‎Anglais‎

‎ENGLISH, MICHAEL - Edited by J Slattery:‎

‎3-D EYE - The Posters prints and paintings of Michael English 1966 - 1979.‎

‎<p>USslim Qrto softback1st edn thus. Produced by M. Dean and S. Henderson.Edited by J.Slattery. Library of Congress Catalog Number 80-7731. NFINE. No owner inscrptnbut black ink stamp price US $6.98internally to top front corner of front card cover. Brightcrisp cleanshep-corneredglossy laminatedwrap-around white background with capitalisedblack-lettered part-title and author name to front card cover with oozing chocolate 1977 colour illustration pp50vertically capitalised publisher name $price on gutter fold/crease of front cover and an adhesivegilt circular $6.98 price label in its vicinitycapitalised part-title author nameISBN to spine/backstrip which has NO reading creases; rear cover with white background and b/w PerigeePaper Tiger logo towards top edge and publisher detailsISBN towards lower edge and an approx 2" wide vertical band/strip of natural but slight light darkening/ageing.Negligible shelf-wearbumping creasing to edges and corners - no nickstears or splits present.Topfore-edges without foxing/spotting; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread other than my own collation.USslim Qrto s/back1st edn thus6-107pp paginated includes subject's b/w portrait photograph by David Bailey and 2 b/w contemporary shop front murals and an approx 1 year-old portrait photograph of himself within the commentary about his work/art by Penny Sparke 100 colour and 20 b/w illustrations of his printsposters etc.; plus unpaginatedcolour illustrated frntiscolour vignetted title page contents list/table and to the rearacknowledgements with a blank verso and a further 2p blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptionaland even internally the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature i.e. an ephemeral softback book.It is only the exterior fault described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite itit really is an exceptional exampley for its cleanlinessbrightness and almost fault-free presentation. Michael English b. 5th September1941 – d. 25th September 2009 was a British artist known for poster designs he created in the 1960s for musicians such as Jimi Hendrix in collaboration with Nigel Waymouth and the design company they established Hapshash and the Coloured Coatand later for several series of hyper realist paintings in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1962 he enolled at Ealing College of Artwhere he took Roy Ascott's radical Groundcourse which had a major impact on his thinking.His work included commissioned paintings for both private individuals and public organisationsadvertising art for companies such as Porsche and stamp series for the Royal Mail such as the 'British Buses' or 'British Motorcycles'. His career was launched in London during 1966when he began to work with Nigel Waymouthwho owned the shop Granny Takes a Trip in the King's Roadwhich was a burgeoning counter-culture and bohemian centre of Swinging London. English was hired by Waymouth to create a mural for the shopwhich was rapidly gaining international cult status. English incorporated "fairground murals vernacular imagery and hand-crafted Victorian letter forms" into the muraland during the same periodhe also completed a mural for the Cale Street shop Hung On You in the trendy Chelsea areaowned by Michael Rainey. During this period he produced what he considered his 'best poster' for the underground club UFO established by John Hopkinsco-founder of the International Times. He contributed artworkincluding two covers issues 4 and 13 for the radical 'OZ' magazine as part of Hapshasha collaboration which continued for two years.Throughout this timehe produced posters for leading performers such as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. He also created posters for the 1968 Liverpool Love Festivaland Love Me Film Productions. Michael English has been credited with creating "an English form of psychedelic poster art". English's works used contemporary Op Art techniques to create a visually jarring effect for the viewer and had a boldcarnivalesque style similar to Pop Art. He also used evocative references to the decadent spirit of the 1890s 'Art Nouveau' influencessuch as Alphonse Mucha's postersand the works of Aubrey Beardsley. In the 1970sEnglish moved away from psychedelic imagery towards Hyper Realist work employing airbrush techniques. He produced several different series of paintings'The Food Paintings' 1969– 70including 'Fried Egg' and 'Ketchup' The Rubbish Posters 1970with the iconic 'Coke'an airbrush image of a used Coca-Cola bottle capand the Strikes Water Prints 1971 with images such as Ball Strikes Water. English's posters from this period sold in the millions. English also experimented with environmentalist happenings and oil lamp projections.In the mid to late 1970s and the 1980s he focused more keenly on two seemingly contrasting themesthe 'Machine Paintings' which are highly detailed sections of trains planes and trucks and the 'Nature Paintings'which provided close-up fragments of nature images such as ivy leaves often juxtaposed with hard man-made surfaces.His interest in both these themes continued to play a major part in his subsequent career resulting in several large scale paintings. 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‎[SURPRISING TRANSLATIONS - JAPANESE TO AMERICAN ENGLISH AND FIVE OTHER LANGUAGES].‎

