Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
18th July 2019
As our readers know, Simon has been enjoying putting out a theatre-themed list during the past few summers, and 2019 will be no different…
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29th March 2017
One of the (almost daily) joys of working with old books is discovering something you never knew before. With this book, a novel published in Berlin, 1862–3, it was a new author: Emil Mario Vacano. Often cited in histories of gay writing, Vacano (1840–1892) is certainly ‘one of the strangest literary figures of the nineteenth […]
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