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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1834–1879), English nobleman [Duke of Newcastle; horse-racing] Autograph Letter Signed "Newcastle" to "Frank" about a race-meeting. Three pages, 8vo, bifolium, small stain, otherwise good condition. He comments initially on a cutting (from a newspaper?). Singular to relate there is more truth in that cutting than you wd imagine. Before leaving London I had persuaded Miss Kellogg to come to Brighton for the race week: I got a...		£100.00
[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland [Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting, 28th July, 1876. 15pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Two copies on COPAC, at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. No other copy currently on the market.		£135.00
[ William Home Lizars ] William H. Lizars (1788–1859), Scottish painter and engraver. Autograph Note Signed 'Will. H. Lizars' on receipt of payment for work on Walter Scott novels. One page, 21 x 8cm, one dge frayed and sunned, text clear and complete. Lizars acknowledges paymentof £49.14 from "John Gibson Junr, Esqre for the Trustees of Sir Walter Scott, Bart [...] payment of [annexed?] account [not present] for Titles to Tales & Romances."	Literature	£180.00
[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