‎あめりかことバ. Amerika kotoba. Vocabulary Lists for Japanese and Foreign Languages Including American.‎

‎Japan. Circa 1860. Two black and white woodblock kawarabans 22.4 x 30cm occasional light creasing but overall very good. These two kawaraban present vocabulary lists comparing Japanese with six foreign languages: American Russian British Dutch Chinese and French. Alongside each vocabulary list a small portrait of a "typical" man from the respective country is provided with the country's capital indicated. For instance an American soldier is shown holding a gun with Washington listed as the capital while a Russian officer is depicted with a sword and St. Petersburg is named as Petoruku the capital. <br> <br>The vocabulary lists themselves are quite difficult to interpret raising the possibility that some of the words may be fabricated or inaccurate. However in the American section a few recognisable words such as "silver" and "coin" appear to have been transcribed phonetically into Japanese. . unknown‎

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‎Herzl, Theodor; Paula Arnold, translation to English‎

‎Altneuland -Old-New Land- Novel by Theodor Herzl. Translated by Paula Arnold‎

‎Haifa: Haifa Publishing Company Ltd 1960. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries 220p. quarto-size in 11x8.5 inch white faux-leatherette titled gilt; a pictorial gift edition with facsimile text inset amid a plethora of monochrome reproductions of the original illustrations notes in Herzl's handwriting many more from a great variety of other sources contemporary color and b&w & monochrome photographs tipped-in the list goes on. Inscribed and signed on ffep by the captain of the "Moledet" a cruise ship of the Haifa Line. Intended for a complimentary luxury item. Some foxing and a couple of tiny stains to top of text block otherwise in very good condition. Published under the auspices of the Herzl Centenary Committee Jerusalem. Haifa Publishing Company Ltd hardcover‎

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‎an English Woman‎

‎Letters From Italy: Describing the Manners Customs Antiquities Paintings &c. of That Country in the Years MDCCLXX and MDCCLXXI: to a Friend Residing in France Volumes I and II‎

‎Edward and Charles Dilly 1777. Hardcover. Good. London 1777; 2 Volumes complete; leather covered boards; edge and corner wear with board exposed at corners; joints cracked but attached; spine edges frayed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; end paper edges toned; lightly foxed; Interior is clean and unmarked; 418 and 392 pages. Additional shipping charges may be required for international or expedited orders. Edward and Charles Dilly hardcover‎

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‎ENGLISH (James Lake)‎

‎A Manual for the Preservation of the Larger Fungi Hymenomycetes in their Natural Condition by a New and Approved Method; Also of a New Process for the Preservation of Wild Flowers‎

‎Epping: Alfred B. Davis 1882. First edition small 8vo viii 41 1 2pp. of adverts orig. publishers blue embossed cloth lettered in gilt a nice copy. Epping: Alfred B. Davis, 1882 hardcover‎

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‎ENGLISH (H S)‎

‎The Laws Respecting Pews or Seats in Churches.‎

‎London: John Hatchard and Son 1826. First edition 8vo vi 2 title lightly soiled with slight fraying to bank margins disbound pamphlet. London: John Hatchard and Son, 1826 unknown‎

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‎SHAKESPEARE, William‎

‎THE ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE. 3 vols.‎

‎New York: Clarkson Potter 1978 . First American Trade edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4200 prints of sets costume. 4tos 752 800 912 pages maroon cloth in fine publisher's box. N.B. Requires additional shipping fees. <br/><br/>The text of the plays is reproduced from the 1904 Globe edition. Authoritatively done by a notable Elizabethan scholar. "The 4200 illustrations make this also an incomparable visual edition of Shakespeare. They show actual scenes of the plays in photographs as well as in paintings by Delacroix Gainsborough Blake and others and pictures of historic figures and famous Shakespearean performers. Additonally these include set and costume designs prints facsimiles of title pages of first editions and other reproductions. Orignally published at $55. Clarkson Potter hardcover‎

