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W. T. Thiselton-Dyer Autograph Letter Signed to [?] Mellersh. English professor of botany, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (DNB). One page, 8vo, creased, slightly discoloured and with a few closed tears. 'I failed, as I think I told you, to get any light on the Chancellors Eulogium from Oxford! I thought it only fair to send to Sir Herbert... |
£45.00 | |
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Wavell Wakefield Politician and rugby player (DNB). The five letters all one page, 16mo, and each with two staple holes and in good condition. The autograph poem is on a printed bifoliate menu for the Cricket Society Spring Dinner (6 April 1962), 16mo, slightly discoloured. The letters relate to various Cricket... |
£120.00 | |
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Arthur Waugh. One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Note Signed to Walter Jerrold. Publisher. (TNS) One page, 4to, about the next Thackeray dinner. He has lost his "papers about the Titmarsh Club" and adds an apology in his hand. (ALS) Two pages, 8vo. He praises Ianthe Jerrold's latest poems effusively and at length, concluding that "I think we may expect her to take her place... |
£50.00 | |
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Georges Lafourcade. Autograph Letter Signed to De V. Payen-Payne. Poet and biographer (La Jeunesse de Swinburne, 1837-1867. [With a bibliography.]) Four pages, 8vo, good condition. A very detailed defence of his work on Swinburne. For example, "[I] want first to assure you that there is here some misunderstanding: in my opinion, you have no real justification... |
£150.00 | |
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Simon Nowell-Smith. Autograph Notes Signed (2) to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's. Scholar and collector (1909-1996). Total 3pp., 8vo, good condition. (1931) "many thanks for your note enclosing cheque for "Farrago" [?]. I wish all my debtors were as prompt." Wilson or a member of his staff has put a pencilled line diagonally through the page. ([1932]) He asks to see "the... |
£50.00 | |
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R. Seeley (Robert Benton Seeley). Autograph Letter Signed to [Martin] Tupper, miscellaneous writer (1810-1889)[?]. Publisher, philanthropist and author (1798-1886). Two pages, 8vo, bifoliate, good condition. "Dear Mr. Tupper,/ I hope to send you a proof tomorrow./ I am afraid we shall have to throw Foley over altogether, as we shall probably begin a new series next year in place of the "English Artists"./ I... |
£35.00 | |
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Allen Lane typed note signed and typed letter signed to Elliott O'Donnell. author Publisher (1902?-1970). One page each, 4to. In one he discusses someone's sighting of ghosts (about which O'Donnell has written and the possibility of reprinting O'Donnell's work on werewolves in Penguin. In the other he briefly gives information about his family and anticipates an announcement... |
£150.00 | |
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Bernard Watson (of Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd).: Autograph Note Signed to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's. Publisher. One page, 8vo, bery good condition. "Dear Mr Wilson, / You were indeed kind to give me so much of your valuable Time today, and to take so much Trouble over our projected list. I learnt a great deal on how to write 'copy' for books, and advice from you with your store of experience is... |
£30.00 | |
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Eveleigh Nash. Autograph Letter Signed to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's. Publisher (see Mumby, 1956 ed., p.305). Two pages, 8vo, bifoliate, good condition. Nash recalls their first meeting ("at Mc Geachy's in Glasgow") - "and I felt then that you would get to the top of your calling, because you were obviously a born bookseller wit a knowledge of literature and a... |
£45.00 | |
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G. Belton Cobb Typed letter signed to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's, booksellers Of Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd, publishers. Two pages, 4to, responding to Wilson's comments on prospectuses, discussing both Wilson's and Longmans' idea of who one should send them to, or how many. |
£45.00 |
