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Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall "This book is dedicated to Richard Avedon, Ara Gallant and Giorgio di Sant'Angelo". Volume cartonato, legatura editoriale in tela nera, titoli in bianco al dorso e al piatto anteriore, custodia editoriale, 136 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero e colori con immagini applicate. Esemplare in ottime condizioni. Testo in inglese - english text - box edition. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
1906201556New York: MacMillan Company 1906. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Owner name on FEP. Rear hinge starting. Spine heel lightly bumped. MacMillan Company hardcover
1917L0083a<p>3448 ad pages with colored frontispiece. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover and black pictorial to front cover in original pictorial jacket. Four page promotional ad from MacMillan with the promotion of Michael. BAL 11974 First edition with 10320 copies printied.</p><p><em>Michael Brother of Jerry</em> is a novel by Jack London released in 1917. This novel is loosely connected to his previous novel<em> Jerry of the Islands</em> also released in 1917. Each book tells the story of one of two dog siblings.</p><p>Michael an Irish terrier was born and raised in the Solomon Islands. The dog now works as a slave hunter aboard a schooner on a mission to recruit native islanders for work. One day the captain accidentally leaves Michael on a beach and sails away. Michael was then abducted by Dag Daughtry a steward on another ship who initially planned to sell the dog for money. However later he got attached to Michael and takes the dog to a trip around the world.</p><p>A major theme in the book is how various animals are taught to perform for the public. In his Foreword Jack London says that this was a major reason for writing the book.</p><p>Condition: Touch of rubbing to points. Jacket with some soiling some professional repair to jacket else very good to fine in a better than very good jacket.</p> MacMillan Company hardcover
1911362082New York: The Macmillan Company 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. <br /> <br /> BAL 11929. 340 pages plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition first printing with no later printings indicated. Not quite very good copy with some shelf wear and a bit of spine lean. The front hinge has cracked for one inch at the bottom and the binding is correspondingly loose. With the wolf's head Jack London bookplate from Dawson's Books mounted to the front pastedown and below that a clipped signature from a Jack London letter. With a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. This copy includes a price-clipped mostly-complete dust jacket held together with Japanese tissue at all the folds. The rear panel has two open tears. Nevertheless scarce in any jacket and nicely augmented with a signature and an attractive bookplate. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1916180420006San Francisco: Town Talk Press 1916. First Edition. Softcover. Good. First edition. Includes inserted leaf at rear dated December 1917 addendum. 47 2 pp. Illustrated yapped wraps. Good with a few small stains to wrap edges a little chipped and worn hinge cracked at front. Famous author Jack London contributed a recipe for rice on page 21 followed by one for rice camp style by writer Stewart Edward White. Also recipes contributed by prominent San Francisco merchant Raphael Weill "Brandade of Salt Codfish & Frog's Legs" and businessman Henry J. Crocker "Corned Beef Hash". A scarce early San Francisco cookbook. Town Talk Press unknown books
73725London The Linnean Society of London 1875-1905. Six volumes in six. Large 4to 29.1 x 23.3 cm. Text; numerous plates. Volume I in contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Gilt ornamental lines and black morocco label with gilt title on the spine; Volumes II-VI: uniform later i.e. contemporary with the last volume blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. Speckled edges. = One of the most important periodicals in the field of botany with numerous fine monographs and certainly one of the best-illustrated too. Before 1875 the Transactions contained both zoological and botanical papers. Therefore this is the start of the Botanical Series not a second botanical series. Definitely rare. The first volume with the label "Presented to the Linnean Society of London by Messrs Taylor and Francis" i.e. the printers not the publishers here. Boards to Volume I rubbed; the other five with a label removed from the spine top and another one from the front pastedowns with only a vague "cancelled" stamp remaining in each. Otherwise excellent clean and unmarked. A very good set. Cat. BMNH p. 1151. hardcover