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‎Agnes Macdonell [nee Harrison] (c1840-1925), English author, pioneering woman journalist and suffragist [Government Benevolent I‎

‎Agnes Macdonell English author pioneering woman journalist and suffragist. Autograph Letter Signed asking Mrs Harrison Blair to cast her vote as subscriber to the Government Benevolent Institution in favour of a lady resident of Hampstead.‎

‎11 July no year; on letterhead of 24 Stanley Gardens Hampstead NW London. 3pp 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once. Rough pencil floorplan on verso of second leaf. Twenty-eight lines of neatly-written text. Signed ‘Agnes Macdonell.’ She has seen Mrs Blair’s name ‘in the list of subscribers to the Government Benevolent Institution’ and writes a line ‘to beg if you have not already given your vote and kindly interest to any Candidate - to do this in favour of the poor lady whose card I enclose’ not present. To ‘the claims set forth’ she adds ‘that she & her sisters have for years supported out of their small earnings an invalid & quite incapable brother’. The lady ‘has long been a resident in Hampstead & is highly respected by many hereabouts who have seen her patient & cheerful struggle against poverty and under such heavy burdens’. She asks her to send ‘a message of kind remembrance to Mrs Frank Harrison - whose name is interwoven with my pleasantest memories of Beckenham’. 11 July [no year]; on letterhead of 24 Stanley Gardens, Hampstead NW [London]. unknown‎

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‎Osborne Gordon (1813-1883), English cleric and tutor at Christ Church, Oxford [Lord Brougham [Henry Brougham (1778-1868), 1st Ba‎

‎Osborne Gordon influential tutor at Christ Church Oxford. Autograph Letter Signed discussing a letter by Lord Brougham concerning the likelihood of war Louis Napoleon of France Goldwin Smith and the British colonies.‎

‎‘Saturday’ no date; Easthampstead. See his entry in the Oxford DNB with those of Brougham and Goldwin Smith. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition with thin strip from windowpane mount adhering to the blank reverse of the second leaf. Signed ‘O Gordon’ and addressed to ‘Dear Mr Da Qeue’. An interesting letter full of content. He begins by thanking him for ‘Ld Broughams letter which I have disposed of as directed’. He had ‘some difficulty in making it out’ but is ‘glad to infer from it that there will be no war just now’ although he is afraid ‘there must be a feeling of humiliation which will be permanent in France when there is a permanent foreign minister Louis. Napoleon. himself that will find some unpleasant expression hereafter’. He can ‘hardly make out’ what Brougham ‘says of Goldwin Smith’ but he gathers that he does not agree with him ‘that as a matter of principle and policy we ought to get rid of all our colonies at once. / As to letting them go peacably sic & with mutual good will when they are of age that is quite another thing.’ ‘Saturday’ [no date]; Easthampstead. unknown‎

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‎Frederic Harrison (1831-1923), English historian, biographer, essayist and positivist:‎

‎‘It is now not safe to take a newspaper paragraph report’: Frederic Harrison English historian and positivist. Autograph Letter Signed declining to enter into an argument on property as his views have been misrepresented.‎

‎4 February no year; on letterhead of 38 Westbourne Terrace W. London. See his long but strangely-cagey entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. On a bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once. Signed ‘Frederic Harrison.’ The recipient is not named. The letter begins: ‘Madam I am obliged to you for your interesting letter. I do not enter an argument because it is founded on a few sentences which give a very imperfect idea of what I said on Sunday last.’ He does not dispute many of her assertions and as for ‘the usefulness of larger landlords’ he has ‘repeatedly urged it in my addresses’. He refers her to his paper ‘Report of the Industrial Remuneration Conference 1885. Cassells. 2s/6d’. He ends with the observation that ‘it is now not safe to take a newspaper paragraph report of the speeches of any public man’. In pencil in another hand at foot of second page: ‘Written in reply to mother’. 4 February [no year]; on letterhead of 38 Westbourne Terrace, W. [London.] unknown‎

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‎Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), leading English late-Victorian and Edwardian playwright, after beginning as an actor in Sir‎

‎Sir Arthur Wing Pinero leading late-Victorian and Edwardian playwright. Autograph Inscription Signed with quotation from his play ‘Lady Bountiful’.‎

