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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
A.B. Cunninghame-Graham.

Autograph Letter Signed to “Maurice”.

Admiral. One page, 4to, tear not affecting text, discussing his travel plans and meetings.

Military and Naval History £25.00
A.E. [George William Russell].

[AE; ] Some Irish Essays

39pp., 12mo, a fragile pamphlet, lacking back wrap and with damaged front wrap, attractively rebound in green paper wraps with label on front, retaining and supporting the surviving wrap. Scarce. Copac lists copies at CUL, BL, NLI not Trinity.

£75.00
A.E.W. Mason.

Typed Note Signed to Miss Jerrold.

Novelist. One page, 8vo, good condition. "I am quite willing that you should use the extract from my book "The House of the Arrow", but you should, I think, get also the consent of Mesrs. Hodder & Stoughton before using it."

Literature £35.00
A.G. (A.D. Godley).

Verses to Order.

Quarter vellum, mottled, blue boards, bumped, endpapers browned, mainly good. "Most of the verses in this volume have appeared in the "Oxford Magazine". It includes an early poem involving Golf, "Love and Golf": Hear me swearing, fairest Phylliss!/-Golfers all know how to swear- . . . Links were...

Literature £50.00
A.G. Hales.

Autograph Note Signed to the Revd E.F.T. Davis.

War correspondent and novelist. One page, 4to, one small stainn not affecting text, mainly good condition. A positive and pleasant response to a request for an autograph. He has given a more formal autograph in the bottom left hand corner.

£23.00
Helen D. Willard [Helen Delano Willard] (1905-1979), Curator, Harvard Theatre Collection [Andrew Block, London bookseller.]

[Helen D. Willard, Curator, Harvard Theatre Collection.] Autograph Letter Signed and Autograph Card Signed to London bookseller Andrew Block, regarding visits to ‘beloved England’; the letter with reference to Arthur Colby Sprague.

The obituary of the recipient Andrew Block (1892-1987) in ‘The Private Library’ was subtitled ‘the doyen of booksellers’; his business was established in 1911. Both addressed to ‘Dear Mr. Block’. LETTER: 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Signed ‘Helen D. Willard’. She is...

£45.00
A.J. Warne-Browne

Autograph Letters, quantity, to “J.H. Roberts”,.

Painter. 4 ALSs, 2-3pp., 8vo, good. He asks for payment for a picture so that he can pay rent arrears, reports of his progress with his pictures, “the two Dartmoor streams”. He later talks of other pictures in which Roberrts has an interest (“Mermaid”, “Kennack Bay”, “Cadgwith [Cove]” and others...

Art and Architecture £150.00
A.R. Orage, editor and journalist

An Englishman Talks It Out with an Irishman

With a Preface by John Eglinton. Pamphlet, 31pp., 8vo, original grey wraps, stained at edges, contents good. From the library of Robert Lynd, author and nationalist. Scarce: COPAC lists copies at BL, LSE, NLS, Oxford.

History £50.00
A[rthur]. Blok

Some Personal Recollections of Sir Ambrose Fleming. The Third Fleming Memorial Leture.

Communications and Television pioneer. Pamphlet, 12pp., 4to, somewhat soiled and chipped, small tear at fold mark. INSCRIBED by the author "With Kind Regards / A.B. [Arthur Blok]".

Science, Medicine and Technology £28.00
A[uguste]. Durand [presumably the printer and bookseller rather than the composer] [Charles Roach Smith (1807-91), British archaeologist]

Autograph Letter Signed ('A Durand') to Smith.

Two pages, 12mo. Good, on aged and creased paper. Engraving of ancient medallion as letterhead. He takes 'the opportunity of a friend going over' to send Smith 'a parcel which I have just received from Monsr De la Plane, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of the <?> & the Bulletin...

Book Trade History £42.00