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M.H. Spielman Autograph postcard signed to Douglas Sladen, author. Author. She asks where Frederic Whyte is. "I've long been wanting to meet him again, but he's unfortunately plunged out of my orbit . . . he's one of the men I should least like to lose sight of". She asks about Sladen's election to the Athenaeum. |
Literature | £25.00 | |
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M[atthew]. Carey, American bookseller and publisher [24]pp., 12mo, unbound (formerly bound into a book?), crude repair to spine, partly detached leaves, foxing, text clear and complete. Subjects; Voyages, Travels, Geography, and Topography; Miscellaneous; Divinity; Medicine, Surgery and Chemistry; Novels, Romances, etc.; Education (most... |
Book Trade History | £580.00 | |
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Mabel Constanduros 2 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Roscoe. Humourist, actress and radio comedienne, originator of the Buggins Family. All three letters are 8vo, and in good condition, but all have damage to one corner caused by rusting paperclip. In the first letter she thanks her correspondent for 'the little books [...] I am a great lover of poetry,... |
Music and Theatre | £100.00 | |
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[1841 Census; Public Record Office] Folio, 65 pp. In a number of hands. Clear and complete. Heavily aged, in worn binding with front board and flyleaf detached. Many of the leaves are blindstamped at the head with the royal crest. With stamps of the Public Record Office Library, and withdrawal stamp from 'TNA Library' (The... |
£225.00 | ||
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Andrew Lang; Mary F. May, daughter of Frank May (1832-1897), disgraced Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, 1873-1893 [ Rudolf von Gottschall, German poet ] Both items in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Autograph Note by Andrew Lang. 1p., 12mo. Reads: 'With Mr Lang's Compliments, and regrets that he has no room for the translation from the German. TWO: May's translation of the poem 'Marie' by Rudolf von Gottschall' ('Marie, am Fenster sitzest du... |
£50.00 | ||
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Madame Cottin [Whittingham Press, Chiswick] Elizabeth: or, The Exiles of Siberia. Translated from the French of Madame Cottin. 12mo: 123 + [iv] pp. Engraved title (dated 'Octr. 1823') featuring engraving Heath from design by Corbould. Four pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. In contemporary green leather binding with decorative gilt spine and pattern to edges of boards, marbled endpapers and marbling to edges.... |
Literature, Women | £180.00 |
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Magdi Wahba, ed. [Samuel Johnson; James L. Clifford; Donald J. Greene] 351 pages, 8vo. Unbound: in original brown printed wraps. In good condition, but with wraps browning and creased. Ownership inscription on inside of front wrap. An important collection, with the bibliography accompanied by seventeen essays, including ones by J. D. Fleeman, Arthur Sherbo, Joyce... |
Literature | £55.00 | |
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Maggs Bros, dealers. Pamphlet, 52pp., 8vo, printed wraps, soiled, spine damaged, mainly good condition. "It has for a long time been our wish to give more interesting information about the important Autograph Letters and Documents in our Collection, and consequently we propose to issue from time to time a... |
£80.00 | ||
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Maggs Brothers [booksellers' catalogues] [viii] 237 pp., fol.m, original grey and red printed wraps, numerous plates and illustrations in text, some staining of cover around spine, a few pencil markings, top of spine damaged, mainly good condition. It includes Cortes, "Carta de Relacion" (1522), other important Americana, and the first... |
Book Trade History | £100.00 | |
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Maggs Brothers [booksellers' catalogues] Folio: iv + 237 pp. In original grey and red printed wraps. Numerous plates and illustrations in text. Grubby and spotted, in heavily-worn wraps. One plate slit along fold and repaired with tape. Presentation copy, inscribed 'With Compliments from E U Maggs'. Covetable items, accurately... |
Book Trade History | £100.00 |