- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United KingdomMcNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB
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Condition: Used
£ 350.00
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FIRST EDITION, NO. 142 OF 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 4to, pp. 14, [2]. Bound with original wrappers in contemporary cloth, front board lettered in black. Light spotting to front wrapper. Cloth a bit soiled. Signed by the author and dated 1922 on the half-title, bookplate of Philip Gosse to pastedown. The rare first separate publication of this paean to rugby union, inspired by a varsity match at Queen?s Club. Sir John Collings Squire was editor of the London Mercury, in which the poem was first published, before this private printing of just 50 large paper signed copies and 200 regular. The regular copies are rarer to find signed; this example is from the library of Philip Gosse, the authority on pirate literature.
Seller Inventory # 8209
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Rugger Match.
- Author
- Squire, J.C.
- Publisher
- Privately Published, London
- Publication year
- 1922
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- Literature
McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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| Item | 6 to 12 business days | 4 to 6 business days |
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Established in 1957, McNaughtan's Bookshop is the oldest secondhand and antiquarian bookshop in Scotland. Situated near the top of Edinburgh's Leith Walk thoroughfare, we are within easy walking distance of Waverley Station and the central bus terminal.
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Derek Walker and Anna Fomicheva t/a McNaughtan's Bookshop
3a & 4a Haddington Place
Edinburgh, United Kingdom EH7 4AE
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