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Hilary Pepler and David Jones [S. Dominic's Press] Small 8vo. Pages: viii + 24 + [4 blanks]. Original cream paper wraps: title and price in red and engraving in green on front. Wraps discoloured, rubbed and stained, with covers loosening and loss at foot of spine. Internally sound and tight, but quite heavily foxed. Dated ownership inscription... |
Literature, Printing History | £150.00 | |
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Hillary Waugh. American Crime Writer. One page, 4to. He refers to his just having been welcomed into the Crime Writers' Association but has been too busy to reply sooner. He has ben packing and trying to "finish a novel (which failed)". He very much appreciates meeting CWA members. He adds that "the book is... |
Literature | £50.00 | |
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'Living Statuary' [W. A. Coote, National Vigilance Association; E. Fox Butler, London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality; 'La Milo', i.e. Pansy Montague; Music Hall; London County Council] A marvellous slice of unexplored Edwardian social history, raising questions of morality, censorship, art and pornography, from the papers of William J. Taylor, Secretary of the London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution. The 'Living Statuary' controversy arose over 'the propriety of... |
£520.00 | ||
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James Hogg (1770-1835), 'the Ettrick Shepherd', Scottish poet, novelist and essayist [James Hogg, 'the Ettrick Shepherd', Scottish poet and author.] Autograph Signature from letter. Good clear signature on one side of slip of paper, an irregular rectangle roughly 1.5 x 12.5 cm. In fair condition, aged and worn, with traces of mount on reverse. Reads: 'Your's [sic] most affectionately | James Hogg'. |
£100.00 | ||
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Holbrook Jackson Autograph inscription to A.J.A. Symons Loose leaf, presumably formerly endpaper of book, 8vo, inscribed "For A.J.A. Symons from Holbrook Jackson" with address and date. |
Literature | £50.00 | |
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Holloway & Son (M. M. Holloway) [autographs; sale catalogues; Thomas Jefferson] Octavo: 53 pp. Stitched and unbound. Complete in itself, in alphabetical order, but lotted 554 to 846. Good, though grubby, and with the outer leaves somewhat creased. Includes letters and documents by Burns, Charles I and II, Maria Edgeworth, Frederick the Great, Garrick, Lady Hamilton, Handel... |
Book Trade History | £60.00 | |
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[William, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765); William Windham (c. 1706 – 1789), landowner and politician, Comptroller of the Duke of Cumberland's Household ] Surviving top half of an Order, 20 x 18cm, small closed tears, grubby, fold marks, text clear and complete as far as it goes. The recto contains the terms of the Order (cash for distribution by William, Duke of Cumberland to staff in Windsor Forest [Windsor Royal Park. The verso is signed by... |
£180.00 | ||
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Frederic Villiers, war artist and war correspondent [Frederic Villiers] Autograph Note Signed 'Frederic Villiers' to an unnamed male correspondent. One page, 12mo, edges sunned, some spotting and darkening, text clear and complete. "Thanks for the 'Hermit' which I hope to peruse at my leisure. If possible, I may hand you a small subject in return but am now very busy indeed." |
£38.00 | ||
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Hon. Henry Bilson-Legge (1708-1764), Treasurer of the Navy, 1749-1754 Autograph Signature ('H Legge') on fragment of document. Dimensions of paper roughly 4 x 6.5 cm. Good, although with slight wear at left and small part of loop at beginning of signature crossing over a printed vertical line. Docketed in pencil 'Lord Treasurer'. |
Military and Naval History | £25.00 | |
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Hon. Russell Benedict, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York [The American Art Association] Octavo: 261 unpaginated pages. In original printed wraps. Internally sound and clean, in stained and creased wraps. Unobtrusive ownership mark of Myers & Co. of London on front wrap. Fifty full-page facsimiles of title-pages, etc. Foreword by Benedict, followed by Resume, beginning, 'The... |
Law | £60.00 |
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