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Lennox Robinson Crabbed Youth and Age. A Little Comedy. Pp.38 [2], 8vo, original illustrated pink wraps, yapp edges chipped, contents good. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to Sylvia Lynd, poet and reviewer: "Sylvia Lynd/ from Lennox/ Feb 1924." Original cast list on verso of last two pages. |
£120.00 | |
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Lennox Robinson The Round Table. A Comic Tragedy. Pp.109.[2], 8vo, original illustrated pink wraps, yapp edges chipped, contents good. Ownership inscription "Sylvia Lynd", poet and reviewer. Original cast list on verso of last leaf |
£120.00 | |
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Léon Lalanne [Léon Louis Chrétien Lalanne] (1811-1892), French engineer and mathematician [François Napoléon Marie Moigno [Abbé Moigno] (1804-1884), French mathematician] Autograph Letter Signed ('L. Lalanne') to 'Monsieur l'abbé Moigno', ed. "Cosmos". 12mo, 1 p, 7 lines. Good, with the address on the verso of the second leaf of the bifolium, which also carries the broken red wafer. Written in French. An interesting communication between two of the leading lights of French nineteenth-century mathematics. Lalanne describes Moigno as 'toujours... |
£85.00 | |
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Richard Allen, editor [almanack; almanacks; ephemerides; ephemeris] 12mo, 32 pp. In original pink printed wraps. Unbound and stitched. Text clear and entire. Tight, but grubby and dogeared, and with closed tear and creasing at head of recto of front wrap. Densely printed in a variety of point sizes, with frontispiece and twelve wood-cuts (one for each month).... |
£100.00 | |
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J.A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S. Pp.p. xv, 155, concluding with 16-page publisher's catalogue, original green cloth gilt (motif of the bird on front cover), illustrated,some wear, corners bumped as well as the top and bottom of spine, sporadic use of pencil lines in margin, but an attractive book. Compliments of the publisher... |
£120.00 | |
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A. E. W. Mason [Alfred Edward Woodley Mason] (1865-1948), English novelist Autograph Letter Signed ('A. E. W. Mason') to 'Colonel Harvey'. 8vo, 1 p. Good, on lightly aged paper. He is sorry but he will 'have to shorten my visit'. He has to 'make some arrangements about a play and the only opportunity I will have of seeing the manager concerned will be on Sunday'. He 'can come up on Sunday morning easily enough', but will have to '... |
£38.00 | |
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Alaric Watts [Alaric Alexander Watts] (1797-1864), English journalist and poet [keepsakes; The Literary Souvenir] Autograph Letter Signed ('Alaric Watts') [to Mr Limbird?]. 4to, 1 p. On aged, creased apper, but with text clear and entire. A small piece of paper from a bottom corner has been torn away in opening the letter, and is still present on the reverse, under a red wax seal bearing a clear impression of a lyre and the words 'Addolcire ed Maturare'. Brief... |
£56.00 | |
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Herman Charles Merivale (1839-1906), English playwright and novelist [victorian publisher Samuel French, of 89 The Strand, London; James Robinson Planché] Letter: 12mo, 1 p. Grubby and stained. He 'did not mention the Planché-affair' in his letter of the day before. Asks for his name to be put down 'for a copy of the book' [French's edition of Planché's 'Extravaganzas']. The subscription form (12mo, 1 p), heavily worn and with loss to the... |
£56.00 | |
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Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891-1975) [Clement King Shorter (1857-1926)] 4to, 1 p. With mourning border. Lightly creased, but in good condition overal. A letter of condolence on her husband's death. 'I know that words are useless, but please let me say how much my sympathy goes to you in your great loss. It is, in its measure, a loss to all of us - even a great loss... |
£35.00 | |
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Sir John Alexander Hammerton (1871-1949), author and editor of reference works Autograph Letter Signed ('J A Hammerton') to 'My Dear Shorter' [Clement King Shorter (1857-1926)]. 12mo, 2 pp, and 8vo, 1 p. A little grubby and creased, but with text clear and entire. He is sorry that Shorter was not able to visit the Chateaux of the Loire, but hopes that 'the sea air of Dieppe' has done him good. The year before Shorter's death, Hammerton writes: 'But you must really cease... |
£45.00 |
