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Sotheby's Wraps, illustrated, 5 June 1961, inscribed by the scholar C.E. Wright who has noted prices and purchasers beside 9 items which interested him. He also notes that Cherry-Garrard originally paid £5000 for a missal. A flick through the pages throws up Back, Bligh, Dalrymple, Scoresby for polar... |
£50.00 | |
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[TELEVISION EPHEMERA] General Electrics. An irregular rectangle of paper, roughly five inches by three and a half, with the image of a 1950's television printed on one side in light and dark brown. In good condition, with negligible glue-staining to front. The screen, roughly 1 1/2 inches by 2 inches, is cut away, with the image of a... |
£35.00 | |
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[The Manchester Guardian] The dethronement of Stalin full text of the Khrushchev speech. 33 pages, 8vo. In original printed wraps, with cartoon of Khrushchev on front wrap. In good condition, with slight spotting and staining to front wrap. Rust stains from staples and from paperclip at heads of front wrap and first leaf. Offsetting to inside of front wrap from newspaper cutting of... |
£50.00 | |
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Dr. Rudolf Urbantschitsch Psychoanalyst (1879-1965). 46 pages, 8vo. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. In original brown printed wraps. Paper browning and with some wear to first and last leaves, and some loss, wear and closed tears to wraps. |
£65.00 | |
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Golfing ephemera. All 12mo. Dulwich and Sydenham Golf Club, Rules & Regulations and List of Members (1940); ibid., Rules, etc. (1950, 1952,1962, 1977)); ibid. Directory & Fixture Diary, 1894-1994. With score cards (undated but with 50s phone numbers) from Queen's Park Golf Links (Bournemouth), Selsdon... |
£75.00 | |
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Great Britain, Act of Parliament, George II 24 pages, 16mo. In poor condition: grubby and with wear to extremities and closed tear to second leaf. Pencil marks to verso of last leaf. Stitched into grubby, worn vellum binding, bearing pencil and ink notes at front and rear. |
£50.00 | |
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H. D. C. Pepler [Eric Gill, David Jones, S. Dominic's Press] The law the lawyers know about. 4 leaves. 8 unpaginated pages. 16mo. 9 centimeters by 12 centimeters. Dusty but very good indeed. Evan Gill 272 describes the first edition of 1923 and a subsequent edition of 1929, but makes no mention of an undated issue. Wood engravings by Gill: lawyer's wig on cover-title; bird in cage on... |
£50.00 | |
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Herman Hesse Der Blütenzweig | Eine Auswahl aus den Gedichten von Herman Hesse. 80 pages. 16mo. In grubby decorated boards with white paper printed label on front. Corners bumped. Internally sound and tight, with a few pencil notes on front pastedown. |
£22.00 | |
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Ingrid Granberg Chromosomes in preinvasive, microinvasive and invasive cervical carcinoma Offprint from Hereditas [68: 165-218 (1971)], the journal of the Scandinavian Association of Geneticists. Pages 165-218, 8vo, with several figures in text. Contains two pages of 'Literature cited'. In stained and spotted printed light-brown wraps, otherwise in good condition. Inscribed at head... |
£25.00 | |
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Midgley family of Liverpool The Midgley family were notable Lancastrian Quaker industrialists (cf. the Midgley Reference Library in the John Rylands University Library Manchester). Touching and detailed account ('at about 8.20? PM our little Darling was born - she soon told us she had a good pair of lungs') of the author's... |
£150.00 |
