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Gordon Ralph Hall Caine [G.R. Hall Caine](1884-1962), Chairman and Managing Director, Argosy & Sundial Libraries Limited, of London and Liverpool [son of the novelist Hall Caine (1853-1931)] 8vo, 1 p. Text clear and complete. On creased and lightly-aged paper. He is glad that Sir Thomas appreciates 'the seriousness of our position', and the reasons for asking Hatchards 'to release Mr. Edgeley to us for approximately six months in order to enable him to concentrate mainly upon the... |
Book Trade History | £95.00 | |
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Reading Cooperative Society Limited [Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, Longsight, Manchester] Reading Cooperative Society Limited came into existence in the 1860s, as ‘Reading Industrial Co-operative Society’. A nice piece of ephemera from the high-tide mark of the co-operative movement. No other copy has been traced. 50 x 68 cm. A striking and attractive production in six columns,... |
£120.00 | ||
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford and 2nd Earl Gower Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male noble correspondent. English aristocrat and Whig politician (1721-1803). One page, quarto. In poor condition: grubby, discoloured and creased. Reads 'My Lord | Mr: Boothby of Ashbourne (who yr: Lordship may possibly know something of from his living in the neighbourhood of <?> forest has sollicited me much to... |
Military and Naval History | £38.00 | |
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Catherine C. Hopley [(1817 ? 1911) pen-name Sarah L. Jones, British author, governess, artist, and naturalist] Four closely written pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. She apologises for bothering him but would like him to peruse the accompanying paper which will speak for itself. I was about to write to the New York naturalist to ask if he really had dissected a Chameleo, but thought why... |
£180.00 | ||
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[Charing Cross Hospital, London, Royal Charter of Incorporation, 1883] Folio, 12 + [i] pp. Text clear and complete, with a few pencil underlinings. Aged and somewhat worn. Folded vertically in the centre to make the conventional long legal packet, with the right-hand side of the reverse of the last leaf (with is stamped in red with the number 273683) carrying the... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £125.00 |
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E.F. Benson, novelist Autograph Letter Signed to B.[?] about Mapp and Lucia and satirical remarks involving Income tax. Four pages, 8vo, foxed but text clear and complete. I am so forgetful for I have no recollection of saying I would send for Mapp & Lucia. But here it comes to you, with many regrets that I did not send it before. I hope it may amuse you (this is the American edition) and I haven't got an... |
£280.00 | ||
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Grégoire-Louis Domeny de Rienzi (1789-1843 or after 1850), French adventurer, illusionist, fantasist, traveller and author Autograph Letter Signed to 'Monsieur Huot, Rue des Gravelles No. 4. Versailles'. 12mo, 3 pp. Forty-four lines of text. Difficult hand. Concerns the printing of one of de Rienzi's works by Huot, to whom de Rienzi will transmit all the printed leaves which have not been published. De Rienzi's works have him fighting at Wagram and Waterloo, for the Greeks in 1818 and 1822, with... |
French | £85.00 | |
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Grevile M. Livett, B.A., F.S.A., Honorary Canon of Rochester Early Kent Maps. (Sixteenth century). Offprint of pp.247-77. Small 8vo. 4 plates, 3 of them folding. Foxed, loose copy with closed tear and crease to first leaf. In original light-brown printed wraps, which have become detached.. Presentation copy, with inscription to 'Mr. Edward Lynam from the writer' on front wrap. Manuscript... |
Travel and Topography | £45.00 | |
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Guillaume Depping. Autograph Letter Signed "a la Bible. on R. du cherche midi [89?]". Miscellaneous author. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He asks politely for two pieces of information. Firstly, they have a book with engravings about Liberia "fondee par les Americains". He wonders if Liberia has a charge d'affaires in Paris or London. Secondly, he'd like to publish an article... |
Book Trade History, French, Literature | £56.00 | |
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Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss (c.1807-1887), Anglo-Canadian writer and journalist, nicknamed 'The Old Bohemian' [James Robinson Planché [Planche] (1796–1880), playwright and herald] Three Autograph Letters Signed (all 'G. L. M. Strauss') to Edward Draper. Letter One (12mo, 1 p; on creased, aged paper with closed tear at head): date (1878) illegible, on letterhead of the 'Office of "Tinsleys' Magazine," | 8, Catherine Street, Strand, W.C.' A most unusual way of declining an invitation. He thanks Draper for his kindness and is 'truly grieved' that... |
£100.00 |