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'The Chinese Miners of the F.M.S. [Federated Malay States]' [Charles Ingle Robinson, Senior Inspector of Mines, F.M.S.; Malaysia; Malaya] Printed in blue on one side of a piece of white paper roughly 60 x 40 cm. Good: lightly-aged and creased. The text is enclosed within an ornate decorative border, and is headed 'Charles Ingle Robinson Esqr., | B. Sc. (Lond.), Associate R. S. M., | M. I. C. E., M. I. M. M., | Senior Inspector of... |
£85.00 | |
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Sebastian Carter, printer and typographer (born 1941) [Oswald and Helene [von] Nostitz] LETTER: One page, quarto. Somewhat aged and creased. An attractive item in Carter's disciplined calligraphic hand. A damning assessment of Craig's son Edward Anthony Craig ('Edward Carrick', 1905-98). '[...] If you know him, you presumably also know what you are taking on! We had some dealings... |
£220.00 | |
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Tom Driberg [Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell of Bradwell-juxta-Mare] (1905-1976) [crossword puzzles] All three items lightly aged but good. Driberg has written 'TOM DRIBERG' at the head of the first page of both reviews. First Review (8vo, 7 pp) with slight wear at head (not affecting text) of first four leaves; last three leaves on House of Commons letterheads. With corrections. The subject is... |
£100.00 | |
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Samuel L. ('Roxy') Rothapfel [Rothafel], American theatre impressario [Samuel L. Rothapfel, Theatre Impresarion] Typed Letter Signed to the actress Mary Lawton. One page, quarto. On paper discoloured with age. Attached along one edge of blank verso to card mount. Reads 'To simply tell you that your work is good would be putting it mildly. Things that I have heard all about me as I sat and watched the performance for the first time, from a loge seat, if... |
£56.00 | |
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[Nineteenth-Century Periodical, Prospectus and Issue] Four pages, 8vo, good condition. Price one farthing. It includes an obituary of William Roscoe, a facsimile of the playbill in which the late Mrs Siddons was announced to sing!, notes on The Arts, Metropolitan Weekly Return (including Seduced females 1000), and Stocks (Impudence, open . . .... |
£80.00 | |
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Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor Autograph Letter Signed,one page, sm.fol., fold marks, tiny chip, good +, with small folded card, 10 x 15cm, with signed by Keneally and docketed by Hunter Davies. Text of ALS: Dear Sir Hunter | I was delighted to read of your elevation to Bath or Garter or Thistle in the last issue of Punch [... |
£250.00 |
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Sir Stanier Porten (baptised 1716 ? 1789) government official and diplomat [appointed keeper of the state papers at Whitehall in 1774, and from 1782 until Nov.1786 commissioner of the customs] One page, 4to, bifolium, fold marks, good condition. Text: As a Messenger will be dispatched from the East India House oveland to the East Indies in very few days, Lord Hillsborough has deferred till then communicating to Sir Edward Hughes the intelligence about the Illustre & St Michel [... |
£220.00 | |
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Samuel Morley (1809 ? 1886), woollen manufacturer and political radical, philanthropist, Congregationalist dissenter, abolitionist, and statesman. One page, 12mo, black-bordered, residue of laying own on reverse, minor staining, closed tear on fold, text partially obscured by annotation presumably by the recipient, Rev. S.C. Baker. Text: Your reference to old times compels me, altho' sorely pressed, to send you a small cheque as an... |
£38.00 | |
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Richard Condon, novelist [Manchurian Candidate etc] One page, folio, 22 x 35cms, a trifle battered but clear and complete, with three minor additions in Condon's hand, along with bracketing and underlining of sentences and phrases perhaps the work of Davies. As well as having the Dial Press Address it has a printed advertisement for Condon's New... |
£350.00 |
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Henry Irving & Ellen Terry, actors; Jan Kubelik, violinist and composer One page from autograph album, 20 x 16cm, edge frayed when removed from album, condition ow good. One autograph unidentified but see image |
£56.00 |
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