[LOCKMAN
(John, teacher of History)]
A New History of England by Question and Answer
for the Instruction and Entertainment of our Youth of both Sexes, inscribed on the half title and inside the front cover by "Miss Laetitia Ray, Horton Kirby [near Dartford], Kent, Christmas 1809", the hand imitated below by "Miss Joane Beasly, Four Elms, Kent Spring 1933", 21st edition, as issued without the cuts for 3 shillings bound, 12mo, 6¾" x 4", pp. viii, 465, advertisements and list of cuts [466-471], publishers' calf, London, J. Buckland, J.Rivington, etc.,
binding worn, upper cover detached, spine and lower hinges cracked but internally holding well
Item Date:
1787
Stock No:
53047
£35
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LOFTS
(Norah, Mrs Robert Jorisch, 1904-1983, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
sending her autograph, 1 side 8vo., Northgate House, Bury St. Edmunds, 27th November
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
12849
£25
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LONGFELLOW
(Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his “friendly letter and the ‘Cantata’ that came with it, and beg you to accept my most cordial thanks for this mark of your regard. I have not yet been able to have the music played and sung, as that is no very easy matter, and I will not wait for that to acknowledge the honor you have done me by your composition. If faith be ‘the substance of things unseen’, why not of things unheard? So I listen and seem to hear the song, and thank the composer...”, 3 sides 8vo., Cambridge, 8th November
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
42251
£450
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LONGFELLOW
(Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
agreeing "with great pleasure to comply with your request and have my name added to the list of Stewards on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Newsvendor's Benevolen and Provident Institution. As I cannot be present I enclose an order for a small balance at my banker's ...", 2 sides 8vo., Cambridge, 2nd March
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
39074
£375
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LONGFELLOW
(Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Fields'
aksing "Could you not come this evening, instead of tomorrow? If not, I must postpone the pleasure of seeing you and your friends till next week, as I am to dine in town tomorrow at five which cuts up the afternoon ...", suggesting he send his answer "by bearer, and if you know what Mr Bennoch's engagements are..." and if he doesn't hear he will expect them that evening, 3 sides 8vo., Cambridge, 27th October
Item Date:
1848
Stock No:
36811
£375
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