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189235628Bournemouth: January 19th 1892. 1892. Very good. - Over 160 words penned on 4 sides of a folded sheet of creamy white paper the letter measuring 7-1/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. In his letter penned from the Mount Dore Hotel in Bournemouth England Sir Edward Bruce Hamley first expresses his appreciation for the kindness Mrs. Ford has shown his niece and for her having inquired concerning his health. He responds that "though my health is very well restored yet the disorder in my chest causing sometimes much shortness of breath still continues and disables me for active exertion." He goes on to relate that when he came to London to see Dr. Kidd over the Winter he was "much the worse for it". "I have faired till Easter and shall not till then attempt to stay for any time in town." Having previously thanked Mrs. Ford for the information regarding Mrs. Curzon Howe's Chambers" he is concerned that he might be advised to go out of town and "It would therefore be rash to take the responsibility of permanent chambers at present." Hamley goes on to say: "I hope that you and the Ambassador Mary Ford's step-son are pleased with his transfer - As you are fond of travelling . and when you get there you would be pleased indeed with the scenery of the Bosphorous - April is I should say the best month". He is glad to hear that Mrs. Mary Ford thinks well of his "niece's miniatures". Lacking for space Hamley returns to the margin of the first page to express his closing wishes vertically overlapping the opening sentences of his letter and signs himself "Edward Hamley". Folded for mailing with some very minor faint foxing. Glue stains along the edge of the last page and a thin strip of paper along the left edge of the first page slightly obscures Mrs. Ford's name which is penned vertically in the left margin. Apparently the letter was once tipped into an album. Very good. <p>Sir Edward Bruce Hamley 1824-1893 served in the Crimean War. He was professor of military history at the Staff College Sandhurst from 1858 to 1877 and was Commandant of the College from 1870-1877. He was chief of the commission for the delimitation of the Balkan and Armenian frontiers 1879-80 and commanded a division in the Egyptian war of 1882. He was promoted to General in 1890. Hamley was Member of Parliament for Birkenhead from 1885 until his death in 1893.<p>In addition to works on the Crimean War and his military manual "The Operations of War" Hamley was a short-story writer and poet a translator of French verse and the author of a novel "Lady Lee's Widowhood".<p>The letter comes from the autograph collection of Mrs. Mary Ford widow of Richard Ford who wrote the popular "Handbook for Travellers in Spain". The autograph collection known as the Pencarrow Collection was formed from the 1850s onwards largely by Mary Ford in her long period of widowhood.<p>Richard Ford's son and thus Mary Ford's step-son Sir Francis Clare Ford GCB GCMG PC 1828-1899 was an English diplomat. After serving as a Lieutenant in the 4th Light Dragoons he entered the diplomatic service first serving as Secretary of Legation in Washington D.C. He was appointed Secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburg and subsequently transferred to Vienna. He represented the British government before the Halifax Fisheries Commission and then went on to serve as Minister to the Argentine Republic to Uruguay and similar posts in Rio de Janeiro and Athens. He served as Ambassador to Spain and acted as British Commissioner in Paris to settle the Newfoundland fisheries question and at the time of this letter in 1892 was appointed to Constantinople and later to Rome. His service was highly regarded and he was rewarded with appointment to the Privy Council in 1888. Bournemouth: January 19th, 1892. unknown
193828283New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc. 1938. Dampstained throughout light edge wear with a few tiny chips a good copy with readable contents. 28283. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part one of four of "Deserted!" by Cornell Woolrich. ".is historically important as Woolrich's first piece of fiction during his crime-writing period that approached the length of a novel and to the student of his earlier work it's a fascinating mix of conventional romance ingredients with customary Woolrich plot flubs-and with material lifted bodily from two previous pulp suspense tales." - Nevins Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream Then You Die p. 204. It does have crime elements a woman marries a gangster and has not been reprinted which may be for the best. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. unknown
194032205New York: Fiction House Inc. 1940. Text paper slightly tanned mild edge wear with some tiny tears to overhang cover cleanly separated from spine and can be re-glued several tiny rear cover tears at spine edge fade to color of spine panel lettering still readable. A nearly fine copy. 32205. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Science fiction cover for the Eando Binder story "The Destroyer from Mars." Other fiction by Ted Roscoe Jay Karth George Bruce Albert Wetjen and Walt Coburn. Fiction House, Inc. unknown