‎23 February 1897. On letterhead of 63 Hamilton Terrace N.W. London. See his appreciative entry in the Oxford DNB concluding with praise of his ‘undeniable’ achievements. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged with the blank reverse carrying very slight staining to one edge from glue from mount. Folded once. Neatly and firmly written with the underlined signature with a deliberate upwards slope. Clearly sent in response to a request for an autograph. Reads: ‘ “A man dies but once a woman twice - the first time when she marries and then as at the last wondering at the thereafter.†/ Lady Bountiful. / Act IV. / Arthur W. Pinero. / 23rd. February 1897.’ 23 February 1897. On letterhead of 63 Hamilton Terrace, N.W. [London.] unknown‎

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‎Algernon Blackwood [Algernon Henry Blackwood] (1869-1951) English ghost writer, one of the most celebrated and prolific in the h‎

‎Algernon Blackwood celebrated ghost story writer. Typed Card Signed to ‘Miss Cond’ autograph collector Eileen Cond thanking her for a card that has enchanted him.‎

‎15 December 1959; Savile Club 69 Brook Street W1 London with Paddington postmark. Blackwood’s entry in the Oxford DNB quotes H. P. Lovecraft’s opinion that he was the author of ‘some of the finest spectral literature of this or any age’. On post card with printed stamp. In good condition lightly worn on light-brown card. Addressed to ‘Miss Cond / Deer Park / Honiton.’ Apart from the signature Blackwood has added quotation marks and dealt with two typing mistakes in autograph. Good firm signature. Reads: ‘Savile Club 69 Brook St W. 1. / I must send my ‘Thank You’ corrected from ‘Your’ for the enchamnibg sic underlined to indicate that it should be ‘enchanting’ card though my postbag prevents a longer word. You will I know understand and forgive. / Algernon Blackwood. / Dec 15/49.’ See Image. 15 December 1959; Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, W1 [London], with Paddington postmark. unknown‎

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‎Greer Garson [Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson] (1904-1996), English film actress and singer, Hollywood star [Eileen Cond, autograph c‎

‎Greer Garson Hollywood star. Autograph Note Signed acknowledging the ‘nice letter’ of ‘Miss Cond’ the autograph collector Eileen Cond.‎

‎No date. Globe Theatre London W1. See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p small 4to. On laid light-brown paper. In good condition with fold for postage. Reads: ‘Dear Miss Cond / Your nice letter was mislaid in my flitting from the Whitehall to the Victoria Palace hence the delay in acknowledging it. / Many thanks for your good wishes / Sincerely / Greer Garson.’ Eileen Cond was an enthusiastic autograph collector. [No date.] Globe Theatre, London W1. unknown‎

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‎Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), English herbalist, botanist, physician and astrologer:‎

‎Nicholas Culpeper herbalist botanist physician and astrologer. Printed list of ‘Ten several Books by Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology.’‎

‎Extracted from ‘Medicaments for the Poor; Or Physick for the Common People’ London: Printed by John Streater for George Sawbridge 1670. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo with verso paginated 135 and ending ‘FINIS.’ The items are described over forty-five lines. The text is complete and clear but the laid paper is in a delicate condition discoloured and with chipping to extremities. The longest title is the first at ten lines: ‘I. The Practice of Physick containing seventeen several Books: wherein is plainly set forth the Nature Cause Differences and several sorts of Signs; together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man. Being chiefly a Translation of the Works of that learned and renowned Doctor Lazarus Riverius Counsellor and Physician to the King of France. Above fifteen thousand of the said Book in Latin have been sold in a very few years having been eight times printed though all the former Impressions wanted the Nature Causes Signs and Differences of the Diseases and had only the Medicines for the Cure of them; as plainly appears by the Authors Epistle.’ Extracted from ‘Medicaments for the Poor; Or, Physick for the Common People’ (London: Printed by John Streater, for George S unknown‎

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‎Chili Bouchier [Dorothy Irene Boucher] (1909-1999), English movie star [Eileen Margaret Cond]:‎

‎‘Britain's original “It†girl’: Chili Boucher movie star. Autograph Letter Signed and Typed Letter Signed to Eileen Cond including references to touring Egypt with ENSA her protest against theatre closure and writing about her ‘peculiar’ life.‎

