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Charles Dibdin Autograph Letter Signed to Dr [?] Frazer. Charity administrator (1864-1938). Two pages, 16mo, on letterhead of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. 'This is the latest Chart published. It came out this month. We do not issue a larger copy or I would send it to you.' |
£35.00 | |
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D Squadron Autograph Signatures of several members on printed keepsake. Presumably printed for a Royal Air Force regimental reunion. Card bifoliate, 16mo, with 3 pages printed in green ink and featuring crude vignette of men in action in black ink on recto of first leaf, and with verso of second leaf reserved for autographs. Discoloured but in good condition.... |
£100.00 | |
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Linley Sambourne Autograph Sigature on fragment of letter. Victorian cartoonist and illustrator (DNB), connected with the magazine Punch. The fragment is around two inches by four, creased and discoloured. It reads 'With compliments | very truly yours. | Linley Sambourne' The signature is underlined. The reverse, one edge of which is attached to a piece... |
£25.00 | |
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Arthur Waugh. One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Note Signed to Walter Jerrold. Publisher. (TNS) One page, 4to, about the next Thackeray dinner. He has lost his "papers about the Titmarsh Club" and adds an apology in his hand. (ALS) Two pages, 8vo. He praises Ianthe Jerrold's latest poems effusively and at length, concluding that "I think we may expect her to take her place... |
£100.00 | |
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Georges Lafourcade. Autograph Letter Signed to De V. Payen-Payne. Poet and biographer (La Jeunesse de Swinburne, 1837-1867. [With a bibliography.]) Four pages, 8vo, good condition. A very detailed defence of his work on Swinburne. For example, "[I] want first to assure you that there is here some misunderstanding: in my opinion, you have no real justification... |
£200.00 | |
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Simon Nowell-Smith. Autograph Notes Signed (2) to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's. Scholar and collector (1909-1996). Total 3pp., 8vo, good condition. (1931) "many thanks for your note enclosing cheque for "Farrago" [?]. I wish all my debtors were as prompt." Wilson or a member of his staff has put a pencilled line diagonally through the page. ([1932]) He asks to see "the... |
£50.00 | |
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R. Seeley (Robert Benton Seeley). Autograph Letter Signed to [Martin] Tupper, miscellaneous writer (1810-1889)[?]. Publisher, philanthropist and author (1798-1886). Two pages, 8vo, bifoliate, good condition. "Dear Mr. Tupper,/ I hope to send you a proof tomorrow./ I am afraid we shall have to throw Foley over altogether, as we shall probably begin a new series next year in place of the "English Artists"./ I... |
£65.00 | |
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<?> Hearn. Autograph Note Signed to R. Sunter, Bookseller, Stonegate, York. One page, 4to, spike-hole, fold and other marks, text cleaar and complete. "Sir,/ Some months back, you informed me that "The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire would be shortly ready, and you engaged to send me a copy to my Town Agent, (Jas. [underlined] Gilbert, 49 Paternoster Row) as soon as the new... |
£45.00 | |
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[...Thoms?] Autograph letter signed to Triphook, 21 Golden Square. One page, 4to, small tears, small piece missing, dulled, fold marks, spike hole, but text readable. "If you will go to Cockburn & Cos branch at Whitehall they will pay you £5.8- I am sorry it escaped my memory. I enclose you a list of the contents of 5 vols of Old Plays which I am offered... |
£45.00 | |
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Allen Lane typed note signed and typed letter signed to Elliott O'Donnell. author Publisher (1902?-1970). One page each, 4to. In one he discusses someone's sighting of ghosts (about which O'Donnell has written and the possibility of reprinting O'Donnell's work on werewolves in Penguin. In the other he briefly gives information about his family and anticipates an announcement... |
£150.00 |
