An envelope inscribed by Roger Swearingen, post marked San Francisco 1995 and with two US stamps, containing a four page flyer on the publication of 'The Bottle Imp', i turn containing a colour flyer showing one of Tom Hann's illustrations for the…
Clipping from page 35 of a catalogue, with a listing of a first edition of Black Arrow (the description being identical to the volume in which it is contained). The address of E. Joseph, Bookseller is printed at the top of the clipping,a nd the date…
An itemised receipt (torn, in two pieces) and a separate acknowledgment of payment, both made out to Ernest Mehew. A 2d. stamp is attached to the latter receipt.
Personal correspondence, also including reference to a debate on Stevenson's development of 'Kidnapped' conducted in the letters page of 'The Spectator'. Enclosures are cited, but are now separated from this letter.
A single page of stiff paper,…
This is the 'large paper edition', number 35 of a numbered run of 50 copies. Signed by the publisher. With the bookplate of Harold John Tennant in the inside front cover. 299 pages.
A printed business card for 'G. E. Leatherland, Ltd. Fruitbrokers', inscribed on the reverse in an unknown hand with a list of novels by Agatha Christie, several of which are marked by a cross.
Colour greetings card, the front image featuring a reproduction of 'The Bass Rock from Canty Bay' by Michael Bouquet. Inscribed in the hand of Janet Adam Smith with a greeting referring to 'Tod Lapraik' of Stevenson's Catriona and with a passage…
A clipping, annotated in pencil in an unknown hand as being from the catalogue of 'E. Jospeh June 1992' listing a first edition of Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson.