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Katharine Macquoid [ Katharine Sarah Macquoid (1824-1917), novelist and travel writer ] [ Katharine Macquoid, travel writer ] Autograph Letter Signed Katharine Macquoid to [?Miss] Kingsley about health problems. Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, vestiges of tipping into album, fold mark good condition. She is delighted to get a letter from her, hearing of her enjoyment during a visit to Paris, and that she feels so much better & stronger. She continues, I have not got well - I have been rather better the...		£45.00
[ Glayetsi NERSES , patriarch of Armenia. IV. ] [ Armenia; book ] Preces Sancti Nierses, Armeniorum patriarchae: Turcice, Graece, Latine, Italice, et Gallice redditae / Appendix: Anglice, Germanice, Hungarice, Serviane, Hollandice, Hispanice, Illirice. 173pp. : port ; 12mo, period vellum gilt, open-ended box (worn), covers worn, corners bumped. Extracts in many languages.		£200.00
E. Sylvia Pankhurst [ Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), campaigner for the suffrage and suffragette movement, a socialist and later a communist , and so on.] [ Sylvia Pankhurst; suffragette and activist; Pamphlet ] The Execution of an East London Boy. Leaflet, 4pp., sl. dusted, aged, one small closed tear, ow. good. Pankhurst prints selections from the letters of a Private on the Western Front who was court-martialled and executed. Apparently very scarce, two copies (USA) listed in WorldCat (and one of those might be microform).		£320.00
Alfred Munnings [Sir Alfred James Munnings (1878–1959), one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism.] [ Alfred Munnings, artist] Two Autograph Notes Signed Alfred Munnings to Tunnicliffe [Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, artist and illustrator]. Somewhat stream of consciousness. Both in pencil. Letter One (17 Jan.): One page, 8vo, good condition. Text: Hope you are better. All was well at the RA - as you saw [T?] Wheeler going well. \| Now - Her is a lovely estuary wide & tidal from Harwich to Manningtree 800 swans ---- Vast herds of them - close in to edge often...		£280.00
Clare Leighton [Clare Marie Veronica Leighton (1898–1989), English/American artist, writer and illustrator best known for her wood-engarvings [ Clare Leighton; wood engraver ] Substantial Typed Letter Signed Clare Leighton to specialist bookseller, Barry Marks, responding comprehensively to questions about her activities, exhibitions of her work, whether she sells engravings, and so on. One page, sm. folio, airmail, one small closed tear, good condition. Text: I was glad to get your letter of 8th August and must apologise for my delay in answering it. I was, just then, caught up into a confusion of work. \| I telephoned Mr Leventhal (he doesnt live in Woodbury, but in Boston;...	Book Trade History	£350.00
John Piper [ John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903-1992), painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets ]. [ John Piper, painter ] Autograph Letter Signed John Piper to Mr Roberts. Two pages, 8vo, very good condition. Text: Thanks you for your letter. I've no idea what paper you saw that reported the councillor's dislike of my sketches - actually, at the meeting only one man expressed some demur about them, and (poor man) he was defeated by the otherwise general approval...		£150.00
John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute [ (1847–1900), was a landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist, and architectural patron.] [ 3rd Marquess of Bute ] Two Autograph Letters Signed Bute, one to Sir, the other to Mr Patrick (as perhaps was the first - possibly an editor of a Catholic periodical), concerning his writings on Catholicism and heavy work schedule detail. Both letters, 4pp., 12mo, bifoliums, very good condition. Letter One (30 Nov. 1887): On carefully re-considering the article you were so good as to send me, I thought it would be better to write a new one, which I now send you. [...] I think it gives a fair idea on the whole, to an outsider, of...		£180.00
Llewelyn Powys [Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939), essayist, novelist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys.] [ Llewelyn Powys ] Autograph Note Signed Llewelyn Powys to Mr[s?] Venn [?], a bookseller. One page, 8vo, fold mark, good condition, difficult to read (some guesswork involved). This is to introduce Miss [?] and Mr [Mrs?] Brown - Mr Brown is a visitor to this country from Baltimore where he is a librarian. He is a man of cukture and discrimination and I know it would be a privilege...	Literature	£56.00
[ Findon, Aberdeenshire ] [ Manuscript; auction ] Roup Roll of the Farm Stocking Household Furniture etc. sold at Findon 13 Nov. 1820. Five-page list of items, fold marks, some dusting, fair condition. Lots, Buyers and Prices (see image). From Scythe and rake to horses and potatoes.	Social history	£80.00
[ Kimberley; Diamond Fields Advertiser ] [ Kimberley; Diamond Fields Advertiser ] The Siege of Kimberley 1899-1900. Specail Illustrated Number of the Diamond Fields Advertiser, Kimberley Photographs mainly supplied by Mr. F.H. Hancox [...]. Not paginated. A very good copy, original dark red morocco gilt, sl. rubbed, raised bands, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with label of Arthur Probsthain, [eminent] Oriental Booksellers. See photo.	History	£380.00