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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism] [Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Sixth Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the General Committee, October 20th, 1873. 10pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Three copies on COPAC. No copy at the BL. No other copy currently on the market.		£135.00
General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard (1773-1855), distinguished Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army, decorated for his services during the Napoleonic Wars, and Equerry to King George IV [General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, army officer and courtier.] Autograph Letter Signed (‘A F Barnard’) to ‘Augustus’, providing information regarding pictures [in the royal collection], and ‘the Clue to their History’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. From 1821 to the end of his life Barnard served as a courtier, notably as Equerry to King George IV, and it would appear that the present item is written in response to an enquiry made to the recipient of the letter regarding paintings in the royal collection. He...		£60.00
Laurence Irving (1897-1988), Hollywood set designer, artist and RAF Squadron Leader, grandson of the actor Sir Henry Irving [ 'Edward Carrick' [ Edward Craig (1905-1998) ],; Society of Art Directors ] [ Laurence Irving, Hollywood set designer. ] Two Typed Letters Signed ('Laurence' and 'Laurence Irving') to 'Teddy' [ set designer 'Edward Carrick',i.e. Edward Craig ], regarding the film industry and his membership of the Society of Art Directors. Both items in good condition, lightly-aged. ONE: 2pp., 4to. Having returned from 'a rather long painting expedition to France' he finds that 'circumstances have arisen in regard to the administration of the Society' [ the Society of British Film Art Directors and Designers, of which Craig was a...		£220.00
Michael Gilbert. [Michael Gilbert, crime writer] A large collection of Typed Letters Signed. MICHAEL GILBERT, Detective Story Writer, Founder Member, sometime Membership Secretary, 21 TLSs and TNSs, total 23pp., 8vo and 4to, some with ms. additions, 1955-1960, mainly concerning the financial affairs of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), the financial consequences of publishing the...		£250.00
Roy Vickers. [Roy Vickers, crime writer] Five Typed Letters Signed and other signed material [T.C.H. Jacobs of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA)]. ROY VICKERS, Detective Story Writer, 5TLSs, total 6pp., 4to, all 1961, jokey, gossipy letters concerning CWA affairs - Rosemary Robinson being co-opted to the general committee, German rights to an Anthology sold, an enquiry from Japan about Anthologies (leading to a discussion), subject for...	Literature	£100.00
Lord Dawson of Penn [Lloyd George group visits Hitler's Germany, 1936]. [Lord Dawson of Penn; Nazi Germany; Lloyd George Visit] Three Typescripts: Visit to Labour Camp in Emsland Westphalia; Notes Sent to Lady Dawson and (same basic text) Memo. to Lady Dawson [heading in Dawson's hand, with adds/corrections by him] A. Typed account by Dawson of a 'Visit to Labour Camp in Emsland Westphalia'. [15 September 1936.] 8pp., fol. With a few manuscript emendations. The account shows Dawson and his colleague Thomas Jones completely hoodwinked as to the nature of what was a punishment camp for political prisoners....		£220.00
[John Hinde Palmer; Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer; Married Women's Property Bill, 1873] [Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918)] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism] [Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Mr. Hinde Palmer's Married Women's Property Bill. (From the Law Times, March 1, 1873.) 4pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. No copy on COPAC, and the only copy on OCLC WorldCat at the National Library of Australia.		£90.00
[John Stuart Mill] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism] [Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Extracts from Mr Mill's Subjection of Women. With Permission of Messrs. Longman & Co. 16pp., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly-aged and creased, with minor marking to last page, no wraps, disbound. No copy in the British Library. COPAC lists several copies. No other copy currently on the market.		£240.00
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage; John Stuart Mill; Jacob Bright; Lyon Playfair; Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke; Helen Taylor; Auberon Herbert; Sir Robert Anstruther; Mrs Fawcett] [Female suffrage; printed pamphlet containing speech by John Stuart Mill.] Report of a Meeting of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, Held at the Hanover Square Rooms, on Saturday, March 26th, 1870. 34pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Includes a five-page speech by John Stuart Mill (pp.4-9), and others by Mrs Taylor, Professor Cairnes, Mrs Grote, Sir Robert Anstruther, Mrs Fawcett, Lord Amberley, Miss Helen Taylor, Auberon Herbert, Jacob Bright,...		£350.00
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage] [John Stuart Mill; Rev. Charles Kinglsey; Professor Henry Fawcett; Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes); John Morley; Professor David Masson] [Female suffrage; printed pamphlet containing a speech by John Stuart Mill.] Report of a Meeting of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, Held at the Gallery of the Architectural Society in Conduit Street, Saturday, July 17th, 1869. 34pp., 8vo. Drophead title. Disbound, with front leaf loose, otherwise in good condition, lightly-aged, without wraps. Including a seven-page speech by John Stuart Mill (pp.7-13); a speech of three and a half pages by the Rev. Charles Kingsley (pp.14-17); and others by Mrs Taylor; Thomas Hare;...		£350.00