192730584New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1927. Text paper tanned but supple edge rubbing to spine small clear tape at base of spine touch of wear to corners a nearly fine copy. 30584. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine bedsheet format. Fiction by Jules Verne H. G. Wells Clement Fezandié writing as Henry Hugh Simmons Miles J. Breuer and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
193020948New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation 1930. Edges trimmed tiny chip with small tear to right front edge some mild creases a very good to nearly fine copy. 20948. Octavo cover painting by Wessolowski pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Captain S.P. Meek Harl Vincent and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 60-103. Publishers' Fiscal Corporation unknown
191619698Chicago Illinois: H. H. Windsor Editor and Publishers December 1916. A touch of wear to spine ends a fine copy. 19698. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Cartoon representation from both the U.S. and foreign sources. Commentary and cartoons about the recent election much about the ongoing war in Europe. A feature piece on Dutch artist Louis Raemaekers at the front. H. H. Windsor Editor and Publishers unknown
194332334Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1943. Tanning to text paper light edge wear tiny spine nicks very good copy. 32334. Octavo single issue cover by Rafael De Soto pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "SECRET CITY OF CRIME" by Grant Stockbridge pseudonym. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
194134811Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1941. Tanning to text paper light edge wear with tiny tears and a bit of overhang loss small chip to upper right edge a very good copy. 34811. Octavo single issue cover by Rafael DeSoto pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Crime Laboratory" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193434712Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Tanning to text paper with some edge brittleness edge wear with tiny tears and chips small chip to upper left front cover spine darkened a good to very good copy. 34712. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Empire of Doom" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193434711Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Tanning to text paper edge wear with tears and chips small chip to upper left front cover darkening to spine a good to very good copy. 34711. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "City of Flaming Shadow" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
24533Letter: 12 November 1948. On letterhead of 2 Bristol Court West Marine Parade Brighton. CV undated but with autograph address 'Percy Nash / 2 Bristol Court West / Marine Parade. / Brighton. / Sussex'. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See MP's entry in the Oxford DNB. Nash made around 70 films between 1912 and 1927 and was a key figure in the creation of Elstree Studios. His career as a film maker was effectively ended following the screening of his 1921 film 'How Kitchener was betrayed'. See Bernard Ince ' “For the Love of the Artâ€: The Life and Work of Percy Nash Film Producer and Director of the Silent Era’ ‘Film History’ September 2007. Both items in good condition lightly aged each with light rust staining at one corner from paper clip. LETTER: 1p 4to. Signed ‘Percy Nash’. He begins by stating that he has enjoyed 'immensely' MP’s ‘articles re the Theatre World’ as well as his book ‘Carriages at Eleven’. He continues: ‘I got quite a thrill when I read that you appreciated the dance in front of the Act drop in the “merry wives†production at His Majestys. I suggested the idea during rehearsals but Tree didn’t catch on to it at the time but when the Curtain was lowered and raised a dozen times at the end he screamed “Do what you wanted to doâ€. Naturally a thing like that required rehearsing but I risked it and luckily it came off all right.’ Although ‘past the age for personal publicity to attract me’ he is enclosing ‘a list of my various adventures in the World of Entertainment’. He will be happy to allow MP to consult his ‘good amount of data such as Programmes Private letters from many Stars of the bygone Firmament etc.’ TWO: Signed Typed CV: 2pp: the first a full single-spaced A4 page the second last five lines of typed text and autograph name and address on cut-down top part of A4 page now 1p landscape 8vo. Signed on p.2: ‘Percy Nash / 2 Bristol Court West / Marine Parade. / Brighton. / Sussex’. The list is headed ‘PERCY NASH. born December 5th 1868.’ Begins: ‘Began thetrical sic career as assistant at Theatre Royal Bournemouth in 1889. Whilst there Toured the West Country with John L. Toole The Gilbert and Sullivan Operas German Reeds George Grossmith on leaving the Savoy Theatre. Paderewski First Tour Sims Reeves and other famous Concert artistes.’ Contains the following: ‘Became a pioneer in the British Film World organised and Directed the first pictures for the original London Film Company. Built the first Film Studios at Elstree. Directed Pictures in Rome for the CINES and TIBER Film Companies and the UNIVERSAL Film Co of America’. / First President of the British Association of Film Directors / Film Producer for the Federation of British Industries / Production Manager of the British Lion Film Corporation’. Letter: 12 November 1948. On letterhead of 2 Bristol Court West, Marine Parade, Brighton. CV undated, but with autograph address unknown
