Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
31st January 2020
This week we received the printed copies of a catalogue that has been in the works for some time, and have finally mailed them out. Published to mark my tenth anniversary as an independent bookseller, it has been years in the making. Many people know me for selling Russian material, but in fact my interest […]
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24th March 2015
This week I’m getting everything ready in preparation for the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, the weekend after Easter. My books will go off on Thursday. It’s always nice to take something new to a fair, so when the following came in recently I decided to keep it back for the booth in April: The title reads: […]
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28th February 2012
This is an underground Russian samizdat translation of Nik Cohn’s classic history of pop music—first published in 1969 as Pop from the Beginning (in America as Rock from the Beginning), and then under the title Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom—produced on a typewriter with manuscript additions for any English words and names and then mimeographed. Although the title here […]
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7th February 2012
Today is Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. To mark it, I thought I would share a ‘novel’ Victorian card game published, I would guess, around 1858 (as there are no cards for Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, or Our Mutual Friend). I’ve actually had two sets of these cards, and although the pictures were the […]
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