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ROBERTSON, Walford Graham. "Troy Town": pair of sheets with two original watercolours, calligraphy and musical notation.c. 1905
Highly attractive piece rather in the style of the Beggarstaff Brothers, illustrating the old English ballad "The Wandering Prince of Troy", here shortened to simply "Troy Town", a retelling of the story of Dido and Aeneas; the opening lines reading "When Troy Town had, for ten yeeres past, Withstood the Greekes in manfull wise". The first sheet carries... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 136594
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BAILEY, David. Rock and Roll Heroes.London : 1997
First edition, first impression. Bailey here presents for the first time a collection of his favourite images of late 20th-century musicians, from Mick Jagger to Duke Ellington, in a gallery of celebrity that has helped shape the iconography of modern pop. This copy with a loosely inserted folding invitation card for the book's private view, the front... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 139539
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GRIVAZ, Eugene. The World Awheel.New York : 1896
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon, just 8 copies listed on OCLC, all in North America, no copies traced at auction. Wonderful Gibson Girl-style illustrations on a cycling theme. The twelve images, originally published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in their Cycling World Calendar, represent bicyclistes of different nationalities; "they... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133637
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) SMITH, Catherine A. N. Half plate tintype by a female photographer.840 Broadway, New York : [c.1870s-90s]
A notably unusual tintype photograph, very informally composed, of three elegantly dressed women in hats and fur clothing by New York photographer "Mrs C.A.N. Smith", who specialised in ladies' portraits. Each of the women gaze in different directions; their positioning, and the uneven framing of the image, is unorthodox; the photograph's edges are... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 131611
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(SHAW, George Bernard.) COSTER, Howard. Attractive inscribed photographic portrait on textured paper by Howard Coster.London : [early 1930s]
Signed by Shaw at the top of the image and by Coster (in pencil) on the mount; additionally inscribed by Shaw on the mount: "To Mary Lawton, G. Bernard Shaw, 13/11/36". An excellent association: Shaw had known the American actress Mary Lawton since before the Great War: he directed her in the first Broadway production of his play The Philanderer (performed... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 114626
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WAIN, Louis. [Kaleidoscope cat.]c.1930s
A rare, superbly coloured "kaleidoscope" cat by the beloved "asylum artist" Louis Wain, presumed to have been created during his later years at Napsbury Asylum when his fluctuating psychological state was profoundly transforming his art. In this case, the image retains the realistic form of a mischievous cat but with the psychotic gleam and unnaturally... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 125094
