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[Sir Stanley Rous, association football referee and 6th President of FIFA.] Typed Note Signed (‘Stanley Rous’) to the BBC sports commentator Max Robertson.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight creasing to one corner. Folded once. In addition to the signature ‘Stanley Rous’, the salutation ‘Dear Max’ is written in Rous’s autograph. (Robertson’s full Wandsworth address is typed out at the head.) The...

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Third Annual Report of the Executive Committee for promoting the Married Women's Property Bill. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the General Committee, September 23rd, 1870.

34pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC, and the only copy on OCLC WorldCat at the National Library of Australia. No other copy currently on the market.

[Female suffrage, printed pamphlet.] The Right of Women to Labour. Reprinted from the Manchester Examiner and Times, of March 4th, 1874.

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium with drophead title. In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound, with the two leaves separating. With purple oval stamp 'From the Secretary of the Vigilance Association, 2, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, S.W.' One copy on open market.

[‘The rudest man in Britain’ reduced to tears: Gilbert Harding, radio and television personality.] Producer Hugh Burnett's corrected proof of typescript of Harding’s celebrated interview with John Freeman in the BBC TV series 'Face to Face'.

The present item is producer Hugh Burnett's own copy, from his papers, of the transcript of John Freeman's interview with Harding, broadcast in the groundbreaking BBC television series 'Face to Face' on 18 September 1960, a few weeks before Harding’s death on 16 November 1960. Harding’s entry in...