192782720Les Editions de France | Paris 1927 | 13 x 20 cm | broché
192785334Les Editions de France | Paris 1927 | 13 x 20 cm | broché
Pages 185-220 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Sensational page of six photos, with text, illustrating Dubai, the primary port and one of the most progressive towns in Trucial Oman - includes the Customs Building, the new bridge, Shaikh Rashid Bin Said, a general view of the town, the Al-Gaz Hotel, the old palace, and more; Cover photo of the Queen Mother upon her 63rd birthday; Article on the Moscow Test-Ban Treaty with photo of DeGaulle; Photo of the Vickers Hovertruck in action; Photo of the Corporal missile on parade at Larkhill; Photo of Mr. David Tapp driving his tractor, The Seahorse, across the English Channel; Photo of champion racing driver Graham Hill aboard replica of a Ford Quadricycle, marking the centenary of Henry Ford who is shown separately driving a Quadricycle in 1904; Photo of spectators swarming onto the pitch at Headingley after West Indies triumph in fourth test match; Illustration of the eminent conductor, Mr. Basil Cameron; Page of fascinating text and photos explain war in Yemen between the Royalist and Republican forces; Photo of engine of wrecked WWII British bomber found in Dutch field; Photo of examination of first wreckage recovered from the U.A.R. Comet which crashed in the Indian Ocean on July 28, killing 62 persons including 26 Boy Scouts from the Philippines; Photos of Japanese Emperor Hirohito examining marine life on Hayama Beach, Japan; Dramatic photos of rescue efforts at Skopje, Yugoslavia after earthquake; Photo of Peru's president-elect, Signor Fernando Belaunde Terry; Amazing photo of huge Australian wedge-tailed Eagle named 'Widgie' landing on the arm of young John Ryder who rescued the bird when it fell from its nest in its youth; Photo of the Bishop of Caltagirone blessing and Italian cradle bound for the unborn child of President Kennedy; Photo of disarmament conference at Geneva; Photo of Orville Freeman presenting Indian peace pipe to Khrushchev on July 30; Book review of "Dieppe - The Shame And The Glory", by Terrence Robertson; Page of news and illustrations from 100 years ago includes New York riots, reoccupation of Jackson, Mississippi, by the Confederates, and balloon reconnaissance at Aldershott; One page photo of London Heliolaters (swimmers) at the Oasis Pool, Holborn, during the fifth day of the current heatwave; Delacroix Centennial exhibition in the Louvre; Illustrated article on the highways and houses of Salsisbury before redevelopment; Major coverage of biblical Shechem in Jordan - its history and current excavations; Photo of Chesterfield Cup horserace at Goodwood on July 31; Aerial photo of Eastbourne showing the Devonshire Park lawn tennis courts; Photos of personalities of the week include Dr. Carl Borgward, Lady Hudson, Sir Horace Clark, Sir Robert Chapman, Miss Claudia Mcpherson of Canada (the youngest Channel swimmer), Miss Jane Allday, six railwaymen who have become mayors in South Wales, Harold Philby (granted asylum in Russia), Jazzman Don Aloysius Gordon (freed on appeal of assault charge), John Grigg, Lord Stansgate with his wife (now Mr. Wedgwood Benn and a commoner), and Mr. St. Clair; Four photos and text of 100 foot first century Roman ship discovered in the Blackfriars mud; Two pages of amazing photos and text describe dystopian life inside a communist Chinese agricultural commune - an exclusive glimpse of life behind the bamboo curtain; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
Approximately 1,000 pages. Very large volume measures over 18" high by over 12" wide and approximately 1.5" thick. Extensive coverage of the final weeks of World War I, its conclusion, and aftermath, plus other news of the day and contemporary advertisements. Each page very densely packed with small type-faced print and occasional maps. Contents appear to be bound original issues rather than reprints. Includes an 8 page illustrated section devoted to "London's Great Peace Celebration Procession" in July, 1919. Small vintage bookseller's sticker inside front board at bottom. Binding sound. Moderate external wear and soiling. Partially rubbed gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip. Contents yellowing at edges. Please note: the April 11, 1919 issue, and possibly others, are not included. A sound copy of this most enthralling, comprehensive and unique reference. Book
