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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 | |
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Peter Hall (1930 ? 2017) theatre, opera and film director. 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 | ||
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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 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 | ||
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Ted Hughes [Inscribed by author] 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 | |
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Teresa del Riego Autograph Letter Signed to Egerton Grey. British composer (1876-1968) of light classical music and singer. 16mo. 2 pages. In good condition, with one neat vertical crease and one dog-eared corner. She thanks him for the 'charming lyrics'. 'I don't think I had better embark on any more at present, as I find it increasingly difficult to... |
Book Trade History, Music and Theatre | £75.00 | |
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Terrick Williams [Terrick John Williams] (1860-1936), English landscape painter [John Littlejohns] All three items concern Littlejohns' 'British Watercolour Painting and Painters of Today' (London: Pitman, 1931)'. First Letter: 12mo, 3 pp. 43 lines. Text clear and entire. On two leaves attached to one another in a corner by a pin. Good, on lightly-creased paper. Interesting and informative... |
Art and Architecture | £80.00 | |
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Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher and mathematician One and a bit pages, cr. 8vo, flimsy paper, remnants of being in an album, (strip of card on left margin), some damage with no loss of letters. No "Dear Sir", commencing: "I am extremely sorry to be disappointed in my hope of waiting upon your Lordship this Evening by the return of a Cough which... |
£2,250.00 | ||
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[ Ordnance Survey of Scotland ] Three books of Reference, Campbelton, Southend and Killean and Kilkenzie, all in the County of Argyll. Pp. [34]; [16]; [20], half lea., mbd bds, worn, spine damaged, hinge strain front endpaper, faint foxing, ow good. Some pencilled notes. |
£220.00 | ||
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The Aberdeen Banking Company (1767-1849) [Sir Alexander Bannerman (1788-1864)] Finely printed on one side of a piece of good wove paper, 52.5 x 41.5 cm. Very good. Around two hundred names arranged in two columns, beginning with 'Dr. John Abercrombie, First Physician to the Queen for Scotland, in Edinburgh', and ending with 'John Young, Merchant in Aberdeen - His... |
£195.00 | ||
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Augusta Webster [née Julia Augusta Davies] (1837-1894), English poet, novelist and advocate of Women's Suffrage [her husband Thomas Webster (1832-1913), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge] Autograph Letter Signed from the writer and suffragist Augusta Webster to 'Mrs Picton'. 4 pp, 12mo. Bifolium. 89 lines. Text clear and complete. She begins by apologising for the delay in sending an autograph: 'In atonement I give you Anthony Trollope's signature, which perhaps you have not got.' Reports that they 'went to the Italian lakes this summer. We aimed at Venice but gave... |
£180.00 |