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⁶⁹ The volume was listed for sale in 1989, but the list price of £150 did not tempt any buyers, and Bloomsbury Book Auctions sold the record book holding the Memorabilia entries to the Huntington Library in 1989. The British Library holds a virtually unreadable copy, RP 4177/3.