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[PROVINCIAL]W. Gotelee, bookseller, printer and stationer. Sixteen invoices, all 8vo, good condition. They bought account books and stationery relevant to their function. The overseers, for example, bought a "Poor Rates Book", had "Rate Receipt books" and "Poor Rate Notices" printed by Gotelee. The surveyors' invoices listed "Printing 200 Highway Rate... |
Book Trade History | £200.00 | |
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[PUBLISHERS] Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. Invoice to J. Houlgate of the Yorkshire Society, 23 Davygate, York. 2 pages, 8vo. Creased and with several small stains in blue and red. A printed invoice, ruled with blue and red lines, filled in in manuscript with a claim for fourteen shillings, 'To advertising in | The "Live Stock Journal," | Nos. 448 & 449' [November 3 and 10 1882]. Payment details in... |
Book Trade History | £20.00 | |
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[PUBLISHING AGREEMENT] Al Alvarez Typewritten Publishing agreement with Anthony Blond Limited, 56 Doughty Street, London, W.C.1. Poet and critic (born 1929), friend of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, now best known as a poker player. In good condition. On one side each of 3 4to pages, neatly stapled to a piece of card. '[...] concerning a work at present entitled: | THE IRON CURTAIN SPY | Edited and compiled | by | Al... |
Book Trade History | £75.00 | |
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A. E. W. Mason [Alfred Edward Woodley Mason] (1865-1948), hugely-popular English novelist, playwright and screenwriter, author of ‘The Four Feathers’ and creator of Inspector Hanaud Mason was, according to E. V. Lucas, ‘famous in both hemispheres’. His entry in the Oxford DNB ends with this assessment: ‘His books were best-sellers for fifty years, and the films made from them, notably The Drum (1938), for which he wrote his own scenario, and The Four Feathers (1939), were... |
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[PUBLISHING; MUSIC] William Smallwood, prolific Victorian composer. Letters from publishers to Smallwood and other material. Ten items, various formats, mainly 8vo. a. Copy statement i, 13 Jan. 1879, in which Smallwood agrees terms with the music publisher, Mary Ann Williams for his "musical composition entitled Winander-mere". b. Autograph Note Signed "Frederick Langbridge", 25 Jan. 1877, confirming that the sole... |
Book Trade History | £300.00 | |
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[PUNCH MAGAZINE] Major George Denholm Armour, O.B.E. Autograph Signature beneath printed cartoon. Scottish animal painter and cartoonist (1864-1949), for many years connected with Punch. In good condition, with the printed cartoon approximately 6 inches by 5, on 8vo piece of paper with two neat holes for ring binder. One of Armour's cartoons ('PLAYS FOR THE HUNTING-FIELD. | "HONOURS EASY... |
Art and Architecture | £50.00 | |
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Hon. Charles William Powlett (1844-1864), only son of Henry William Powlett [born Henry Townshend] (1797-1866), 3rd Baron Bayning and his wife Emma [née Fellowes]. 2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. With monogrammed 'CWP' letterhead in red. He was sorry not to have found her at home, 'but we always go out at the same time'. He invites her to dine with them on the Sunday: 'as Mrs. is with you to take care of Col. Hamilton', whom he is sorry to hear is 'so great an... |
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James K. Colling [ James Kellaway Colling (1816–1905), architect, watercolour artist, noted book illustrator, pioneer of early Chromolithographic printing.] Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, very good condition. If you will let me know what Numbers you require of the Gothic Ornaments {his work first published in 1838] I will endeavour to let you have them. It is very probable that you would not get them at my publishers as there being so... |
£120.00 | ||
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[Hesing; Voyage to England and New York from China, 1846-8] Signed `Hesing´ in bold black ink at the foot beneath his portrait, also adding the junk's name `Keying´ and the name `Suckling´ [not traced] to the portrait, all with their equivalent Chinese characters beneath. Quite heavily foxed, mainly around not on the image and signatures, top left corner... |
History | £250.00 |
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[R.W. Lane, printer, bookseller, stationer, bookbinder Manuscript Invoice, account of "Messrs Shairp & Archer". One page, fol, chipped and stained with minimal textual loss. A lengthy list of various kinds of paper. Add to BBTI Bookbinder, medicine vendor and perfumer, seller of paper-hangings. |
Book Trade History | £45.00 |