Leonard Huxley Autograph Note Signed, one page, 4to, to D. Christie Tait Biologist and poet (1860-1933). He accepts with pleasure the invitation to preside at the next Conway Memorial Lecture, and wonders when Tait would like a copy of his introductory remarks. |
Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology | £25.00 | |
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Leonard Woolf Empire & Commerce in Africa. A study in economic imperialism Ex lib, involving one small stamp on title and back free endpaper and vestiges of London County Council Education Library bookplate inside front cover, hinge strain inside front cover, some wear to spine, corners bumped, contents good, a better copy than it sounds. Scarce. |
£50.00 | ||
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Commander Robert Amyett Newman (1793-1883), RN Scrapbooks of the ‘last surviving officer of the Flying Squadron of the Trafalgar Fleet’. Sixteen scrapbook volumes, 1836-1883, containing, among a mass of press cuttings over more than 2000 pages, numerous contributions by Newman to newspapers, as well as autograph copies of his letters to the editor of the Naval and Military Gazette under the pseudonym ‘Nauticus’. The newspapers... |
£800.00 | ||
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Lord Esher [Lionel Brett; Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, 4th Viscount Esher (1913-2004), British architect and town-planner [Desmond Dupré (1916-1974), English lutenist] Dupré is thinking of retaining Brett as architect in the rebuilding of a house on an attractive site, and the two items deal with the practicalities. Both signed 'Lionel Brett', and both in fair condition, lightly aged. ONE: TLS. 2pp, 4to, Folded three times. Forty-two lines of text. Addressed... |
£90.00 | ||
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Leopold Rothschild Post Office Telegraph to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer. From the third son (1845-1917) of Baron Lionel de Rothschild to the noted botanist (1843-1928), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (1885-1905). Stamped, printed Post Office telegraph on discoloured high-acidity paper, roughly twenty-centimeters by thirteen centimeters. Mounted on... |
History | £20.00 | |
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Leslie George Cole, 'The Great Levante | FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN ILLUSIONIST' Typed Letter Signed to 'Mr Davis'. Australian magician and escapologist (1892-1978). One page, 8vo. Very good, but with some loss to edge by removal from mount. Letterhead reads 'THIRD WORLD TOUR | The Great Levante | FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN ILLUSIONIST | WITH HIS MAGICAL EXTRAVAGANZA "HOW'S TRICKS" | This Week: [Chelsea Palace, |... |
Music and Theatre | £33.00 |