1900190813Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1900. Hardcover. frontis by Maynard Dixon inserted i-viii 1 251p. printer's imprint 252 blank leaf very good blackish green cloth with silver buckled belt and corners silver on spine somewhat worn first edition printing of 2028 copies according to Sisson/Martens pages 2 &116 and BAL 11869 and Woodbridge. Publisher's imprint at bottom of spine first state with no periods around ampersand : Houghton Mifflin & Co.; no broken type on page 147 perfect "e" in spruce and perfect "t" in might no broken type on 64-67 commas before and after 1900 on copyright page sets of binding threads between 6/7 18/19 and every six leaves thereafter. Two neat previous owners' book plates on front endpapers. This copy matches all first printing first state points with the following two discrepancies from Sisson: 1. the frontispiece has the caption "Malemute Kid Halted Him" page 64 as opposed to "The Men of the Forty Mile" as stated in Sisson; 2. The frontispiece appears to be inserted rather than sewn-in although Swann's auctioned described first printing with frontis tipped-in stating later printings were sewn-in a disagreement with Sisson. Also to this bibliographer the color of the binding is in question as well. Appears to be a blackish-green but could be interpreted as a deep gray-green. All-in-all a very nice copy of the author's rare first book. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1903L0051i-iv v iv vii viii 2612 ad pages with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original blue-gray cloth with white lettering on both spine and front cover in white with totem pole like decorations in red white and black. Inscribed by London. 3466 copies printed of the first edition. This is the second printing. <i>Children of the Frost</i> is a collection of short stories first published in 1902. Includes: The League of the Old Men; In the Forests of the North; The Law of Life; Nam-Bok the Unveracious; The Master of Mystery; The Sunlanders; The Sickness of Lone Chief; Keesh the Son of Keesh; The Death of Ligoun; Li Wan the Fair. Condition: Inscribed by London on the front end paper. Slightly cocked rubbing to spine ends and hinges corners bumped else a very good copy. MacMillan and Company hardcover books
63575LONDON Jack. The Abysmal Brute. Original decorated cloth. New York: The Century Co. 1913. with LONDON Jack. Signed check to Johannes Reimers drawn on Central Bank Oakland. First edition. BAL 11945. Woodbridge 109. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper "Dear Johannes:- Fondly yours Jack London. Glen Ellen Calif. June 17 1913." Johannes Reimers 1858-1953 had moved to California from Norway in 1880. He early established himself as a landscape artist and later became a landscape architect for the Santa Fe Railroad and designed neighborhoods in Berkeley and Stockton. Reimers also wrote a novel Unto the Heights of Simplicity. He was a close friend of Jack London. Charmian London in The Book of Jack London wrote "'The Crowd' were all there 12 January 1902 and among them a young Norwegian writer Johannes Reimers whose novel 'The Heights of Simplicty' just out he presented to Jack. This man became one of Jack's close friends and in time one of his favorite painters." On 4 May 1905 London spoke to the Critic Club at Reimers' home in Stockton. In the summer of 1906 Reimers supervised the planting of trees vines and shrubs and a pyracantha hedge at the Wolf House. Some rubbing to spine ends a bit of speckling to spine else a very good copy. The check has been endorsed by Reimers on the verso. unknown
1903L0051<p>i-iv v iv vii viii 2612 ad pages with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original blue-gray cloth with white lettering on both spine and front cover in white with totem pole like decorations in red white and black. Inscribed by London. 3466 copies printed of the first edition. This is the second printing. <br /><em><br />Children of the Frost</em> is a collection of short stories first published in 1902. Includes: The League of the Old Men; In the Forests of the North; The Law of Life; Nam-Bok the Unveracious; The Master of Mystery; The Sunlanders; The Sickness of Lone Chief; Keesh the Son of Keesh; The Death of Ligoun; Li Wan the Fair. Condition: Inscribed by London on the front end paper. Slightly cocked rubbing to spine ends and hinges corners bumped else a very good copy.</p> MacMillan and Company hardcover
191368770New York:: Century Co. 1913. First edition. . original cloth in dust jacket. Old ink signature at head of front free endpaper; otherwise a near fine copy in a very good jacket with a few chips at edges one affecting the second letter of the title at the top of the backstrip. There is a small red ink stain at the top of the back panel. . 8vo. Illustrated by H. T. Dunn. 8 plates counted in the pagination. BAL 11946. Century Co., hardcover
1900234451900. LONDON Jack. The Son of the Wolf. Tales of the Far North. Orig. gray cloth stamped in silver. Frontis. Boston & N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1900. First edition of the author's first book. BAL 11869. A fine copy. unknown
