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Alison Uttley, children's author [Alison Uttley] Signature only Alison Uttley. Piece of paper, 7 x 2cm, good clear signature. See image. |
£25.00 | ||
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Finn Wadsworth, John Chenevard, John Lawrence [American War of Independence, Connecticut Pay Table] Order to pay Captain Eliphalet Thorp. On piece of laid paper, dimensions roughly 7 1/2 inches by 6 inches. Browning, creased and discoloured, with some foxing and staining. Reads 'Sir | Pay Capt. Eliphalet Thorp Six hundred pounds - and charge the State . . . Pay Table Office March 6th 1780 | £600'. Signature of 'Saml written over... |
Military and Naval History | £250.00 | |
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James Paget, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons [ Offprint; Nutrition etc.] Lectures on Nutrition, Hypertrophy, and Atrophy "Reported by William S. Kirkes, M.D. [...] From the London Medical Gazette", 50pp., 8vo, remnants of being bound in, gatherings detached, aged. Scarce: no other copy of this original edition currently on the market; several copies listed on WorldCat. |
£85.00 | ||
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Janet Beveridge [born Janet Thomson Philip, later Janet Mair] (1876-1959), second cousin and wife of Sir William Beveridge (1879-1963), ‘Architect of the Welfare State’ [Vere Henry Collins, author] See Sir William Beveridge’s entry in the Oxford DNB: 'An overbearing and temperamental Scotswoman, Mrs Mair had come to the school [the LSE] with Beveridge in 1919 (having been his secretary and aide during the war) and was highly unpopular with many of the school's professors. Throughout the... |
£120.00 | ||
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Fitzroy Kelly. Autograph Note Signed to Bennet Woodcroft, writer on inventions (DNB) Judge (1796-1880). One page, 8vo, good. He asks for an opinion on whether someone could procure a patent on the basis of some papers he is sending to him. |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £25.00 | |
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Flora Annie Steel Autograph note signed to an unnamed correspondent. Novelist (1847-1929). She is obviously writing to an editor of a periodical saying: "The terms are lower than I get elsewhere, but as you ask me to write on a subject for which I am desirous of the widest possible audience I will write you an essay of 4,000 to 4,200 words for your October number... |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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Flora Annie Steel autograph note signed to unnamed correspondent Victorian novelist and satirist of the Raj. 'Dear Madam | I regret that I shall be away from England all winter | Yours truly | F. A. Steel." Creased, disoloured and docketed in pencil. Writing offset by folding of letter. |
Literature, Women | £25.00 | |
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Florence Montgomery Parts of two letters, one from George Bentley, publisher, to Montgomery, the other vice versa. Novelist (1843-1923). Both scraps laid down on 8vo-sized page. George Bentley says " . . . & I find this commodity scarce already./Truly Yrs / George Bentley". Montgomery says " . . . Believe me /Truly Yrs/ Florence Montgomery". |
Book Trade History, Literature | £25.00 | |
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Florence Terry autograph letter signed to Ella [Davis], English actress (1855-96), sister of Ellen Terry and member of celebrated theatrical dynasty. 2 pp, 12mo. "You really must think me a pig for not having written to you all this time - but now I send these few lines to thank you first for your good wishes and congratulations on my engagement to... |
Music and Theatre | £20.00 | |
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Florence Warden (pseudonym of Florence Alice Price James, 1857-1929), English novelist Autograph Letter Signed ('Florence Warden') to the actor and dramatist Wybert Reeve. Four pages, 12mo. Very good, with unobtrusive remains of stub along one edge. In interesting letter discussing the state of the English stage. Her tardy response is due to 'pressure of work". 'What you say about the present condition of the stage is only too true. I know of clever, experienced,... |
Literature, Women | £36.00 |