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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881), Dean of Westminster Autograph Letter Signed ('A. P. Stanley') to unnamed male correspondent. 12mo: 2 pp. Thick mourning border. Good. The recipient has provided a partial interlinear transcription of what the New DNB describes as 'Stanley's execrable handwriting'. Stanley is 'much obliged for having [his] attention called to anything in the Abbey Services which requires rectification',... |
£45.00 | ||
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W. H. Hudson [William Henry Hudson; Guillermo Enrique Hudson] (1841-1922), American-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist, who settled in England See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On a 17.5 x 12 cm piece of ruled paper, laid down on a piece of card. The high-acidity paper is browned, otherwise in good condition, with small nick to one edge. The signature ‘W. H. Hudson / June 27. ’20’ is beneath two lines written in a foreign language, a... |
£50.00 | ||
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Arthur Probsthain. Typed Letter Signed to Prof. S. Langdon (Oxford), with seven related items. Bookseller (Oriental and India). All eight items with fold marks, but good condition. They relate to the publication of Sir John Marshall's (ed.) "Mohenjodaro and the Indus Civilisation" (3 vols., 1931), described by Probsthain himself in Andrew Block's "A Short History of the Principal London... |
Book Trade History, Travel and Topography | £225.00 | |
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Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and critic ( Autograph) Bold Signature, place and date beneath a photograph cut from a postcard. Photograph, 7 x 10cms, inscription "Arthur Schnitzler / Wien, 3 [?] 1923." On page, good condition, extracted from an album of autographs with photographs (composers, actors and others), accumulated by Harry Woord Wolling (BBC producer?), mainly in Vienna 1923. Item suitable fro framing. Scan... |
Literature | £220.00 | |
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Arthur Stratton Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Thomas Hughes Architect, teacher and antiquary (1872-1955). One page, 4to, folded twice, in very good condition. He thanks him for sending 'the drawing of your commercial buildings'. He is working from it, and will return it shortly. Those at the school appear 'satisfied with the new gymnasium'. 'Good... |
Art and Architecture | £40.00 | |
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A. J. Webbe [ Alexander Josiah Webbe ] (1855-1941), English test cricketer and Middlesex captain [ John Crawfurd [ John William Frederick Arthur Crawfurd ] (1878-1939), Irish cricketer ] 2pp., 16mo. In good condition. He is 'due at Woolwich the moment the rain stops as we have a day's match there today & tomorrow, but I don't suppose that you will be at Lords the ground must be under water.' He 'couldn't come out of the boys' room on Friday, the cricket was too exciting for... |
£120.00 | ||
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Arthur Taylor. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Printer to a publisher. One page, 8vo, some marks, mainly good. "Sir/ You must be quite aware that it is not usual for a Printer to be sent about to seek Payment out of the proceeds of a work./ I must again request that you [underlined] will arrange the settlement, which has already been... |
Book Trade History, Printing History | £45.00 | |
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Arthur Twidle (1865-1936), English book illustrator [Burma; Burmese; oriental; the Far East] On a piece of thin card, 30.5 x 23 cm. Dimensions of illustration 23 x 17 cm. Signed by Twidle in bottom right-hand corner. The image itself is clear and sharp, in spotted and grubby margins. Docketed in pencil on reverse 'Monkish Robes | 491 | to 5 inches width | with rule as in picture'. An... |
£180.00 | ||
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Arthur Watson Pimm [A. W. Pimm] (b.1881), locomotive engineer and inventor [H. G. King of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers; Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd; Vickers; LNER; LMS Railways] Text of all three letters clear and entire. A well-written and well-informed correspondence relating to 'locomotive matters'. Letter One (14 October 1942): Manuscript. Foolscap, 4 pp. Good, on aged high-acidity paper. 'Knowing, and to some extent, at least, sharing' King's 'interest in loco... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £450.00 | |
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Arthur Waugh. One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Note Signed to Walter Jerrold. Publisher. (TNS) One page, 4to, about the next Thackeray dinner. He has lost his "papers about the Titmarsh Club" and adds an apology in his hand. (ALS) Two pages, 8vo. He praises Ianthe Jerrold's latest poems effusively and at length, concluding that "I think we may expect her to take her place... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £100.00 |