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[William McKinley (1843-1901), President of the United States of America] [Leon Frank Czolgosz; assassination] Printed notice of the death of President McKinley. Text on one side of a piece of thin card, dimensions roughly 140 x 85 mm. Mourning border on both sides. In good condition: on lightly aged card with a few scuff marks on the reverse. Text reads 'We deeply regret to have to announce that President McKinley, after getting much better up to Sept.... |
£85.00 |
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[William Tooke the younger (1777-1863)] [Russia; Russian; Bloomsbury Inns of Court Association; rifle clubs; George Bramwell; private printing; St Petersburg] 12mo: 8 pp. Leaf dimensions 18 x 11.5 cm. Unbound. Stitched as issued. Good, on lightly-aged paper with foxing to first page. Complete: paginated [1] to 8, and with 'Finis.' at the end. The full title reads 'Lines | Drawn and ornamentally inscribed on a White Silk Riband with which, and many... |
£250.00 |
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[Winchester College] [Printed] Prospectus and Subscription List for the Building of The Moberley Library Four pages, bifolium, 4to, fold marks, mainly good condition. Text comprises a letter from W.A. Fearon, Secretary to the Committee who conveys the information to subscribers that Butterfield's plans have been approved (he tendered at £2300) are available for the view of Wykehamists, giving... |
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Alec Hurley [Alexander Hurley (1871-1913), music hall artiste, coster singer, and Marie Lloyd's second husband [George Le Brunn; Harry Castling; London street ballad; cockney; East End slang] Handbill cockney street ballad entitled 'IT'S MONEY WELL LAID OUT. Sung by ALEC HURLEY.' On one side of a piece of light-brown laid paper, dimensions roughly 240 x 125 mm. Text clear and entire, on lightly creased paper with chipping, short closed tears and loss to extremities. Crudely printed. A thirty-two line poem, arranged in four four-line stanzas, each with a different chorus... |
£120.00 |
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Charles Jameson Grant, caricaturist [George Drake, publisher, Clare Market, London; William IV; Earl Grey; Irish Church Bill, 1833] On one side of a piece of wove paper. Dimensions of paper roughly 25.5 x 35.5 cm; dimensions of image 23.5 x 35 cm. Image clear and entire on lightly aged and creased paper with a little spotting. The margins of the print have been trimmed, resulting in the loss at the foot of the leaf of the... |
£75.00 | |
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958), American novelist, educational reformer and social activist [Vrest Orton] Dorothy Canfield. A Biographical Note'. Stapled pamphlet of thirteen pages (dimensions of leaf 15 x 8 cm), in original grey printed wraps. Attractively produced in relatively small print. Small stain to rear wrap, and some spotting to p.12. Inscribed beneath frontispiece photograph of a pensive Canfield at her writing desk, 'With best... |
£225.00 | |
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G. Hervey, General Inspector [Edwardian poverty; vagrancy; workhouses; poor law] Printed on one side of a sheet roughly 395 x 250 mm. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Text clear and entire. At foot: '(16611-21.) Wt. 6705-99. 325. 6/10. D & S.' Fifty-two entries, beginning with 'Cambridgeshire, Wisbech', each with columns for the years 1902 to 1909 of 'Numbers of... |
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Gwen Raverat [Gwendolen Mary Raverat [née Darwin)] (1885-1957), English artist and printmaker Very good. Dimensions of leaf 12 x 17 cm; dimensions of image 10 x 15 cm. Signed by Raverat in pencil in the bottom right-hand corner, and with the title 'Bowl [sic] players' by her in pencil at bottom left. Striking and evocative image showing five working men, on a village green at dusk,... |
£350.00 | |
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Hinkford Hundred, in Essex; Isaac Hills, alehouse-keeper, at the Swan, Braintree Printed on one side of a piece of laid paper roughly 320 x 190 mm. On light-aged paper, with slight discoloration, and wear to the fold line repaired on the reverse with archival tape. Twenty-one lines of text, clear and entire, with 'Hinkford Hundred, in Essex}' in the left-hand margin. The... |
£85.00 |
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Joseph Sadlier [William Patrick O'Reilly, Major in the Pope's Brigade, and Assistant Commissioner of the Board of Intermediate Education in Ireland; Garibaldi; General de Lamoricière] Crudely printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, roughly 27 x 8 cm. Spotted and creased, but with no loss to text. Sixty lines of verse, beginning: 'Rejoice you sons of Erin's Isle, | Attention pay now for a while, | Those lines we'll surely make you smile, | Our brave brigade isvictorious... |
£150.00 |
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