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Sir William Russell Flint. Autograph Letters Signed to Malcolm Mackenzie. Printed address, headed notepaper. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. Russell Flint is responding to a letter from Mackenzie (attached, copy Typed Letter, one page, 4to, 26 April 1949- saying that he (Mackenzie) has circularised friends in the Press asking them to urge readers to buy water-colours... |
£150.00 | |
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Thomas Campbell. Scottish poet and editor (1777-1844). The letter has been trimmed, with the loss of the address and date, part of which survives on the address side (verso), now one, page, c.6 x 6", some staining and fold marks but text clear and substance of the letter complete as follows: "My dear Friend /... |
£200.00 | |
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William Behnes; George Robins Autograph Signatures on fragment of document. Behnes (died 1864) was a sculptor, and Robins (1778-1847) a flamboyant auctioneer. Very good, on piece of paper roughly two inches by three and a half. From a collection of Autograph Signatures cut from petitions to the Artists' General Benevolent Fund. Blank reverse. |
£25.00 | |
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William E. Baxter. Autograph Letters Signed (x 4) to (Charles) Buxton Traveller in Spain and elsewhere, and author. 2-4pp., 8vo. He discusses extensively his work on "a Handbook on Russia & Great Britain in Central Asia", giving a resume of chapters and asking for copies to be sent to various places. "No question is more important at present". FOUR ITEMS, |
£250.00 | |
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William Ewart Gladstone [W. Burton] Etched portrait, by W (?) Burton A clean copy, on good thick paper, of an engraving, three versions of which are in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG D8332, NPG D8333, NPG D8334), where they are dated 1889, and described as being etched 'after a photograph originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette 'Grand Old Man' extra'.... |
£20.00 | |
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[ Jack London ] A French Translator Autograph letter signed, Mary-Cecile Loge, translator, to A.P. Watt, Literary Agent Four pages, 8vo. She declines to translate "White Fang" because the similarity of its "most important scenes" to those in "The Call of the Wild" ("leading" Paris editors agree with her) would jeopardise sales, suggesting that compression into one third of the original length would be necessary.... |
£250.00 | |
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Afghan Campaign Manuscript list of members of "E" Battery, "E" Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery Manuscript, one page, 7.5 (W) x 19" (L), with list, two columns including information as follows: state (killed and when, dead, discharged, etc.)/ rank from Major to Gunners/ name. About 60 names. Those who were killed mainly died on 27/7/1880, others died at Kandahar. With: typescript, 2... |
£150.00 | |
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Alexander Brown, nineteenth-century bookseller in the Strand, London [Smith and Guscotte, Solicitors, 19 Essex Street, Strand] Fifty-two long lines of text, on one side of a single piece of parchment, roughly inches by. '[...] Between John Guscotte of No. 19 Essex Street Strand [...] and Alexander Brown of No. 342 Strand in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Book Seller'. A ten-year lease for a consideration of sixty... |
£125.00 | |
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Brocard Sewell Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Kyrle Fletcher, bookseller Private pressman and monk. 2pp., 4to. She is still in time to get a copy of his and Cecil Woolf's "Corvo", he thinks, but will check with Woolf. They have been awaiitng an introduction from Pamela Hansford Johnson. Their press cannot help her with her bit of printing ("our press here is closing... |
£200.00 | |
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C.P. Scott. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Newspaper editor (1846-1932). One page, 8vo, acknowledging good wishes for his 70th birthday. |
£20.00 |
