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C.B. Cochran

Typed notes signed (x 6) to Thomas Bass,

English impressario (1872-1951), nicknamed "Cocky", closely associated with Noel Coward, knighted in 1948. All one page, five with the letterhead Charles B. Cochran, 49 Old Bond Street (three 8vo and two 4to), and one, 12mo, with the letterhead of the Midland Hotel, Manchester. One in stamped...

Music and Theatre £100.00
C.E. Hare

The Language of Field Sports

Pp.xvi.276, v.g. in worn dw.

Natural History, Social history £28.00
C.E. Lawrence.

Autograph Note Signed to J.G. Wilson, Managing Director of Bumpus's, publishers and booksellers

Novelist and dramatist. One page, 8vo, good condition. "I was away yesterday - unwell, & today your Bombshell frightens me. Do spare me if possible [all from "Do" underlined] (& certainly if J.M. v. [John Murray V] is there, for he's the one to speak . ..); but Ican't refuse your request...

Book Trade History, Literature, Music and Theatre, Printing History £26.00
C.E. Maurice

Manuscript poem signed

Philanthropist and author (of the Life of Octavia Hill). One page taken from an album. On the page for his birthday (29 June) Maurice has written out part of Tennyson's "Oenone" (commencing "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control"). Maurice involved himself in many causes, including the...

Literature £45.00
C.H. Read

Autograph Letter Signed to Fagan.

Antiquarian and art connoisseur (1857-1929). 3pp., 8vo. He wishes to clarify the view he and his colleagues at the British Museum are taking on "the Thompson memorial", ignoring it since it is a British Academy matter not British Museum.

Art and Architecture, Education £35.00
Maurice Willson Disher (1893-1969), British theatre critic and playwright

Autograph Note Signed ('M. Willson Disher') to the Secretary's Office, Clarendon Press, accompanying a statement of his 'qualifications'.

4to, 1 p. Trimming at head has resulted in loss to the first line of Disher's address; otherwise text clear and complete. On lightly-aged and creased paper, with jagged trimming at head and in bottom right-hand corner, and three punch holes to margin. Bearing the stamp of the Secretary's Office...

Music and Theatre £56.00 Autograph Note Signed ('M. Willson Disher') to the Clarendon Press
'Marie Corelli' [pseudonym of Mary Mackay (1855-1924)], Victorian popular novelist

['Marie Corelli' [Mary Mackay], English popular novelist.] Autograph Signature ('Marie Corelli') removed from letter.

On 5 x 11 cm slip of paper cut from foot of letter. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. The reverse reads '[...] in these dark days [...] interest! It is so [...] of you to sent it, [...]'.

£23.00
C.L. Graves.

Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent.

Writer. Piece of paper, c.6 x 4", good condition. He is presumably reponding to a request for an autograph: "Your flattering request / My prompt attention craves. / (signed) yours sincerely, with the best of wishes / C.L. Graves."

£18.00
C.L. Gruneisen.

Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books.

C. L. Gruneisen (DNB), journalist, music critic, editor of the Great Gun. He explores the possibility that the author of Peter Priggins might write for the Great Gun, explaining his policy and agreeing "in Masonic confidence" to give him the names of the principal contributors.(Presumably these...

Literature £85.00
C.L. Lewes

Autograph letters signed (x 2) to the Rev. F. Langbridge

Son of G.H. Lewes, partner of Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). Total 5pp., 8vo, damp-staining and marking affecting the text without obscuring it, rust marks from paper-clips marginally obscuring the text. (1887) Blackwoods had forwarded his correspondent's request to quote some passages from the...

Literature £100.00