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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist [ Whistler ] Autograph Signature and compliments. Notepaper, 17.5 x 11cm, ood + condition, in centre "With the compliments of | J a McN. Whistler" |
£400.00 | |
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Harold Larwood, cricketer [ Harold Larwood, cricketer ] Autograph Signature on paper formerly tipped into an album Paper, 8.5 x 9cm, good condition. "Yours sincerely | Harold Larwood". |
£28.00 | |
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Bill Noonan, playwright [ the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence ] 116pp., 4to. (Paginated to 117, without a p.95, but with no text lacking.) No prelims. Each page typed on a separate leaf, and the whole bound together by string through punch holes. Text complete. Dog-eard and worn, with the first two leaves separated from the rest. No record discovered of... |
£220.00 | |
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A. E. Glennie [ Alick Edwards Glennie ] (1925-2003), British computer scientist, developer of Autocode, colleague of Alan Turing [ Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, RAF Aldermaston ] 44pp., 4to. Stapled. The complete magazine, in printed wraps with green masthead, on shiny art paper, with attractive 'modern' layout and numerous illustrations. Incongruous image on cover of girl and lamb. Glennie's article is on four pages, with a photograph of the author accompanied by a... |
£180.00 | |
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[ P. G. Wodehouse [ Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ] (1881-1975), English humorist ] Barrie Pitt (1918-2006), military historian, editor of 'Purnell's History of the Second World War' All items in good condition, with minor signs of age. The drafts are both printed on yellow paper. Each is 4pp., 4to. The two appear the same textually, but one has two slips of paper with amended text attached, and the autograph emendations to the two are different from one another. Also... |
£180.00 | |
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The Agent General for New South Wales, 1918 [ Australian First World War equity finance; New South Wales Government, Australia ] 1p., 4to. In good condtion, lightly aged and worn, folded twice horizontally. 26 lines of text, beginning: 'The Agent General of New South Wales hereby directs the attention of Holders of the New South Wales £3 1/2 % Loan, due to be repaid 1st September, 1918, to the following terms of... |
£20.00 | |
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R.P. Lister (Richard Percival Lister), novelist, poet, travel-writer R.P. Lister (Richard Percival Lister) (1914-2014), was an English author, poet, artist and metallurgist. See Wikipedia.The archive summarised below mainly represents his literary achievement, poetry and fiction. His travel writings (from notebooks to typescripts) will be listed separately... |
£950.00 | |
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Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), Irish poet and playwright 118pp., of which the first 102pp. are in 4to, and the last 16pp. in folio. Stapled into red card wraps. Ownership inscription on inside front cover: 'Padraic Fallon, | Prospect, | Wexford'. Internally in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in heavily-worn wraps. The story is set among race-... |
£2,800.00 | |
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John Scott (1784-1821), editor of the 'London Magazine', killed in a duel by Jonathan Henry Christie, London agent of John Gibson Lockhart of Blackwood's Magazine [ John Scott, editor of the 'London Magazine'. ] Autograph signature. Strip of paper cut from end of letter. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Reads: 'Your obedt humble Sert | John Scott'. |
£23.00 | |
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John Campbell (1777-1847), 7th Duke of Argyll, as Lord John Campbell [ Lord John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell ] of Ardencaple, Dunbarton, Scottish Member of Parliament 3pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Addressed (with broken seal in red wax) on reverse of second leaf to 'Archibald Campbell Esq | Army Agent | Regent Street | London'. The letter begins: 'I have just seen a Letter from the Widow of the late Stuart Campbell... |
£120.00 |
