Letters of a Loyalist Lady Being the Letters of Ann Hulton, Sister of Henry Hulton, Commissioner of Customs at Boston, 1767-1776

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fascinating volume. From edition of 750 copies. In VG internal order. Endpapers toned. Neat inscription to front pastedown.Decoirated paper covered boards well marled and a little worn. 8vo. 107pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003264

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Keywords: UK Travel & Local History

Argonaut

Travellers' Joy Being Notes of an Argonaut in Matabeleland

Bulawayo, Rhodesian Printing And Publishing Co, 1930. Hardcover. ND. c.1930 - WorldCat. Scarce collection of essays by the pseudonymous "Argonaut". Occasional foxing, heavy in one or two instances, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Former owners' names to front pastedown. Green cloth lightly marked and a little bumped. 12mo. 85pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 105064

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Keywords: Zimbabwe Botswana Rhodesia

Stephen Coleridge

Letters to My Grandson on the Glory of English Prose

London, Mills & Boon, 1922. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Surprisingly scarce in an early edition. All in VG internal order bar foxing to block edge, rarely intruding onto pages. Smart blue boards with crisp black titling, only lightly worn. 12mo. 128pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009888

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Stephen Coleridge

Letters to My Grandson on the World About Him

London, Mills & Boon, 1922. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. All in VG internal order bar foxing to block edge, intruding onto endpapers and early pages. Smart blue boards with crisp black titling, only lightly worn. 12mo. 124pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009896

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Stephen Coleridge

Letters to My Grandson on the Glory of English Poetry

London, Mills & Boon, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Surprisingly scarce in first edition. All in VG internal order bar foxing to block edge, also affecting early and late pages. Photo frontispiece shows author's home. Both companion volumes (On English Prose, and On The World About Him) also available. Smart blue boards with crisp black titling, only lightly worn to edges. 12mo. 157pp. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 101962

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Lady Burghclere (ed)

A Great Man's Friendship Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Mary, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1850-1852

London, John Murray, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fascinating correspondence, with excellent linking commentary from Lady Burghclere. Bar toning to endpapers and edge of block, all is in VG internal order. Gift inscription to fep. Blue boards are a little bumped and worn with gilt tilting to spine dulled. Fair unclipped d/j, rather marked and worn with some loss to foot of spine. Now in removable protective sleeve. 8vo. xiii, 342pp . Good/Fair.

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Book number: 105769

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Keywords: History & Politics

George Hastngs Wheler (ed)

Hastings Wheler Family Letters 1704-1739 [+ Mss Letter]

Wakefield, Privately Printed, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Well produced collection of letters chiefly sent between the daughters of the 7th Earl of Huntingdon. Signed MS letter by G H Wheler tipped in to front pastedown, describing production process of book. Portrait frontispiece. In fine, crisp, clean and bright internal order. Stiff boards with oversized paper wrap, this faded to lightly creased spine. Paper title labels to front and spine. Scarce. 8vo. [6], 185pp . Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 105463

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Ethel Ashton Edwards (ed)

The Love-Letters of William Pitt First Lord Chatham

London, Chapman & Hall, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. All in VG/nearfine internal order, clean crisp and bright. Red boards with black titling. D/j somewhat worn, but complete, in protective cover. Scarce with d/j. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831). Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000566

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Keywords: History & Politics

John Evelyn; William Bray (ed)

Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn Frs to Which Is Subjoined the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1906. Hardcover. ND. 1906 (WorldCat). Well produced edition of Evelyn's diaries and correspondence edited by William Bray. A little toning to stock but in general all in VG clean and bright internal order. A little light shelfwear only to smart red cloth with bright gilt on black titling to spine. Scarce with d/j, this example in VG order with minor toning to spine and a little edgewear. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. xxxii, 951pp . Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 106310

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Keywords: History & Politics

Gustave Flaubert

Letters

London, George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Selected, with an introduction, by Richard Rumbold. Heavy foxing to block edge, occasionally intruding onto pages, but otherwise all in good internal order. Red boards a little shelfworn. G- unclipped d/j rather dulled and marked with wear to top edge and minor loss to spine. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.10999831). 8vo. 248pp . Good/Good.

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Book number: 103250

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

E M Forster

A Letter to Madan Blanchard

London, The Hogarth Press, 1931. 1st Edition . Soft cover. No.1 in The Hogarth Letters series. Foxing throughout, mostly light, and otherwise all in good internal order. Printed card covers a little toned. 12mo. 27pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 102816

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Alain-Fournier

Lettres Au Petit B. Prãƒâ©Cãƒâ©Dãƒâ©Es de la Fin de la Jeunesse Par Claude Aveline

Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1949. Soft cover. Stock toned commensurate with age, but otherwise all in good internal order. Card covers toned and a little worn, moreso to spine. 12mo. 197pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 101955

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Otto Friedrich

The Grave of Alice B. Toklas and Other Reports from the Past

New York, Fromm International, 1991. Soft cover. Entertaining essay collection from Friedrich. A little marking to edge of block, but internally all is in VG order. No inscriptions. Light wear to card covers with some fading to spine. 8vo. xiii [1] 384pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 106904

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Elinor Glyn

Letters to Caroline

London, Duckworth & Co, 1914. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Letters of advice to an 18-year-old goddaughter. Very much of its time and somewhat eccentric, including lengthy discourse on the merits/temptations of the tango. All in clean and bright internal order bar spotting to edge of block which only occasionally intrudes onto pages. Colour frontispiece illustration, presumably of 'Caroline', looking rather fed-up with the whole business. Yellow cloth, a little dulled to edges, with black titling to front and white/gilt titlepiece to spine. Would make an entertainingly provocative gift to any young Carolines that you know. 12mo. 154pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009448

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

James W Hall

Hot Damn! Alligators in the Casino, Nude Women in the Grass, How Seashells Changed the Course of History, and Other Dispatches from Paradise

New York, St Martin's Press, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Thoroughly entertaining collection of Hall's essays on Florida, "the nation's least normal state". In fine, crisp, clean and bright internal order. Smart black boards with green gilt titling to spine. Near fine unclipped d/j showing very light wear only. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. xvi, 229pp . Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010726

Catalogue: Essays And Letters

Keywords: World Travel & Culture