‎ALS: 17 August 1944; 27 Oakington Manor Drive Wembley. TLS: 31 October 1962; 807 Howard House Dolphin Square London SW1. See her Guardian obituary by Ronald Bergan ‘Britain's original “It†girl who rose from shop assistant to movie star’ 13 September 1999. Both items in good condition lightly aged and folded for postage. Both letters with good content. Eileen Margaret Cond 1911-1984 of Honiton was an enthusiastic autograph collector and she had an ability to draw a more than perfunctory response from her targets. ONE 1944 ALS: 2pp 8vo. Addressed to ‘Dear Miss Cond’ and signed ‘Chili Bouchier’. Begins: ‘Just a wee line to thank you so much for your nice Xmas card which was forwarded to me in Egypt. where she had been touring with ENSA / I am home now safe & sound and fortunately for me on tour with a new play “Lady - Be Careful†so I can escape the flying bombs without feeling too guilty of running away from their horror.’ Having a ‘week out’ before playing Bath ‘we decided to spend our week here and enjoy the antiquities’. She ‘thoroughly enjoyed’ her ‘trip out East and I think it was appreciated by the “boys.â€â€™ With reference to the war she feels things look ‘grand all round now’. She hopes Cond is well and making her ‘post-war plans. It’s fun to do although they may all go wrong - as all plans persistently do. At least that is my experience.’ TWO 1962 TLS. 1p 4to. Twenty-eight single-spaced lines. Addressed to ‘My Dear Eileen’ and signed ‘Chili’. She has written a letter of protest against theatre closures to the Daily Express and ‘Yes the Theatre Royal Portsmouth was one of the casualties I had in mind’. I had another letter from someone from your district bewailing the apathy of the majority of people about the closing of the theatre.’ She doesn’t feel very hopeful: ‘There doesn’t seem to be much one can do about it except wait for the time when people will be sick of staying at home and watching the “goggle-boxâ€. But with new attractions like Telstar and colour TV it doesn’t look as if that time will ever come.’ Her letter has ‘brought a tremendous response from the public’ and she has been ‘deeply moved to learn how many unknown friends I have.’ Despite the ‘stunned silence at the audacity of an artist to raise a voice in protest’ she will soon be working again. She makes a suggestion regarding those who wish to join her. She expresses the ‘happiness and relaxation’ she finds in Spain before turning to her autobiography: ‘The book is now finished having re-written it once more and I just don’t know which publisher to send it to as it is all a bit peculiar. It has to be as my life has been. Not at all like anyone elses.’ She is certain she will gain ‘an inspiration’ regarding the publisher ‘and in the meantime I have high hopes of placing a musical with a Spanish background which I have also written during the quiet times’. Bouchier did not publish an autobiography until 1996 'Shooting Star'. The renewed interest resulted in an appearance on 'Desert Island Discs' and an episode of 'This is Your Life'. ALS: 17 August 1944; 27 Oakington Manor Drive, Wembley. TLS: 31 October 1962; 807 Howard House, Dolphin Square, London SW1. unknown‎

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‎James Sant (1820-1916), RA, English portrait painter noted for his portraits of children [George Lance (1802-1864), English stil‎

‎One Victorian painter writes to another. Autograph Letter Signed from James Sant RA to George Lance regarding a portrait over which he has been ‘going hard’.‎

‎7 March 1856; . See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. On the first leaf of a bifolium the second leaf being blank apart from the end of the signature ‘Jas Sant’ which has extended across from the bottom right corner of the reverse of the first leaf. In good condition lightly aged with the reverse of the second leaf laid down on a rectangle of grey paper cut from a leaf of an album. Addressed to ‘G. Lance Esqr.’ The letter begins: ‘My Dear Sir / My best thanks for your note. Depend upon it I will look to myself and in doing so look to yr. criticisms and I hope benefit by them.’ He reports that he has been ‘going hard at the Portrait to day and it is a difficult thing already. I shall have a difficulty with the dress for her Grace his patron Frances Countess Waldegrave seems to think with horror of my particular style of costume being introduced so I am making point lace do wonders. last two words underlined’. In conclusion he urges him to ‘Come when you can and cut me to ribbons and so oblige / Yours sincerely / Jas Sant’. 7 March 1856; [?]. unknown‎

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‎Henry Williamson (1895-1977), English novelist, naturalist and ruralist, best-known for his book 'Tarka the Otter':‎

‎Henry Williamson novelist and ruralist author of ‘Tarka the Otter’. Long typewritten description of his farm Bank House Botesdale Suffolk with autograph emendations intended to aid its sale but surprisingly readable.‎

