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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Richard Savage, Secretary and Librarian to the Trustees, Shakespeare Memorial, Stratford-upon-Avon [Ann Hathaway's Cottage; William Shakespeare] [Victorian printed Shakespeare ephemera] Illustrated 'Description' of Shakespeare's Birthplace, together with tickets of admission to it, and to Ann Hathaway's Cottage, and a letterhead of the Shakespeare Memorial, carrying notes of books. A nice collection of Victorian Shakespeare ephemera. All four items with text clear and complete, on lightly-aged and worn paper. The 'Description' is printed in red, on both sides of a piece of paper 13.5 x 18 cm, with both vertical edges perforated. 'This may be retained as a Souvenir' along...	Art and Architecture, Literature	£150.00
The Chinese People's Committee for World Peace [Germ Warface; biological weapons; arms race] [three pamphlets by the Chinese People's Committee for World Peace] Stop U.S. Germ Warfare! Part II. [III., IV.] Chronological Account of the Germ Warfare and Editorials from the People's Daily, Peking, and Commentaries Issued by Hsinhua News Agency. The three items uniform 12mo: Part II: 33 pp; Part III: 33 pp; Part IV: 41 pp, with twelve more pages carrying twenty-eight photographs. All three items in original red and black printed wraps. Texts and images of all three items clear and complete. On worn and browned brittle high-acidity paper...	History	£180.00
William Durrant Cooper (1812-1875), ed. [Laurence Sterne; M. Tollot; John Hall Stevenson; Robert 'Panty' Lascelles; Horace Walpole; John Hope; John Wharton] [pamphlet] Seven Letters written by Sterne and his Friends, hitherto unpublished. Edited by W. Durrant Cooper, F.S.A. 8vo, vii + 23 pp. Stitched as issued. Text clear and complete. Internally sound, tight and clean; spotting to first and last leaves, with a gummed strip of white paper strengthening the spine. Thin strip along head of title removed, presumably for presentation or ownership inscription. One...	Literature	£135.00
Jackie Coogan (1914-1984), Hollywood actor [Rubye Colleano; Bonar Colleano] Autograph Letter Signed ('Jackie & Ann Coogan') by Hollywood actor Jackie Coogan to the variety entertainer Rubye Colleano. 12mo, 2 pp. 19 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Begins 'Just a line to tell you we miss you like mad & hope you are well & happy. Praises a 'dinner at Mary's'. They hope to call on Colleano when passing through London on 'Sunday Nite'. Ends 'Well honey,...	Music and Theatre	£100.00
Matthew Robinson Boulton, son of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), the business partner of James Watt (1736-1819) [Printed handbill] 'An Account of the Quantity of Copper Coined by Mr. Boulton, Distinguishing the Amount of Twopenny Pieces, Penny Pieces, Halfpence, and Farthings into which it was coined, with the Nominal Value of each'. Folio, 3 pp. Bifolium. Full title lengthwise (because intended to be folded into packet) on reverse of second leaf: 'An Account of the Quantity of Copper Coined by Mr. Boulton, Distinguishing the Amount of Twopenny Pieces, Penny Pieces, Halfpence, and Farthings into which it was coined, with the...	Economics	£125.00
F. Marion Crawford, American novelist ("classic weird and fantastic stories")(1854-1909). [F. Marion Crawford; pamphlet] Our Silver. A Letter addressed to George S. Coe, Esq., Chairman of the Executive Council of the American Bankers' Association 27pp., 8vo, original printed front wrap, back wrap mainly detached, signs of having been bound up (wear at spine, page partly detached), some staining, contents fair. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, "H. Norman Esq. with kindest regards of F. Marion Crawford \| Aug. 11 \| 1881 \|" [Henry Norman, "English...	Economics, Literature	£350.00
Rena Hall, British variety entertainer [Laddie Cliff and Rena Hall; music hall; Rubye Colleano] Signed Photograph of the British variety entertainer Rena Hall ('Musical Specialities'), inscribed to the contortionist Rubye Colleano. Studio portrait photograph on postcard, captioned 'RENA HALL \| MUSICAL SPECIALITIES'. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Depicts Hall in highland costume with bagpipe under her arm and an accordion on a plinth. Inscribed 'To dear Rubye \| In memory of Happy days \| Love, Rena \| 1937'. 'Laddie Cliff and...	Music and Theatre	£45.00
T. Spencer Wells, Lecturer on Surgery, Surgeon [Pamphlet/Offprint[?]] Three Cases of Tetanus, in which "Woorara" was used. Pp.[1]-16, 8vo, disbound, numbered "13" in pencil, fold mark, spine showing wear, mainly good condition, inscribed "John Clay Esq \| with the Author's \| Kind regards".	Science, Medicine and Technology	£25.00
William Jaggard (1868-1947) [William Shakespeare; frauds; forgery] [Pamphlet (proof sheet?)] Shakespearean Frauds. The Story of some famous Literary and Pictorial Forgeries. By W[illia]m. Jaggard.' 12mo, 15 pp. A sheet folded three times to make an unopened quire. Unbound and unstitched. Text clear and complete. Fair, on foxed and lightly-discoloured paper. The published version contained engravings of 'Lewis Theobald, George Steevens, Samuel Ireland, S. W. H. Ireland, John Payne Collier,...	Literature	£56.00
House of Commons Select Committee report into Metropolis Police Offices [London policing], 1838 [Printed House of Commons report into policing in London, 1838.] Report from Select Committee on Metropolitan Police Offices; With the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. Folio, 40 + 224 + 38 pp [i.e. a total of 302 pp]. Disbound; repaginated in a contemporary hand 321 to 622. The central 224 pp are taken up with the minutes, which include the evidence of Sir Peter Laurie, twice Lord Mayor of London, and parodied by Dickens in 'The Chimes' as 'Alderman Cute'....		£150.00