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[The St. Alban Club, Woolwich; St Alban's (Plumstead) Football Club; Hugh Lambert Ogle, Vicar of Plumstead; Edwardian football and cricket] In six 'Boudoir' diaries (printed by Joseph Mead, London), of uniform format and layout, but in different colours. Very good, on aged paper, with slight damp damage to a couple of the worn bindings. Although containing numerous entries, the volumes are by no means completely full of entries:... |
£350.00 | |
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[Panajou Frères, photographers of Bordeaux; French woodyard; plywood] The first 40 prints in good condition, and the last three lightly-aged and fair. Each of the 20 Panajou Frères prints (19 landscape and 1 portrait) is mounted on a 24 x 30 cm piece of grey card, blindstamped with the circular monogramme of 'PANAJOU FRES | BORDEAUX'. Depicting an extensive... |
£180.00 | |
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Violet Paget ['Vernon Lee'] (1856-1935), author. Autograph Letter Signed Violet [Paget] to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist. ALS, on letterhead of 36 Chepstow Place, London; 24 September [1935], 2pp., 8vo. 'I have just come back from seeing Winifred Holtby in the nursing home where she is lying ill, & I fear there is no hope whatever for her. Her friends are very anxious that she shd. be adequately written about... |
£150.00 | |
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Max Plowman (1883-1941), author. Autograph Leytter Signed Max Plowman to Robert Lynd, essayist anfd Irish Nationlist. ALS, on letterhead of Lochnagar, Bycullah Park, Enfield; 17 December 1912, 3pp., 12mo. He thanks him for the 'letter & all its encouragement [...] The book represents rather under a year's work at verse & I only hope I shall not someday have to wish it had never been other than firelight... |
£75.00 | |
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Louis Francis Salzman (1878-1971), British economic historian. Autograph Leytter Signed L.F. Salzman, economist, to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist. ALS, 14 Brookside, Cambridge; 19 August [1928], 2pp., 12mo. Written on returning the proofs of two articles. 'I see you have cut out my proof of the early intrusion of the Friar Tuck element into the Robin Hood cycle: - the only piece of information in the article which a student could not... |
£200.00 | |
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Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), English novelist. ALS and TLS, the TLS, on letterhead of 24 York Terrace, Regents Park, London; 3 October 1921; ALS, on letterhead of Brackenburn, Manesty Park, Keswick; 8 July 1930, 4pp., 12mo. A significant letter (TLS), relating to the formation of the PEN Club. 'Dear Mr. Lynd, | Several people who are... |
£320.00 | |
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Clifford Sharp, (1883-1935), editor of the New Statesman. Three Autograph Letters Signed, one Autograph Note Signed, and one Typed Note Signed 3 ALsS, ANS and TNS, three on New Statesman letterheads, one on letterhead of 127 Willifield Way, Golders Green; 27 July 1923, 19 June 1924, and 5 January and 23 March 1933, 8pp., 8vo and 12mo.An undated note, on New Statesman letterhead, reads 'These fruits of abstinence are not for me. If you... |
£300.00 | |
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Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), scenic designer, actor, director. One ALS, one TLS and one ANS, each of the three with a different letterhead of Via Della Costa di Serretto 17, San Martino d'Albaro, Genova 10, Italy. ALS: 23 July 1926. 'Gerard Hopkins tells me I am to send you the enclosed review of Waxman's Antonie & the theatre Libre. So here it is -... |
£600.00 | |
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[Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1849-1920), Fellow and Tutor of Downing College, Cambridge, and authority on International Law; The West African Conference of 1884-1885] A significant document, providing a clear exposition of the late-Victorian colonialist position on the two branches of occupation: annexation and settlement. Untraced. T. J. Lawrence of Downing College is the probable author, as the section on 'annexation' also features in his 'Handbook of... |
£150.00 | |
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Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972), photographer. Autograph Letter Signed 'E.O. Hoppé' to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist. ALS, on letterhead of Millais House, Cromwell Place, South Kensington; 22 June 1915. He is glad he 'liked the parboils - it was a great pleasure to me to make them'. Asks him to accept two copies: 'I have a library of signed Author's Copies and if you can spare me a copy of one of your admirable... |
£120.00 |