26224No date. On letterhead of 43 Cloth Fair London EC1. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In fair condition but lightly discoloured with a large rectangle of sunning covering most of the lower part and a neat crease at bottom right not affecting the signature which is partially sunned. Annotated in pencil by a later hand on the reverse. Betjeman’s handwriting is bad so the following reading is tentative. ‘Dear Lady Jones / I meant to write to you long ere this to tell you how grateful I was to you & Sir Roderick Jones her husband for letting us house this prize in your capacious drawing room. I was grateful to you too for remembering our conversation at Old Billa’s Lady Wilhelmine Harrod wife of the economist Sir Roy Harrod in Oxford. I remember being impressed with it there & “that really exactly how I feel.â€â€™ See IMage No date. On letterhead of 43 Cloth Fair, London EC1. hardcover
12476Ramsdon sic. 24 January 1822. 2pp. 12mo. In a windowpane mount on a leaf removed from an album. The letter itself very good on aged paper; the mount worn at extremities. He begins by informing the recipient that his 'last Letter has made ample atonement for the provocation of the preceding' and he has 'ever been the foremost both in word & deed to keep my wings in motion. I speak this seriously: my former note was only a temporary petulance'. The second paragraph begins: 'I must positively have another Paper for my Orators'. He has 'run to a fearful length & yet have cramped myself all the way. Besides what I enclose I shall have ready as much to forward in the shape of reflexion inferences &c before I enclose with my legal oratory. And then I have the Political Oratory on my hands'. He continues: 'I engage to bring Demosthenes upon the stage in a new manner & when I have him there I should like to shew him to as much advantage as I can'. The letter continues in the same vein with a postscript beginning: 'Let me hear as soon as you can that my time of gestation is extended.' Ramsdon [sic]. 24 January 1822. unknown
2081502111907768Liaoning National Publishing House N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Liaoning National Publishing House paperback
196211119Viking Press NY 1962. HBDJ May 1962 1st edition 2nd printing stated on copyright page Pictorial color Boards reddish pink & Black Interior Nice Tight Clean DJ minor wear & tiny Chips scuff Extremities & light soil back DJ F-/NF AS-IS 46 pages Scuff rub Edge Extremities bottom & top Cover edge. First Edition. Hard Cover. Viking Press NY hardcover
196429302HBDJ 1964 First Edition. 1st edition hardcover states book club edition on foot of frt flap but States complete number line #1 on copyright page. FINE-/NEAR FINE Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated illustrator. First Edition. 4to NOT Exlibrary. Brilliant copy with sharp tips and spine ends. 34 pp text is flawless. White/green background illust dj has very light age-toning at extremities and along spine edge displays beautifully in new mylar. lessons he has learned from a robin a kingfisher and a duck but finally has to admit that Alec knows best in doing things a bear's way. On the walk home however Buzzy Bear once more remembering his friends the birds has his own moments of triumph.<br /><br /> Franklin Watts, NY, BOOK CLUB hardcover
193428772Chicago IL: Tower Magazines Inc. 1934. Cover creases edge wear with closed tears a good to very good copy. 28772. Large octavo single issue cover by Harold Woolridge pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Walter F. Ripperberger Stuart Palmer Ellery Queen Roger East and others. A large format densely illustrated bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view was often narrated by a woman and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication . That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field including Ellery Queen Stuart Palmer Sax Rohmer Arnold Kummer Hulbert Footner Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished often strongly compressed and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years sixty-nine issues at ten cents a copy. After three years the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE . Covers were tasteful bright and uneventful relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction four or more crime-fact articles and up to ten continuing departments about half of these slanted directly toward women. When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes . MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been and often over illustrated but it was also considerably interesting and for years excellent." - Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 287-90. Tower Magazines, Inc. unknown
