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Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1868-1936), American journalist, biographer and historical writer [Robert Proud (1728-1813), American quaker classicist] Autograph Letter Signed from American journalist Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer to 'Mr Kennedy', regarding a portrait of quaker classicist Robert Proud in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, with appended note on the painting, presumably by Kennedy. 2pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Kennedy is 'quite right' in his 'supposition regarding the picture. It is Proud's - indeed the only one familiar to me.' He thinks 'the original is at the rooms of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania'. He concludes with thanks for Kennedy's 'kind words...		£80.00
R. A. Brimmell; Boris Harding-Edgar (Charles Rare Books) A co-operative [booksellers'] catalogue' entitled 'Detective Fiction: A Century of Crime: First and Early Editions'. Forty-four pages, octavo, with two-page leaf of addenda loosely inserted. Four pages illustrating seventeen pictorial covers on art paper. In printed card wraps. A worn and creased copy of an influential catalogue, issued at a time when, as the introduction points out 'catalogues devoted to...	Book Trade History, Literature	£120.00
R. A. Dundas, Secretary, Royal Society of Literature [Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet] The Abbotsford Subscription. Disbound. Octavo: four pages. Good: slightly aged and with some creasing to extremities. Thirty-one lines of text, followed by a double-column list of subscribers, and amounts subscribed. Dundas explains how the commercial crisis of 1825 'involved Sir WALTER SCOTT in losses to an extent alike...	Literature	£80.00
R. A. Scott-James [Rolfe Arnold Scott-James] (1878-1959), journalist, editor of the 'London Mercury', and friend of Wyndham Lewis [River Thames; Strand Magazine] Corrected Autograph Manuscript of the final draft of an article entitled 'London's Broadest Highway' (which appeared in the Strand Magazine, 1931). In an envelope with label and compliments slip of Hilda Neal, Copying Offices and Secretarial Training School, by whom the article had been typed up for the printers. On one side each of thirty-two A4 leaves (dimensions roughly 25 x 20 cm). The text is complete, although there are wormholes to...		£180.00
[First World War South African Police permit, signed by T. W. Cooper; J. J. R. Smythe, mining engineer, of Warren Hill, Klerksdorp, North West Province, South Africa] Stamped South African Police permit, headed 'Martial Law Regulation', granting permission for the wife and family of the mining engineer J. J. R. Smythe to leave Klerksdorp by car in the early days of the First World War. Mimeographed typed form, completed in manuscript, on one side of a slip of paper. In fair condition, heavily-inked on aged and worn paper. Oval stamp in blue in bottom left-hand corner: 'SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE \| 9 - NOV. 1914 \| KLERKSDORP.' The form reads (with manuscript additions in square...		£35.00
Charles Landseer (1799-1879), R.A., English artist, elder brother of Sir Edwin Landseer Autograph Letter Signed ('Chas Landseer') to [Walter F. Stocks]. 12mo, 2 pp. 15 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. Providing a 'recommendation as a teacher' for his correspondent, 'in the neighbourhood of Leamington'. 'My observation of the progress you have made, during your studentship at the Royal Academy enables me to state, that, you...	Art and Architecture	£56.00
R. Brimley Johnson [Reginald Brimley Johnson] (1867-1932), English author and editor [Swan Sonnenschein, London publishers] Autograph Letter Signed ('R. Brimley Johnson') [to Swan Sonnenschein], proposing a work for publication, and outlining his literary achievements. 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He was introduced to the recipient 'by Mr. Philip Malleson of Croydon, when I wanted to send an Essay to The Albemarle'. Asks if he 'might be disposed to let me write a volume on Jane Austen or Leigh Hunt for your Dilettante Library', Austen...	Book Trade History, Literature	£65.00
Ania Dorfmann (1899-1984), Russian pianist and teacher at the Juilliard School in New York [ Ania Dorfmann, Russian pianist. ] Autograph Signature. On one side of 13 x 18.5 cm leaf removed from a 1930s album. In a good large hand, it reads: 'Souvenir \| from Ania Dorfmann'.		£25.00
Edward G. Falconer [ Edward George Falconer ] (c.1850-1948), vicar of Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk [ Rev. Edward G. Falconer, vicar of Old Newton: printed attack on 'the Archbishops and Bishops who preside over the Church to-day'. ] An Open Letter to His Majesty the King on the Appalling and Distressing State of The Church of England.' 3pp., folio. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Title in large type on first page and text on central two pages. Taking as his text Isaiah LVI, 10 and 11, Falconer begins: 'May it please your Majesty, As a Church of England Clergyman for over 50 years endeavouring through the...		£120.00
R. D. & J. B. Fraser, of Ipswich, Felixstowe & Dieppe. [ANTIQUES, FURNITURE] 8 Autograph Letters Signed by [two different?] J. B. Fraser[s?] to the artist Shirley Slocombe. The firm, apparently antique dealers (although it also bought and sold false teeth), was established in 1833. All items are addressed to Slocombe, with whom the family (to whom he was perhaps related by marriage?) were clearly on intimate terms. Grubby, dusty, creased, dogeared and with several...	Art and Architecture	£50.00