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Dora Labette (1898-1984, occasional stage name 'Lisa Perli'), soprano; 'Violet Vanbrugh' [real name Violet Augusta Mary Barnes (1867-1942)], English actress Autograph Signatures ('Dora Labette' and 'Violet Vanbrugh'). On a leaf (roughly 15.5 x 18 cm) removed from an autograph album. Aged and a little grubby. Both hands bolder than usual. Recto reads '"Courage Mounteth with occasion" - | Yours sincerely | [signed] Violet Vanbrugh'. Verso reads 'Yours sincerely | Dora Labebette.' |
Music and Theatre, Women | £20.00 |
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Dora Sigerson Shorter, Irish poet. Original beige boards, corners bumped, mainly good+ condition. From the library of Robert Lynd, author and nationalist. Scarce: COPAC lists NO copies of the book, only a microfilm at BL. |
History, Travel and Topography, Women | £200.00 | |
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Dorking, Surrey, England [Recycling; the Environment; the Green Party; Publishing History; Bookselling; the Book Trade; Austerity] Advertisement for 'Dorking Urban District Book, Waste Paper and Cardboard Drive'. Striking advertisement, in red ink, on one side of a piece of paper roughly seven inches by seventeen wide. With something of a prewar feel, it reads 'DORKING URBAN DISTRICT | BOOK, WASTE PAPER | and CARDBOARD DRIVE | [in box on right] 12th April | TO | 1st May | 1948 [end of boxed text] | Save... |
Economics, Social history | £45.00 |
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Dorothea Beale (1831-1906), suffragette, founder of St Hilda's Hall [later St Hilda's College], Oxford, and first Headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College Autograph Note Signed ('Dorothea Beale') to 'Mrs Barrow'. 12mo, 1 p. Fair, on lightly-aged, slightly-grubby paper with small dogears to a couple of corners. Reads 'June 13th. | Dear Mrs Barrow, | It is very kind of you to meet me. I shall hope to arrive punctually. | Yours sincerely | [signed] Dorothea Beale'. |
Education, Women | £28.00 |
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Dorothy Anna Hayward Mills Children's writer, poet and illustrator. All three items one page, quarto. All in good condition, with minimal staining. All three docketed, and the two letters signed 'Dorothy AH. Mills. F.R.S.A.' LETTER ONE: She enjoyed a 'magnificent' item by F. T. Blanchard in the Society's magazine '... |
Art and Architecture, Literature, Women | £45.00 | |
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Dorothy Black (Delius) (1899-1985), English romantic novelist, travel and short-story writer [Ladies' Home Journal; Eimar O'Duffy] 4to: 3 pp. Text clear and entire on creased, chipped airmail paper. A chatty, vivacious and entertaining letter, casting light on the state of mind of an English colonial wife. Thanks her for her 'kind remarks about my stories. May I say, in return, that I also like your story very much, and it... |
Literature, Travel and Topography, Women | £85.00 | |
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Dorothy Brooks ALS, 3pp, 8vo, to Malcolm MacKenzie On two letterheads of the West African Writers and Artists Club, 129 Camberwell Rd. Major Shepheard has suggested that correspondent might supply contacts for the Club. Describes the Club's activities and lists the names of thirteen Gold Coast students from a recent British Council exhibition... |
Art and Architecture, Travel and Topography, Women | £50.00 | |
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958), American novelist, educational reformer and social activist [Vrest Orton] Dorothy Canfield. A Biographical Note'. Stapled pamphlet of thirteen pages (dimensions of leaf 15 x 8 cm), in original grey printed wraps. Attractively produced in relatively small print. Small stain to rear wrap, and some spotting to p.12. Inscribed beneath frontispiece photograph of a pensive Canfield at her writing desk, 'With best... |
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Dorothy Green autograph letter signed to Mrs Gielgud (mother of John Gielgud?), 2 pp, 12mo. She thanks her for her "sweet present", and then makes what appears to be a reference to John Gielgud: "I'm taking Betty tonight to see John - her first evening performance! She is so thrilled. I am so sorry he has been so reedy, but perhaps the enforced rest will do him good... |
Music and Theatre, Women | £20.00 | |
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Dorothy Wrinch [Dorothy Maud Wrinch] (1894-1976), mathematician [Professor Reinhold Fürth (1893-1979) of Birkbeck College, theoretical physicist; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford] Autograph Card Signed ('Dorothy Wrinch'), in German, to Fürth. Card (9 x 11 cm), 2 pp. Nine lines of text. Neatly and closely written. Addressed to 'Sehr geehrter Herr Professor!' Placed by Fürth, with a page of his autograph notes, in an envelope addressed by Wrinch 'Herr Doktor Professor Fürth'. |
Science, Medicine and Technology, Women | £56.00 |
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