‎No date or place. 1950; Bank House Botesdale Suffolk. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. According to Anne Williamson’s 1995 biography Williamson decided on the spot to purchase the farm at Bank House Botesdale Suffolk when his car broke down across the road from it in July 1945. The purchase price was £1700. Five years later he decided that the farm ‘could be honourably sold and he could become a full-time writer again’. It was sold in September 1950 for £2600 although as Anne Williamson notes and the present item makes clear a higher price had previously been considered. The present item is a 3pp 4to. It is a complete typescript of Williamson’s sale description of the house with numerous autograph emendations ending ‘Price for quick sale £3500.’ On two leaves of A4 paper the first of which has some damage to one corner at the top resulting in some damage to three or four typed words and one word in autograph all of which are easily supplied. Otherwise in good condition lightly aged and creased with one horizontal fold. Sixty-seven lines of text beginning: ‘Bank House Botesdale a village with a broad main street containing many houses of Georgian design and period some with creeper and clematis covered fronts lies between Diss and Bury St Edmunds in a district of rural Suffolk yet close to the main-line station to Ipswich and London.’ Not unexpectedly a highly readable account for a practical document with some indication that the writer is an author. In fact in the second paragraph he writes autograph addition in square brackets: ‘The last five years it has been occupied by an author Henry Williamson who wrote the Phasian Bird in the large top-story room with its western view over far-flung arable fields and woods.’ Later on: ‘There is a seperate entrance to the large gravelled yard with grass borders by means of a courtyard gate leading to a tiled garage holding two motorcars; and adjoining a cement-floored workshop. The area of this year and buildings is about that of a tennis court with margins for overplay.’ And later still: ‘It is not an large unwieldy house but a spacious dwelling built for himself by one of the burgesses of this old Suffolk village when wool from the great ewe-flocks of the neighbourhood was yet the basis of England’s wealth by the craft of the East Anglian weavers.’ Williamson describes how he has spent ‘a fair amount of money on reconditioning the place’. See Image. No date or place. [1950; Bank House, Botesdale, Suffolk.] unknown‎

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‎Sir James Paget (1814-1899), 1st Baronet, prominent English surgeon, considered with Virchow as one of the founders of scientifi‎

‎Sir James Paget founder of scientific medical pathology. Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Klugh on receiving his baronetcy with printed card on his wife’s death and newspaper cutting from The Times on his funeral.‎

‎Letter: 27 September 1871; on letterhead of 1 Harewood Place Hanover Square W. Card: April 1895; 5 Park Square West. Newspaper cutting from The Times 5 January 1900. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items are laid down on a leaf from an album the letter on one side and the other two items on the other. The material is in good condition lightly aged with the letter slightly ruckled. LETTER: 1p 12mo. Letterhead printed in red. Beneath the letter on the album leaf in a contemporary hand: ‘In reply to my congratulatory note upon his being made a baronet.’ Addressed to ‘Charles Klugh Esqr’ and signed ‘James Paget’. Reads: ‘My dear Mr. Klugh / By mistake your note was not sent to me at Lucerne and I have only lately received it. But let me even now thank you for your kind congratulations & good wishes. I thank you for them heartily’. CARD: Printed on 11.5 x 9 cm piece of grey card. With thick mourning border. Reads: ‘Sir James Paget & Miss Paget / thank you sincerely / for your sympathy & kindness.’ At bottom left: ‘5 Park Square West’; and at bottom right ‘April 1895.’ NEWSPAPER CUTTING: 20 cm long column of seventy-fige lines of small print. Title: ‘FUNERAL OF SIR JAMES PAGET’. In contemporary hand on album leaf: ‘Times 5th. Jan. 1900.’ Begins: ‘The funeral of Sir James Paget took place yesterday at East Finchley Cemetery. The first part of the service was held at Westminster Abbey and it was attended by many members of the medical profession’. Letter: 27 September 1871; on letterhead of 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, W. Card: April 1895; 5 Park Square West. Newspaper unknown‎

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‎William Plomer [William Charles Franklyn Plomer] (1903-1973), English poet and novelist, born in South Africa, Benjamin Britten'‎

‎William Plomer poet and novelist Benjamin Britten’s librettist. Autograph Letter Signed to the autograph collector Eileen M. Cond apologising for his ‘ordinary’ signature.‎

