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N.H.D. Spicer and John Spicer, with illustrations by D.J. Avery. 31pp., 12mo, illustrated blue wraps (a warrior), contents crudely joined to wraps with sellotape, wraps sl. chipped and worn, contents mainly good. No copy listed on COPAC; four copies listed on WorldCat (3 in South Africa, and Texas). |
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[Curling; Scotland] Lord Kenmure [Kenmore] 4pp, sm. folio, fold marks, one passage blotched but mainly readable. Kenmure's letter starts things off, followed by A Second Challenge by Kenmore to Nathan, itself followed by Nathan's answer to the foregoing. Apart from two insignificant variations the text, aprt from the order, is as printed... |
£200.00 |
![[Curling; Scotland] Lord Kenmure [Kenmore]](http://dev.richardfordmanuscripts.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/catalogue_list/10905.jpg "[Curling; Scotland] Lord Kenmure [Kenmore]") |
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[Charles Daman, clergyman, tutor in Classics at Oxford University] [Pamphlet] Six Dialogues touching the Nature of Man 34pp., 8vo, disbound, small closed tears on title (= first page), mainly good condition. P.[19] half-title "Two other dialogues touching the nature of man". Ownership inscription, illegible name, "University Coll". Preface signed "B.A." Ascribed to Charles Daman ihn COPAC entry for Bristol and... |
£225.00 |
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[John Maxwell of Munches and Terraughty, friend of Robert Burns] Four pages, cr. 8vo, bifolium, not bound, minor blemishes inc. foxing, pencil lines forming large cross on pages 2-3. Full heading: The following LETTER was written by JOHN MAXWELL of Munches and Terraughty, when, in his 92nd year, at the request of Mr HERRIES of Spettes, for he information of... |
£250.00 |
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[St Luke's Gospel] [114]pp., obl.8vo, printed blue wraps, worn at spine, loss of strip at edge, some damage to back wrap, contents good. See image on my website, richardfordmanuscripts.com (or request it). COPAC lists only one copy, at BL (who have the Mark and John as well). |
£125.00 |
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Farrer Herschell, first Baron Herschell (DNB)(1837–1899), lord chancellor. Three pages, 12mo, some staining, but text clear and complete. In asking your consideration of the claims of the Childrens' Aid Society a Branch of the Reformatory & Refuge Union of which I am the President, I am not seeking your help for a mere experiment but for work which has been in... |
£250.00 | |
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H. Maclean Wilson, H.T. Calvert Confidential. For the use of the Committee only. (on title). 20pp., 8vo, printed wraps, lacking back wrap, front wrap foxed, contents good and include blank pages for notes (one note made), stamped W.N. Bagshaw. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. |
£125.00 |
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Joseph Chamberlain (DNB), politician and statesman 3 & 4pp., 12mo, very good condition. With original addressed envelope for Letter 1 (Sir Robert Giffen KCB | etc etc etc. [Chamberlains' joke?], 40 Brunswick Road ...) , with franked signature of Chamberlain. Letter One (1902): Many thanks for your notes. I agree with you in thinking that... |
£800.00 |
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[Montague Shaw, production manager, Faber & Faber Ltd; Jan Tschichold, typographer for Penguin Books] Dimensions 29 x 12 cm. Pasteboard mount, 31 x 14.5 cm. In blue, black and white. In good condition on lightly-aged paper. In front of a background of ricketty railings, a jolly bespectacled penguin [with Tschichold's sprightly eyes], with a Penguin book under his left arm, and preceded by a... |
£200.00 |
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T. S. Eliot [The Shakespeare Association, London] 8vo, 17 + [i] pp. Stapled. In original grey wraps. Aged and worn copy of a scarce item. |
£85.00 |
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