161. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

British Pacific Islands. (Notes For Lantern Slides / Colonial Empire Marketing Board Collection) / With a manuscript sheet regarding a Lecture on March 12th, 1952 in which Luke wanted to talk about Guadalcanal etc.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Imperial Institute, c.1943. 24 cm x 11,5 cm. 13 pages. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Slight wrinkling to covers, a brown spot to front cover. Otherwise in good condition.

162. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

The British Pacific Islands. [Sir Harry Luke’s personal working copy (and titled by him as such on the front cover) with a cutout on page 5/6 and some longer annotation on page 24 regarding Pitcairn Island as well as more annotations at the end of the pamphlet].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Oxford University Press, 1943. 18 cm x 12 cm. 31 pages with maps printed on the front pastedown (″The Western Pcific Islands”) and the rear pastedown (″The Pacific Ocean”). Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal Working copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Some rubbing to covers. Otherwise in good condition. [Oxford Pamphlets On World Affairs, No. 64.].

163. [Miscellaneous] – Luke, Sir Harry.

Akbar Exhibition – Part I: The Emperor Akbar – Written in Connexion with the Showing of the Akbar Exhibition in Trinidad by Sir Harry Luke / Part II: Catalogue.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Trinidad, June, 1944. Octavo. 15 pages. Stapled. From the personal collection of Sir Harry Luke.

164. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

Sammelband / Collection of various editions of publications related to the British Western Pacific which were written by Sir Harry Luke.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945, 19 cm x 13 cm. 252 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With his signature to the endpaper.

165. [Pacific Content / Gardner Island] – Luke, Harry Charles.

From a South Seas Diary: 1938-1942. [Personal Working copy Number Two, now with the added Index and a six-page manuscript notepad for a lecture by Luke in the year 1957 at the British Embassy in Oslo “Islands of the Caribbean” (four of the manuscript-pages on stationery of St.James Club, Piccadilly)] / This second working copy is an actual printed version of the final book but Luke immediately used it as his personal Review copy with some occasional annotations and corrections, for a possible new edition].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 255 pages, illustrated throughout with 185 photographs by the author. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Tearing to dustjacket, bumping to boards. Otherwise in good condition.

166. [Pacific Content / Gardner Island] – Luke, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke / [Gerald Gallagher on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) / Patrick Jay Hurley – United States Minister to New Zealand].

From a South Seas Diary: 1938-1942. [Personal Working copy Number One without Index / “Review copy” of Sir Harry Luke – with very many annotations, additions and corrections which led to the ultimate finished print (this working copy has no Index yet) / With Three (3) Letters loosely inserted of which one is regarding funds for a bronze plaque for Gerald Gallaghaer’s grave on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) / With Two (2) manuscript notes loosely inserted / With one handmade and handpainted bookmark signed and gifted Christmas 1941 by Cottrell-Dormer, Cox of the Iririki Hospital (Cottrell-Dormer is also mentioned in the Preface) / With a tipped-in Typescript on page 233, regarding the unannounced visit to Suva by United States Minister to New Zealand, Patrick Jay Hurley, on his way to take office. This typescript was clearly written to be included in the book but, for obvious reasons of diplomatic tact, never made it into the final publication. The typescript includes manuscript annotations by Luke and is a fine character-study of Patrick Hurley and his tendency to greet people with “an ear-piercing Indian war whoop or yell [Choctaw war crie, by Luke wrongly remembered as Osage Indian] / Luke rememberes in the typescript the spring of 1942: “About this time I was asked by Washington to look out for and put up, among many American military and naval notabilities who used to pass through Suva….crossing and recrossing the Pacific….So whenever a Catalina was sighted as being about to alight in Suva Harbour, my A.D.C. would hurry down to meet her…..One afternoon in 1942, Mungo dashed off to meet such an aircraft and did not return empty. Into the drawing-room of Government House strode a tall….flamboyant figure…General Hurley soon gave me to understand that in his private opinion Oklahoma was the only State in the Union that really mattered, an opinion which in the circumstances seemed an entirely proper one for him to cherish”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 252 pages with 185 photographs by the author. Original Softcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Split hinge, almost detached. Otherwise in fair condition.

167. [Private Materials / Peter Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry] Luke, Peter.

Collection of books and photographs together with a letter by Peter Luke to his father, Sir Harry Luke and an interesting letter by Alec McCowen [HadrianVII] to Sir Harry [talking about Baron Corvo etc.]. The collection includes: 1.Typed letter, signed by Peter Luke to his father, Sir Harry Luke, talking about the finalization of Sir Harry Luke’s amicable divorce from his wife ‘on the grounds of desertion’. / 2. Two books by Peter Luke, sent to Peter Luke’s daughter Georgiana (Giana) by irish poet and publisher Desmond Hogan, with a handwritten note. – The books are: I. A first edition of Peter Luke’s play “Hadrian VII” in perfect dustjacket and together with a related newspaper – clipping on the fantastic acting by Alec McCowen in ‘Hadrian VII’ – II. Peter Luke, Telling Tales – Selected Short Stories./ 4. Vintage photograph of Alec McCowen as Hadrian VII. , sent to Sir Harry Luke. inscribedby McCowen: ‘With feline good wishes, from Alec McCowen’/ 5. With a Manuscript Letter Signed (MLS) by Alex McCowen: “Dear Sir Harry, Thank you for such an enjoyable luncheon, – and for your most informative and amusing stories of Rolfe [Baron Corvo], Duse [Eleonora], the Divine Sarah [Bernhardt] and many others. I look forward to seeing you again. Yours sincerely, Alec Mc”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, 1945 – 1968. Octavo. Vintage Photograph. 9 cm wide x 16,2 cm high. Very good condition. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke and his grand-daughter Georgiana. In the here included letter, in which Peter Luke writes to his father’s address on Barbados, Peter Luke also writes about his brother Micky, Michael Luke, (Peter Luke tells his father of his brother Micky’s visit to him in London: ’(he) has given up what he describes as steady employment in Paris for a somewhat doubtful opportunity of getting a part in a movie over here’).

168. [Private Materials / Peter Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry] Luke, Peter.

Manuscript Letter by Peter Luke to his father, Sir Harry Luke, congratulating him on the promotion to Malta and on his own success in Cricket: “Dear Dad, I hope you are quite well. Congratulations on being promoted to Lieutenant-Governor of Malta. When will you come home, I hope very soon…..”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, 1945 – 1968. Octavo. Vintage Photograph. 9 cm wide x 16,2 cm high. Very good condition. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke and his grand-daughter Georgiana. In the here included letter, in which Peter Luke writes to his father’s address on Barbados, Peter Luke also writes about his brother Micky, Michael Luke, (Peter Luke tells his father of his brother Micky’s visit to him in London: ’(he) has given up what he describes as steady employment in Paris for a somewhat doubtful opportunity of getting a part in a movie over here’).

169. [Miscellaneous] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Sir Harry Luke’s official U.S.Naval Base Pass as Chief Representative of the British Council.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. 1946. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

170. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry] Fremlin, Joyce.

Collection of three (3) lengthy, multi-page letters from his wife Joyce Fremlin to Sir Harry Luke.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Chelsea (London), 1946. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.