‎27 August 1936; c/o Jonathan Cape Ltd 30 Bedford Square WC1 London. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Reads: ‘Dear Miss Cond / I have pleasure in sending you my signature. As you will see it is quite an ordinary one. / Yours very truly / William Plomer’. The signature is in fact rather stylish in an understated way and the underlining has two small curls in it. In ink on otherwise-blank reverse by someone who misread the signature: 'William Ploms'. See Image. 27 August 1936; c/o Jonathan Cape Ltd, 30 Bedford Square, WC1 [London]. unknown‎

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‎Copley Fielding [Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding] (1787-1855), English painter noted for his watercolour landscapes, born in Sow‎

‎Copley Fielding English landscape painter. Autograph Letter Signed suggesting that an unnamed lady bring 'Mrs Sharp' to see 'the pictures which I have prepared for the Exhibition'.‎

‎11 April 1821. 26 Newman Street London. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In good condition slightly discoloured with traces of grey paper mount adhering to the blank reverse. Folded once for postage. The year is not given but the water mark appears to read ‘1821’. Good clear signature. Fielding writes: ‘My Dear Madam / I shall have much pleasure in shewing you the pictures which I have prepared for the Exhibition should it be agreeable to Mrs. Sharp & yourself to come to Newman at any hour on Monday or Tuesday next & I hope you will do me the favour of persuading Mr Sharp to accompany you. / I remain My Dear Madam / Yours very faithful Servant / Copley Fielding’. 11 April [1821?]. 26 Newman Street [London]. unknown‎

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‎Francis Gerard [Francis Edward Marie Gerard] (1906-1966), English thriller and science fiction writer who settled in South Afric‎

‎Francis Gerard thriller and science fiction writer. Two Typed Letters Signed to Eileen Cond discussing his plans for writing and work for the ‘delightful old boy’ Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and his Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.‎

‎12 March 1950; ‘P.O. Box 143 Westville Natal South Africa.’ 19 August 1955; Caroline Cottage 1st Avenue Inanda Johannesburg. Good letters the second with biographical content about a prolific yet elusive author. The recipient Eileen Margaret Cond 1911-1984 was an enthusiastic collector of autographs with the ability to draw a more than perfunctory response from her targets. Both letters in good condition on lightly aged paper folded for postage. Each bearing large stylized signature ‘Francis Gerard’ and addressed to ‘Dear Miss Cond’. ONE 12 March 1950. 1p 4to. He reports that he is ‘busy on a new thriller which I have given the provisional title of HORNED HAVEN’ the title does not show up among Gerard’s published works. ‘The General Election in England was followed by us out here with an almost unbearable feeling of tension and for my part I realised that though I am now officially a citizen of this country that I will never make a good South African.’ He reports ‘a tremendous flap about the Seretse Khama business which seems to have been handled just about as stupidly as it could have been’. He is returning her bookplates ‘with Gérard his mark upon them though I still don’t know when you’ll be able to stick the second one into TRANSPARENT TRAITOR. I gather the whole printing and publishing trade is in a parlous condition in England thanks to machinery being worn out and not replaced owing to Cripps’ insistence on all such new tackle being for export only.’ He ends with a warning regarding ‘the temperature in Durban’ for her father. TWO: 2pp foolscap 8vo. A long letter. He has been ‘wandering around Central Africa with a bunch of geologists and mining engineers’ and finding her letter is ‘touched by the continuance of your long-range friendship’. There is ‘little chance’ of his producing another book for some time. ‘When I do it will be a very different kind of book from what I have written in the past.’ The next two paragraphs describe his employment with the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. ‘My job is a peculiar one half industrial relations and man management half public relations. The AAC is the biggest mining group in the world. It is also an enormously powerful finance house. At the head of it sits Sir Ernest Oppenheimer who despite his fantastic wealth is a most charming and delightful old boy.’ He describes how in his first year with AAC he ‘travelled nearly 30000 miles about Southern and Central Africa by aircraft car jeep horse or on my own flat feet. I went underground in diamonds gold coal copper and base metals. I stayed in palatial guest-houses or at lonely Jesuit missions in the bush. I went through malaria tsetse-fly country where you shot for the pot and kept a wary eye open for crocodile leopard or buffalo and once was fortunate to have my pygmy friends drive a gorilla for me. You do not shoot these. They are Royal Game and if you kill one it costs you a £600 fine.’ He continues for a while before describing his family. A paragraph follows in which he claims not to have ‘sold myself to Mammon’. He praises the ‘Ernest Oppenheimer hospital for Africans at Welkom’ as ‘the finest thing of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere’. He winds up with a paragraph on his ‘financial benefits’ and another on his children’s school results the former beginning ‘Well there it is. This is why Francis Gerard has not appeared on the back of a book for some time.’ 12 March 1950; ‘P.O. Box 143, Westville, Natal [South Africa].’ 19 August 1955; Caroline Cottage, 1st Avenue, Inanda, Johann unknown‎

