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Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (1861-1934), Liberal politician and Lord Chancellor [the Official Press Bureau; Great War; censorship] Autograph Letter Signed ('Stanley Buckmaster') to [F.] Meade[, Secretary, Official Press Bureau]. 12mo, 3 pp, 26 lines. Good, with tiny pin holes at head and foot of both leaves of the bifolium, and one corner roughened by removal of mount. Buckmaster has learnt that Meade is 'contemplating leaving [his] work in this Office', and would 'greatly regret any such step' as Meade's work is 'of... |
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Mina Curtiss, ed. [Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly] Olive, Cypress and Palm. An Anthology of Love and Death. Compiled by Mina Curtiss. 8vo: xvii + 296 pp. In original black cloth, with design in silver stamped on front board. No dustwrapper. Faded spine and lightly-marked cloth. Inscribed by Curtiss on front free endpaper: 'To Ellery Sedgwick - | Most gratefully - | Mina Curtiss | Christmas, 1932.' |
£56.00 | |
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Nehemiah Asherson (1897-1989), English otorhinolaryngologist and Librarian of the Medical Society of London Around 100 loose, disordered leaves, mostly A4, with autograph notes or typescript on one side only. In good condition. Includes jumbled sections of a monograph (unpublished?) on Sir William Macewen. Also a few notes on Morell Mackenzie, and complete short articles containing reminiscences of... |
£180.00 |
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Geoffrey Clifford Tyndale [Divorce Law; Legal History; Reading Lists; The Times of London] Two Manuscript Diaries, covering the years 1916 and 1917. Two 8vo diaries, by Charles Letts, the first 'improved' and the second 'self-opening'. Both in heavily worn covers, lacking spines, but internally clean, on aged paper, and with the text entirely legible. Both diaries end with a brief set of accounts. The diaries are filled with details of the... |
£450.00 | |
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George Scott Robertson. Anglo-Indian Administrator (1852-1916). Total sixteen pages, 8vo, good condition. . Subjects include: anticipation of the publication of his book, "Chitral. The Story of a Minor Siege"; the Johnson Club, political activity (canvassing), Edward Clodd, a request to be the "accredited agent" of "... |
£150.00 | |
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Max Pemberton. Autograph Letters Signed (3) to Clement Shorter, Man of Letters. Man of Letters. Total 7pp., 8vo, fold mark, good condition. He promotes the interests of a friend, asks if writing for another periodical (presumably not Shorter's The Sphere) would create a conflict of interest, discus the framework of a play about Goldsmith's Life. etc. Three items, |
£50.00 | |
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Henry Miller [Bern Porter] The Plight of the Creative Artist in the United States of America. 8vo: paginated 3-38. Four full-page reproductions of Miller's paintings. In original yellow printed wraps. On brittle, aged paper, with the body of the book detached from the wraps, which are worn and with one corner at front creased. Title taken from front wrap. One of 950 numbered copies,... |
£75.00 |
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Michael Fraenkel [Henry Miller] 8vo: 93 [+1] pp. In original grey wraps with printed label on front and yellow wrap-around band ('Une pièce à verser au Dossier Miller | Variété a Paris'). Covered in glassine. Good, on lightly-aged paper. From the archives of Michael and Daphne Fraenkel's Carrefour Press. |
£56.00 |
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Norreys Jephson O'Conor (1890-1964), Irish-American poet [Osbert Burdett; 'Maarten Maartens'] Both letters 4to, 2 pp. Both texts clear and complete, and both in fair condition, with dog-eared corners. In the first letter O'Conor writes that he has 'heard from Miss Maartens', and that he is sending 'Dr van Maanen's' study of the author. 'Miss Maartens suggests that you and I might meet,... |
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[Mandalay; Burma; Myanmar] 12mo, 15 pp. On watermarked laid paper. Very good, with slight wear to crease on first leaf damaging two words (both still legible). Otherwise text clear and complete. The item can be dated from a reference to 'a Dempsey-Tunney fight'. Although neatly written, the handwriting is so stylised that... |
£65.00 |
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