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Alfred Austin (1835-1913), Poet Laureate See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Wilfred Scawen Blunt’s assessment was brutal: ‘It is strange his poetry should be such poor stuff, and stranger still that he should imagine it immortal.’ And it is ironic that Austin may not have even written the lines for which he is now principally remembered... |
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Meredith Meredro autograph letter signed to Thomas Bass, Actress and singer. 3 pp, 12mo. She apologises for not answering sooner. She "will be in Manchester again this coming winter" and will send a photograph which she hopes he will like. "I dont dislike Manchester - for the week I was there - it didn't rain at all. Well I must close as I must get... |
Music and Theatre | £15.00 | |
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Mervyn Horder (1910-1997), Lord Horder of Ashford, publisher and composer [Thomas Jeeves Horder (1871-1955), 1st Baron Horder, physician to the British royal family; Charles Noon (d.1957)] Autograph Note Signed ('Horder') to Noon, on his father's death. 12mo, 2 pp. Twenty-one lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with punch-hole to the top left-hand corner. As a colleague of Horder's father (senior surgeon and the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital) Noon has offered a 'collection of aphorisms', which Horder feels will be 'of... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £56.00 | |
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Sir John Murray IV (1851-1928), London publisher [Colonel Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers (1854-1919), son of Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (1827-96)] 12mo, 4 pp. 40 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'My dear Spencer'. He is sorry to have missed Childers: 'I came back early on Sat: morning fairly driven home by the weather.' Reports that 'Better reviews of the book are now appearing Athenaeum - evidently... |
Book Trade History, History | £56.00 |
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Mervyn Peake. Bookplate "Ex Libris N. Asherson". Bookplate, in very good condition, inside front cover of "The Medical Works of Hippocrates" trans. John Chadwick and W.N. Mann (Oxford, 1950), in good condition in chipped and torn dj, label of bookseller at base of inside front cover. From the Library of N[ehemiah] Asherson. |
Art and Architecture, Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology | £55.00 | |
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Mervyn Peake. Bookplate "Ex Libris N. Asherson". Bookplate, in good condition, inside front cover of "The Fatal Illness of Frederick the Noble" by Sir Morell Mackenzie (London, 1988), good condition, previous owner's initials on front ep, enclosing note from the firnd who gave Asherson the book (Graydon Hume) and another in Asherson's hand... |
Art and Architecture, Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology | £55.00 | |
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Mervyn Peake. Bookplate "Ex Libris N. Asherson". Bookplate, in very good condition, inside front cover of "Disraeli" by the Earl of Cromer (London, 1912), sl. hinge strain, ow. good condition, former owner's inscription and bookseller's label, From the Library of N[ehemiah] Asherson. |
Art and Architecture, Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology | £55.00 | |
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Mervyn Peake. Bookplate "Ex Libris N. Asherson". Bookplate, in good condition, inside front cover of "Selected Writings of Sir William Osler" (OUP, 1951), mainly good condition in soiledand sl. chipped dj, with one small tear. From the Library of N[ehemiah] Asherson. |
Art and Architecture, Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology | £55.00 | |
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Mervyn Peake. Bookplate "Ex Libris N. Asherson". Bookplate, in very good condition, inside front cover of "Rats Lice and History" by Hans Zinsser (London, 1935), covers marked but mainly good condition, no dj. From the Library of N[ehemiah] Asherson. |
Art and Architecture, Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology | £55.00 | |
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Mervyn Peake. Bookplate "Ex Libris N. Asherson". Bookplate, in very good condition, inside front cover of "Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England" by D'Arcy Power and W.R. Le Fanu (London, 1953), mainly good condition, no dj. From the Library of N[ehemiah] Asherson. |
Art and Architecture, Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology | £55.00 |