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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Monk Gibbon.

Autograph Letter Signed to Daniel George (Bunting), publisher's reader, editor and author, co-discoverer of Ian Fleming.

Poet. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He gotr the impression from a letter George sent that he and another approved of Monk Gibbon's book. He quotes Flaubert on the idea that an author works hard but cannot expect profit "but to fail to see it even in print would stick in my gizzard." He asks...

Literature £100.00
Montagu William Lowry Corry, Baron Rowton (DNB), politician and philanthropist

ALS in autograph addressed envelope, to Charles Williams of 28 Theobald's Road

Grubby and stained envelope addressed to Williams with "With a bag." in top left-hand corner. "The proof of your remembrance of your kind promise to me reached me just as I was leaving London, for a few days in this region. | I place your volumes on the shelves of my humble library with real...

Literature, Social history £50.00
Montague Phillips [Montague Fawcett Phillips] (1885-1969), English composer and organist; his wife Clara Butterworth (1888-1996), soprano

Autograph Signature of Phillips ('Montague F. Phillips'), with manuscript of score of musical phrase; autograph signature of Butterworth ('Clara Butterworth').

On the recto of a piece of pink paper, roughly 17.5 x 23.5 cm, removed from an autograph album. Good, on lightly aged paper. Phillips's autograph is in the top left-hand corner, reading 'Montague F. Phillips | March 1927.' Above it are four bars of musical notation, marked 'allegro' and titled '...

Music and Theatre £100.00
Montgomery Meigs, Jr, son of The Union Army's Quarter-Master-General

Three scrapbooks containing professional and personal material, 1883-1907, with material relating to his father, Quartermaster-General of the United States army.

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1847-1931), nicknamed 'Monty', civil engineer and inventor, was the son of the celebrated American army officer and engineer of the same name (1816-1892), Quartermaster-General of the United States army during and after the American civil war. While easily...

History, Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history £14,500.00
Morley Roberts

Autograph Signature on fragment of letter.

Novelist, journalist and travel writer (1857-1942). Dimensions: 1 1/4 inches by 4 inches. In good condition, although creased along its length, and attached to a larger piece of paper docketed 'Morley Roberts. | Novelist & Journalist.'

Literature £15.00
Charles Roach Smith

[Pamphlet] On the Scarcity of Home Grown Fruits in Great Britain with Remedial Suggestions. In a Letter to Joseph Mayer

14pp, 8vo, wraps, trace signs of having been bound in another volume, some marking (mainly back wrap, mainly good.

Science, Medicine and Technology £85.00 On the Scarcity of Home Grown Fruits in Great Britain
Morley Stuart [CITY AND UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE]

Large Collection of Autograph and Typewritten Letters Signed photographs of, and newspaper cuttings and other printed material relating to, various Cambridge notables and others.

Assembled by Morley Stuart, editor of the Cambridge Daily News. The bulk of an interesting collection from which the "high spot" items have been removed leaving mainly local and university interest. The collection was assembled during the first half of the twentieth century, by a figure at the...

History, Social history £450.00
Morris Charles Jones.

Autograph Letter Signed to John Russell Smith, publisher.

Officer of Archaeologia Cambrensis. Two pages, 8vo, Carnarvon, 18 Dec. <[18]58?>, text clear and complete, if illegible at times. "I am desirous of procuring the following Books [prob. separate sheet - lost]: - and of negociating with you for them: on the footing that I should have...

Book Trade History, History £45.00
Mortimer Collins.

Autograph Letter Signed to "Mr Callender".

Miscellaneous Writer (see Dictionary of National Biography). Two pages, 12mo, faint foxing, other minor defects, but mainly good condition and text clear. "Allow me to congratulate you & the Conservatives of Manchester on your great triumph - a double victory, since it not only brings you...

Literature £45.00
Moses Montefiore, Jewish Philanthropist

Envelope frank (signature), addressed to "George Cadenhead".

Envelope front panel, black border, c.4 x 2", addressed to George Cadenhead, apparently in Montefiore's hand (illegible street name follows) and Montefiore has signed it in the bottom left.

£75.00