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Evelyn Woolf, secretary to Marguerite d'Alvarez (c.1883-1953), English contralto singer Autograph Note Signed from Woolf to Rev. E. J. F. Davies. One page, octavo. Good on aged and lightly creased paper. 'As you see by the enclosed it was returned to Mme D'Alvarez. | She is so sorry, but hopes it will now reach you. | Yours Truly | [signed] Evelyn Woolf | Secretary'. |
£10.00 | |
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G. Michelmore & Co, dealers. Two Hundred Extraordinarily Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts. 152pp., sm. fol., printed wraps, worn, chipped, slightly creased and somewhat dingy, contents lightly foxed, contents marginally damp-affected, slight hinge strain, numerous plates, some folding, 200 numbered items and descriptions of three major collections - Le Sage, Voltaire, and Fenelon... |
£100.00 | |
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G. Michelmore & Co., London autograph dealers [Chiswick Press; Oscar Wilde] Octavo: ii + 174 pp. Stitched. In original grey printed wraps. Internally clean and tight, in grubby and worn wraps. A first class catalogue, with excellent entries on items including letters and documents by Byron, Carlyle, Dickens, Disraeli, Edward Fitzgerald, Garibaldi, Pitt the Younger, Sir... |
£100.00 | |
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G.H. Last, dealer. Catalogue nos. 248, 267 and 268, printed wraps, one chipped and partially detached, but all in good condition otherwise, 32; 28; 24 pp. respectively (including wraps), 8vo. Manuscript material occupies a few pages of each catalogue, and might be described as interesting rather than "... |
£100.00 | |
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Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), British (Australian-born) classical scholar and advocate of the League of Nations Autograph Signature on letterhead. Paper dimensions: five inches by eight inches wide. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Good clear signature reads 'Yours sincerely | Gilbert Murray. | August 6. 1930.' |
£10.00 | |
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Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956), English journalist and historian, nicknamed 'Stickum' Typed Letter Signed ('Wickham Steed') to Rev. E. J. F. Davies. One page, 12mo. Very good. 'Absence abroad has prevented me hitherto from complying with your request. I have pleasure in enclosing herewith a specimen of my signature.' |
£10.00 | |
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Holloway & Son (M. M. Holloway) [autographs; sale catalogues; Thomas Jefferson] Octavo: 53 pp. Stitched and unbound. Complete in itself, in alphabetical order, but lotted 554 to 846. Good, though grubby, and with the outer leaves somewhat creased. Includes letters and documents by Burns, Charles I and II, Maria Edgeworth, Frederick the Great, Garrick, Lady Hamilton, Handel... |
£60.00 | |
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Horace Rayson Venables (b. c.1898) [AUTOGRAPHS; Montgomery of Alamein] Autograph Letter Signed ('H. Rayson Venables') to Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Four pages, 12mo. Good, on aged paper with one half-inch closed tear. Claims to be 'compiling an historic book [...] which has been left to the nation', and asks for his contribution. Provides a full-page list from the 'over 500 Autographs'. The collection 'could not be complete without'... |
£40.00 | |
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J. Pearson & Co., dealers. 48pp., 8vo, folding plates (facsimiles), cream printed wraps, title in red and black, wraps showing wear and tear, some foxing, mainly good. The date, 1911, and a limitation to 1000 copies, are indicated in a pencil note inside the from cover. Entries include; Michelangelo, Veronese, Rubens, and... |
£80.00 | |
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J. Pearson & Co., dealers. Autographs of One Hundred Celebrities 1456-1901. 64pp., 8vo, grey printed wraps, title in red and black, edges of wraps sunned, mainly good condition. Highlights include: Aretino, Goldsmith, Handel, Keats, and so on. |
£80.00 |