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‎Beauchamp Tower (1845-1904), English inventor and railway engineer [Sir Richard Harington (1861-1931), Puisne Judge in High Cour‎

‎Beauchamp Tower inventor and railway engineer. Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dick’ Sir Richard Harington describing the contest for North Sea Trophy and the presentation by the German emperor written from the winning yacht ‘Dianthus’.‎

‎‘Yacht “Dianthus†/ Copenhagen / June 29th / 1899’. In this letter Tower describes his personal experience of the winning of the North Sea trophy by C. L. Salaman’s 35-ton yacht Dianthus. 4pp 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged paper chipped at head. Folded for postage. Addressed to ‘My dear Dick’ and signed ‘Beauchamp Tower’. A long letter with 105 lines of text. He begins by congratulating Harington ‘on getting an Indian judge ship which will enable you to marry though I and all your other friends will be very sorry to lose you’. Writing from on board the winning yacht ‘Dianthus’ he describes how the contest for the North Sea Trophy began at Dover with the ‘Dianthus’ racing ‘the Inyone and Wave Queen’. In the nighttime fog the ‘Dianthus’ encounters ‘a steamer which we supposed to be the Ostend boat’ which ‘only just stopped her engines in time to avoid running us down. The next day the fog cleared and we were abreast of the North Hinder at noon distant about 5 miles. We had to leave all the light ships on the Dutch and German coasts on the starboard hand’. He continues his account of the contest with reference to ‘the Haaks light ship’ and those of ‘Terschelling’ and ‘Borthum’. Eventually ‘we sighted Heligoland right ahead. Inyone crossed the line at 9.32 pm and we crossed it at 9.51 but as Inyone had to allow us 4 hours we were the winner by 3 hours 21 minutes. The winning line was a search light ray thrown from a man of war and when our sails were illuminated by the ray they fired a gun and we knew it was over. The Emperor’s yacht “Haarzollern†was there as well as the man of war “Marsâ€. They told us if we waited 2 hours a tug would tow us to the Elbe but we remained hove to in a heavy sea till 4 am and no tug coming we sailed to the Elbe a torpedo boat towed us up the last reach to the canal entrance and nearly pulled us under water.’ Eventually they are ‘presented to the Emperor who gave us the cup and talked to us about our voyage’. After ‘a big dinner’ with ‘sweet Champagne’ they sail from Kiel arriving at Copenhagen from where they will shortly sail to Gothenburg. ‘Yacht “Dianthus†/ Copenhagen / June 29th / 1899’. unknown‎

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‎Chinese English Bible‎

‎Read with Me Bible Chinese and English Language Children's Bible with Color Pictures‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9625132708.G ISBN : 9625132708 9789625132709

‎Ruscha, Ed (Art) Marshall, Richard (Text) in English with Facing Spanish)‎

‎Edward Ruscha: Made in Los Angeles.‎

‎MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA. 2002. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Covers show slight shelf wear and scuffing. Binding is sound; no writing or other markings. No tears to covers or pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA. paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1852805868 ISBN : 8480261749 9788480261746

‎Motka, Leo and Authors Collective; English version: Finlayson-Samsour, Roberta‎

‎Touring Czechoslovakia‎

‎<p>First edition. Numerous colour plate maps and b/w photographs. Three fold-out colour maps complete and in very good condition with no damage. Pictorial boards with grey cloth spine white titles to front black titles to spine. Binding tight with rubbing to corners and edges. Some scuffing and scratch marks to board surfaces. Content clean and bright. Ink presentation inscription to half title. Not ex-library. No notes underlining or highlighting. 193 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.</p> Sportovni a Turisticke Nakladatelstvi hardcover‎

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