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[ Duke of Edinburgh; HRH Prince Alfred ] [ Duke of Edinburgh in 1870; Madras ] The History of His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh's Visit to Madras, as related in The Athenaeum and Daily News 22-27th March 1870 46pp., 8vo, printed beige paper wraps, minor damage to wraps, foxing throughout, fold marks, stab mark though top of most pages, just about good condition, [[sur]name on frontcover "Forth"?]. Includes sections on Visits of Native Princes, The Governor's Ball, The Native Entertainment, etc, etc,...		£320.00
[Stoakley & Son[s]; Frank E. Stoakley; bookbinders] [Manuscript material; bookbinders] List of customers of Bookbinder in Cambridge, with a collection of letters, 1909 -1924 List of customers of bookbinder, Stoakley & Son, pre-1920(?)(from the list Professor Oppenheim died in 1919), 3pp., c.16 x 25cm, bifolium, 132 names listed alphabetically in pencil, most with ticks (bills paid?). Customers include A.C. Benson, Deighton Bell, Sir James Dewar, "Gaselee", "...	Book Trade History	£320.00
[Labor-Student Coalition for Peace; Militant Labor Forum; Afro-Americans for SWP; The Dominican Students' Revolutionary Front; Workers' League; Kent State shooting; Vietnam War Protests] [American Student Protest material, 1970.] Ten leaflets from the aftermath of the Kent State shootings: Labor-Student Coalition for Peace; Militant Labor Forum; Afro-Americans for SWP; The Dominican Students' Revolutionary Front; Workers' League. These ten items were produced at the height of the surge of outrage with which the American left greeted the killing of four students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University, Ohio, on 4 May 1970. (As an example of the incident's wider cultural significance, see the song 'Ohio' by Crosby,...		£320.00
[Newspaper] [ Periodical; political & literary ] Extracts from The Britannia [.] Conservative Weekly Newspaper 16pp., 8vo, formerly sewn but stab marks only left, hence disbound, dulled but good condition. From the initial Address the newspaper has been in existence only 12 months, and this is the first digest, with stirring poems by Havali, a Sketches of Character exclusive to the paper, by Mrs S.C....		£320.00
[The Association of Assistant Mistresses in Public Secondary Schools] [Pamphlets] The Association of Assistant Mistresses in Public Secondary Schools, 29 Gordon Square, London] - 16 items, 1897-1934. Comprising: ONE: Bye-Laws. [1897.] 4pp., 12mo. Stitched into pink printed wraps. With application form (1p., 4to) loosely inserted. Fifteen bye-laws, with manuscript emendations reading 'altered 11.11.05' and 'altered 10.11.06'. TWO: Memorandum and Articles of Association. Registered the 1st...		£320.00
Samoa [ Gagaemalae, Savaii Western Samoa] [ Methodist missionary work; Christianity ] [ Samoa in the nineteen-twenties. ] Eight letters, Typed and in Autograph, from a Methodist missionary ('Will') to his father in England, describing his impressions on arrival at his post in Western Samoa. An interesting and informative correspondence, giving the initial impressions of an unnamed nineteen-twenties Methodist minister in Samoa, describing local customs, the state of Christianity in the region (including a denunciation of the Mormons), his view of his duties and the nature of his...		£320.00
Richard Bentley the younger (1854-1936), member of celebrated firm of London publishers, son of George Bentley (1828-1895) and grandson of Richard Bentley (1794-1871) [Great Western Railway] [Richard Bentley, publisher.] Two copies (one proof) of his pamphlet 'Death of the Broad Gauge', describing a Great Western Railway journey during the switch to Narrow Gauge, in a series of letters to his father George Bentley. With printed envelope. All three items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: Untitled proof, with 'Proof 6.12.92 [i.e. 6 December 1992]' in manuscript at foot of first page. 20pp., 8vo. Unbound and unstitched. Two manuscript corrections, and two indications of where maps are to be placed. The first letter is...		£320.00
William Thomas Cosgrave; W.T. Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State, 1922-1932 [Pamphlet] Important Address by President Cosgrave Pamphlet, 16pp., 8vo, grey printed wraps, sunned at edges, stapled as issued, staple rusty and contents partly detached, a couple of pencil annotations, some rust marks, contents mainly good. It commences, "[p.1] "Dublin Chamber of Commerce \| President's Address \| Delivered Wednesday, 26th...		£320.00
Noel Gilroy Annan (1916-2000), Baron Annan [Lord Annan] [Dorothea Jane Stephen (1871-1965), daughter of James Fitzjames Stephen, niece of Sir Leslie Stephen and cousin of Virginia Woolf] [Lord Annan and Virginia Woolf's cousin Dorothea Jane Stephen.] Three Autograph Letters Signed from 'N. G. Annan' to 'Miss Stephen', on his biography of her uncle Sir Leslie Stephen. With autograph notes by her, including a childhood reminiscence. The three letters in very good condition; the first two attached to one another in one corner by a stud. Also included is Dorothea Stephen's copy of Annan's biography ('Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to his Time', 1951), worn and without dustwrapper, with her ownership...		£320.00
Jessie Boucherett; Henry Thomas Buckle; Matilda M. Hays; H. R. Droop [women's suffrage; Victorian domestic violence; factory labour; female employment; married women's property] [Female suffrage.] Collection of ten extracts from Victorian magazines on 'the woman question', the topics including domestic violence, factory labour, female employment, married women's property. The ten items disbound from volumes from the collections of Robert Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe; the Cavendish Bentinck Library, London; and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. London. The first nine items in good overall condition, lightly aged...		£320.00