1965

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[BBC TV International Balloon Race, May 1965.] BBC Press Service press pack with two maps (one of the 'Revised Route'), plan with text of 'The Free Balloon', biography of producer Brian Branston, 'Who's Who', 'Topographical Background' and 'History'.

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BBC TV International Balloon Race, May 1965 [Brian Branston (1914-1993); Jacques Demenint; Charles Dollfus; ballooning]
Publication details: 
One item on BBC Press Service (London) letterhead, dated 'May 1965 | CMG'
£150.00

Eight items, in good condition on aged paper, with the three photographic illustrations darkened. In blue card folder. ONE: Mimeographed typed biography of 'Ronald Victor Brian Branston'. On BBC Press Service letterhead; May 1965. 1p., 4to. TWO: Mimeographed typed 'Who's Who'. 2pp., foolscap 8vo. With entries on nine balloonists (from Albert van den Bemden to Anthony Smith, and including Charles Dollfus, 'curator of France's air museum') and two passengers. THREE: Mimeographed typed 'Topographical Background'. 2pp., foolscap 8vo.

[Federation of Malaysia white paper.] A Plot Exposed. [Cmd. 12 of 1965. Malaysia. Presented to the Parliament by Command of His Majesty the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong. Ordered by the Dewan Ra'ayat to lie upon the table - 27th February, 1965.]

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[Federation of Malaya; Sukarno; Indonesia; Dato Raja Abu Hanifah; Datu Kampo Radjo; Hussain Yaacob; Rais Anwar; Abdul Aziz bin Ishak; Ishak bin Haji Mohamed; Dr Burhanuddin; Tajuddin Kahar]
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Di-Chetak Di-Jabatan Chetak Kerajaan, Oleh Thor Beng Chong, A.M.N., Penchetak Kerajaan.
£250.00

vi + 24 pp., with fold-out 'Map of Malaysia'. Unbound and stapled. In fair condition, creased and with slight damage at head of first few leaves. According to the introduction the aim of the document is 'to show how a number of politicians in Malaysia have treacherously conspired together to bring this country under the domination of the Sukarno regime'. The first part is titled 'The Quickening Tempo of Indonesian Confrontation. Intensification of Subversive Activities. Arrival of R. M.

Resistance. Committee of 100 bulletin. [Main article 'Vietnam Weekend' by Marvin Garson, covering the International Day of Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 15 to 17 October 1965.]

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[Committee of 100, London; Vietnam War; Marvin Garson; Paul Pawlowski; Ruth Oppenheim; Barry Gorden; Tom Hetherington; Phillip Francis; Edward Ludd]
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Vol. 3 No. 9. [November 1965.]
£56.00
Resistance. Committee of 100 bulletin.

8vo, 24 pp. Printed on yellow paper. In fair condition, slightly dog-eared and with rust-staining to last leaf. With photographs, advertisements, cartoon and poem. Editorial titled 'Vietniks and Dratniks'. 'Vietnam Weekend' by Marvin Garson reports on events in Berkeley, London, Aberdeen and Glasgow. Other articles include pieces on the Challenor Report and the 'Beckenham Frame-up', as well as an account by Paul Pawlowski of his arrest in London on 19 September 1965. Scarce: COPAC only lists incomplete runs at Trinity College Dublin, Warwick and the National Library of Scotland.

Ticket of admittance to 'The Lying in State of The Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, K.G.'.

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Winston Churchill [The Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, K.G.]
Publication details: 
Westminster Hall, 1965.
£35.00

Printed on one side of a piece of blue card 9 x 11 cm. Good, with a little light spotting. Headed 'DISABLED PERSON', and made out to Miss L. Russell, with two dates and time of admission in manuscript on the reverse. A must for all Churchill completists.

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