51856Paris: JB d�pos�e C. 1930 . Girl with long hair crouching on a rock cradling her knee with stamped 'Bronze garanti Paris JB d�pos�e' mark and signed 'Milo' to base on a marble stand. Weight including base : 1.54kg. Dimensions of bronze: 15.0cm height x 10.5cm length x 6.0cm width . "Milo Martin was a Swiss sculptor and medal-artist. He set up a studio in the Orangerie of Parc Mon-Repos. Most of his sculptures are spread across the Lausanne region. He also travelled to other European countries to exhibit his works in international exhibitions - these included those in Brussels and Amsterdam in 1928 in Paris in 1934 Vienna in 1937 where he won "lauriers d'or" or the golden laurels Cairo and Alexandria in 1938 and New York in 1939-1940. He won first prize in the national competition for medal design at the Swiss National Exhibition in Berne in 1913 and the silver medal for sculpture in the art competitions of the 1928 Olympic Games for his "Athl�te au repos". He won several public commissions and from 1931 to 1936 sat on Switzerland's federal commission for fine arts. He died in Lausanne. Paris: JB d�pos�e, C. 1930 . unknown
23268Apparently the top of the letter has been cut off with presumably his address and the date and name of correspondent. Paper 20 x 11.5cm punch-hole one only the other having been cut off as stated above - perhaps filed formerly. Text: "My name may perhaps be known to you as that of a well-known Scottish poet and essayist author of a number of books on Scottish literary historical sociological economic and political matters. I enclose a leaflet giving some information about my work. I will be glad to write and submit an article along the above lines immediiately if I hear from you that you are willing to consider this." WITH: Leaflet 8vo four pages at some time torn in two and crudely repaired with punch-holes entitled "Speaking for Scotland Tributes Concerning Hugh MacDiarmuid". "199" in red crayon is written on front top right. Scarce: holdings NLS and some American Libraries. Apparently the top of the letter has been cut off (with presumably his address and the date, and name of correspondent). unknown
192730577New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1927. Pages tanned but supple mild edge rubbing clear tape at spine ends corner creases a very good copy. 30577. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part one of "The Moon Pool" by A. Merritt and a reprint of "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
192830592New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1928. Mild tanning to pages supple. Very mild dust soiling to white background of cover a fine copy. 30592. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine bedsheet format. The first appearance of the "scientifiction" logo on the cover this logo was later adopted in more modern times by the members of "first fandom." This issue also includes part two of the serial "The Skylark of Space" by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby. Other authors include Harl Vincent David H. Keller Fletcher Pratt and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
192730573New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1927. Text paper tanned but supple mild edge rubs clear tape at spine ends with tiny chip at upper left front corner a very good to nearly fine copy. 30573. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine bedsheet format. Include the first published SF story by Dr. Miles J. Breuer. Also fiction by Murray Leinster H. G. Wells Garrett P. Serviss and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
192630567New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1926. Pages browning some minor loss at corner tips clear tape to spine ends some edge rubs a very good to nearly fine copy. 30567. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine bedsheet format. Includes part 2 of "Station X" by George Winsor other fiction by H. G. Wells Garrett Serviss and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
192730579New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1927. Pages tanned but supple slight edge rubbing clear tape at spine ends a very good to nearly fine copy. 30579. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part three of "The Moon Pool" by A. Merritt. Other authors include A. Hyatt Verrill H. G. Wells Edgar Allan Poe and others. This issue also has a letter from a fifteen year old A. Betram Chandler. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
192730582New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1927. Text paper tanned but supple slight edge rubbing a fine copy. 30582. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine bedsheet format. Stories by Ray Cummings H. G. Wells Garret Smith and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
