dated 6th October, 1903 on 20 Cavendish Square W [London] letterhead, headed 'Private' kerning2 saying that 'The 'Times' sets such a good example in this respect, that it is perhaps hardly necessary to appeal to you to see that we, who take the opposite side in the fiscal controversy, should..... More
undated [1908?], with the photographer's printed detail on verso; image 15 cm. x 10.9 cm.; mount 20.4 cm. x 15.6 cm. with slight surface damage to two corners on verso (removal from an album?). *Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852endash 1928), British statesman, Prime Minister of..... More
All items are addressed to Robert North Green-Armytage or his wife. The card and five of the letters are to R. N. Green-Armytage, two letters are to Mrs. Green-Armytage, and the telegram (an invitation to dinner) is to them both. The postcard and two of the letters are dated from..... More
![Item #169570 INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN AUSTRALIA [cover title]. Australia Department of Labour,...](https://kaycraddock.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/169570.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765801966)
Pp. 28(last 2 blank), tables and graph (1 folding table); post 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, backstrip and edges lightly worn; fore-corners worn, those at top lightly creased; A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra, 1958. *With a loosely inserted TLs, from John Iremonger to Terry Cutler, headed 'Labour..... More
dated 6th December, 1900 on 10 Downing Street, London letterhead, marked 'Private', 'I have nothing to do with the question of recommending Bishops to Her Majesty, but I believe that the See of Exeter as already been filled up by a gentleman also a Cambridge Scholar of high distinction and..... More
dated 10th June, 1916, headed 'Lion', 'I should be glad if you would do me the honour of sending me a photograph of your ship for insertion in an Album which I am compiling . . . of all the ships with their Captains who went into action under my..... More
dated 22 July 1907 on H.M.S. King Edward VII, Channel Fleet letterhead, thanking him for his book 'Evolution of Sub Marine Boat Mines & Torpedos': 'I have not perused any book more interesting or better got up . . .' Single sheet (17.8 cm. x 11.3 cm.), written on both..... More
dated 26 April /09, on 52 Portland Place letterhead, being a slightly delayed response to a request to use material from the former's book, Nelson and his Times (published in 1898) in the latter's forthcoming volume about his great-uncle, The Nelson Whom Britons Love. Beresford gives his permission as author..... More
Pp. 110(last colophon); demy 8vo; mauve cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle canted, spine gilt slightly dulled; top edges pink; dust wrapper (designed by Duncan Grant), worn and slightly soiled, edges creased and torn, with pieces missing from top edge of both panels, the back panel detached..... More
dated March 22, 1908 on 5 Eaton Place, S. W. letterhead, 'Dear Sir, I regret I c'not promise to speak at the annual demonstration of the Primrose League on May 8th as I cannot be certain of being able to leave the courts . . .' Single sheet (18 cm..... More
dated September 14th (no year) on Wynyard Park, Stockton on Tees letterhead, acknowledging a meeting date. Single sheet (20.3 cm. x 25.3 cm.), folded to form four pages, with horizontal crease at centre, written on first page, tipped on to a card folder headed 'Churchill Auctions Dunedin 1942'. *Edward Henry..... More
dated '9.xi.47', on Small House, Farnham Common, Bucks, letterhead, saying he is 'so glad you like my book . . .' and regretting that he cannot help him with signatures of admirals as he has none. Single sheet (17 cm. x 12.5 cm.), with creases and light surface damaged on..... More
dated 18th July (no date or year), concerning some papers which he has mislaid: 'I have hunted high and low & cannot find them . . .' Single sheet (18.4 cm. x 11.3 cm.), with creases and a 2.5 cm. split at one fold, written on one side. *John Duke..... More
dated 17th March, 1923, on Foreign Office S.W.1 letterhead, concerning 'the cheques cashed by Mr Maksoutoglou for British Prisoners of War in Turkey, I should explain that of a total sum of four thousand one hundred and seventy three pounds fourteen shilling and two pence . . . we have..... More
More than 40 items, dating from 1940 to the early 1950s, mainly printed in numbers ranging from 5 to 100 copies by the Diamonds at their two small private presses - The Diapure Press and The Hyacinth Press - operated from their home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The Diamonds were..... More
Pp. [iv]+lii+912, title page vignette, index, errata; thick demy 8vo; early half calf over marbled papered boards, rebacked (not recently), with the original gilt lettered and decorated spine laid on, the gilt worn away from the decorations between the raised bands, the boards a trifle rubbed, edges lightly worn, with..... More
The first letter, dated 16th Feb 1935, is a response to a letter from Davies, in which the latter seems to have praised Gissing's travel writing. Gissing expresses his fondness for Davies' home region, Chapel le Dale, in Yorkshire: 'I began tramping through your dales & over the fells about..... More
Pp. [viii]+226(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, plus 18 plates, folding facsimile letter, appendix, index; boards lightly faded and worn; dust wrapper, soiled and quite torn; bookplate (on upper pastedown) and ownership markings (inscription and card on upper free endpaper) of Lorna Mitchell, plus the printed card of the Society of Oxford..... More
Each dated 16 August 1924 on Offices of the Cabinet letterhead, the first is to Clive Wigram, thanking him 'for the splendid work you have done during the recent [London Reparation] Conference. The great success of the Secretariat General, of which so many of the foreign Delegations have spoken, is..... More
dated 16 November 1975 on 'the australian ballet' letterhead, in response to a fan letter, signed in full as Director. Single sheet (30 cm. x 21 cm.), on one side, with two horizontal folds. *Sir Robert Helpmann (1909-1986), Australian ballet dancer, actor, choreographer and director. More
With an Introduction by Salec Minc. Pp. [8], plus 44 plates hand-tipped onto stiff black art paper, each plate accompanied by a caption and brief text (mostly unattributed verse, perhaps also by Jones, usually also on hand-tipped sheets); impl. 4to; white art. leather, upper board lettered and ruled in gilt..... More
In three volumes. Pp. [ii]+vi+276(last blank)+24(publisher's catalogue, dated April 15, 1859)+viii+324+viii+376(last blank)+24(publisher's catalogue, April 1859); dark blue textured cloth, spines lettered in gilt, boards with blind rule borders, the edges lightly rubbed and occasionally slightly bruised, spines lightly faded; uncut; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown and binder's ticket of Burn..... More
undated, on paper watermarked 1809, with a lightly pencilled note 'about 1816' at head of first page, declining Pinkerton's offer of several manuscripts, 'including the Maitland Poem', and touching briefly on other publishing matters. Single sheet (22 cm. x 37.4 cm.), folded to form four pages, written on two sides..... More
Pp. xvi+182, 72 plates (8 coloured), black & white half-title, title, and text illustrations, index; demy 8vo; pink cloth, spine blocked in purple and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves..... More
Pp. x+504(last blank); cr. 4to; edges of boards lightly rubbed, the spine cloth a trifle faded; dust wrapper, worn and slightly soiled, the edges torn and split; the free endpapers slightly offset, a little light foxing, bottom edges of leaves shelf soiled; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1956. Revised and extended..... More
