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[Protestant Cuttings] Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine (1878-1950), Vicar of St Paul's, Darlington, who performed the 1937 wedding ceremony of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Jardine, dubbed by the press 'the Poor Man's Pastor', travelled to France to perform the ceremony. As a result, his vestry committee resigned and he resigned his living, emigrating to the United States. The cuttings are laid down on 19pp of a Victorian folio volume, in superior brown calf... |
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[Nineteenth-Century Periodical, Prospectus and Issue] Four pages, 8vo, good condition. Price one farthing. It includes an obituary of William Roscoe, a facsimile of the playbill in which the late Mrs Siddons was announced to sing!, notes on The Arts, Metropolitan Weekly Return (including Seduced females 1000), and Stocks (Impudence, open . . .... |
£80.00 | |
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Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor Autograph Letter Signed,one page, sm.fol., fold marks, tiny chip, good +, with small folded card, 10 x 15cm, with signed by Keneally and docketed by Hunter Davies. Text of ALS: Dear Sir Hunter | I was delighted to read of your elevation to Bath or Garter or Thistle in the last issue of Punch [... |
£250.00 |
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Sir Stanier Porten (baptised 1716 ? 1789) government official and diplomat [appointed keeper of the state papers at Whitehall in 1774, and from 1782 until Nov.1786 commissioner of the customs] One page, 4to, bifolium, fold marks, good condition. Text: As a Messenger will be dispatched from the East India House oveland to the East Indies in very few days, Lord Hillsborough has deferred till then communicating to Sir Edward Hughes the intelligence about the Illustre & St Michel [... |
£220.00 | |
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Samuel Morley (1809 ? 1886), woollen manufacturer and political radical, philanthropist, Congregationalist dissenter, abolitionist, and statesman. One page, 12mo, black-bordered, residue of laying own on reverse, minor staining, closed tear on fold, text partially obscured by annotation presumably by the recipient, Rev. S.C. Baker. Text: Your reference to old times compels me, altho' sorely pressed, to send you a small cheque as an... |
£38.00 | |
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Richard Condon, novelist [Manchurian Candidate etc] One page, folio, 22 x 35cms, a trifle battered but clear and complete, with three minor additions in Condon's hand, along with bracketing and underlining of sentences and phrases perhaps the work of Davies. As well as having the Dial Press Address it has a printed advertisement for Condon's New... |
£350.00 |
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Henry Irving & Ellen Terry, actors; Jan Kubelik, violinist and composer One page from autograph album, 20 x 16cm, edge frayed when removed from album, condition ow good. One autograph unidentified but see image |
£56.00 |
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Catherine C. Hopley [(1817 ? 1911) pen-name Sarah L. Jones, British author, governess, artist, and naturalist] Four closely written pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. She apologises for bothering him but would like him to peruse the accompanying paper which will speak for itself. I was about to write to the New York naturalist to ask if he really had dissected a Chameleo, but thought why... |
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Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930 -2017), British photographer; m. Princess Margaret APCS, image entitled [?] The Studio | 22 Launceston Place, W8. Very good condition, a difficlut hand but see Image. Text: My dear Hunter | Thanks for asking me to contribute but sadly I can't as I shall be away - Any way by [......? perhaps reading inclination] is rather heavy &... |
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Hilary Pepler and David Jones [S. Dominic's Press] Small 8vo. Pages: viii + 24 + [4 blanks]. Original cream paper wraps: title and price in red and engraving in green on front. Wraps discoloured, rubbed, sl. turned at edge, and stained, with covers loosening and loss at foot of spine. Internally sound and tight, but quite heavily foxed.... |
£90.00 |
