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Maurice Willson Disher (1893-1969), British theatre critic and playwright 4to, 1 p. Trimming at head has resulted in loss to the first line of Disher's address; otherwise text clear and complete. On lightly-aged and creased paper, with jagged trimming at head and in bottom right-hand corner, and three punch holes to margin. Bearing the stamp of the Secretary's Office... |
Music and Theatre | £56.00 |
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'Marie Corelli' [pseudonym of Mary Mackay (1855-1924)], Victorian popular novelist On 5 x 11 cm slip of paper cut from foot of letter. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. The reverse reads '[...] in these dark days [...] interest! It is so [...] of you to sent it, [...]'. |
£23.00 | ||
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C.L. Graves. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Writer. Piece of paper, c.6 x 4", good condition. He is presumably reponding to a request for an autograph: "Your flattering request / My prompt attention craves. / (signed) yours sincerely, with the best of wishes / C.L. Graves." |
£18.00 | ||
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C.L. Gruneisen. Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. C. L. Gruneisen (DNB), journalist, music critic, editor of the Great Gun. He explores the possibility that the author of Peter Priggins might write for the Great Gun, explaining his policy and agreeing "in Masonic confidence" to give him the names of the principal contributors.(Presumably these... |
Literature | £85.00 | |
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C.L. Lewes Autograph letters signed (x 2) to the Rev. F. Langbridge Son of G.H. Lewes, partner of Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). Total 5pp., 8vo, damp-staining and marking affecting the text without obscuring it, rust marks from paper-clips marginally obscuring the text. (1887) Blackwoods had forwarded his correspondent's request to quote some passages from the... |
Literature | £100.00 | |
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C.M. Ingleby Autograph Letter Signed to "Allen" Shakespearian critic and author (1823-1886). 2pp., 8vo. He declines an invitation from the Lord Mayor of London on the grounds of ill health, and announces that he is off to Holkham Hall to visit the Napiers. "We must have a special no of the Reporter for reports of all the speeches". He would... |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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C.P. Scott. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Newspaper editor (1846-1932). One page, 8vo, acknowledging good wishes for his 70th birthday. |
Literature, Social history | £20.00 | |
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C.T. Courtney Lewis From the Library of Percy Muir, bookseller and author. Red cloth, faded bumped and with some wear and tear, contents with foxing and marking. With occasional notes on the text and additions and corrections in Muir's hand. And with 2 ALSs, one by Edward D. Mason, 2pp., 8vo, 9 March 1922,... |
Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Printing History | £100.00 | |
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C.V. Wedgwood Two typed notes signed to Mrs Roscoe, secretary of the Society of Women Journalists. Historian. She suggests that her talk to the Society could include "some funny stories about the very early journalism in the infancy of newspapers", and, in the later note, she accepts an invitation to a Society function. Two items, |
History, Women | £45.00 | |
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R. H. Tawney [Richard Henry Tawney] (1880-1962), influential English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist, Christian socialist, and proponent of adult education See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The valediction of a typed letter, on slip of paper, 8.5 x 3.5 cm. Somewhat creased, and with two thin printed slips ‘DIRECTOR | R. H. TAWNEY, B.A.’ and ‘London School of Economics’) laid down near the signature (‘R H Tawney’), above which is typed ‘Yours very... |
Education | £28.00 |
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