1916010157New York: The Macmillan Co 1916. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition First Printing with the words "Set up electrotyped Published February 1916" printed on the copyright page. "Planned To Be Sung By Efficient Singers Accompanied By a Capable Orchestra." Handsomely bound in contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards marbled end papers top edge gilt the bookplate of W. Seward Webb Jr. at front paste down. Very Good Plus light rubbing at joints and edges faint foxing at first few pages. The Macmillan Co, Hardcover
18610100035London: Illustrated London News 1861. Leather Bound. Both maps laid onto linen; in a gilt-lettered black leather binding with smaller fold-out "Key" on the left and the map on the right 139 cm wide x 53 tall. Some foxing edges age-toned; very good. Binding shows scuffing to edges and pull to the head of the spine. Engraved panoramic map of London. Illustrated London News unknown
193132453AB1931. Second Impression. Edinburgh and London William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1931. Octavo. Frontispiece XII 271 pages. With seven photographic illustrations on four plates. Original Hardcover with the very rare original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and foxing to the edges and several pages. This book is very rare in its original dustjacket. Inscribed and signed by Charles Noel Carnegie 10th Earl of Southesk 1854-1941: "To Lady Adam Smith from the Earl of Southesk - Jan 1934". With a newspaper-clipping on an event of Inverness Central School loosely inserted and with a newspaper-clipping shopwing the elderly "Earl of Southesk and Mr. Donald Steuart-Fothringham going out to shoot over Petterden Moor Angus". A wonderful association copy ! Charles Noel Carnegie 10th Earl of Southesk JP DL 20 March 1854 10 November 1941 was a Scottish nobleman. Carnegie was the son of the explorer and poet James Carnegie 9th Earl of Southesk and his first wife Catherine Hamilton Noel daughter of the Charles Noel 1st Earl of Gainsborough. He had three older sisters Lady Arabella Charlotte wife of Samuel Romilly Lady Constance Mary wife of Victor Bruce 9th Earl of Elgin and Lady Beatrice Diana Cecilia Diana Cecillia wife of the Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart. After his mother's death in 1855 at the age of twenty-six his father remarried to Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Dunmore in 1860. From his father's second marriage he had seven younger half-siblings including: Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie Lady Dora Susan wife of Maj. Ernest de Rodakowski-Rivers Lady Elizabeth Erica Lady Helena Mariota Lady Katherine Agnes Blanche wife of Courtenay Morgan 1st Viscount Tredegar Hon. Robert Francis who married Violet Fraser and Hon. David Wynford Carnegie. His paternal grandparents were Sir James Carnegie 5th Baronet de jure 8th Earl of Southesk and the former Charlotte Lysons a daughter of the Reverend Daniel Lysons. He was educated at Harrow and St Andrews University and would later receive an honorary degree from the university in October 1902. Amongst his various offices he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the part-time Forfar and Kincardine Artillery Militia in 1872 and steadily progressed through the officer ranks until he became the Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant in 1894 with the honorary rank of Colonel. He retired from the command in 1906. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant for Angus Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire from 5 January 1900. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire and for Angus. In 1905 he succeeded his father as the 10th Earl of Southesk who had restored the family titles with the original precedence by reversal of the 1715 Act of Attainder in 1855. He had the reputation of being the best game shot in Scotland. In 1921 Kinnaird Castle which was situated in one of the grandest Scottish glens and was the seat of the Earls of Southesk for more than 600 years burnt to the ground. "Only a small part of the servant's wing has escaped. A considerable part of the library was saved but many books impossible to replace as well as Raeburn's portrait of Lady Carnegie valued at £10000 were lost." Lord Southesk rebuilt the castle. A prominent art collector he owned "a large collection of paintings by old masters and antique gems." Source: Wikipedia hardcover
179461999Leipzig, Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtner, 1794. 8°. Mit 2 gest. Porträts als Frontispiz u. 13 Kupfertafeln. XII, 611 (recte 607) S., 16 Bll., Ldr. d. Zt. m. Rückenverg., goldgepr. Rückenschild u. dreiseitigem Rotschnitt.
