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200674314London Orion 2006. THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF ENGLAND'S WORLD CUP TRIUMPH. 8vo. x146pp. Illustrated. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BEN COHEN on the title-page. An account by the England team of England's 2003 rugby world cup when they became the first team from the Northern Hemisphere to win the final. Ben Cohen was a member of the England team in the final. unknown
2527All five Typed Letters on House of Commons notepaper 1961-2; the poem April 1962. Politician and rugby player DNB. The five letters all one page 16mo and each with two staple holes and in good condition. The autograph poem is on a printed bifoliate menu for the Cricket Society Spring Dinner 6 April 1962 16mo slightly discoloured. The letters relate to various Cricket Society Dinners. He agrees to attend the 1961 Spring Dinner at the Lords Tavern but his private secretary P. Barling declines on his behalf an invitation to the autumn dinner as he is out of the country recovering from an operation. In the third letter he accepts an invitation to the 1962 Spring Dinner at the Royal Horticultural New Hall and the fourth letter is from Barling on the same subject. In the fifth letter he explains that he has had to undergo an operation and cannot attend the dinner after all. The poem on the menu reads 'To think that many years ago We danced together with gusto in gay Paree when we were young enjoying life with dance & song You still are young in looks & heart Just as you were in your life's start.' An unremarkable printed poem by G. D. Martineau called 'The Crown' on the reverse of the second leaf of the menu has received eleven emendations in pen possibly not by Wakefield. These have given it a rather gay feel e.g. 'Sohos lights' 'strange delights' and 'it was no sin'. All five Typed Letters on House of Commons notepaper, 1961-2; the poem April 1962. unknown
189425815London: Illustrated London News 1894. Two half page images of the Cambridge and Oxford rugby teams of 1894. Antique woodblock print b&w full page 11 1/4 x 15 3/4" Illustrated London News unknown
26918Rugby 16 May 1863. Two pages 12mo bifolium minor staining good condition. Text: "Rugby School Chapel was consecrated. Testes adsunt witnesses Anstey & Buckett. The offertory money is given 1. and mainly to the Parish Clegy 2. To Birmingham Hospital 3. To local medical men for Sick Poor. It amounts to £50 a year always & sometimes to £70 or 380 of which mopst goes to 1 least to 3. I heard from MacInnes a few days ago. His wife is going up to London for her approaching confinement. I see him sometimes but wish we could meet oftener. I wish very much you would pay Rugby a visit. Has Mrs Salt ever seen it Could not we induce you to stop here on your way to or from London. We should be very glad if we could. Subscription". This letter was forwarded by use of the blank pages of the bifolium by another party. See Image. Rugby, 16 May 1863 unknown
20921No place or date. 4.5 x 18.5 cm slip of paper. In fair condition aged and laid down on piece of card. Four lines from the conclusion of a letter. Reads: '… Things here are going on as usual – and all our Friends are well. – Tucker will write to you soon himself about your Visit to Malling - which I yet hope will be accomplished. I hope your next Letter will contain some Account of the State of the Inhabitants of Fled: and when you expect your Uncle Home – Adieu & believe me ever your very sincerely attached & affectionate Friend. T. Arnold.' No place or date. unknown
18743Laleham The Parks. 22 December 1872. Laleham on Thames Middlesex now Surrey. . 4pp. 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition on lightly aged and worn paper. Arnold whose conversion to Roman Catholicism hindered his academic dvancement in England was grandfather of the writer Aldous Huxley and taught James Joyce at Dublin. At the time of writing he was running a private tutoring establishment at Oxford. He begins the letter by explaining that it has hardly been possible to reply to Hutchinson 'during term time . I had so much work on my hands'. He is returning 'Canon Bright's letter' and has 'not had time to look at the treatises on Perseverance and Predestination'. He has however 'read some way into the Epistle to Sixtus and can find in it nothing like a denial of free will on human merit though this last also he ascribes to an effect of the divine grace. Why some are saved and others lost he cannot tell; he calls the whole subject a "difficillima quaestio" .'. He continues with a number of Latin quotations including one from a letter to Abbot Valentine of Adrumetum noting that 'St Austin' was 'misunderstood in his own day as he often is in ours'. He continues: 'With such passages as these to enlighten one as to the Saint's real meaning may one not well feel reluctant unless a whole string of predestinarian in the bad sense passages were adduced from his writings to admit that he fell into or countenanced error' He ends with a discussion of 'the good works of the heathen'. Cf. Bernard Bergonzi A Victorian Wanderer The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003. Laleham, The Parks. 22 December 1872. [ Laleham on Thames, Middlesex (now Surrey). ] unknown
21149'Lyons July 18th. no year'. On both sides of a 17.5 x 20.5 cm piece of wove paper cut from the first leaf of a letter with 14 lines of text on the recto and 20 lines of text on the verso. In fair condition lightly aged with two small labels used as mounts still adhering. Annotated at the head of the first page in a small light hand dating the letter by reference to Arnold's 'Memoirs' and explaining that the letter is written 'To Mrs. Arnold who gave me this from Her dear hand Autumn 1860'. For the context of the letter see the Memoirs 'Appendix C. VIII. Tour in the South of France'. The letter begins: 'My dearest Mary We arrived here at three o' Clock this Afternoon and are off in the Steam Boat for Roignon tomorrow Morning at 5. - Our Window looks across the Saone to the Cathedral of N. D. de Fourvieres on the Top of the Hill. - It is a magnificent Town but the Heat here as every where is overpowering.' He predicts that the following day 'will be a cool and I expect a very interesting Day'. He will be interested to know 'what weather you have had in Westmoreland for fine Weather there is truly enjoyable and you need not fear the Sun'. Referring to the 'Lyon Tablet' he writes: 'We have just been out a little after Dinner & have seen the famous Plate containing the Speech of Claudius about giving the Freedom of Rome to the Gauls. - It is preserved here in the Museum. We have now come to the End of my Knowledge and I suppose that I shall enlarge my Knowledge a little but Naples I think is out of the Question and probably so also will Voltura sic for 'Volterra' be.' The recto ends here with the words 'But our .'