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Bertha Coolidge Slade [Maria Edgeworth; Constable and Company; Richard Clay and Sons] Stapled and unbound. Octavo: four leaves (eight unpaginated pages). On aged and lightly spotted paper. Vignette on title page. Includes list of plates and 'Specimen Entry' of pages 51-3. Verso of last leaf headed 'from CONSTABLE'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST', comprising 'THE CARTER-POLLARD DISCLOSURES... |
£30.00 | |
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Bertram Dobell, bookseller and man of letters (DNB). Autograph Letter Signed "B. Dobell" to [Walter] Jerrold, man of letters. Two pages, 8vo, vestiges of an album page on reverse, good condition. He sent a presentation copy of his "Rosemary & Pansies", somne of which "appeared in the privately printed ed[ition]" he gave him. He also sends a booklet "by one 'Lucian Lambert' - a gentleman who seems to have a good... |
£50.00 | |
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Bickers; Alfred Cooper; W. Downing; T. Gladwell; W. George; Kerr & Richardson; C. Lowe; Uriah Maggs; J. Mathews; J. Neale; Parry & Hales; W. Paterson; Reeves & Turner; J. Roche; H. Sotheran; H. Young Thirty-one secondhand booksellers' catalogues (one a duplicate). all octavo, in worn nineteenth-century binding, with front hinge loose, lacking spine. New endpapers. All items good, on aged paper with occasional foxing. An invaluable collection, providing a snapshot of secondhand bookselling in provincial Victorian England within an extremely short timescale... |
£450.00 | |
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Budd & Calkin, booksellers, stationers (add bookbinding and "To their Royal Highnesses The Prince Regent & Duke of Kent" Invoice, printed heading, account of Lord Glenbervie. One page, 8vo, defects but text clear and complete. "State Trials" and "Cobbett's Register". |
£30.00 | |
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C. A. Stonehill, Inc., booksellers of New Haven, Connecticut [Charles Archibald Stonehill] Coloured advertisement featuring cartoon by P. Webb. Dimensions roughly nine inches by three and a half wide. Creased and somewhat aged, with traces of previous blue paper mount on reverse. The cartoon, which occupies just under the top half, shows three hillbillies watching a fourth chalk crosses onto a farmyard wall, with the caption 'Somebody... |
£45.00 | |
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Charles Higham (1846-1920), London theological bookseller [Dickinson & Higham] Octavo, 216 pages. One of 'only fifty copies printed, on thick paper'. Title-page in red and black. Aged and a little stained, in recent half-leather rebinding. 9670 items listed, 'for the most part second-hand'. Preceded by 'ADVERTISEMENT' in which Higham 'trusts [...] that this modest... |
£450.00 | |
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Charles Higham (1846-1920), London theological bookseller [Hodder & Stoughton] Autograph Note to Messrs Hodder & Stoughton, publishers. One page. Dimensions of slip roughly four inches by five and a quarter wide. Somewhat aged, but entirely legible. Reads 'British Quarterly Review | Can you tell me what was the last part of this issued, if it is possible to get a title-page and index to vol 83. My last part is 166 April 1886'.... |
£35.00 | |
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Charles Rochussen (1814-94), Dutch painter; Johannes de Mare, Dutch engraver; J. F. Brugman, Dutch printer Paper dimensions roughly ten and a half inches by eleven and a half; print dimensions eight and a half inches by ten and a half. Aged and with three inch strip, roughly half an inch wide, torn away from surface of print in top left-hand corner. Depicts a crowded and rather grand hall, containing... |
£75.00 | |
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David Ferrier, Scottish bookseller. Receipted Invoice, part printed, Signed, account of [Lechbury? - in pencil] One page, 8vo, good condition. A "Sederunt Book". |
£30.00 | |
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Dorking, Surrey, England [Recycling; the Environment; the Green Party; Publishing History; Bookselling; the Book Trade; Austerity] Advertisement for 'Dorking Urban District Book, Waste Paper and Cardboard Drive'. Striking advertisement, in red ink, on one side of a piece of paper roughly seven inches by seventeen wide. With something of a prewar feel, it reads 'DORKING URBAN DISTRICT | BOOK, WASTE PAPER | and CARDBOARD DRIVE | [in box on right] 12th April | TO | 1st May | 1948 [end of boxed text] | Save... |
£45.00 |
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