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Lintine & Co. of Birmingham, 'Patentees & Manufacturers of cycle components and accessories', et al. Four manuscript leaves ranging from 16mo to 4to, with covering typewritten letter, the whole held together by a pin. Somewhat discoloured, but in good condition overall. The letter, in purple ink on Lintine & Co.'s florid black-and-white letterhead, is dated 1 January 1903 and addressed to... |
£45.00 | ||
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Lionel Arthur Tollemache English aristocrat (1838-1919), author of 'Safe studies', 'Nuts and chestnuts', etc. etc. Paper dimensions roughly four inches by two inches. Very good. From autograph album. Mounted on larger piece of cream paper. Written in lilac pencil. Reads 'Lionel A Tollemache'. Docketed at foot in pencil... |
£18.00 | ||
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Lionel Britton. Novelist and playwright, author of the "flawed masterpiece" "Hunger and Love". Two pages, 8vo, fold marks but good condition, one ms. correction. A substantial letter dated 30 Oct. 1956, in which he reports on a letter from "Miss Black of Curtis Brown Ltd" (literary agents) in which she reports... |
Literature, Music and Theatre | £450.00 | |
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Lionel Ellis (b. 1903), English wood engraver, artist and book illustrator [Edward Bawden] Signed Autograph Inscription to Edward Bawden. On a piece of paper, roughly 14 x 12 cm. Creased, and with a few pin holes (not affecting text). Edges untidily cut. Possibly the ffep of a presented book. Text in purple ink, with good firm signature (roughly 4.5 cm long). Reads 'To my very dear Friend | E. Bawden | [signed] Lionel Ellis |... |
Art and Architecture, Book Trade History | £25.00 |
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E. V. Knox [Edmund George Valpy Knox; pen-name 'Evoe'] (1881-1971), editor of Punch, 1932-1949, essayist, poet and humorist See Knox's entry in the Oxford DNB, along with those of his father and three brothers. 8pp, 4to. Paginated and complete; on eight leaves held together with a rusting paperclip. In fair condition, aged and creased. A fair copy, with occasional emendations. There is no indication that this essay... |
£120.00 | ||
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Littleton C. Powys [John Cowper Powys; Llewelyn Powys; Theodore Powys] 12mo: 27 pp. Stapled. In original brown printed wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper with rusted staples. Divided into five sections: 'Our Ancestry', 'Our Father', 'Our Mother', 'Montacute' and 'The Children'. A scarce item, the only copies on COPAC being at the British Library, Cardiff and St... |
Literature | £56.00 |
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Liverpool Financial Reform Association [Free Trade; Richard Cobden; economic history] Financial Reform Tracts. No. 1. 12mo. 20 pages. Stitched and unbound. Creased, aged and somewhat dusty. Historic first publication of 'the most persistent and single-minded free trade lobby England has known' (W. N. Calkins, Economic History Review, 1960). |
£56.00 | ||
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Liverpool Fire Prevention [Act of Parliament, 1843; British Fire Brigade] Folio: ii + 59 + [1] pp. Unbound. Stitched as issued. Text clear and entire, but in poor condition: on creased, discoloured and stained paper, with wear to extremities. Begins 'WHEREAS fires in warehouses in the borough of Liverpool have of late years been of frequent and alarming recurrence,... |
£150.00 | ||
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Llandovery College, Carmarthenshire, Wales [Rev. William Done Bushell (1838-1917)] Printed examination paper headed 'LLANDOVERY. | June, 1862. | WELSH EXAMINATION.' Printed on one side of a piece of paper, 22 x 14 cm. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, and still laid down on a leaf from an album. Twelve questions, the eleventh being ten lines to translate from Welsh into English, and the twelfth being ten lines to translate from English into... |
£28.00 | ||
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Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), writer Autograph Signature on piece of paper. On a piece of wove paper, roughly 5 x 14.5 cm. Rough lower edge. Good, on lightly aged paper. 0.5 cm closed tear at left (not affecting signature). Paper folded once vertically. Good clear signature. |
Literature | £18.00 |