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[Michael Balcon, film producer, 1896-1977 Approximately 1200 cards sent by people in Michael Balcon's acqquaintance, many from the film and theatrical worlds. Most are signed with simply the first names creating a difficulty of identification. Even if they could be identified they may well come from the farther reaches of the film world... |
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[Large paper Folder of Photographs; Birth of Greek Tourist Industry] Large beige paper folder, elephant folio size, containing 26 PR photographs, 22 x 16, 25x 20cm or thereabouts, with typed descriptions below each one, of Shop Window displays advertising holidays in Greece, including Thomas Cook's in London, Allegri Sports and Zweidlers in Berne (with images of... |
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William Healey Dall, American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. Two pages, 4to, fold mark, good cvondition, saying: ... It is true that I was misled by a paragraph in the N.Y. Times into the supposition that Mrs. Pennell, whose literary work I have greatly enjoyed, was the same as the author of the powerful and thrilling story of the 'Magnetic North'; but Mr... |
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[Legh Richmond] 8pp., 12mo, light blue paper, sewn as issed, some marking, some slight chipping, mainly good, numbered 42 on title and 49 on last page in MS. COPAC lists a number of copies with various guesses at publishing date. One copy listed on Bookselling sites, with four pages (?). |
£125.00 |
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Anon. [Pamphlet] The Gospel in Paris. Miss de Broen's Mission to the Communists at Belleville. 8pp., 12mo, beige printed paper wraps, some foxing, mainly good condition. No copy on COPAC or WorldCat. Note: In 1871, residents of the incorporated neighborhood of Belleville were some of the strongest supporters of the Paris Commune. When the Versailles Army came to reconquer Paris in May of... |
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Sir Francis Head, known as Galloping Head, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837 (1793– 1875) [Francis Bond Head]. One page, 12mo, faint stains, mainly very good: Sir Francis Head has this day directed Messrs. Praed Co. to discontinue to pay, on the 2d of May £2 to the London Library. |
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Anon. [Pamphlet] Facts and Opinions in Favour of legalising Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Eight pages, disbound, faint foxing, mainly good condition. Note: Marriage Law Reform Association was established in 1851 to try to change public and parliamentary opinion. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. |
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[Sailing; Brasil Coast] Anon. 134pp., 8vo, original blue printed wraps, worn and chipped with two closed tears, contents good. Presumably an update of the 1856 work. No copy listed on COPAC or Worldcat. |
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William Le Queux, novelist [Autograph Manuscript] A Little Romance of 'P.W.' ['P.W.' = Pearson's Weekly] 10pp., cr. 8vo, text written on rectos, good condition. At the top of the first page he writes Proof to William Le Queux. 89 Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, and he signs the last page. There are corrections and additions. This is Le Queux's contribution to the thousandth number of Pearson's Weekly in... |
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House of Commons Select Committee report on Metropolis Police Offices [London policing], 1837 [Edward Gibbon Wakefield] Folio, iv + 194 + 29 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Repaginated in a contemporary hand 309 to 535. Good, on aged paper, with slight wear to title leaf. Comprising report, minutes of evidence (from witnesses including Samuel March Phillipps and Edward Gibbon Wakefield), appendix and index... |
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