One page, on grey stationery lettered in red "34, De Vere Gardens, W." Dated "Mch 24th" [no year]. The text of the letter reads: On Monday 31st at 7:30 with great pleasure. Kind regards to your colleagues, & yours most truly [signed] Henry James Juliet Creed (1819-1899) in 1844 married William Frederick.....

[signed by Meredith] A History of Father and Son. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Original blind-stamped greenish-brown cloth. First Edition of Meredith's first full-length novel (preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques). FEVEREL is the tough tale of a father's "system" of raising.....

[inscribed by Sabatini] A History and Some Criticisms. With a Coloured Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations in Half-tone. London: Stanley Paul & Co., n.d.[1912]. 32 pp ads, undated (but with this title listed second in the list of new announcements, and with 1910 and 1911 cited elsewhere). Original black cloth.....

One page, dated (by RLS) June 30th 1893. N.p. [but at Vailima Plantation, Apia, Samoa]. This letter is hand-addressed by Stevenson to: "John B. Day Esq. | 5 Blythwood Villas | Stroud Green | London N.", and reads as follows: Dear Sir, I am unfortunately confined to the house by influenza.....

[inscribed to Cardinal Manning] London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition, being the ninth volume in the "English Men of Letters" series edited by John Morley. This copy has the ad leaf in the earliest state, listing nine of the.....