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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
T. J. Smith, Secretary to the Convention, et al. [New Hampshire] The Constitutional Convention. The Constitution of New Hampshire as amended by the Constitutional Convention held at Concord on the first Wednesday of December, A. D. 1876: with the Several Questions involving the amendments proposed [...]. Octavo: 31 pp. Stitched and unbound, with front of the original printed wraps, which bears the title-page, still present. Text clear and entire, on aged paper with some dogearing and chipping to top outer corner. Front wrap creased and lightly stained, with a little chipping, but with text clear...	History	£50.00
T. N. Mitchell of Benson, Oxford [Blows, printer, Henley; spoof; hoax] Spoof notice by 'T. N. Mitchell, Benson, Henley', regarding the death of an 82-year-old 'Wireless Dealer' who is said to have left a fortune of £50,000', with signed inscription by Mitchell on reverse. On a piece of brown card roughly 250 x 200 mm. Designed to be hung from two punch holes at head. Worn and aged, but with text (printed in red and black within a decorative border) clear and entire. A clever and amusing spoof, deliberately old-fashioned typographically in a parody of 'improving'...		£80.00
T. Ramsden, Hon. Sec., Heywood Brotherhood ('held in Market Street Wesleyan Church') [J. Cuming Walters, Editor, Manchester City News; Heywood, Lancashire] Three Autograph Letters Signed by Ramsden to Cuming Walters, with two printed documents, relating to an address given by Cuming Walters to the Heywood Fellowship on 'Brotherhood Sunday'. It is a singular circumstance that no information whatsoever is available on the Heywood Brotherhood (whose President was the Reverend F. Gordon Mee) on the internet. The five items clear and complete on lightly-aged paper. All leaves of the three letters on the Brotherhood's letterhead (...		£150.00
T. Smith, Exeter Hall, the Strand [Robert Robinett, printer, White Street, Borough; Shows of London] Handbill advertisement for 'The Celebrated Working Model, by Real Water, of a Copper Mine, [...] Now on View, At Exeter Hall, Strand.' Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, dimensions 22 x 14 cm. Text clear and complete, on aged and lightly-spotted paper, with minor wear to extremities. Headed 'Under the Patronage of the Nobility and Gentry.' 48 lines of text, including positive quotations from the Observer, Christian...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£75.00
T. W. Scott [William Thomas Stead's Publishing House; Wonders of Science Series; aircraft; aeroplanes; aeronautics; ballooning] Stead's Wonders of Science Series. The Story of Flying Machines. The Conquest of the Air. With eleven specially selected illustrations. Octavo, 48 pages. Stapled. In faded original orange printed wraps. Nine pages of illustrations, including three on wraps. Good, on aged high-acidity paper. Wraps a little stained. Unobtrusive ownership inscription at head of front wrap. Illustrations include two full-page balloons and 'A modern...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£76.00
T.H. Horne (Thomas Hartwell Horne) Autograph note, third person, to Bohte, bookseller.. Bibliographer, Biblical scholar, polemic (1780-1862). One page, c.9 x 5", small portion torn without apparent loss of text which is clear and apparently complete. "Mr. Horne will be obliged to Mr. Bohte to procure for him the undermentioned articles, from the "Leipzig catalogue". viz./ H[K?]...	Book Trade History, Literature	£75.00
T.H. Horne. Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Thomas Hartwell Horne. Biblical scholar, bibliographer, and polemic (DNB) Three pages, 8vo, remnants of laying down process, good condition. He is sending a copy of his "Manual of Parochial Psalmody" and its companion volume, "Selection of Tunes". He also is sending "a copy or two of my little...	Literature	£75.00
Peter Hall (1930 ? 2017) theatre, opera and film director. [Peter Hall (1930 ? 2017) theatre, opera and film director.] Autograph Letter Signed Peter to another Peter (unidentified) saying he's unable to meet a student since he's having a three month rest away after working on the Histories Two pages, 8vo, blue paper, closed tear not affecting texyt, a bit rumpled but text clear and complete as follows: Leslie [Caron, first wife] & I are delighted to hear that you're getting married. I'm a firm believer in a bourgeois base for artists! \| Shan't see your student I'm afraid till...		£80.00
Benjamin S. Ewell [Benjamin Stoddert Ewell] (1810-1894), Confederate army officer, civil engineer, and sixteenth president of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia [Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, sixteenth president of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.] Autograph Note Signed (‘Benj. S. Ewell’) to ‘Mr. Walter G. Webster’, in response to a request for an autograph. William and Mary owes its survival to Ewell: he rebuilt it from ruins after the American Civil War, and every morning during several years of closure he is said to have rung the assembly bell to keep the memory of the college fresh. The present item is 1p, landscape 8vo. It is in poor condition...		£150.00
Ted Hughes [Inscribed by author] Lupercal Illus. paper wraps, some creasing, tiny owner inscription on title ("Ellen [?]). Inscribed by Hughes on half-title: "Dear John, Keep up the good work. I'll send the stuff on to my editor, / Yours,/ Ted Hughes//"	Literature	£85.00