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[Rosyth; social housing] Removed en masse from battered file (punch-holes in all items), final items chipped, with closed tears (Certificates for occcupant's for cleanliness etc.), but complete, dusting, but everything else in good condition. Note: The area is best known for its large dockyard, formerly the Royal... |
£1,200.00 | |
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[Emily Peel, daughter of Sir Robert Peel III; Alice Keppel and her like] Evelyn Emily Peel (c.1869-1960), second daughter of Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Bart (1822-1895), and Lady Emily Hay, daughter of the Marquess of Tweeddale, married the diplomat Sir (James William) Ronald Macleay (1870-1943) in 1901. Compiled in the years preceding her marriage, the album reflects... |
£2,500.00 | |
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William Plomer South African-British author, novelist Two pages each, 12mo, good condition. [1955] He apologises for being late in telling her how enjoyable he found her luncheon party. "Whatever they were like when they arrived and at least two (I don't include myself) had been rather under the weather - your guests all went off as radiant as... |
£120.00 | |
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Paul Heyse [Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse] (1830–1914), German writer and translator [Paul Heyse] Printed card inscribed by Paul Heyse Card, 11 x 9cm. very good condition. Printed text as follows: "Herzlichen Dank fur den freundlichen Gluckwunsch* [by his hand], der mich sehr erfreut hat. | Munchen | Nov. 1910." Written by him: "Paul Heyse *und das schone schone [Gedrint?]!" |
£56.00 | |
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Tom Sharpe, novelist One page each, 4to and 8vo, good condition.[1990?) I wouldn't mind talking to your students but I'm not at all sure I'd be any good as a Tutor [...] In fact I might have an adverse effect on [?] students if I had to set projects and then read what they had written. I don't think I'm an adequate... |
£90.00 | |
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Margaret Drabble, novelist One page, 4to, good condition. "Thanks for your letter. I'm afraid that my reading days are long over - too busy - Sorry! Thanks for the invitation." |
£35.00 | |
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Charles Janet (849–1932), French engineer, company director, inventor and biologist. [Charles Janet] Autograph Note Signed 'Ch Janet' to [W.B. Crow, biologist] One page, 12mo, good condition. He acknowledges receipt of a letter from Crow [identified through this letter being with a batch of letters addressed to him] "et des deux publications que vous avez bien voulu m'envoyer et qui sont intéressantes pour moi. | Je vous ai envoyé hier le 2me Memoire... |
£135.00 | |
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[Inscribed ; Shorthand Congress; W.B. Gurney copy] xii.[460].[48]pp, 8vo, hinge strain, cover showing signs of wear and tear, marking throughout, fair condition only. The [48] page section at the back is an Appendix containing a Catalogue of relevant Books and MSS. exhibited. Luminaries like Gurney-Salter and Isaac Pitman participated. Inscribed... |
£950.00 | |
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[Arthur Miller, playwright] [Arthur Miller, playwright; signed Programme] Gala Performance. An Evening with Arthur Miller Programme, [20]pp., 4to, illus. printed wraps (partly in red). Directed by David Thacker, including excerpts from "The Golden Years", "Focus", "Death of a Salesman", Miller's adaptation of "An Enemy of the People", etc., etc. Programme signed by Arthur Miller himself ("For Esther | Arthur MIller... |
£80.00 | |
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Paul Hamilton Hayne, Southern American Poet [1830-1886]. Two pages, 8vo, a small stain, fold marks, mainly good condition. He begins by saying that he has an "uncomfortable feeling" that he's about to impose of her kindness. But "Nothing but the presence of a stern necessity, just at present, could have emboldened me to again [underlined] address you... |
£350.00 |
