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Four typed letters signed

Four typed letters signed

ATTLEE, Clement

Four one page typed letters on 10 Downing Street, headed paper; 4to.; 24th August 1945 to 23rd December 1947. Signed 'C.R. Attlee' to Sir W...

£750.00

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Democracy. Today and Tomorrow

Democracy. Today and Tomorrow

BENES, Eduard

First edition; 8vo; original boards. Inscribed by the author on half title,"To my dear friend, H. E. Anthony Eden, with sincere thanks and best wishes, Eduard Benes, Nov...

£2000.00

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Nine printed letters signed expressing support to Edvard Benes

Nine printed letters signed expressing support to Edvard Benes

BENES, Eduard

Nine printed letters signed, each one page, folio 340mm by 220mm. Individually signed by Laurence Binyon, William Henry Bragg, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Arthur Evans, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, George Edward Moore, Charles Morgan and Dugald Sutherland MacColl...

£2750.00

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John Keats:  Endymion: A Poetic Romance

John Keats: Endymion: A Poetic Romance

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John

Limited edition, small folio, original pictorial white vellum, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with Cynthia Goddess of the Moon by Buckland Wright in gilt to covers, top edge gilt, others uncut, cloth slip-case...

£4750.00

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Personal address book

Personal address book

CARTER, Howard

Personal address book; 8vo; a lease leaf ring binder with original leather covers. The contains approximately 200 addresses many with telephone numbers, hand written by Carter in pencil...

£5000.00

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Great Suffragists- and Why: Modern Makers of History

Great Suffragists- and Why: Modern Makers of History

Edited by Ethel Hill and Olga Fenton Shafer

First edition; 8vo, original green cloth, upper cover with printed pictorial title in Suffragette colours. First edition of this early collection of some biographical sketches of leaders of the English suffrage movement, copiously illustrated with portraits...

£1600.00

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Abinger Harvest

Abinger Harvest

FORSTER, E.M.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; original boards and dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author on th front free endpaper to the Shiffolds "with love from Morgan"...

£1250.00

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Ted Hughes: Waiting for T. S. Eliot

Ted Hughes: Waiting for T. S. Eliot

GILL, Lorraine

Two original signed drawings by Lorraine Gill; 105 by 150mm, ink on paper. Both drawn on the evening of 29th November 1995 at St George's Church, Gloucester Road, London where Ted Hughes recited some of his favourite T...

£450.00

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Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text.

Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text.

GILL, Eric

Limited edition; 4to; original cream buckram and dust jacket. Edition of 250 copies, this being number 57. Printed in red and black, wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations by Gill...

£1850.00

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The 1922: The Story of the Conservative Backbenchers' Parliamentary Committee

The 1922: The Story of the Conservative Backbenchers' Parliamentary Committee

GOODHART, Philip, with Ursula Branston

First edition; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Signed by the author and 15 other members of the 1922 Committee on 5th December 1974. Signatures of Edward du Cann, Charles Morrison, Geoffrey Finsberg, John Biffen, Paul Bryan, Peter Morrison, Mark Carlisle, Nigel Fisher, David Walder, Bernard Braine, Godman Irvine, Airey Neave and three others...

£850.00

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Severn and Somme.

Severn and Somme.

GURNEY Ivor

First edition; small 8vo; original red cloth. Inscribed by the author: "To Marion Scott, Dear Friend and Good Business Agent, Nov 6, 1917"...

£11000.00

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Autograph manuscript signed: The economic future of Palestine

Autograph manuscript signed: The economic future of Palestine

LASKI, Harold

Autograph manuscript signed; 4to; 16 pages. In this essay Harold Laski discusses the economic future of Palestine and of the Jews immigrating there following World War II...

£3500.00

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Invocation: War Poems & Others

Invocation: War Poems & Others

NICHOLS, Robert

Pre-publication galley proofs of first edition, numerous hand written corrections by the author. Many corrections are substantial, largely reflecting the published text...

£1500.00

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Typed letter signed

Typed letter signed

PANKHURST, Christabel

Typed letter signed on 'Votes for Women' National Women's Social & Political Union headed paper, 26th January 1909; 8vo one page. Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) writes to the Editor of the Evening Standard, reporting that 'Five Women have been arrested for seeking an interview with the Prime Minister at Downing Street and complaining that 'Mr Asquith has never, since assuming this office of Prime Minister, received a deputation from any of the Women's Societies which claim the vote...

£1750.00

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Hitler's Interpreter

Hitler's Interpreter

SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto

Edited by R. H. C. Steed. First English edition; 8vo; original boards. Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon's copy with his bookplate loosely-inserted...

£1250.00

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'More About Amusement': An unrecorded and unpublished four-page manuscript

'More About Amusement': An unrecorded and unpublished four-page manuscript

SITWELL, Osbert

Four pages, 4to. Signed at top of first and at the end. The piece features a series of observations on the relationship between pleasure and work. Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell was born in 1892, the second child and first son of Sir George and Lady Ida Sitwell...

£1750.00

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Marching in Line [Three Variant Studies]

SMITH, Percy John Delf

Marching in line [three variant studies], pencil on various papers, two signed, one dated '1918' with borderlines and inscribed measurements, each sheet approx...

£1200.00

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Autograph Letter signed

Autograph Letter signed "Stephen" to John Morris, Head of the Far Eastern Service of the BBC on the 'Cambridge Spies'

SPENDER, Stephen

Autograph Letter signed, 1½pp, original envelope, 4to, Albergo, Verona, [Italy], 18th June [1951]. "It happens that as Wystan [WH Auden] was staying with us, I was the last person telephoned by Guy Burgess, who wanted to see him...

£2250.00

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Two Autograph Letters signed by Robin Gandy to Donald Bayley following the Death of Alan Turing

Two Autograph Letters signed by Robin Gandy to Donald Bayley following the Death of Alan Turing

TURING, Alan

Two Autograph Letters signed by Robin Gandy to Donald Bayley. First letter, four pages 8vo and two pages 4to, University College, Leicester, "Wednesday" [16, 23 or 30 June 1954]...

£4500.00

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Munich. Prologue to Tragedy

Munich. Prologue to Tragedy

WHEELER-BENNETT, John W.

First edition; 8vo; original cloth boards. Inscribed on the front free end paper "For Anthony Eden, with warmest best wishes and very many thanks, John W...

£1750.00

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