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[OSBORNE, John] KNEALE, Nigel
Look Back In Anger
N.p.: Woodfall Film Productions Ltd., 1958
First draft: 8vo, 100 typed pp., secured in a manilla folder. Title label to front page.
Second draft: 8vo, 130... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[MACLEAN, Alasdair]
A Collection of Papers and Correspondence Relating to the Publishing History of Alasdair Maclean's Four Books (One Unpublished) -- The Author's Entire Career
V.p.: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph contracts, correspondence and associated materials, between and concerning Alasdair Maclean, his publisher, and other interested parties. .... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[MacDONALD, George] [LEWIS, C.S.]
A Collection of Papers from the Archive of Publisher Victor Gollancz, Relating to the Publication of the Gollancz Edition of Phantastes and Lilith
V.p.: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph correspondence, and associated materials, between and concerning C.S. Lewis, his publisher, and interested parties, relating to the publication of Phantastes and Lilith, various sizes and dates, the whole housed in a manila folder..... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GRAVES, Robert
To Juan At The Winter Solstice
N.p. Privately Printed, 1944
178 x 131mm, pp. 4. Single sheet, folded once.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES ON THE FRONT LEAF: 'Honor with love from Robert. New ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[ed. RIDING, Laura; GRAVES, Robert; and others]
Focus
Deya: Privately Printed: N.d. [1935]
Four volumes, 12mos, pp. 12, 23, 40, and 64. Rebound in a green three-quarter cloth binding, with original wrappers bound... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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NORTON, Mary
A Collection of Correspondence between Mary Norton, her publisher and other interested parties, relating to the publication of Are All the Giants Dead?
V.p.: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph correspondence, and associated materials, between and concerning Mary Norton, her publisher, and interested parties, relating to the publication of Are All The Giants Dead?, .... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Riverside Studios]
A Fabulous Collection of Material Relating to the Appearances of Elisabeth Welch, Adelaide Hall and the Harlem Renaissance at the Riverside Studios, London.
Various dates, mostly 1980s.
1: PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL:
i) 35 original photographic negatives of ELISABETH WELCH performing at Riverside in April 1982.
ii) 67 original photographic negatives of ADELAIDE HALL... [more]
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ELIOT, T.S.
Signed Cheque in payment for Eliot's Introduction to the 1932 Everyman edition of Pascal's Penseés,
London: N.p., 1931
A CHEQUE PAYABLE TO T.S. ELIOT IN THE SUM OF FIFTEEN POUNDS AND DATED 1 OCTOBER 1931, DRAWN ON THE BANK ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLISHER J.M. DENT, AND ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
1p. TLS Discussing the Publication of The Harmonica Mystery and Something Fresh
New York: N.p., 1915
1p. TLS.
1p. TLS FROM P.G. WODEHOUSE (SIGNED 'STEVE'), ALMOST CERTAINLY TO HIS FORMER CONTACT AT MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE BOB DAVIS.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950
8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]
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BLYTON, Enid
Signed Contract For My Third Enid Blyton Book
London: N.p., 1953
4pp. typed legal document, horizontal fold across centre.
Legal contract dated 1 December 1953, SIGNED BY ENID BLYTON.
The contract... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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JOHNSON, B.S.
House Mother Normal
London: Trigram Press, 1971
8vo, pp. 204. Original threequarter grey boards, lettered in silver on cream spine. Yellow endpapers.
First limited edition of 126... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[HANCOCK, Tony] [trans. AUDEN, W.H.] HAMMARSKJOLD, Dag
Markings
London: Faber, 1965
8vo, pp. 186. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, sixth impression, INSCRIBED IN 1968 TO TONY HANCOCK BY TED NOFFS, ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WAUGH, Evelyn
Black Mischief
London: Chapman & Hall, 1932
8vo, pp. 323. Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading and lower edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HEANEY, Seamus
Wintering Out
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 80. Original printed card wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This issue precedes the hardbound edition.
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[COWAN, Ian B.]
A Collection of Papers from the Archive of Publisher Victor Gollancz, Relating to the Publication History of The Scottish Covenanters 1660-1688 by Ian B. Cowan
N.p. [London]: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph correspondence, and associated materials, between and concerning Ian B. Cowan, his publisher, and interested parties, relating to the publication of The Scottish Covenanters 1660-1688.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MORTIMER, Johnnie; COOKE, Brian; RUDGE, Myles
Stop Messing About
N.P. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1969
30 mimeographed pp., secured with pin to top left.
First edition. JOAN SIMS' WORKING COPY, WITH HER UNDERLININGS, DELETIONS AND AMENDMENTS THROUGHOUT.
The BBC radio show Round The Horne, one of the medium's finest, funniest and filthiest flowerings, came to an abrupt and tragic end after four series with the death of its star, Kenneth Horne, in February 1969. Prescribed an anticoagulant for a heart condition, Horne was persuaded by a faith healer to stop taking it. He died of heart failure while presenting an awards ceremony at the Dorchester.
Without its star, Round The Horne could not continue. But the material for Series Five was already far advanced at the time of Horne's death, and it was recycled into Stop Messing About, a show featuring most of Round The Horne's surviving cast -- and Joan Sims, the Carry On stalwart who had already been cast as the replacement for the departing Betty Marsden. Stop Messing About ran for a respectable two series in 1969-70, but never really emerged from the shadow of its predecessor. Kenneth Williams, a supporting actor of genius, struggled to anchor the show. But even if Williams had been able to do a better job of leading from the front, the show was still Round The Horne without Kenneth Horne, a melancholy reminder of what radio had lost.
This script is the working copy used by Sims to record the sixth episode of Stop Messing About, and is extensively marked up with her underlinings, deletions and amendments throughout. Unique and beautiful.
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(BAUDELAIRE, Charles) (illus. NOLAN, Sidney) (trans. LOWELL, Robert)
The Voyage:
London: Faber, 1968
4to, pp. 60. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Two brochures for the Sidney Nolan Trust laid in.
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[PARKER, Dorothy] OPPENHEIMER, George
The Passionate Playgoer
New York: Viking, 1958
8vo, pp. 623. Original pale purple boards, lettered in dark purple to front panel and gilt on dark purple to spine. Top edge purple. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. DOROTHY PARKER'S COPY.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Four Titles,
London: Methuen, V.d
Four 8vos. Original red boards, spine labels to each. Tissue guards to frontispieces.
Later editions, uniformly bound, ALL SIGNED BY EDITH... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
