To My Esteemed Friend Alderman Frank Scholes [Collection of original verse]
by S Hardman; Frank Scholes, Mayor of Radcliffe
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bury near Manchester: Unpublished, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 72 Manuscript collection of Lancashire verse presented by its author S Hardman of Holcrombe Brooke, Bury near Manchester to his friend the Mayor of Radcliffe (also Bury). Quarter red buckram over shiny, quasi-marbled, black cloth, lined manuscript paper with HArdman's gift inscription on the first page followed by a prefatory poem and table of contents for poems, many of them in Lancashire dialect and including 'When you hear something wrong', 'What we fight for' (it is 1941) 'Aw'd like to know' ('Is "coffy" reet for Coffee, frend?...') and 'A Gradely Man'. Laid in a letter from the author and a copied essay on 'The Colours of Flowers'. Very Good 1941
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- Bookseller
- Christian White Rare Books Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3515
- Title
- To My Esteemed Friend Alderman Frank Scholes [Collection of original verse]
- Author
- S Hardman; Frank Scholes, Mayor of Radcliffe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Unpublished
- Place of Publication
- Bury near Manchester
- Date Published
- 1941
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About the Seller
Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
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