Search Results: Manuscripts from Chris Phillips

No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good photograph of the performer with slight, almost imperceptible, creasing. Rear of photo is blank. Autograph is genuine. Size 12.5 X 17.5cm.

Bath, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A highly embellished illuminated address presented to the outgoing Mayor of Bath, Councillor William Henry Jordan Shepherd, in May 1962. Written on 2 parchment panels, with 2 watercolour views and titles of events he attended during his mayoralty. Finely bound in red leather with gilt arms of Bath on top and enclosed in a red cloth clam shell box which exhibits trivial wear to its hinge. A highly embellished illuminated address presented to an outgoing Mayor of Bath.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1888. 1st edition in book form . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton. The first edition, in book form, of this illustrated account of coach travel in the nineteenth century. Internally very good in original green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes to top board. Binding "cocked" with damaged along part of edge of top hinge. Originally published in parts in The English Illustrated Magazine 1887-1888. Included is the original Hugh Thomson ink drawing for the illustration entitled "Christmas Eve" published on page 302 of the magazine and as the "in text" illustration on page 124 of the book. The illustration is untouched and in very good condition but the thin board has damage to its edges outside the border surrounding the image. Annotated to rear with instructions to printer. 30X24cm The first edition, in book form, of this illustrated account of coach travel in the nineteenth… Read More

Guernsey: The Toucan Press, 1967. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Published in an edition of 100 copies, only, this booklet contains a transcript of the judgment given, against Caitlin Thomas, by Mr. Justice Plowman. The case was brought by the widow of Dylan Thomas and centered around the ownership of the manuscript of Thomas' most famous work - Under Milk Wood. The manuscript was lost by the author when out drinking prior to his trip to New York and he gifted it to Douglas Cleverdon if he could find in which pub he had left it. A fascinating story. In original card covers which are a little embrowned and marked. The contents are retained by one rusty staple, only, following the loss of the other rusted staple. Printed in an edition of 100 copies.

London. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Court sized postcard 4.5 X 3.5. A brief note, in the artist's hand and signed by him, referring to the enclosed authorised cheque (not present) and asking the recipient to confirm tomorrow that they "have got it". The note, on a court sized postcard gives his address as 2 Holland Park Road, Kensington. Generally very good but the artist's handwriting makes the name of the recipient difficult to decipher.

London: The British Museum, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. R. B. Kitaj R.A.. The Catalogue Raisonne of graphic works by R. B. Kitaj, the controversial American Artist. Fine in original boards with very good illustrated dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a one leaf A.L.S., dated June (1977), from the artist recommending the, then young, artist Andrzej Jackowsky. The letter is addressed to Joe Hope, sometime Head of Fine Arts at Bath Academy of Art from whose estate this letter and envelope comes.

1919. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 25 X 19cm folded. This is the original handwritten Memorandum of Agreement between Sir Thomas Beecham Bart. and Westby & Co. Ltd. dated 20th August 1919. The agreement is for a loan of£10,000 to Sir Thomas in consideration of Westby's having exclusive rights to catering and all other Front of House activities at the Covent Garden Opera House. The document is signed by Sir Thomas together with his initials in the margins adjacent to corrections to the agreement. Generally in very good condition with revenue stamps embossed to margins.