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Henry Vincent, Chartist etc [see Note below] One page, 12mo, good condition. Text: Next Monday and Friday I am engaged at Hastings - and on the following Monday at Evesham in Worcestershire so cannot do as your wish- My time is all occupied [subscription] tonight I am [in] Lewes-. Note: Henry Vincent (10 May 1813 ? 29 December 1878) was an... |
£90.00 | |
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Olivier Messiaen [Olivier Eugene Prosper Charles Messiaen (1908 - 1992) French composer, organist, and ornithologist] Printed Wraps cream coloured, Titlepage, [pp.4], blank then advt page, good condition. INSCRIBED by Messiaen on titlepage as follows: A Douglas Dorrington, Tres amicalement - | Olivier Messiaen | 7 decembre 1980-. See Image. Note: The title refers to Papua New Guinea, and the thematic material... |
£200.00 | |
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Gabrielle Enthoven (1868 -1950), playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage. 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 | |
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Wolf Mankovitz [Cyril Wolf Mankowitz (1924 ? 1998)] writer, playwright and screenwriter. [Wolf Mankovitz, writer, playwright and screenwriter] Signed Photograph Wolf Mankovitz. Photograph, Signed, 20 x 25Cms, good condition. See Image. |
£45.00 | |
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Virgil Thomson, American Composer Five items in good conditon, including: A. Two Typed Letters Signed, one page each, one (9 April1988) just saying he'd be home and giving contact details; the other (2 May 1988) thanking O'Connor for a list of pieces (on which he comments) and discusses Gavin Henderson [English arts... |
£250.00 | |
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[Royal Signatures] The Princesses Louise and Beatrice, daughters of Queen Victoria, AND the Duke of Argyll, Louisa's husband, former Governor-General of Canada Paper, 22 x 12.5cms, good condition. See Image. See Wikipedia (under Princess Louisa) for relations between these parties. |
£120.00 | |
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Thomas William Jex-Blake (1832?1915) Anglican priest and educationalist {Rugby School]. 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 | |
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[Initials only], See Image [Author not identified; H. Harris??See Note A.][Charles Darwin; On the Origin of Species] Manuscript, Initialled by Author, 6pp., 4to, two bifoliums, good condition. SEE IMAGE FOR FULL TEXT. The essay commences with a reference to Charles Darwin, Origin having been published a few years before; I suppose that animal life - supplied and controlled by the spirit of God (Gen[esis] I.2... |
£550.00 | |
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[Concerts at the Front] Lena Ashwell, actress and theatre manager and producer. Two Pages, 4to, fold marks, sl. crumpled in part, but text good and clear. Text: She and her team have arranged a meeting at the Theatre Royal Manchester to interest people in the work of the Concerts at the Front. | For over a yer these Concert Parties, which go out through the Y.M.C.A., have... |
£120.00 | |
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William Ramsay, Scottish Chemist, discoverer of noble gases Note: Sir William Ramsay used electric discharge tubes to isolate argon, neon, krypton, and xenon, observing their distinct light spectra [AI] See Note d. below. Two pages, oblong 12mo, good condition. Dear Major Cardew, | I have just see Readman, about whom I spoke to you in connection wiith... |
£600.00 |