. The verso begins: '… rather too hot – We have today clearly seen the whole Group of the Avergne Mountains in the Distance and their Outline is exceedingly no word follows. I succeeded in getting a Sketch of them as we drove along – besides seeing the Clermont Chain we have had a most hilly days Journey for we have crossed the Chain of Hills whose exact Height I do not know but where we went was more than 1500 so that the highest Peaks must be at least 3000. The Country would have been beautiful if it had not been so burnt up that it was all one Brown Colour together'. He describes how on 'the first Evening after leaving Paris we slept at Ponthiery – where the Salon was hung with Pictures of the Westmoreland Lakes – the next day we passed through the Forest of Fontainebleau which was most beautiful but as I have described it full length in my Journal and have not now much Time I shall pass it over'. The extract on the verso concludes with a description of a night at 'Briare on the Loire' and his making of a sketch and the words: 'Today we have had an easy Day - .' 'Lyons, July 18th. [no year]' unknown
2344No date. Headmaster of Rugby. c.4.5" x 2" soiled from vestiges of laying down process but text mainly clear as follows: "Likes India and that he is doing well there. Believe me to be my dear Torkell / Ever very truly yours / T. Arnold." See Image No date. unknown
1923355490720749London: Chambers 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: W & R Chambers Limited n.d. 1923. First UK Edition. 368 pages. 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Illustrated by Percy Tarrant. Publisher's cornflour-blue boards. A Public School story with a superb illustration on the front board of schoolboys playing rugby union rugger. A neat gift inscription to the front free end-paper and foxing to the page block edges which has crept into the text block in places still overall a VG copy without D/W. The English Catalogue of Books for 1923 has this uncommon first edition being published in November 1923 at 5/-. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request. Chambers hardcover
2000025634Brisbane QLD Australia: GAP Pubishing 2000. 830 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Comes in a slip case in overall good condition with marks scrapes and minor dings. Heavy book 4.8kg. . Limited Edition Number 564 . Hard Cover in Slipcase. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. GAP Pubishing Hardcover
1838876Z1London: T. Combe and Co 1838. Cloth. Good. 7" by 4.5". None stated. The second edition of this register from the Rugby School. In the original publisher's cloth. The second edition revised and corrected. Illustrated with a vignette to the title page. This work provides a complete register of attendees at the Rugby School. The work also includes the names of the trustees. In the original publisher's cloth. Externally sound with fading and rubbing to the spine resulting in slight loss to the title damp staining and slight discolouration to the boards light cockling to the rear and bumping to the extremities resulting in slight loss to the cloth. Front hinge weak. Internally firmly bound with the odd spot and light age toning. Good T. Combe and Co hardcover
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Q-0713646144A & C Black. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! A & C Black paperback
1932978K5London : The Epworth Press 1932. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated . The first edition of this scarce Missionary work regarding New Zealand being a presentation copy signed and dedicated by the author and presented in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Scarce.With a frontispiece and twenty two further plates. Collated complete. Errata leaf tipped in at front free endpaper with additions included in pencil. Working loose. Signed and dedicated by the author to the front free endpaper:"Miss E. R. Thomas With every good wish from the author M. A. Rugby Pratt Christchurch 24th March 1932"Written by New Zealand Methodist minister church administrator and historian Albert Rugby Pratt. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in lovely condition with just minor shelf wear to head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is generally smart with chipping to backstrip. Closed tear to front of wrap. The odd mark to the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Additional pencil notations to errata leaf. Near Fine The Epworth Press hardcover
193216094London: The Epworth Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. Some rubbing to boards. Some foxing. Some pencil underlining. ; This copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. 231 pages portrait frontispiece plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 120mm. Selected contents: The Tattooed Tribes Of Tumuki; Southern Sea Kings And A Sullied Scroll; The Tussle With Te Rauparaha; The Herald Of A Higher Race; Gamesome Gods And Caricatures Of Deity; The Labyrinth of The Language; The Faith of Pompallier And The Trail Of Tamihana; Bishop Selwyn's Southward Excursion; Charles Creed And The Scottish Settlement. ; Signed by Author . The Epworth Press hardcover
193211727London: The Epworth Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. Moderate foxing to page edges. Some foxing to frontispiece and title page. ; 231 pages plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 121mm. This copy inscribed by the author on front endpaper: "To Dr John Rawson Elder With the compliments of the Author M. A. Rugby Pratt Christchurch 3.XII. 1932." Selected contents: The Tattooed Tribes Of Tumuki; Southern Sea Kings And A Sullied Scroll; The Tussle With Te Rauparaha; The Herald Of A Higher Race; Gamesome Gods And Caricatures Of Deity; The Labyrinth of The Language; The Faith of Pompallier And The Trail Of Tamihana; Bishop Selwyn's Southward Excursion; Charles Creed And The Scottish Settlement. ; 8vo; Signed by Author . The Epworth Press hardcover
