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Padraic O Conaire 130pp., 8vo, lacking back wrap rebound in green paper wraps with label on front, contenst good, some wear to front cover/titlepage. Scarce: No copy on AddAll, and COPAC lists only later editions. |
£100.00 | |
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Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle (1836-1929), English naval officer, Commander-in-Chief at Devonport 12mo, 1 p. Very good on lightly-aged paper. Reads 'Dear Mr Wright, | I am sending you a photograph which I hope you will like, | Yours faithfully, | [signed] E R Fremantle'. |
£28.00 |
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Sotheby, Samuel Leigh (1805-1861), London auctioneer Autograph Letter Signed ('S Leigh Sotheby') to 'Mrs <Butler?>'. 12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium on grey paper. Text clear and complete, on aged, creased paper with 9 cm cut along gutter. Sotheby's hand is particularly difficult, but he appears, on the suggestion of his partner Wilkinson, to be proposing that 'a man shall be up with you on Monday Morning - 1/2 past 9 he... |
£56.00 |
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[ Oliver Goldsmith ] Documents: Subject: Statue in London A correspondence with Clement Shorter concerning the placing of a statue of Oliver Goldsmith (a replica of Foley's in Dublin) somewhere in London. Shorter had suggested this in "The Sphere", etc. The collection comprises ten letters and three related newspaper clippings, dating 7 June 1912 to 27... |
£150.00 | |
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Jan Kubelik (1880-1940), Czech violinist and composer The cover is printed on one side of a piece of shiny art paper, roughly 20.5 x 13 cm. Photograph of Kubelik and his violin roughly 10.5 x 8 cm. Paper lightly creased and with slight wear along vertical fold across middle of photograph. Good firm signature. |
£85.00 | |
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Franz [ Ferenc ] Molnar, Hungarian novelist and playwright. Inscription beneath a copy of a drawing of his head and shoulders ("H.W. 23"). Inscription, "Franz Molnar / Wien, 7.XI. 1923", copy drawing c.9 x 9cms, on page from an album compiled by Harry Woord Wolling, BBC producer(?), minor defects not affecting drawing or signature. Suitable for framing. |
£100.00 | |
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Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American composer, pianist and conductor Autograph Signature and two black and white Photographs. All three items in very good condition. Clear, bold signature, on a cropped piece of paper three inches by five wide, reading 'Leonard Bernstein | Edinburgh | <'73>'. The first photograph (six and a half inches by eight wide, and with the stamp of the Scottish Tourist Board on the reverse... |
£120.00 | |
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The Leadenhall Press [W. J. Loftie; the Victorian London book trade; nineteenth-century publishing; book pirates; piracy; publisher] London City. [Pamphlet attacking 'a Piratical Publisher'; with illustration.] 12mo: 12 pages. Dimensions of leaf roughly 12 x 10 cm. Stitched and unbound. Good, with outer pages a little grubby and 3.5 cm closed tear up spine of outer leaves. A scarce and unusual piece of ephemera: no copy at the British Library and none on COPAC. Title advertises the pamphlet at 'ONE... |
£100.00 |
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[Napoleon Bonaparte; Napoleonic Wars; chromolithograph; chromolithography; engraving] Chromolithograph engraving depicting Napoleon Bonaparte in youth and old age. Dimensions 21 x 25 cm. No margin. No indication of artist, engraver, publisher or date. A good, clean image, with slight wear to extremities and evidence of previous mounting on reverse. A striking and attractive image, showing a young Napoleon, in dashing and colourful costume, his left hand... |
£200.00 |
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Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1871-1928), English writer on heraldry, and Gold Staff Officer at the Coronation of King George V Typed Note Signed ('A. C. Fox-Davies') to H. S. Vade Walpole. 4to: 1 p. Good, on lightly aged and spotted paper. Regarding 'certain verses concerning this street', Walpole will 'find an explanation of the whole circumstance in this week's Notes & Queries'. |
£35.00 |
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