es273Cornille, Chemin de fer de l'état et de Brighton Sélection Le Seanachi, Sélection Abraxas-libris Affiche Affiche ancienne du Chemin de fer de l'état et de Brighton (1900-1909), entoilée, dimensions : 73,5 x 106 cm sur support 77,5 x 110 cm, illustrée par Maurice Toussaint, magnifique lithographie imprimée par Cornille, aux couleurs restées vives ; trous d'épingle aux coins du support, par ailleurs superbe état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
pp. (8), 540, (2), 22, 56, 57, 65 , 32, 33 + A handsome bust portrait engraved by Basire, after Cipriani. Portrait offset on to the unusual title page. Some old foxing. Large 4to. 295 mm. x 240 mm. Modern plain full leather binding. Hardbound. Very good. ** WITH AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA (1863) MANUSCRIPT NOTES AND ANNOTATIONS. Edited by the great 'Republican' Thomas Hollis, with additions and corrections by Joseph Robertson, this edition includes: Memoirs of the Life of Algernon Sydney; Discourses Concerning Government; Letters of Algernon Sydney, taken from Thurloe's State Papers; The Protector's Advice to Algernon Sydney; Letters of Algernon Sydney, taken from the Sydney papers; Letters of A. Sydney to Henry Savile, Ambassador in France; The Trial of A. Sydney; The Apology of A. Sydney in the Day of his Death; and A General view of Government in Europe. This is an important book in the history of the ideas that founded the American republic, but what is perhaps most interesting about this copy are the manuscript notes and annotations written, in a careful small hand, in America, during the Civil War (1863). A few of these struck our eye, and we're glad to reproduce a few selections here: "I have lately undertaking to read Algernon Sydney on government. There is great difference in reading a book at four and twenty and at eighty eight. As often as I have read it and fumbled it over, it now excites fresh admiration that this work has excited so little interest in the literary world. As splendid an edition of it as the art of printing can produce, as well as for the intrinsic merits of the work, as for the proof it brings of the bitter sufferings of the advocates of liberty from that time to this, and to show the slow progress of moral, philosophical, political illumination in the world, ought to now be published in America" - John Adams to Thomas Jefferson 17 September, 1823. ".the danger in America. arises from (1) the indifference of the people to the character of their deputies; (2) the disinclination of good men to go as deputies; (3) and the inclination of bad men to go as such. The rottenness of our law making bodies has reached such a point that if it shall not soon be cured it can not longer endure." - 1863. "Among the causes, which have brought the USA to their present unhappy condition, may be reckoned, as a leading one, the predominance in their councils of mere municipal lawyers. The low morals and the crass ignorance (of these) are not equal to the work of government, filched by them from a blindly confiding people. A profession proverbially selfish and dishonest can not produce statesmen, however fecund it may be of politicians. The conduct of government is the work of statesmen - of unselfish, honest, high-hearted, great-minded men = that class has disappeared and has given way to small country lawyers whose minds exercise only upon petty squabbles of the neighborhood, incapable of grasping the vast concerns of a nation. Bad as this is, there is something worse. and that is that the profession of the law is every year sinking lower in ignorance and in contempt, while at the same time it is rising in power." - 1863. These manuscript annotations make this copy UNIQUE, and very worthy of further study. W150. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1960097759Great Britain 1960. Books measure 14 x 11 inches. A run of 20 volumes circa 20000 pages extensively illustrated. All but 2 volumes bound in half calf calf corners cloth boards gilt title lettering. Calf lightly rubbed scuff wear on one hinge joint. The other 2 volumes are bound in cloth. All volumes in very good clean firm condition. Internally occasional library mark or stamp about 20 to each volume . Pages in very good clean condition throughout. A very nice clean run. . Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. hardcover
3 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 3 portrait frontispieces, 13 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps in first volume; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. An elegant set of one of the outstanding biographies of the twentieth century. The trilogy comprises 'The Man in the Making' (1933), 'The Years of Peril' (1935) and 'The Saviour of the Navy' (1938). NMML Catalogue II, Part 1, 1194-1196; Albion, p.215.
