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Brotherton Collection55
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Hester, Giles4
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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)3
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Letters to Jon Silkin

22 May 1972 - 21 April 1987

1 typescript letter from Charles Latimer at publishers Martin Secker & Warburg Limited to Jon Silkin; 1 ts letter from Robin Robertson at Martin Secker & Warburg, accompanied by a photocopy of a proof...

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Counterpoint

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

30 November 1999 - 13 August

1 typescript and 2 ms letters to Geoffrey Hill from Counterpoint publishers (30 November 1999 - 17 January 2000). The correspondence relates to the publishing agreements for 'Style and Faith' and 'Spe...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

9 April 1956- 14 June 1956

5 typescript letters from publishers Putnam & Co. to Jon Silkin. The letters all relate to reports written by Silkin on books sent to him by Putnam.

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Vanity press & the proper poetry publishers

Clifford, Johnathon

1994

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The Oriole Press : a bibliography, comprising book reviews, essays, unpublished letters by distinguished authors, bibliographical data, and the complete check list, profusely illustrated

Ishill, Joseph; Oriole Press (Berkeley Heights, N.J.)

1953

The articles are chiefly in English, but also in German, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French, and Yiddish. "Edition limited to fifty copies, none for sale"--Verso of t.p. "The complete check list o...

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The modern art book

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Columbiad Club

[1965?]

"Fifty copies of this booklet have been printed as keepsake 78 of the Columbiad Club..."-colophon.

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The modern art book

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Columbiad Club

[1965?]

"Fifty copies of this booklet have been printed as keepsake 78 of the Columbiad Club..."-colophon.

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William Blackstone and the Oxford University Press

Philip, Ian G

1967

'Based on William Blackstone and the Reform of the Oxford University Press in the Eighteenth Century by I.G. Philip, published in 1957 by the Oxford Bibliographical Society'- verso t.p.

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