Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/104
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SISTER. 735 With frontispiece by Harold Oakley. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original cloth, with dust wrapper. London, 1921. £18 18s A most interesting copy given by the Author to his sister, with autograph inscription :— ‘‘ For Emmie, in place of the one she gave to Mother to keep, June 1922.’’ Included is a hotoeraph of H. M, Tomlinson at 1 year and 11 months, dated May 22, 1875. Ree two long letters (each 4 pp.) written to his Mother soon after his marriage, and another written from France during the War. ‘* The explanation of the inscription in London River is that the gift book to his Mother, because it was dedicated to her, was placed in her coffin. She died tm. 1922.*’ PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER AND SISTER. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, ovzginal cloth. London, 1918. £12 10s PRESENTATION COPY from the Author to his Mother and Sister, with inscription: ‘‘ To Mother and Emmie, March 1919, from Harry and Floss.’’ Inserted also is a long and very interesting Autograph Letter, signed ‘‘ Harry,’’ 2 full pages, 4to, dated from Algiers. ‘“,. . . As to telling you what my travels are like let me refer you to the articles. Horrable (sic) enough to write them without going over it all again. Read ’em and learn. Its all there. But I place my hand on my heart to Jim and Phil (God bless em) and say, its nothing to the north coast of Devon in July. . .’’ Ktce. PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SISTER. Tide Marks; some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the: Forest of Malaya in 1923. Frontispiece. FIRST EDITION.. 8vo, ovzginal cloth, with dust wrappers. London, 1924. £12 12s PRESENTATION COPY from the Author to his sister, with inscription :— ‘* To Emmie from Harry, Nov. 1924.”’ Enclosed is an Autograph Letter signed from the Author, dated Macassar, 2nd Aug. 23. This Macassar trip is incorporated in *‘ Tide Marks.’’
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