LOT 3142
1st April 2026
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LOT 3142
[ROHMER, Sax.] Little Tich. A Book of Travels (and wanderings). London: Greening and Co. Ltd., 1911. First edition, first impression, 8vo (184 x 122mm.) Half-title, photographic portrait frontispiece, 16 photographic illustrations on 8 plates, 2pp. advertisements to front and rear, advertisements verso covers. (Spotting to first and last leaves, thereafter scattered.) Original pictorial covers (creases to spine, small corner loss to upper cover, wear at head of spine). Note: scarce. ‘Little Tich’ [Harry Relph] was a hugely successful music-hall comedian known for his diminutive stature and for his ‘Big-Boot Dance’ for which he wore boots 71cm long. Provenance: J.W. Sewell (ink name to title, dated 1911). – And a further twenty-two volumes related to theatre (including Charles Henry Ross’ ‘Stage Whispers and Shouts Without’, [circa 1881], 8vo, and H.G. Pélissier’s ‘Potted Pélissier’, 1913, 8vo, and Harry Reynold’s ‘Minstrel Memories’, 1928, 8vo, and three copies of ‘The London Review, a Moral Pantomime’ by F.J. Harvey Darton and Albert Rutherston, 1923, 8vo) (23).
Estimate: £70 – £100
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