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Grant Richards. Autograph Letter Signed and two Typed Notes Signed to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's. Publisher and author (1872-1948). All one page, 4to, fold marks, sl. grubby but text clear. (ALS) "Dear Wilson/ I have been meaning for several days to see whether you were not free to lunch, and now comes your note. Will you lunch on Tuesday? I hope you will./ Those advertisements? Why, I... |
£150.00 | |
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Frank Schoonmaker. Typed Letter Signed to Grant Richards, publisher. Writer on Wine. One page, 4to, chipped, fold marks, yellowed but text clear. "Your inference with regard to that particular appendix is quite correct. The publishers did get cold feet and the appendix, to my considerable disgust, was omitted. / Apparently Messrs. Routledge felt that the British... |
£60.00 | |
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Mrs. E. W. Symons [A. E. Housman] Octavo: 8 pp. Unbound, stapled pamphlet of six leaves. Dogeared, with rusted staples and with horizontal band of discoloration and two vertical closed tears (2 cm and 1 cm) at head. |
£20.00 | |
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[Maximilien?] Foy. Two pages, 4to, some defects including a small tear but text clear and complete. He reminds the President of their meeting in which he congratulated him on "le grand mouvement populaire qui vous a place at la tete de la nation" and spoke of his brother, Alphonse Foy, "ancien administrateur en... |
£265.00 | |
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Alexander Strahan Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent (John Tyndall?). Two pages, octavo. Good, apart from damage and loss to one edge caused by removal from mount. Would appear to relate to the controversy between the surgeon Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904) and John Tyndall (1820-1893), held in the pages of Strahan's 'Contemporary Review'. Reads 'I herewith send... |
£65.00 | |
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Annie Payson Call Author, associate of Arthur Astor Carey (1857-1923), philanthropist and social worker, of Waltham, Mass. Four, three and two pages, 8vo, respectively, good condition. (1915?). She speculates that she didb't answer his letter because "I think I wanted at first to consider asking my publishers... |
£275.00 | |
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Earl Marchmont, Thomas [ Secker ] Archbishop of Canterbury, Beversham Filmer, J. Stephens. Document signed by these four parties, part printed, part manuscript. One page, 4to, one small tear, staining, pinholes, text clear and complete. The four parties acknowledge receipt of £62.10 in their office aas "executors of Sarah late Duchess of Marlborough assignee of John Rudghe as per margin. In the margin, in manuscript is a list of years 1828-1838 with a... |
£250.00 | |
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Henry Fox [ Baron Holland ] Document (part printed part manuscript) signed "H Fox"; printed heading "Annuity for Life, 1746". Statesman (see DNB). One page, chipped, small tear, trimmed but text clear and complete. The document, part printed (a form), records that Henry Fox on the 23 Aug. 1762 received £20 from George, Earl of Macclesfield, one of the Four tellers of His Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer, for six months... |
£200.00 | |
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Hubert Foster [The P.E.N.; Poets, Essayists and Novelists] Six Typed Letters Signed to D. K. Craig of Arthurs Press Ltd. Association founded in England in 1921 to promote the interests of writers worldwide. First item, two pages, 12mo; next four, one page, 12mo; last item, one page, octavo. All good, though lightly creased and on discoloured paper. All have two punch holes. Item one with staple marks in top left-... |
£80.00 | |
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Khalil Linant [ In French ] Autograph Letter Signed "Khalil Linant" to "Mon cher Bey". Presumably secretary to his father, Linant Bey. One page, 8vo, good condition, text as follows: "Je viens d'apprendre votre nomination au grade de Bey; je vous prie d'agreer toutes mes felicitations les plus sinceres. Je suis heureux de voir le Gouvernement apprecier et recompenser les services... |
£95.00 |
