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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
I. Crane [Isaac Crane], watchmaker of Bromsgrove [Watchmaker; handbill] Trade Advertisement Handbill, 36 x 15cm, poor condition with some amateur (sellotape) repairs on verso, chipping, closed tears, and some missing text. See part-image. Headed by image of watch paper ('I. CRANE / BROMSGROVE', showing a crane and a carriage lamp, within a circular border reading 'To make the Watch go...		£120.00
Jean-Denis Malclès (1912-2002), French artist, illustrator and costume, set and poster designer for film, theatre, ballet and opera, who worked with Cocteau, Anouilh and others Five Autograph Letters Signed, in French, from the French artist and designer Jean-Denis Malclès to an unnamed correspondent, regarding the sale of maquettes of costumes of a production of 'Orphée aux Enfers'. With price list of 31 items. The first four letters are each 1p., 12mo; and the fifth letter is 1p., 4to. The price list, which accompanies the last letter, is 2pp., 4to. All items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. In the first letter (4 May 1980) he replies to his correspondent, thanking him for a letter '...		£280.00
Max Plowman (1883-1941), author. Autograph Leytter Signed Max Plowman to Robert Lynd, essayist anfd Irish Nationlist. ALS, on letterhead of Lochnagar, Bycullah Park, Enfield; 17 December 1912, 3pp., 12mo. He thanks him for the 'letter & all its encouragement [...] The book represents rather under a year's work at verse & I only hope I shall not someday have to wish it had never been other than firelight...		£75.00
Thomas Tucker, council member of the Philosophical Society of London in Coleridge's day. [Observations made at the Philosophical Society of London in 1815] Autograph Letter Signed "Thos Tucker" to Thos Winkworth (from address panel) Three pages, 4to, fold marks, some chipping and closed tears, mainly discreetly repaired, but text complete and clear. He is responding to Winkworth's request for "an outline of the observations I had the honour to address to the PSL [Philosophical Society of London] on thursday last but fear...	Literature, Social history	£400.00
Louis Francis Salzman (1878-1971), British economic historian. Autograph Leytter Signed L.F. Salzman, economist, to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist. ALS, 14 Brookside, Cambridge; 19 August [1928], 2pp., 12mo. Written on returning the proofs of two articles. 'I see you have cut out my proof of the early intrusion of the Friar Tuck element into the Robin Hood cycle: - the only piece of information in the article which a student could not...		£200.00
Sir John Henniker Heaton (1848-1914), Member of Parliament for Canterbury, 1885-1910, and postal reformer [Henry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford (1825-1914); Sir Stephen Herbert Gatty] [Sir John Henniker Heaton, Member of Parliament for Canterbury.] Autograph Note Signed ('J Henniker Heaton') to Stephen H. Gatty regarding a letter of recommendation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies Lord Knutsford. 1p., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He informs him that he has written 'a strong letter of recommendation to Lord Knutsford' (Secretary of State for the Colonies). He is enclosing the reply (not present) and 'will not fail to bring the matter before him again'. Sir Stephen Herbert...	History	£35.00
Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), English novelist. Autograph Letter Signed and Typed Letter Signed Hugh Walpole to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist. ALS and TLS, the TLS, on letterhead of 24 York Terrace, Regents Park, London; 3 October 1921; ALS, on letterhead of Brackenburn, Manesty Park, Keswick; 8 July 1930, 4pp., 12mo. A significant letter (TLS), relating to the formation of the PEN Club. 'Dear Mr. Lynd, \| Several people who are...		£320.00
Sir Sidney Colvin (1845-1927), art and literary critic, Slade Professor of Fine Art and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [Stephen John Aldrich of the British Museum] [Sir Sidney Colvin, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Sidney Colvin') to 'Mr. Aldrich' [Stephen John Aldrich], regarding his childhood in Barnes, and some Dutch master paintings Aldrich is thinking of selling. 3pp., 8vo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Aldrich is writing from Barnes, and Colvin writes that his address 'takes me back sixty years & more, when my people rented (for the winter of 1855-6) what was then Barnes Manor, - the house & park in a bend of the New River belonging to...	History	£40.00
Matilda Betham-Edwards, novelist [Manuscript] Memorandum of an Agreement [with Henry S. King, publisher, for her "new novel", 'Felicia'], signed "M. Betham-Edwards Two pages, sm. folio, fair condition, giving details of an advance and the holding of the copyright of "The Sylvesters" if they should decide not to go ahead and want their money back. Minor change apparently initialled "HSK" [= King].		£120.00
Clifford Sharp, (1883-1935), editor of the New Statesman. Three Autograph Letters Signed, one Autograph Note Signed, and one Typed Note Signed 3 ALsS, ANS and TNS, three on New Statesman letterheads, one on letterhead of 127 Willifield Way, Golders Green; 27 July 1923, 19 June 1924, and 5 January and 23 March 1933, 8pp., 8vo and 12mo.An undated note, on New Statesman letterhead, reads 'These fruits of abstinence are not for me. If you...		£300.00