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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 | |
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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 | |
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[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 | |
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[Astronomer] Leland E. Cunningham, American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets Both letters one page, 4to, good condition. A. 13 August 1952, text: I have recently hired for the summer session several new computers, who will probably continue through the first semester as well. It is doubtful that I will have sufficient funds to add another before the second semester, and... |
£50.00 | |
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[Admiralty; Mutiny; The Nore] [Admiralty; Mutiny; The Nore; newspaper] The London Gazette Extraordinary, Wednesday, June 7, 1797 Four pages, bifolium, edges marginally damaged without affecting text, minor ink spray, aged, closed tear at halfway fold mark repaired. Statement concerning the mutiny on the Nore by HMS Sandwich etc with names of naval dignitaries (Given under our Hands, etc) and finally adding Evan Nepean's... |
£220.00 | |
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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 | |
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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... |
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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 | |
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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. |
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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 |
