Latest additions
| Author, Title, Summary | Price | |
|---|---|---|
|
C. Lewis Hind [Charles Lewis Hind (1862?1927) journalist, writer, editor, art critic, and art historian.] Typescript with MS add, 2pp., 4to, aging but text clear and complete. Hind adds a note in MS indicating that he has sent this text to his dedicatee , a man of mystery who adds in pencil (presumably returning the text) I put a pencil line through the lines I would omit-. (Pencil marks confirmed... |
£120.00 | |
|
4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 -1870) diplomat and statesman, sometime Viceroy in famine-stricken Ireland Substantial part of Letter, final three pages, bifolium, very good condition, final page laid in windowpane. Text: [missing a leaf] or a column & 1/2 to The Times 3 or 4 days before the Bill is introduced they wd insert them & the widest effect wd be produced at the right moment - Some... |
£250.00 | |
|
[W.B. Yeats; King Alfred School, Highgate; Sylvia Lynd] Four pages, 4to, fold marks, staining (part foxing), text clear and complete. Programme comprises: Page 1 the basic information about the play (characters etc); Page 2 a poetic prologue by E.R.; pp.3 & 4 school song, class songs and Call-over Songs. From the Papers of Sylvia Lynd, nee... |
£120.00 | |
|
Thomas Hughes QC (1822 ? 1896), author of 'Tom Brown's School Days, lawyer, judge, politician and author. One page, 8vo, minor defects, mainly good condition. Text: I hope your kind present of your lately published Vol has not been lying here without acknowledgment for many days. The fact is that I only found it here on my return home late last night - I shall read it with much interest & am... |
£56.00 | |
|
Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington (1699 ? 1747), Army officer and politician,sometime Paymaster-General of Ireland Part of a Receipt, 13 x 11.5cm, an ancient smear on the verso, ow good condition. Receipt filled in in MS, "Received then of [Lord Onslow, one of the four tellers of his Majesty's Exchequer] the Sum of [Twenty one thousand three hundred Eighty Seven pounds] in further part of an Order, Dated the... |
£50.00 | |
|
Patrick Moore, amateur astronopmer and broadcaster A. TLS, one page, 4to, to Kevin, 17 May [no year given], good conditiopn, text; He has signed some papers, then apologises for the lateness of his TV programme. There isn't much I can do about this, alas. But I hope you enjoy them when you do get the chance to watch.Last weeks', with Carl Sgan,... |
£60.00 | |
|
Kingsley Amis, novelist [J.R. Ackerley] One page, 12mo, good condition. Text: Sorry - no letters from poor J.R.A. [J.R.Ackerley, author] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed. See Scan. |
£56.00 | |
|
Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 ? 1923) American educator, author and composer. Paper, 12 x 7cm, remnants on verso indicating tipped on another surface previously. Text: 'God bless the brick house that was; God bless the brick house that is to be! | Kate Douglas Wiggin | From Rebecca'. See Scan. |
£56.00 | |
|
John Guise (1682 or 1683 ? 1765), Army officer and art collector. One page, 15.5 x 20cm, left edge repaired, fair condition with text sl. faded. Text (secretarial) My Lord & Gentlemen | the Powder last Deliver'd for the Duty and Exercise of is Majesty's First Regim[en]t of Foot Guards being now expended ([ten barr[e]ls?] part of the allowance Due to the... |
£250.00 | |
|
George Pitt-Rivers [George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890 ? 1966) anthropologist and eugenicist AND Anti-Semite. One page, 4to, bottom edge stained, aged, ow good. Before his letter appears the printed statement, YOUR HOME IS THREATENED | RATEPLAYERS - DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS!. Text: Dear Mr Williamson | You may feel inclined to get into touch with me. I am trying desperately hard to get together a united... |
£250.00 |
