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[Irish ballads; Cuala Press; Colm O Lochlainn] Printed collection of four Irish poems, with scores and illustrations, headed 'A Broadside': 'Pharao's Daughter' ['attributed to Michael Moran - 'Zosimus'']; 'The Riddle Song'; 'The Rose Tree' by W. B. Yeats (music by Arthur Duff); 'Famine Song'. 4pp., 4to. Printed on brown paper. In good condition, lightly-aged and with one corner dogeared. The only copy traced on OCLC WorldCat in the Thomas P. O'Neill Library at Boston College, in whose entry it is tentatively dated to the 1960s, with the note about the series to which it belongs: '...		£180.00
[Trades Union Council] [Pamphlet] Bedaux. The T.U.C. Examines The Bedaux System of Payment by Results [16]pp., 8vo, green printed paper wraps, good condition.		£28.00
Dame Alicia Markova [Lilian Alicia Marks] (1910-2004), Britain's first prima ballerina and in the 1940s the world's highest-paid dancer, discovered by Serge Diaghilev, and partnered by Anton Dolin Signature on card ('Alicia Markova') of the prima ballerina Dame Alicia Markova. In black ink on 5 x 8 cm card, with rounded edges. In very good condition, lightly aged, with evidence of previous mounting on the marbled reverse. Reads 'Alicia Markova \| 1933.'		£25.00
[Banbury Harriers Athletic Club; Cheney & Sons, General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury; football] [Victorian football ephemera.] 'Football Fixtures for Season 1883-84' and 'Football Fixtures, Season 1888-89', printed for the Banbury Harriers Athletic Club by Cheney & Sons. Both items in very good condition, lightly-aged. ONE: 16mo (11.5 x 8 cm) green-card bifolium, printed in blue, with engraving in gold of the 'Club Badge' on front cover. On cover, beneath the names of the patron (the Earl of Jersey) and officers: 'FOOTBALL. \| Captain - J. G. COWPER. Sub-Captain...		£120.00
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset [known as Lord FitzRoy Somerset], 1st Baron Raglan [Lord Raglan] (1788-1855), British army officer [The Charge of the Light Brigade; Battle of Balaklava; Crimean War] Signature ('Fitzroy Somerset') of Lord Fitzroy Somerset, later Lord Raglan, on frank to Colonel Brotherton. On piece of 6.5 x 11.5 cm paper, cut from front of frank. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. With the red government postmark ('FREE \| 11 JU 11 \| 1831'). Reads 'London June seventh 1831 \| Colonel Brotherton \| Merthyr Tydvil \| [signed] Fitzroy Somerset'.		£25.00
George Lansbury [Pamphlet] The Futility of the National Government [8]pp., 8vo, sl. bent at bottom, sl. grubby, mainly good. Scarce: 5 copies on COPAC (not at BL)		£56.00
H.B. Martin [Pamphlet] The Birth-Day Commemorated: A Sermon, preached in the Vineyard Chapel, Richmond, on Sunday Evening, November 17th, 1839. 15pp., 12mo, sewn as issued, foxing, small stain and small unopened tear on first page, mainly good. Inscribed to a Miss Smith by a Mr Smith. No copy on COPAC/WorldCat, but apprently the sermon was reprinted with a memoir of H.B. Martin in 1845 (copy only in BL).		£135.00
Lady Harrington [Maria Foote, actress] Autograph Note, Third Person, "Lady Harington begs [...]" to Messrs Griffiths and Crick, Chandos Street [silk mercers to the Queen and the Royal Family - Kelly's] Two pages, 16mo, bifolium, fold marks,stab holes without loss of more than a letter oftext, mainly good condition. "Lady Harington begs Messrs Griffith[s] and Crick will send, as soon after eleven o'clock as they can, the Black Italian net [which excised] for dresses with painted Flowers on it,...		£65.00
Richard Hengist Horne [born Richard Henry Horne] (1802-1884), English poet, author of 'Orion' Autograph Note Signed ('R. H. Horne') from the poet Richard Hengist Horne [previously Richard Henry Horne] to James Holden. With portrait of Horne, photographed by Elliott and Fry. Note: 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly-aged, laid down on paper with traces of glue to one margin. In response to a request for an autograph it reads: 'Novr 10/69 \| 21 Beauvoir St \| Portland Place \| London. W. \| Dear Sir \| I send this in accordance with your request to Mr Lacy.' \| I am \|...		£65.00
Wyndham Austis Bewes (1857-1942) of the Grotius Society and International Law Association [Sir Graham John Bower (1848-1933), British colonial official in South Africa; Walter Simons (1861-1937)] Typed Letter Signed ('Wyndham. A. Bewes') from the jurist Wyndham Austis Bewes to the British colonial official Sir Graham Bower, regarding a conference at Oxford and the German jurist Walter Simons, and complaining of 'the terrible time'. 1p., 4to. In good condition, on lightly aged and creased paper. Addressing Bower as 'My dear Sir Graham', Bewes begins: 'Considering the terrible times that we are passing through and which I see are so badly affecting you, I think you are too generous in sending a contribution fitting for...		£65.00