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Robertson Davies Ist Edition. No dustjacket except surviving front flap of dj enclosed, covers sl. sunned, corners bumped manily g+. INSCRIBED by AUTHOR on title; "Robertson Davies / with love to Elsa / Christmas 1967 // [The drawings in this book are by me but the publisher forgot to say so.] |
£150.00 | |
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[ Nineteenth Century Chemist's or Pharmacist's ] Two volumes, 18 x 40cms, covers grubby but contents good. All customers are listed in an index (some have multiple references), and information is given throughout as follows: Date (day, month, year)(the day of the week is given e.g. "Die veneris"), at the head of the page, customer's names (... |
£100.00 | |
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Ad. Becher [German autograph collecting; autographs; facsimiles] Quarto. Not paginated, but consisting of around 240 leaves containing approximately 280 numbered and well-executed facsimiles. In original brown cloth decorative binding. On aged paper in worn binding, with front board detached with first seven leaves. No letterpress, apart from title and... |
£60.00 | |
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Edward Hugh Courville (died 1920), A. J. Herbert, eds. A.G.E. Phillips, contrib. [Autograph Prices Current] The six vols are uniformly octavo, in original blue cloth gilt. Good, on lightly-aged paper. In worn, spotted binding, with gilt on spine dulled. Each volume opens with several leaves of advertisements for dealers (ranging from Maggs and Quaritch to James Tregaskis and Frank Hollings) and a... |
£200.00 | |
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John Cuming Walters (1863-1933), Editor of the Manchester City News from 1906 to 1932 [The Great War; World War I] This archive records the day-by-day response to the Great War of a cultured and intelligent English newspaper editor operating outside the Fleet Street hegemony. It charts his change of opinion from initial optimism (8 August 1914: 'The instinct is to strike - it is nature's own law. [...] We... |
£250.00 | |
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Myers & Co. (Booksellers) Ltd.; Winifred A. Myers (Autographs) Ltd. The ten items are all in the same 12mo format, each stapled and in coloured printed wraps. Page range between 56 and 106. Internally good, with occasional chipping to the high-acidity paper wraps. Rusting staples. A total of c.4500 items, catalogued in detail by a pioneer in the field and a... |
£100.00 | |
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National Society of Autograph Collectors; The Manuscript Society Sixteen vols, the first seven quarto and last nine octavo. Index to vols.1-11 loosely inserted. Good (apart from issue for Summer 1957 which has slight damp damage), crudely bound in eight volumes of blue cloth, with titles in neat manuscript on white label on spine (one of the bindings stained... |
£450.00 | |
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No author. [Literary Agents] Catalogue of Manuscripts for Sale, and other items Two items sewn together, with additional two ALSs dividing them, disbound, no wraps. First item: (Printed) "Catalogue of Manuscripts for Sale", 16pp. 8vo, inc. title, trimmed at bottom with slight loss of text, initially listing subscribing authors by name or by the titles of books they have... |
£80.00 | |
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Thomas Downey, caricaturist. The original metal plates for 102 engravings by Thomas Downey, caricatures of leading English theatrical figures, including Mrs Patrick Campbell, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, George Robey, George Alexander and Marie Tempest, in performances on the London stage between 1913 and 1917.A friend of the... |
£650.00 | |
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Montgomery Meigs, Jr, son of The Union Army's Quarter-Master-General 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... |
£14,500.00 |
