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Manuscripts - R-Z
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[pp] 7. In a spidery hand writing in her early eighties Jean Rhys plans a spectacular 'farewell party' in the longest of these three letters to her friend the novelist Isobel English. Writing to Engli...
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75 vintage photographic cigarette cards from the late 1930s, partial sets of Modern Beauties (Series 2, 3 & 4) and Real Photographs which feature show girls, dancers and film starlets in classic '...
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21x28cm An original felt pen and collage image of a portal with three figures of astronauts approaching from the foreground, signed and titled by the sci-fi artist William Rotsler. The image is on pap...
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An eight page manuscript sermon by the clergyman and topographical writer or Yorkshire and Lancashire, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, which he wrote on a single quarto gathering, loosely sewn and available t...
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(55x64cm) Ralph Steadman's poster designed for the bookies Joe Coral, dramatically inscribed to the Paris-based writer and bibliophile: 'For John Baxter from Ralph Steadman.' The poster is very good w...
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ff73 (& blanks) Wesleyan Training College friendship album from 1859-1860 of poems, watercolours, broadsides, drawings and miniature written by trainee teachers attending the Methodist teacher tra...
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![British Military History [manuscript & maps]](/img/products/militaryhistory396265374-thumb.jpg) |
[ff] 62; 12 maps, c15,000 words. Finely illustrated late nineteenth century foolscap-sized military history manuscript by an officer in training, with tipped in maps and diagrams. Quarter red cloth, n...
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[Incomplete]Massive folio journal of the activities of the organisation now known as the Scripture Union. Holiday in South America, Buenos Aires, text cross-referencing and explaining photos; Rosario,...
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Three inscribed supper menus for Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary, Frederick Whyte, MP for Perth from 1910-1918, later the first President of the Central Legislative Assembly of Bri...
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[pp] 70 Todmorden's register of canal boat inspections for the early years of the twentieth century. Large folio pre-printed book produced in Birmingham, worn quarter roan over burgundy cloth covered ...
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Manuscript letter from Emilia von Sachsen, the subject of a Lucas Cranach portrait and third wife of Margrave George the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Written on the first and last pages of a four pag...
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(10 ALS; 5 Notes; 10 TLS; 2 Telegrams) Substantial correspondence from Sir Henry Wood negotiating two Liverpool concerts late in 1932 which included performances of a Hindemith Overture and the Delius...
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Five volumes, around one thousand documents chronicling the lives of the ex-patriate Benwell Rees family from 1890-1970 in Alexandria and Monaco including William Benwell Rees whose marriage to Etheld...
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![Mrs Wilson's [Actual] Diary](/img/products/mrswilsonsactua21731184-thumb.jpg) |
Diary of Mary Wilson, wife of Harold Wilson, then Leader of the Opposition who became Prime Minister again the following year. Pre-printed diary, one double spread per week. 'M Wilson 5 Lord North St ...
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[pp] 168; 178 Substantial and expert notes on Shakespeare's plays, their publishing and performance history, together with textual analysis, by an early academic student of Shakespeare at Trinity Coll...
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![Old Dixonians [School Presentation Volume]](/img/products/olddixonianssch152694310-thumb.jpg) |
Commemorative manuscript presented to the retiring Assistant Head of George Dixon School in Birmingham in March 1943. Expensively and elaborately bound (given the wartime milieu) in brown sheep with a...
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10x9cm An original felt pen picture of a spacecraft, complete with crew member in a protruding bubble, signed by the sci-fi artist William Rotsler. The image is on a piece of artist's board with a cli...
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(12.5x19.5cm) Original'Rough' depicting New York gangsters and hustlers for the jacket on the UK first of David Alexander's New York-set thriller. Gouache on card, laid down on thick black paper, clos...
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(12.5x19.5cm + 12.5x3cm) Original 'Rough' for the front panel and spine of the jacket on the UK first of a Jamaican novel featuring a slave heroine. Gouache on card, depicting the protagonist being so...
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(12.5x19.5cm) Original'Rough' for the jacket on the UK first of Californian writer Lawrence Blochman's thriller. Gouache on card, laid down on thick black paper, closely resembling but not quite ident...
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Inaugural volume recording 37 peals of the Sussex County Association of Change Ringers between January 1885 and February 1887. Oblong folio volume bound in heavily textured burgundy morocco with Gothi...
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[100 photos] Substantial collection of vintage photographs of the Italian-American conductor, Arturo Toscanini. In a variety of formats, many of the photographs with press stamps and annotations to th...
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A folio-sized, folding sheet (bifolium)which is effectively a 1790 invoice for postal charges, from John Brown, Drover, to Thomas Lister, First Lord Ribblesdale, the MP for Clitheroe. The first leaf i...
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[pp] 100 + blanks. Jane Austen-era records of an Assembly society complete with lists of attendees including just enough officers to thrill the likes of Lydia Bennet. These are the subscription, atten...
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The Prime Minister Harold Wilson's 1968 'Phone Book, bespoke crushed olive morocco presentation binding over thick card covers from 'Dowsett Associated Companies' with 'Harold Wilson' in gilt to upper...
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ff [4] 166, c60,000 words. A lively and detailed manuscript memoir of a long trip to England by a gifted young Philadelphia physician and, later, fish culturist John H Slack (1834-1874) including a pu...
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A handmade album of tinted views of Cumbria and Scotland from the mid-victorian period. The compiler has handsewn two embossed sheets of card with decorative pink ribbon flourishes to form the binding...
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Elegantly narrow, straight grain deep red morocco Grand Tour watercolour sketchbook of the Rhine and Elbe. Vine gilt decoration around the long panels to both boards with 'Sketches of the Rhine and El...
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Sixteen original pen and ink drawings by the artist Newton Whittaker: a complete suite of illustrations for J M Dent’s 1940 edition of Rider Haggard’s controversial imperialist exploration of fema...
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pp 62 Unpublished manuscript study of the development and construction of the Spritsail Thames sailing barge. Small folio bound in quarter grey buckram over blue cloth, hand-lettered in white to the u...
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![The Terror of St Trinian's [publisher's dummy]](/img/products/theterrorofsttr72572840-thumb.jpg) |
Publisher's mock-up or pre-publication 'dummy' of the first of Ronald Searle's St Trinians books to appear as a novel: The Terror of St Trinian's. Bound in plain green cloth with 'Angela' (the sub-tit...
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Touchingly sincere letter to the Editor of Gay News, thanking him for the 'your presentation of Noctures in your paper. The illustration of the long figure in the piazza certainly captures the spirit ...
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A one page typed letter by the scholar-translator Ralph Manheim setting out details of his translations of the work of Karl Jaspers. Manheim's typed letter occupies a singled sheet of unlined paper an...
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An early edition of W Riley's almost forgotten classic Yorkshire novel, Windyridge, together with an album of original postcard sized photographs from the early 1920s showing the locations in and arou...
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[pp] 36 Elaborately worked album by a young woman, extensively illustrated with original photographs often with decorative pen and ink roundels and foliage frame surrounds, drawings and notes as well...
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