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E. S. P. Haynes [Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes (1877-1949)] Modern Morality and Modern Toleration. 8vo, 24 pp. In original grey printed card wraps. Disbound. Text clear and complete on aged paper. Wraps with some damage at spine caused by disbinding. Compliments slip loosely inserted, bearing a simple pencil sketch of a face in profile. A few light pencil annotations. |
Social history | £45.00 | |
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E. Steinle. Pamphlet, disbound, pp. 16, 8o, sl. chipped and discoloured but complete and clear. |
History | £150.00 | |
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Lord Graves [William Thomas Graves (1807-1870), 3rd Baron Graves of Gravesend] [Charles Molloy Westmacott (c.1788-1868), editor of ‘The Age’ newspaper] Westmacott was notorious for accepting money for the suppression of stories: Michael Sadleir has described him as ‘the principal blackmailing editor of his day’. The present communication may be related to the scandal surrounding the death of Graves’s father the previous year: he had committed... |
£60.00 | ||
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E. V. Lucas [Edward Verrall Lucas] (1868-1938), English writer and Chairman of the London publishers Methuen & Co. Autograph Note Signed ('E. V. Lucas') to an unnamed female correspondent. 4to, 1 page. Good, on lightly-aged paper with dog-eared corners and small stain from mount on reverse. Reads 'Dear Madam some sort of a sequel to the Ingleside [Lucas's book 'Mr. Ingleside' (1910)] is being finished this day. | Yours faithfully | [signed] E. V. Lucas'. |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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E. V. Lucas [The Book Publishers' Representatives' Association; Methuen & Co.] 12mo: 8 pp. Dimensions of leaf roughly 13.5 x 11 cm. Lightly-spotted and creased, in creased and worn original purple wraps with title printed on front, and stitched with matching purple thread. An uncommon piece of Lucas and book trade ephemera, nicely printed. Beneath the title: 'President. W... |
Book Trade History, Literature, Printing History | £35.00 |
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E. W. Barlow [Edward William Barlow (b.1886)] [Air Ministry, Meteorological Office.] 8vo: 18 pp, paginated 200-217. Grubby and lightly-aged and creased, with rusty staples. Title-page headed 'For Official Use. M.O. 245s.' Scarce. No copy at the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Nottingham. |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £28.00 |
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Co. Garnet Wolseley [later Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913), Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army.] One page, fold marks, good condition. Page headed Memo, continues: In case of any disputed point requires the decision of the Umpires the Major General commanding will sound the 'cease fire' and the troops will halt until again ordered to advance. When the 'cease fire' followed by the 'assembly... |
£60.00 | ||
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E.A.J. Anisson Duperon (Anisson-Duperon). Autograph Note, third person, to "Monsieur le President de l'Assemblee Nationale" Director of the Imprimerie Royale, Paris, and later met his end on an "echafaud revolutionnaire" (1794). One page, 8vo, good condiiton "M. Anisson Duperon, Directeur de l'Imprimerie Royale, a l'honneur de presenter son respect a Monsieur le President de l'Assemblee Nationale"; il a celui de les... |
Book Trade History, French, History, Printing History | £280.00 | |
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E.A.Sothern. Autograph Note Signed to unknown correspondent (name partly clipped off) He has "stopped all orders at T.R.H. [Haymarket?]" and cannot, therefore, ask other managers for favours. |
Music and Theatre | £20.00 | |
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961), English conductor; Ethel Frank, American soprano [ Sir Thomas Beecham and Ethel Frank. ] Autograph Signatures on leaf from album. The two signatures are on one side of a 14 x 18cm leaf of cream paper removed from an album. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with laid down. Good clear examples. Beecham's signature 'Thomas Beecham' is above that of 'Ethel Frank'. Probably given on Franks first visit to Britain in 1921... |
£25.00 |