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Magdi Wahba, ed. [Samuel Johnson; James L. Clifford; Donald J. Greene] 351 pages, 8vo. Unbound: in original brown printed wraps. In good condition, but with wraps browning and creased. Ownership inscription on inside of front wrap. An important collection, with the bibliography accompanied by seventeen essays, including ones by J. D. Fleeman, Arthur Sherbo, Joyce... |
£55.00 | |
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May Moore [Australian photography] Signed gelatin silver photograph of (Edmund? Edward?) (Burke? Bucke?). Roughly 9 centimeters by 14 centimeters. Lighly scuffed , chipped, and stained, but in reasonable condition overall. Small triangular piece of loss (roughly half a centimeter each side of triangle) to bottom left-hand corner. Atmospheric shadowy portrait of mournful-looking (actor's?) head... |
£80.00 | |
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Nelson W[ilmarth]. Aldrich jr. [Anthony Blond Ltd]. 4 pages, folio. Somewhat grubby and creased, but in good condition overall. A standard Blond printed contract with manuscript additions and deletions. Signed 'Nelson W Aldrich /' and Anthony Blond'. The work does not appear to have been published. |
£100.00 | |
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Rockingham Road Infants School [Kettering School Board, Northamptonshire] Manuscript school diary or log book. Quarto. 502 paginated pages, preceded by thumb index. Book by Knight & Co. of Fleet St, Local Government Publishers, and with printed title-page reproducing extract from 'New Code, 1871', regarding keeping of school log books. Half-bound in faded red-cloth and worn buff calf. Spine detached... |
£300.00 | |
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Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke and William Francis Hadgate Dilke, the 2nd Baronet (1843-1911), was a disgraced politician and author. Engrossed in black ink on two large pieces of vellum. Ruled with red lines. Two-part schedule. Signed by Dilke and Hadgate to the left of two out of three red-wax seals on green ribbon at foot of document. Second sheet an... |
£75.00 | |
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The Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Co. Ltd. [TRANSPORT] 4 pages of advertisements. 2 leaves folio (roughly 12 inches by 18 inches). In extremely poor condition: grubby, creased and stained, with several closed tears and damage involving loss, particularly to the first leaf, the heading of which has been cut away, so that the name of the firm can only... |
£45.00 | |
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The De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd The Sea Hornet: design, construction, and development. A large collection of material concerning the Hornet, 1944-1946, illuminating not only on the development of the Hornet but de Havilland procedures. It includes blueprints, drawings, data, memoranda, concessions, technical bulletins, service complaints, and related, as follows:1. (De Havilland... |
£500.00 | |
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The wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. 7 original photographs by Gerald Guttman. The pictures, which vary in size from 3 inches by 5 inches to 3 inches square, are crudely pasted to a piece of grey card, beneath a heading made up of three pieces apparently cut out of newspapers or magazines and reading 'Royal Wedding Day | 23 July | Andrew & Sarah 1986'. All seven... |
£150.00 | |
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Victorian shooting scrapbook [Wimbledon Rifle Meeting; Bisley Camp] Sturdy Victorian quarto scrapbook with printed title by Marcus Ward and Co. of Belfast, half-bound in green leather and with 'Newspaper Cuttings' in large gilt copperplate on the spine. Internally tight and in very good condition, although paper grubby, spotted and discoloured with age. Binding... |
£200.00 | |
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W. S. W. Anson The three foolish little gnomes. 32 pages, 4to. In original grey boards, the cover printed with two illustrations. Brown cloth spine. An uncommon item; this copy in poor condition: creased, grubby, stained and worn, with the original staples having rusted away, leaving the central signatures loose. Endpapers carrying... |
£100.00 |
