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Sometimes, as a bookseller, you come across something which you really can’t quite believe exists, and something that you will probably never see again.  Here is one such item, two leaves of occasional printing produced following the death of one Anna Maria Löffelholz von Colberg in 1727, when an enormous kidney stone, weighing 29½ loths […]

Here are some shots of a complete run of Sonorama (44 issues, 1958–62),  an innovative French monthly news magazine which offered its readers an extra, aural dimension to the articles and features through the use of flexi-discs bound into the magazine itself.  Each issue contained six different flexi-discs (from May 1961 onwards, more).  By folding […]