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The Bookhunter on Safari
1y ago
A guest post and a further request for help from Mark Godburn, author of “Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets” (Private Libraries Association & Oak Knoll Press, 2016). I am looking for corroborating evidence that Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses (London: Macmillan, 1874) was issued ..read more
The Bookhunter on Safari
1y ago
Always a touch of adrenalin when you find a letter from the author tucked inside a book, even if it is all too often simply an acknowledgment, a reply to an invitation, or a brief salutation. Now and again the ..read more
The Bookhunter on Safari
1y ago
Well now, here’s a thing. While I’ve recently been offering you the odd reminiscence about my fifty years in the trade, someone else has been doing it properly and turning their recollections into a book. It was published a few ..read more
The Bookhunter on Safari
1y ago
I suspect that most booksellers have at least one book like this — a book bought long since (over twenty years ago in this case), but sitting there still, mute and uncatalogued, because it represents an enigma. You take it ..read more
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1y ago
I became a book cataloguer in December 1974 at the age of twenty-six. That, at least, is the date of my first catalogue — a twelve-page listing of books on London, just forty items, priced between £10 and £350, and ..read more
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1y ago
Although I was already becoming a regular at Hodgson’s frequent book-auctions in Chancery Lane, only walking distance from the shop, the wider world of bookselling was still an unexplored mystery. A customer had been singing the praises of George Bayntun ..read more
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1y ago
Late August 1971 — and I have blundered into book-land — somehow the proprietor of a bookshop (rare and second-hand) in Cullum Street, hard by Leadenhall Market. Had I known that this was to be my career, I might have ..read more
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1y ago
Having shaken hands with Hugh Jones and Cyril Nash late in June, I went to work for them (unpaid) on the following Monday. I needed to absorb all I could while all the legalities of transferring the lease, etc., wound ..read more
The Bookhunter on Safari
1y ago
A guest post and a further request for help from Mark Godburn, author of “Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets” (Private Libraries Association & Oak Knoll Press, 2016). I am looking for copies of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (London, Macmillan & Co ..read more
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1y ago
Out today is my 121st catalogue — The 1971 Catalogue — an anniversary catalogue of books published in 1971 to commemorate the year in which my career as a bookseller began. It is actually my second single-year catalogue. Back in ..read more