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12703Without place or date. London 1840s. 1p. 12mo. On bifolium. Good on aged paper. The note reads: 'Mr Landor has to acknowledge the honor of Lord Londesborough's invitation for May 21. The crowded state of London will not permit him to make his usual visit there in Spring and among his regrets is his inability to pay his respects to Lord Londesborough.' Without place or date. [London, 1840s?] unknown
26959Without place or date. 1p. 12mo signs of tipping on verso good on aged paper. The note reads: 'My dear Mr. Empson I have been reading. your Narrative with great delight. Never was I more interested in any book of see image. The ballads are exquisite. Accept my best thanks and believe me your very obliged WS Landor'. Note: Landor was mentioned by Mrs Lynn Linton: She was visiting "Dr Brabant in Bath and we were at Mr. Empson's old curiosity shop when we saw what seemed a noble - looking old man badly dressed in shabby snuff - colored clothes a dirty old blue necktie unstarched cotton shirt .". Without place or date. hardcover
629621 February 1916; on letterhead of the Board of Trade Whitehall Gardens London S.W. 12mo 3 pp 35 lines. Good on lightly aged paper and with a thin strip from mount adhering at head of blank verso of second leaf of bifolium. Discusses 'the restriction on the importation of paper and paper making materials' imposed 'with the object of securing more tonnage space in incoming vessels'. He has not 'been willing to fetter the discretion of the Commission' and concludes with the comment 'that if they had to consider the rival claims literary or educational of particular publications for special treatment they would find the burden placed upon them heavier than any body of persons however conscientious could be expected to bear.' 21 February 1916; on letterhead of the Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W. unknown
2656413 Holland Street Kensington and other London addresses. 1886 to 1912. The fourteen items are laid down on three pages on two leaves of grey paper removed from an album on the reverse of one leaf are two coloured coaching scenes by Randolph Caldecott one featuring a highwayman. The overall condition is fair with creasing and signs of age. The Autograph Letter Signed is from Crane to 'My dear Stanley Little'. 1p. landscape 8vo. With letterhead of Beaumont Lodge Shepherd's Bush featuring an illustration by Crane of a shepherd and sheep. 20 September 1892. He is sending a copy of his 'Claims of Decorative Art' and hopes that 'as one who has thought & written much on art' he will 'accept it as a contribution from my side the question or at least as "Friendship's Offering".' As an imperialist Little's politics were opposed to Crane's. He asks him to 'look for us at No 13 Holland St. Kensington when you are next in town'. In a postscript he states: 'The good wife is away in Essex with the two boys but returns at the week's end.' On the same page are six items with decorations apparently by Crane: first a label for 'The Pioneer' printed in sepia with space for 'Number Contents Price' showing a knight climbing up dense foliage to a languid lady; second a label or bookplate for the 'A E & C S Handicraft Design' with the name supported by two women in revolutionary caps each flanked by a cherub; third another example of the Beaumont Lodge letterhead ; fourth and fifth two copies of a strange tiny design of an African hunter with spear before a setting sun printed in negative on grey paper; sixth a tiny monogram perhaps 'L J S' made by a snake and printed in red. The next page carries a season ticket with design by Crane of two workmen shaking hands for the 1906 Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at the Royal Academy made out in manuscript to 'The West Sussex Gazette'. The third page carries six items: first a printed handbill advertising 'The Leek Press Papers: No. I. The Relation of Art to Education and Social Life by Walter Crane Twenty-eight pages in wrapper.' With two vignettes the first of two country folk with ten geese; the second of a peacock. The reverse advertises a 'Catalogue of a Collection of Designs by Walter Crane A.R.W.S. with vignette of stork and lettering by Crane. Carries two close tears repaired with archival tape. Second printed in red an invitation card designed by Crane to the Old House 13 Holland St: 'Dame Walter Crane bids you welcome on New Year's Day 1912 in the evening at nine thirty'. Third Crane's autograph signature cut from the valediction to a letter: 'Every yours Walter Crane'. Fourth a handbill advertisement for 'The Fabian Society Session 1886-1887' with design by Crane of female forms representing Liberty Equality and Fraternity. The 'Executive' are named as Annie Besant Hubert Bland Edward R. Pease Frank Podmore G. Bernard Shaw Sidney Webb and Charlotte M. Wilson'. Fifth an invitation card printed in brown to the private view of the fifth Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society 3 October 1896 at the New Gallery 121 Regent Street. Made out to J. Stanley Little of the African Review. Featuring the same design as above of the two workers shaking hands. Sixth letterhead printed in red for 13 Holland Street Kensington W. Featuring a design of a crane by Crane. Heavily creased. SEE IMAGES. 13 Holland Street, Kensington, and other London addresses. 1886 to 1912. unknown
0331764644.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
193239670New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1932. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with silver lettering and pictorial stamping pictorial dust jacket. viii 584pp. Foldout genealogical chart at rear. Very good/very good. Endpapers a tad age toned; mild jacket edgewear. Wonderfully tight and attractive first edition of this fiction that follows the Herries family of London from the time of Waterloo through Queen Victoria's later years. Designer Edward A. Wilson's partly-colored jacket is quite striking. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
39982EDINBURGH MUNDELL 1796. NEW EDITION FINELY REBOUND IN HALF CALF OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS. FRONTIS. 339 PAGES. A FINE HANDSOME COPY. EDINBURGH, MUNDELL, 1796 hardcover
24507LONDON DODSLEY 1759. TWO VOLUMES SECOND EDITION SMALL OCTAVO NEW LEATHER SPINES AND LABELS REBOUND WITH ORIGINAL LEATHER BOARDS CORNERS BUMPED NEW ENDPAPERS. FROM THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD SACHEVERELL SITWELL WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. PLEASE NOTE - PAGES 131 TO 142 OF VOLUME 2 ARE MISSING OTHERWISE A NICE SET. LONDON, DODSLEY, 1759 hardcover
26661LONDON BURNET 1764. FIRST EDITION FIVE VOLUMES SMALL OCTAVO FULL LEATHER GILT ARMOURIAL DESIGN OF 'THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET' TO THE FRONT BOARDS LIBRARY LABEL TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. LEATHER RUBBED RED LEATHER TITLE LABEL TO SPINES ONE MISSING JOINTS TENDER BUT A GOOD SET OF THIS VERY SCARCE WORK. POSTAGE AT COST. LONDON, BURNET, 1764 hardcover
44048LONDON BENTLEY 1840. COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES. INCLUDING NUMEROUS LETTERS NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBED BOARDS ELABORATE GILT TO THE SPINES ENGRAVED FRONTIS. TO EACH VOLUME. BOOKPLATE OF THE ARTIST E J WHEELER. RUBBING TO THE EXTREMITIES OF THE LEATHER BUT VERY GOOD AND CLEAN. LONDON, BENTLEY, 1840 hardcover
2005x-1412804728Transaction Pub 2005. Paperback. New. 184 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. Transaction Pub paperback
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1909HALL131911Hardback. 1909. xviii 476pp & 48 plates Doubleday NY 1909. Hor. 149: Walling spent two years in Russia soon after the disturbances of 1905-1906 knew the leaders of the reformist & revolutionary parties & refers to Lenin & Trotsky at this early stage. He seems to have anticipated the successful revolution & writes of both workers & peasants with unusual inside knowledge & insight. Cast within the framework of history & with some analysis of national character the whole makes a study of the 'state of the people' which is of particular value today. Covers slightly marked & front end-paper pasted to board otherwise very good. . hardcover
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