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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate and author

[John Masefield, Poet Laureate.] Autograph Card, ordering a book from a booksellers’ list.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged. In the following transcript, the parts in Masefield’s autograph are in square brackets, and the first printed sentence (‘I [...] letter.’) has been scored through: ‘PINBURY PARK, / CIRENCESTER. / Dear [Sirs,] / I thank you for you...

Literature £80.00 Masefield
Leatrice Joy [Leatrice Johanna Zeidler] (1893-1985), Hollywood star of the silent movie era

[Leatrice Joy, Hollywood star of the silent movie era.] Printed circular, in the form of a Typed Letter, with facsimile signature, responding to fan mail.

1p, 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with rust stain from paperclip to one margin. The letterhead consists of a stylized vertical arrangement of the letters in the name ‘JOY’ at top left. The ‘signature’ is an extremely good facsimile in black ink. Begins: ‘Dear Friend: / Your...

£50.00
A. Moncrieff, colonel and engineer

Signature.

Moncrieff, Sir Alexander 1829-1906, colonel and engineer (DNB). Bold signature and date on part of headed notepaper (Royal United Service Institution), paper, c.4 x 4", slightly stained from having been laid down but clear.

Military and Naval History £25.00
A. Nicholls, London printseller ('Upwards of 25 years Assistant to Messrs. Evans of 1, Great Queen Street, and 403, Strand.') [prints; engravings]

A Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, English and foreign, together with a Collection of Miscellaneous Prints, the greatest portion accompanied with concise biographical and descriptive notices. Part V. London.

Octavo: 16 pp. Stitched and unbound. Grubby and a tad creased. Items, in alphabetical order from H (beginning with the Earl of Hardwick) to J (ending with Dorothy Jordan), with a few miscellaneous items on the last page, numbered 3002 to 3837. Interesting for the information it provides about...

Art and Architecture £85.00
A. Penniall and others.

The Croydon Advertiser: Guardbook of some illustrations.

Album, half-leather, worn, folio. The Guardbook of black and white illustrations from the Croydon Advertiser, c. 50 items, most c. 8 x 10", some folding, mainly Croydon subjects and neighbourhood, clear images in good condition, some by A. Penniall.

£120.00
[Sunday School Library, Kent]

A quantity of books from Christ Church, Kilndown, Library, c.1875

60 items, characterised by grey-brown amateur wrapper, usually grubby, with: A label on the front usually stating, 'CHRIST CHURCH, KILNDOWN | LIBRARY. | No. [...] | Please keep clean. | Can be exchanged on EVERY FRIDAY on application to Rev. H. HARRISON. | October, 1875', And a label on reverse...

Book Trade History, Religion £450.00
A. Rutledge Crouch, English designer and illustrator

Four Autograph Letters Signed (all 'A. Rutledge Crouch') to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

The first three items are 4to, with the first two of two pages and the last of one page, all with a brown border. The fourth item is 12mo, 1 p. The quarto items have some creasing and discoloration to the extremities, and a few closed tears. The 12mo item is good. Text of all four letters clear...

Art and Architecture £120.00
A. S. [minor Victorian poetry; nineteenth-century devotional verse]

Short Poems and Sacred Verses. Third Series.

12mo: iv + 164 pp. In original green cloth, with the title in gilt on the front cover. All edges gilt. Slightly foxed. Good and tight, in lightly worn cloth. A curious collection, with the index of first lines containing such entries as 'Sweet Edgbaston bells' [this poem dated 1844], 'Dear...

Literature £100.00
A. Webley, bookseller, at the Bible and Crown in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane

Advertisement leaf containing list of architectural books.

Dimensions roughly eight inches by five and a half. Very good on aged paper. All but top edge rough. One page, blank reverse. Announces that Webley sells 'BOOKS in all FACULTIES and SCIENCES, Containing upwards of Twelve Thousand Volumes, in Various Languages, and in every Branch of Literature,...

Book Trade History £200.00
A. Willert, Foreign Editor of The Times.

Autograph Letter Signed to [H. Beresford] Hope, diplomat (Washington etc).

Three pages, 8vo, good condition. He telss Hope that "when you come over you will be expected to notify me at the Foreign Dept The Times Printing House Square, London E.C." The birth of his "son and heir" has led to his going home for a few days ("the fatigue of producing that Empire Supplement...

History £35.00