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Neil Bell.

Autograph Note Signed to "Miss Daniel".

Novelist. One page, 8vo. She has obviously asked him for a copy of his "So Perish the Rose" but he says that it has "long been out of print & copies are extremely difficult to come by as I well know for I have been trying to get one for some time."

Literature £30.00
[Report from the House of Commons Select Committee on Publications, 1908.]

[Report from the Select Committee on Publications, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. [with] Index to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Publications.

Report: 8vo, xvi + 115 pp. In original blue printed wraps. Index: 8vo, ten pages, unbound, continuing pagination to 126. Both items fair, on aged paper, and both carrying unobtrusive stamp of the University of Hull. Chipping and repair with archival tape to wrap of 'Report'. The Committee was '...

£95.00
Nelson W[ilmarth]. Aldrich jr. [Anthony Blond Ltd].

Signed Printed Memorandum of Agreement between Aldrich and Anthony Blond Limited for a book to be entitled 'Harlem Diary'.

4 pages, folio. Somewhat grubby and creased, but in good condition overall. A standard Blond printed contract with manuscript additions and deletions. Signed 'Nelson W Aldrich /' and Anthony Blond'. The work does not appear to have been published.

Book Trade History, Literature £100.00
Nicholas Francois, Count Mollien.

Letter signed "Mollien" to "Monsieur le Courte", Le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies

French financier (1758-1850). Offical letter, two pages, folio, text in secretarial hand, signed by Mollien, some defects but mainly good condition. "Monsieur le Courte, je prie Votre Exc ellence de vouloir bien presente le plus promptement possible a Sa Majeste, le Budget Speculatif de recetter...

French £450.00
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman [Cardinal Wiseman]

Substantial Part of Autograph Letter Signed [to Charles Dolman], Catholic Bookseller/Publisher.

Four pages. 16mo bifoliate. In poor condition: grubby, creased, stained and worn. Traces of previous mounting along top of two central pages, and of stub along one edge, removal of which has caused a small hole (not affecting text). A letter to the publisher of his 'Essays on various subjects' (...

£150.00
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley

Autograph Letter in the third person to 'Mr. Amory'.

English Chancellor of the Exchequer (1766-1851). One page, 4to. Formal letter in the third person. Very good, with remains of brown-paper stub adhering to the verso of the blank second leaf of the bifoliate. 'Mr. Vansittart presents his Compliments to Mr. Amory, and in acknowledging the favor of...

£30.00
Nicholas Wiseman.

Autograph note signed, "N. Card. Wiseman", to an unnamed correspondent.

Cardinal Wiseman (1802-1865). Two pages, 8vo, some foxing, good condition. "Ever since I saw you last, I have been from home, with little or no interruption; and at the present moment I am quite exhausted. A week or two will restore me & then I will forward to you a considerable amount of...

£100.00
Nicolai Malko (1883-1961), Russian conductor, latterly chief conductor in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Signed photograph.

Dimensions of photograph roughly nine inches by seven wide. Aged, lightly creased and a little scuffed. Slight loss to bottom right-hand corner of border, not affecting image. A bespectacled Malko in a double-breasted pinstripe jacket, in the act of conducting, baton aloft, and with violinist in...

Music and Theatre £200.00
Nicolas Bentley

Autograph Postcard Signed to Kenneth Bredon, of Bredon's Bookshop in Brighton.

One page, very good. Postcard illustration of Marie Taglioni. In Bentley's distinctive neat hand. 'If & when Angus & Robertson's traveller shows you a book called Dead Funny, illus. by Bill Tidy, pubs. Ask & Grant, I hope you'll feel compelled to place a huge order: The Grant is...

Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Literature £35.00
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux; Sir William Soames; John Dryden; Henry Hills junior, London printer

The Art of Poetry, Written in French by The Sieur de Boileau. In Four Canto's. Made English By Sir William Soames, Since Revis'd by John Dryden, Esq;

12mo: 40 pp. Disbound. Good, on lightly aged paper. Contemporary ownership inscription of 'William Francklyn" on title-page. This edition is scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Liverpool.

Literature £400.00