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Peter Haddon (1898-1962), English actor, whose career began in 1924 and ended in 1952 Signed Autograph Inscription by the English cinema actor Peter Haddon. On leaf removed from autograph album, with one set of rounded corners. In good condition. Reads ' Good Morning - Bill! | With every good wish | Yours Sincerely | Peter Haddon | 1928 -'. Together with a loose newspaper cutting carrying a photographic portrait. |
£12.00 | ||
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'A Bird at Bromsgrove' [pseudonym of John Crane of Bromsgrove] [Grafton & Reddell, printers, Birmingham] [Printed pamphlet.] An Address to Bachelors. By a Bird at Bromsgrove. 36pp., 18mo. With frontispiece (preceding half-title) of 'I. CRANE / BROMSGROVE', showing a crane and a carriage lamp, within a circular border reading 'To make the Watch go faster turn the Regulator to the right & Slower the Contrary'. Side stitched in original pink printed wraps. In fair... |
Social history | £120.00 |
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Manuscript 'Secretary's Books' of the 'St. Andrews Colleges Chess Club', with signed annual reports by various Club Secretaries and signatures of Club Presidents. [University of St Andrews]. 165pp., 4to. In a single (despite plural 'Books' in title) ruled notebook.Title on the front pastedown: 'ST. ANDREWS COLLEGES CHESS CLUB | SECRETARY'S BOOKS.' The first of the Secretaries' annual reports, 'Given at the A. G. M. on February 26th. 1957' by Robert J. V. Logan states that at the... |
£120.00 | ||
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Robert Bowyer (1758–4 June 1834), British miniature painter and publisher. One page, part of bifolium, 4to, faintly grubby and foxed, mainly good condition. "The high encomiums which have been publicly bestowed upon the successful accomplishment of my new untertaking, of producing Facsimiles [underlined] of a selection of the choicest water Colour drawings of the... |
£125.00 | ||
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Robert Easton (1898-1987), British bass On piece of light-blue paper, removed from an autograph album. Firm signature. In good condition. Reads 'Robert Easton.' |
£10.00 | ||
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[Downing College, Cambridge] Three pages, cr. 8vo, fold mark, dusted and grubby, but text clear and complete. [Meeting] "Present | Dr Annesley Master | Professor Christian | Harwood | Mr Lens | Frere Fellows | It being notified that ye fellowship of Mr Meek had become vacant by marriage before their meeting it was agreed... |
History | £450.00 |
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Shura Cherkassky [Alexander Isaakovich Cherkassky] (1909-1995), Russian classical pianist Autograph Signature of the Russian classical pianist Shura Cherkassky. On rectangle removed from autograph album. In good condition. Reads 'Shura Cherkassky | 1929'. |
£18.00 | ||
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George Keate, artist, poet, correspondent of Voltaire (DNB) Broadsheet, one page, 44 x 21.5cm, fold marks, two small closed tears, staining at top not affecting text, mainly good condition. The item has introductory remarks on the verses, presumably manuscript, being sent by Keate with a gift, reminding readers of Keate's work on the Pellew Islands and... |
£220.00 | ||
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Alfred Bunn (1796-1860), theatre manager, lessee of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres [Anne Mathews [nee Jackson] (d.1869), second wife of the actor Charles Mathews (1776-1835)] 3pp., 12mo. Fair, on aged paper. Mathews begins by quoting contradictory passages from letters of Charles Mathews, one from Mrs Mathews' 'Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian' (1839) and the other from Bunn's 'The Stage: Both before and behind the Curtain' (1840). Regarding a performance in... |
£280.00 | ||
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William Hazlitt , Jr (1811-1893), English author and translator. One page, 12mo, good condition. From a batch of letters, many of which are addressed to A. Williams of the "Liverpool Mercury", but no certain identification. Hazlitt says, "I send you sundry autographs, genuine as imported. I will not forget your wishes in this respect when other notable... |
£45.00 |