Eliza Cook, A rare carte de visite photograph of poet and magazine editor Eliza Cook. It was taken by the London Stereoscopic Company in about 1861. She is posed sitting on an armchair, with a pair of spectacles suspended on a chain. Faded (less faded than scan shows) with one corner slightly clipped.
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Henry Fuseli, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Fuseli (London: The Arts Council, 1950). Paperback. Illustrated. Good condition.
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William Makepeace Thackeray, A carte de visite photograph of novelist and writer William Thackeray (1811-1863) by Caldesi, Blanford & Co. It was taken in about 1861. Corners of card slightly clipped, good condition.
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Frances Fleetwood and Betty Conquest, Conquest: The Story of a Theatre Family (London: W.H. Allen, 1953). Biography of Benjamin Conquest and his family, Victorian actor managers of the Grecian Salloon theatre in the East End and other theatres. Illustrated hardback.
Presentation copy signed by the main author, 'To Sheila Taylor with the author's compliments and best wishes for her happiness and success across the Atlantic, Frances Fleetwood, June 3rd 1953'.Marbled edges, illustrated frontis. Preface by A.E. Wilson. Foxing to edges. Good condition.
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L. Carson (Editor), The Stage Year Book 1909, With Which is Included The Stage Provincial Guide (London: Carson & Homerford Ltd., 1909). Large paperback, 479 pages, with numerous illustrations and theatre adverts. A fragile publication. Back cover missing, front cover and first page of adverts detached. Reading copy.
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L. Carson (Editor), The Stage Year Book 1909, With Which is Included The Stage Provincial Guide (London: Carson & Homerford Ltd., 1909). Large paperback, 479 pages, with numerous illustrations and theatre adverts. A fragile publication. Old tape repar to covers. Good condition.
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Television: The Official Organ of the Television Society, The World's First Television Journal
Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. Issue for August 1929 in the original wrappers, Vol. II, no.18.
With contributions from R.L. Smith-Rose, Cyril Sylvester, Professor Cheshire, Lieut. Col. Chetwode Crawley, H. Wolfson, W.F.F. Shearcroft, Norman J. Nicolson, William J. Richardson, Noel Swanne, J.H. Owen Harries, A.A. Waters, E. E. Fournier d'Albe. Front cover shows a picture of the north London laboratories of John Logie Baird.
1.5 inch edge tear throughout as the old paper the magazine was printed on is now fragile.
Scarce.
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Television: The Official Organ of the Television Society, The World's First Television Journal
Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. Issue for September 1929 in the original wrappers, Vol. II, no.19.
With contributions from Sir Ambrose Fleming, R.L. Smith-Rose, Lieut. Col. Chetwode Crawley, W.F.F. Shearcroft, A.A. Waters, Shaw Desmond, J.H. Owen Harries, W.C. Fox, H. Wolfson, J.H. Owen Harries, Professor Cheshire, Cyril Sylvester. Includes pieces on Baird television. Cover picture of John Logie Baird's Noctovisor.
Good condition.
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Fox Russell, Tricked: A Sporting and Military Novel (London: R.A. Everett & Co., circa 1890). Yelowback, with attractive cover design. Paper browned, loss to spine. Good condition.
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J. Keith Angus, A Scotch Playhouse; Being The Historical Records of the Old Theatre Royal, Marischal Street, Aberdeen (Edinburgh: D. Wyllie & Son, 1878). 2nd edition. Bookplate of S.T. Whiteford, ex Kensington Public Libraries. Spine chipped and reglued. A couple of theatre newsclippings pasted to blank page. Good reading copy.
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Fox Cooper, Hard Times: A Domestic Drama in Three Acts
Founded Upon the Popular Novel by Charles Dickens (London, John Dicks, circa 1880). Lacks outer wrapper, and stains to title page and back. Good reading copy.
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Eliza Cook, Poems (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1848). Volume I only (of three). Presentation copy from Eliza Cook to Charles Mackay (the father of Marie Corelli). Illustrated. A couple of chips to spine, otherwise very good condition.
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Michael Sadleir, Trollope A Commentary, With Two Portraits and Four Facsimiles and Charts (London: Constable, 1945; revised reprint). Spine rubbed & faded, edges foxed; good reading copy.
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William Harrison Ainsworth, The Leaguer of Lathom: A Tale of the Civil War in Lancashire (London: Chapman & Hall, 1878). Yellowback. Some rubbing, chips to spine, section missing from front free endpaper. Good condition.
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Henry Dircks, The Ghost! As Produced in the Spectre Drama, Popularly Illustrating the Marvellous Illusions Obtained by the Apparatus Called The Dircksian Phantasmagoria: Being a Full Account of its History, Construction, and Various Adaptationd by Henry Dircks, Civil Engineer, Life Member of the British Association (1837) & c. & c., The Inventor (London: E. and F.N. Spon, 1863). A very rare book by Henry Dircks, the inventor of the magic illusion that became known as Pepper's Ghost. Very good condition. A very scarce book.
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Philip B. Ryan, with a forward by Philip Chevron, The Lost Theatres of Dublin (Westbury: The Badger Press, 1998). Paperback with numerous illustrations, and chapters on history of the Theatre Royal, Queen's Theatre, Tivoli Variety Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, Dan Lowry's Music Hall and many other Dublin theatres.
Good condition.
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Richard Henry Savage, A Modern Corsair: A Story of the Levant (London: Routledge, 1897). Yellowback. A little rubbing and fading, but very good condition for a yellowback.
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Archibald Clavering Gunter, Mr. Potter of Texas (London: George Routledge, 1888). Yellowback edition. Some rubbing & chipping, but very good condition for a yellowback.
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, circa 1935.) 2 volume paperback. First published by Tauchnitz in 1848. Contemporary ownership signature. Good condition.
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