Latest additions
| Author, Title, Summary | Price | |
|---|---|---|
|
Ludwig Straus (1835 – 1899), Austrian violinist [ Ludwig Straus; violinist ] Autograph Note Signed Ludwig Straus to a Miss White, with thanks. One page, 16mo, bifolium, fod mark, good condition. To Miss White with kind regards and mny thanks for having made me so comfortable inher well appointed house. |
£25.00 | |
|
Lucy H.M. Soulsby, Headmistress (Oxford DNB) Two pages, oblong 12mo, creases, foxing but legible. My delay in writing to you has been caused by some change of place on Miss Scrivens part. Just after seeing you, I heard she had found work which suited her; - yesterday she told me that she has finally reg=fused this work & hoped to make... |
£35.00 | |
|
John Furnell [pseud. Phyllis Macqueen], playwright [Oscar Wilde] [170]pp., 4to, title label, brown wraps, stabbed, sl. wrinkled edges, sl. aged, typed ownership sticker back cover, John Furnell, 'Woodend', 24 Chessel Avenue, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Hants. Final page (additional , p.[170]) includes a list of Author's suggestions for settings. With a sprinkling... |
£480.00 | |
|
[ Indian Mutiny ] Number 22172, pp.3707-3775, UNbound, still in original gatherings A-I (total 9, each four pages, unopened), first pages sl. grubby, and others edges dusted, ow good condition. Each gathering stamped in red as NEWSPAPER. It includes comprehensive reports on fighting and situation from April 1858... |
£450.00 | |
|
Philip H. Wicksteed, economist [ Georgist, Unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic.] One page, 12mo, faint staining, good condition. I shall be most happy to dine with you on the 30th and think it probable that I can allow myself the pleasure of spending the night at Oxford. | [...] |
£35.00 | |
|
John B. Gough, American Temperance Lecturer (Orator)(1817-86). Paper, 16 x 17.5cm, laid down on similar sized paper, good condition. He only is a true freeman who renders stedfast obedience to righteous law. If a quotation, not traced. So a statement, sentiment, or word of wisdom perhaps. |
£45.00 | |
|
John Scott Russell [ John Scott Russell (1808–1882,), Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built Great Eastern with Brunel. Two actually congruent sections clipped from (secretarial) Letter Signed J. Scott Russell, 11 x 5cm (Address as above), and 11 x 6cm (sentiment with signature), considerable loss of text which appears to have been a recommendation of another engineer perhaps for employment. Surviving text (on... |
£50.00 | |
|
Victor Gollancz, Publisher One page, 4to, fold mark, very good condition, Typed text: [...] I very much enjoyed myself, and so, apparently, did everyone who has written to me - except a somewhat illiterate gentleman who had never heard such drivel in all his life. | I thought John Freeman was extremely kind tp me. He has... |
£80.00 | |
|
Stanley Anderson [ Alfred Charles Stanley Anderson CBE RA (1884–1966), engraver, etcher and watercolour painter. ] One page, cr. 8vo, fold marks, small stain in margin, text clear and attractive (a neat hand). He appreciates the invitation to Dover Street to dine. I[t] gave me great pleasure to have this expression of your friendship and it was great ill-lcuk that the wretched teaching shoulkd have... |
£45.00 | |
|
H.E. Armstrong (1848-1937), Chemist Two pages, 12mo, good condition. Text: I enclose [Muller's?] letter about [Mrs Greens?] paper. I saw him to-day & one or two other members of the Pub. Comm. All are interested, but the opinion seems to be that the paper is not quite 'severe' enough for us & also that it should receive... |
£100.00 |