Large and elaborate coloured engraved plan measuring approx. 1270mm x 1010mm (50.0 ins x 39.75 ins), folding in 20 panels to approx. 320mm x 210mm (12.5 ins x 8.0 ins); housed in original printed cartridge envelope with self-sealing flap (short tear in flap), A REMARKABLY CLEAN, NEAR FINE COPY. This is an engraved and coloured plan of the Crystal Palace prepared for the intended sale at auction of the buildings and grounds in 1911 (see below). The retaining envelope is printed 'PLAN OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE 1851-1911. Solicitors: Messrs Janson Cobb, Pearson & Company, 22 College Hill, E.C.; Receiver and Manager: Mr. Ernest I Husey (Messrs Jackson, Pixley & Co., Chartered Accountants, 58 Coleman Street, E.C; Auctioneers: Mr. Howard Frank (Messrs Knight, Frank & Rutley), 20 Hanover Sq, London W; and Mr. John Roy Lancaster (Messrs Horne & Co), 85 Gresham Street, E.C.' The plan in well executed and colour-coded to indicate the various leases and tenancies involved. It shows the scale and local context of the magnificent building, together with its world-famous gardens and grounds, including the tiered sculptural terraces, the patios, and the renowned lakes and fountains. Key features such as the Flying Machine, the Maze, Brunel's Polygonal Water Towers, the Lower Lake area housing Waterhouse Hawkins' recreations of dinosaurs (still present today) and the Sports Grounds are clearly highlighted. HISTORICAL CONTEXT. After the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was re-erected in a considerably enlarged form in 1854 at Sydenham in South London. During the next half century it continued as a major metropolitan tourist attraction attracting visitors from all over the world to marvel at the building, its contents and gardens, and to witness a wide variety of entertainment including music, acrobatics, circuses and fireworks. By the turn of the century, however, the novelty was wearing thin and the number of visitors declined to the point where in 1911 the Palace was declared bankrupt and placed in the hands of a receiver. 'On 28 November it was to be sold by auction, to be offered in one lot as a going concern. This was a fateful period in its history. There was grave danger that it would pass into the hands of the developers. Every jerry builder within striking distance was eager for the moment when he might be in a position to swoop down on the beautiful grounds and reduce them to terms of bricks and mortar. But that ultimate indignity was not to be. The Earl of Plymouth produced £230,000 to buy the Palace as a going concern; at the same time the Lord Mayor of London opened a fund to purchase the Crystal Palace for the nation, and to reimburse Lord Plymouth. This was completed in 1913 and the Crystal Palace was saved.' [A.R. Warwick: The Phoenix Suburb (1972)]. During the Great War the revitalised Palace served as a Royal Naval base (HMS VICTORY VI). At the end of hostilities it became for a short time the home of the Imperial War Museum and then reverted to tourism with exhibitions of early flying, pioneer television, dirt-track racing, music festivals, dog and cat shows, dancing and fireworks. In this way it continued until completely destroyed by the tragic fire of 30 November 1936 - the end of a great era. IT IS UNCERTAIN HOW MANY OF THESE ELABORATE PLANS WERE PRODUCED, BUT THE NUMBER CANNOT HAVE BEEN GREAT. GIVEN THAT £230,000 (VERY APPROXIMATELY £7M BY TODAY'S STANDARDS) WAS REQUIRED TO OBVIATE THE NEED FOR SALE, THE NUMBER OF INTENDING BIDDERS MUST HAVE BEEN FEW INDEED. IN ANY CASE IT IS UNLIKELY THAT MANY COPIES SURVIVE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS VIRTUALLY UNOPENED STATE COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE. A DOCUMENT OF CONSIDERABLE SIGNIFICANCE IN THE HISTORY OF SOUTH LONDON, AND A VIVID REMINDER OF ONE OF LONDON'S GREATEST HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS.
