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Lot 181
BUCKLEY CECIL W.: (1830-1872) British Royal Navy Captain, Victoria Cross winner for his actions on board HMS Miranda in the Crimea on 29th May 1855. Buckley was the first winner of the Victoria Cross to be actually gazetted. Rare cross-written A.L.S., C.W. Buckley, four pages, 8vo, n.p. (Eton Lodge), 9th September 1841, to 'My dearest Aunt'. The young Buckley informs his correspondent, in part, 'I hope you will excuse me for not answering your kind note sooner but as I have to walk 4 miles to school and 4 miles back every day… I have very little time to myself' continuing to tell of a recent dramatic event, 'At 1 o'clock on Tuesday our house took fire owing to a taper having been left lighted in Miss Fagan's room… her desk, the window curtains, the bed, the bedding, the bed curtains, the dressing table, the washstand, the carpet, and a dressing gown were all burned' further continuing, '…it put in the “Courier” of Wednesday which is the newspaper Mr Benn takes, that our house (“Eton Lodge”) was burned to the ground' and concluding with news of a wedding, 'I cannot draw you a picture of the “Scene at the Alter” because there was none. The Bridesmaids, (viz Frances, Julia and Miss Fagan) and the Groomsmen (viz Mr Carson and Mr Miller) all based themselves up in the pews…' With very light age wear, otherwise VG
Lot 380
Milne (Alan Alexander). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, 1928, monochrome illustrations by E.H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers, original salmon pink cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Hale (Kathleen), Orlando's Magic Carpet, 1st edition, 1958, colour and monochrome illustrations, original colour pictorial boards in bright condition, with dust wrapper, a little rubbed to edges, oblong 8vo, plus other 20th century children's and illustrated books, including two other Orlando Puffin Picture Books, both bound in original printed wrappers, a Kubasta pop-up jungle (some wear), John Betjeman, Continual Dew, 1st edition, 1937, in rubbed and slightly frayed dust wrapper, War Pictures by British Artists, First Series, Numbers 1-4 & Second Series, Number 2, etc., many bound in original wrappers, mostly 8vo (24)
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