Lot: 41
John Harland Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Whittaker & Co., 1865, the author's personal copy & signed by him on front endpaper; alterations and annotations in the author's hand to 'The Blessed Conscience' extending from pp.47 to 55 based on a manuscript provided to the author after the book's initial publication. Orig. gilt cloth. A small ownership stamp at top of half-title of the collector Robert Holland Ford.
Lot: 124
Football Programmes, 1943-1982, mostly Manchester City Home (60) and Away (22) with much 1960s but including 1943-50 (14, eight pre-1945). Of the 1960s fourteen are single-sheet programmes for reserves and youth games. Also two F.A. Challenge Cup replays played at Maine Road, plus 1967 England v Scotland and 1969 F.A.Cup Final, three Manchester City season ticket books 1981-82 (intact), and related ephemera. Mixed condition (esp. 1940s), tokens intact throughout. (99 items)