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Autograph Letter Signed to Sylvia Lynd, poet and novelist.

Author:

Jane Wells [born Amy Catherine Robbins] (1872-1927), wife of H. G. Wells.

Publication details:

4 Whitehall Court, London; 'Tuesday' [1924].

£150.00

ALS, on letterhead of 4 Whitehall Court, London; 'Tuesday' [1924], in envelope, 2pp., 8vo. 'You know all sorts of useful things - can you tell me of any way of getting in touch with Mary Ansell - Mary Barrie - Mary Cannan - Mary? here my knowledge stops. [...] Are you "sitting under" Bernard Shaw evening after evening - as I believe is said of preachers? I am going to begin my course on Friday.'

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['Exclusive' interviews on book matters with H. G. Wells and John Galsworthy, in the first two issues of magazine.] The Book Window. A Guide to Book Buying and Book Reading.

Author:

[W. H. Smith & Son, booksellers and publishers; H. G. Wells; John Galsworthy]

Publication details:

W. H. Smith & Son, 22 Vicar Street, Kidderminster. The first issue (Vol. 1 No. 1): July 1917. The second issue (Vol. 1 No. 2): October 1917.

£220.00

The first issue 44pp., 12mo, with pink order slip. The second issue 48pp., 12mo (paginated 45-92). Uniform: stapled in brown printed wraps.In fair condition, on aged paper, with rusting from staples. The first issue has articles by Ambrose Heal, Hal Warwick, Henry Arthur Jones, S. P. B. Mais, Eleanor E. Helme, Irene Beeston and Rose Fyleman. The interview with H. G. Wells is on pp.3-5. Wells asks what the 'object' of the new magazine is, and is told, 'to foster and develop the reading and possessing of books'.

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[Printed advertisement.] Prospectus of Bohn's Standard Library: A Series of the best English and foreign Authors, Printed in a new and elegant Form, Equally adapted to the Library and the Fireside, At the extremely low Price of 3s. 6d. per Volume.

Author:

[Bohn's Standard Library; H. G. Bohn; Henry George Bohn (1796-1884), London bookseller and publisher]

Publication details:

York Street, Covent Garden. [1848.]

£160.00

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. An interesting piece of ephemera relating to a ground-breaking series in the nineteenth-century extension of the market for serious literature. An initial 27-line prospectus in small print is followed by a list of the details of the 35 'Volumes already Published' and of 20 works 'in progress'. The final page carries details of items 'Uniform with his STANDARD LIBRARY, price 3s. 6d.', under the headings 'Bohn's Extra Volume', 'Bohn's Scientific Library, Vol. 1', 'Bohn's Antiquarian Library' and 'Bohn's Classical Library'.

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Autograph Letter Signed to Sylvia Lynd, poet and novelist.

Author:

Jane Wells [born Amy Catherine Robbins] (1872-1927), wife of H. G. Wells.

Publication details:

4 Whitehall Court, London; 'Tuesday' [1924].

£150.00

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Rare $1 [one dollar] banknote issued by H. G. Hotchkiss & Co's Bank, Lyons, New York in 1866.

Author:

H. G. Hotchkiss & Co's Bank, Lyons, New York

Publication details:

H. G. Hotchkiss & Co's Bank, Lyons, New York. 1866.

£120.00

Rare $1 [one dollar] banknote issued by H. G. Hotchkiss

7.5 x 15 cm. With green overprint. In poor condition: worn and with one small hole, and faded manuscript signature and endorsement.

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H.G.

Autograph Letter Signed to Sylvia Lynd, poet and novelist.

['Exclusive' interviews on book matters with H. G. Wells and John Galsworthy, in the first two issues of magazine.] The Book Window. A Guide to Book Buying and Book Reading.

[Printed advertisement.] Prospectus of Bohn's Standard Library: A Series of the best English and foreign Authors, Printed in a new and elegant Form, Equally adapted to the Library and the Fireside, At the extremely low Price of 3s. 6d. per Volume.

Autograph Letter Signed to Sylvia Lynd, poet and novelist.

Rare $1 [one dollar] banknote issued by H. G. Hotchkiss & Co's Bank, Lyons, New York in 1866.

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