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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
'Richard Marsh' [Richard Bernard Heldmann] (1857-1915), popular English author, best-known for his supernatural thriller 'The Beetle' (1897) ['Richard Marsh' [Richard Bernard Heldmann], Victorian supernatural author.] Four Autograph Letters Signed (all 'Richard Marsh') to 'A. Anderson Esq.', regarding term and payment for contributions to his magazine, including 'Aunt Jane's Jalap'. All four items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. ONE (8 October 1908): 'Although I am only asking what I am offered elsewhere I am willing to meet you, & to accept Twenty five Guineas for the second serial use of the two stories, - on the understanding that the transaction is for...		£120.00
George Alder. Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and others. George Alder (1; [1844?]) discusses the nature of a "new periodical" for which he hopes Hewlett will write (prob. the short-lived "Great Gun" - see Bell (#3128) and Gruneisen below), naming potential fellow-contributors in confidence. Originally from a larger archive, the residue of which is...	Book Trade History, Literature	£50.00
Charles R. Drysdale, M.D. [Booklet] The Population Question according to T.R. Malthus and J.S. Mill, giving the Malthusian Theory of Over-Population. 94pp., 12mo, printed green wraps, spotted, staples rusted, spine worn, title-page spotted, rest good. Scarce.	Economics	£80.00
George Alexander (George Alexander Gibb Samson) one autograph letter signed to Miss Home, English actor-manager (1858-1918), knighted in 1911. "The actors Benevolent Trust is our institution for relief of deserving cases - if your friend will apply to me by letter & state her case freely I will lay it before the committee of which I am a member." Traces of previous mounting on...	Music and Theatre	£20.00
George Algernon Fothergill [BOOKPLATES] Signed bookplate (one of edition of fifty), 'EX LIBRIS \| Attilae Secundi'. Paper dimensions roughly five inches by seven. Dimensions of illustration four and a half inches by five. Very good. Dated '1914' within body of illustration above the word 'Frightfulness' in gothic. With 'GAF' beneath body of illustration, above 'EX LIBRIS \| Attilae Secundi \| The Nook \| St...	Book Trade History	£56.00
George Allen & Sons [John Ruskin; Augustus Hare; Thomas J. Wise; Walter Crane; William Jolly; E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn] Four printed publicity items by the publisher George Allen. All items unbound, grubby and creased. ONE. Handbill (12mo, 1 p), dated 'August 1894', annoucing as 'NEARLY READY' William Jolly's 'Ruskin on Education'. TWO. List (quarto, 4 pp), dated 'December 1, 1894', of 'Books Published by George Allen [...] During the last Twelve Months'. THREE. Pamphlet...	Book Trade History	£180.00
George Andrew Duncan Forsyth, artist and harbour master, of Freemantle, Australia; godson of George Cruikshank Autograph Letter Signed ('Geo. A. Forsyth \| Harbour Master') to Lieutenant G. Bowery [sic, for 'Bower'], H.M.S. Conflict. Four pages, foolscap (33.5 x 20.5 cm). In a bifiolium. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Light staining at foot of second leaf (not affecting text). Apparently written in reply to a request from Bower regarding the number of men able to bear arms within the territory. On 24...	Military and Naval History	£380.00
George Armitage-Smith [BIRKBECK COLLEGE] Autograph Note Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Economist (c.1844-1923), Principal of Birkbeck College, 1896-1918. One page, octavo. Very good. Docketed and bearing R.S.A. stamp. Asks for Professor Campbell Swinton's address 'in any form'. 'If it is published in the Journal that wd. be very convenient.' Signed 'G. Armitage-Smith'.	Economics	£28.00
George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842), bastard son of the Duke of Clarence (the future King William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan Autograph Letter Signed ('G FitzClarence') to 'My Dear Colonel' [the Prince Regent's 'representative' Lieut-Col. George Hotham]. 12mo: 1 p. Seven lines of text. On creased and lightly-aged watermarked wove paper. Regarding Sir Henry Bate Dudley's farce 'At Home', performed 'with universal approbation' at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in 1813. 'Should the Box of the Prince Regent be disengaged on Monday next at Covent...	Music and Theatre	£56.00
George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster [Robert Harding Evans] Autograph Letter in the third person to Messrs Evans & Co. of Pall Mall. Son (1794-1842) of King William IV by Mrs Jordan. One page, 12mo. In good condition, though slightly grubby and with remains of brown-paper mount adhering above address on verso of second leaf of bifoliate. Reads 'Lord Munster presents his Compts: to Mess Evans & Co of Pall Mall & will...	Book Trade History	£56.00