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[TERRY-THOMAS]
Top Of The Town
London: N.p. [BBC], 1951
21 mimeographed pp. of 36, [pp. 2-7, 14-21, 31-36], secured with split pin to top left. Rewrite to p. 21 secured by pins top and bottom. Pencilled... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HASTINGS, Michael
Tom And Viv
London: Royal Court Theatre, 1984
8vo, pp. 41. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
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MILTON, Ernest
To Kiss The CrocodileNew York: Harper & Bros., 1928
8vo, pp. 345, 4 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Bookplate to front pastedown,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GRAVES, Robert
To Juan At The Winter Solstice
N.p. Privately Printed, 1944
178 x 131mm, pp. 4. Single sheet, folded once.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES ON THE FRONT LEAF: 'Honor with love from Robert. New ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[pseud. MATTHEWS, Ronald] COUSINS, Sheila
To Beg I Am Ashamed
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938
8vo, pp. 270. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front and rear panels and spine. Edges uncut.
Second edition, first Obelisk edition. The publisher's note on [vi] states: 'An attack against the book, in the London press, of unprecedented ferocity and vindictiveness caused its withdrawal before publication [by Routledge]. This, the Obelisk edition, published in May 1938, is therefore the first effective edition.' Despite being withdrawn before publication, a few copies of the Routledge edition have survived.
It is sometimes claimed, usually by bookdealers, that this book was written by Graham Greene. It wasn't. Although Greene helped his friend by chipping in with a telling phrase here and there -- phrases he would later quote approvingly when he contrived to review the book -- To Beg I Am Ashamed is almost entirely the work of Ronald Matthews.
A very nice copy of a fragile, cheaply made book.
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CUSHING, Peter
TLS to Leo McKern
Whitstable: N.p., 1993
1 p. TLS on Peter Cushing's personalised stationery. Unfolded.
TLS FAN LETTER FROM PETER CUSHING TO LEO McKERN DATED 16 SEPTEMBER 1993, LESS THAN A YEAR BEFORE CUSHING'S DEATH.
A warm, effusive fan letter from cinema's greatest vampire-slayer, it reads:
'Dear Leo McKern,
It's that fan again! Some years ago I wrote to you about your superb 'Rumpole' series, and received a most charming letter of thanks.
My admiration for your work goes back to the play (and subsequent film) 'A Man For All Seasons', and you have never failed to captivate me. Having seen you recently in 'Travelling North', and again the other evening in 'A Foreign Field' I just had to write once more.There is a 'je-ne-sais-quoi' quality about your performances which touches the heartstrings, and if you don't receive some public recognition eventually, there's no justice in this world!
Thank you, dear fellow, for such pleasure. It makes me very proud to remember we worked together in 1956 in 'Time Without Pity', with Michael Redgrave and Ann Todd. (Long ago and far away!)
With kindest wishes, and may God's blessing be with you always.
As ever,
(sgd) Peter Cushing O.B.E. Whitstable, Kent'
(The 'public recognition' Cushing refers to is of course not audience approval, but the possible future conferring of honours on McKern: Cushing himself was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1989).
A touching salute to a fellow actor from one of the most distinctive and distinguished figures of British cinema.
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[McKern, Leo] OLIVIER, Laurence
TLS Laurence Olivier to Leo McKern
London: N.p., 1982
1p. TLS on headed notepaper.
1pp. TLS FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER TO LEO McKERN, WELCOMING HIM TO THE CAST OF KING LEAR.
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FLEMING, Ian
Thunderball
London: Cape, 1961
8vo, pp. 254. Original black boards, skeletal hand blindstamped on front panel, lettered in gilt on spine. Lacking the dustwrapper.
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AUDEN, W.H.
Three Songs For St. Cecilia's Day
New York: Privately printed, 1942
Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel. Stitched binding.
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AYCKBOURN, Alan
Three Plays
London: Chatto & Windus, 1979
Small 8vo, pp. 216. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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BRISLEY, Joyce Lankester
Three Little Milly-Molly-Mandy Plays
London: George Harrap, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original tan coarse grain illustrated wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
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[Literary Periodical]
This Quarter
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1930
8vo, pp. 369-554, 10pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Literary Periodical]
This Quarter
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1929
8vo, pp. 187-367, 9pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Literary Periodical]
This Quarter
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932
8vo, pp. 559-751, 8pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Literary Periodical]
This Quarter
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1930
8vo, pp. 197-379, 12pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Literary Periodical]
This Quarter
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1930
8vo, pp. 195, 10pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine sleeve.
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[Literary Periodical]
This Quarter
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932
8vo, pp. 208, 4pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine sleeve.
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[LEWIS, Ted]
This Is Your Life
Burbank: NBC TV, 1959
41pp. in blue paper wrappers, secured with staple to top left corner.
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McINTOSH, Harlan Cozad
This Finer Shadow
New York: Dial Press, 1941
8vo, pp. 408. Original blue-green boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.
First edition.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Their Mutual Child
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919
8vo, pp. 284. Original blue boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine.
First edition.
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